Chinese chip contractor Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) has announced the construction of a new semiconductor plant in Shanghai, China. The venture costs the equivalent of almost 9 billion US dollars, of which investors take over a part as part of a joint venture, including usually state financial injections. On the Bau reports, among others, the South China Morning Post . Accordingly, after completion, SMIC plans to expose around 100,000 silicon wafers with a diameter of 300 mm per month in the production facility. Technology with structures of 28 nanometers and coarser is used, with which SMIC already makes the...