UMC's Xu Jianhua's retirement timing is sensitive, leaving a lot of questions? ... Rumor has it that he will move to SMIC in China!

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Xu Jianhua, the top general of UMC Honorary Chairman Cao Xingcheng and a senior vice president of UMC who once became famous for UMC's expansion into mainland China, applied for retirement at the end of last month due to career planning. Speculations from the outside world that Xu Jianhua might transfer to a key position in a semiconductor factory in mainland China have caused a stir in the semiconductor industry.

Xu Jianhua once told his friends that he would take a break. However, earlier, China's SMIC Semiconductor revealed that it would recruit Taiwanese people to join the management team. Xu Jianhua's retirement at this time has aroused speculation in the industry. However, this news has not been confirmed by SMIC and Xu Jianhua.

Xu Jianhua's profile

UMC's spokesperson confirmed that Xu Jianhua retired at the end of last month, and yesterday ( 1 ) announced that he would resign from the board of directors of the UMC Technology Culture and Education Foundation, and appointed senior vice president Jian Shanjie to take over. UMC emphasized that Xu Jianhua's retirement was a personal career plan, and that it was unclear where he would go in the future, so it was impossible to comment on his personal movements.

However, the email about Xu Jianhua’s retirement was not sent by Xu Jianhua himself, but by UMC to the head of the supply chain, which caused UMC’s suppliers to speculate whether there was some other mystery behind this move.

In 2001 , Xu Jianhua was assigned by the then chairman Cao Xingcheng to go to Suzhou, Jiangsu to build a shipyard. This was the first time in Taiwan that a company invested in an 8 -inch wafer factory. He and Cao Xingcheng were both prosecuted by the Hsinchu District Court, but were later acquitted.

Xu Jianhua later returned to UMC and served as senior vice president, and even took over the director position after former CEO Sun Shiwei retired, so he was regarded by the outside world as one of the candidates to succeed the CEO. However, the CEO position was later promoted to Yan Bowen.

Xu Jianhua has extensive experience in semiconductors and factory building. If he is transferred to a key position in a mainland semiconductor wafer factory, especially since SMIC has been listed by the mainland as a benchmark factory for the development of national logic chips, he will become a key figure in the development of the mainland's semiconductor industry. He may be the second semiconductor heavyweight to move to the mainland market after former Inotera chairman Gao Qiquan was transferred to become global executive vice president of Tsinghua Unigroup.

UMC's Xiamen plant is actively carrying out the factory construction project and is scheduled to start trial production in the second half of this year. The company urgently needs good people to help it run smoothly. However, UMC's senior vice president Xu Jianhua has applied for retirement, which has puzzled the semiconductor industry.

According to UMC's annual report, Xu Jianhua served as senior vice president before his retirement, responsible for sales in Asia Pacific, Europe and Japan. Xu Jianhua is a graduate of National Cheng Kung University and joined UMC as an engineer in 1986, specializing in semiconductor process development, process integration and wafer fab operations.

In 2002, Hejian Technology was established in Suzhou Industrial Park, and he served as its president. Under his leadership, Hejian has been ranked among the "Top 10 Integrated Circuit and Discrete Device Manufacturers in China" every year since 2004; in 2006, he was awarded the "Second China Semiconductor Industry Leader" award.

After UMC acquired a majority stake in Hejian Suzhou in 2013, he served as UMC's senior vice president until his retirement at the end of last month.

Xu Jianhua is the only expert among UMC's senior executives who has experience in building and operating factories in mainland China. He was entrusted with an important task by UMC's honorary chairman Cao Xingcheng and served as the key operator of Hejian's investment in 8-inch wafers in Suzhou. He is UMC's number one general in seizing business opportunities in mainland China.

Last year, UMC obtained the first joint venture with the local municipal government in Xiamen in the form of equity participation in a Taiwanese factory, Unichip Semiconductor, and invested in the construction of the first 12-inch factory registered by a Taiwanese factory. Not long ago, it recruited former Rexchip general manager Chen Zhengkun, who has extensive experience in factory construction, to join the management team, hoping to lead UMC back to the memory market. This shows that UMC needs a good semiconductor factory construction expert at this time.

Xu Jianhua's retirement at this time, whether it is his personal career plan or the arrangement of UMC Group, has aroused close discussion and attention in the industry.

Xu Jianhua has 30 years of experience in UMC Group, rising from an entry-level engineer to the director of an 8-inch plant. In 2001, he was sent to Suzhou to build the Hejian factory. He was responsible for 10 wafer fabs including Hsinchu, Tainan, Singapore and Suzhou Hejian Technology. He is recognized by the industry as one of Cao Xingcheng's right-hand men.

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