“China encourages key domestic enterprises to increase investment and promote better supply capacity of the entire chip industry chain,” the country’s Industry Ministry Official Luo Junjie said in a statement on Thursday.

Luo said that he “expects semiconductors will continue to be in short supply over a relatively long period.“

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