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Teradyne, Inc. (TER)

Q3 2013 Earnings Call· Thu, Oct 24, 2013

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Operator

Operator

Good morning. My name is Angel, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Teradyne Q3 2013 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the call over to our host, Mr. Andrew Blanchard. Sir, you may begin your conference.

Andrew J. Blanchard

Analyst

Thank you, Angel. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our discussion of Teradyne's most recent financial results. I'm joined this morning by our Chief Executive Officer, Mike Bradley; President, Mark Jagiela; and our Chief Financial Officer, Greg Beecher. Following our opening remarks, we'll provide details of our performance for the third quarter, as well as our outlook for the fourth quarter of this year. First, I'd like to address several administrative issues. The press release containing our third quarter results was issued last evening. Copies are available at teradyne.com, where this call is also being simulcast. We're providing slides on the Investor page of the website that may be helpful to you on following the discussion. Those slides can also be downloaded, or you can follow along live. If you don't see the download icon, just simply refresh your page. In addition, replays of this call will be available via the same page about 24 hours after the call ends. The matters that we discuss today will include forward-looking statements that involve risk factors that could cause Teradyne's results to differ materially from management's current expectations. We encourage you to review the Safe Harbor statement contained in the earnings release, as well as our most recent SEC filings for a complete description. Additionally, those forward-looking statements are made as of today, and we take no obligation to update them as a result of developments occurring after this call. During today's call, we'll make reference to non-GAAP financial measures. We have posted additional information concerning those non-GAAP financial measures, including reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, where available on the Investor page of the website. Also between now and our next conference call, Teradyne will be participating in an investor conference hosted by UBS and Crédit Suisse. Now let's get on with the rest of the agenda. First, our CEO, Mike Bradley, will review the state of the company and the industry for the third quarter and provide our outlook for the fourth quarter of 2013. Then, Greg Beecher will provide more details on our quarterly performance, along with our guidance for the fourth quarter. Mark Jagiela will then provide a short overview of some of the technology trends impacting the business. We'll then answer your questions, and you should note that we intend to end this call after 1 hour. Mike?

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

Good morning, everyone. Thanks for being with us again today. Let me start with what's been challenging about this year, then I'll give you the rundown on how we're navigating in this climate and how we expect we'll do to the full 12 months of the year. By challenging, I mean that the SOC test market will be down about 25% this year. The memory market will be roughly flat and the wireless device test market that LitePoint serves will be off 25% to 30%. Add to that, a dramatic CapEx reduction in the hard disk drive market for the last 6 quarters, and you get as tight a capital spending environment as we've seen in quite some time. The Semiconductor Test markets, which are tracked closely, prove this point. The SOC test market will bottom at under $400 million in revenues in Q4 and close the year at just under $2 billion in total. And the memory test market will drop slightly in Q4 at an annualized run rate of just under $500 million. While our prior projections for the full year in these markets have called for reduced capital spend rates, the actuals will come in around the low end of our projections. So that's been the challenge. But despite this environment, we'll post some very good results in 3 respects. First, we expect to, again deliver above-model performance for the full year despite the annual revenues that will be down about 15%. The hallmark of our performance over numerous cycles is our ability to deliver good results over the cycle, independent of the ongoing market volatility. Second, we'll post sales at the trough that are slightly better than last year, even though the market trough is deeper this time. And third, we'll have improved our market share…

