Chinese online forums and market chatters have recently been engulfed by speculation that Japan may have halted the export of photoresist, a critical material for semiconductor manufacturing exports, to China. Although the Japanese government and major Japanese suppliers have made no public announcements, unverified claims alleging that “Canon, Nikon and Mitsubishi Chemical have suspended photoresist […]

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