Soitec’s quality focus on RF-SOI wafers wins UMC’s “Outstanding Supplier Award”
15 November 2021 - 8:00AM
Soitec’s quality focus on RF-SOI wafers wins UMC’s “Outstanding
Supplier Award”
Soitec’s quality
focus on RF-SOI wafers wins UMC’s
“Outstanding Supplier Award”
Bernin (Grenoble), France,
and Taipei, Taiwan, November
15, 2021 -
Soitec (Euronext Paris), a world leader in the design and
production of innovative semiconductor materials has earned
recognition from UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry
company, for its unrelenting focus on further improving the quality
and performance of its RF-SOI wafers and was awarded UMC’s
“Outstanding Supplier” award in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
The award was conferred on Soitec as the company
was adjudged to have exceeded UMC’s exacting requirements for
product performance, volume support and excellent technical and
customer support. Over 1,000 companies which provide materials and
services to UMC were assessed for the annual award.
Since 2013, Soitec has forged a long-term
relationship with UMC by supplying the latter’s foundries in
Singapore and Taiwan with high-end 200mm and 300mm engineered
wafers which are turned into microchips for the mobile phone and
communications industries.
“We are very honored to be given this award by
UMC because it is a resounding validation of our continuous efforts
to further improve the quality and performance of our wafers and
always stay ahead of the curve. Soitec is in a pole position to
drive innovation in semiconductor technology, leverage its unique
know-how and respond to the growing demand and need for ever more
differentiated and value-adding solutions.,” said Bernard Aspar,
Chief Operating Officer of Soitec. “The award adds another chapter
to strengthen our long-standing relationship with UMC. As both
companies share a common purpose of creating a sustainable future,
Soitec will work closely with UMC to explore innovative ways of
using our energy-efficient engineered wafers to power smartphones
and smart devices of today and tomorrow. Our collaboration with UMC
is a perfect example of our intimacy with customers and the entire
ecosystems and underlines our long-haul approach to breed
innovation and deploy integrated go-to-market growth
strategies.”
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About Soitec
Soitec (Euronext, Tech 40 Paris) is a world
leader in the production of innovative semiconductor materials. The
company leverages its unique technologies to serve the electronics
markets. With more than 3,500 patents, the company pursues a
strategy of disruptive innovation to provide its customers with
products that combine performance, energy efficiency and
competitiveness. Soitec has manufacturing facilities, R&D
centers and sales offices in Europe, the United States and
Asia.
Soitec and Smart Cut are registered trademarks
of Soitec.
For more information, please
visit www.soitec.com and
follow us on Twitter:
@Soitec_EN.
About UMC
UMC (NYSE: UMC, TWSE: 2303) is a leading global
semiconductor foundry company. The company provides high quality IC
fabrication services, focusing on logic and various specialty
technologies to serve all major sectors of the electronics
industry. UMC’s comprehensive IC processing technologies and
manufacturing solutions include Logic/Mixed-Signal, embedded
High-Voltage, embedded Non-Volatile-Memory, RFSOI and BCD etc. Most
of UMC's 12-in & 8-in fabs with its core R&D are located in
Taiwan, with additional ones throughout Asia. UMC has total 12 fabs
in production with combined capacity close to 800,000 wafers per
month (8-in equivalent), and all of them are certified with
IATF-16949 automotive quality standard. UMC is headquartered in
Hsinchu, Taiwan, plus local offices in United States, Europe,
China, Japan, Korea & Singapore, with worldwide total 19,500
employees.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.umc.com.
Investor
Relations:Steve Babureck+33 6 16 38 56 27 +65 9231
9735steve.babureck@soitec.com |
Media
Contact:Markus Payer+33 7 85 54 90
84markus.payer-ext@soitec.com Isabelle Laurent+33 1 53 32 61
51 isabelle.laurent@oprgfinancial.fr Fabrice Baron+33 1 53 32
61 27fabrice.baron@oprgfinancial.fr |
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Soitec is a French joint-stock corporation with
a Board of Directors (Société Anonyme à Conseil d’administration)
with a share capital of € 67,379,088.00, having its registered
office located at Parc Technologique des Fontaines - Chemin des
Franques - 38190 Bernin (France), and registered with the Grenoble
Trade and Companies Register under number
384 711 909.
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