United Microelectronics Corporation

Foundation Year

• May, 1980

Founders

• UMC was founded as a spin-off of the government-sponsored institute Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
  

Taglines

• Customer Driven Foundry Solutions
  

Logos

Ticker Symbol

• NYSE : UMC
• TSEC : 2303

Insight On UMC Businesses

• UMC is a semiconductor foundry which manufactures advanced process Integrated Circuits (IC) for applications spanning major sectors of the semiconductor industry. The company develops system-on-chip (SOC) ICs for various applications including copper interconnects, low k dielectrics, embedded DRAM, and mixed signal/RFCMOS.

Some of the facts: UMC was

• Taiwan's first semiconductor company.
• First foundry to ship wafers using copper materials.
• First foundry to produce chips using 28-nanometer processes.
• First foundry to produce ICs on 300-mm wafers.

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