 "Chipset maker MediaTek's profit up 51 percent in Q1")
Taipei, Taiwan: Asia’s largest chipset designer, MediaTek Inc., said its first quarter profit grew 51 percent from a year earlier, benefiting from China’s flourishing smartphone market.
The Taiwanese company said Monday its net profit reached 3.7 billion New Taiwan dollars ($125 million) in the January-March period on revenue of NT$24 billion.
MediaTek helped fuel the sales growth of China’s low-cost handsets by providing integrated, customised chipsets that significantly shorten the time and cost of marketing a new product.
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It has delivered more sophisticated chipsets over the past year to run entry-level smartphones produced in China.
MediaTek President Hsieh Ching-jiang said the company shipped 35 million chipsets that power low- and mid-cost smartphones in the first quarter, accounting for more than 40 percent of overall revenue.
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