Winbond Electronics and Macronix International have reported sequential decreases in January revenues of 2.2% and 1.1%, respectively.
Winbond, which makes niche-market DRAM and flash memory chips, announced consolidated revenues for January 2018 arrived at NT$4.15 billion (US$141.5 million), up 21.2% on year but down 2.2% sequentially.
Winbond's consolidated revenues include sales generated by logic IC subsidiary Nuvoton Technology, which reported revenues for January 2018 grew 7.5% sequentially and 9.5% on year to NT$792.37 million.
Mask ROM and flash chipmaker Macronix reported January consolidated revenues of NT$3.09 billion, up 41.5% from the same period in 2017, but down 1.1% on month.
Winbond saw its net profits hit a 17-year high of NT$5.55 billion in 2017, with EPS reaching NT$1.54 compared with NT$0.81 in 2016, while consolidated revenues increased 13% on year to NT$47.59 billion. Subsidiary Nuvoton posted record revenues of NT$9.24 billion for 2017 with net profits climbing to a seven-year high of NT$688 million.
Macronix swung to net profits of NT$5.52 billion in 2017 from losses of NT$243 million in 2016. EPS for 2017 arrived at NT$3.12.
