Visible symptoms of stabilizing consumer semiconductor IC market

The hard-hit consumer semiconductor is looks to be stabilizing with not much further fall in revenues. Taiwanese consumer semiconductor chip manufacturers Sunplus and Sonix Technology both have reported growth in revenues in the month of February 09.

Sunplus Technology posted net sales of NT$259 million (approx. US$ 7.4 million) for February 2009, a 22.2% growth in comparison to January 2009 sales of NT$212 million (approx. US$ 6.07 million). Sunplus supplies Digital TV, DVD, Set-Top-Box (STB), Digital Photo Frame (DPF) ICs for consumer electronics market

Sonix Technology announced net sales of NT$ 199 million (approx. US$5.7 million) for February 2009, representing an increase of 59.8 % compared with January 2009 net sales of NT$125 million (approx. US$3.6 million). Sonix makes microcontrollers, voice controllers, video image ICs and USB controllers for consumer electronics market.

Both these companies supply audio and multimedia semiconductor devices mainly to OEMs in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

This is at least something to cheer up the semiconductor market, that too for consumer electronics market.

The Q1 2009 financial results will indicate better the status of the industry. Just another one month to go to feel the semiconductor industry pulse better.