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TSMC's February sales slip back
Peter Clarke
3/8/2013 7:37 AM EST
LONDON – Sales at foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) in February were down 13.2 percent from January at NT$41.18 billion (about $1.39 billion), but were up 21.5 percent over the same month a year before.
It is normal for sales to decline sequentially in February – due to the shorter month and Chinese New Year holidays – but the reported sales decline was larger than the average of 6.1 percent that TSMC has experienced over the previous ten years.
Nonetheless TSMC's revenues for the year-to-date totaled NT$88.62 billion (about $2.99 billion), an increase of 29.4 percent compared to the same period in 2012.
Rival foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) reported February sales of NT$8.73 billion (about $295 million), down 7.6 percent from January but up 3.4 percent on February 2012. UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has year-to-date sales of NT$18.18 billion (about $613 million), up 5.2 percent on the same period a year before.
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daleste
3/8/2013 11:01 PM EST
Does this mean anything? Is there a slow down coming even though every where else things look rosy?
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GoGoGeek
3/11/2013 1:20 PM EDT
Isn't this a typical seasonal slowdown in 1Q? And they were actually up 21.5 percent over the same month a year before. This looks actually promissing!
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