Memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics saw revenues drop in February 2011 compared to the prior month and the same period last year.
Winbond has announced that revenues for February slid 15.7% sequentially to NT$2.19 billion (US$75 million). The figure also represented a decrease of 0.8% on year, and hit the lowest monthly level since November 2009.
Revenues for the first two months of 2011 totaled NT$4.78 billion, down 4.8% from a year earlier.
Winbond manufactures niche-market DRAM products and NOR flash chips. The company was quoted as saying in previous reports that it remains focused on stable partnerships with first-tier clients through upgrading its production processes and improving its product mix.
Winbond is set to transition its NOR production process to 58nm from 90nm in the third quarter of 2011, and plans to migrate to 46nm process technology for its specialty DRAM products in the second half of 2011. As for mobile RAM, capacity will be converted to 65nm process by the end of the year.
Including sales generated by logic IC subsidiary Nuvoton Technology, Winbond reported NT$2.72 billion in consolidated revenues for February 2011, down 14% on month and 2.9% on year.