Leadtek Research Inc (麗臺) on Friday reported that third-quarter revenue surged 93.6 percent year-on-year to NT$1.95 billion (US$63.9 million), as the supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs), artificial intelligence workstations and servers last month collected sizeable receivables of 279 million yuan (US$39.2 million) from China Mobile Ltd (中國移動).
Leadtek is a long-term partner of Nvidia Corp and an authorized reseller of the US GPU maker’s products under its own brand following customized manufacturing and redesigning. It last year secured a 298 million yuan order to supply 200 Nvidia HGX A800 units for servers to China Mobile.
The company plans to collect the remaining receivables of 19 million yuan from China Mobile between 2028 and 2030, it said.
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Leadtek said it would book a loss of about 11.35 million yuan from the China Mobile deal in this year’s financial report after deducting related costs and expected credit losses.
The company’s sales growth also came as shipments of Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs, typically used for gaming and video editing, started to normalize in the second half of this year, it said.
Revenue in the first nine months of this year rose 32.3 percent year-on-year to NT$3.53 billion, it said.
Revenue growth for this quarter is expected to continue as shipments of products equipped with Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell series GPUs began last month, along with steady demand for RTX 50 units, which entered mass production in July, industry sources said yesterday.
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