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To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (43043)	2/12/2006 11:39:35 PM
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UMC posts 17% growth in January, lags rival Peter Clarke (02/10/2006 10:38 AM EST) URL: eetimes.com LONDON — January sales performance at foundry chip supplier United Microelectronics Corp. lagged behind that at rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. both in terms of growth. UMC’s January sales showed year-on-year growth of 17.8 percent compared with TSMC’s year-on-year growth of 25.6 percent. UMC achieved sales revenue in January of NT$8,407 million (about $260 million) down 6.8 percent from its sales of NT$9,018 million (about $280 million) in December 2005 and up 17.8 percent from January 2006. Sales for January are usually down on the preceding month but UMC’s year-on-year increase lagged behind the 25.6 percent rise achieved by rival foundry in January 2006 over January 2004. However, the year-on-year increase was big jump from the 1.5 percent year-on-year increase reported by UMC for December 2005 over December 2006.