Peter Clarke, EETimes
2/9/2012 1:33 PM EST
LONDON – Foundry chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp. is sampling a customer with a 28-nm application processor amid indications that the roll out of the leading-edge process technology is going better than expected, according to analysts at financial services firm Nomura Equities Research.
The application processor is believed to be the OMAP5, which is being manufactured by UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) for Texas Instruments, the analysts said in a note to client.