SMI

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.smics.com
Employees: 10,076
Employee growth: (2.2%)

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) does what its name suggests -- manufactures semiconductors for an international roster of clients. SMIC provides contract manufacturing, or foundry, services to semiconductor companies -- customers supply the designs, and SMIC takes care of production. SMIC operates seven foundries in China and has another under construction. It also manages two other foundries ultimately owned by the municipal Chinese government. SMIC's monthly production capacity is at 162,000 (almost 2 million), but the company lags behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC). SMIC gets about 60% of its sales from customers in the US.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $1,554.8M
One year growth: 45.3%
Net income: $13.1M

Officers:
Honorary Chairman and Chief Scientific Advisor: Yang-Yuan Wang
President, CEO, and Director: David N. K. Wang
COO: Simon S.N. Yang

Competitors:
GLOBALFOUNDRIES
TSMC
UMC

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(1) (Storage Management Initiative) The initiative developed by the SNIA in 2003 to create a single standard interface for storage management technologies used by multiple vendors and networking communities. The SMI is based on WBEM architecture and the Common Information Model (CIM), and it is pioneered by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). See WBEM and CIM.

(2) (Simple Mail Interface) A subset of functions within the VIM messaging protocol used by applications to send e-mail and attachments.

(3) (Structure of Management Information) A definition for creating MIBs in the SNMP protocol.

(4) (System Management Interrupt) A hardware interrupt in Intel SL Enhanced 486 and Pentium CPUs used for power management. This interrupt is also used for virus checking.

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