ASE, SPIL, PTI announce sales figures

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: The consolidated revenues of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), the specialist in IC packaging, stayed almost flat, on month, in January 2010.

Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), the competitor of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, registered a small decline in sales, sequentially, in January 2010.

Powertech Technology (PTI), the memory backend company, posted consolidated sales of NT$2.9 billion (US $90 million) in January 2010.

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering said its consolidated revenues went up by 0.3 per cent sequentially to NT$8.72 billion in January 2010, compared to on-month decreases usually witnessed in the first quarters of previous years. The company says its first-quarter revenues will either remain flat or drop by only 1-2 per cent on quarter.

The revenues of Siliconware Precision Industries were worth NT$5.08 billion for January 2010 – down by 4.9 per cent from the level of December 2009. On a consolidated basis, the sales in January 2010 of Siliconware Precision Industries amounted to NT$5.31 billion – a 4.9 per cent drop from December 2009.

According to market-watchers, the first-quarter revenues of Siliconware Precision Industries are likely to decline by 5 per cent-10 per cent sequentially. Powertech Technology said its consolidated revenues for January 2010 went down by 3.27 per cent from a record high of NT$2.94 billion earned in December 2009.

D K Tsai, chairman of Powertech Technology, had recently estimated that the company’s first-quarter revenues would be about NT$8.5 billion.