{"id":23183,"date":"2026-07-14T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/global-ai-boom-sees-chinas-chip-exports-nearly-double-in-first-half-of-year\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:30:13","slug":"global-ai-boom-sees-chinas-chip-exports-nearly-double-in-first-half-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/global-ai-boom-sees-chinas-chip-exports-nearly-double-in-first-half-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Global AI boom sees China\u2019s chip exports nearly double in first half of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/14\/887b70d2-418a-4d1e-a46f-6ced10ccd2ee_d1ca30d5.jpg?itok=sllWw-y_&amp;v=1784015952\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China&rsquo;s chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of the year, customs data shows, as a global AI boom cemented computing hardware&rsquo;s place as a key economic growth engine.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the first six months of this year, China exported 179.44 billion integrated circuits (ICs) worth a total of US$177.28 billion &ndash; up more than 96 per cent year on year &ndash; according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The surge in IC exports was one of the key drivers behind China&rsquo;s double-digit export growth in the first half of the year, alongside robust overseas demand for industrial robots and other hi-tech products, underscoring the country&rsquo;s shift towards technology-led export growth despite an increasingly challenging global trade environment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;The export growth was fundamentally driven by precisely matching &lsquo;Made in China&rsquo; [products] with diverse global demand,&rdquo; Wang Jun, a vice-minister of customs, said at a news briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing has been promoting the adoption of domestically designed chips as part of efforts to strengthen the country&rsquo;s semiconductor self-reliance, even as it recently approved the sale of Nvidia&rsquo;s H200 graphics processing units &ndash; a coveted option for training artificial intelligence models &ndash; to a handful of Chinese tech companies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Emerging AI technology and its application have become one of the biggest trade growth drivers, with exports of automatic data processing machines and parts, which include computers, servers, memory and other computing components, jumping 41.3 per cent to US$138.08 billion in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>Global AI boom sees China&rsquo;s chip exports nearly double in first half of year<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&rsquo;s chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of the year, customs data shows, as a global AI boom cemented computing hardware&rsquo;s place as a key economic growth engine. In the first six months of this year, China exported 179.44 billion integrated circuits (ICs) worth a total of US$177.28 billion &ndash; up more than&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/global-ai-boom-sees-chinas-chip-exports-nearly-double-in-first-half-of-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Global AI boom sees China\u2019s chip exports nearly double in first half of year&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}