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• Chips 20 Jan 14:42

  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.
• Chips 17 Nov 16:39

  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.
• Hardware 26 Oct 14:28

  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.
• Chips 26 Sep 08:32

  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.
• Chips 31 Aug 00:35

  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.
• Chips 10 Aug 11:35

  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.
• Chips 26 Jul 11:42

  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.
• Chips 18 Jul 07:55

  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.
• Chips 11 Jul 10:52

  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.
• Chips 20 Jun 10:14

  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.
• Business 11 May 12:52

  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.
• Business 14 Mar 10:40

  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.
• Chips 18 Feb 11:54

  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.
• Chips 08 Feb 12:50

  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.
• Chips 01 Feb 14:24

  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
• Chips 27 Jan 15:50

  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.
• Chips 19 Jan 16:08

  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
• Business 18 Nov 10:18

  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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