Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a worldwide fabless ASIC design service company, with its headquarters located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Overview

Founded in 1998, GUC is a dedicated SoC (System On Chip) Design Foundry based in Taiwan.^[1] TSMC invested in GUC in 2003 and became the largest shareholder.^[2]

Facilities

• Headquarter in Hsinchu, Taiwan ^[3]
• Taipei, Taiwan
• Tainan, Taiwan
• San Jose, California, United States
• Yokohama, Japan
• Seoul, South Korea
• Amsterdam, Europe
• Shanghai, China
• Shenzhen, China
• Beijing, China
• Nanjing, China

Products

• ASIC & wafers: Provide complete design, wafer manufacturing, packaging and testing services.
• NRE (Non-Recurring Engineering): Provide circuit design cell library and various IPs required in the process of product design; provide circuit layouts needed for mask making; subcontract mask making, wafer manufacturing, dicing and packaging to vendors; conduct final testing to get prototype samples for customers.
• MPW (Multiple-Project Wafer): MPW 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.
• IP (Intellectual Property): These are silicon-verified reusable IC designs with specific functions. With the rapid advancement of semiconductor processing technologies, the design industry is trending toward multi-functional chips and SoC (System on a Chip). GUC provides reusable IP help customers avoid redundant designs and resources.