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Don't get left behind! Drones and drone-derived digital data are the hottest growth areas around. Combine your geoscience knowledge with new technology, both on the data acquisition side (fly that drone!) and in the project design and data interpretation (make high-powered maps and see what no one else has seen!).
AAPG is offering two courses and a two-day GTW to equip you with practical knowledge you can leverage into a great new career opportunity.
Combining a workshop with two courses is a great way to expand your knowledge and save time in your already hectic schedule."The New Opportunities with Drones: New Needs, FAA Rule Changes, New Technologies" workshop brings together experts, equipment providers, robotics experts, and others knowledgeable in a wide range of commercial drone usage, which includes monitoring in the oil industry, digital outcrop surveying, safety and security monitoring, utility inspection, real estate, agriculture, construction, environmental protection, and more.
"Working with Drone Data 101" short course, is beneficial to anyone interested in learning more about Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and how they can play a part in mapping and information services. Drones are used in the oil and gas industry from upstream to downstream, and in many other industries.
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These are a few of the questions that we'll answer at the Making Money with Mature Fields - Geosciences Technology Workshop, October 5-6, 2016, Houston, TX. The goal of this workshop is to review mature fields and to identify the amount and nature of oil that can be recovered, and to evaluate competing strategies for economically producing the remaining reserves. In addition to looking closely at fields, we will review new and improved technologies that may help revitalize reservoirs and overcome problems such as low pressure, paraffin, corrosion, and more.
The goal of this two-day workshop is to proactively create opportunities yourself and your company in a low price environment. You will learn how to bring value propositions to operators. Revitalize reservoirs for less than the cost of plugging and abandoning, paid for by increased production. Rethink reservoirs and push paradigm shifts that will result in breakthroughs. We will discuss how to use these times to pilot new products and technologies and thus position innovative companies to boom when conditions improve. This event is for engineers, geologists, geophysicists, land professionals, and entrepreneurs.
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When the next email in your inbox may mean a journey through space and time to a completely different petroleum and/or depositional system than the one you were working yesterday you've become a regional geologist. This geoscience sub discipline isn't so much a specialism as the playground for Jacks-of-all-trades. Not necessarily an expert in any given field, you need to know a little about everything and be able to integrate it all to answer for any given basin the question "Are we in or out?" So refresh that geochronology and boot up your Geographic Information System because it's time to dig deep into corporate data stores, open a map document, and wave our geology hands, Exploration's on the softphone and they want to know what blocks to pick up next!
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The central Black Sea Basin of Turkey is filled by more than 9 km (6 mi) of Upper Triassic to Holocene sedimentary and volcanic rocks. The basin has a complex history, having evolved from a rift basin to an arc basin and finally having become a retroarc foreland basin. The Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic Akgol and Lower Cretaceous Cağlayan Formations have a poor to good hydrocarbon source rock potential, and the middle Eocene Kusuri Formation has a limited hydrocarbon source rock potential. The basin has oil and gas seeps. Many large structures associated with extensional and compressional tectonics, which could be traps for hydrocarbon accumulations, exist.
Fifteen onshore and three offshore exploration wells were drilled in the central Black Sea Basin, but none of them had commercial quantities of hydrocarbons. The assessment of these drilling results suggests that many wells were drilled near the Ekinveren, Erikli, and Ballıfakı thrusts, where structures are complex and oil and gas seeps are common. Many wells were not drilled deep enough to test the potential carbonate and clastic reservoirs of the İnaltı and Cağlayan Formations because these intervals are locally buried by as much as 5 km (3 mi) of sedimentary and volcanic rocks. No wells have tested prospective structures in the north and east where the prospective İnalti and Cağlayan Formations are not as deeply buried. Untested hydrocarbons may exist in this area.
When New York began its first state geological survey in 1836, seep petroleum was used in small quantities primarily for medicinal purposes.
AAPG Europe are excited to announce the first event to be held in the beautiful capital city of Vilnius, Lithuania. This Geosciences Technology Workshop will be based around the main theme "Hydrocarbon Exploration in Lithuania and the Baltic Region" and we expect interests from Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Kaliningrad.
Join AAPG Europe and the Lithuanian Geological Survey for this exciting Core Workshop. This workshop will follow on from the 'Hydrocarbon Exploration in Lithuania and the Baltic Regions' event taking place at Vilnius University on 24th – 25th October.
The Early Palaeozoic Hydrocarbon System in the Baltic Basin and adjacent territories involves Middle-Late Cambrian, the Late Ordovician (Mossen & Fjacka Formations) and the Early Silurian Graptolitic Shales source rocks and the major complexes of reservoirs, associated with Middle Cambrian sandstones, Ordovician and Silurian reefogenic and carbonate build-ups.
The major reservoirs of the Baltic Basin are:
1. The Middle Cambrian - the Early Ordovician quartz sandstone reservoirs
The Middle Cambrian Deimena Group sandstones comprises all the major economically important oil fields located Lithuania, Latvia, Kaliningrad district and Polish onshore and Baltic Sea offshore. The other, much less significant, potential reservoirs are the Late Ordovician carbonate build-ups of Gotland (Sweden) and Southern part of Lithuania and the Late Silurian carbonate reefogenic buildups in South Lithuania (Zdanaviciute O., Sakalauskas J. eds., 2001, Zdanaviciute, Lazauskiene 2007; Kanev et al., 1994).
The reference sections would demonstrate core from fine-grained (dominated by 0.25-0.1 mm fraction (30-75%)) quartz sandstones containing thin clay and siltstone interlayers. The sandstones are to a different degree litified by compaction and predominantly cemented by quartz and diagenetic quartz cement that has the major control on reservoir properties.
The early Ordovician Tremadoc age (Pakerort Regional Stage, Salantai Fm.) strata distributed rather locally are a reservoir unit at the base of the Ordovician succession, comprising quartz sandstones and quartz siltstones of only 0.5 to 4 m thick. It overlays directly to the Middle Cambrian Deimena Group sandstones and together form one reservoir unit with similar reservoir properties. The formation is overlain by the Early Ordovician shales. Several small oil fields are producing from this reservoir unit in the western part of Lithuania.
