WSJ analysis… 6 cutting-edge semiconductor projects including HSMC and QXIC The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 9th (local time) that China has poured huge sums of money to create a cutting-edge semiconductor maker that can catch up with Samsung Electronics and Taiwan’s TSMC, but all have failed. The WSJ reported that at least six new large-scale semiconductor manufacturing projects in China had failed over the past three years, as a result of analyzing corporate announcements, reports from Chinese state media, and documents from local governments. The amount invested in these projects was at least 2.3 billion dollars (about...