Necip Sayiner
Analyst · Stifel, Nicolaus
Thank you, Bill. It has truly been a pleasure. I'm very glad that you'll be rejoining our Board of Directors. I know we'll continue to benefit from your good counsel and leadership. And good morning, everyone. As Bill mentioned, video was the start of the quarter, so let's start there. Video represented more than 1/3 of the $42 million Broadcast business in Q1. The majority of the growth was from our silicon tuner product, although the modulator revenues doubled as well during the period. Adoption trends continue to be very positive. All of that TV makers are intent on expanding their use of silicon tuners. We're closing in on several mid-year model design wins and our R&D pipeline remains rich, giving us an increasing number of products to offer customers as we compete for 2012 models. Audio revenue declined sequentially as expected due to continued pressure on the FM business into handsets, as well as the typical seasonal drop-off in shipments into portable media players. However, our AM/FM product line recovered in Q1 as customer inventory issues abated. We expect the Broadcast business to be up modestly sequentially in Q2 as the growth in video and consumer audio is projected to overcome the handset headwinds. This headwind should be well behind us as we enter the second half of the year. Handset revenue will be about 5% of our total in the second half, and consumer audio growth will start dominating the revenue profile. As further evidence of the strength we are seeing, we secured 118 design wins in consumer electronics alone during the quarter. Our broad-based revenue increased again sequentially to a record high, growing 20% year-over-year and representing nearly 40% of the company's revenue. Growth in the quarter was driven by strength in both MCU and Timing products. In our MCU business, consumer-oriented applications remain seasonally weak, while communications and industrial demand were both healthy. The strength was specifically led by optical transceiver customers, where several meaningful design wins ramped. This continues to be a strong application area for us, where our integrated high-performance analog and small footprint are very highly valued. We experienced strength in embedded USB applications and also saw demand improve at a host of industrial customers. Development kit shipments were up by more than 1,000 versus Q4, and design wins were up by more than 50% year-over-year. In Q2, we expect this strength to continue, and we are seeing momentum build in both our low-power and wireless MCU families. The Timing business delivered record revenue for the tenth consecutive quarter. As Bill mentioned, we successfully integrated the SpectraLinear team and portfolio in the quarter, and are aggressively marketing more than 100 new devices through our channel in Q2. We also introduced a new oscillator family targeted at the lower end of the market. We are very pleased to report a number of greenfield opportunities emerging, which is a key objective of expanding the portfolio. We are now serving over 500 distinct customers with our Timing products. We expect that channeling both our newly acquired and newly developed low-end products through our global distribution partners will significantly enhance our market penetration. Rounding out the rest of the Broad-based products, isolation and wireless both grew in the quarter. These products have surprised us on the upside this year so far in terms of design wins, giving us increasing confidence that they will be meaningful contributors in the future. And finally, the Access business. Revenue was up slightly sequentially with slicks down, modems and PoE up. We continue to secure design wins in printers and point-of-sale terminals, while set-top boxes remain at declining end market for modems. We're making progress in the voice over cable segment while maintaining our dominance in voice over DSL. We expect Access revenue to hold steady in Q2. Mature products, which represented about 4% of revenue last year, declined to about $2 million in Q1. This category is expected to represent only about 1% of revenue for all of 2011. We continue to have confidence in the annual targets we set in January and view the Q1 results as strong progress towards those goals. We are well on our way to being back to record revenue levels in the second half of this year. We have a strong start to achieving 20% to 30% growth in our Broad-based business. We readily see a path to $60 million in video revenue, and Q1 is proving to be a trough in terms of gross margin. All is expected. I will say though, that we are viewing the macro environment more cautiously as we try to assess the second and third degree impact the crisis in Japan might have on the industry. In Q2, therefore, we expect revenue to be $124 million to $130 million. We're anticipating that Access will be flat, Broadcast will be up slightly and Broad-based will be up double digits sequentially. We expect gross margin to increase by about 100 basis points. We anticipate operating expenses to total approximately $55 million. On a GAAP basis, we are projecting earnings of $0.24 to $0.30. On a non-GAAP basis, excluding stock compensation expense, we expect $0.43 to $0.49. We're now ready to take your questions. Shannon?