The proliferation of System on Chip (SoC) designs has created a whole new market of smart products that have decreased in size while greatly increasing in functionality. However, new challenges have made it more difficult for designers to achieve first-time-right silicon success in time to meet market windows. For designers to be successful, comprehensive foundry solutions based on the needs of customers are needed to help enable their success.

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. This has resulted in a broad range of resources available to customers, including silicon validated reference flows, a broad IP portfolio, free-of-charge libraries, and low cost prototyping. We also understand system implications so that we can engage in robust dialogue and offer suggestions for optimizing system partition for each design.

Combine these with our advanced 65nm and below process technologies, extensive package and test capabilities, and state-of-the-art 300mm manufacturing, and the result is complete foundry solutions that customers can leverage to deliver successful results in a timely fashion.