Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (and SMIC subsidiaries: Better Way Enterprises Limited, China IC Capital Co., Ltd., Magnificent Tower Limited, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation (SMIC Beijing), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shenzhen) Corporation (SMIC Shenzhen), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Tianjin) Corporation (SMIC Tianjin), Semiconductor Manufacturing North China (Beijing) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing South China Corporation (SMIC South China), SilTech Semiconductor Corporation, SMIC Holdings Limited (SMIC Holdings), SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (SMIC Shanghai), and SMIC, Americas)

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 1 authority: US Department of Defense (Section 1260H). Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & control— Not scoredNot scored. No ownership, control or officer records are on file for this company, which is an absence of evidence rather than an absence of risk.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Jurisdiction— Not scoredNot scored. The jurisdiction lists this system reads are: EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9). Each names specific countries, so absence from them is not a clearance of China. Separately, 22 of the sanctions authorities this system reads have designated companies registered in China — a count of this corpus, not a rating of the jurisdiction.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• US Department of Defense (Section 1260H)Active

  Section 1260H designation

  Designated 10 Jun 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

No corporate ownership records on file for this company. Ownership is recorded only where a register or a designating authority publishes it, and coverage is thin for companies outside the jurisdictions with open beneficial-ownership registers.

No people recorded against this company. Officer and ownership data comes from national business registers, and the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists — so a sanctioned company frequently has none.

Legal name

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (and SMIC subsidiaries: Better Way Enterprises Limited, China IC Capital Co., Ltd., Magnificent Tower Limited, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation (SMIC Beijing), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shenzhen) Corporation (SMIC Shenzhen), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Tianjin) Corporation (SMIC Tianjin), Semiconductor Manufacturing North China (Beijing) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing South China Corporation (SMIC South China), SilTech Semiconductor Corporation, SMIC Holdings Limited (SMIC Holdings), SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (SMIC Shanghai), and SMIC, Americas)

Also known as

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (and SMIC subsidiaries: Better Way Enterprises Limited, China IC Capital Co., Ltd., Magnificent Tower Limited, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation (SMIC Beijing), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shenzhen) Corporation (SMIC Shenzhen), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Tianjin) Corporation (SMIC Tianjin), Semiconductor Manufacturing North China (Beijing) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing South China Corporation (SMIC South China), SilTech Semiconductor Corporation, SMIC Holdings Limited (SMIC Holdings), SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (SMIC Shanghai), and SMIC, Americas)

Jurisdiction

CN

First recorded here

15 Aug 2026

1. Sanction listed: US Department of Defense (Section 1260H) — Section 1260H designation

   15 Aug 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

2. Alias recorded: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (and SMIC subsidiaries: Better Way Enterprises Limited, China IC Capital Co., Ltd., Magnificent Tower Limited, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation (SMIC Beijing), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shenzhen) Corporation (SMIC Shenzhen), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Tianjin) Corporation (SMIC Tianjin), Semiconductor Manufacturing North China (Beijing) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing South China Corporation (SMIC South China), SilTech Semiconductor Corporation, SMIC Holdings Limited (SMIC Holdings), SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (SMIC Shanghai), and SMIC, Americas)

   15 Aug 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

3. First recorded: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (and SMIC subsidiaries: Better Way Enterprises Limited, China IC Capital Co., Ltd., Magnificent Tower Limited, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation (SMIC Beijing), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shenzhen) Corporation (SMIC Shenzhen), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Tianjin) Corporation (SMIC Tianjin), Semiconductor Manufacturing North China (Beijing) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing South China Corporation (SMIC South China), SilTech Semiconductor Corporation, SMIC Holdings Limited (SMIC Holdings), SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (SMIC Shanghai), and SMIC, Americas)

   15 Aug 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

No corporate ownership records on file. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of a simple structure — see the risk breakdown, where the ownership component is left unscored for exactly this reason.

No people recorded against this company. Officer data comes from national business registers, and a company outside those jurisdictions will have none here even when its officers are publicly known elsewhere.

Nothing to draw: this company has no recorded links to another company on file.

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

• Fact

  semiconductor manufacturing international corporation (smic) (and smic subsidiaries: better way enterprises china ic capital co magnificent tower semiconductor manufacturing international (beijing) corporation (smic beijing) semiconductor manufacturing international (shenzhen) corporation (smic shenzhen) semiconductor manufacturing international (tianjin) corporation (smic tianjin) semiconductor manufacturing north china (beijing) corporation semiconductor manufacturing south china corporation (smic south china) siltech semiconductor corporation smic holdings (smic holdings) smic semiconductor manufacturing (shanghai) co (smic shanghai) and smic americas)

  Legal name

  Evidence

  dod1260h-2026-11571-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corporation-smic-and-smic-su

  Read 15 Aug 2026

  Source

  US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  CN

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  dod1260h-2026-11571-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corporation-smic-and-smic-su

  Read 15 Aug 2026

  Source

  US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  US Department of Defense (Section 1260H) — Section 1260H designation

  Designation

  Evidence

  dod1260h-2026-11571-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corporation-smic-and-smic-su

  Read 15 Aug 2026 · in force from 10 Jun 2026

  Source

  US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

  Primary source ↗

Records from these sources are matched into one company only on a shared identifier, or by a human reviewer — never on name similarity alone. How this works. Not legal or compliance advice: check the originals before acting on anything here.

TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

2 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.