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Demand for PC and smartphone chips ‘drops like a rock’ says CEO of China’s top chipmaker – Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles Demand for chips needed to make smartphones and PCs has dropped like a rock but mostly in China – according to CEO Zhao Haijun, the CEO of Chinas largest chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). …