CHIP DESIGNER:

The new customer is expected to begin contributing to sales in the second half, but AMD would continue to be its dominant customer

By Lisa Wang

/ Staff reporter

High-speed data transmission chip designer ASMedia Technology Inc (祥碩) said it has clinched a new deal for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for computers and expects revenue contribution to start in the second half of this year.The company did not name the new customer, but said the new chipsets would be used in notebook, desktop and industrial computers.“About the new customer, we have to abide by the nondisclosure principles,” ASMedia president Lin Che-wei (林哲偉) told an earnings conference on Tuesday.