{"id":1024675,"date":"2026-07-30T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024675"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:15:12","slug":"taiwans-umc-raises-2026-capex-expands-singapore-and-taiwan-fabs-for-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/taiwans-umc-raises-2026-capex-expands-singapore-and-taiwan-fabs-for-ai-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s UMC raises 2026 capex, expands Singapore and Taiwan fabs for AI demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Wednesday that its board approved an expansion plan, including additional cleanroom capacity at its Singapore facility and a new fab \u200cbuilding \u2060at its flagship \u2060Tainan campus in Taiwan, to meet growing AI-driven demand. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plan will be executed in phases, enabling UMC to remain ocused on capital discipline while flexibly deploying capacity to fulfill customer demand. As a \u2060result, 2026 \u200ccapital expenditure budget will be revised upward to US$2 billion,&#8221; said CEO \u2060Jason Wang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Wednesday that its board approved an expansion plan, including additional cleanroom capacity at its Singapore facility and a new fab \u200cbuilding \u2060at its flagship \u2060Tainan campus in Taiwan, to meet growing AI-driven demand. &#8220;The plan will be executed in phases, enabling UMC to remain ocused on capital discipline while flexibly deploying capacity to fulfill customer demand. As a \u2060result, 2026 \u200ccapital expenditure budget will be revised upward to US$2 billion,&#8221; said CEO \u2060Jason Wang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024695,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024675\/revisions\/1024695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}