TSMC's earnings report released yesterday showed that the company slipped margin slightly in the fourth quarter of last year due to the offset of some revenue growth due to the stronger exchange rate of NTD.

ASML, the world's leading semiconductor equipment supplier, announced the fourth quarter of 2017 results on the 17th. According to the earnings report, revenue for the fourth quarter of 2017 increased 4.7% from the third quarter to an amount of 2.561 billion Euros with a gross profit margin of 45.2%, up 2.3% from 42.9% in the third quarter. After-tax net profit increased 15.6% to 644 million euros.

Memory module maker Wei yesterday (8) announced last December consolidated revenue of 2.552 billion yuan (NT, the same below), a decrease of 13.3%, an increase of 12.65%, the fourth quarter consolidated revenue of 8.228 billion yuan quarter, quarter Up by 0.84%, the year-on-year single-season high. The cumulative total revenue for the full year last year was 32.225 billion yuan, up 38.8% year-on-year and reaching a new high in 4 years.

According to the latest statistics of Tuo Industrial Research Institute, the world's top ten IC design industry in the second quarter of 2017 revenue and ranking baked, in addition to MediaTek (MediaTek) and Marvell (Marvell) revenue decline, the remaining eight industry are presented Growth trend, Broadcom, Qualcomm and NVIDIA ranked third in revenue.