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Thanks, Mike, and good morning, everyone. Before diving into the details of the third quarter and our outlook for the fourth quarter, I will take a few moments to recap the broader picture behind our strategy and finances. Our overall strategy has 2 main elements. First, continue to grow share profitably in our core test markets by developing great products, while still maintaining strict financial discipline; and second, to use these hard-earned profits for the best possible return for our shareholders. Let me begin with the first component. We decided, about 5 years ago, that we needed to have financially healthy test businesses, based upon the industry realities. It became clear that the secular growth rates, and the ability to move market share, had both moderated with the maturing and consolidation of the ATE industry. These industry realities required a very different model, with each business unit and function knowing their part of the larger financial picture. For example, each unit knows they must self-fund annual raises with productivity gains. It also requires very careful selection of the test segments that we focus on, only those segments where we can use clever design to differentiate from our competitors, and where the end market trends are favorable. Thus, our focus on mobility in both IC and consumer device end products and our deselection of some of the PC-centric markets. That's why this year, despite lower customer buying in our major markets, we're on track to deliver our fourth consecutive year of greater-than-the industry-model operating profit rate of 15%. Looking over a longer time period, since 2010, we have averaged a 24% operating profit rate and generated $1.1 billion in free cash flow. Even with the 2010 recovery excluded, since 2011, our average operating profit rate is 22%, and we have had…

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Thanks, Greg. I would like to spend a few minutes outlining our strategy and mobility as it represents about 2/3 of our revenue since the start of 2012. It's no secret that the growth of semiconductors for mobile devices has been a bright spot. From a Semiconductor Test perspective, it drives about 50% of the market today, up from about 40%, 4 years ago. Low power DRAMs, NAND FLASH, image sensors, applications processors, cellular modems, WiFi, GPS, and battery management are just a few examples. Right around the corner are enhanced security devices, more sensors and an increasingly diverse set of wireless protocols. In both Semiconductor Test and LitePoint, the majority of our R&D investments have been aligned to these trends. It's not just the unit growth that's attractive, but also the leading-edge complexity and technical innovation in this space that gives us the opportunity to develop unique test solutions that provide high differentiation for both us and our customers. One example of this is in Wireless standards where complex modulation schemes like 802.11ac and LTE Advanced are emerging. Combining this technology would shortened time to market, almost a vertical production ramps and a near 0 defect quality target puts extreme demands on a tester. Our UltraFLEX provides the total package and leads the market in these applications. It's combination of low-noise signaling, hardware acceleration and an intuitive, almost addictive environment that tames this complexity is what has earned us over 50% share of this growing market. That philosophy is the same at LitePoint and is behind both our leading position in WiFi test and our breakthrough this year in cellular testing. Open up a LitePoint product and you'll see the same innovation applied to making complexity simple in the hands of our customers. By working far upstream with chipset…

Andrew J. Blanchard

Analyst

Thanks, Mark. Angel, we would now like to take a few questions. And as a reminder, please limit yourself to one question and a follow-up.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And your first question comes from the line of John Pitzer. John W. Pitzer - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: I guess, my first question is given how difficult a year this has been for the overall market, just a little history lesson, is most of the difficulty this year just a function of coming into the year, there was expectations for high-end handsets to show a lot more growth than they actually did. And I guess, the basis of my questions, I'm trying to get a better understanding of how mix in mobility impacts the overall test market for you guys?

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

First half of that John is, yes, it's -- we ended the year at a run rate that was lower than the prior year coming in. And we had a very strong tooling year in mobility in 2012. So if you remember back 3 quarters from now, we were projecting a down market. It actually came in at the low end, a slightly lower than the low end of our range at that point. John W. Pitzer - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: And then just relative to how I think about the test TAM if all the growth in mobility is going to start to come at the lower end of the market? How does that impact the size of the market in your guys opinion?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

I don't think the growth of low-end smartphones really has a big positive or negative impact on the test TAM. This was a year to digest a tremendous amount of capacity that was put in place in 2011, so as that has all worked its way out and the cellphone market and mobility keeps growing, we think that next year, we'll get back to a bit of a more normal market environment. John W. Pitzer - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: Helpful. And then guys as my follow-up, can you just talk a little bit about sizing the AC opportunity on the connectivity side? How big do you think that test opportunity is, and as we think about the quarterly patterns for next year around AC, when do you actually start to see some more significant ramps there for you?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

That's all tied -- a lot of it is tied to product introductions that incorporate AC, high-volume product introduction. So it's hard to prognosticate, which particular quarter that might affect, but one of the things to keep in mind is, in 2013 this year, although few mobile devices have an AC embedded in them, about half of the testers that we ship, will have -- will be AC capable. So there's already some amount of tooling going on for future proofing testers to enable them to test AC in the out years. There's is still an install base that will need to be upgraded, but it's not 100% turnover when the world moves to AC.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Timothy Arcuri.

