In 2017, ASE Group recorded a combined revenue of 290.441 billion NTD, a year-on-year increase of 6%, with a gross margin of 18.2% and a YoY margin of 8.7%, down from 19.3% and 9.7% of the previous year. New Taiwan dollars, an increase of 6%, a record high, subject to the impact of capital expansion, earnings per share of NT $ 2.82, the same retroactive adjustment of previous years.
ASE pointed out that the NT dollar exchange rate appreciated by 5.6% in the past year, eroded NTD-based revenue growth momentum and gross profit margin performance .If the dollar-denominated, the group consolidated revenue last year increased by 12%, gross profit margin 19.7%, of which IC packaging and testing business Revenue increased 6% YoY and gross profit margin was 26.6% .Taiwan Qiangsheng has 1.5 and 2.3 percentage points impact on gross margin of IC and IC packaging and testing respectively.
As for the outlook for 2018, ASE said it will continue to pursue revenue growth and profitability growth and expects revenue to grow quarter by quarter from the second quarter onward. In the future, ASE will continue to pursue its revenue growth of system-in-package and conduct research on automotive, memory, High-speed computing and other new product development.
ASE also said it will partner with Cadence SiP-id to launch a system-in-package solution to address the complex design and verification challenges of advanced packaging, including system-in-package, fan-out and 2.5D packages.
Wu Tia-yu said 2017 is a challenging year, but revenue hit a record high last year, and the case of a joint-stock industrial holding with Silicon Group also won the fair from the United States. With the permission of the Ministry of Commerce, the progress will continue. , ASE will be committed to business development, science and technology innovation in two directions.