China\u2019s chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of the year, customs data shows, as a global AI boom cemented computing hardware\u2019s place as a key economic growth engine.<\/p>\n
In the first six months of 2026, China exported 179.44 billion integrated circuits (ICs) worth a total of US$177.28 billion \u2013 up more than 96 per cent year on year \u2013 according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The surge in IC exports was one of the key drivers behind China\u2019s 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\u2019s shift towards technology-led export growth despite an increasingly challenging global trade environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe export growth was fundamentally driven by precisely matching \u2018Made in China\u2019 [products] with diverse global demand,\u201d Wang Jun, a vice-minister of customs, said at a news briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Beijing has been promoting the adoption of domestically designed chips as part of efforts to strengthen the country\u2019s self-reliance in semiconductors, even as it recently approved the sale of Nvidia\u2019s H200 graphics processing units \u2013 a coveted option for training artificial intelligence models \u2013 to a handful of Chinese tech companies.<\/p>\n
AI technology and its applications have become one of the country\u2019s biggest growth drivers in trade, with exports of automatic data processing machines and parts \u2013 including computers, servers, memory and other computing components \u2013 jumping 41.3 per cent to US$138.08 billion in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of the year, customs data shows, as a global…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,27126,1276,54513,25,2699,387,935,54510,58,54512,54509,3123,54511,54508],"class_list":["post-105182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-glasses","tag-ai-models","tag-ai-translators","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-general-administration-of-customs-of-china","tag-nvidia","tag-robot-cleaner","tag-robotic-exoskeletons","tag-semiconductor","tag-surgical-robot","tag-wang-jun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}