DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技) yesterday reported a 4.85 percent monthly decline in revenue for last month, which had less working days, raising the company’s revenues last quarter by nearly 10 percent sequentially.
Revenues shrank to NT$4.24 billion (US$139.5 million) last month from August’s NT$4.46 billion.
During the quarter ending Sept. 30, revenues expanded to NT$13.09 billion, compared with NT$11.92 billion in the second quarter.
Nanya Technology, which counts Dell Inc as one of its top clients, attributed the sequential revenue growth to a 5 percent quarterly hike in average selling price and a 5 percent increase in shipments last quarter.
“The fourth quarter will be a stable period, with only mild ups and downs,” Nanya Technology spokesman Lee Pei-ing (李培瑛) said.
“Demand for cloud-computing-based servers looks strong and PC demand is better than expected, but demand for memory chips used in mobile devices is flat,” he said.
As demand for those three applications look stable, Lee said he expects “chip prices to go up slightly” this quarter.
Server, PC and mobile devices consume 75 percent of overall DRAM production, Lee said.
Samsung Electronics’ recent capacity expansion plan is set to only have a very minor impact on demand and price of DRAM chips, as the supply is not significant and the increase is not scheduled until 2017, Lee said.
In a separate statement, Inotera Memories Inc (華亞科技), a DRAM chip joint venture between Nanya Technology and Micron Technology Inc, said revenue inched up 1.2 percent to NT$6.79 billion last month, compared with NT$6.71 billion in August.
Last quarter, Inotera accumulated NT$20.15 billion in revenue, down 6.06 percent from NT$21.45 billion in the prior quarter.
Nanya Technology and Inotera are scheduled to released detailed quarterly results on Wednesday next week.
Shares of Nanya Technology and Inotera plunged 6.84 percent and 6.95 percent to NT$50.4 and NT$38.85 respectively.
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