{"id":156081,"date":"2026-08-14T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156081"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:00:30","slug":"smic-eyes-expansion-amid-ai-boom-zhu-rongji-dies-shein-nears-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156081","title":{"rendered":"SMIC eyes expansion amid AI boom, Zhu Rongji dies, Shein nears IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostSMIC, China\u2019s biggest contract chipmaker, is planning to boost capacity after beating earnings expectations amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.<br \/>\nDemand is \u201cfar exceeding our previous expectations\u201d, so the company is adjusting expansion plans and may add more equipment at existing sites, chief executive officer Zhao Haijun said on an earnings call on Friday. He didn\u2019t provide details.<br \/>\nThe chipmaker\u2019s shares gained 4.8 per cent in Hong Kong trading after it more than tripled second-quarter&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/tech\/tech-war\/article\/3364024\/smic-eyes-expansion-amid-ai-boom-zhu-rongji-dies-shein-nears-ipo?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostSMIC, China\u2019s biggest contract chipmaker, is planning to boost capacity after beating earnings expectations amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Demand is \u201cfar exceeding&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}