2. The Late Ordovician (Early Ashgill) and Late Silurian (Late Ludlow/Pridoli) organogenic limestone and reefogenic carbonate buildups reservoirs
The reservoir rocks within the Silurian succession are the Wenlock - Early Ludlow and Pridolian reefogenic carbonates comprising secondary dolomites and reefal limestones with thicknesses of tens of meters. Silurian sequences are locally distributed along the Eastern slope of the Baltic Basin. The Wenlockian - Early Ludlow strata are up to 28 m thick; the effective porosity ranges from 12% to 17% and average permeabilities – 12-15 mD.
The most favourable conditions for the formation of non-structural traps (reef-associated, lithologic-stratigraphic and combined) are associated with the carbonates (mainly stromoporoidal and crinoidal limestones) sucession of about 90 m thick of the late Ludlow- earliest Pridoli (Minija and Ventspils Formations). The reservoir rocks has mean porosities of 6-15 % and up to 26% and permeability ~465mD, reaching up to 2400mD. The Late Silurian reservoir rocks mainly occur in central and southern Lithuania in the central part of the basin.
3. Late Ordovician (Mossen & Fjacka Formations) and the Early Silurian Llandovery Black Shales
In the central and eastern part of the Baltic Basin the potential source rocks comprises dark grey and black shales of the Late Ordovician Late Caradoc-Early Asghill Fjacka and Mossen formations. Both units are generally thin, reaching only up to 5–10 m; the thicknesses of Fjack & Mossesn Formations are 6 m and 4 m respectively. TOC content are mostly in the 0.9 to 10 % range, with occasional higher values of up to 15 %. The source rock facies are kerogen type II and II-III.
Potential source rocks in the Silurian succession are found within the Llandovery, Wenlock and, presumably, Ludlow-aged strata. The Silurian source rocks are composed of dark grey and black graptolite shales and dark grey and black clayey marlstones. Within the Baltic Basin organic matter content generally ranges from 0.7 to 9–11%, but can be as high as 16.46 % (fig. 5.5.b; Zdanaviciute, Lazauskiene, 2004). In terms of petrography, the organic matter is dominated by syngenetic, sapropelic and marine material, together with vitrinite-like particles and abundant faunal remains. Detrital sapropel is scattered as very fine-grained particles and lenses. Liptinite (up to 20%) generally occurs together with dispersed liptodetrinite in sapropelic organic matter, or more rarely as scattered particles. (Zdanavičiūtė, Swadowska 2002, Zdanaviciute, Lazauskiene, 2004, 2007, 2009).
Maturities in the area of interest attain at pre-Silurian level 1.3% Ro and around 1.0% Ro at Silurian source rock level, and reach 1.9% on the prominent West-Lithuanian local temperature high Zdanaviciute, Lazauskiene, 2004, 2007, 2009)
Please note registration for the Core Workshop is available to attendees of the upcoming GTW "Hydrocarbon Exploration in Lithuania and the Baltic Region" on the 24th - 25th October 2016. Please click here for information about the event.
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Rock music significantly changed in the early 1970s. It moved from the underground youth culture into the mainstream media, egged along by big business and even bigger profits. In the process, rock and roll shows transformed practically overnight into huge theatrical productions that were presented in baseball stadiums rather than mid-size theaters and small clubs. Many bands of the time – such as Kiss, the Stones, Alice Cooper, Yes and Led Zeppelin – cashed in on this new idea and presented spectacular shows filled with special effects and pyrotechnics.
In 1973, I was one of many young drummers who got the opportunity to check out John Bonham on tour with Led Zeppelin. I was at Tampa Stadium (the "Big Sombrero") watching Bonham, dressed as an iconoclastic Buddha in an Asian kimono and British bowler, playing a now-legendary set of Ludwig Vistalite drums.
Vistalites were made from a sheet of either translucent or opaque acrylic plastic that is formed into a drum shell. The hardware designed for mounting and tensioning heads was made out of standard chrome-covered steel nuts, washers and screws. Bonham's drums for The Song Remains The Same tour were amber Vistalites in 14" x 26", 10" x 14", 16" x 18" and 18" x 20" sizes. This is, without a doubt, the most famous and collectible Vistalite kit one could find. A facsimile of this set in excellent condition can sell for as much as $3,000.
Vistalites were introduced during this period as a way to enhance the visual importance of the drummer. The transparency of the drum shells seemed to play with the special-effects lighting and dry-ice fog that frequently enshrouded rock bands of the era. But in fact, Fibes was actually the first American company to produce clear acrylic drums in 1972, which were played and promoted by Billy Cobham with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Other companies began to follow suit, but in the end, the Ludwig Drum Co. made the largest contribution to the world's supply of acrylic drum sets.
Vistalite drums began rolling off the assembly line at Ludwig in 1972, although they didn't appear in a Ludwig catalog until edition number 75-1, which was distributed beginning in 1974. Inside this catalog was a choice of translucent colors that included amber (orange), the most common varieties of clear and blue, plus other available colors, including yellow, red and green. In these colors, Ludwig offered the Big Beat kit featuring a 22", 12", 13" and 16" with a 5" x 14" snare drum in matching finish or 5" x 14" chrome Supraphonic. The Pro Beat kit consisted of 24", 13", 14", 16" x 16" and 16" x 18" floor toms. The ultimate Vistalite kit presented in this catalog was the Jellybean Quadra-Plus set. The Jellybean kit had either a 22" or 24" bass drum and carried four melodic (single-headed) toms ranging in size from 13" to 16" and a 16" x 18" floor tom, each in a different color. A 5" x 14" chrome Supraphonic and a hardware package rounded off the kit.


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Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHR)
Q2 2007 Earnings Call
July 23, 2007 5:00 pm ET
Deborah Stapleton - Stapleton Communications Inc.
Craig Barratt - President and CEO
Jack Lazar - VP and CFO
Jonathan Goldberg - Deutsche Bank
Adam Benjamin - Jefferies & Co
Romit Shah - Lehman Brothers
Sanjay Dev - Morgan Stanley
Amit Kapur - Piper Jaffray
Ramesh Misra - C.E.Unterburg
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Excuse me, this is the conference coordinator, and welcome and thank you for standing by for Atheros Conference Call. At this time all participants are in listen-only mode. Later we will open the calls for your questions. Instructions for asking questions will be explained at this time. This conference call is also being recorded.
