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For Immediate
Release
UMC Goes Live with
Its "MY UMC" eSERVICE Solution
First Known Foundry Internet Application to Enable Real-Time
Online Capacity Booking
Hsinchu, Taiwan -- October 23, 2000 – UMC (NYSE:
UMC), a world leader in semiconductor foundry services, has announced
the availability of My UMC, a new industry standard for web-based
supply chain management applications. My UMC (http://my.umc.com)
represents a significant
enhancement to UMC's foundry services, allowing customers to use any
standard Internet browser to access the technical and logistical data
they need to bring their semiconductor products to market as efficiently
as possible. My UMC is a secure environment that can be accessed by
UMC foundry customers.
The application features UMC's Available to Promise (ATP) system,
an industry first. ATP allows customers to reserve manufacturing
capacity over the Internet in real time, reducing order confirmation
lead-time from days to just minutes. The My UMC web portal also
gives each customer a personalized start page that serves as the
gateway to a comprehensive range of logistical and technical product
information. Not only does this enable customers to track their
foundry products through every step of the manufacturing process,
but they can also use the online tools available in the portal's
Engineering Data Analysis section to enhance product yield.
Robert Chin, director of IT at UMC, said, "We have developed a
system that will bring our customers a new level of convenience.
My UMC is a one-stop solution offering customers the ability to
access comprehensive account information, as well as execute complex
functions, such as product yield enhancement and capacity commitment,
online and in real time."
My UMC has been developed in cooperation with many of the premier
companies in the supply chain management field, including i2 Technologies.
"Only by working with the leaders in the field have we made such
a comprehensive and scalable application available to our customers
today," stated Jim Kupec, senior vice president of worldwide marketing
and sales at UMC. "We recognize that our customers' time-to-market
objectives require that they have easy and complete access to their
account information 24x7. My UMC provides this information in a
format optimized to meet the individual needs of each of our customers."
About ATP
UMC's ATP fab capacity loading engine allows customers
to receive capacity availability information and instant capacity
commitment in a real-time, Internet-enabled environment. The ATP
system eliminates both unnecessary manual key-in operations and
the potential for human error in the capacity commitment process.
UMC is the first foundry in the world to make available this type
of tool to its customers.
Note
From UMC Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in the foregoing announcement are forward
looking within the meaning of the U.S. Federal Securities laws,
including statements about future outsourcing, wafer capacity, technologies,
business relationships and market conditions. Investors are
cautioned that actual events and results could differ materially
from these statements as a result of a variety of factors, including
conditions in the overall semiconductor market and economy; acceptance
and demand for products from UMC; and technological and development
risks.
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