Article content (Bloomberg) — China’s hardware startups are getting more venture capital funding this year, helped by Beijing’s effort to drive investments in strategicially important technology as well as its crackdown on the internet sector. Venture firms pumped $5.4 billion into hardware startups such as chip producers and robotics makers across Greater China during the first half of the year, according to a report by Seattle-based data provider PitchBook on Tuesday. That’s already surpassed the $5.1 billion raised in total last year and is almost quadruple the $1.4 billion total for 2016. Article content That’s likely to provide a boost...