Intel and UMC Announce New Foundry Collaboration
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Companies to collaborate on the development of a 12-nanometer process platform targeting high-growth markets.
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Collaboration builds on Intel’s commitment to partnering with innovative companies in
Taiwan to help the company better serve global customers and expand its mature process capabilities for foundry customers. - Deal broadens customer access to a geographically diverse semiconductor supply chain.
- Collaboration provides UMC with additional capacity, accelerates its development roadmap and demonstrates its leading process technology R&D.

Intel Corp. and United Microelectronics Corp. announce that they will collaborate on the development of a 12-nanometer semiconductor process platform to address high-growth markets. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
“Taiwan has been a critical part of the Asian and global semiconductor and broader technology ecosystem for decades, and Intel is committed to collaborating with innovative companies in
Jason Wang, UMC co-president, said, “Our collaboration with Intel on a
The 12 nm node will utilize Intel’s
The two companies will work to satisfy customer demand and cooperate on design enablement to support the 12 nm process by enabling electronic design automation and intellectual properties solutions from ecosystem partners. Production of the 12 nm process is expected to begin in 2027.
Intel has been investing and innovating in the
UMC has a more than 40-year history of being a preferred supplier of foundry services to critical applications including automotive, industrial, display and communications. Over the past two decades, UMC has successfully expanded its base across
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About Intel
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About UMC
UMC (NYSE: UMC, TWSE: 2303) is a leading global semiconductor foundry company. The company provides high-quality IC fabrication services, focusing on logic and various specialty technologies to serve all major sectors of the electronics industry. UMC’s comprehensive IC processing technologies and manufacturing solutions include Logic/Mixed-Signal, embedded High-Voltage, embedded Non-Volatile-Memory, RFSOI, BCD etc. Most of UMC's 12-in and 8-in fabs with its core R&D are in
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Source: Intel Corp.