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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
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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.
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Native name | 中芯国际集成电路制造有限公司 (中芯国际) |
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Company type | Public; State-owned enterprise |
SSE: 688981 (A share) SEHK: 981 (H share) | |
Industry | Semiconductors |
Founded | April 3, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-04-03) Cayman Islands (legal domicile) |
Founder | Zhang Rujing |
Headquarters | Shanghai, China |
Key people | Haijun Zhao (Co-CEO) Mong-Song Liang (Co-CEO) |
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Number of employees | 17,354 (2020) |
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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] Since then, it has rapidly risen in sales, overtaking GlobalFoundries and UMC to become the world's third largest contract chip maker in Q1 2024.[19]