Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/07
By: Jackson Chang and Frances Huang

Taipei, July 7 (CNA) MediaTek Inc. (聯發科), one of Taiwan’s leading integrated circuit designers, said Thursday that its sales for June hit a new high, marking the third consecutive month its revenue has smashed records.

MediaTek, which specializes in smartphone chip design, benefited from strong demand for smartphones in China and other emerging markets, to witness its sales move higher month by month in the second quarter of this year, market analysts said.

Smartphone chips account for about 60 percent of MediaTek’s total sales and global demand for smartphones is able to dictate the IC designer’s performance.     [FULL  STORY]