SMIC said today that the company cannot meet customers' needs for specific mature technologies, and it has been full of operation for several seasons.
According to Reuters, after SMIC announced the latest quarterly financial report, co -chief executive officer Zhao Haijun published the above comments at the conference call.He also said that the company's revenue growth will still be affected by external sanctions.
SMIC's fourth quarter of 2020 revenue was US $ 981 million (S $ 1.313 billion), a year -on -year increase of 16.9%.However, the company estimates that the increasing revenue in 2021 is a medium -level at a percentage.
"Without these impacts, SMIC could have maintained a record growth momentum last year," Zhao Haijun said."Although we cannot control external forces, we will face the crisis and changes to create new possibilities and opportunities."
China is committed to cultivating domestic semiconductor production capacity and SMIC played a key role. However, the US's previous Trump administration's sanctions prevented American companies from supplying products for SMIC.
Zhao Haijun added that the company is still talking to suppliers and the US government, hoping to obtain a license to allow its procurement equipment to boost the output.
The company's goal is to increase the 12 -inch wafer capacity of 10,000 tablets per month this year, and the 8 -inch wafer capacity increases 45,000 pieces per month.
However, Zhao Hajun said that due to the long period of time in equipment procurement, most equipment cannot be in place before the second half of this year, so these expansion will not contribute much to 2021 revenue.
SMIC is also an important role in the global semiconductor supply chain.Epidemic blocking measures drive the demand for electronic products such as laptops and mobile phones, making the semiconductor supply chain currently under pressure.
Zhao Hajun said that SMIC did not feel too much pressure caused by too much car chip, but in other fields, SMIC has always faced a lot of pressure.
