Kilopass and UMC Sign Long Term Technology Roadmap Agreement

This agreement broadens UMC’s engagement with Kilopass’ based on increased customer adoption and the leadership position Kilopass has in embedded logic NVM technology. Kilopass perceives design activity in greater China has increased rapidly, and that UMC’s dominance has become a significant factor to Kilopass’ continued growth.



“We are pleased to add Kilopass as another member of UMC’s circle of strategic partners,” said S.C. Chien, Vice President of Customer Engineering & IP Development & design Support at UMC. “We see Kilopass’ OTP (One Time Programmable) roadmap, customer adoption, and broad portfolio of unique offerings as convincing factors for an ideal OTP partner for UMC. Their logic NVM solutions will nicely complement UMC’s existing embedded NVM portfolio, which includes eFlash, eE2PROM, eMTP, eOTP and eFuse. We look forward to Kilopass continuing the excellent support it has delivered thus far.”



“I am very excited that Kilopass has won UMC to our anti-fuse NVM technology,” said Charlie Cheng, president and CEO of Kilopass Technology, Inc. “Finally, we have achieved our strategic initiative of covering the broad range of UMC product line so we can be truly successful in greater China, where customers appreciate UMC’s focus on best price/performance and customer-first business approach.”