UMC Investing $3.6 billion on 28 nm Manufacturing

UMC has introduced plans to take a position $3.6 billion in growing output from its 28 nm manufacturing amenities. This transfer comes amidst a worldwide semiconductor scarcity, and is not the primary time a semiconductor producer “dust off” their older manufacturing processes as a option to take away strain from extra fashionable silicon manufacturing capabilities. In this case, UMC will likely be growing manufacturing output from its 300 mm Fab 12A facility in Tainan, Taiwan.

UMC has entered agreements with a few of its shoppers, who will likely be paying upfront for anticipated chip rollout sooner or later. In alternate, shoppers will get the advantages of preset pricing (thus avoiding any potential will increase arising from elevated demand or normal value fluctuation), in addition to UMC’s assurance of sure manufacturing quantity allocation in direction of their wants. Fab 12A presently manufactures 90,000 300 mm wafers per thirty days (wpm). An extra 10,000 wpm is being put in this 12 months and part six will add one other 27,500 wpm to the combination. The mature 28 nm instruments will likely be put in in flooring that already characteristic help for future tooling upgrades to 14 nm. UMC expects to rent round 1,000 extra workers as a part of this growth effort.