UMC mass produce TrendChip ADSL chips

Semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) announced that TrendChip Technologies Corp.'s WireExpress ADSL chipset - the first product in its xDSL family - is being manufactured in volume quantities on UMC's 0.18?m CMOS process technology.

UMC is producing the digital portion of the SoC solution, which features a network processor and a Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) DSP. The dual-chip solution, composed of TrendChip's TC3160 ADSL processor and Silicon Laboratories' Si3101 integrated analog front-end (AFE), is designed to address the cost and performance requirements of the ADSL customer premise equipment (CPE) market.