UMC is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, plus local offices in United States, Europe, China, Japan, Korea & Singapore, with a worldwide total of 20,000 employees.

Also with investments in Singapore is TSMC, which owns a 200mm wafer fab with Philips Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Philips Electronics NV, as well as the EDB. Singapore-based Chartered Semiconductor ...

SINGAPORE (CBS.MW) - Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) announced Friday it will spend $3.6 billion to build a chip plant in Singapore.

The project is a joint effort with Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany, and the Singapore government. UMC will have a 50 percent share in the fab’s 40,000 wafer-per-month capacity, which in ...

UMC's competitors are getting 50% more money in Japan, Liu said, but Singapore helps “with working visas and regulation issues, and that has significantly elevated the whole project efficiency." ...

Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) will invest $5 billion on a new microchip factory in Singapore, with production expected to start in 2024 to support the boom in 5G and auto electronics ...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) reportedly is mulling setting up a new 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore, according to market sources.

Worldwide, UMC runs 12 plants, with combined capacity of more than 800,000 wafers per month. Besides Singapore, the Taiwanese company also has offices in China, Europe, Japan, South Korea and the ...

Under a related agreement, UMC will produce in its own plant 0.13-micron and smaller versions of AMD chips, augmenting AMD’s own fab in Dresden, Germany.

UMC’s Singapore fab to break ground in April Ground breaking for the new 12-inch fab in Singapore that United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Infineon have invested US$3.6 billion ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.’s biggest rival in the computer processor business, said it would build a chip plant in Singapore with United Microelectronics Corp., the second-largest ...