HSINCHU, Taiwan -- Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) and Germany's Micronas GmbH today announced a five-year agreement under which UMC will be the principal silicon foundry for Micronas' line of mixed-mode ICs.
Under the terms of the agreement, Micronas will have access to UMC's advanced technologies and foundry capacity. Micronas' DPS 9450 first pass silicon has been successfully presented in April and is now in qualification at UMC, and first engineering lots of the MDE 9500, a single-chip hybrid analog/digital TV decoder, are to be processed soon. Both products use UMC's 0.18 micron mixed-mode CMOS technology.