China’s scandal-tainted semiconductor investment fund gets new chief

China’s scandal-tainted semiconductor investment fund gets new chief

Home-made chip Godson 3 on display at the second Fuzhou Digital China Construction Achievement Exhibition on May 7, 2019. Photo: VCG

An IT ministry official has been appointed head of China’s biggest state-backed semiconductor investment fund almost nine months after the previous chief was placed under investigation amid a sector-wide corruption probe.

Zhang Xin, who served as a senior inspector at the planning department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), has replaced Ding Wenwu as president of the scandal-rocked National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., known as the “Big Fund,” several industry sources familiar with the matter told Caixin.

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