Winbond Electronics Corporation Announces Monthly Revenue Results for October 2003

(Taipei News)Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions, today announced revenue results for the month of October 2003. Revenue for the month was approximately NT $2.893 billion, a decrease of 0.9 percent when compared with NT $2.919 billion over the same period last year. Accumulated revenue for 2003, January to October, was NT $24.192 billion, a decrease of nearly 8.82 percent when compared with NT $26.534 billion over the same period last year.

DRAM market pricing softened in October, resulting in a slight drop in the Company's revenues. With respect to Winbond's memory business, the Company high-value niche DRAM solutions. In October, the Company's increased capacity for Pseudo SRAMs--mainly for cellular phones--enjoyed stronger market demand than originally forecasted. Specialty DRAMs continue to have a prosperous outlook for the next few months. The Company expects that its combined revenues for specialty DRAMs and Pseudo SRAM will outweigh that of commodity DRAM.

As demand for handset cameras continues to grow, Winbond's mobile camera modules shipments continue to increase rapidly. The Company was awarded several new design-ins from different customers and plans to continue its momentum in this market by developing a DSC chip featuring 1.3M pixels and MPEG 4. 

                                                       Winbond Electronics Corp. Monthly Business Revenue Report (Unit: NT$ 1,000)

Note: The 2003 revenue is internal data and has not been audited by a CPA.

 
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