According to CoinMeta, SMIC, in conjunction with CEO Zhao Haijun, stated at the second-quarter earnings meeting on August 14 that looking ahead to the second half of the year, the industrial driving and spillover effects of artificial intelligence will continue, creating widespread demand for integrated circuit manufacturing. The company will flexibly allocate its existing production capacity and quickly verify new capacity to help alleviate the shortage in the supply chain. At the same time, the company has also noticed that the pressure of rising supply chain costs has been transmitted to the manufacturing phase and will actively respond to minimize the impact.