{"id":1027320,"date":"2026-08-08T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027320"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:22:50","slug":"forget-nvidia-chips-chinas-next-big-race-is-being-slowed-down-by-an-unlikely-rival-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/forget-nvidia-chips-chinas-next-big-race-is-being-slowed-down-by-an-unlikely-rival-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Nvidia chips, China&#8217;s next big race is being slowed down by an unlikely rival: monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s pharmaceutical sector, which has spent the past five years rebuilding itself into the world&#8217;s fastest drug development machine, is now being held back by a shortage of lab monkeys, and biotech executives say securing one now feels as difficult as negotiating with Nvidia for its chips. <\/p>\n<p>In June 2026, a Chinese state laboratory paid 178,000 yuan, roughly Rs 22 lakh or $26,294, for each of 40 cynomolgus macaques, according to the Times of India. Twelve months earlier, the same animal cost approximately half that amount. Since 2018, when a single lab monkey cost around $1,800 (roughly Rs 1.5 lakh at current rates), prices have climbed by more than 1,000% in eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s pharmaceutical sector, which has spent the past five years rebuilding itself into the world&#8217;s fastest drug development machine, is now being held back by a shortage of lab monkeys, and biotech executives say securing one now feels as difficult as negotiating with Nvidia for its chips. In June 2026, a Chinese state laboratory paid 178,000 yuan, roughly Rs 22 lakh or $26,294, for each of 40 cynomolgus macaques, according to the Times of India. Twelve months earlier, the same animal cost approximately half that amount. Since 2018, when a single lab monkey cost around $1,800 (roughly Rs 1.5 lakh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027341,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027320\/revisions\/1027341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}