TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TAIEX: 2303), a leading independent semiconductor foundry, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter 2009 results on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, at 8:00 a.m. US Eastern Time.

This call is being webcast by Thomson Reuters and can be accessed at UMC's Web site at www.umc.com.

The dial-in details for the live conference call: U.S. Toll Free Number +1866.519.4004, U.K. Toll Free Number +0808.234.6646, Singapore and Other Area +65.6735.7955; Passcode UMC.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson Reuters StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.fulldisclosure.com, Thomson Reuters' individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson Reuters' password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

Additional information about UMC is available on the web at www.umc.com.

    Contacts:
    Bowen Huang / Phil Lee / Tien Yu Tseng
    UMC, Investor Relations
    Tel. + 886-2-2700-6999, ext. 6957
    Email: bowen_huang@umc.com
           phil_lee@umc.com
           tien_yu_tseng@umc.com

SOURCE Microelectronics Corporation