Chinese semiconductor foundry
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is a partially state-owned publicly listed Chinese pure-play semiconductor foundry company. It is the largest contract chip maker in mainland China.
SMIC is headquartered in Shanghai[4] and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.[5] It has wafer fabrication sites throughout mainland China, offices in the United States, Italy, Japan, and Taiwan, and a representative office in Hong Kong.[6] It provides integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing services from 350 nm to 7 nm[7] process technologies. The Financial Times reported that SMIC is expected to offer 5 nm process-node IC manufacturing services in 2024.[8]
State-owned civilian and military telecommunications equipment provider Datang Telecom Group as well as the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund are major shareholders of SMIC.[9][10][11][12] Notable customers include Huawei, Qualcomm,[13][14] Broadcom,[15] and Texas Instruments.[16][13] SMIC is a major shareholder and supplier to Brite Semiconductor.[17] In response to US sanctions on the Chinese chip industry in the early 2020s, SMIC started on a wave of expansion in the form of joint ventures with China's state semiconductor fund.[18] As of 2024[update], it is the world's third largest contract chip maker.[19]
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