Timothy M. Arcuri - Cowen and Company, LLC, Research Division

Analyst

First question, can you give, Greg, of the $207 million in SemiTest orders, can you break them up by SOC and memory?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Yes. The SOC, $172 million; the memory, $34 million.

Timothy M. Arcuri - Cowen and Company, LLC, Research Division

Analyst

Okay. Great. Then can you talk also about what happened in Q4 to the SOC market. It seems like it's about half of what you thought it would be when you guided 3-or-so months ago. Can you maybe talk a little bit about what specifically happened in Q4 that caused it to be so low, and why that's going to change going into Q1, because typically Q1, as you know is -- it's up like 40% in the last 4 years average from a booking's perspective, and I'm wondering, could what happen in Q4 change that dynamic headed into Q1?

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

Tim, I don't think it was just a Q4 phenomenon, but you are correct that the market is at a lower run rate in the fourth quarter -- I'm talking about SOC now -- run rate than it's been since the fourth quarter of '08. So a chunk of it was fourth quarter decline, but certainly, at least half of it was a lower rate as we came into the year. And I think it's just the digestion period here just continued on through the year. Now -- so yes, the market is lower than we would have had if we had come in the full year at about $2.2 billion rate. I think the other side of that coin is our trough position is higher than it was a year ago. And our second half incoming order rate is higher than -- will be higher than it was a year ago. So lower market, better performance and as we come out of the trough, we are in a better position than we're last year at this time.

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

I'll add one thing quickly, the part of the market that impacted us the most was the application processor segment, where there was a very large buying in 2012 and that was the digestion that took place in 2013. We believe in 2014 that market will come back and we'll have a good amount of business in application processor segment.

Timothy M. Arcuri - Cowen and Company, LLC, Research Division

Analyst

Great. I just -- on the question I asked, so do you think it's reasonable to expect that bookings would come back in March to the same degree that they have seasonally in the last 4 years, up 40% or up 50% something like that, I mean, it's hard to say, but I'm just wondering the range?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

We have no reason to think seasonal patterns won't hold. We have no greater insight other than just looking at past seasonal patterns and they seem to play out year after year.

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

But the one thing I will add to that, though, is it kind of correlates seasonally, but the real driver are new product introductions of our customers. So if there were early-year announcements of new products that tends to drive Q1 bookings sharper versus later-in-the-year announcements would push that out a bit, that's the key thing.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Jim Covello.

James Covello - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Analyst

First on LitePoint, understanding Greg, you don't want to guide specifically to that segment revenue anymore. How much of -- but just qualitatively of the growth you're going to expect into next year -- how much growth do you think is going to come in connectivity versus handset does?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Jim, most of our growth would come from cellular test. We have very high share in connectivity test. Of course, we can get some more, but we have a very strong position there in connectivity. So the opportunities for us will remain cellular test for the next several years.

James Covello - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Analyst

And you don't see the connectivity market growing so much that, that would be the bigger opportunity, it's more of the share gain on the handset does?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Well, we focus much more on we could control. We know the market, maybe -- who knows where it's going to be next year. We really don't know. We know AC, at some point, will drive some buying, but we don't know when, as Mark mentioned. So there -- and MIMO is going to drive some buying, so there's some favorable trends, but what we set our sights on are cellular tests because that greenfield for us where we have some big break-ins but there's some other opportunities that are very significant and we have a very strong offering. So that's what we're doing and we'll see what the connectivity market does next year, but again, we have very strong share and a good position in that market.

