Msscorps Co (汎銓科技), which provides advanced semiconductor materials and failure analyses to semiconductor firms, said its US subsidiary, MSS USA Corp, opened its first advanced lab in Silicon Valley yesterday, to serve US customers from Apple Inc to Nvidia Corp, Applied Materials Inc and Lam Research Corp.
“It reflects our commitment to being close to our customers to help support the US semiconductor ecosystem and contribute to this fast-growing environment,” MSS USA Corp CEO Gene Leou (柳淳浩) said at the opening ceremony attended by representatives of the company’s major US customers.
As the US is encouraging new semiconductor investments and introducing new industrial policies, MSS is “glad to be part of this momentum and to help our customers build future technologies,” Leou said.
Photo: Grace Hung, Taipei Times
Msscorps said its US subsidiary is expected to start generating revenue next month and that it estimated its overseas sales would double from last year.
It also plans to set up a lab in Japan in August and in Europe by the end of this year, Msscorps said.
The company saw a quarterly loss of NT$48.87 million (US$1.61 million) last quarter, compared with a net profit of NT$23 million the previous quarter. That was the worst quarterly performance since Msscorps’s debut on the local stock market in August 2022.
The company posted losses per share of NT$0.94 last quarter, compared with earnings per share of NT$0.4 the previous quarter, while gross margin dipped from 27 percent to 13 percent.
Msscorps chairman Gino Leou (柳紀綸) on April 28 said the first quarter was the worst period and that he expected business to rebound in the following quarters.
He attributed the weak performance to lower-than-expected demand for material analysis and fewer working days in February.
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