Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has become a rather successful player on the core-logic field for the recent year and a half. Since the company not only produces and develops chipsets for maiboards, but also has a broad portfolio of products and developments, it is quite logical for them to enter the different markets as well. On a press conference in Taiwan the company’s representatives said that they will greatly expand the portfolio of non-core-logic-related products in 2003 and the sales of the appropriate divisions will grow three times from what they have today.

Revenue for this year is preliminarily projected to reach nearly $364.7 million, an increase of 53% over last year. The company plans to force the current grow pace and expects their sales to grow more that 80% to approximately $688.47 million next year. At the moment the share of non-core-logic-related products in the revenue is about 5% and due to new product lines, the company believes it will grow to 15%.

In fact, SiS will definitely have to announce a lot of new products in order to accomplish their non-core-logic-related plans. Currently the company incorporates multimedia, information appliance and communications divisions, whose product portfolio is not so broad compared to VIA’s subsidiaries. The information appliance (IA) division only can offer SiS550 family of system-on-a chip (SOC) solutions, while the communications group has a 10/100 Ethernet controller SiS900 in their portfolio. Only multimedia subsidiary can boast with a rather broad family of devices that include Xabre GPUs (600, 400, 200 and 80) as well as SiS315, SiS305, SiS300 and SiS6326 graphics chips. Although they plan to occupy up to 10% of the discrete graphics solutions market from current 5% next year, it is going to be a very tough task to accomplish for SiS given that ATI, NVIDIA and other players like 3Dlabs and Matrox Graphics are also going to penetrate the market with their own products. According to SiS, 40% of the graphics cards powered by their GPUs will be sold in retail, 25% to OEM clients and the remaining 35% to system integrators.

As we see, SiS has a lot of ambitions plans for the next year and looks to be very confident both in terms of their non-core-logic-related product sales as well as their chipsets for mainboards.