James Covello - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Analyst

And then, as a follow-up if I could just ask on memory. I have asked this before, but just maybe get an update relative to some of the new capacities that's now being added on the front end within memory. Do you think your orders in memory are going to be driven by the testing some of the new capacity or is it going to be more technology transition based in 2014?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Well, I think that we expect to be able to continue to increase our share based on the technology trends I talked about, which are high-speed interfaces and known good die for DRAMs, but overall, I don't expect the market for memory test to grow very much even though there's a lot of fab capacity being added. So it's kind of a flat $500 million market. We picked up 10 points a share. We think we can pick up additional share next year based on the technology trends.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Jagadish Iyer.

Jagadish K. Iyer - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division

Analyst

Two questions, Greg. First if I look at your SemiTest revenues, and if I look at the last 2 years, we have seen that -- we have seen the third quarter was starting to be weaker after peak in second quarter, but this year, this seems to be a little bit different. Is there anything that we can glean into this one, please? And then I have a follow-up.

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

I'm going to pass that one off to Mark. Do you want to take that one, Mark?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Yes. I think the only thing -- well, Greg alluded to this earlier, but what's unique about 2013 compared to last year, for example, or the year before, was the applications processor tooling that occurred in the second and third quarter of the prior 2 years was really absent this year and that's what sort of skewed the numbers this year compared to the last 2.

Jagadish K. Iyer - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division

Analyst

Fair enough. And secondly, when you bought LitePoint, we were all under the impression that there is going to be some kind of a secular growth. Can you remind us now, having seen how the connectivity has shaped up in terms of your long-term growth rates for this particular segment? I know you don't want to go specifics in to -- in terms of guiding for LitePoint, but how should we be thinking about it given the dynamics between your share gains in cellular test as well as how the connectivity market is shaping up in terms of longer-term growth rates that one should be thinking about?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Okay. I'll take that one. The overall cellular and connectivity test business that LitePoint participates in has been dramatically growing for the past several years. This year was sort of the first year that in recent years has been kind of an optimization and digestion year of all of that capacity. Long-term for both unit growth point of view and technology evolution point of view, it's a growing business, it's a growing TAM, but any given year, it's so tumultuous around how customers may be focused on optimization versus technology buys that it's hard to call any given year, but long term, we see the trends all positive.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Mehdi Hosseini.

Mehdi Hosseini - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research Division

Analyst

I want to go back to the LitePoint, it seems to me that maybe some of the challenges that has prohibited you from providing any forecast is maybe lack of diversification in customers especially on the cellular side. Can you help me -- or can you elaborate on it? And I have a follow-up.

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

We don't have that many cellular customers, but we have multiple. But that's not what is causing us not to give guidance. We just think it's a mistake to give guidance for LitePoint after it's been in our fold for a couple of years. It's had spectacular growth. It's way ahead of any plan and any 1 year, depending upon what wins the day, whether it's productivity digestion or the positive trends, that can move the market in any 1 year quite a bit. What we are confident on is that we can continue to grow market share for the next some number of years. We don't see anything in our way that would stop us. So we are much more focused on market share and we don't truly spend time trying to figure out what the market size is going to be next, because it does not really change what we do. We have focused on what accounts we're going after with what products and what teams are supporting those accounts.

Mehdi Hosseini - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research Division

Analyst

Got it. And I was surprised to hear that memory spend or memory market could be flat next year. Because I was under the impression that the DDR4 and low-power DDR3, would require an upgrade or refresh cycle, what is it that I'm missing?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

It's the -- for years and years, the memory market has seen both unit and bit growth, but not test or TAM growth. And the 2 trends you talk about, this year for example, we've seen reasonable tooling for DDR4 already occurring. And despite that the market's going to come in at about $500 million. And for the low-power DRAMs, the real shift that's occurring isn't the fact that low-power DRAMs are going into mobility, but they're moving more and more from package-on-package type applications to bare die. That's the technology by the shifts, final test -- testers to wait for probe. And so it's, again, a shift of the sort of emphasis of where the testing occurs and not so much of growth on the total tester market.

