The first quarter was better because of better-than-expected extra demand for personal computers.

Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4 percent of its sales in the current quarter.

Due primarily to continued robust demand from our customers, our fourth quarter business exceeded our previous guidance. Meanwhile, we expect our operating performance for the coming quarter to be better than the average seasonal pattern, but an anticipated depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the NT dollar will impact our revenue by more than 4 percent.

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

Our computers are fine at the moment. We don't expect it to affect production of the paper.