{"id":1045552,"date":"2026-10-29T07:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045552"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:58:12","slug":"taiwans-umc-approves-additional-3-2-billion-for-capacity-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/29\/taiwans-umc-approves-additional-3-2-billion-for-capacity-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s UMC approves additional $3.2 billion for capacity expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Wednesday its board approved approximately $3.2 billion for capacity expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not provide a timeline for the additional capital expenditure, saying it was still working with suppliers to accelerate the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>UMC said it expected a significant shift in the pricing environment heading into 2027, supported by stronger customer demand and increasing capacity in selected technologies. It expects blended average selling prices (ASPs) to rise 10% in 2027 compared with 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Wednesday its board approved approximately $3.2 billion for capacity expansion. The company did not provide a timeline for the additional capital expenditure, saying it was still working with suppliers to accelerate the schedule. UMC said it expected a significant shift in the pricing environment heading into 2027, supported by stronger customer demand and increasing capacity in selected technologies. It expects blended average selling prices (ASPs) to rise 10% in 2027 compared with 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045552","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\/1045552","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045558,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045552\/revisions\/1045558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}