UMC

Foundry Market Bulletin - Jul. 28, 2025

Jul 28, 2025 | PDF

This report analyzes TSMC, UMC, and PSMC's recent operations and industry outlook, focusing on new plant investments, capacity utilization, product mix, and future technology roadmaps, as well as memo...

Foundry Market Bulletin - Jun. 30, 2025

Jun 30, 2025 | PDF

UMC focuses on mature processes in China with limited expansion; main growth is in Singapore fab, while Vanguard accelerates capacity in the new Singapore fab, surpassing industry growth.

Intel and UMC Join Forces to Enter the Market for FinFET Wafer Foundry Services, Thus Deepening US-Taiwan Collaborations in Semiconductors

Jan 25, 2024 | PDF

The Semiconductor Research Department of the global market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that Intel and UMC officially announced their cooperation agreement on January 25th...

Latest Investigation on Power Outage at STSP on June 1st Finds No Significant Operational Impact on TSMC and UMC

Jun 02, 2023 | PDF

According to global market intelligence firm TrendForce, the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) experienced a power outage and voltage drop around 3:00 pm on June 1st...

Global Smartphone Production Was Impacted by Sluggish Economy in 1Q23 and Dropped to 250 Million Units, Showing 10-Year Low for First-Quarter Performance

Jun 01, 2023 | PDF

According to global market intelligence firm TrendForce, China’s economy has not been recovering at the expected pace in terms of sales of goods and services since December 2022...

TrendForce Has Further Lowered Its Projection on Annual Smartphone Production to 1.333 Billion Units as Economic Fallout from China’s Dynamic Zero-COVID Policy Continues; Risk of Future Downward Corrections Remains High

May 05, 2022 | PDF

The Semiconductor Research Department of global market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions in the international logistics network during 2021...

Global Mobile DRAM Revenue Fell by Nearly 7% QoQ for 4Q21 Due to Declining Prices for Quarterly Contracts

Feb 24, 2022 | PDF

According to TrendForce’s latest analysis of the mobile DRAM market, the significant downward corrections that the Chinese smartphone brands had made to their annual device production targets continue...

Material Contamination at NAND Flash Production Lines of WDC-Kioxia Alliance, Vol. 2

Feb 11, 2022 | PDF

Continuing from Vol. 1 published by TrendForce yesterday (February 9th), WDC and Kioxia had released a report on the same day pointing out that the NAND Flash production lines from the joint ventures...

Abnormal Power Outage at UMC Lixing Factory has Induced Large Voltage Drop Evaluated to Derive Minor Impact

Jan 11, 2021 | PDF

As indicated by the global market intelligence firm TrendForce, the abnormal power outage of the GIS equipment at the Lixing fab of UMC has resulted in a voltage drop in the surrounding factories of t...

UMC Is Close to Settling Its Legal Case with the US and Will Focus More on Foundry Business in the Future

Oct 22, 2020 | PDF

According to reporting by global market intelligence firm TrendForce, UMC has announced today (October 22) that the legal case against the company filed...

UMC Joins Forces with Jinjiang City in Developing China’s DRAM Industry, Surpassing Tsinghua Unigroup-Micron Alliance Progress

Apr 18, 2016 | PDF

Since the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on October 14, 2014 the establishment of the “National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund” (herein as the Big Fund)...