by Anton Shilov
10/01/2003 | 01:05 PM
VIA Technologies today announced its sales results for September 2003. Thanks to strong product roadmap as well as competitive pricing and performance of existing family of chipsets, the company manages to perform better and better every month. VIA nearly broke the chain this September by announcing almost flat sales results compared to September 2002, the first time in about two years when the company did not post another annual slump in sales.
<%BANNER[article]%>The company said its revenues on a sequential basis rose 14.4% from August to $60.8 million. VIA's third quarter revenue totalled 163.02 million approximately, representing a 36.2% increase over the second quarter’s revenue of roughly $119.7 million. VIA’s sales in September were only 2.76% lower than in the same month last year; virtually, the company’s revenues are now flat with the same period last year; I would expect them to be up compared to last years’ respective figures in October or November, as soon as VIA starts to sell its dual-channel PT800 chipset for Intel Pentium 4 and Prescott processors. There are three months till the end of the year and since year-to-date revenue of the Taipei, Taiwan-based firm is at the moment 17.7% down from the previous year’s point, VIA’s revenue in 2003 will hardly be flat or higher than its sales in 2002.
It is clear that the legal settlement with Intel and the signs of PC industry rebound are two main driving forces of VIA’s success this year. Because its brand is still recognized among system builders and end-users, the company may regain its market positions in future, all VIA needs to do is to keep up the good work.