Are SMIC and ZTE the same company? What is their relationship?

Not the same company, SMIC is a circuit chip manufacturer and an upstream company of ZTE.

ZTE Corporation, the world's leading provider of integrated communication solutions, is the largest listed company of communication equipment in China. The main products include: 2G/3G/4G/5G wireless base stations and core networks, IMS, fixed network access and bearer, optical networks, chips, high-end routers, intelligent switches, government and enterprise networks, big data, cloud computing, data centers, mobile phones and home terminals, smart cities, ICT services, aviation, railway and urban rail transit signal transmission equipment.

SMIC International Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is the largest and most advanced integrated circuit chip manufacturing enterprise in China. The main business is to manufacture integrated circuit chips for customers according to their own or third-party integrated circuit designs.

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The development history of ZTE

1985 Shenzhen ZTE Semiconductor Co., Ltd., the predecessor of ZTE, was established.

Shenzhen Research Institute was established 1986, and ZTE started independent research and development.

1990 The first digital PBX ZX500 independently developed was successfully put into the market.

1997, A-share listing of Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

200 1, ZTE Hongkong Company was established, joined 3GPP2 (3rd generation partnership project 2), and ZTE CDMA served China Unicom. This is the first large-scale mobile communication network construction project with independent intellectual property rights obtained by communication equipment manufacturers in China.

In 20 12, ZTE and China Mobile Hong Kong Company officially launched the world's first single-chip 4GLTE smartphone-Grand XL TE (T82), thus making ZTE the first mobile phone manufacturer in China to officially launch 4GLTE smartphone.

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