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and is exploring wind power. economic development, in the direction financial and material support to poor
Building on proven expertise in of a low-carbon economy. At SMIC students. Not only have the living and
processing and manufacturing Energy Technology, we use our education conditions improved, but the
techniques for semiconductor devices technology and expertise to power up foundation has also brought hope to
and motivated by concern for the the world with green energy. the people it serves.
environment, SMIC opted to enter the SMIC has actively participated in Establishment of domestic wafer
solar cell market. Thanks to an many community development fabs and implementation of advanced
experienced team and an advanced cell products, not just in the areas around product and process technology have
Issue VII 2009
production line, from March 2006 the each facility, across the country in rural been critical to the development of
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company designs and manufactures parts of China. SMIC encouraged its China’s nascent semiconductor industry.
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high performance cells from employees to contribute to China’s As Jack Welch, former Chairman and
monocrystalline, multicrystalline and development in ways beyond their CEO of General Electric, said, “If you
recycled wafers based on proprietary work. They helped to establish the want to be the world leader in your
processes and technologies. Energy Enyou foundation. industry, you must be the leader in
reduction is at the core of technological By partnering with Project Hope, a China.”
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China’s integrated circuit
innovation. The trend of low-carbon Chinese public service project industry continues to expand, and there
economies is a global revolution. organized by the China Youth are opportunities to participate in
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A low-carbon economy is a Development Foundation and the China’s IC growth phenomenon for
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developing opportunity in China. China Communist Youth League Central overseas companies with advanced IC
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is the largest energy producer in the Committee to bring schools into design and advanced packaging and
world, the second largest energy poverty-stricken rural areas of China assembly capabilities.
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consumer, and the second largest and to help children whose families are Established in 2000, SMIC’s rapid
contributor to greenhouse gas emission. too poor to afford their education. The ramp up to advanced manufacturing
China’s annual per capita greenhouse Enyou Foundation has helped to build and technology excellence has not only
emission is only 2.7 tons, but with the 34 such schools in the provinces of helped to secure its place at the
momentum of the developing industry Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, forefront of China’s IC manufacturing,
and carbon emissions increasing, the Qinghai and Xinjiang. In addition to but also in the world. With the market’s
pressure for green energy is building. building schools, the foundation has enormous potential, fostering a China
The increasing pressure will encourage organized teacher training, installed foundry partnership is one of the best
China to strengthen efforts in solar-power systems, manufactured by ways to secure a foothold in the China
optimizing energy and promoting SMIC Energy Technology, and provided market.
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1 China’s Semiconductor Industry, Chapter 2, Pecht, et al.
2 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of PRC,
http://www.miit.gov.cn/n11293472/n11293832/n11294072/n11302465/11628101.html
3 See “China’s Impact on the Semiconductor Industry: 2008 Update,” by PricewaterhouseCoopers,
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pdf accessed November 26, 2008
4 EE times, China IC Market to hit $100B in 2013, http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219000233
5 Gartner Dataquest, a foundry competitive landscape analysis in 2009
6 Harvard Business School, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation: “Reverse BOT” in 2009,
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609062&referral=2340.
7 EE Times-Asia, China’s 2007 China IC Design House Survey,
http://www.eetasia.com/login.dofromWhere=/ART_8800463373_480100_TA_69872851.HTM
8 CSIA, 2008 China Semiconductor IP Report, http://www.csia.net.cn/Article/ShowInfo.aspInfoID=7664
9 SMIC, 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report,
http://www.smics.com/website/enVersion/About_SMIC/SocialResponsibility.htm
10 Countryrisk.com, China Archives, http://www.countryrisk.com/editorials/archives/cat_china.html
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