6-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

April 7, 2016

Commission File Number: 000-51380

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

8F-1, No.36, Taiyuan St.

Jhubei City, Hsinchu County 302

Taiwan

(Address of principal executive office)

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Exhibits
Exhibit 99.1	Press Release issued by the Company on April 7, 2016.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

	SILICON MOTION TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Date: April 7, 2016
	By:	/s/ Riyadh Lai
	Name: Riyadh Lai
	Title: Chief Financial Officer

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EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

Taipei, Taiwan, April 7, 2016 – Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: 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 first quarter financial results, sequential revenue growth is expected to be 14% to 15%, significantly higher than its original guidance range of a decrease of 2.5% to an increase of 2.5% that the company issued on January 29, 2016. Gross margin (non-GAAP) is expected to be in the upper half of the company’s original guidance range of 49% to 51%.

The Company will release its full first quarter 2016 results after the market closes on April 27, 2016. The Company will host a conference call on April 28, at 8 am Eastern Time, to discuss its results.

(Speakers)

Wallace Kou, President & CEO

Riyadh Lai, CFO

Jason Tsai, Senior Director of Investor Relations & Strategy

CONFERENCE CALL ACCESS NUMBERS:

USA (Toll Free):	1 866 519 4004
USA (Toll):	1 845 675 0437
Taiwan (Toll Free)	0080 112 6920
Participant Passcode:	8127 2517

REPLAY NUMBERS (for 7 days):

USA (Toll Free):	1 855 452 5696
USA (Toll):	1 646 254 3697
Participant Passcode:	8127 2517

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.

ABOUT SILICON MOTION:

We are a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets solutions for mobile storage and mobile communications markets. For the mobile storage market, our key products are controller ICs used in embedded storage devices such as SSDs and eMMCs and in expandable storage devices. For the mobile communications market, our key products include mobile TV SoCs and other specialty RF ICs. Our products are widely used in smartphones, tablets, and industrial, enterprise and commercial applications. For further information on Silicon Motion, visit www.siliconmotion.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Although such statements are based on our own information and information from other sources we believe to be reliable, you should not place undue reliance on them. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual market trends or our actual results of operations, financial condition or business prospects may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to the unpredictable volume and timing of customer orders, which are not fixed by contract but vary on a purchase order basis; the loss of one or more key customers or the significant reduction, postponement, rescheduling or cancellation of orders from these customers; general economic conditions or conditions in the semiconductor or consumer electronics markets; decreases in the overall average selling prices of our products; the payment or non-payment of cash dividends in the future at the discretion of our board of directors; changes in the relative sales mix of our products; our ability to successfully integrate Shannon Systems; changes in our cost of finished goods; the availability, pricing, and timeliness of delivery of other components and raw materials used in our customers’ products; our customers’ sales outlook, purchasing patterns, and inventory adjustments based on consumer demands and general economic conditions its customers and consumers; our ability to successfully develop, introduce, and sell new or enhanced products in a timely manner; and the timing of new product announcements or introductions by us or by our competitors. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please see the documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed on April 30, 2015. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.

Investor Contacts:

Jason Tsai	Selina Hsieh
Senior Director of IR and Strategy	Investor Relations
Tel: +1 408 519 7259	Tel: +886 3 552 6888 x2311
Fax: +1 408 519 7101	Fax: +886 3 560 0336
E-mail: ir@siliconmotion.com	E-mail: ir@siliconmotion.com