{"id":334800,"date":"2026-03-12T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/334800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:12:09","slug":"taiwans-no-2-chipmaker-umc-bets-on-next-gen-optical-tech-amid-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/334800\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s No. 2 chipmaker UMC bets on next-gen optical tech amid AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/tech\/semiconductors\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semiconductors<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Leading contract chipmaker to help Harvard spinoff mass produce new optics<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"umc\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">UMC, Taiwan&#8217;s No. 2 contract chipmaker, is exploring new technologies to enable AI computing.\u00a0(UMC)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TAIPEI &#8212; Taiwan&#8217;s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp., has forged a manufacturing partnership to accelerate mass production of a new type of optical material and chips aimed at boosting transmission speeds inside AI computing clusters and data centers, a senior company executive told Nikkei Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Semiconductors Leading contract chipmaker to help Harvard spinoff mass produce new optics UMC, Taiwan&#8217;s No. 2 contract chipmaker,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[37418,345,343,344,73813,29501,119759,85,46,77693,79165,31142,134716,920,125,115015],"class_list":["post-334800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-37418","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bets","tag-boom","tag-chipmaker","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-next-gen","tag-no","tag-optical","tag-taiwans","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-umc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}