UMC Produces First 45nm SRAM
News Taiwanese supplier UMC says it has successfully produced functional 45-nanometre SRAM chips for the first time. The move maintains UMC's momentum in the market for 45nm chips, in which Texas Instruments, Intel and IBM also feature strongly.
[November 20, 2006, 23:00]
Chipmakers Join Forces On Nano Research
News Chipmakers AMD and Infineon Technologies, together with Taiwan's UMC, are collaborating to create faster, cooler and more power-saving processors expected to be at the heart of the next generation of computers.
[July 30, 2002, 13:14]
Sun Taps New Source For Low-end Chips
News Server giant, Sun Microsystems, has tapped Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) to build some of its low-end CPUs, currently made by Texas Instruments, but products from the new alliance won't emerge for months.
[May 4, 2001, 10:35]
ATI Aims To Extend Lead Over Nvidia
News TSMC) and UMC. Also heading for the assembly lines this month is a new mass-market chip code-named RV280, which will be manufactured by UMC using a 0.15-micron process, according to a report in the Taiwanese industry journal DigiTimes.
[December 13, 2002, 16:23]
AMD To Phase Out Durons By End Of Year
News Athlon production, which currently takes place in Dresden, will then get shifted to UMC, a Taiwanese foundry that is engaged with AMD on other deals. AMD and UMC are currently building a facility for 300-millimetre wafers right now, but it won't be...
[April 19, 2002, 9:59]
AMD Plans Layoffs, Outsourcing
News We suspect that the company's plans include.potential substantial layoffs, and.an accelerated outsourcing road map, which allows AMD to outsource a significant portion of its manufacturing to UMC, and (thus) reduce (capital expenditures...
[November 7, 2002, 10:31]
IBM And AMD Form Chip Alliance
News Earlier, AMD and UMC agreed to jointly develop 65-nanometre processes and build a fabrication facility together. AMD also said it would use UMC for excess factory capacity if necessary. AMD continues to explore jointly owning a fab with UMC but is...
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
Gore Multiplayer
Downloads Deep in the bowels of UMC research and development, secret experiments have led to the creation of the advanced massively parallel bio-computational neural network, with the ability to emulate higher-level thought processes and simulate the...
[October 3, 2003, 13:39]
Gore: Ultimate Soldier
Downloads Deep in the bowels of UMC research and development, secret experiments have led to the creation of the advanced massively parallel bio-computational neural network, with the ability to emulate higher-level thought processes and simulate the...
[October 3, 2003, 13:39]
Transmeta Investigating Taiwan Foundries
News Among them is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest of the independent semiconductor foundries-for-hire, and United Microelectronics (UMC), another major foundry. Foundries such as TSMC and UMC produce chips for other...
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
Chartered Signs AMD Deal
News Previously, AMD had planned to build a 65-nanometer plant with UMC, another Singapore-based chip foundry. AMD has chartered a new chip manufacturer. The Intel rival known for its Athlon PC and Opteron server processors announced on Tuesday plans to...
[November 9, 2004, 15:08]
TI To Outsource Chip Production
News Sun has dabbled with having some lower-end processors built by UMC, but Sun spokesman Martin Chorich said it plans to stick with TI. Texas Instruments has announced plans to outsource the manufacturing of many of the chips made in its factory, but...
[May 20, 2002, 11:10]
Nvidia NV30 Pursues Raw Speed
News ATI works with manufacturer UMC to produce its Radeon graphics chips. Nvidia says that higher clock speeds will be a priority for its next-generation NV30 graphics processing unit (GPU), which is due to be announced at the Comdex Fall trade show...
[October 8, 2002, 16:40]
Cheap Intel Chipsets On The Way Out
News Motherboard makers, however, are concerned about whether either SiS or Via can fill in the gap until late September or October, unless the two companies can resolve supply issues form Taiwanese fabrication plants UMC and TSMC, as well as their...
[August 4, 2005, 9:25]
Forbes Global CEO Forum To Proceed
News Among the speakers are Computer Associates chairman Charles Wang, Sybase chairman John Chen, Cisco Systems Asia Pacific president Gordon Astles, Garage Technology Ventures chief executive Guy Kawasaki, UMC Group chairman Robert Tsao and Infineon...
[September 12, 2001, 12:11]
IBM Teams Up With Singapore's Chartered
News AMD, for example, is jointly building a factory and developing manufacturing techniques with Chartered rival United Microelectronics Corp (UMC). IBM and Chartered Semiconductor have formed an alliance to jointly develop chipmaking technology and...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
Nvidia Anticipates Graphics Recovery For 2003
News TSMC's main competitor in Taiwan, UMC, also has a 0.13-micron process in the works. Graphics chip maker Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC), the largest contract chip manufacturer, on Monday unveiled TSMC's first chips built on...
[December 17, 2002, 12:03]
Semiconductor Makers Streamline With RosettaNet Standards
News TSMC), Chartered Semiconductor, UMC, Amkor Technology, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Silicon Precision Industries and Winbond Electronic. Ten members of the RosettaNet consortium have begun using its standards to exchange information about...
[July 12, 2001, 15:29]
