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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 the world's foundry technology leader, consistently
first-to-market on advanced processes and possessing the highest
number of semiconductor patents in the industry. 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 approximately 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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| As
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
30,000 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
33,000 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 SoC
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 |
| UMC is a founding member of the GSA (Global Semiconductor
Association) and participates in the PFI (Power Foward Initiative),
X-Initiative, SEMATECH, RAPID (Reusable Application-Specific
Intellectual Property Developers), and VCX (Virtual Component
Exchange). |
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