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DALLAS, Sept. 9, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InvestorSoup.com announces an investment report featuring Siliconware Precision Industries Co. Ltd. (Nasdaq:SPIL). The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and pertinent industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.
The investment report on Siliconware Precision Industries Co. Ltd. (Nasdaq:SPIL) should be of particular interest to companies in the semiconductor industry: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (NYSE:ASX), Amkor Technology Inc. (Nasdaq:AMKR), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) and United Micro Electronics Corp. (NYSE:UMC).
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Siliconware Precision Industries Co. Ltd. (Nasdaq:SPIL) is a provider of semiconductor assembly and test services. The Company offers a variety of solutions, including design consultations, modeling and simulations, wafer bumping, wafer probe and sort, package assembly, final test, burn-in and drop ship. SPIL's products include advanced lead-frame and substrate based packages, which are widely used in personal computers, communications, Internet appliances, cellular phones, digital cameras, cable modems, personal digital assistants and LCD monitors.
In the report, the analyst notes:
"The semiconductor industry was hard hit by the global economic downturn; however, the industry is now showing modest signs of recovery. The Semiconductor Industry Association reported that global chip sales for July 2009 were $18.2 billion, up 5.3% from June 2009. Also, while semiconductor sales for July 2009 fell 18.2% over the year, this drop was not as severe as the first half of 2009 when sales were down 25% over the year. ...SPIL's sales for July 2009 reached a nine-month high at NT$ 5.2 billion.
"On August 13, 2009, SPIL announced that it would invest as much as NT$ 2 billion in Taiwan Memory Co. (TMC), a memory chipmaker backed by the Taiwanese government. SPIL hopes that its investment will enable to gain a substantial share of Taiwan's dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, and give SPIL a competitive advantage when providing testing and packaging services for TMC or other companies."
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