United Microelectronics Corporation

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United Microelectronics Corporation
Native name
聯華電子
Company typePublic
TWSE: 2303
NYSE: UMC
IndustrySemiconductor Foundry
Founded1980; 44 years ago (1980)
FounderRobert Tsao
HeadquartersHsinchu Science Park
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Key people
Stan Hung, Chairman
SC Chien, Co-president
Jason Wang, Co-president
RevenueNT$176.821 billion[1][2] (2020)
NT$22.007 billion or NT$21.931 billion (2020)
NT$27.18 billion or NT$20.852 billion (2020)
Number of employees
Increase 19,577 (2020) [3]
Websiteumc.com
The Singapore factory and offices of United Microelectronics Corporation

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC; Chinese: 聯華電子; pinyin: Liánhuá Diànzǐ) is a Taiwanese company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).[4]

  1. ^ "Investors Overview - UMC". www.umc.com. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  2. ^ "umc-20f_20201231.htm". SEC. 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  3. ^ "United Microelectronics: Number of Employees 2006-2020". Macrotrends. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  4. ^ "UMC Overview". UMC. Archived from the original on 2005-03-19. Retrieved 2010-06-29.