Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
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.
Native name
中芯国际集成电路制造有限公司 (中芯国际)
April 3, 2000
Cayman Islands
(legal domicile)
Haijun Zhao (Co-CEO)
Mong-Song Liang (Co-CEO)
US$36.1 billion (2021)
17,354 (2020)
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] SMIC expanded in the early 2020s by building four 28 nm process fabs across China as a result of a joint venture with China's state semiconductor fund; the fabs were expected to come online in 2023 and 2024.[18]