I will now turn the conference call over to Ms. Deborah Stapleton, who will introduce today's speakers. Thank you Ms. Stapleton. You may begin.
Deborah Stapleton
Thank you. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Atheros Communications' Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results Conference Call. Leading the call today are Dr. Craig Barratt, President and CEO and Jack Lazar, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Before we begin, I would like to remind you that various remarks that we make on this call, including those about our future financial results including revenues, sources of revenues and expenses, our future plans, goals and prospects, market trends, and product development, the anticipated benefits of our diversification strategy, our customers, our competitive position, our anticipated growth, profitability, leadership position in various markets, and expected shipments and product introductions in 2007 constitute forward-looking statements for the purposes of the Safe Harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.
These forward -looking statements and all other statements that may be made on this call that are not historical facts are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially.
We refer you to our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, previously filed with the SEC, and in particular to the section entitled 'Risk Factors' and to other reports that we file from time to time with the SEC, for additional information on factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. These forward-looking statements speak only as the date hereof, and we disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Atheros reports net income and basic and diluted net income per share in accordance with GAAP, and additionally on a non-GAAP basis referred to as pro forma. Atheros' management believes the non-GAAP information is useful because it can enhance the understanding of the company's ongoing economic performance, and Atheros therefore uses pro forma or non-GAAP reporting internally to evaluate and manage the company's operations.
Atheros has chosen to provide this information to investors, to enable them to perform comparisons of operating results in a manner similar to how the company analyses its own operating results. The full reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial data can be found in our earnings release issued earlier today, and we ask that you review it in conjunction with this call. All numbers that are discussed in today's conference call are non-GAAP unless otherwise noted.
Now, I'll turn the call over to Dr. Craig Barratt. Craig?
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Thanks, Deb, and thanks to everyone for joining us today. We are very happy to report record revenue of $100.8 million and record non-GAAP net income of $14.7 million or $0.25 per diluted share. Gross margins were 49.7%, significantly above both our target range and Q2 guidance.
This was our ninth consecutive quarter of record revenue, and our first quarter with revenue of over $100 million. Our 802.11n product revenue was particularly strong and our 11g revenue continues to grow in the second quarter, once again demonstrating the strength of our wireless business. Jack will take you through the numbers in greater detail, and discuss guidance for the third quarter shortly.
Our second quarter results provide continued evidence of our success in expanding our product platforms, customer base and revenue opportunities in our three key markets PC's, networking and consumer. Let's review some of the highlights in each of these areas. Revenue from our PC business was particularly strong in the second quarter with revenue at records highs in both dollars and as a percentage of revenue.
Our diverse set of products for PC OEM's includes our family of 11g, 11ag and 11n wireless LAN products, as well as Ethernet, PHYs and LOMs, strong demand from our customers for both wireless, LAN and Ethernet products resulted in over 24% sequential growth in revenue to these portion of our business.
Our 11n wireless LAN products fueled much of the growth in our PC business, revenue from 11n PC OEM design grew significantly and we believe we continue to gain market share against our competition.
Revenue from our 11g products once again increased and made up almost 60% of wireless LAN revenue. Shipments of annual low cost 11g products grew sequential in the second quarter. In fact we more than doubled our revenue over the first quarter from the AR 2425 11g PCI-Express single chip client solution. During the second quarter we achieved significant 11g design wins at major PC OEM's and we expect our family of cost effective 11g solutions to continue to be a significant revenue driver for us in the second half of these year. The competitive strength of these products is enabling us to both gain market share and extend the lives of the Atheros 11g product line.
In June, ASUS Stack launched the revolutionary EEPC, which provides uses with the mobile internet experience at a very cost effective price. It is being called the world's most inexpensive laptop, with prices beginning at a $199. And the best part of it is that this new line of laptops incorporates Atheros's 11g Wi-Fi, as well as our fast Ethernet LOM. We are proud to be a part of this important innovation in mobile computing and pleased to see this example of successful cross selling among our expanded product lines.
Our Ethernet business continues to be strong. In the second quarter we shipped more that 6 million ports, bringing out total port shipments in the first half of the year to over 10 million. During the second quarter we further demonstrated the competitiveness of our Ethernet products, by securing our first Ethernet design wins in the laptops from multiple PC OEMS.
In May we announced our next generation Gigabit Ethernet PHY the AR8021, this compact 6x6 48-pin QFN PHY provides robust performance and a rich set of value added features, all in a low cost and low power design. The AR8021 is the world's Smallest Gigabit Ethernet PHY device, offering a reduction of more than 60% in package size compared with the nearest competitive solutions. This industry leading Gigabit Ethernet PHY footprint results in the lowest builder materials costs on the market, reducing price barriers to widespread option of Gigabit Ethernet PHY technology in a wide range of computing and networking applications.
Our Ethernet product line continues to grow and our success with these products further validates our strategy of providing multiple product lines to our world-class set of customers.
During the second quarter, we demonstrated our new Bluetooth products, through a wide variety of PC OEM and other customers at the Computex Trade Show in Taiwan. The initial feedback has been positive and we are sampling to a variety of potential customers.
Atheros's networking business grew again in the second quarter and continued to be the largest portion of our overall business. Growth in networking was driven by continued adoption of 11n in networking products, such as routers, access points and gateways.
During the quarter, we introduced our new AR 9001 family of second generation 11n solutions. This product family includes the industry's first 11n system-on-chip, which incorporates our high performance wireless network processor. These products support various configurations for advanced 11n routers and access points, including single and dual band 2-by-2 and 3-by-3 minor configurations, and fast and gigabit Ethernet.
We also introduced, single band 2-by-2 and 1-by-2, and the world's first dual band 11n 2-by-2 USB solutions. We've secured design wins for these products, and we'll be ramping production shipments this quarter.
Our second generation family of 11n products builds on our highly successful first generation XSPAN products, with enhanced performance, higher integration, smaller form factors and lower overall cost. As with our previous XSPAN products, the AR 9001 family complies with the latest IEEE Draft 2.0 11n specification.
