UMC
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UMC is a leading global semiconductor foundry that provides advanced technology and manufacturing services for applications spanning every major sector of the IC industry. Founded in 1980 as Taiwan's first semiconductor company, UMC is a semiconductor process patent leader. UMC's customer-driven foundry solutions enable chip designers to leverage the strength of the company's leading-edge processes, which include production-proven 65nm, 45/40nm, mixed signal/RFCMOS, and a wide range of specialty technologies. The company employs over 13,000 people worldwide and has an extensive network of service offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and the United States to meet the needs of its global clientele. |
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| Leading-Edge
Foundry Technologies |
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a global industry pioneer, UMC was the first foundry to ship
wafers using copper materials, to produce chips on 300mm wafers,
to deliver functional 65-nanometer ICs to its customers, and
to produce chips using 28-nanometer process technology. UMC's
leading-edge foundry technologies enable the creation of faster
and more powerful chips to meet today's demanding applications,
including high-k/metal gate, low k dielectrics, immersion
lithography, and mixed signal/RFCMOS.
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| The
Industry Leader |
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UMC
led the development of the commercial semiconductor industry
in Taiwan. It was the first local company to offer foundry
services, as well as the first semiconductor company to list
on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (1985). UMC is responsible for
many local industry innovations, including the introduction
of the employee share bonus system, often credited as a primary
factor in the development of a prominent electronics industry
in Taiwan. UMC also enables customers to access complete supply
chain information online through the MyUMC
online service portal, an industry first when it was introduced
in 1998.
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| Customer-Driven
Foundry Solutions |
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UMC is committed
to the timely delivery of leading-edge solutions that serve
the specific and unique requirements of our customers in the
face of today's advanced applications. UMC collaborates closely
with customers as well as partners throughout the entire supply
chain, including equipment, EDA tool, and IP vendors to work
synergistically towards each customer's SoC silicon success.
We also possess the required knowledge in system design and
architecture necessary to properly integrate customer designs
with advanced process technologies and IP. The result is a greater
chance of first pass silicon success for today's SoC designs.
UMC's customer-driven foundry solutions start from a common
logic-based platform, where designers can choose the process
technology and transistor options that best fit their application.
From there, technologies such as RFCMOS and embedded Flash can
be used to further fine-tune the process for customers' individual
needs. Furthermore, as IP has become a critical resource for
today's SoCs, we have worked to provide basic design building
blocks as well as more complex IP that are optimized for portability
and cost, developed both internally and from third-party partners.
With advanced technology, a broad IP portfolio, system knowledge,
and advanced 300mm manufacturing, UMC offers comprehensive solutions
that help customers deliver successful results in a timely fashion.
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| World-Class
Manufacturing |
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UMC is a 300mm manufacturing
leader with two advanced 300mm fabs in operation. Fab 12A in
Tainan, Taiwan has been in volume production for customer products
since 2002 and is currently manufacturing the industry's most
advanced 40nm products. Fab 12A's production capacity is currently
44,000 wafers per month. UMC's second 300mm fab, Fab 12i, is
located in Singapore's Pasir Ris Wafer Park. This second-generation
300mm facility is also in volume production, with capacity at
45,000 wafers per month. The advanced automation, mature defect
density, and competitive cycle times along with a customer-driven
capacity expansion plan enable UMC to be the foundry of choice
for customers' manufacturing needs. In addition the company
has seven 8-inch fabs and one 6-inch fab that manufacture products
targeting every major sector of the semiconductor industry.
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| Comprehensive
Services |
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| UMC's core services
as a pure play foundry involve delivering the world's leading-edge
technology through advanced research & development while
providing the most advanced manufacturing capabilities. This
includes 40nm production on 300mm wafers in fabs in Taiwan and
Singapore. In addition, UMC employs a comprehensive IP program,
protected by a security policy to guard the intellectual property
rights of our customers and vendors. View UMC's complete Customer
Driven Foundry Solutions, or for other foundry services
and general customer engagement procedure, please refer to the
company's Service
Flow chart. |
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| Numerous
Industry Affiliations |
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| UMC is a founding
member of the GSA (Global Semiconductor Association) and participates
in the PFI (Power Forward Initiative), X-Initiative, SEMATECH,
RAPID (Reusable Application-Specific Intellectual Property Developers),
and VCX (Virtual Component Exchange). |
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