CPS Technologies Corporation Announces First Quarter 2008 Results.NORTON, Mass. -- CPS (1) (Characters Per Second) The measurement of the speed of a serial printer or the speed of a data transfer between hardware devices or over a communications channel. CPS is equivalent to bytes per second. Technologies Corporation (CPS) (OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. : CPSH CPSH Center for Psychological and Spiritual Health ) today announced revenue of $3.5 million and net income of $423 thousand, or $0.03 per basic and diluted common share, for the fiscal quarter ended March 29, 2008. Revenues increased 12% and net income increased 24% compared to Q1 2007 revenue of $3.1 million and net income of $340 thousand, or $0.03 per basic and diluted common share. Demand in all major product lines except baseplates used in cellular telephone basestations was up in Q1 2008 and customer-provided forecasts as of today suggest continued strong demand throughout 2008 although there is no guarantee this will be the case. Shipments of flip chip A chip packaging technique in which the active area of the chip is "flipped over" facing downward. Instead of facing up and bonded to the package leads with wires from the outside edges of the chip, any surface area of the flip chip can be used for interconnection, which is typically done heat spreaders used in routers and switches, a product line in the early stages of its product life cycle, increased in Q1 2008. Shipments of baseplates used in motor controllers for traction applications (trains, subway cars) also increased in Q1 2008. Demand for hermetic hermetic /her·met·ic/ (her-met´ik) impervious to air. her·met·ic or her·met·i·cal adj. Completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air. metal packages, including packages incorporating AlSiC components, was strong and growing throughout Q1 2008. The Company continued to ship prototype and initial production AlSiC baseplates for motor controllers to several hybrid vehicle For other types of "Hybrid Transportation", see . A hybrid vehicle (HV) is a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to propel the vehicle such as: CPS continued to achieve design wins in Q1 2008 in our main product families, namely flip-chip lids and heat spreaders for application-specific integrated circuits (hardware) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit - (ASIC) An integrated circuit designed to perform a particular function by defining the interconnection of a set of basic circuit building blocks drawn from a library provided by the circuit manufacturer. , microprocessors and SIPs ("system in package" boards), baseplates for motor controllers for traction and hybrid vehicle applications, and hermetic metal packages. We also continued to provide prototype components for armor applications to system integrators. AlSiC is increasingly viewed as the material of choice for high-performance, high-reliability applications in these markets. Regarding net income, the increase of 24% in net income in Q1 2008 compared to Q1 2007, and the increase in gross margins to 31% in Q1 2008 from 28% in Q1 2007 were due primarily to improved direct labor utilization and fixed costs fixed costs, n.pl the costs that do not change to meet fluctuations in enrollment or in use of services (e.g., salaries, rent, business license fees, and depreciation). being spread over a larger base. Management believes the employment base and cost structure currently in place are appropriate for near and intermediate term demand. CPS serves a portfolio of end markets with advanced material solutions, the most significant solution being metal matrix composites Metal matrix composite A material in which a continuous metallic phase (the matrix) is combined with another phase (the reinforcement) that constitutes a few percent to around 50% of the material's total volume. (MMCs). CPS has a proprietary, leading position in MMCs today, primarily providing electronics OEMs with thermal management components to increase performance and reliability. Management believes that, like plastics many years ago, MMCs will penetrate many different end markets over many years. This release may contain forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in such statements. [TABLE OMITTED] |
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