{"id":978548,"date":"2025-12-05T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978548"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:43:08","slug":"taiwans-umc-in-pact-with-polar-to-explore-us-production-of-eight-inch-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/taiwans-umc-in-pact-with-polar-to-explore-us-production-of-eight-inch-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s UMC in pact with Polar to explore US production of eight-inch chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwan chip maker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Thursday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S.-based Polar Semiconductor to explore collaboration on manufacturing of 8-inch wafers in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, UMC said the companies would identify products to be made at Polar&#8217;s recently expanded 8-inch fab in Minnesota, meeting demand from industries such as automobiles, data centres, consumer electronics, and aerospace and defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwan chip maker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Thursday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S.-based Polar Semiconductor to explore collaboration on manufacturing of 8-inch wafers in the United States. In a statement, UMC said the companies would identify products to be made at Polar&#8217;s recently expanded 8-inch fab in Minnesota, meeting demand from industries such as automobiles, data centres, consumer electronics, and aerospace and defence.<\/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-978548","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\/978548","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=978548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}