Description
Founded in 2000, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. is the largest Chinese foundry and the fifth-largest globally, after TSMC, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries and UMC. The company’s headquarters and foundry is in Shanghai; with additional foundries in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shenzhen; offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Its products are used in artificial intelligence, or AI, data centers, automotive, consumer electronics, memory, and "Internet of Things" products. SMIC employs over 17,000 people.