Taiwan-based chip packager Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) collected NT$5.22 billion (US$169 million) in consolidated revenues in September 2010, down 6.4% from August, according to the company. Consolidated sales for the third quarter of 2010 slid 0.5% sequentially to NT$16.3 billion, coming below market watchers' estimates of 0-5% growth.
SPIL's consolidated revenues for September also showed a 16.4% decrease compared to a year earlier, and results for the third quarter declined 6.7% on year.
SPIL chairman Bough Lin, during the company's quarterly investors conference at the end of July, remarked that the company would likely generate on-month revenue growth through October.
SPIL's next investors conference is scheduled for October 27.