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Preliminary Report on Non-Consolidated Sales Figures
(First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2014)

DISCO Corporation today released a preliminary report of the non-consolidated sales figures for the first quarter (1Q) of fiscal year 2014.

	1Q	2Q	1H	3Q	4Q	2H	Full Year
Fiscal Year 2014(A)	27,465	-	-	-	-	-	-
(Reference) Fiscal Year 2013 (B)	22,716	22,864	45,581	17,758	22,357	40,115	85,696
YoY Change (A/B)	20.9%	-	-	-	-	-	-
QoQ Change	22.8%	-		-	-
Non-consolidated net sales for the first quarter of the year ending March 2015 increased by 20.9% YoY and 22.8% QoQ to ¥27,465 million. This is equivalent to 53.4% of the most recent forecast for non-consolidated net sales for the first half of the current year (¥51,400 million). Expanding capital investment by outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) contractors in Asia was reflected in the firm trend in shipments of precision processing equipment, especially precision cutting equipment (dicers), and sales of these items reached an extremely high level. Shipments of consumables in the form of precision processing blades and wheels showed a strong sales trend and rose in step with the facility utilization rates of semiconductor manufacturers. These factors resulted in a new record for quarterly non-consolidated net sales. (The previous record of ¥25,673 million was set in the second quarter of fiscal 2010.)
The next preliminary report for consolidated sales and individual earnings for the first quarter will be released on July 23, 2014. The official financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 will be reported to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on August 7, 2014.