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Company snapshot — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp

0981.HK in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation is a foundry: it manufactures integrated-circuit wafers and compound semiconductors to other companies' chip designs rather than selling chips under its own name. Alongside wafer fabrication it offers photomask production, design and intellectual-property support, and testing services. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Where it sits in the stack
0981.HK holds no seat in our index; it sits in the semiconductor foundry sleeve of our universe, the group of companies that fabricate chips to other firms' designs rather than design or brand their own.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group does not currently cover SMIC; the comparison the market most often draws is with TSMC, the larger contract-chip maker it is set against on process capability and scale.
Why Closelook tracks it
SMIC carries no Rubin or Halo seat and no Closelook score has been built for it yet; the diary has mentioned it once, with no quotes drawn from any edition so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the stock's recent bounce off its lows holds or fades while it still trades well under its longer-term averages, as a sign of how the market reads foundry demand recovering.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (0981.HK) trades on the HK exchange in Hong Kong.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for 0981.HK, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (0981.HK)?

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp trades as 0981.HK on the HK exchange (Hong Kong) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is 0981.HK in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does 0981.HK trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -9.4% vs the 50-day and -10.5% vs the 200-day average, 33.3% below the 52-week high and +26.5% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 4 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp do?

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation is a foundry: it manufactures integrated-circuit wafers and compound semiconductors to other companies' chip designs rather than selling chips under its own name. Alongside wafer fabrication it offers photomask production, design and intellectual-property support, and testing services. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China. Closelook's peer group does not currently cover SMIC; the comparison the market most often draws is with TSMC, the larger contract-chip maker it is set against on process capability and scale.

Where does Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp sit in the AI build-out?

0981.HK holds no seat in our index; it sits in the semiconductor foundry sleeve of our universe, the group of companies that fabricate chips to other firms' designs rather than design or brand their own. SMIC carries no Rubin or Halo seat and no Closelook score has been built for it yet; the diary has mentioned it once, with no quotes drawn from any edition so far.

Where has Closelook written about Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp?

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Morning 10: Asia’s chip rally fades into the close: Kospi touches 7,171 and ends under 7,000, Nikkei −1.2% on a 153 yen — and Lenovo drops 6%, Z.ai 10% in Hong Kong (2026-09-08). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for 0981.HK, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Morning 10, “Asia’s chip rally fades into the close: Kospi touches 7,171 and ends under 7,000, Nikkei −1.2% on a 153 yen — and Lenovo drops 6%, Z.ai 10% in Hong Kong” (2026-09-08)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where 0981.HK appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

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