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SMIC: The Chinese company at the centre of US-China chip war
Despite roadblocks, China's largest semiconductor maker has acquired technology and skills to produce the most advanced chips.
www.trtworld.com, Nov. 04, 2022 – <
In the early 2000s, Stanford scientist Yoshio Nishi visited the newly-built factory of the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) in Shanghai, China.
He came across dozens of Chinese engineers, including cleanroom technicians, who had returned home after studying and working in western countries to join SMIC, an integrated circuit (IC) foundry established by Richard Chang, a Taiwanese-American industry veteran.
"I was impressed by their enthusiasm," Nishi tells TRT World about his encounter. "However, I was not particularly surprised by them. Simply because I saw a similar highly dense number of people in Korea during their rapid growth period of the IC industry."
The expat Chinese workers driven by Mao Zedong's patriotic slogan of zili gengsheng (self-reliance), and foreign engineers lured by better economic incentives have been key to SMIC's success.
The latest US export curbs aimed at restricting China's semiconductor advancement seek to discourage the flow of these same foreign engineers to Chinese tech firms.
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