April sales fall 30 percent year-on-year at UMC

The April sales collapse — to NT$6.37 billion (about $204 million) — came after March sales had increased 14 percent on February, but would seem to be helping fulfill a prediction that the pure-play foundry market would decline by 6.2 percent in 2005 to $15.90 billion from $16.95 billion in 2004

For the year to date UMC has sold NT$26.65 billion (about $855 million), which is 22.8 percent less than the NT$34.53 billion (about $1.11 billion) the company said.