India, Jan. 20 -- As the automotive industry requirements for increasingly performant vehicle controllers relentlessly drives ahead, Silicon Storage Technology (SST), a subsidiary of Microchip Technology Inc., and United Microelectronics Corp., a leading global semiconductor foundry, announced that they have completed full qualification and release to production of SST's embedded SuperFlash Gen 4 (ESF4) with full automotive grade 1 (AG1) capability on UMC's 28HPC+ foundry process platform.

SST developed ESF4 in close partnership with UMC to deliver enhanced embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) performance and demonstrated reliability for automotive controllers while simultaneously significantly reducing the number of additional masking s...