John R. Croteau - MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
Management
Yeah. So in terms of the competitive position, we haven't seen any material impact. It's been the relative inability to supply upside to their forecasts. So if we had customer forecasts, we would have had to forecast into suppliers, and they would have had commitments to us. It's the absence of accurate forecasts coming from our customers that's the problem. So they're obviously not surprised. But they're with us. They understand exactly what situation it's caused. And the last thing you want to do is have upside capacity requests at a time when Apple is surging iPhone production. To simplify it, that's exactly what happened on both front-end and back-end. We're competing with people like Skyworks, for instance, from the same suppliers who manufacture RF products for the iPhone. So I don't think there's any material impact to our short-term positioning with that analog part of the portfolio. We're just talking about within a quarter pushing, it's not like a year issue. In terms of the comfort with the cloud guys, they clearly see the fact that our technology, our supply chain, our products come from a heritage of supplying similar volumes to what they require inside the Data Center. So if you look at our lasers, the 25-gig lasers run on the same lines. It's a process and product extension from our 2.5-gig and 10-gig lasers that we're running 5 million to 8 million units a month. And frankly, we'll be back there within months. We're ramping right now such that we could double that and supply the entire Data Center industry. Now there's a lot of work to be done. There's a lot of operational execution, a lot of yield improvement, but the nature of the technology can service the magnitude of the opportunity. And frankly, they haven't heard that from anybody. When you look at the silicon photonics and the L-PICs with the lasers embedded in them, you look at the supply chain partners that we have, they can supply the wafers to be able to manufacture that to the same scale. The analog products that I was just talking about inside of Data Centers are the same product line, same design team, same vendors, where we've been supplying PON historically. PON is an 80 million unit market traditionally. So, yes, it's a higher speed and higher performance analog component, but all of our supply chain for the semiconductor components fits the scale capacity model. And then, the icing on the cake is our ability to take those solutions and support the people that they want to supply millions to tens of millions of units of transceivers is quite unique. So the cloud customers I've never seen a situation where we've been sponsored by the quality of customers and industry leaders like we have, but that's exactly what's going on.