Nuvoton
Encyclopedia
Nuvoton Technology Corporation is a Taiwan
-based semiconductor
company established in 2008. It spun off from Winbond Electronics Corp.
as a wholly owned subsidiary.
ICs
, computer ICs, and foundry service
. Its consumer electronics ICs focus mainly on microcontroller
ICs and voice and speech ICs. Its ARM architecture
Cortex ™-M0 micro-controller 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 solutions, clock generators, hardware monitoring IC, power management IC, TPM security IC, notebook keyboard controller
, and mobile platform embedded control
(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.
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
-based semiconductor
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...
company established in 2008. It spun off from Winbond Electronics Corp.
Winbond
Winbond Electronics Corporation is a Taiwan-based corporation founded in 1987 that produces semiconductors and several types of integrated circuits, most notably Dynamic RAM, Static RAM, microcontrollers, and personal computer ICs...
as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Overview
Nuvoton's main product lines are consumer electronicsConsumer electronics
Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...
ICs
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...
, computer ICs, and foundry service
Foundry model
In microelectronics, the foundry model refers to the separation of a semiconductor fabrication plant operation from an integrated circuit design operation, into separate companies or business units.-Overview:...
. Its consumer electronics ICs focus mainly on microcontroller
Microcontroller
A microcontroller is a small computer on a single integrated circuit containing a processor core, memory, and programmable input/output peripherals. Program memory in the form of NOR flash or OTP ROM is also often included on chip, as well as a typically small amount of RAM...
ICs and voice and speech ICs. Its ARM architecture
ARM architecture
ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...
Cortex ™-M0 micro-controller 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 solutions, clock generators, hardware monitoring IC, power management IC, TPM security IC, notebook keyboard controller
Laptop
A laptop, also called a notebook, is a personal computer for mobile use. A laptop integrates most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device and speakers into a single unit...
, and mobile platform embedded control
Embedded system
An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...
(EC).
Nuvoton operates a six-inch wafer fab which provides foundry service
Foundry model
In microelectronics, the foundry model refers to the separation of a semiconductor fabrication plant operation from an integrated circuit design operation, into separate companies or business units.-Overview:...
for the company's own branded IC products, as well as for selected manufacturing partners.