Chinese contract producer ,semiconductor manufacturing international corp. (SMIC) published its plans with the mastery of 45- nm and 40- nm technology which is planned for the next year.
Up to 2011 the company hopes to master 32 nm production standards . It already conducts with IBM negotiations, connected with licensing the corresponding developments .
The company developed independently 65 nm technical processes . In order to avoid expenditures for creation of its own 45- nm technology, SMIC at the end of last year licenzed the 45- nm technical process from IBM.
SMIC insignificantly lags behind its basic competitors : chartered, TSMC and UMC. Chartered planned to master 32- nm technical process prior to the end of next year.
It is interesting that SMIC company reacted to the crisis in the DRAM market . The substantial part of its power was occupied with the release of this product, but recently they changed this plan and started the release of logical microcircuits.
Now SMIC release products according to 0,35, 0,25, 0,18 and 0,09 m standards. The mastery of 65- nm technology goes at full speed . To the third quarter 2009 SMIC expects to begin the passage on 45 nm standards. The corresponding process is built on the use of 193- nm immersion lithograph.