SMIC will be built in Chengdu integrated circuit packaging testing plant

SMIC IC Manufacturing Co., Ltd and Chengdu municipal government signed an investment agreement, SMIC will invest $175000000 to build a integrated circuit packaging and testing plant.

SMIC is one of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, providing process technology from zero point three five microns to zero point one three micron IC production services. SMIC was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in April two in 000. At present, the company in Shanghai Zhangjiang hi tech Park operating three inch wafer manufacturing plant in Tianjin, and operates a eight wafer manufacturing plant in the. In addition, Beijing is building twelve wafer fabrication plant.

According to reports, the core of the international investment projects in Chengdu, Chengdu high tech Zone in the western region of the export processing zone, is expected to start construction by the end of this year, a year after the formal operation of the production.