Local DRAM makers, including Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技), yesterday posted higher revenues for last month as prices spiked amid concerns about supply constraints after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disrupted chip and component production.
Nanya Technology, the nation’s biggest DRAM maker, said revenues grew 5.2 percent to NT$3.74 billion (US$128 million) last month, from NT$3.5 billion in February.
Company spokesman Pai Pei-lin (白培霖) has said the company increased prices by 3 percent to 5 percent last month because of decreasing supply levels.
This month, the price increase would be steeper, the company said last week.
In the first three months of this year, the Taoyuan-based company earned NT$10.73 billion in revenues, down 24 percent from NT$14.12 billion in the same period last year, as prices plunged because of oversupply.
Inotera Memories Inc (華亞科技), a DRAM venture between Nanya Technology and US memory chip giant Micron Technology Inc, said revenues jumped 32 percent last month to NT$3.63 billion from NT$2.74 billion in February.
In a separate statement, the nation’s No. 2 DRAM firm, Powerchip Technology Corp (力晶科技), said revenues increased 14 percent to about NT$4 billion last month compared with NT$3.51 billion in February, bringing the company’s first quarter revenues to NT$10.92 billion, down 40 percent from NT$18.32 billion a year ago.
“Powerchip has reduced DRAM shipments and increased inventories on concern that the earthquake in Japan will impact upstream supply chain, but price increases and growing shipments in its contracting business has helped boost revenues,” firm spokesman Eric Tang (譚仲民) said in a statement.
Tang said worries about supplies of raw materials were subsiding and end demand also looked stable.
ProMOS Technologies Inc (茂德科技) yesterday posted NT$1.47 billion in revenues for last month, up 11.36 percent from February’s NT$1.32 billion.
ProMOS made NT$4.05 billion in revenues in the first quarter, down 5.32 percent from NT$4.27 billion in the prior year, according to its filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
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