Nuvoton Technology Holds Investor Conference for the fourth quarter of 2012
Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. - February 6, 2013 - Nuvoton Technology Corp. (TWSE: 4919) today (6), with the parent company, Winbond Electronics Corp.(TWSE: 2344), held a joint Investor Conference to report the fourth quarter operation result and forecast the first quarter of 2013.The consolidated revenue for 2012 is approximately NT$7,413 million, net income of NT$ 628 million, EPS of NT$ 3.02, an increase of 47% compared last year.
The consolidated revenue for the fourth quarter of 2012 is NT$1,602 million, 83% from general IC and 17% from foundry service. According to Nuvoton Technology, due to weak economies of Europe and America, NTD appreciation and Windows8 slow market acceptance, the revenue of General IC declined compared the previous quarter and the same period last year. Regarding the revenue of foundry service, not only seasonality but also the FAB annual maintenance to cause the decrease compared previous quarter. But benefited from the demand growth of High Voltage Power IC Processes, the foundry revenue of the fourth quarter 2012 was brought up 19.3% compared the same period of 2011.
Nuvoton's new products have been gradually achieved good results in the target fields, including ARM® Cortex™-M0 MCU for voice/audio applications, ARM® 9 SoC N329 for IOT(Internet Of Things) and consumer Electronics, ARM® Cortex™-M0 NuVoice™ Family for advanced speech applications and new eSIO for Intel Shark Bay platform in AIO/DT applications. For foundry service, Nuvoton has completed the development of 600V/700V MOSFET Process and Photo Diode Process and entered the trial production stage.
For the outlook of the first quarter 2013, Nuvoton plans to roll out the new Audio Enhancement with Power Amplifier to continually capture the market of multimedia applications. iDAC for Shark Bay Platform has also completed developed. Furthermore, the launch of 24-bit Stereo Audio Codec for audio application and 5V/40V BCD process for power IC demonstrate Nuvoton will provide customers more competitive services by high value-added products and processes.
Nuvoton said the first quarter remains traditional slow season for PC, consumer electronics, and foundry, however, the industry condition may pick up from March. Facing the rapidly changing economic environment, Nuvoton will continue to uphold the business guiding principle: "keep developing new applications, optimizing the portfolio of products and customers", continually focus resources in our targeted field of application.
About Nuvoton
Nuvoton Technology Corp. was established as a spin-out of Winbond Electronics’ Logic business group, starting operation in July, 2008 and IPO in September , 2010. Nuvoton Technology focuses on the R&D and sales in logic ICs, and leads in market shares of audio, microcontrollers, computer and cloud related application ICs. Nuvoton owns a six-inch wafer fab, featuring in special niche process. Besides in-house IC products, the wafer fab also provides part of its capacity for foundry services. Nuvoton Technology provides high cost performance products for its customers by means of flexible technology innovation capabilities, full product solutions and excellent integration of technology synergy. Nuvoton offers superior services based on existing solid foundation and continues to realize its vision: "Be an indispensable partner to industry leaders." Nuvoton values the long-term relationship with its partners and customers; the company has established subsidiaries in the USA, China and Israel to strengthen regional customer support and global management. For more information, please visit /sites/nuvoton/
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