Atheros's XSPAN technology achieved industry validation, through our selection into the Wi-Fi certified 11n Draft 2.0 Testing Suite, and our customer's 11n products were among the first to receive Wi-Fi certification.
Also during the quarter, we introduced our first Ethernet switch, the AR8216. Despite port Ethernet switches now included in several of our reference designs and we have designs win with multiple customers, we have already begun volume production, and we look forward to delivering products to customers this quarter. Later this year we expect to introduced our first gigabyte Ethernet switch, an essential building block for next generation high performance 11n routers.
The retail portion of our networking business was especially strong in the second quarter, as we experienced increased demand for our 11n solution. D-Link is now offering Atheros space to 11n 2 by 2 router for $59 down from $79. With prices now ranging from under $60 to around $200 there is a breadth of products and features that will meet every consumer's needs, which we believe will drive mainstream consumers to upgrade their networking equipment and experience.
As you all recall, partners such as Siemens, 2Wire, ZyXEL [Shazam] and others use Atheros solutions for carrier a gateway products, to incorporate broadband connections such as ADSL or VDSL with wireless LAN. We have a variety of new design wins for carrier solutions featuring 11g and 11n and we continue to believe that this will be a growth carrier for us in 2007 and beyond.
As anticipated we did experience a slowdown in carrier revenue as one end customer in particular adjusted his inventory levels. In the third quarter, we anticipate a pickup in demand and a return to growth to this portion of our networking business.
Our consumer business today is made of up ROCm mobile wireless LAN and our PAS products. In the second quarter, this business declined to 5% of revenue, primarily due to softness in our PAS business. The overall PAS market was slow and we believe that our primary OEM partner is experiencing a decline in market share. In addition, the rollout of our AR1900 PAS solution with other OEMs has taken longer than originally anticipated.
While we expect PAS to decline further in the third quarter, we continue to look for additional customer engagements and new PAS based applications without growing our modest PAS operating expenses.
We are seeing a lot of design activity for our ROCm mobile wireless LAN solutions for various categories, including digital cameras, gaming and dual-mode handsets. Consumer electronics products, including cameras from Sony, and digital picture frames from Kodak are now available.
On the cellular front, our dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi reference platforms developed with QUALCOMM are in growing demand. We secured wins with two of the world's top five handset manufacturers and we expect to begin production shipments later this year.
Consumers increasingly want their mobile handsets to deliver a robust internet experience that only Wi-Fi can provide. As a result, over time we expect the majority of smartphones, as well as feature phones supporting UMA to include Wi-Fi. We look forward to announcing our mobile wireless LAN designs and other ROCm customers in the coming quarters as these products become available to consumers.
In addition to our Bluetooth products for the PC market, later this year we expect to bring additional Bluetooth products to market targeted at the consumer market. We are excited about our opportunities in the Bluetooth market and we continue to believe that Atheros will become a significant player in Bluetooth.
The past 12 months have been the time of exceptional growth for Atheros. Our revenue and operating profit for the first six months of 2007 have increased 46% and 54% year-over-year respectively. And we now have 727 employees compared to 420 at the end of the second quarter 2006.
In order to achieve better scalability and parallelism, we have moved to a business unit structure. We now have three primary business units. Sam Endy leads our Mobile Business. Jason Zheng leads our Asia-Pacific businesses, and just recently Ben Naskar joined Atheros as Vice President and General Manager of our Wireless Networking Business. Ben comes to us from PMC-Sierra where he was Vice President and General Manager of their Communications Business. Previously, Ben held a variety of executive positions at companies including Analog Devices, National Semiconductor, and AMD. We are excited to have Ben join the Atheros team.
Atheros is driving the ongoing market adoption of 11n solutions, with Draft 2.0 certification, and our recently introduced second-generation XSPAN 11n product line, featuring enhanced performance and industry leading integration.
By offering an extensive family of XSPAN products, combined with our diversification into markets such as Ethernet and Bluetooth, we are becoming an even more significant communications solutions provider to the PC, networking and consumer markets. We are very pleased with our progress this quarter and look forward to continuing success in 2007.
With that I will hand it off to Jack for a detailed review of the financials. Jack?
Jack Lazar
Thank you, Craig and thanks all of you for joining us today. First, I will outline our financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007, and then I will provide our third quarter guidance. Q2 was another very strong quarter for Atheros. This was our ninth consecutive quarter of revenue growth and our eighth sequential quarter increased in both operating and net income. Revenue was towards the high end of our guidance range and gross margin were above it, as a result EPS came in $0.01 better than the top end of our guidance.
As a reminder our Q2 guidance was 4% to 7% revenue growth, gross margin between 47% and 48%, and EPS of $0.23 to $0.24. Q2 revenue increased 6% sequentially and net income was up $1.1 million to $14.7 million or $0.25 per diluted share. In addition to the strong financial results, we're pleased with the progress we've made integrating the Attansic team into Atheros family.
We're proud to have recorded our first $100 million quarter in Q2. Revenue was a record $100.8 million, up $5.3 million from the $95.5 million recorded in the first quarter of 2007 and then increase of 38% comparable with the $73.2 million recorded in the prior year comparable quarter. The 6% sequential increase in revenue was driven by a further expansion of our core wireless LAN business, with particular strength in our 11n and 11g solutions.
Based on products mixed data, the breakdown of revenue for our wireless LAN chips sets was as follows. 11ag was 18% versus 21% in the prior quarter, 11g was 58%, which compares with 61% in Q1, and 11n was 24% in Q2 versus 18% in Q1. Revenue from our 11g and 11m products were record highs in Q2. 11n product revenue increased $7.2 million or 49% sequentially due primarily to the strength of our PC OEM customers, and increased adoption of 11n by retail OEM.
We had record 11g product revenue due to the strength in sales to both our retail and PC OEM customers, partially offset by an expected softness with carriers. Our 11a/g solutions at 18% were in line with our expectations going into the quarter and reflects the continued transition of our PC OEM and retail customers to 11n solutions. The percentage breakdown of revenue by channel based on data supplied by our OEMs is as follows. Networking was 50% of revenue in Q2 versus 52% in Q1, PC OEM was 45% of revenue versus 39% in Q1 and consumer was 5% in Q2 as compared with 9% in Q1.
