Thursday, August 5, 2010

IDT 1Q 2011 comments on touch

transcript from Seeking Alpha:

>>John Barton – Cowen

Okay. Last question, if I could. You highlighted recent success in Capacitative Touch. Just update, if you would please, strategy as far as future generations of Touch, just the overall direction from a product offering there please?

Ted Tewksbury

So, what you are seeing right now in Touch is the traction that we are getting with buttons, sliders and scroll wheels, which are used in an increasingly large number of appliances, both electronic light goods and so forth. We have design wins in everything from monitors to ebooks to rice cookers and then white goods in China, smart phones. So, those touch buttons and scroll wheels and sliders are getting good design wind traction. However, it’s still at a relative low level as far as our overall revenue is concerned. The real reason, the strategic reason that we acquired latest technologies was for the full screen Touch technologies, which are in development and I am not at liberty right now to talk anymore about those products, but we will be introducing Touch products later on in the year. We are also integrating some of those technologies in more highly integrated ASSPs such s the intelligent power management IC that we talked about in the prepared remarks, which also has an integrated Touch controller. So that’s a quick status on Touch.

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