China's SMIC Planning New Chip Facility Amid Entity List Restrictions
China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., which was placed on the Commerce Department’s Entity List last year, plans to build a nearly $9 billion chip production facility in Shanghai to help bolster China’s semiconductor ambitions, the Wall Street Journal reported Sept.…
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3. The facility will be built through a joint venture between SMIC and the Shanghai government, and will specialize in “mature technologies of 28-nanometer process nodes and higher and churn out 100,000 12-inch wafers a month when complete,” the report said, citing a SMIC regulatory filing. SMIC, which is also on an unclassified Defense Department list of Chinese military companies (see 2106280023), has come under intense scrutiny from some lawmakers, who view it as a threat to U.S. semiconductor leadership (see 2103190005).