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| UMC to double Capex, Stats reports strong results |
| Thursday, 04 February 2010 17:08 |
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UMC saw a small rise in revenue in Q4 on Q3 but a massive rise in revenues for Q409 on Q408. Stats has "significant improvement in profitability." "UMC shares the industry's positive outlook on growth for the foundry sector" said Shih-Wei Sun, CEO of UMC. The company intends to spend US$1.2-1.5bn on capex in 2010 - well over double the 2009 capex of US$500m. Part of the 2010 capex will go on introducing pilot production on 28nm at Fab12A in Tainan in the south of Taiwan. Europe only accounted for 8% of UMC's revenues in Q409. The US accounted for 51% of the revenues, Asia/Pac for 40% and Japan for 1%. 17% of the revenues came from 65nm processes and better, with 48% of the revenues generated a nodes between 65nm+ and 0.13micron. Fabless customers accounted for 80% of UMC's business and IDMs for 20%. John Lau, Chief Financial Officer of STATS ChipPAC said, "Capital spending increased in the fourth quarter of 2009 as we invested in additional capacity in wafer packaging and flip chip bumping ahead of anticipated ramp. We ended the fourth quarter of 2009 with record cash, cash equivalent and marketable securities." Read entire article, and see related links on ElectronicsWeekly.com and Semiconductor International. |
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