UMC

United Microelectronics Corporation
聯華電子

Type| Public (TWSE: 2303, NYSE: UMC)
Industry| Semiconductor Foundry
Founded| 1980; 46 years ago (1980)
Headquarters| Hsinchu Science Park
Hsinchu, Taiwan

Key people

| Stan Hung, Chairman
Dr. Shih-Wei Sun, CEO
Revenue| $4.1 billion (2013)[1]

Number of employees

| 12,068
Website| www.umc.com
The Singapore factory and offices of the United Microelectronics Corporation.

United Microelectronics Corporation (Chinese: 聯華電子; pinyin: Liánhuá Diànzǐ), commonly known as UMC, is a Taiwanese company which is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).[2]

UMC is best known for its merchant foundry business, manufacturing integrated circuits wafers for fabless semiconductor companies. In this role, UMC is ranked behind competitors TSMC and GlobalFoundries.[3] It has three 300 mm fabs, one in Taiwan and one in Singapore and one in China.[2]

UMC is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol of UMC, and on the Taiwan Stock Exchange as 2303. UMC has 10 manufacturing facilities worldwide, employing 10,500 people.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Fab list
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

UMC was the first foundry to produce chips on 300 mm wafers, ship wafers using copper materials, to sell 65 nm ICs to customers, and to produce chips using 28 nm process technology.[2] It was the first Taiwanese company to offer foundry services and the first semiconductor company to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1985.

The company was also known for producing semiconductor chips which were used in counterfeit Nintendo Entertainment System game cartridges.[4] Nintendo of America filed a federal lawsuit against UMC for copyright infringement of the games. The case was settled, with both companies expressing satisfaction with the settlement.[5]

## Fab list

Fab | Node | Location | Wafer diameter | Wafers per month

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Fab 6A | 450 nm | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 150 mm | 50,000
Fab 8AB | 250 nm | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 200 mm | 70,000
Fab 8C | 350-110 nm | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 200 mm | 29,000
Fab 8D | 90 nm | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 200 mm | 32,000
Fab 8E | 180 nm | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 200 mm | 35,000
Fab 8F | 150 nm | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 200 mm | 32,000
Fab 8S | 350-250 nm | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 200 mm | 25,000
Fab 8N | 350-110 nm | Suzhou, China | 200 mm | 50,000
Fab 12A | 14 & 28 nm | Tainan, Taiwan | 300 mm | 75,000
Fab 12i | 130-40 nm | Singapore | 300 mm | 50,000
Fab 12X | 55-28 nm | Xiamen, China | 300 mm | 50,000

## See also

* List of Semiconductor Fabrication Plants

## References

1. ↑ "UMC Profile". UMC. Archived from the original on 2009-09-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20090912022134/http://www.umc.com.tw/English/about/o.asp. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "UMC Overview". UMC. Archived from the original on 2005-03-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20050319213811/http://www.umc.com.tw/English/about/o_1.asp. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
3. ↑ "Pure-Play Semiconductor Foundry Market Set for 12 Percent Growth in 2012". iSuppli. 2012-04-11. http://www.isuppli.com/Semiconductor-Value-Chain/News/Pages/Pure-Play-Semiconductor-Foundry-Market-Set-for-12-Percent-Growth-in-2012.aspx. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
4. ↑ "NINTENDO FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST TAIWAN FOR PIRACY OF VIDEO GAME COPYRIGHTS - Free Online Library". http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NINTENDO+FILES+COMPLAINT+AGAINST+TAIWAN+FOR+PIRACY+OF+VIDEO+GAME...-a011933221. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
5. ↑ "At the Deadline". GamePro (IDG) (67): 178. April 1994.

## External links

* Yahoo! Finance Profile of UMC
* Reuters Profile
* UMC Japan

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* t
* e

Major semiconductor companies

Companies with an annual revenue of over US$3 billion

* ASE Group
* Fujitsu
* Infineon Technologies
* Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc.
* Intel
* NXP Semiconductors (Freescale)
* ON Semiconductor
* Panasonic
* Renesas Electronics
* Samsung Electronics
* Sony
* STMicroelectronics
* Texas Instruments

| Fabless|

* Advanced Micro Devices
* Ampere Computing
* Apple Inc.
* Broadcom Inc.
* HiSilicon
* Marvell Technology Group
* MediaTek
* Nvidia
* Qualcomm
* VIA Technologies

|

Memory|

* Micron Technology
* Samsung Electronics
* SanDisk
* SK Hynix
* Toshiba

Foundries|

* GlobalFoundries
* TSMC
* UMC
* Samsung Foundry
* SMIC

Equipment|

* ASML
* Applied Materials
* KLA
* Lam Research
* Tokyo Electron

See also
Largest IT companies
Semiconductor industry
Category:Semiconductor companies

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