UMC's October sales rise 17% year-on-year

United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) reported net sales of NT$9.30 billion (about $288 million) for the month of October 2009, down 2.5 percent from the previous month and up 17.6 percent from a year ago.

For the period January to October UMC's sales were NT$70.17 billion (about $2.17 billion), down 14.3 percent from the equivalent ten months in 2008.

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