Feb. 02, 2026 –
‘STRUCTURAL ISSUES’: AI demand is ‘crowding out’ supply of less-advanced chips, but building new mature facilities is not justifiable, UMC copresident Jason Wang said
By Lisa Wang, Taipei Times
United Microelectronics Corp (UMC, 聯電), the world’s fourth-largest foundry service provider, yesterday said revenue this year would continue to outgrow its addressable market’s growth of a low-single-digit percentage annually, mainly driven by broader adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
UMC’s addressable market growth lags behind the overall foundry industry’s 22 or 23 percent expansion and the global semiconductor industry’s 15 percent increase this year, it said.