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Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can't break America's monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chipmaking components, but Spruce Pine still holds the crucible monopoly

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Pacific Quartz gets its high-purity quartz qualified for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing.
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China continues to advance in its objective of reducing foreign dependence within its semiconductor industry, and this time the protagonist is quartz. In addition to lithography machines, high purity quartz (HPQ) is required to manufacture wafers. That is why the news now is that the national company Jiangsu Pacific Quartz has managed to have products manufactured from its own quartz certified for use in the production of DRAM memory on 300 mm w…

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Tom's Hardware broke the news on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
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