Wafer foundry Liandian: Suzhou and the shipyard stopped work, and an employee was suspected of being infected

IT home February 14 news, today's wafer foundry United Power issued an announcement on its official website, the company's Suzhou 8-inch fab and ship chip manufacturing company because there is an employee suspected of infection, is currently cooperating with the local authorities to conduct full testing, production activities are gradually suspended, to be tested after cooperation with the competent authorities to fully resume work.

UMC reiterated that its outlook for the first quarter will remain unchanged, with quarterly average selling prices rising 5%, shipments flat, quarterly gross margins of about 40%, and a market share of the global foundry industry that will continue to expand, with no significant impact on the company's financial business.

According to the "2.13" epidemic report released by Suzhou City, in the early morning of February 14, the cumulative number of positive nucleic acid tests for the new crown virus in Suzhou city was 8, of which one employee of Suzhou Hejian tested positive. Subsequently, Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou began to carry out regional nucleic acid testing.

IT Home learned that according to the previous prospectus of Hejian Chip, as of the end of 2018, the top five customers of Hejian Chip were MediaTek, Tsinghua Tsinghua Group, Lianyong, Silicon Jie and UMC.

According to the data, Hejian Chip Manufacturing (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. is an 8-inch wafer foundry enterprise, located in Suzhou Industrial Park, officially put into production in May 2003, with a monthly output of nearly 80,000 pieces and more than 2,000 employees.