Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Senior Chinese semiconductor executives said AI-driven demand is creating bottlenecks across equipment, passive components, and workforce capacity, according to a DigiTimes report from the SEMI Industry Innovation Investment Forum at SEMICON China 2026, which ran March 25-27 in Shanghai. The panel brought together leaders from ACM Research, National Silicon Industry Group, Sino IC Leasing, and Chongqing Xinlian Microelectronics to discuss investment priorities, supply chain pressure, and the push to take Chinese chip equipment international. David Wang, CEO of ACM Research, said the AI surge has been propelled by chip advances but argued that future progress depends on semiconductor equipment. Next-generation manufacturing tools haven't yet been developed, Wang said, and will likely define the trajectory of computing performance going forward.…