Explainer: How China’s chip equipment manufacturing sector stacks up

SiCarrier, a Chinese chip equipment maker with close links to Huawei, has created a stir with the breadth of its planned product range.

Its efforts to become a one-stop shop for all tools needed to semiconductors illustrate how the sector – still relatively young in China – is responding to President Xi Jinping’s call to reduce the country’s reliance on foreign suppliers.

Here is an overview of China’s chip equipment sector, including some of its main players:

How much market share do Chinese firms have?

Domestically made wafer fabrication equipment…