Darin Billerbeck
Analyst · Christopher Rolland of FBR Capital Markets. Your line is open
Yes, so without getting into too specific, I'll give you kind of where we're at. So I think HDMI is a mainstream for Silicon Image. I think it has been, it will be for a long time. If you look at my personal house, I probably have just to my TV, five HDMI cables, right? Just by itself. So I think the HDMI and that stuff is going to be the way to go. Especially if you want smooth video transmission, then you get into MHL and you have people say, oh! Is it going to click or is it not going to click. I can tell you this, if you want smooth video once again you're going to use a wired connection, but it will also be, you're going to have that living and co-existing peacefully I think with the wireless connection. Right? The difference is in those two one, is continue to speed. The other one is compression. So as we kind of walk through that wireless and MHL. I don't think it's going to be as bad as a lot of people, think because a lot of people like Oh! MHL is not really going to gain a lot of traction. It is and it's in a heck of a lot of units worldwide and it's supported by MHL or HDMI as far as how you can transmit because you'll see a lot of MHL, HDMI connection. So I think that business for us is very attractive. If it also helps us understand video transmission very similar to data for comps. So we doing comps, we can do with hardware acceleration of video, so that was attractive there. The 60-gig stuff, if you didn't hear. Intel just announced it, they're releasing one of their latest processor with 60 gigahertz to be able to connect the laptop, so that's real. They may have overestimated kind of the timing of that, but I think we're looking at that as more of 2016 kind of deal, there will be some shipments probably in the end of 2015, but I think reasonable material, revenue is going to come into second half of 2016 for that, but they have awesome capabilities with the 60. They can do side-by-side stuff which is the Snap technology, they can do via HD which is going to be low latency 60-gig application. They can also do Y-gig, which is kind of the industry standard, if you want to do internet. Right, so I think overall all of those are attractive to us. We don't know a whole lot about the [indiscernible] thing, we're not experts obviously in the software services world, but if we dig in the details on that, we can make a decision.