Pure-play foundries including TSMC, UMC and VIS have raised their 8-inch wafer fabrication quotes by 10-20% recently to reflect their tight capacities, according to industry source...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects 8-inch foundry quotes to be favorable to the company in 2021, judging from the already tight capacities at 8-inch foundries...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its wafer shipments and ASPs to stay flat sequentially in the third quarter of 2020, with its capacity utilization rate remaining...

Taiwan's designers of peripheral chips for PCs and notebooks are trying hard to vie for more capacity support from foundry partners seeking to meet strong replacement demand in the...

Cadence Design Systems and United Microelectronics (UMC) have jointly announced that the Cadence millimeter wave (mmWave) reference flow has achieved certification for UMC's 28HPC+...

Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) both saw their consolidated revenues hit record-high levels of NT$44.39 billion (US$1.51...

Taiwan's first-tier IC design houses, such as MediaTek, have demanded more capacity support from their foundry partners recently, according to industry sources.

UMC has vowed to appeal a Taiwan court ruling agianst it in a trade secrets theft lawsuit brought by Micron Technology.

The Taichung District Court will issue a ruling around the middle of June on the lawsuit brought by Micron Memory Taiwan (formerly Rexchip Electronics) against its former employees...

United Semiconductor (Xiamen), a 12-inch foundry subsidiary of Taiwan's United Microelectronics (UMC), has run at near full capacity since the second quarter of 2020 thanks to a pick-up...

TSMC has reported consolidated revenue for May 2020 slipped 2.3% sequentially but grew 16.6% on year to nearly NT$93.82 billion (US$3.17 billion).

IC Insights has compiled a list of semiconductor companies that have provided their sales guidance for the second quarter of 2020. Collectively, the 21 companies on the list anticipate...

United Microelectronics (UMC) has reported revenues climbed to a record high of NT$15.06 billion (US$504.6 million) in April 2020, while Vanguard International Semiconductor's (VIS)...

Digitimes Research has revised downward its Taiwan foundry output value forecast this year, as end-market demand is likely to disappoint due to the prolonged pandemic.

Taiwan-based MCU suppliers are poised to rake in record revenues in the second quarter of 2020 on continued robust demand for forehead thermometers and other healthcare applications...

United Microelectronics (UMC) expects to post a 1-2% shipment increase sequentially in the second quarter, with a 1-2% rise in ASPs.

Faraday Technology and United Microelectronics (UMC) have jointly announced that Faraday's Gigabit Ethernet PHY IP is now licensable on UMC's 40LP process. This silicon-proven Gigabit...

United Microelectronics (UMC), Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and Emerging Display Technologies have rushed shipments to US-based medical equipment vendor Ventec Life Systems...

Pure-play foundries Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) have reported sequential increases in March consolidated revenues of 21.5%...

Taiwan-based MCU specialists continue to enjoy extremely strong demand for healthcare applications such as ear and forehead thermometers badly needed in fighting the coronavirus pandemic,...

United Microelectronics (UMC) and Faraday Technology have jointly announced that Faraday's 28Gbps programmable SerDes PHY is now available on UMC's 28HPC process technology.

TSMC has furthered tightened precautionary measures internally against the coronavirus, which has so far not affected its operations in Taiwan, according to the pure-play foundry.

Combined revenues of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) are expected to drop 1.2% sequentially...

Many IC companies are now designing high-performance microprocessors, application processors, and other advanced logic devices based on 10nm and 7nm process technology, according...

Taiwan-based United Microelectronics (UMC) through subsidiary HeJian Technology (Suzhou) will invest a total of CNY3.5 billion (US$501.2 million) in United Semiconductor's (Xiamen)...