Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/10/28
By: Jackson Chang and Frances Huang

Taipei, Oct. 28 (CNA) MediaTek Inc. (聯發科), Taiwan’s leading integrated circuit designer, said Friday that its net profit for the third quarter of this year rose more than 18 percent from a quarter earlier on the back of strong demand for smartphones.

The third quarter is traditionally the peak season for the global semiconductor industry, which tends to report a better bottom line in that period.

MediaTek, whose smartphone chips account for about 60 percent of the company’s total revenue, benefited from growing demand in the smartphone market in China, boosting its net profit by 18.8 percent from the previous quarter to NT$7.83 billion (US$248 million) for the July-September period.    [FULL  STORY]