UMC

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.umc.com
Employees: 11,619
Employee growth: (15.3%)

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) found its calling in the silicon foundry business. Behind only neighbor and archrival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, UMC is the world's #2 silicon foundry, or contract semiconductor manufacturer. Its production services include design, engineering, manufacturing, packaging, sorting, and testing. The company has alliances and joint ventures with Elpida Memory, STMicroelectronics, and Xilinx, among others. Customers based in North America, such as AMD, Broadcom, Freescale Semiconductor, LSI, Marvell Technology, and Texas Instruments, account for nearly half of UMC's sales.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending 2008:
Sales: $2,949.9M
One year growth: (15.3%)
Net income: ($700.3)M

Officers:
Chairman: Stan Hung
CEO and Director: Shih-Wei Sun
CFO and Board Member: Chitung Liu

Competitors:
Chartered Semiconductor
SMIC
TSMC

UMC may stand for:

• "U.M.C", a song by Bob Seger on his album Live Bullet
• The U.M.C.'s, a rap group
• Ukrainian Mobile Communications
• United Methodist Church
• United Microelectronics Corporation
• Universal Mind Control, an album by rapper Common
• University of Mississippi Medical Center
• University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada
• University Medical Center (Tucson, Arizona) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona
• University of Minnesota Crookston
• University of Missouri (University of Missouri–Columbia, non-standard; MU is the preferred acronym)
• UMC (Computer), Polish computer using negabinary arithmetic
• Uppaal Model Checker
• Uppsala Monitoring Centre
• Union Metallic Cartridge Company, a division of Remington Arms
• University Medical Center, a hospital in partnership with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas
• University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• Uniform Mechanical Code

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