Taiwan's chipmakers reports strong sales growth in February
Taipei, March 9, 2000 (CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. saw its sales revenue in February jump 142.6%, to NT$9.02 billion, from a year earlier, the wafer foundry reported Thursday.
The February figure, however, was a little lower than the NT$9.33 billion recorded in January, due to fewer working days in that month, but still the second highest on record, TSMC said in a press release.
The firm's accumulated sales revenue for the first two months of the year amounted to NT$18.34 billion.
Meanwhile, United Microelectronics Corp., rival of TSMC, posted a 201% increase in sales revenue in February, to a record high of NT$6.33 billion, company officials said.
UMC attributed the rise in revenue to the multiple effect in production following the merger between UMC and four of its affiliates last year.
Macronix International co., Taiwan's largest maker of flash memory chips, reported its sales in February surged 107% to NT$1.72 billion from NT$830.3 million a year earlier.
For the first two months of the year, accumulated sales revenue reached NT$3.43 billion, up 70% from the NT$2.02 billion of a year ago.
Winbond Electronics Corp., Taiwan's leading maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, said its sales revenue rose 30% in February to NT$2.88 billion from NT$2.21 billion the same month in 1999.
Combined sales revenue for the January-February amounted to NT$6.42 billion, a 50% rise from the NT$4.29 billion during the same period last year. |
