Lattice Semiconductors 3Q07 Update
Lattice Semiconductors had revenues of $58.3 million, down by 2% q-o-q. The communication chip product line however saw an increase in revenues by 2% to $31.5 million. According to Lattice, China and Japan saw an upward trend during 3Q07. Wireless infrastructure equipment and set top boxes manufacturers saw growth. However, there was some weakness from the wireline side.
By product family the FPGA revenues were around 23% while PLD contributed the rest of 77%. During the quarter around 14% ($8.2 million) of the revenues was generated by new products launched. Mainstream product revenues constituted 53% while another 33% came from mature products. New product revenues continue to grow and this quarter it was up by 28%.
Geographically Asia was the major contributor of revenues with around 59% of the revenues coming from this region. Americas contributed around 21% and the rest 20% came from the EMEA. Of these revenues 66% came directly while distributors got in the rest 34%.
During the quarter the company announced a few products. Lattice released all members of the 90 nanometer LatticeECP2M family and XAUI to SPI4.2 intellectual property besides releasing the Version 7.0 Service Pack 1 for ispLEVER FPGA design tools.
Lattice also announced membership in the HyperTransport Consortium and collaboration with Silicon Laboratories to provide SONET/SDH standard-compliant solutions.
