An increased productivity and proportion of higher value-added products, has accelerated SAS to raise the revenue and profit sequentially. May Sales of US$3.2million, growth of about 30% over May in 2001, again has broken all historical sales records. The cumulate revenue by May also increased from US$12.3 million to US$13.7 million over the same period last year.
 
Ever since 1998, SAS has oriented towards product diversification strategy to add more value by offering a wide-range of products to meet different customer’s requirements. In order to succeed in a highly competitive global environment, SAS has devoted to produce additional high value-added products, such as polished wafers, ultra-low resistivity arsenic doped wafers, heavily arsenic doped wafers, heavily antimony doped wafers, ultra-thin wafers, deep-diffused wafers and Low Temperature Oxidation. SAS emphasizes that we are providing full wafer solution to exceed our customer expectations. In addition, SAS China Plant operation had broken even in first quarter. In order to keep pace with customer’s increasing demands, China plant is planning to expand productivity in the end of this year.
 
By May accumulative revenue of US$13.7 million, which has exceeded the forecast about US$1.2 million, also already achieving 37.45% of the annual goal. At present, SAS has sent samples of the new developed products to local and overseas customers for verification. Upon customers’ approval, the process will be put in mass production. Thus SAS has confidence in creating more revenue and profit margin in the near future.