SMIC (0981.HK) is a publicly traded Foundries company founded in 2000 and based in Shanghai, China.
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SMIC's leading-edge logic foundry service fabricates customer chips on FinFET process nodes, including its 14nm platform and 7nm-class N+2 and N+1 derivatives used for high-performance computing and AI accelerators. The service gives fabless designers and Chinese chip companies a domestic route to advanced logic when access to overseas leading-edge capacity is restricted. SMIC differentiates on local capacity in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Tianjin, though advanced-node yields and volumes remain constrained relative to TSMC.
SMIC's core revenue engine is volume foundry service on 28nm and larger geometries, spanning 0.35-micron to 28-nanometer logic processes on 200mm and 300mm wafers. Customers include fabless companies building consumer, IoT, automotive and industrial chips that do not need the newest transistor technology. The service emphasizes cost-competitive capacity, stable yields and long-lived process flows, which suits high-volume products with multi-year lifecycles.
SMIC offers specialty process platforms for power management, sensors and embedded memory, including a Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) platform from 0.35 to 0.18 micron for analog and power ICs, embedded non-volatile memory (eFlash) and CMOS image sensor processes. These platforms let customers integrate analog, power and memory functions onto one die. SMIC differentiates by bundling customizable device options and IP support so designers can move from prototype to volume production with fewer process-qualification steps.