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Taiwan (from 6)

In addition, UMC operates fi ve 200mm
fabs and one 150mm fab in Taiwan.

The company fabricates logic/mixed-
signal, embedded high-boltage, embed-
ded non-volatile-memory, RFSOI and BCD
parts.

Global fabless companies The Xiomi Note 11 Pro, with vapor-cooled chamber, uses Medi-
As noted earlier, the top fabless chip com- aTek’s 5G Dimensity chip. (Xiomi)
panies — in descending order of revenue
— Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Broadcom, AMD fabless chip sellers in Taiwan, a country that
and MediaTek depend completely or in part has also developed a large semiconductor
on either TSMC and/or UMC for their prod- design business.
uct needs.
Assembly & Packaging
MediaTek, by the way, is a Taiwanese In addition to its domination of the foundry
company that sells semiconductors for business throughTSMC and UMC, the coun-
networking, connectivity and communica- try is also the home of more than a dozen
toins. In 2020, MediaTek reported total assembly, test and packaging companies.
revenues of $11.12 billion. The country is also home to a thriving dis-
play and optoelectronics industry.
In 2021, however, the com- to page 10
pany’s revenue soared to
$17.67 billion, an increase of
58 percent.

Smartphone favorite
MediaTek’s phone processors
are a favorite of many cell
phone vendors, especially in
Asia. Oppo, Realme and
Vivo and Xiami smartphones
all use MediaTek processors.

In addition, the Samsung
A32 5G, one of the most
powerful mid-range smart-
phones, uses a MediaTek
processor as do some of
Samsung’s low-end phone
products.

There are a handful of other