Another profitable quarter for Hynix.Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's third-largest maker of computer memory chips, will probably earn its first consecutive quarterly profit on record because of a rebound in demand, analysts said. Fourth-quarter net income, to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. Thursday, will be $62 million, compared with a $779 million loss in the same period of 2002, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the median estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News. Operating profit Operating profit (or loss) Revenue from a firm's regular activities less costs and expenses and before income deductions. operating profit See operating income. will be $60 million from a year-earlier loss and sales will rise 48 percent to $940 million, according to the survey. Hynix has a 900-employee computer chip plant in Eugene, along with computer chip plants in South Korea. After piling up $9.6 billion in losses and being bailed out by creditors over a span of 3 1/2 years, Icheon-based Hynix is reaping the benefits of a recovery in the semiconductor industry. Demand and prices for dynamic random access memory Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. chips, or DRAM, are rising. Production shifts by rivals are also helping, some investors said. ``Hynix's finances have become more solid, and the company's been a big beneficiary of strong DRAM demand, especially since its competitors have shifted production toward other products such as flash chips,'' said Kang Shin Woo, chief investment officer at PCA (tool, programming) PCA - A dynamic analyser from DEC giving information on run-time performance and code use. Investment Trust Management Co. in Seoul. Flash chips retain data when the power is turned off and are used in products such as digital cameras and video game consoles This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. . ``Until a few years ago, most investors were pessimistic about (Hynix), but recently some investors and analysts have changed their views,'' Kang said. Reflecting optimism of an industry recovery, Hynix shares have jumped 55 percent this year, making it the second-best performer among Korea's 200 largest companies. |
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