David Milne
David Milne
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We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.
Well, we are expanding in all of our segments of the market.
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Jim Reid and I started the company as a design company, as I said earlier, back in '85 and and we transformed it into a product company in 1995.
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We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.
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Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market.
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We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.
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We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.
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But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
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One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.
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We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.
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We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.
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Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.
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We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.