It is understood that the new power plant will not be put into memory production, but the main logic and analog IC foundry, and strive to include power management IC or CMOS image sensor and other orders.
Powerchip used to be Taiwan's largest memory DRAM factory. In the past, it had made large profits and lost money. In 2012, due to the collapse of DRAM prices, net value per share turned negative. At the end of the year, the stock price was 0.29 yuan per share. The company reopened the next cabinet. Adjustment of operations, transformation into foundries, in addition to foundry DRAM for Kingston and Crystal Hao Ke, also invested in LCD driver ICs, power management ICs, CMOS image sensors and other wafer foundry business.
Since PGI's operation turned profitable in 2013, it has been profitable for 5 consecutive years. The company's consolidated revenue last year reached 46.305 billion yuan, up 10.7% from the previous year, and the average gross profit rate increased by 3.5 percentage points year-on-year to 31.7%. Afterwards, the net profit was 8.080 billion yuan, which was approximately 23.0% higher than the previous year. The net profit per share was 3.54 yuan. At the end of last year, the net value per share reached 15.29 yuan.
After Li Jing resumed dividend distribution last year, the board of directors had recently decided to allocate 1.7 yuan per ordinary share this year, including 1.2 yuan in cash dividends and 0.5 yuan in stock dividends.
Since the transformation of Powerchip into a wafer foundry, it has not only paid close to 100 billion yuan in debt over the past five years, but also made profits of nearly 10 billion yuan each year. Since the company’s current capacity is in short supply, it intends to invest in the construction of a copper bonsai park in the Hsinchu Science Park. The new 12-inch wafer fab, which will be the first major semiconductor manufacturing plant in the park.
According to the Hsinchu Science Park Management Bureau, PSC has sent personnel to investigate the Tongyu Park and also proposed land use requirements. However, there are problems with the filtration system for sewage discharge, which is due to the high standards of conductivity required by the manufacturers to discharge sewage into the sewage treatment plant in the area. The industry has reflected the high cost of equipment that needs to be spent. At present, it is estimated that the wastewater treatment plant in the park will be equipped with a filtration system such as electrodialysis. It is expected that the results will be available in October.