SMIC smacks Europe with more support

It claims that it has grown its foundry business in Europe and has teamed up with TT Silicon to provide customer services for fabless firms in the UK and in Northern Europe.

A "fabless" company is a firm which designs semiconductors which are then farmed out to so-called "pure play" foundries, which then makes the chips. The biggest pure play foundry is TSMC based in Taiwan, while a good example of one of the most successful fabless firms is graphics chip designer Nvidia. µ

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[That's enough SMIC LINQs, Ed.]