968 news items tagged UMC
Backend houses see order visibility for CIS, sensor chips through 4Q21
Friday 9 April 2021Backend houses continue to enjoy strong demand for processing IP camera chips and CMOS image sensor (CIS) chips, with their order visibility clear through the fourth quarter of 2021,...
UMC posts record 1Q21 revenue
Thursday 8 April 2021Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has reported March consolidated revenue hit a record high of NT$16.62 billion (US$584.5 million). Revenue for the first quarter of...
UMC, PSMC to raise foundry quotes by another 10-20%
Wednesday 31 March 2021Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) will initiate further price hikes of about 10-20% with the new pricing to be effective...
Chip vendors volunteering higher prices for foundry support to become new normal
Tuesday 23 March 2021It will become a new normal for chip vendors to offer higher prices to win more capacity support from foundry partners, now that global shortages of automotive chips are further compounded...
Pure-play foundries mulling floating price contracts for 2022
Monday 22 March 2021Taiwan-based pure-play foundries are already in talks with clients about contracts for 2022, and intend to implement a floating pricing policy amid tight capacity, according to industry...
IC designers may hike quotes to reflect further foundry cost increases
Friday 19 March 2021Taiwan's IC design houses will have no other choice but to directly pass increased costs to downstream clients if their foundry partners raise quotes again in the second half of the...
Taiwan foundries running at full capacity for mature processes
Wednesday 17 March 2021TSMC, United Microelectronics (UMC), Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) continue to run at full capacity for their 28nm and...
Semiconductor materials and equipment vendors gaining presence at STSP
Monday 15 March 2021The Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) Administration is enlisting more semiconductor upstream materials and equipment vendors to further strengthen the core IC manufacturing ecosystem...
Power IC supplier uPI gains foundry support
Thursday 11 March 2021Taiwan-based uPI Semiconductor, an Asustek Computer affliate specializing in high-performance power chips and discrete solutions, has obtained sufficient 8-inch fab capacity support...
Sensirion gains capacity support from UMC to support battle against COVID-19
Wednesday 10 March 2021Sensirion a leading microsensor manufacturer and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a leading global semiconductor foundry, has announced that the two companies have collaborated...
UMC to see 1Q21 revenue hit another record high
Monday 8 March 2021Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) is poised to see its first-quarter revenue hit another record high, according to market observers.
TSMC sees revenue per wafer surge
Thursday 4 March 2021TSMC was the only pure-play foundry manufacturing ICs using both 7nm and 5nm process nodes, which boosted its overall revenue per wafer significantly in 2020, according to IC Insig...
TSMC ranks in top-10 for capacity in main wafer sizes
Friday 26 February 2021As of December 2020, only TSMC was among the wafer capacity leaders in each of the main wafer size categories ranked by IC Insights. The Taiwan-based foundry had the most 200mm wafer...
Taiwan chipmakers moving to counter water shortages
Wednesday 24 February 2021Chipmakers including TSMC and UMC have started buying water by the truckload for their foundries in Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), as reservoirs in southern Taiwan face dwindling...
IDMs may evaluate more outsourcing
Tuesday 23 February 2021IDM vendors may consider outsourcing more of their production starting 2022, with Taiwan-based contract chipmakers being among the beneficiaries, according to industry sources.
China remains largest IC market
Monday 22 February 2021China became the largest IC market in the world in 2005 and has continued to grow in size since then. In 2020, China's IC market increased to US$143.4 billion, a 9% gain from US$131.3...
Top-5 wafer capacity leaders raise share of global capacity to 54%, says IC Insights
Wednesday 17 February 2021The top-5 wafer capacity leaders saw their combined installed capacity represent 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, according to IC Insights. In 2009, the top-10...
TSMC and UMC revenues up in January, VIS down
Tuesday 9 February 2021TSMC and United Microelectronics (UMC) both saw their January revenues register sequential increases, while revenues at Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) fell 7.3% on mont...
Taiwan foundries gearing up for capacity expansions
Tuesday 9 February 2021Taiwan-based pure-play foundries are gearing up for capacity expansions in 2021 to satisfy growing customer demand, according to industry observers.
Taiwan notebooks – 4Q 2020
Friday 5 February 2021Global notebook shipments, excluding detachable models, surged over 10% sequentially to hit a fresh high of 60 million units in fourth-quarter 2020, mainly driven by robust demand...
Notebook chips in tight supply
Thursday 4 February 2021The supply of notebook-use chips including display driver ICs, power management chips and audio codecs chips continues to fall short of demand in the first quarter of 2021 despite...
UMC donates UV disinfection robots to hospital
Friday 29 January 2021United Microelectronics (UMC) has disclosed it has donated three ultraviolet (UV) disinfection robots to a hospital in northern Taiwan to help contain the coronavirus pandemic, each...
Automotive chip demand could slow growth at Taiwan IC suppliers
Friday 29 January 2021Taiwan's wafer foundry houses are under increasing pressure to allocate more capacity for automotive chips, which in turn could undermine shipments of Taiwan-based IC suppliers in...
Foundries to prioritize long-term orders amid tight capacity
Friday 29 January 2021Taiwan-based foundries intend to give supply priorities to long-term and established clients amid tight capacity, according to industry sources.
Automotive chip suppliers queuing up for capacity support
Thursday 28 January 2021Automotive chip suppliers are queuing up for capacity support from foundries, particularly 8-inch ones, and may be prompted to accept higher quotes for more capacity, according to...