Jan 6., 2003 – Shanghai, China – Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Elpida Memory Inc. have signed a five-year arrangement under which Elpida will utilize SMIC as a foundry partner to produce its 0.13-micron stacked-capacitor DRAM, and SMIC will start to produce DRAM chips for Elpida beginning in 2003.
SMIC has established cooperation partnerships with many Japanese major semiconductor companies including Toshiba and Fujitsu.