TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:SIMO) ("Silicon Motion" or the "Company"), a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices and specialty RF IC solutions for mobile devices, announces that based upon its preliminary financial results, revenue for the second quarter is expected to be flat as compared to the revenue for the first quarter, below the company's original guidance issued on April 26, 2013, of up 5 to 10%. Gross margin (non-GAAP) is expected to be in the 47 to 49% range, above the company's guidance of 45 to 47%.

Commenting on the company's preliminary results, Silicon Motion's President and CEO, Wallace Kou, said:

"In the second quarter, we saw demand for our embedded controllers (eMMC) exceed our own expectations along with continuing strong OEM sales of our other controller products. However, with availability of NAND flash still tight for module makers, procurement of our card and USB flash drive controllers from these customers was lower than expected."

The Company will release its full second quarter 2013 results after the market closes on July 29, 2013. The Company will host a conference call on July 30, at 8 am Eastern Time, to discuss its results.

This call will be webcasted on the Company's website at www.siliconmotion.com. The webcast will also be distributed through the Thomson Reuters StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson Reuters/CCBN's individual investor portal. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson Reuters password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

ABOUT SILICON MOTION:

We are a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets high performance, low-power semiconductor solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics market. We have two major product lines, mobile storage and mobile communications. Our mobile storage business is composed of microcontrollers used in NAND flash memory storage products such as flash memory cards, USB flash drives, SSDs, and embedded flash applications. Our mobile communications business is composed primarily of handset transceivers and mobile TV IC solutions.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:

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CONTACT: INVESTOR CONTACTS:
         Jason Tsai
         Director of IR and Strategy
         Tel: +1 408 519 7259
         Fax: +1 408 519 7101
         E-mail: ir@siliconmotion.com

         Selina Hsieh
         Investor Relations
         Tel: +886 3 552 6888 x2311
         Fax: +886 3 560 0336
         E-mail: ir@siliconmotion.com