As a reminder beginning last quarter we began providing you channel information based on our networking, PC OEM and consumer categories. For historical comparison purposes the all retail and enterprise carrier channels form our networking category.
Revenue in units shipped to our networking and PC OEM customers set record highs. Networking revenue increased $1.1 million or 2% sequentially, as we saw strength in shipments of our 11n products to retail OEMs.
Revenue from our PC OEM customers increased $7.8 million or 21% sequentially. A large portion of this increase related to the strength of our 11g and 11n products at several PC OEMs partially offset by an expected reduction in 11a/g shipments. Ethernet revenue was essentially flat sequentially while units increased significantly due to a higher concentration of 10/100 PHY and LOM shipments.
PAS revenue in Q2 came in below our expectations due to our primary OEMs loss of market share and an overall stock miss in the PAS market. In Q2 Hon Hai Precision Industry was our only 10% customer.
First quarter gross margins were 49.7%, above the high-end of our 47% to 48% guided range, well above our corporate target range and up a 170 basis points sequentially.
Our gross margin strength was due to favorable product mix, relatively stable 11g ASPs and increased supply chain efficiencies.
On the later point, we are starting to experience some of the benefits related to scale, as Atheros now ships 50% more chip sets quarterly, than we did just six months ago. The ongoing strength of our wireless LAN business and the addition of our Ethernet product line has enabled to achieve product cost synergies that were previously unavailable to Atheros.
Total operating expenses were$33.9 million, a 6% increase from Q1 and a bit above our guidance of $32.7 million to $33.6 million. R&D increased $1.4 million or 7%sequentially, as we continue to invest in additional headcount tape-outs for new products and software license fees.
As the percentage of revenue R&D increased slightly from 21.6% in Q1 to 21.8% in Q2, SG&A increased just under $500,000 or 4% due to headcount additions and commissions for outside sales reps, partially offset by reduced trade show expenses. SG&A as a percentage of revenue decreased slightly from 11.9% in Q1, to 11.8% in Q2.
Operating income in the quarter was $16.2 million up 17% from the $13.9 million recorded in Q1 and a 54% increase from Q2 '06. Operating income was 16.1% of revenue in the second quarter and was for the first time in our history within our target range of 16% to 18%.
The effective tax rate in Q2 was approximately 23% up from 17% in Q1 as we updated our annual forecast, resulting in cumulative adjustments to our effective tax rate. For the six months ended June 30th, our effective tax rate was 20%.
Net income was $14.7 million or earnings of $0.25 per diluted share for the quarter, compared with net income of $13.6 million or earnings of $0.23 per diluted share in Q1. Average fully diluted share outstanding were $59.1 million Q2 and $58.3 million in Q1.
GAAP net income for the second quarter was $9.3 million or $0.16 per diluted share. This compares with GAAP net income of $7.6 million or $0.13 per diluted share in the first quarter and $6.8 million or $0.12 per diluted share in Q2 06.
Turning to the balance sheet, it was remarkably strong. Cash and marketable securities were a record $228 million at June 30th a $21.8 million increase from Q1. DSO's based on our quarterly average receivables balances decreased six days to 44, versus 50 days in Q1. This was better than our target range of 45 to 55 days.
Inventory returns for the quarter were 7 times, compared with 6.3 times in Q1, while days of inventory decreased 9% from 57 to 52 days. Inventory returns once again exceeded our target of five to six times.
The company continues to have virtually no debt. Total liabilities at the end of Q2 were $105 million.
During the second quarter of 2007, our capital expenditures and depreciation were approximately $3.2 million and $1.2 million, respectively. Overall, our cash flow and asset management metrics were strong once again in Q2. And as of June 30th, we have 727 full time employees, compared with 688 at the end of Q1.
I will now move on to our guidance for the third quarter. Q2 was our strongest quarter to-date in terms of revenue and both operating and net income. In Q3, the catalyst for revenue growth will come from continued strong demand for 11g and 11n wireless LAN solutions, as well as our line of fast and gigabit Ethernet products.
We expect that the networking portion of our business will be the strongest in Q3, led by an increased demand from both retail and carrier customers for 11g and XSPAN 11n wireless LAN products.
PC OEM revenue is expected to decline from Q2 record highs due to timing of product rollout with some of our customers. Consumer revenue will decline due to a sharp decrease in demand from our primary PAS OEM, although this will be partially offset by increasing product revenue from ROCm mobile wireless LAN solutions.
Accordingly, based on the strength of our combined business, we currently anticipate second quarter revenue to increase between 4% and 6%. We anticipate the gross margins will remain very strong and in a range of 47.5% to 48.5%, and once again above our target model range due to improvements in our supply chain and relatively stable pricing for 11g products.
We will continue to invest in the people, product tape outs and infrastructure necessary to support our continued growth and entry into new markets. In the third quarter, we anticipate total operating expenses will be in the range of $34 million to $35 million. A majority of these increases will be in research and development, as we increase our tape outs during Q3 to support our long-term products plans.
Our estimated pro forma tax rate for Q3 is approximately 20% and we anticipate EPS for Q3 to be in the range of $0.25 to $0.26 based on fully diluted shares outstanding 59.5 million and 60 million.
Our Q2 results and our Q3 guidance once again reflect the strength of our business, dividends from our diversification strategy and the favorable product cycles that we continue to leverage. We will continue to invest in further diversification efforts, which we believe will help position Atheros for ongoing success and increase shareholder value in 2007 and beyond.
So, with that let me hand it back over to Craig.
Craig Barratt
Thanks Jack. We are now ready for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Jonathan Goldberg.
Jonathan Goldberg - Deutsche Bank
Hi guys. Thanks for taking my call.
Craig Barratt
Hey, Jonathan.
Jonathan Goldberg - Deutsche Bank
First a quick question on gross margins. Was there anything anomalous in the quarter, anything one-time, non-recurring? Any changes to accounting that would have driven that?
Jack Lazar
No, I wouldn't say that there was anything too particular. There was a little NRE that we had in this quarter. But it was relatively minor. This was really more just product driven.
