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Claire UC Riverside Extension Center 1200 University Avenue, Riverside CA 92507-4596 Phone: 951-756-5392 Email: [email protected] 3. UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) Taiwan This company’s stock is very stable with a good reputation. Taiwan’s IC industry has good development and this is a long established company. I spent $7344 to buy 3060 shares of the stock in UMC on 18-Jul-2011, the end of the closing day 1-August-2011 I lose $61.20 for this stock. This company’s shares price ups and down is not obvious. “SAN JOSE, Calif. and HSINCHU, Taiwan, July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) and United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) ("UMC"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that they have produced working silicon on a new, 65-nanometer SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) technology for embedded Flash memory. UMC will manufacture next-generation PSoC® programmable system-on-chip products for Cypress on the new process, along with nvSRAMs and other products. UMC will also make this technology available to other companies under a licensing agreement with Cypress.”(2011) Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and United Microelectronics Corporation, most news is reports this two companies has new partnership. This partnership is very important for UMC, the means that this company will have better development in the future.