SEOUL/TAIPEI: The US$80bil (RM304.42bil) global memory chip industry could be heading for oversupply and a potential price war if a state-backed Chinese entity buys US-based Micron Technology, the world's No 3 memory chipmaker.
China's emergence into a global force, squeezing out market share, would shake up an industry dominated by South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, Japan's Toshiba Corp and Micron.
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