Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技), the nation’s second-largest PC memory chipmaker, yesterday posted a second consecutive decline in sales as prices dropped on sagging demand last month.
Sales fell 2.5 percent last month to NT$5.1 billion (US$160,490 million), compared with NT$5.23 billion in June. On a year-on-year base, sales jumped 55 percent from NT$3.3 billion. Shipments were flat last month from June.
However, Nanya Technology spokesman Pai Pei-lin (白培霖) expected growth momentum “to be back on track in August,” helped by back-to-school demand for PCs and corporations’ need to replace older PCs.
CONTRACT PRICE
Pai said contract prices for its memory chips would drop slightly.
Sales would grow again next month after getting more cost-effective chips from its computer memory joint venture Inotera Memories Inc (華亞科技) with Micron Memory Inc, Pai said.
Inotera yesterday said sales rose 2.3 percent to NT$3.16 billion last month from NT$3.09 billion in May. That also meant about 9.8 percent year-on-year growth.
BARRIERS
After three consecutive quarters of output decline, Inotera expected output to resume growth this quarter after overcoming major technological barriers in migrating to cost-effective 50-nanometer process technology from 70-nanometer.
This quarter, output would grow 15 percent from last quarter, the chipmaker said last month.
The nation’s top computer memory chipmaker, Powerchip Technology Corp (力晶), yesterday said sales rose 0.7 percent to NT$8.62 billion last month from NT$8.56 billion in June, hitting the highest level in 40 months.
That represented a nearly five-fold increase from last year’s NT$1.48 billion, the company said.
Robust demand for contract chip business and increasing the output of cost-effective chips helped to offset a price decline last month, company spokesman Eric Tang (譚仲民) said in a company statement.
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