English to Chinese Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology) Tesla

Last month, six semiconductor design houses closed a deal with United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) in Taiwan under which the world’s fourth-largest contract chipmaker would expand mature technology production capacity for them in exchange for financial deposits.

Such arrangements are a departure from the traditional business model. “The moment you {block out} certain capacity for one customer, that flexibility disappears,” said a semiconductor executive familiar with such operations.