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2% Decrease of Q, Inotera Expects to See Increasing Portion of DDR4

By Korbin Lan
Published: Apr 22,2014

TAOYUAN, Taiwan – Inotera Memories, Inc. today announced audited results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2014, which ended on March 31,2014. For the first quarter, the company reported sales revenues of NTD 20,224 million and record net income of NTD 11,246 million, or earnings per share of NTD 1.85 based on weighted average outstanding shares of 6,079 million.

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Gross margin for the quarter was 54%, operating margin was 53%, and net margin was 56%. The company's book value per share as of March 31, 2014 was NTD 10.02.

The 2% quarter-on-quarter decrease in the company’s sales revenues was mainly due to a 3% decline in average sales revenue per wafer. Wafer shipments were flat sequentially in the first quarter of 2014, and bit shipments increased by 5% quarter-on-quarter.

In response to the strong enterprise-demand from customer, Inotera is continuously focusing on the production of DRAM-products for use in server and networking applications, and expects to see an increasing portion of DDR4 DRAM output for high-end products.

Total capital expenditures for year 2014 are expected to be NTD 22 billion, an increase from the previous guidance of NTD 15 billion, mainly for accelerating its conversion to 20nm-technology.

Inotera expects to commence pilot runs of 20nm-technology at the end of the second quarter, on schedule, and launch initial volume production in the end of 2014.The company expects to introduce high-efficiency mainstream DRAM products using this technology.

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