Nuvoton Technology Corporation () is a
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
-based
semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ...
company established in 2008. It spun off from
Winbond Electronics Corp. as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Overview
Nuvoton's main product lines are microcontroller application IC, audio application IC, cloud & computing IC, and
foundry service. Its consumer electronics ICs focus mainly on
microcontroller
A microcontroller (MCU for ''microcontroller unit'', often also MC, UC, or μC) is a small computer on a single VLSI integrated circuit (IC) chip. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable i ...
ICs and voice and speech ICs. Its
ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller IC NuMicro family is well known for its density and functionality. Its computer IC product line designs and manufactures the key chips for PC motherboards, notebook computers and servers, offering complete
super I/O
Super I/O is a class of I/O controller integrated circuits that began to be used on personal computer motherboards in the late 1980s, originally as add-in cards, later embedded on the motherboards. A super I/O chip combines interfaces for a vari ...
solutions, clock generators, hardware monitoring IC, power management IC, TPM security IC,
notebook keyboard controller, and mobile platform
embedded controller
An Embedded Controller (EC) is a microcontroller in computers that handles various system tasks. Now it is usually merged with Super I/O, especially on mobile platforms (such as laptop).
Tasks
An embedded controller can have the following task ...
(EC).
Nuvoton operates a six-inch wafer fab, which provides
foundry service for the company's own branded IC products, as well as for selected manufacturing partners.
History
In September 2020, Nuvoton bought
Panasonic's chip unit for $250 million in an all-cash transaction. This acquisition will give the company more access to the automobile and automation industries.
See also
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List of companies of Taiwan
Taiwan maintains a stable industrial economy as a result of economic growth and industrialization during the late 20th century, being dubbed as one of the Four Asian Tigers along with Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. It is a member of both ...
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ARM architecture
ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured ...
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2008 establishments in Taiwan
Electronics companies established in 2008
Manufacturing companies based in Hsinchu
Foundry semiconductor companies
Semiconductor companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands
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