Public company info - O2Micro International Ltd. , 00457.HK
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O2Micro International Ltd., 00457.HK - Company Profile
Chairman DU Sterling
Share Issued (share) 1,851,000,000
Par Currency U.S. Dollar
Par Value 2.0E-5
Industry
Corporate Profile Business Summary: O2Micro develops and markets innovative power management, and security components and systems for the Computer, Consumer, Industrial, and Communications markets. Products include Intelligent Lighting, Battery Management, Power Management, SmartCardBus® and Security products, such as VPN/Firewall system solutions. Business Review: For the past three years, we have allocated over 50% of our R&D budget to our young DC-DC, Battery, and Security businesses, in addition to other areas of future potential. This represents over $50 million of direct investment over that timeframe and we are pleased with the strong growth of new products that we achieved in 2008. Our new products grew sequentially throughout 2008 and increased signifi cantly in the full year. They grew from 6% of revenue in 2007 to 9% of revenue in 2008. This represents approximately 25% year-to-year growth. Moreover, it is our expectation that these new product families will be more than 10% of revenue in 2009 and continue to grow at a pace that is ahead of the overall company. The new products are fueling the growth in our industrial and communications markets. Our industrial products accounted for more than 10% of revenue for the fi rst time in the fourth quarter of 2008, while our communications products were about 5% of revenue in the quarter and also achieved a record percentage. Both our industrial and communications markets benefi ted from the growth of Battery and Security products, and we expect these markets to continue to increase as a percentage and further diversify our business. In addition, we believe we have maintained a strong competitive position in our core markets in 2008. We continue to do well in both the consumer and computer markets and we are looking forward to ongoing success. Our key Backlighting and PCI Express businesses have a robust lineup of new and refreshed products for 2009. Today, we are a leader in both technology and market share in our Backlighting products, while our PCI Express business is moving quickly to manage through the transition in the notebook market to penetrate the new “netbook” category. We remain focused on R&D and we are consistently innovating new technologies. During 2008, O2Micro was granted 98 patents. This brought the cumulative number of patents granted to the company to 506, including 11,377 unique claims that cover both our core and new product families. Our patents coincide with our deep intellectual property and underlie the comparatively high gross margin that our company enjoys. They also underlie the strong unit volume growth and economies of scale that O2Micro has achieved. During 2008, we shipped more than 200 million semiconductor chips and achieved the second best revenue performance in our history. Nonetheless, we are adapting to the current economic environment by driving improvements in our operating effi ciency and overall profi tability without compromising our investment in R&D. For example, we were able to transfer our OceanOne testing group’s assets and team to an existing business partner at book value and save on both fi xed and operational costs. In addition, this helped us lower our headcount down from 1,107 employees at the end of 2007 to 876 employees at the end of 2008. We have also tightened spending controls, and implemented across-the-board cost reduction plans. All of these efforts should bring us signifi cantly better profi tability in the future. Prospects: In retrospect, fi scal 2008 was a year of subtle accomplishments. The seeds of our investment in R&D have sprouted. Our new products are gaining traction in the marketplace and should play a prominent role in our future growth. Our core businesses are solid and the combination of focus and persistence will enable us to be successful in the key market segments that we have identifi ed.

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