14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that not all companies on the IT market ended up badly during February, as while makers of motherboards and notebooks did have sales problems, Rexchip and ProMOS actually got their respective revenues to rise last month.
Some end-users may have heard about how the month of February hasn't been proving to have been all that friendly to IT companies.
One reason for this is the fact that, as a whole, the first quarter of any year is slower than all the other three, since consumers are still 'recovering' after the winter holiday shopping season.
The other main factor is the simple fact that, being the shortest of all months in a year, February has fewer working days.
Coupled with the troubles caused by the flawed Intel 6-Series Cougar Point chipset, this made mainboard makers lose a lot of money.
However, ProMOS and Rexchip are two obvious exceptions to the phenomenon of declining finances, although, true enough, motherboards and notebooks is not what they deal in, so they were spared the Cougar Point fallout.
Elpida subsidiary Rexchip, for one, generated revenues of NT$3.37 billion in February, a figure that is 56.8% higher than the one in January, although 15.1% lower than in February 2010.
Moving forward, the company aims to move on to 30nm-class manufacturing technologies (by the end of the year), for which it will allocate NT$3.6 billion.
Meanwhile, ProMOS saw a 4.4% revenue increase in February, to NT$1.32 billion, which is the equivalent of US$45 million.
This left it with combined revenues of NT$2.58 billion for the first two months of the year, a sum that is 4.8% higher on-year.
Now, the outfit has decided to start focusing more on its foundry services and is looking to acquire enough capital for purchasing new equipment for process transition. As such, it has shifted its focus away from PC DRAM.