UMC Expands X Architecture Support - First Pure-Play Foundry to Provide Qualified 90-nm Design Rules

Foundry Fabrication Now Available for Fabless Customers Designing 90-nm X Architecture Chips

The X Initiative and UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced that UMC is the first pure-play foundry to release qualified design rules for X Architecture-based chip designs at the 90-nanometer process node. UMC is now ready to accept X Architecture designs from fabless semiconductor companies and its integrated device manufacturers (IDM) partners for fabrication at the 90-nanometer process node.