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  • TSMC to rule 28nm coop

    The competition, it is said, isn't in a good place either. While Samsung's foundries cater to very high volume demand, you have UMC and SMIC to pick up the leftovers from TSMC. Even GlobalFoundries was all but discarded.
  • ARM opens SoC design centre in Taiwan

    ARM claims that Taiwan and the asia pacific region is very important to it. Speaking to local media at a briefing in Taipei, Tudor Brown told the room that over half of ARM's 7-billion chips over the last year were made in Taiwan. We're guessing TSMC and UMC.
  • Judge rules in HP's favour over patent infringement

    HP has had its patent complaints upheld against a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corporation over infringement allegations relating to manufacturing inkjet printheads.
  • Samsung outsources for eMMC NAND orders

    Faraday is a partner of Taiwan's huge chip manufacturer UMC, which will manufacture the eMMC chips for Samsung at the 65nm process.
  • GlobalFoundries says quality 14nm around the corner

    GTC 2011Again, those without sin did not cast the first stone, with Glofo calling out TSMC and UMC on their 300mm operations. Glofo says it's close to a million wafers capacity overal in 300mm, which it claims is above the combined capacity of TSMC and UMC.
  • TSMC issues $1.2 billion of bonds

    TSMC’s sales in July dropped 3.4 percent as compared to the previous year, while UMC saw a more substantial 18.6 percent drop.
  • ProMOS receives bail out from creditors

    CommentJohn Hsuan at UMC also made noise recently about a DRAM alliance, having been part of a failed attempt in 2009.  However he ruled himself out of leading any such cooperation between the island’s firms.
  • Intel, Samsung set to shake up foundry game

    A report suggested that the pure play foundry business is due for something of a revolution as GlobalFoundries takes market share from companies like TSMC and UMC.
  • UMC calls for Taiwanese DRAM alliance

    Amid falling prices and growing concerns of a DRAM crisis in Taiwan, United Microelectronics Corp has called for the integration of the island’s memory industry.
  • Mobile bubble faces burst

    Digitimes has been reporting that contract chipmakers TSMC and UMC have been told by their clients to slash the number of wafer starts for the third quarter of 2011.
  • TSMC joins GloFo, Intel, others at SEMATECH

    TSMC joins others including GlobalFoundries, HP, IBM, Intel, Samsung, UMC, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) all putting their two pence worth in.
  • Technology industry assesses Japanese earthquake damage

    That said, it seems the likes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) could have back-up if necessary.
  • UMC thinks Elpida will edge into 'Big Three' DRAM makers

    Elpida may become the  world’s second largest DRAM manufacturer as firms struggle in the face of an unstable market. According to UMC.
  • TSMC still top dog in foundry industry

    However, it warned that the region faces vigorous challenges from the likes of Samsung and GloFo. The competition will force TSMC and UMC to step up their game for expanding 12-inch wafer capacity.
  • Component shortages threaten industry growth

    Penn said that signs of shortage included TSMC and UMC cutting back on Chinese New Year annual maintenance problems.  “There is no excess inventory in the pipeline and capacity is maxed out,” he said. “The front end book-to-bill has now dropped back below unity
  • Future Horizons tells TechEye chip industry naysayers full of rubbish

    This has meant that UMC and TSMC have had to work through the Chinese New Year holidays just to keep up with demand due to lack of silicon capacity.
  • Manufacturers run out of silicon capacity

    And he's right, with companies cancelling their Chinese New Year downtime to keep up. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has said that it will be cancelling its maintenance downtime completely while United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) will cut downtime to only half a day
  • UMC stocks fall as He Jian merger stalled, then terminated

    United Microelectronics (UMC), the world’s second largest contract chipmaker, saw its shares fall as it was announced that the planned merger between and He Jian Technology has been postponed.

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