Taiwanese foundry United Microelectronics Corp. said today it's 90nm process has been qualified at a number of large IC players, including Xilinx and Texas Instruments.

The No. 2 foundry behind rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., UMC said customer demand is strongly in support of expansion of 90nm production on 300mm wafers at its Fab 12A facility in Taiwan, and bringing this technology to volume production at UMCi, its 300mm foundry subsidiary located in Singapore.

“Today, we are extremely happy to see our hard work paying off with the production success of customers utilizing our 90nm foundry services," Jackson Hu, CEO of UMC, said in a statement. "We are also excited to see that fabless companies and IDMs are both taking advantage of the benefits of our foundry services.

"This clearly shows the important role that foundry companies have come to play in reducing the risks associated with the extremely capital-intensive semiconductor industry," Hu concluded.