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CXMT’s sudden leap into China’s chip big league, large enough to be called the mainland’s biggest company overnight, rattled Asian semiconductor names and pushed global tech stocks lower, Reuters’ Gregor Stuart Hunter reports. The move isn’t just a headline; it signals China pushing harder into memory chips where margins and market share are fragile, and that prospect matters for everything from Micron’s pricing power to the hardware economics behind Apple’s devices and the cloud infrastructure that Microsoft and Amazon buy.