Conference call from Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Operator: Thank you. Your next question comes from Adithya Metuku from Bank of America. Please ask your question.
Question fromAdithya Metuku from Bank of America: Yeah, good morning, gents, uh, thanks for taking my questions. I have three. Firstly, [question on diluted share count] (
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secondly, I was just wondering if you could give some color on, uh, uh, you know what kind of revenues you, you expect from the Multi-Touch, MTIC (= Multi-Touch Integrated Circuit) and, uh, BLE (= Bluetooth Low Energy) in 2015, uh, given the visibility you have at the moment and, uh,
finally, on, uh, first-quarter guidance. Uh, you know, your guidance is slightly seasonal and given your biggest customers meant to be launching new products, I was just wondering if you could give us the [key puts intakes ???] on the guidance in the quarter. Thank you.
[CFO Jean Michel Richard takes the first part of the question, followed by the CEO Bagherli who takes the 2nd & 3r part]
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Answer from Jalal Bagherli, CEO: Ok, on the other, other questions you had, uh, on the new products, uh, I think, uh, we, uh, we, we wait and see what the Multi-Touch business will look like. So we have, uh, the first, uh, uh, product developed in, uh, in, in Asia for a, for a PC manufacturer, for, uh, all-in-one PC. Its not a high-volume first product because theyre trying out this technology. So, as that develops, if it becomes, uh, something that they want to
[well, well see ???] them having interest in another two or three, uh, models using the same, but, you know, its still early days for me to give you, uh, numbers. I dont think it would be large this year. So, well, we would like to obviously get this adopted in as many places as possible. But, you know, its not something that we counted big on this year.
Uh, in terms of Bluetooth, uh, Smart, uh, we, we have a very, very strong traction. Uh, I can give you some statistics, not on our revenue, but, uh, for example, we are approaching about 2,000 registered, uh, people on our site in terms of interest in a, in the, uh, Bluetooth Smart product. We have over 100 active, live engagements round the world, uh, in new designs. Uh, we, uh, started, uh, accelerating the volume, really, [at the] back end of the year, uh, in, in, in 2014. Uh, we shipped in the order of, uh, 3 to 4 million, uh, units, uh, of this product. Uh, we expect, uh, to be significantly higher in 2015, uh, probably 7 to 8 times the volume we shipped in, uh, 2014. So we expect this to be showing massive growth, uh, and continue to grow into, uh, into couple of years, uh, beyond that. Uh, and were developing and extending the portfolio. So we will be launching additional products during 2015, uh, to support this success story in the market. And our products, you know, end up in a lot of different sub-segments of the market. So, right now we, have actual design-ins or wins in Smart Tags, in Wearables, uh, in, uh, Smart, uh, Remote Controls, uh, and were working in
to get into things like keyboards and mouse, uh, and also we have a pretty strong, uh, design win, uh, record right now with also, uh, beacons, uh, for e-commerce, uh, with, with a number of social, uh, networking, uh, type customers. So, were very, very, uh, well-placed, uh, in, in Bluetooth and there would be, uh, material growth and, and very high-percentage growth in 2015.
In terms of first-quarter guidance, again, you know, its, its a pretty strong guidance in terms of, uh, 28-percent increase over a year ago, uh, for Q1. It includes things that, uh, we have
we expect to ship. Uh, it includes things that we should have shipped in Q1 but we shipped in December, uh, you know, being taken off that number. Uh, it includes potential for any new product launches that we are aware of and were building for. So, I dont think beyond that I can comment any more, but thats, thats kind of reflects, uh, the facts as we know it. And, you know, its, its, again, a broad range of USD 265 to 300 million, uh, just because some of the timing of some, some of the products are not that certain. So, so, we have left, uh, probably a bit large
larger, if you like, range than, than we would normally use, uh, just because of that. Uh, we have very high confidence on the actual product launches, but we just dont know the exact details of the, the launch time and, and the volume, uh, fluctuations. So thats why we have that range to help us.
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