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ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - ELMOS Semiconductor AG

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GROUP STATUS <strong>REPORT</strong> FINANCIAL STATEMENTS GROUP STRUCTURE GLOSSARY<br />

Business and economic framework<br />

Future of automotive electronics<br />

ÿ Profit, financial and assets situation<br />

Supplementary report<br />

Risk report<br />

Outlook report<br />

Segmental reporting for<br />

assembly to be<br />

discontinued in 2005<br />

Micromechanics<br />

The segment micromechanics comprises the activities of the subsidiary company<br />

SMI. Sales of SMI are achieved in US-Dollar exclusively. After sales of 10.9 million US-<br />

Dollar in 2003, SMI increased its sales to 12.0 million US-Dollar in <strong>2004</strong>, but clearly<br />

fell below the targeted sales of 14 million US-Dollar. Third-party sales of the segment<br />

micromechanics lost 2.7 percent in Euro, due to exchange rates, and amounted to<br />

roughly six percent of Group sales.<br />

Despite this slight growth in sales, SMI improved its profitability. After a net loss in<br />

2003, the net result reached a positive amount in <strong>2004</strong>, even though price reductions<br />

towards the previous owner MSI were to be compensated for. This improvement is<br />

above all attributable to the advanced conversion of the manufacture to 150mm wa-<br />

fers. By the end of the year <strong>2004</strong> 70 percent of the products were manufactured on<br />

150mm wafers, by the beginning of the year only ten percent were.<br />

Manufacture and technology related delays in starting new products cause the lesser<br />

growth of the segment micromechanics. The operating income came to 0.8 million<br />

Euro, corresponding with a margin of 8.6 percent as compared with 3.1 percent in<br />

2003.<br />

Assembly<br />

The segment assembly contains the business activities of <strong>ELMOS</strong> Advanced Packa-<br />

ging. Because of reduced activity in the external marketing of products, external<br />

sales decreased in <strong>2004</strong> in relation to 2003. In <strong>2004</strong> third-party sales came to 3.5<br />

million Euro. <strong>ELMOS</strong> Advanced Packaging assembled roughly 57 percent of all packa-<br />

ges for <strong>ELMOS</strong> in <strong>2004</strong>. There are plans for a continuing increase of the Group internal<br />

services for <strong>ELMOS</strong>. In <strong>2004</strong> the margins of the assembly segment improved signifi-<br />

cantly in comparison with the previous year due to internal measures for efficiency<br />

increase and also to raised prices demanded from the external customers. Because<br />

of the relatively decreased third-party sales it is intended to discontinue segmental<br />

reporting for assembly in 2005.<br />

elmos annual report <strong>2004</strong><br />

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