Consolidated sales at Powertech Technology (PTI) increased 0.8% on month and 4.2% on year to NT$3.21 billion (US$101.7 million) in January 2014.

PTI said recently that sales for the first quarter would be affected by seasonal factors. However, the backend firm expects to see orders pick up after the Lunar New Year holiday.

In other news, PTI has disclosed that its joint packaging and testing plant with Micron Technology is slated to enter mass production in the first quarter of 2016. The joint plant will be located in Xian, China, which will be occupied by PTI to provide Micron with assembly and packaging services for a period of several years.

PTI provides packaging and testing services for memory chips, as well as logic ICs.