High-speed data transmission chip designer ASMedia Technology Inc (祥碩) yesterday said revenue would grow sequentially next quarter, fueled by robust upgrade demand for USB 4.0 technology and increased demand for Advanced Micro Devices Inc’s (AMD) desktop chips and motherboards.
ASMedia said it expects to benefit from AMD’s share gains over Intel Corp in the desktop computer processor and motherboard market, as Intel is apparently facing challenges to introduce new processors such as the Arrow Lake central processing unit.
“That is prompting strong sales of AMD’s high-end X870 motherboard, as well as ASMedia’s revenue. We expect AMD to maintain the strong growth momentum through the first half of next year,” ASMedia president Lin Che-wei (林哲偉) told reporters following the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Taipei.
Photo: Lisa Wang, Taipei Times
“ASMedia is growing together with the customer as it keeps winning market share,” Lin said.
Strong demand led to supply constraints in the initial stages, but the issue has been resolved, he said.
ASMedia helps design motherboard chipsets for AMD desktop platforms, with the Taiwanese company responsible for the input and output functionality and features that connect the central processing unit to the motherboard and other devices.
ASMedia is in talks with a second customer about designing motherboard chipsets, Lin said.
As AMD’s X870 motherboard gains traction, it also helps boost demand for ASMedia’s USB 4.0 chips as such high-speed data transmission technology comes standard with the motherboard, he said.
ASMedia expects the chipset designing business for AMD and its own-brand USB 4.0 chips to continue driving the company’s revenue growth through next quarter.
“The visibility for the third quarter is clear. It will be a better than the second quarter, even without including revenue from newly acquired Techpoint Inc,” Lin said.
With the participation of Techpoint, ASMedia expects its own-brand chip revenue to rise gradually to make up half of the company’s total revenue, with revenue from the AMD motherboard chipset designing business accounting for the other half, he said.
Overall, revenue this year would exceed last year’s NT$8.08 billion (US$272.3 million), Lin said.
ASMedia earlier this year projected that revenue would expand at a double-digit percentage compared with last year.
Gross margin would be the company’s target range of 50 to 55 percent, after factoring in the impact of the appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar, Lin said.
Every 1 percent appreciation in the NT dollar against the US dollar would reduce the company’s gross margin by 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points, he said.
ASMedia expects the foreign exchange rate risk to minimize next quarter as its US dollar cash position dwindles.
The company has spent all US$330 million it raised through issuing global depository receipts last year on acquiring Techpoint, Lin said.
ASMedia shareholders yesterday approved a cash dividend of NT$30 per common share, the highest in the company’s history. That represented a payout ratio of 58.17 percent based on the company’s earnings per share of NT$51.57 last year.
DAMAGE REPORT: Global central banks are assessing war-driven inflation risks as the law of unintended consequences careens around the world, spiking oil prices Central banks from Washington to London and from Jakarta to Taipei are about to make their first assessments of economic damage after more than two weeks of conflict between the US and Iran. Decisions this week encompassing every member of the G7 and eight of the world’s 10 most-traded currency jurisdictions are likely to confirm to investors that the specter of a new inflation shock is already worrying enough to prompt heightened caution. The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to do exactly what everyone anticipated weeks ahead of its March 17-18 policy gathering: hold rates steady. The narrative surrounding that
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) share of the global foundry market rose to almost 70 percent last year amid booming demand for artificial intelligence (AI), market information advisory firm TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) said on Thursday. The contract chipmaker posted US$122.54 billion in revenue, up 36.1 percent from a year earlier, accounting for 69.9 percent of the global market, TrendForce said. Its share was up from 64.4 percent in 2024, it said. TSMC’s closest rival, Samsung Electronics, was a distant second, posting US$12.63 billion in sales, down 3.9 percent from a year earlier, for a 7.2 percent share of the global market. In the
HEADWINDS: The company said it expects its computer business, as well as consumer electronics and communications segments to see revenue declines due to seasonality Pegatron Corp (和碩) yesterday said it aims to grow its artificial intelligence (AI) server revenue more than 10-fold this year from last year, driven by orders from neocloud solutions clients and large cloud service providers. The electronics manufacturing service provider said AI server revenue growth would be driven primarily by the Nvidia Corp GB300 server platform. Server shipments are expected to increase each quarter this year, with the second half likely to outperform the first half, it said. The AI server market is expected to broaden this year as more inference applications emerge, which would drive demand for system-on-chip, application-specific integrated circuits
At a massive shipyard in North Vancouver, Canadian workers grind metal beams for a powerful new icebreaker crucial to cementing the country’s presence in the increasingly contested arctic. Icebreakers are specialized, expensive vessels able to navigate in the frozen far north. And “this is the crown jewel,” said Eddie Schehr, vice president of production at the Seaspan shipyard. For Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who heads to Norway next Friday to observe arctic defense drills involving troops from 14 NATO states, Canada’s extreme north has emerged as a strategic priority. “Canada is and forever will be an Arctic nation,” he said ahead of
RSS