Costs of US chip curbs force China’s YMTC into major fundraising round

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China’s biggest memory-chip maker has had to raise billions of dollars in fresh capital, after burning through $7bn in funding over the past year trying to adapt to tough US restrictions on its business.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp, which last December was added to a trade blacklist and prohibited from procuring…