Mehdi Hosseini - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research Division

Analyst

And if I could just ask one quick question for Greg. Of the Semiconductor Test equipment booking, what was the services portion?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Okay. Of the semi services bookings, almost -- give me one second. I'll get back to you in a minute. I can't -- I don't have it right now.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Krish Sankar.

Krish Sankar - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division

Analyst

Number one, either Greg or Mark, can you talk about the competition in the wireless LitePoint space especially with, like, [indiscernible] National Instruments seems to be making some inroads?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Yes, I don't want to get into any one specific competitor, but it's certainly a very robust competitive space. And with the market going through both technological change and digestion of capacity, it provides opportunities and challenges for everybody to find the growing spaces. Now LitePoint has had a unique approach to the market compared to just about any other competitor by having these purpose-built, production-focused products for the market. They don't come from a heritage of building lab equipment and then trying to optimize them for production, they go right at the heart of production test. So that's been the unique position we've had in the market, but the competition is tremendous and will not, because it's a growing market and because it's attractive, it's not going to change.

Krish Sankar - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division

Analyst

Got it. All right. And then in 2014, if cellular test is going to grow for you guys, is it coming from the fact that you're going to get more customers for cellular test or is it going to come from the fact that is going to be increasing test times in the cellular test or is it going to be a function of both?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

We will be more focused on getting -- increase customers, that's where our sights are targeted. Almost every other factor is a variable that can go in our favor or go against our favor. So if you were sitting in our shoes, I think, you'd be focused on the incremental customers that you are well aligned to with your solution set going after them. And that's exactly what we're doing.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Patrick Ho. Patrick J. Ho - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: Maybe just as a follow-up to the last question about the cellular side and the Wireless Test business, and I know you mentioned that a lot of it is dependent on your customers' timing. But how do you see 2014 in terms of increasing share and gaining new customers as a contribution to revenues versus the AC adoption in the industry?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Yes, I think as Greg said, most of our growth will come from capturing new cellular business. There's certainly a underlying balloon in the connectivity space around AC, and by the way AC, when you talk about a standard like AC, there's an initial introduction of AC that tends to be fairly straightforward in its implementation and that's what you are finding today in some cell phones, but the standard is immensely complex and has an evolution that drives additional test requirements over its adoption over 10 years. So the AC chips you see today will be very different than the ones you see in 2 to 3 years and require much more sophisticated testing. So that balloon is there, but I would say the emphasis, in terms of the growth, comes more from picking up share in the cellular space. Patrick J. Ho - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: Great. That's helpful. Maybe going to SOC side of things, for the December quarter, what are you looking for in terms of your outlook for revenues on just the SOC side of the test business?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Patrick, we don't get that specific in terms of forecast for semi, but you have our total range for the fourth quarter.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Vishal Shah.

Chad Dillard - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division

Analyst

This is Chad Dillard on the line for Vishal. Just wanted to get a little bit more insight into your outlook for HDD test, should we think about the $125 million run rate as being the same or should it be lower given some of the difficulties in the overall end market?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Yes. It should be lower and it is lower. A couple of months ago, we resized that business and now it's about $90 million we would need a year to hit a 15% profit target rate, so we did take some meaningful fixed cost actions to get the business in a position that it should be to be able to hit its 15% target.

Chad Dillard - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division

Analyst

Got it. And I know you don't provide full on -- in market guidance, but for the next quarter, how should we think about the puts and takes, and where do you see the greatest downside?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

If you talk about the next -- this quarter, fourth quarter, there's not a lot of disruption that can occur or we see occurring on the downside. So I don't think we see much of anything on that and it's reasonably contained at this point.

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

Chad, the contour we think will mirror what we saw last year with Q3 as the low point and new orders coming in at a slightly higher rate and -- but we can't -- we don't know at this point exactly how much difference there is, but the turning point looks similar, #1 and #2, for us it's off a higher base.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of David Duley.

David Duley

Analyst

Just a couple of clarifications. Could you mention -- you mentioned how much your market share was up, could you give us what your market share is in each market, SOC, memory and in LitePoint.

