In order to reduce the impact of products on the environment, UMC promotes the development of various green process technologies, and applies innovative technologies to Power Management, Smart Manufacturing, and Hybrid/Electric Vehicles, so as to help customers achieve more energy-efficient product designs with green products with high efficiency and low power consumption. The company has also formulated its Sustainability Strategy and Blueprint to continuously increase the proportion of the company’s total revenue that comes from sustainable products, with the goal of exceeding 80% by 2030.
With the increasing focus on sustainability, power management has become an important focus of global industry and technological innovation, and semiconductor solutions that combine high performance and low power consumption are indispensable keys to achieving optimal power management. UMC's ultra-low power (ULP) and ultra-low leakage (ULL) logic process technology platforms, combined with superior specialty process technologies, provide the best energy-saving solutions for power management applications.
In addition to using embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) for microcontrollers (MCUs), our embedded high-voltage process (eHV) enables multiplexing and improved performance without increasing power consumption. The power management ICs (PMICs) produced using UMC's BCD technology are not only smaller in size, but also exhibit lower energy losses during voltage conversion. UMC's products excel in energy conservation and are popular in end-use applications such as home energy management systems, DDI/LCD controller, HVAC, intrusion/fire detection system, and security gate.
With the trend and development of intelligent manufacturing, the demand for automation in industrial manufacturing processes is also increasing, and semiconductor technology has become one of the core drivers to achieve this goal. UMC's energy-efficient microcontrollers (MCUs) and power management chips (PMICs) monitor and control the energy consumption of equipment and are widely used in general-purpose automation modules, environmental detectors, computing electronics applications, and enterprise operation equipment.
In addition to industrial automation, the optimization of existing systems and processes is also crucial for industrial development. UMC provides a variety of process technology solutions, including low-power logic/mixed-signal, embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM), bipolar-complementary metal oxide semiconductor-dual diffusion metal oxide semiconductor process (BCD), and radio frequency insulated semiconductor (RFSOI), to meet the needs of different end applications such as CPU peripheral servers, smart meters, solid-state light sources, data storage systems, and Internet operation facilities, and help customers achieve system and process optimization goals.
UMC's Automotive Electronics (UMC Auto) is a comprehensive platform with low power consumption/low leakage, and UMC's technology range includes embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM), BCD, and embedded high-voltage process (eHV) to capture the business opportunities of low-carbon economy in expanding the clean technology end applications of hybrid/electric vehicles.