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United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) is a global semiconductor foundry that regularly publishes detailed operational and financial updates, making its news flow highly relevant to investors and industry observers. As a manufacturer of integrated circuits focused on logic and specialty technologies, UMC issues frequent announcements on monthly sales, quarterly results, technology milestones, and strategic collaborations.
News for UMC commonly includes monthly revenue reports that summarize unaudited net sales, often presented with year-over-year comparisons and cumulative figures for the year. The company also releases quarterly earnings updates that cover revenue, margins, capacity utilization, wafer shipments, cash flow, and regional and application-based revenue breakdowns. These disclosures provide insight into demand trends across communication, consumer, computer, and other end markets, as well as the mix of technology geometries and customer types such as fabless companies and IDMs.
UMC’s news stream also highlights technology and product platform developments, such as the introduction of its 55nm BCD platform for power management ICs and the expansion of its silicon photonics roadmap through a licensing agreement with imec. In addition, the company reports on partnerships and manufacturing initiatives, including memoranda of understanding to support onshore semiconductor production and strengthen supply chain resilience.
By following UMC news, readers can track how the foundry’s capacity, technology portfolio, and application mix evolve over time. Stock Titan’s UMC news page brings these updates together so that investors and analysts can review sales trends, technology announcements, and regional developments in one place.
HyperLight, UMC (NYSE: UMC) and Wavetek announced a collaboration with Jabil to scale thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics for hyperscale AI data-center interconnects. The partnership combines HyperLight's TFLN chiplet platform, UMC/Wavetek wafer foundry capacity, and Jabil's high-volume system integration to enable energy-efficient optical modules for rack-level deployment.
The collaboration emphasizes lower power per module, reduced laser counts, and scalable 6-inch and 8-inch manufacturing to support mass deployment in AI clusters.
HyperLight, UMC (NYSE: UMC), and Wavetek announced a strategic partnership to enable high-volume foundry production of the TFLN Chiplet Platform on both 6-inch and 8-inch wafers. The collaboration pairs HyperLight platform architecture with Wavetek's 6-inch HVM experience and UMC's 8-inch production capability to support AI and cloud infrastructure deployment at scale.
The platform unifies IMDD, coherent, and co-packaged optics requirements, targets extreme modulation bandwidth, CMOS-level drive voltages, ultralow optical loss, reduced laser consumption, and aims to lower power and manufacturing complexity for data center and emerging quantum/sensing applications.
United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC) reported unaudited consolidated net sales for February 2026 of NT$19,345,126 thousand, up NT$1,151,611 thousand or 6.33% year-over-year. Cumulative Jan.–Feb. 2026 sales were NT$40,207,276 thousand, a 5.81% increase versus Jan.–Feb. 2025.
All figures are in thousands of New Taiwan Dollars and consolidated.
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) reported unaudited consolidated net sales for January 2026 of NT$20,862,150 thousand, up NT$1,055,355 thousand or 5.33% year-over-year. The monthly total equals the year-to-date figure reported for Jan.-Jan.
UMC (NYSE: UMC) reported 4Q25 revenue of NT$61.81 billion, gross margin 30.7% and EPS of NT$0.81. Full-year results included a 93% YoY increase in 22nm revenue and shipments up 12.3% year-on-year. Cash and equivalents were NT$110.66 billion with free cash flow of NT$17.38 billion in 4Q25.
The company noted record 22nm quarterly revenue, capacity utilization of 78%, and ongoing investments in Singapore Phase 3 and US partnerships for growth in 2026.
United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC) reported unaudited consolidated net sales for December 2025 and for the full year 2025 in New Taiwan Dollars (NT$) thousands.
Key figures: December 2025 revenue NT$19,280,724 versus NT$18,965,818 in December 2024, a Y/Y increase of NT$314,906 (1.66%). Jan.–Dec. 2025 revenue NT$237,553,199 versus NT$232,302,584 in 2024, a Y/Y increase of NT$5,250,615 (2.26%). All figures are consolidated and unaudited.
UMC (NYSE: UMC) licensed imec’s iSiPP300 silicon photonics process to accelerate its 12-inch silicon photonics roadmap and support next‑generation connectivity. The transfer adds co‑packaged optics (CPO) compatibility and leverages UMC’s SOI wafer expertise plus prior 8‑inch photonics experience.
The company said it is working with several new customers for optical transceiver PICs, with risk production slated for 2026 and 2027, and plans to combine the platform with advanced packaging and 3D modules to target data center and high‑performance computing interconnects.
United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC) and Polar Semiconductor signed a Memorandum of Understanding on December 4, 2025 to explore collaboration on U.S.-based 8-inch wafer production.
The MOU targets scalable manufacturing at Polar’s expanded Minnesota 8-inch facility, combining Polar’s high-voltage, power and sensor capabilities with UMC’s 8-inch technology portfolio and global customer base to support multi-sourcing for automotive, data centers, consumer electronics, aerospace & defense, and other pillar industries.
The partners said the collaboration aims to strengthen U.S. 8-inch supply-chain resilience and increase domestic supply of power semiconductors critical to electrification, grids, robotics, and other applications.
United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC) reported unaudited consolidated net sales for November 2025.
Monthly revenue was NT$21,233,847 thousand for November 2025, up NT$1,184,665 thousand or 5.91% year‑over‑year. Year‑to‑date revenue for Jan.–Nov. 2025 was NT$218,272,475 thousand, an increase of NT$4,935,709 thousand or 2.31% versus Jan.–Nov. 2024. All figures are consolidated and in thousands of New Taiwan Dollars (NT$).
United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC) reported unaudited consolidated net sales for October 2025 and year-to-date.
October 2025 revenue was NT$21,294,974 thousand, a decrease of NT$76,136 thousand or -0.36% versus October 2024. Jan.–Oct. 2025 cumulative revenue was NT$197,038,628 thousand, up NT$3,751,044 thousand or +1.94% versus Jan.–Oct. 2024.
All figures are consolidated and expressed in thousands of New Taiwan Dollars (NT$). Additional information is available on UMC's website.