Taiwan-based distributors of semiconductor supplies have posted income will increase within the first quarter of 2019, primarily pushed by ramp-up in demand for high-end chips for 5G, AI and automotive electronics functions, based on business sources.
Topco Scientific noticed its March revenues surge 37% on month and 18.54% on 12 months to NT$2.6 billion (US$84.27 million), and its first-quarter 2019 revenues rose 10.25% from a 12 months earlier to US$7.1 billion, a brand new excessive for a similar quarter.
Industry sources attributed the agency’s better-than-expected income efficiency for the primary quarter, historically a off-season, primarily to cargo will increase in photoresists, silicon wafers, wafer cassettes, and slurries wanted to help superior fabrication processes.
Shipments of semiconductor supplies contribute some 80% of Topco Scientific’s revenues, with the remaining 20% contributed by the agency’s environmental engineering options more and more wanted in each Taiwan and China.
Meanwhile, IC supplies distribution agent Wah Lee Industrial posted revenues of NT$4.44 billion for March, up 4.5% on 12 months, and its first-quarter revenues additionally rose 3.7% on 12 months to NT$12.06 billion.
Wah Lee now focuses its deployments in high-frequency and high-speed PCB substrates and semiconductor supplies for superior foundry course of, 5G, biomedical, electrical automobile and power storage functions,
The firm is teaming up its OEM shoppers to faucet into China’s auto market with thermoset and high-performance engineering plastics supplies for electrical parts. Also, it has maintained shut partnerships with many first-tier worldwide suppliers of auto parts, together with Germany’s Bosch, France’s Valeo and Japan’s Asmo.