Jonathan Goldberg - Deutsche Bank
Okay. And then I was wondering if you could talk little more about your ROCm design wins on the mobile side. You said you [received] two top five handset vendors. What else can you tell us? Is it going to be in smartphones or is it going to be the mainstream product?
Craig Barratt
Well, it's difficult. And generally we don't give more color until the end products are actually shipping. Then we will be much happy to tell about the particular products and the targeted carriers are for those products. But, as we mentioned in our prepared remarks a number of these design wins do relate to the joint reference design partnership we have with QUALCOMM. So, a number of these products are generally CDMA based phones, advanced CDMA phones that also include a Wi-Fi capability that if we won't give any extra color on the winds at these points.
Jonathan Goldberg - Deutsche Bank
Can you say their smart functional or mass market?
Craig Barratt
Sort of…
Jonathan Goldberg - Deutsche Bank
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Adam Benjamin. Your line is open.
Adam Benjamin - Jefferies & Co
Yeah, hey guys, just a follow up on the gross margin improvement in the quarter, Jack you mention kind of three areas, which drove that. On the supply chain efficiencies can you go into little more detail on that one and just, how you seeing that is a, is it built on pricing, on the wafers or other efficiencies in terms of multiple facts that your using. Can you just give some more color there and how we can expect to see that play out into the rest of this year as into years, you become a better company.
Jack Lazar
Yes Adam, happy to comment on that. I think some of these is just a lot big numbers finally starting to give us some advantages is there of. We mention that in the prepared remarks that the numbers of chips sets that's we're shipping are now 50% greater in this most recent quarters comparable Q4 of last year. So that's a huge weapon when we go to talk to suppliers. And frankly we're just taken more credibly then we were probably in the past.
So we're seeing efficiencies amongst our foundry partners, our backend supply partners, frankly across the whole supply chain and this probably weren't available to us in the past. And we expect to try and continued to leverage that as we move forward. Of course products make has a big impact on gross margin too, so just maximizing the value some of the efficiencies of the supply chain will get us all the way there, but these certainly a good stuff
Craig Barratt
Yes. Adam these is great I just want to make an extra comment on the supply chain safe side. What we really doing is leveraging our ability to design a single chip single chits and in to straight digital Cmos. We aren't captive to a particular foundries seem us mix single process and that flexibility and CMOS, so we aren't captive to a particular foundries, CMOS mixed signal process.
A signal that the fability and agility allowed us to ramp several different foundries into production with quite advanced single chip solution. And the fact that the radios in the single chip solutions has done scale as much with geometry, means in general we're able to enjoy a very nice cost curve on what some people might consider to be trailing semiconductor technologies. So you put those two together and that's something that's really allowed our operations team to really optimize the cost structure of our products, and that's something that we expect to continue to favors us in the coming quarters.
Adam Benjamin - Jefferies & Co
Got you, thanks. Greg lust a follow-up on the PC OEM side. The quarter was obviously very strong in June, but Jack, you mentioned on the guidance that you thought it would be down sequentially. Just trying to reconcile with the normal PC seasonal build for back-to school, would seem like that business should be up sequentially and just trying reconcile that and understand kind of the dynamics going there? I know, you re ramping and there is couple of new customers as well, so just wanted, if can give a little more color there, that will great.
Yeah, there is really not much more we can say other rather it just purely timing of some of the rollout of products that we have. What I would point out is that, keep in mind our PC revenue is going to be above what it was in Q1. And Q1 was an all time record for us at the time too. So, it's not like we're seeing a massive drop off PC OEM, but we are seeing it will decline a bit from what we've had just huge numbers. I mean it's never been anywhere close to 45% or our revenue. So, I wouldn't look at it as an over trend there, I think it's just a combination of things coming together at this point.
Adam Benjamin - Jefferies & Co
Okay, great. And then, lastly on the gross margin, I know people have asked about this. Have you thought about adjusting that target?
Jack Lazar
So we are just going to comment on the gross margins going forward and obviously for this we see another great quarter for gross margin at 47.5 to 48.5, so we are seeing some benefit there and as business conditions change in the future, which may force us to go back towards our target model. So it really just depends on where we are trying to take the company strategically and what investments we need to make?
Adam Benjamin - Jefferies & Co
Got you, all right Jack thanks.
Jack Lazar
Thank you.
Craig Barratt
Thanks Adam.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Romit Shah.
Romit Shah - Lehman Brothers
Great thanks for taking my question guys. Just with [zeneros] starting the ramp here into the second half, can you just discuss qualitatively how that's impacting your 11n business and why we shouldn't assume that your G starts the level of from here?
Craig Barratt
Yeah Romit, this is Craig. So Intel's introduction of 11n is actually very positive for our business and we can say that with confidence, because we have been through two previous cycles of Intel introducing Centrino-based products. But remember the only customers they supply are the Centrino-based laptop customers. They don't sell Wi-Fi to any of the other segments and so for 11n their introduction creates a lot more credibility for the transition towards 11n and really drives a sweeping adoption of 11n, not only at PC OEMs which benefits us because Intel of course doesn't fill every socket of those customers.
They don't address all of the laptops and of course their brand doesn't cover desktops, but more importantly the retail and carrier segments, they provide all of the infrastructure product that actually connects to these PCs. ~And so the momentum from that overall is definitely positive for our business and that's a cycle as I said we have seen twice before and its what we expect and are seeing repeat this time around too.
Romit Shah - Lehman Brothers
Okay great and then just a question on ROCm. It sounds like you guys have had very good design win momentum. The question just around when we could see some of those design wins ramp even be hit hard in one particular quarter, do you expect to sort of layer in as we get into 2008?
Jack Lazar
Romit, this is Jack, there is a wide variety of these wins, some are larger than others. You will see them all play out over, certainly over the next year here. But the particular timing for anyone of these or frankly just the overall trend, I don't think we are in the position to really comment on. We did say ROCm will be up, ROCm product revenue will be up in the next quarter, but other than that I think that's really the -- the best we can give you for now and as we start stalking the market, we will be clearly more than happy to start talking about them.
Romit Shah - Lehman Brothers
Okay, thank you guys.
