News Snapshot:
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), the largest and most advanced chip foundry operator in mainland China, is investing US$7.5 billion to develop a new 12-inch wafer production line in the northern city of Tianjin , part of its capacity expansion programme that has gained urgency amid concerns of fresh US trade sanctions. The new plant will be built inside the XEDA Sci-Tech Park, located south of downtown Tianjin in the Xiqing Development Area, and have a production capacity of 100,000 12-inch wafers a month, covering 28-nanometre and more mature semiconductor manufacturing process nodes, according to SMIC’s announcement in Hong Kong...
