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Report: Intel Partners With Taiwan's UMC on 3nm Chips, Taking Direct Aim at TSMC's Foundry Dominance

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Chip manufacturing giant Intel has partnered up with Taiwan's second-largest contract chip manufacturer, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), for advanced manufacturing process technology, suggests a report from FundaAI. Intel, under its CEO Lip-Bu Tan, is seeking to compete with Taiwan's TSMC in the contract chip manufacturing industry. According to the details, UMC is seeking to team up with Intel to gain a foothold in advanced chip manu…
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Intel and UMC signed an official agreement in 2024 to develop a 12-nm FinFET platform in the blue factories in Ocotillo, Arizona, with commercial production planned for 2027 and focus on mobile, connectivity, networks, IoT, WiFi and high-speed interfaces. That confirmed pact is the industrial base that now gives context to the latest leak for both companies, which points to a much more ambitious collaboration: bringing that same joint work model…

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Wccftech broke the news on Thursday, June 18, 2026.
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