{"city":"Hsinchu","name":"United Microelectronics","slug":"united-microelectronics","facts":[{"date":"2026-08-18","type":"revenue_band","value":"pre-revenue","source":"Semiconductor Engineering"},{"date":"2026-08-18","type":"revenue","value":"USD 2180000000","source":"Semiconductor Engineering"},{"date":"2025-12-17","type":"partnership","value":"MoU with Polar Semiconductor to expand U.S. chip production","source":"EE Times"},{"date":"2025-12-17","type":"partnership","value":"United Microelectronics Corp. and Polar Semiconductor signed an MoU to expand U.S. chip production.","source":"EE Times"},{"date":"2025-12-08","type":"pilot","value":"Risk production of PIC chips on the new platform slated for 2026 and 2027","source":"businesswire.com"},{"date":"2025-12-08","type":"customer","value":"Several new customers for PIC chips on the new photonic platform","source":"businesswire.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":null,"aliases":["UMC","United Microelectronics Corporation","聯華電子"],"country":"Taiwan","domains":[{"why":"United Microelectronics Corporation is a semiconductor foundry that manufactures chips for customers, including through expanded U.S. production plans.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":65,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":4,"production":4,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-08-18","header":"UMC reported Q2 2026 revenue of $2.18 billion, up 17%.","outlet":"Semiconductor Engineering"},{"date":"2026-05-13","header":"TSMC, Samsung, UMC, and GlobalFoundries have established STT MRAM as a core foundry technology.","outlet":"EE Times"},{"date":"2026-04-24","header":"UMC proposed raising customer prices in the second half of 2026.","outlet":"Electronics Weekly"},{"date":"2026-03-31","header":"Intel and UMC are pursuing customer tape-outs for a 12nm collaboration.","outlet":"Electronics Weekly"},{"date":"2026-03-13","header":"UMC remained the world's fourth-largest foundry with approximately $2 billion in fourth-quarter 2025 revenue.","outlet":"Electronics Weekly"},{"date":"2026-02-25","header":"Vervesemi Microelectronics raised $10 million to expand its indigenous semiconductor IP and chip portfolio.","outlet":"EE Times"}],"website":"umc.com","category":"AI Infra · Fabrication, memory & packaging","categories":[{"name":"Photonic foundry & PIC platforms","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Fabrication, memory & packaging"},{"name":"Foundry","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Fabrication, memory & packaging"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:30:22.552+00:00","facts_total":15,"positioning":"UMC (United Microelectronics, NYSE UMC / TWSE 2303) is scored on its silicon photonics activity only, per the rules, and that activity is early. Correcting the stored hint: UMC is not shipping 12-inch silicon photonics from Singapore. It licensed imec's iSiPP300 process on 2025-12-08 with risk production slated for 2026 to 2027, so nothing ships; the Singapore silicon photonics foundry in that news cycle is AMF, which GlobalFoundries acquired in mid-November 2025. What UMC has is a CPO-compatible licence to iSiPP300, which it will combine with its silicon-on-insulator wafer processing and prior 8-inch silicon photonics experience to bring a 12-inch photonic platform to market. The platform carries microring filters and modulators, GeSi electro-absorption modulators, Mach-Zehnder modulators, low-loss grating couplers and 3D packaging, compatible with lithium niobate modulators, III-V lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers via microtransfer printing, targeting 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s pluggables. Senior VP GC Hung says UMC is working with several new customers. Scored on silicon photonics only: deployment and commercial are 1 because nothing ships and nothing is sold; firepower is 5 on the group balance sheet.","sub_category":"Foundry","signals_total":10,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/united-microelectronics","title":"United Microelectronics · ai core, Hsinchu, Taiwan · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"United Microelectronics Corporation is a semiconductor foundry that manufactures chips for customers, including through expanded U.S. production plans. AI Core watchlist (score 65) 10 signals and 15 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}