Silicon Motion News

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation , a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets semiconductor solutions for multimedia consumer electronics, today announced that James Yun, ...

Still have a phone that only makes phone calls? That's so 20th century; these days, the relic of a standard cell phone has been surpassed by devices that can do everything from record video to surf the Web to ...

Silicon Motion saw sales increase 35% year-over-year to a new a record for the first quarter.

US : Silicon Motion Technology announced that its FC2750 DVB-H mobile TV tuner has been selected by Samsung for its recently launched SGH-P960 mobile phone, which will be available in many European markets.

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation today announced that its FC2750 DVB-H mobile TV tuner has been selected by Samsung for its recently launched SGH-P960 mobile phone, which will be available in many ...

Josephine Lien, Taipei; Esther Lam, DIGITIMES [Friday 23 May 2008] Controller IC designers including InComm, Phison Electronics and Silicon Motion, are being identified as the three candidates that are likely ...

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation , a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets high-performance, low-power semiconductor solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics ... via PrimeNewswire

Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. , Super Micro Computer, Inc. and Silicon Motion Technology Corp. via All Stories

First Quarter 2008 ------------------ Financial Highlights: * Net sales increased 35% year-over-year to US$52.2 million, setting a new first quarter record * Gross margin excluding stock-based compensation ... via PrimeNewswire

“Our board of directors believes a repurchase program is currently the best use of cash at this time in terms of creating shareholder value”

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation , a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets high-performance, low-power semiconductor solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics ... via PrimeNewswire

Shares of Silicon Motion Technology Corp., a Taiwanese designer of microchip components, jumped Friday after it said its fourth-quarter profits rose 15.5 percent on strong storage and communications chip sales. via Canadian Business Magazine

“I am also delighted to note that our fourth quarter gross margin of 53% was our tenth consecutive quarter of 52% or higher -- despite the continued volatility of NAND flash prices.”

Fourth Quarter 2007 Financial Highlights: * Net sales increased 48% year-over-year to US$53.4 million, reaching a new record high and exceeding guidance * Gross margin excluding stock-based compensation ... via PrimeNewswire

The solid state drive market will grow faster than expected in 2008, with the SATA interface promising to become the mainstream for notebook-use SSDs in the future, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO ... via Neowin.net

“Despite fears that U.S. macro economic issues may affect consumer spending, current indications suggest that handsets and other electronic devices that use our products continue to sell well”

The next time you buy a gadget built around flash memory, like an Apple iPod or a digital camera from Sony , you should send an investor-minded brain wave to the memory controller industry. via Fool.com

Shares of Silicon Motion Technology Corp. are advancing this morning after the fabless semiconductor company reported third-quarter results above the Street's estimates. via All Stories

Esther Lam, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Thursday 1 November 2007] After seeing record-high profits in the third quarter of 2007 on a solid gross margin, Silicon Motion said it observes a better business environment ... via DigiTimes

“Management guided conservatively last time due to tight NAND supply which appears to have loosened now.”

Tonight, there's a quarterly update from globetrotting semiconductor designer Silicon Motion . via Fool.com

“And we expect substantial Nand unit growth in 2008 and beyond.”

It's basic economics. When demand is high and supply is short, prices will rise. That's what happened in the recent spot market for Nand-flash prices.

Fears of a shortage of the key memory technology drove up prices this summer. This led some of the leading flash memory card makers to hoard Nand parts, said analyst Betsy Van Hees of Cowen & Co.

In August, prices reached $9.50 per eight gigabytes of Nand flash, affecting those who buy flash on the spot market. Some of these consumers make photo-storage cards for digital cameras. Read more