LCD driver IC vendor Sitronix Technology has begun shipping touch panel and power management (PWM) ICs in small volumes, and is expecting shipments of these two categories of IC parts to increase substantially in the second half of 2010 and gain momentum in 2011, according to company chairman Vincent Mao.
For PWM ICs, the company will focus on niche applications initially, Mao indicated.
Already a supplier of large-size LCD driver ICs to Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Sitronix also plans to push sales of the large IC parts to the industrial display sector, said Mao, who also expects sales of large-size driver ICs to account for 12-13% of the company's total revenues in 2010.
With regards to small-size LCD driver ICs, Sitronix's products have entered the supply chain of Samsung Electronics, with the penetration rate likely to further expand in the second half of 2010, Mao noted. Shipments of small-size LCD driver ICs top 100 million unit a month currently, according to the company.
Sitronix posted revenues of NT$480.06 million (US$14.81 million) for May, up 1.7% sequentially and 14.3% on year. For the first five months of 2010, revenues totaled NT$2.26 billion, increasing 29.5% from a year earlier.
Sitronix chairman Vincent Mao
Photo: Olivia Hu, Digitimes, June 2010
Article translated by Steve Shen
