However, as many of its Chinese customers would not resume operation until Monday next week because of the outbreak, it is not clear how it might affect the company, Realtek said. “We saw stable customer demand before the Lunar New Year holiday... We are cautiously optimistic about the first-quarter outlook,” Realtek spokesman Huang Yee-wei (黃依瑋) told investors during a teleconference. Revenue last year jumped 32.6 percent to NT$60.74 billion (US$2.01 billion) from NT$45.81 billion in 2018, after fourth-quarter sales rose 39.7 percent annually, company data showed. The new single chips used in these earbuds cost more than US$2 each, about 33 percent higher than non-single chips. Realtek expects worldwide TWS earbud shipments to reach 200 million units this year, with half of them coming from Apple.

Source: Taipei Times February 05, 2020 15:56 UTC