Craig Barratt
Romit, I didn't answer your question on 11g. You said will the transition to 11n create more pressure on the 11g business? But actually to some extent we believe the answer to that is actually no and part of the reason is that to such a drive to develop very, very low-cost laptop platform, we've talked about the AssistTech $199 laptop.
And what we're finding is that this drive towards lower cost platform is something that is closing the lower end part of the market to grow quite rapidly and that's generally not a Centrino branded segments. Centrino is more of a premium segment, and so I think we are seeing a lot of growth in 11g because of that drive towards low-cost platforms and that somewhat independent of the drive to 11n in the mid-range and high-end.
Romit Shah - Lehman Brothers
Okay, thanks a lot Craig.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Louis Gerhardy.
Sanjay Dev - Morgan Stanley
Hi guys this is actually Sanjay Dev behalf of Louis Gerhardy. Just a couple of quick questions, sorry to beat a dead horse, but just getting back to the gross margins. If I look at the 49.7 that you did this quarter and then the mid-point of the outlook about 48% there it's about 170 basis point drop, I was kind of hoping I may be able to reconcile -- the push it takes that kind of go into that potential drop assuming that that's what it comes out to be. I am just kind of having a hard time to see how it's going to drop, given the incremental revenue, the growth. As well as I am assuming a richening mix of n versus g, and I was just kind of hoping if you kind of walk me through that?
Jack Lazar
Sure. I mean when we come up with guidance for the quarter it's actually based on the forecast that we have, and that of course includes the lot of products that's already on order and so, it's reality that what we see right now. I think the puts and takes of it -- clearly, we don't expect much out of PAS this quarter and PAS is a higher margin business for us. So that clearly has some effect downward on the growth margins.
The rest of it just gets down to product mix. If we sell more to certain channels, for example, the carrier business doesn't tend to be as high margin as some of the other businesses and we're increased happening in the carrier business in this most recent quarter.
We also see Ethernet, which generally doesn't run at 49 point margins, as much as I would like it to. It is increasing in this quarter. So, I see plenty of things that can pull down the margins in this upcoming quarter.
That being said, let's now reside to the fact that we are guiding to 47.5% to 48.5% gross margins, which I think should be pretty favorably received by folks, because we have never really guided to a number that high. And it's significant lay above what we have guided to in the past.
Sanjay Dev - Morgan Stanley
Right, I understood. I appreciate the input. I just wanted to reconcile it for myself. And then just one more follow up for Jack, if I could. I was wondering if you just kind of talk about the opportunity in the desktop. Obviously, with some Centrino coming on, you talked about how that should benefit you, how it's benefited you two previous cycles before. But, if you just kind of talk about some more of your opportunities in the desktop space and kind of help us get a handle on that?
Craig Barratt
Yeah. I think the desktop area is still an opportunity. We are focused it. But, I think lower cost laptops are really something that's really come to play out in the last few months, as we have seen from a number of product announcements. And so, certainly we do have wins in the desktop space. We are optimistic that, that will grow. But, I think it will modest compared with the opportunity and very, very low cost laptop platforms, as laptops really drive further down into the market.
Sanjay Dev - Morgan Stanley
Okay. All right. Thank you very much. That's all I had.
Craig Barratt
Thanks Sanjay.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Amit Kapur.
Amit Kapur - Piper Jaffray
Great. Thanks a lot guys. I was wondering in terms of Bluetooth and ROCm. I know there is still little bit of handset inventory during Q2, and obviously with the iPhone launched it seem to create a little more buzz in the market. And the people you deal with, did you see any changes in the handset portfolios or changes in design activities throughout the quarter or think seem to be kind of still on track?
Craig Barratt
I think it's more difficult for us to judge on overall trends. I think with the advent of the iPhone and even prior to that I think the interest in having much more richly featured handsets, the interest in that is definitely increasing in the market. So, the percentage of the market that is smartphone based which will have a higher touch of Wi-Fi is definitely seen to trend up. And so, I think the richness of the user experience is definitely something that's in the forefront of the cellular handset companies.
Amit Kapur - Piper Jaffray
Great, thanks. And may be just kind of again turning to the PAS market, you kind of mentioned that you are not expecting a lot out of the coming quarter. How shall we think about that beyond that? Is it kind of decline in the PAS market you saw during Q2, to start off something permanent and should we continue to model it at roughly at 5% of revenue going forward or you think it will bounce back?
Jack Lazar
So, remember in the consumer numbers there is actually the ROCm numbers too. So, it's not all of that 5% as PAS. And certainly, we do expect the PAS revenue to go down next quarter. I think we're realistic about PAS. I've certainly spoken to a lot of you about this and Craig spoken to you a lot of view about these. We've looked at PAS as an opportunities to show off our ability to do integrated solution in CMOS. We look at it's a opportunities to put financial strength into the company and it's clearly served its purpose.
W also view it though as a market where we can continue to take revenue and gross margin and add to the strength of Atheros. Now, do we look it is an area where we investing a lot of resources? No. That's clearly not the case. We have a nominal amount of resources on it and really what we're trying to do is penetrate some of these other customers in more volume. And we think that will have the biggest impact on PAS.
So I think we're probably, clearly this quarter is going to be an extremely low quarter for PAS, but as we look forward we would expected to pick back up with it, and over time its not going to grow at the same rate as the business, but it should be a nice slug of revenue and certainly high margin business that will help us drive some profitability for the company.
Amit Kapur - Piper Jaffray
Great. Thanks a lot guys.
Jack Lazar
Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Ramesh Misra of C.E.Unterburg
Ramesh Misra - C.E.Unterburg
Hi. Good afternoon guys. Thanks for taking my question. First was a clarification, Jack could you provide us sense of how large the Attansic contribution was during the quarter? And talk about pricing trends in 11n in Q2 and also forward and if there's any reason you might think could be any different from PAS option and I have a follow up.
Jack Lazar
Okay. So in short no, I can't really give any comments on Ethernet, we're not going to be reporting that out. I think we're on track to do our 25 million. And as we said, units were up significantly and revenue was relatively flat sequentially. We also did say that we would expect the Ethernet to be in area of strength as we move through to our Q3.
So I think that's really all the comments we have reason it unfortunately at this point.
