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Tech Brief (Jul. 21): Is Mega Chip IPO to Blame for China’s Tech Rout?

Published: Jul. 21, 2026  3:04 p.m.  GMT+8
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Is mega chip IPO to blame for China’s tech rout?

A multibillion-dollar IPO by Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT Corp. is taking the blame for a severe sell-off in domestic tech equities, spotlighting the market’s vulnerability to liquidity squeezes. As retail investors were required to cough up 33.3 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) to settle CXMT’s IPO share allocations Monday, tech hardware sectors suffered more than 23 billion yuan in net outflows.

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