This week has been rich in the financial statements. After Apple , HTC , LG and Samsung its financial report for the first quarter of 2015 published MediaTek company , which develops semiconductor products.
MediaTek revenue in the first quarter 2015 was $ 1.55 billion, up 14.3% compared with the previous quarter and by 3.3% compared to the same period last year. The company expects the second quarter this year, shipments of smart phones based solutions MediaTek will be from 85 to 90 million units against 80-85 million in the first quarter. The company maintains its forecast for 2015, planning to deliver on its results, together with our partners on the market, a total of 450 million smartphones with its processors, 150 million of which will be endowed with the support of 4G LTE.
People still want to buy smart phones, particularly in emerging markets. For example, in China, people now want to change 3G-model to smartphones that support 4G. In the second half of 2015, we want to be able to ship 275 million chips for smart phones," - said Chief Financial Officer David Ku MediaTek (David Ku) during the press conference on financial statements.
He added that global brands such as LG Electronics, which are already clients of the company, will use eight-MediaTek chips in their devices in the second half of this year.