It seems clear who&#x27;s footing the bill:<p><i>China&#x27;s Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd plans to invest 300 billion yuan ($47 billion) over the next five years in a bid to become the world&#x27;s third-biggest chipmaker, the chairman of the state-backed technology conglomerate said on Monday.</i><p>Chinese government wants to be in CPUs. (Edit: Oops, the article talks about NAND. Well, they want to be in memory chips then, I guess.)