Report: UMC benefits from TSMC 28-nm supply shortage
Peter Clarke, EETimes
5/17/2012 12:55 PM EDT
LONDON – Chip foundry United Microelectronics Corp. has been the leading beneficiary of 28-nm chip supply shortages at the leading foundry and rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., according to a Taiwan Economic News report.
UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan), ranked as the second largest pure-play foundry firm, has 80 tape-outs for the 28-nm manufacturing node, the report said referencing un-named industry executives. UMC entered production in the first quarter of 2012 although this was with a conventional polysilicon/silicon oxynitride gate stack rather than the high K metal gate (HKMG) stack used by TSMC at 28-nm.
![]() |
E-mail This Article | ![]() |
![]() |
Printer-Friendly Page |
|
Related News
Breaking News
- Cadence Advances Hyperscale SoC Design with Expanded IP Portfolio for TSMC N3E Process Featuring Next-Generation 224G-LR SerDes IP
- U.S. Government Awards GlobalFoundries New $3.1 Billion, 10-Year Contract for Secure Chip Manufacturing
- Global 200mm Fabs to Reach Record High Capacity by 2026, SEMI Reports
- CEVA, Inc. Appoints Iri Trashanski as Chief Strategy Officer
- BrainChip Engages VVDN to Deliver Industry's First Commercial Edge Box Based on Neuromorphic Technology
Most Popular
- Cadence to Acquire Intrinsix Corporation from CEVA
- Panmesia Raises $12.5 Million in Seed Funding with a Valuation Exceeding $81.4 Million in the CXL Semiconductor Arena
- ADTechnology and BOS Semiconductor Collaborate to develop 5nm automotive semiconductors
- OPENEDGES and VisioNexT Shapes the Future of Vision AI SoCs
- Driving Europe's Chip Renaissance: TSMC's Vision with ESMC