Two Taiwanese business firm that make touchscreen control board for Apple have reported sharp first - quarter revenue gains , which analysts tell came from soaring demand for iPhones and iPads .
Formosan business firm supplying components for Apple ’s mathematical product will continue to see strong revenue growing this year , these psychoanalyst say .
Wintek ’s revenue shot up 181 percentage to NT$21 billion ( US$ 717 million at the exchange rate on the last day of the quarter ) compared to the same period of 2010 . The fellowship made a final lucre of NT$1.36 billion , up from a expiration in the first fourth of last year . The fellowship said on Thursday that its revenue was up on improved demand for iPhones and iPads .
Last year 60 percent of the flat - gore maker ’s patronage came from Apple , which should reach 70 percent this twelvemonth , a company functionary said .
Fellow Taiwanese panel God Almighty TPK Holding said its quarterly revenue had risen 398 percent class - on - year to NT$25.3 billion , with net profits of NT$2.5 billion up 658 per centum . TPK would not say how much of its business is from Apple , but analysts said it amount to around one-half .
“ Of course Apple is the main reason ( for tax revenue gains ) , to be precise the touch panel module , ” say Ian Peng , an analyst with DigiTimes Research in Taipei . “ TPK is desegregate with Apple ’s product . ”
Sales of the iPhone 4 and the first iPad drove most of the quarter ’s demand , Peng enunciate , noting that the iPad 2 had little impact on net income of contribution suppliers because of shipment delays .
Apple shipped 18.65 million iPhones in the first quarter , up 113 percent from the same period a year in the beginning . It also moved 4.69 million iPads , which get sell in April 2010 , over the quartern .
Apple will ship 39.7 million iPads this year , market research firm IHS iSuppli forecast .
Taiwanese firms such as Compeq Manufacturing , Dynapack , GCE , and Simplo Technology also make parts for Apple mathematical product , analysts in Taipei suppose . The island ’s Foxconn Electronics does concluding assembly of the products .
Parts suppliers will retain to see firm revenues as Apple rolls out young high - close product every twelvemonth , David Wolf , CEO of Wolf Group Asia in Beijing , said .
