Unlike fellow flash device controller suppliers Phison Electronics and Solid State System (3S) which experienced on-month sales drops, Skymedi has announced a 3.4% growth in November 2010 revenues from the previous month.
Market sources speculate that Skymedi has substantially grown shipments of controller chips for handset-use microSD cards to Samsung Electronics since October. Rising orders from Samsung allowed Skymedi's monthly revenues to bounce back to the NT$300 million (US$9.98 million) mark, the sources said.
Skymedi collected NT$339 million in November revenues. For the first 11 months of 2010, the company's revenues rose 40.7% from a year earlier to total NT$2.25 billion.
Skymedi was quoted as saying in previous reports the company has partnered with NAND flash vendors to co-develop managed-NAND solutions based on the eMMC specification for handsets and outdoor navigators. The segment could be a next growth driver for Skymedi, the company added.
JMicron Technology, which began trading on Taiwan's Emerging Stock Board on October 28, saw its revenues increase 7.5% to NT$116 million in November. JMicron is focused on controller chips for USB 3.0 storage devices and solid-state drives (SSD).