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SMIC is China's largest semiconductor foundry, central to debates about AI compute governance, export controls, and the geopolitics of advanced chip manufacturing relevant to AI capabilities development.
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This Wikipedia article covers SMIC, China's largest contract chip manufacturer, detailing its history, ownership structure, technology capabilities (7nm to 350nm), and key customers including Huawei. It is relevant to AI safety discussions around compute governance, US-China technology competition, and semiconductor export controls that affect AI hardware supply chains.
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- •SMIC is China's largest and world's third-largest contract chip maker, partially state-owned with ties to military-linked shareholders like Datang Telecom.
- •Provides IC manufacturing from 350nm down to 7nm, with 5nm capabilities expected in 2024, narrowing the gap with leading-edge fabs.
- •Subject to US export controls and sanctions in the early 2020s, prompting expansion via state-backed joint ventures.
- •Key customers include Huawei, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Texas Instruments, making it central to global semiconductor supply chains.
- •State-backed China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund is a major shareholder, reflecting strategic national importance.
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Chinese semiconductor foundry
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation SMIC's "SZ" Fabrication Facility in Shenzhen , China Native name 中芯国际集成电路制造有限公司 (中芯国际) Company type Public ; State-owned enterprise Traded as SSE : 688981 (A share)
SEHK :  981 (H share)
CSI A50 Industry Semiconductors Founded April 3, 2000 ; 26 years ago  ( 2000-04-03 )
Cayman Islands
(legal domicile) Founder Zhang Rujing Headquarters Shanghai , China Key people Haijun Zhao (Co-CEO)
Liang Mong Song (Co-CEO) Revenue US$ 8.0 billion (2024) [ 1 ] Net income US$493 million (2023) Number of employees 17,354 (2020) Website www .smics .com
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 [ 2 ] and incorporated in the Cayman Islands . [ 3 ] It has wafer fabrication sites throughout mainland China, offices in the United States, Italy, Japan, and Taiwan, and a representative office in Hong Kong. [ 4 ] It provides integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing services from 350 nm to 7 nm [ 5 ] process technologies. The Financial Times reported that SMIC is expected to offer 5 nm process-node IC manufacturing services in 2024. [ 6 ]
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. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Notable customers include Huawei , Qualcomm , [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Broadcom , [ 13 ] and Texas Instruments . [ 14 ] [ 11 ] SMIC is a major shareholder and supplier to Brite Semiconductor . [ 15 ] 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. [ 16 ] As of 2024 [update] , it is the world's third largest contract chip maker. [ 17 ]
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SMIC was founded on April 3, 2000, and is headquartered in Shanghai. [ 2 ] It was incorporated in the Cayman Islands as a limited liability company. It quickly built a fully owned plant in Shanghai, acquired a Motorola plant in Tianjin, and then began to build a fully owned plant in Beijing. [ 3 ] SMIC also became involved in two projects in Chengdu and Wuhan, which reversed a common pattern in Chinese development of government building, operating, then transferring industrial projects,
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