Nuvoton Technology Corporation (TSE: 4919) and its parent company, Winbond Electronics Corporation (TSE: 2344), held a joint investor conference today (27) to announce 1H’18 operating results and 2H’18 future prospects. The consolidated revenue in 1H’18 was NT$ 4.927 billion, an increase of 9% compared to the same period in 2017. Net income after tax in 1H’18 was NT$361 million and earnings per share after tax was NT$ 1.74.

Nuvoton’s main products have achieved solid results in the target areas in 1H’18, including the launch of high performance, low power NuMicro® M480 series and providing customers with Embedded emWin GUI software, mass production of Arm® Cortex® M4 based audio MCU for game consoles and voice IoT products, continuous stable shipments of embedded controller(EC) for Chromebook and baseboard management controller(BMC) products, supports Intel Purley server platforms, integrating highest performance duo-core Arm® Cortex® A9 processor. The significant growth in revenue in 1H’18 compared to 1H’17 was mainly due to the increasing shipments from growth of NuMicro MCU applying on selected and multi-market applications, NuMicro Arm ® Cortex ® M4 based 32-bit MCU and MPU SoC applying on industrial control and shipments of EC for Chromebook and BMC for servers. Regarding the new products and developments, promoting NuMicro Arm® Cortex®-M based microcontroller continuously applying on HMI, industry control, and multi-market, and developing high performance Arm® Cortex® M4 based audio microcontroller for smart speakers and smart home appliances and OpenBMC. As for foundry services, to improve the GaN on Si technology yield rate and reliability.

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About Nuvoton

Nuvoton Technology Corporation (NTC) was founded to bring innovative semiconductor solutions to the market. NTC was spun-off as a Winbond Electronics affiliate in July 2008 and became public in September 2010 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). Nuvoton Technology focuses on development of analog/mixed signal, microcontroller, cloud and computing products and has strong market share in Industrial, Consumer and Computer markets. Nuvoton owns a wafer fab, featuring customized processes for analog, power and MCU products. Besides in-house IC products, the wafer fab also provides part of its capacity for foundry services. Nuvoton Technology provides products with a high performance/cost ratio for its customers by leveraging flexible technology, advanced design capability and integration of digital and analog technologies. Nuvoton values long term relationships with its partners and customers and is dedicated to continuous innovation of its products, processes and services. The company has established subsidiaries in the USA, China, Israel and India to strengthen regional customer support and global management. For more information, please visit http://www.nuvoton.com

Spokesperson:
Hsiang-Yun Fan
Email: HYFan@nuvoton.com

Tel: +886-3-5770066 ext. 33118

News Contact:
Peggy Lee
Email: PCLee@nuvoton.com

Tel: +886-3-5770066 ext.32017