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

I will give you some rough numbers because market share isn't super precise, but roughly speaking, in SOC test, our share is about 45% of that market in total; in memory test, it's about 25% in total; and LitePoint is the most difficult one, because there really isn't a clear picture of the total market, there's no developed infrastructure around that, but our internal view of that is we're somewhere between 25% and 28% of the Wireless Test market.

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

Back on SOC, which is the biggest SemiTest market. The market share position at any point in time is a function of segment shifting and from gains or losses in new accounts. And so, at any point where we say our market share is X, there's a plus or minus in there, because a piece of that is segment related. Overall, the segment shifts towards mobility are helping us, #1. But #2, this is gradual account-by-account, socket-by-socket work that we've been doing over the last few years and that's the other piece. Roughly, that's half to half, but if you went from 1 year to the next, and you just -- you could see some movement up or down in our market share. The point here is, the biggest part of the market, which is mobility, we've gained ground in that and mobility has become a bigger piece of it. So overall, we are getting 2 things that go into the market share gain.

David Duley

Analyst

Okay. And as far as the SOC test market goes next year, it sounds like you guys are kind of qualitatively talking about all your major markets being up next year and that you could plan on gaining share. So maybe give us -- do you think the SOC test market reverts back to the mean, which would indicate probably 15% growth on an annual basis or can you give us some sort of idea what you think the size of the market is going to be next year?

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

I think 15% is definitely a possibility because what 15% represents is at a slightly below $2 billion market that gets you to $2.3 billion, so that's very much a possibility. Just a recap of the numbers for the last 6 or 7 years ago, $2.6 billion, $2.4 billion, 2009 is $1.3 billion, a big correction year, but then it's back to $2.7 billion, $2.5 billion, $2.6 billion, and this year just under $2 billion. So 15% is definitely in the cards, higher than that, if it goes back to the sort of the 2.6 highpoint that we've had in the last 3 or 4 years.

David Duley

Analyst

Just a final clarification question for me. You mentioned you had a 10% customer, was that on the LitePoint side or was it in the SOC test side?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

We're not going to specify that, but in our annual 10-K, you can see who that customer is if it holds up being 10% for the full year.

David Duley

Analyst

So same customer as it was last year then?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

I'm not going to get into that.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Stephen Chin.

Mahavir Sanghavi - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division

Analyst

This is Mahavir Sanghavi. Just a clarification question about the bookings -- SOC bookings in the third quarter. What was the split between IDMs and OSAT?

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

Hang on, we got that.

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

63 37 [ph]. We call it specifiers.

Mahavir Sanghavi - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division

Analyst

Got it. So it's 63 IDMs. And then just a follow-on question to that. I'm wondering if you could talk about 2014 -- you talked about application processor driven bookings, I mean, booking and sales to come back. Wondering if you could give us some color on how we should think about in terms of some new process RAMs, 120-nanometer or 20-, 16-nanometer going on in 2014 time frame -- the time frame in terms of how 1 or 2 quarters before we should see production of 20-nanometer or so. And just a question on the LitePoint, on the cellular test business, is it easier for us to model that business out as a function of the LTE unit growth?

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

Well, first of all, on applications processors, certainly in 2014, it's likely that there'll be migration to 20-nanometer that doesn't in and of itself drive much of a change in the test capacity demand. The only issue there is if there are yield issues, like there was with 28-nanometer a year ago. It can drive a little bit of overcapacity bind to accommodate the lower yield, but then that corrects itself in the following year. On average, it doesn't really change, so it’s kind of a blip, if anything. So the return to applications processor, yes, it will be 20-nanometer, but it's more driven by unit growth and complexity. On the LitePoint side, LTE is the opportunity that opens up customers to reevaluate their suppliers for cellular test. So as LTE becomes a larger and larger portion of the cell phone market, those are the entry points for LitePoint to get in and demonstrate the superior capability of their product. It's not so much there's something unique about LTE, but it really is the technology change that gives us the entrée.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from Jairam Nathan. Jairam Nathan - Sidoti & Company, LLC: Just to follow up on the Systems Test business, so you have talked about the Systems Test being $125 million on the industrial side and $125 million on HDD. Do you have a split for how well it will go in the current year and how should we think about that in '14?

