Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

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Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.