Faraday Technology

Faraday Technology Corporation is a Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company providing ASIC design services, system-on-chip implementation, and semiconductor intellectual-property licensing. The company was established in 1993 as a spin-off from United Microelectronics Corporation and is headquartered in Hsinchu, one of Taiwan's principal semiconductor centers. Its business model is built around helping customers move from product specifications and architectural planning through implementation, tape-out, manufacturing coordination, packaging, testing, and volume production. Rather than operating its own high-volume wafer fabrication plants, Faraday functions as a design and technology partner. Its engagement model can begin at different stages of a customer's project, including specification-level work, design implementation, or integration of pre-existing intellectual-property blocks. The company supplies reusable silicon IP and offers customization services intended to make the development of application-specific integrated circuits more efficient. Its offerings cover areas such as processor and interface-related IP, embedded memories, mixed-signal functions, connectivity, and other building blocks used in customer-specific chips, although the precise portfolio varies by process technology and application. Faraday's ASIC service model is supported by relationships across the semiconductor ecosystem. The company works with IP suppliers, electronic-design-automation vendors, wafer foundries, packaging providers, and testing companies. This network allows it to coordinate the transition from a completed design to manufactured silicon and to support customers that do not possess the internal resources to manage the full ASIC supply chain. The reference material describes a track record extending to thousands of tape-outs and annual shipments of hundreds of millions of chips, but does not provide a dated company filing or independently verifiable figures for those claims. A significant part of Faraday's business is associated with royalties and other recurring income from chips designed for customers. This gives the company exposure to the commercial success and production volumes of customer products rather than relying only on one-time engineering fees. It serves a range of market segments and maintains an international office and customer-support footprint, including locations in Taiwan, Japan, mainland China, the United States, India, and Vietnam. Faraday is described as a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corporation and remains listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 3035. Its technology-development activities have included collaboration with Samsung on 14-nanometer chip technology. The available reference material does not establish the date, commercial scope, or current status of that collaboration. Overall, Faraday occupies the role of an outsourced ASIC and silicon-IP specialist, combining reusable design assets with customer-specific engineering and manufacturing coordination.

Faraday Technology was founded in 1993 as a spin-off from United Microelectronics Corporation. Its creation placed the company within Taiwan's developing fabless semiconductor and ASIC-design ecosystem, where specialist firms provide design expertise and reusable intellectual property while relying on external foundries and manufacturing partners. From its Hsinchu base, Faraday developed a business focused on customer-specific integrated circuits and licensable semiconductor building blocks. The company's operating model spans a broad portion of the ASIC value chain. Customers may engage Faraday at the specification stage, during design implementation, or for integration and adaptation of existing IP. The company supports projects through GDSII delivery and works with external providers for wafer fabrication, packaging, and testing. This structure enables customers with different levels of internal design capability to use Faraday for selected engineering tasks or for a more comprehensive development program. Over time, Faraday expanded its IP portfolio and customization capabilities. Its alliances with semiconductor IP companies, electronic-design-automation suppliers, foundries, packaging houses, and test providers became an important part of its ability to deliver production-ready designs. The company states that these relationships have supported thousands of tape-outs and worldwide shipment volumes reaching hundreds of millions of chips per year; the available material does not identify the periods or provide detailed supporting figures. Faraday also developed an international operating footprint, with offices or stated locations in Hsinchu, Tokyo, Shanghai, Suzhou, San Jose, Beaverton, Bangalore, and Ho Chi Minh City. These sites support customer engagement and engineering activities across Asian and North American markets. Its revenue model includes royalties generated by customer chips designed with Faraday's involvement, creating a recurring component alongside design-service and IP-related income. The company has remained associated with United Microelectronics Corporation and has been publicly traded in Taiwan under ticker 3035. Its technology partnerships have included work with Samsung related to 14-nanometer chip technology. The reference material does not provide sufficient chronology to determine when that cooperation began, which products resulted from it, or whether it remains active. Faraday's documented development therefore centers on its evolution from a UMC spin-off into a broad ASIC implementation and silicon-IP provider serving international customers.

• 1993

  Founded as a UMC spin-off

  [1]Faraday Technologyen.wikipedia.org

  Faraday Technology was established as a spin-off from United Microelectronics Corporation, beginning its business as a specialist in ASIC design and related semiconductor services.

A design-to-production ASIC partner that combines reusable silicon IP, customized implementation, and coordination across the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.

• Design services

  ASIC design services

  Faraday supports customer-specific integrated-circuit projects from specification and architecture through implementation and GDSII delivery. Depending on the engagement, it can provide selected engineering work or coordinate a broader path toward tape-out, fabrication, packaging, testing, and production.

• Semiconductor intellectual property

  Silicon IP portfolio

  The company licenses reusable semiconductor intellectual-property blocks for integration into customer ASICs and SoCs. Faraday also provides customization services so that selected IP can be adapted to a customer's process, performance, interface, or application requirements.

• System-on-chip

  SoC solutions

  Faraday's SoC work combines customer logic with selected internal or third-party IP and implementation support. The offering is intended for customers seeking application-specific chips without maintaining every design and supply-chain capability internally.

• 2020.03.23

  Reported2020.03.23

  Faraday 28G SerDes IP becomes available on UMC’s 28nm HPC platform[2]智原28G SerDes IP于联电28奈米HPC平台上可供选用chinatimes.com

  Faraday Technology said its 28Gbps programmable SerDes PHY is now available for use on UMC’s 28nm HPC process platform.

• 2019.10.29

  Faraday Technology reports third-quarter 2019 financial results[3]Faraday Technology公布2019年第三季度财务业绩design-reuse.com

  Faraday Technology announced consolidated third-quarter 2019 financial results, reporting revenue of NT$1,592 million and net income attributable to parent-company stockholders of NT$146 million.

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1. 1Faraday Technologyen.wikipedia.org
2. 2智原28G SerDes IP于联电28奈米HPC平台上可供选用chinatimes.com
3. 3Faraday Technology公布2019年第三季度财务业绩design-reuse.com