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ALi Corporation (3041 TT) today announced the total consolidated revenue for September 2013 reached NT$419.7 million, representing an increase of 18.6% MoM and a decrease of 23.8% YoY. Aggregate revenue from January to September of 2013 was NT$2,875.0 million, down 27.0% from the same period last year.
 

The company expressed that the STB revenue registered a double-digit growth both for the last two months.  The increasing sales reflected demand from STB manufacturing partners replenishing inventory prior to the “Golden Week” holidays in China; additionally, ASO (Analog switch-off) being initiated in some emerging countries and the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan spurred the demand in retail market both for standard and high-definition products.  Although the monthly revenue of September and the aggregate revenue from January to September of 2013 decreased year-over-year, the company has seen higher performance generated from Pay-TV operator market and IP STB and expects these two product segments to continuously fuel long-term growth momentum.

In view of growing demands for content security, the company earlier announced the signing of a license agreement with Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) for use of their differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasure patents and technologies in ALi’s STB chipsets to ensure digital content is protected and securely deployed. In addition, the company also announced ALi’s family of STB chipsets are the world’s first chipsets to support the new Conax Cardless solution for STBs, indicating that the company’s efforts in providing innovative architecture and implementation of STB SoC for enhancing security capabilities have been recognized by partners.