Wiwynn Corp (緯穎), a developer and manufacturer of artificial intelligence (AI) servers, yesterday posted annual growth of 79.5 percent in net profit for last quarter as customers showed a strong appetite for cloud-based computing devices.
Net profit jumped to NT$4.69 billion (US$143.9 million) last quarter, compared with NT$2.62 billion in the second quarter of last year. However, on a quarterly basis, it represented a decline of 0.3 percent from NT$4.71 billion, which was an all-time high.
Gross margin improved to 10.8 percent last quarter from 8.8 percent a year earlier, but fell from 11.1 percent in the first quarter.
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Wiwynn said it holds an upbeat view about cloud devices and AI-based server market demand in the long term.
To cope with business growth, the company’s board of directors yesterday approved a proposal to inject US$500 million into its US subsidiary, Wiwynn International Corp, with an aim to boost operational capital and optimize its financial structure.
The company in June said that AI servers accounted for about 20 percent of its total revenue in the first quarter and it expected rapidly growing demand would help boost the revenue contribution of AI servers to about 50 percent in the fourth quarter of this year.
At the time, Wiwynn said part of its revenue might come from servers outfitted with Nvidia Corp’s new Blackwell graphic processing units.
The company’s revenue soared 76.23 percent year-on-year to NT$31.12 billion last month, compared with NT$17.66 billion a year earlier, a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange said yesterday.
Compared with NT$30.76 billion in June, revenue edged up 1.17 percent last month.
During the first seven months of the year, revenue expanded 20.27 percent year-on-year to NT$178.23 billion from NT$148.29 billion.
The AI boom is not only giving a boost to AI server makers such as Wiwynn, but also prompted chip tester King Yuan Electronics Co (京元電子) to significantly raise its capital spending in response to strong demand for testing services for AI and high-performance computing chips.
King Yuan, which provides chip testing services for Nvidia, yesterday said it plans to increase its capital expenditure to a record NT$13.83 billion for this year, from its previous estimate of NT$5.31 billion.
The company yesterday posted NT$3.27 billion in net profit for the first half of this year, up 19.78 percent from NT$2.73 billion in the same period last year.
Gross margin improved to 34.18 percent during the first half from 32.89 percent a year earlier.
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