Gregory R. Beecher

Analyst

Okay, I'll take the beginning of that. The Systems Test business includes 3 businesses, of which one is the hard disk drive. This is also a [indiscernible] Business and a Commercial Board Test business. So earlier, and I think in response to a question, we mentioned that the Hard Disk Drive business of $125 million a year is what you needed for 15% profit rate. We resized that down to $90 million. Lowered that fixed cost structure. I think your other question was really about what we think 2014 looks like for Hard Disk Drive or System Test in total?

Michael A. Bradley

Analyst

The non-HDD businesses have been running. If you put them together, they have been running $130 million, $140 million in top line for the last couple of years, that wouldn't be a bad number. Jairam Nathan - Sidoti & Company, LLC: Okay. And my other question was on 2 or 3 competitors have a handler business now and what with LTX kind of going in there. How you think about that -- is it -- do you see, like, competitive advantage with that?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Yes, we've looked at the handler business, as you might expect, for quite some time, and the fact of the matter is in handling, there is a very wide diversity of handler types that customers need to accommodate the wide diversity of package types, and so no 1, or 2 or 3 handlers serves a very large part of the market. And we've taken a philosophy that we need to adapt our product to a wide variety of handlers and be best-in-class at that, as opposed to trying to narrow it down to a sub subset of the market and focus there. The other thing about handling is, it's a pretty low barrier-to-entry business. When you look at it as a business, you see emerging players in far regions of the world like Korea. The profit pools are low and it's very hard to make a profit in that business. And the experiment that's been run for a couple of decades now at Advantest where they've had handlers as part of their portfolio, really hasn't changed anything, strategically, in the market. So again, I don't see that as something in the short term, never say never, but it's not something that we see an attractive place to differentiate.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Tom Diffely. Thomas Diffely - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division: Earlier you talked about the rising use of wafer level testing, so I was curious if you have seen that on both the memory and the SOC side, and from a tester point of view, how the tester for the more advanced wafer level testing now compares to the final testers?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Yes, it is a trend for both SOCs and memory. From a tester point of view, potentially, you're right. A lot of the capability that existed at final test -- wafer test traditionally was a somewhat cursory straightforward screen and then all of the performance characteristics were tested at final, and there was a diversity there for the test equipment at each node. A lot of that capability's being pulled back now into probe test. And it's not just -- you can't just take a final test tester and now redeploy the probe, you need to have the signal-delivery capability to get the same stability down to a device through a probe interface that you are able to do at a package level. So it is migrating back to an earlier node, is a fundamental shift. Thomas Diffely - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division: Okay. But in general, are you seeing the times for final test go down because it is more extensive wafer level testing?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

Well, it's a complex equation, so what happens is, let's take -- when people do known good die testing, it's because they are going to assemble those die into a - some kind of a multichip package. So at wafer test, the test time and the test criteria goes up. At final test, that assembled package that might have 2, 3 or 4 bare die in it also gets tested for performance, and that test time and that complexity is quite large as well. So it's really close to a 0-sum game, possibly a little bit of an adder, because you need to do performance test now in both package and probe. Thomas Diffely - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division: Okay. And then finally, where do you think we are in the migration to wafer level testing and where we're going in the next couple of years?

Mark E. Jagiela

Analyst

It's quite early. A lot of WiFi chips are tested right now -- wafer level package for added known good die level. Memory is just, just starting and SOC as well. The real thing that will unleash that is either the substrate or the TSV stack die economics comes superior to sort of traditional packaging we have today. Once that economic equation can be solved, it will take off rapidly.

Operator

Operator

And there are no further questions at this time, sir.

Andrew J. Blanchard

Analyst

Great. Everyone, thank you for joining us today. This concludes the call and we look forward to talking to you in the days ahead.

Operator

Operator

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