SMIC Holds 2007 Technology Symposium in Shenzhen
30 August 2007 - 6:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC; NYSE:
SMI; HKSE: 981) held its technology symposium in Shenzhen on August
30th, 2007,attracting more than 200 customers, design services
providers, technology partners, and vendors. In the opening speech,
SMIC Vice President, Dr. Ning Hsieh looked forward to the future of
China's IC industry and reviewed some of SMIC's accomplishments
during the past year. Meanwhile, he thanked all of the customers,
partners and vendors for their continuous support to SMIC and also
hoped for more cooperation in the future. Xu Xiao Tian, Secretary
General of Chinese Semiconductor Industry Association attended the
symposium and gave a speech. He emphasized SMIC's great
contributions to China's IC industry and hoped all to cooperate
closely and develop the industry. Dr. Norman S.F. Hu, CEO of Anyka
Technology corp., gave a keynote presentation on "The Challenge
that Domestic IC Design Corporations faced." In addition, SMIC
presented its latest developments and services in advanced logic
technologies, mixed-sign, RF, spice modeling, and memory, embedded
memory technology, high voltage, sensor, and display technologies.
The symposium also featured an exhibition where lots of design
services and assembly partners displayed their products and
services. About SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing International
Corporation ('SMIC'; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is one of the leading
semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most
advanced foundry in Mainland China. Headquartered in Shanghai, SMIC
provides integrated circuit manufacturing service at 0.35um to 90nm
and finer line technologies. SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication
facility (fab) under start-up and three 200mm wafer fabs in its
Shanghai mega-fab, two 300mm wafer fabs in its Beijing mega-fab, a
200mm wafer fab in Tianjin, and an in- house assembly and testing
facility in Chengdu. SMIC also has customer service and marketing
offices in the U.S., Italy, and Japan, and a representative office
in Hong Kong. In addition, SMIC manages and operates a 200mm wafer
fab in Chengdu owned by Cension Semiconductor Manufacturing
Corporation and a 300mm wafer fab (under construction) in Wuhan
owned by Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. For
more information, please visit http://www.smics.com/ . Safe Harbour
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Form 20-F filed on June 29, 2007 with the U.S. Securities and
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