SMIC aims to grab foundry share
 

An alliance between Chinese Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), Huawei, Qualcomm and Imec looks likely to give chip competitors a run for their money.

The joint venture aims at designing semiconductors at 14 nanometres that will be made at a SMIC fab on the mainland.

Right now, according to Trendforce analysts, SMIC currently has the capacity to make 140,000 eight inch silicon wafers and 50,000 12 inch wafers a month but its process is only 40 to 45 nanometres.

Trendforce said that one of its clients is helping it to move to a 28 nanometre production process.

Huawei however has a subsidiary called HiSilicon which competes with Qualcomm and this may through a spanner in the joint venture.

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