Manufacturers in China are increasingly looking to source chips locally because they fear that the US and other governments might prioritize domestic users of the semiconductors vital to national security, a senior executive at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC, ??) said yesterday. Customers are telling SMIC that they need to secure a certain amount of capacity within China itself because of concerns the industry could become more fragmented, disrupting inflows from abroad, SMIC cochief executive officer Zhao Haijun (???) said. Companies in China, where everything from Apple Inc iPhones to Volkswagen AG vehicles are manufactured, have increasingly turned to local...