This marks the third SONOS technology collaboration in the last three years between the two companies. UMC licensed Cypress’s 55-nm SONOS process technology in 2014 and qualified Cypress’s 65-nm technology in 2013.

“In addition to offering an IoT-specific technology and design platform, UMC offers design kits and IP specialized for our IoT processes to expedite our customers’ designs to market,” said S.C. Chien, vice president of Specialty Technology Development at UMC.

“We are happy to expand our diverse range of eFlash solutions with the addition of Cypress’s SONOS on UMC’s high-volume and high-demand 40-nm process, providing customers with a high-performance, low power embedded memory option for customer IoT products.”

“We are pleased to continue working with UMC to extend the adoption of our SONOS IP as the top choice for embedded nonvolatile memory,” said Sam Geha, Vice President of the Technology and Intellectual Property Business Unit at Cypress.

“The 40-nm SONOS process is embedded in an ultra-low power process technology and other 40-nm variants. It will benefit a broad range of UMC’s customers looking to develop smart, power-efficient products for the Internet of Things and wearable electronics markets. 40-nm SONOS also enables faster processing speeds and lower power consumption for microcontrollers.”