In a 31st FA meeting, MediaTek co-CEO Tsai said benefiting from the expansion of the company's new smartphone chip shipments, the internal initial estimate of revenue for the 4th quarter of 2017 will be between NT $59.2 billion to $64.3 billion (based on the US dollar against NT 1:30.3), which is about 7% from the 3rd quarter to an increase of about 1% in the quarter , the quarterly gross margin target is estimated to be flat or slightly increased by 36.4%. Looking forward to the 4th quarter, although the growth product line slightly by the traditional seasonal factor influence, causes the customer demand to be somewhat weaker, but in the thing networking (IoT) related products 2017 shipments expected to increase the contribution of 30% In line with the company's 4th quarter contains smartphones and tablets, such as mobile devices chip product lines can still maintain 110 million to 120 million sets of high-end standards, so even if the mature products have entered the off-season, but the company's 4th quarter operating performance still has a off-season flavor. And looking ahead to 2018 's new product planning, MediaTek will announce 2 new Helio P series smartphone chip solutions in the 1th quarter of 2018, in a breath to support artificial intelligence (AI), AR/VR and 3D sensing and other latest technologies, actively attack global smartphone chip market share, As for the 2017, the rapid performance of the modem chip product line will also continue to upgrade the specifications, may be straight to cat. 16 highest level to compete with competitors. and 5G technology-related software, chip research and development work also continued to accelerate the ongoing, the company has been and the mainland, Japan, the United States and Europe telecom operators began to test the preparation of the operation. In addition, actively engaged in the development of automotive electronic product line, MediaTek will continue to expand the vehicle communication system, millimeter wave, radar and other multiple chip service content and platform, hoping to meet customer design needs. MediaTek's 3rd-quarter revenue was $63.651 billion, 9.6% in Quarterly, 36.4% in quarterly gross margin, and 1.4% in the quarter, in line with market expectations and the company's financial targets, with the 3rd quarter operating interest of 4.959 billion yuan, a quarterly net profit of about 5.061 billion yuan, and a surplus of about 3.26 yuan per share. Tsai points out that the seasonal demand for growth and mature product lines in the 3rd quarter is significantly higher than that of mobile computing platforms, statistics 3rd season mobile computing platform with smartphone and flat the product line accounts for the company's revenue share as crops, and includes the network of things, power management, vehicle, customer-made chips and other growth-oriented product lines, Accounted for the 3rd quarter of the company's performance has nearly 30%, including the Internet related to more than half of the chip. The cumulative MediaTek 2017 years ago 3 quarterly revenue of 177.8 billion yuan, gross margin of about 35%, operating net profit of 8.529 billion yuan, after taxes of 14.17 billion yuan, a surplus of 9.06 yuan per share.
