Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a worldwide fabless ASIC design service company headquartered in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Overview Founded in 1998, GUC is a dedicated system-on-chip design foundry based in Taiwan. TSMC became its largest shareholder in 2003.
Facilities Headquarter in Hsinchu, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Tainan, Taiwan San Jose, California, United States Yokohama, Japan Seoul, South Korea Amsterdam, Netherlands Shanghai, China Shenzhen, China Beijing, China Nanjing, China
Products ASICs and wafers Design, wafer manufacturing, packaging and testing services Non-recurring engineering Circuit design cell library and various IPs required in the product design process; circuit layouts for mask making; subcontract mask making, wafer manufacturing, dicing and packaging to vendors; final testing to get prototype samples Multi-project wafer service Integrates multiple design projects of different customers on one single mask and by one wafer engineer run. It is an effective and fast time-to-market chip verification service with cost-sharing in masking and wafer engineering run. Design engineers, before the phase of mass production, are able to timely verify their prototype designs with advanced process technologies and much lower costs Intellectual property Silicon-verified reusable IC designs with specific functions
See also List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links GUC Linkedin