Marvell下调Q4销售目标

　　【OFweek电子工程网翻译 Laven】芯片制造商Marvell Technology Group周五（27日）下调了截至于1月28日的2011财年第四季度销售目标。Marvell表示，由于去年泰国洪灾造成硬盘驱动器短缺，因此公司营收将低于预期。

　　预计2011财年第四季度销售额将在7.35亿美元到7.45亿美元之间，低于之前7.75亿美元到8.25亿美元的目标。

　　2011年下半年，泰国洪水迫使大量电子制造厂关闭，并导致硬盘驱动器供应短缺。12月，市场研究公司IHS iSuppli将2012年PC市场增长预测从9.5%下调至6.8%。

　　Marvell主席兼首席执行官Sehat Sutardja表示：“硬盘驱动器的供应从第四季度开始恢复，但仍然比我们预期的要晚。Marvell固态硬盘营业收入的增长超过了预期，但仍不足以抵消泰国洪水对硬盘驱动器业务的冲击。”

　　Sutardja继续表示，年底来自移动和无线客户的需求疲软，中国市场尤为显著。不过相信这些都是短期的，不会影响公司在新财年的业绩。

　　Marvell计划于2月23日公布第四季度财报。

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Marvell cuts quarterly sales target

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4235394/Marvell-cuts-quarterly-sales-target-

Chip maker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Friday (Jan. 27) cut its sales target for the quarter ending Jan. 28, saying revenue would be lower than expected because of disk drive shortages created by last year''s flooding in Thailand.

Marvell (Santa Clara, Calif.) said it now expects sales for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2012 to be between $735 million and $745 million, down from a prior target range of $775 million to $825 million.

Rampant flooding in the second half of 2011 forced the closure of a number of electronics manufacturing facilities and created a shortage of hard disk drives. In December, market research firm IHS iSuppli cut its PC market forecast for 2012 to growth of 6.8 percent from 9.5 percent, citing hard disk drive shortages created by the Thai floods.

The supply of disk drives started to recover in our fourth fiscal quarter, but later than we had originally anticipated," said Sehat Sutardja, Marvell''s chairman and CEO, in a statement issued Friday. "Our SSD revenues grew more than expected but not enough to offset the impact of the Thailand floods on our HDD volumes."

Sutardja said Marvell also experienced year-end demand softness from mobile and wirelesscustomers, particularly in China. "We believe these effects are near term only, and should not impact our results in the new fiscal year," Sutardja said.

Marvell plans to issue its fiscal fourth quarter results Feb. 23.