UMC recently won new certifications from major automotive chip manufacturers such as Texas Instruments and Infineon. These customers account for more than 30% of the global automotive chip market.
Because the reliability of automotive chips is greater than 15 years, there is a requirement for zero defects. UMC has obtained new certifications from many major manufacturers, which is enough to highlight its technological competitiveness.
Automotive Chip
In addition, UMC has also won key certifications in the field of eight automotive chips, covering power semiconductors, wireless communication applications such as Wifi/Bluetooth, millimeter-wave radar sensors, AutoAP, microcontrollers, CIS sensors, OLED/LCD driver ICs, microcomputers Electrical sensors, etc., including almost all necessary certifications for automotive chips.
Benefiting from the high demand for 5G, automotive and other applications, the third-generation semiconductor business of Wavetek has made profits for five consecutive quarters and has shown a growth trend.
UMC's July revenue was 24.827 billion yuan, a record high for ten consecutive months. According to UMC's latest annual report, last year, it spent about 12.9 billion yuan in research and development, and achieved fruitful results in the research and development of logic technology and special technology, establishing a high-threshold competitive advantage for UMC. Regarding the success of the automotive layout, UMC emphasized that in the company's operational planning, automotive chips are indeed one of the focus areas and main axes for the layout of special processes.
Automotive chips have been in short supply in the past two years, and the delivery time has been at least ten months, affecting the global automotive market.
Previously, when the production capacity of the mature wafer foundry process was reported to be loose, the four leading manufacturers of automotive chips, Infineon, NXP, Texas Instruments, and Microchip Technology, went to UMC to increase the production capacity, boosting UMC's capacity utilization continues to be fully loaded.
UMC is a leader in Taiwan's international semiconductor wafer industry, providing high-quality wafer fabrication services. UMC focuses on logic and special technology, its complete process technology and manufacturing solutions include logic/mixed signal, embedded high voltage solutions, embedded non-volatile memory, RFSOI and BCD.