{"id":991514,"date":"2026-02-12T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991514"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:14:54","slug":"smic-bets-on-capacity-expansion-despite-margin-headwinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/smic-bets-on-capacity-expansion-despite-margin-headwinds\/","title":{"rendered":"SMIC bets on capacity expansion despite margin headwinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: China&#8217;s largest contract chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, warned of margin pressure this year as it expects a surge in depreciation costs due to a massive capacity expansion to meet strong demand for chips. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Hong Kong-listed shares dropped nearly 4% on Wednesday after the company said it expected flat revenue growth \u200cin the \u2060current quarter \u2060from the previous quarter and warned of a 30% jump in depreciation costs this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: China&#8217;s largest contract chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, warned of margin pressure this year as it expects a surge in depreciation costs due to a massive capacity expansion to meet strong demand for chips. The company&#8217;s Hong Kong-listed shares dropped nearly 4% on Wednesday after the company said it expected flat revenue growth \u200cin the \u2060current quarter \u2060from the previous quarter and warned of a 30% jump in depreciation costs this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}