ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - ELMOS Semiconductor AG
ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - ELMOS Semiconductor AG
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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