Huawei Ascend P6 smartphones, HP Slate 7 Tablet PC, Intel Core Tablet PC prototype fourth-generation, the upcoming Nokia EOS smart phones, these products did not seem too much contact, in fact, they are all from the same foundry, This is not a foundry foundry giant Foxconn, but from China's BYD.
BYD started on battery foundry business, founded in 1995, focuses on the early cell manufacturing and IT products OEM, who has Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and other OEM mobile phone, in 2003 to enter the automotive industry and the solar energy industry, with a reputation BYD electric cars .
BYD's business, its three core businesses huge losses in the solar business, market uncertainty compressed scale of operations, the rapid development of automobile manufacturing, but net profit is not high, the battery business, development and stability in the short term is difficult to have a huge boost. BYD has plans to return to the electronic equipment foundry industry in the first quarter of 2013 shareholders meeting, BYD President Wang said the company has opened up the world's leading handset manufacturers smartphone new projects and successfully developed new products such as tablet PCs and businesses to promote the Group's handset components and assembly business revenue and profits increased significantly. Thanks to the return of the foundry business, BYD 2013Q1 revenue dramatically.
BYD's business, its three core businesses huge losses in the solar business, market uncertainty compressed scale of operations, the rapid development of automobile manufacturing, but net profit is not high, the battery business, development and stability in the short term is difficult to have a huge boost. BYD has plans to return to the electronic equipment foundry industry in the first quarter of 2013 shareholders meeting, BYD President Wang said the company has opened up the world's leading handset manufacturers smartphone new projects and successfully developed new products such as tablet PCs and businesses to promote the Group's handset components and assembly business revenue and profits increased significantly. Thanks to the return of the foundry business, BYD 2013Q1 revenue dramatically.
It is reported that BYD's foundry business has come to HTC, Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry, Huawei, HP, and Dell. Which many customers Foxconn, BYD able to assemble the machine vendors, but also includes some product components production, profit housing, keypad, speaker, PCB and so on. BYD reportedly lower than Taiwanese foundries offer sufficient capacity and grabbed some orders Foxconn, many Taiwanese foundries do not want to pick the low-end assembly of low-margin orders, BYD have won. In addition to low-end orders outside, HTC high-end flagship smartphone HTC One also has close to 25% of BYD foundry, future HTC tablet also will be handed over BYD foundry.
BYD foundry industry is actually a return performance of the company forced by the current severe downturn in the global foundry industry profits, 2012 FIH loss $ 316,400,000, which is the largest since 2005 Foxconn annual loss, mainly due to the foundry industry competition intensifies, prices continued to be depressed, BYD chosen this time to reach the foundry industry pricing strategy, the future profits of OEM products will decline further, BYD able to grab orders, but in order to win at the same time still be able to achieve profitability unknown.
