SMIC

Extracted Attributes

• Founded

  2000-04-03

• Revenue

  $1.75 billion (Q1 2024)

• Full Name

  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation

• Legal Form

  Partially state-owned publicly listed company

• Headquarters

  Shanghai, China

• Market Share

  6% (as of Q1 2024)

• Incorporation

  Cayman Islands

• Global Ranking

  3rd largest chip foundry

• Process Technologies

  350 nm to 7 nm (5 nm expected in 2024)

Timeline

• SMIC is founded in Shanghai and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2000-04-03

• The United States imposes export restrictions on SMIC, adding the company to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List. (Source: NewsNow; WSJ)

  2020-12-18

• Reports indicate SMIC has overtaken GlobalFoundries to become the world's third-largest chip foundry by market share. (Source: CNBC)

  2024-05-23

• SMIC is expected to begin offering 5 nm process-node integrated circuit manufacturing services. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-12-31

• SMIC enters an agreement to sell its 14.83% stake in Ningbo Semiconductor International to Goke Microelectronics. (Source: GlobalData)

  2025-06-01

• SMIC enters an agreement to acquire a 49% stake in SMIC North Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (Source: GlobalData)

  2025-09-01

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Web Search Results

• Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation - Wikipedia

  SMIC is headquartered in Shanghai and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. It has wafer fabrication sites throughout mainland China, offices in the United States, Italy, Japan, and Taiwan, and a representative office in Hong Kong. It provides integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing services from 350 nm to 7 nm process technologies. The Financial Times reported that SMIC is expected to offer 5 nm process-node IC manufacturing services in 2024. [...] SMIC was founded on April 3, 2000, and is headquartered in Shanghai. 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. 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, such that SMIC [...] 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.

• Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp Overview

  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is a foundry that provides semiconductor foundry and technology services. The company specializes in manufacturing 8-inch and 12-inch wafers and offers a range of services including wafer manufacturing, assembly, packaging, and testing. SMIC's technology portfolio includes power and analog technologies, which are used in applications such as battery management, DC-DC converters, and motor controllers. The company serves customers [...] across industries such as mobile, computing, consumer electronics, automotive, and industrial sectors. The company operates manufacturing facilities in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, and Shenzhen, and has marketing and customer service offices in the US, Europe, Japan, and Taiwan. SMIC is headquartered in Shanghai, China. [...] | Year | Event | Description | --- | 2025 | Contracts/Agreements | In September, the company entered into an agreement to acquire a 49% stake in SMIC North Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.. | | 2025 | Contracts/Agreements | In June, the company entered into an agreement to sell its 14.83% stake in Ningbo Semiconductor International to Goke Microelectronics. |

• SMIC News (Semiconductor Company) | Latest News - NewsNow

  Latest news on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the largest contract chip maker in mainland China, headquartered in Shanghai and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. It provides integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing services using process technologies from 350 nm to 7 nm. SMIC is partially state-owned, with major shareholders including Datang Telecom Group and the China National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. Notable customers include Qualcomm, [...] American companies or individuals from investing in it. SMIC was also added to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entities List.

• China's SMIC is now world's third-largest chip foundry: Counterpoint

  State-backed SMIC, or Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co., held a market share of 6% in the first quarter— up from 5% last year, the report showed. It overtook GlobalFoundries and Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corporation. This places SMIC behind only Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and South Korea's Samsung Foundry which held 62% and 13% of market share in the first quarter respectively. [...] SMIC is seen as critical to Beijing's hopes of reducing dependence on foreign technology in its domestic semiconductor industry as the U.S. continues to curb China's tech power. To boost domestic manufacturing, Beijing has pumped billions of yuan in subsidies into its chip firms. SMIC has been the target of U.S. sanctions since 2020 where American businesses will be required to apply for a license before they can sell to SMIC, restricting its ability to acquire certain U.S. technology. [...] SMIC reported first-quarter revenue was $1.75 billion, up 19.7% from a year earlier, as customers stocked up on chips. More than 80% of its revenue in the quarter were derived from customers in China, the firm said in its earnings report. In the second quarter, the Chinese firm expects revenue to increase by 5% to 7% from the first quarter on strong demand.

• SMIC: China's Main Bet Against TSMC and Samsung | WSJ - YouTube

  # SMIC: China’s Main Bet Against TSMC and Samsung | WSJ ## The Wall Street Journal 6500000 subscribers 7721 likes ### Description 538957 views Posted: 12 May 2025 SMIC is China’s main bet against Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung in the global AI race. But the U.S.’s efforts to keep Beijing’s biggest chipmaker in check appear to have had the opposite effect. Huawei recently unveiled a new line of SMIC manufactured semiconductors that rival Nvidia’s. [...] International Corporation, or SMIC, plays a key role in China's push for chip self-sufficiency, but faces significant geopolitical challenges. In 2020, citing national security concerns, the US imposed export restrictions on the company, cutting off access to vital equipment needed to produce the most advanced chips, and impacting its ability to close the gap with its larger rivals. But US efforts to keep the company in check appear to have had the opposite effect. - There is a growing [...] in the quantities Huawei needed to sell like a high-end smartphone. - [Narrator] The speed of a chip is determined by how many transistors it contains. The smaller the transistors, which are measured in nanometers, the more can be packed onto a chip, making it more powerful. - An industry teardown revealed that SMIC was the maker of these powerful chips that powered or enabled the smartphone to offer the intelligent capability that it did. So that was really a wake