14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like the rebound in laptop shipments really did wonders for the financial situations of many companies, such as Compal, whose own performance, last month, was over 50% better than the one in February.
History will not soon forget the issue that led to pretty much every current-generation Intel-based motherboard and laptop being recalled form the market.
During the first quarter of the ongoing year, 2011, Intel discovered that its 6-series Cougar Point chipset had a severe design flaw.
Said flaw caused SATA 3.0 Gbps ports to degrade and demanded that all product sales be halted until a fixed revision, B3, came out.
Since then, the issue has been resolved, but February still went by, as did early March, without any Sandy Bridge sales.
This, along with the fact that the second month of the year has fewer working days than is normal, led to much financial decline.
March was filled with reports of severe revenue and sales drops for the month prior, but it looks like April is going to be the opposite.
With the supply chain restored, more or less, in March, sales for that month jumped back up, as both companies and users were eager to make up for lost time.
As such, Compal had a very lucrative month, attaining revenues of NT$66.42 billion, which is the equivalent of US$2.29 billion.
While 12.3% lower on-year, the sum is 52.4% higher sequentially and contributed to a total revenue figure of NT$162.86 billion for the whole quarter (24.8% lower year-over-year).
Compal shipped 4.3 million notebooks last month (59.3% over the 2.7 million in February) and 10.4 million for the whole three-month period.
All in all, the month was much better compared to February, but sales did not exceed those of the same period of last year and were definitely not strong enough to enable any sort of year-on-year rise.