15 new fab projects in China are underway or have been announced since 2017, says SEMI, boosting spending on semiconductor fab equipment  to more than $12 billion, annually, by 2018. As a result, China is projected to be the top spending region in fab equipment by 2019, and is likely to approach record all-time levels ...

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