Our 11n pricing, we did see certainly some pretty decent declines in 11n and as we have said over and over and over again, we plan on driving those prices down. We believe that you need to get these $60 routers out in the market place in order to drive the adoption of 11n and the way in which we are doing that is by doing multiple generations of products faster than our competitors.
So we have the only SoC out there in the marketplace today, that's bring down the overall bond pricing for 11n and we gave some of those benefits to our customers. So clearly 11n is dropping at a rate greater than say 11g at this point, but that's what you would expect if we are going to continue to drive this adoption of the standard.
Ramesh Misra - C.E.Unterburg
Okay. In regards to ROCm wins, can you guys say if it was for the UMA architecture phones or was this basically for data networking/web surfing?
Craig Barratt
I think as we answered before, we're not giving specific color on wins. Our policy very much as we don't talk about those until the end products are shipping and we'll be happy to give you a lot more details when those products are out on the market.
Ramesh Misra - C.E.Unterburg
Okay, great. Cut out try. Thanks very much.
Craig Barratt
No problem.
Thank you. Your last question comes from [Brian Wishart] of A. G. Edwards.
Brian Wishart - A. G. Edwards
Hi, this is Bryan Wishart for Gary Mobley. In your wireless LAN division, how would you describe the net effect of the market share type of war going on during the most recent notebook refresh period?
Craig Barratt
I think our general sense is we are growing our revenue in wireless LAN faster than the overall growth in the market and so consequently our conclusion is that we are in general increasing our share in that market. I think, as we reflected in our prepared remarks we're definitely excited and positive about a number of the top tier PCM OEM wins that we have that will start shipping later this year.
Brian Wishart - A. G. Edwards
Okay and can you give us any idea on Ethernet, of your penetration and other PC OEMs beyond the ASUS Stack?
Craig Barratt
So we definitely have wins with additional customers and once again when those end products actually ship we'll be happy to talk about those customers.
Jack Lazar
But it is a variety here too its folks like in a ASUS Stack, there is other players in their core market, but also laptop manufacturers who are now incorporating our Ethernet into their laptops and that's a significant step for us, because in order to broaden the actual addressable market for us, we need to be able to ship both OEMs and the PCMs like an ASUS Stack, so couple that with the fact that our switching solutions are now about ready to ramp with their end production volume production right, so as those hit the market and start shipping with our wireless LAN access points and routers, we truly see an opportunity to expand the Ethernet business as we look forward.
Brian Wishart - A. G. Edwards
Okay. And then just one final question, would you say that your trends in overall average selling prices would that be down?
Jack Lazar
Well I don't know. The overall average selling price is actually relatively meaningless to us at this point, because we have business like Ethernet that sell at dramatically different prices than say wireless LAN. So I think we have to look at it on a piece-by-piece basis and when we look at wireless LAN I think we are happy with the trends that we saw on the most recent quarter.
And with Ethernet, I think we feel like we can be very competitive and the trends we are seeing there are relatively positive, then of course this PAS and PAS just doesn't change much in pricing, and so overall when I look at the segments I think that we relatively happy with the way ASP is trading in the most recent quarter.
Brian Wishart - A. G. Edwards
Okay, that's all, thanks a lot.
Jack Lazar
Okay, thank you.
Craig Barratt
Thanks Brian.
Thank you. Your last final question comes from Edwin Mok of Needham & Company.
Jack Lazar
You there Edwin?
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
Hi, can you hear me?
Jack Lazar
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
Yes sorry about that. First question for longer-term, longer-term obviously you guys have been able to integrate more component to your chips and it would drive and keep a good ASPs or take the market share from customers, what's your FAB of integrating since you guys already have two wireless LAN and Ethernet, what's your thought on integrating two the wireless meant together? And also what is the next step for you or your thoughts in 11n you guys have especially with the write down solutions, so what's your next step away to your thought 11n and does it integrating more gigabyte Ethernet switches something like that?
Jack Lazar
Glad to say Edwin we certainly see the attach rate, the connect rate for a lot of these features in many devices increasing and that therefore means longer-term integration certainly makes a lot of sense. However, in growing new businesses, our goal is not only to developed technologies just to integrate, and the reason for that is that for the next several years a lot of these technologies actually have very different attach rates in devices. So for example in PCs, Ethernet is a 100%, Wi-Fi is now close to 100%, now the Bluetooth is a lot of less than that may be 25% to 30% across all those laptops and even less if you include desktops.
And so integrated products prematurely bought to market could have difficulties because not every customer needs all of the features together. So our discipline is to build a stand-alone business with extremely competitive products that we can attack the market with such as Ethernet and Bluetooth to supplement Wi-Fi and of course longer-term we will look at integration opportunities.
Clearly, this Ethernet Wi-Fi integration in routers and in mobile devices over time more and more of them will have both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and perhaps other technologies as well. And so, we want to be positioned to be a strong player as integrated devices come to market. But, we do want to express some caution about how quickly integrated devices really become relevant.
If we go back three years ago and look at DSL gateways everyone knew that Wi-Fi attaching those gateways was going to go up. And amazingly all of the DSL providers all had Wi-Fi businesses in-house. And none of them really probably other than one were able to stay competitive in Wi-Fi and eventually they actually dropped out of that business and failed to bring integrated products to market quickly enough. And so, that's a market that was expected to be completely integrated by now and players without those technologies were expected to be uncompetitive. And we have pushed the standards ahead fast enough to where our innovation rate has allowed us to keep that market favoring leading solutions rather than integrated solutions.
In terms of the road map with 11n which was your second question. We have SoC, we have USB products. We have variety of second-generation product. Certainly, that's a stepping stunt for us. Clearly, greater levels of integration, high-levels of performance are absolutely possible and we expect to create more leadership in the market from both the feature performance point of view and also a price point of view as well. And so, this is just one step in the journey and it's a journey that we've traveled and followed several times before with each previous generation of Wi-Fi.
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
Craig, you don't want to touch on the timeline right now. Do you? In terms of…
Craig Barratt
We will announce products as we are sampling and ramping them. So, we won't give any more color other than that.
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
Great. That's fine one question for Jack. I know Jack you don't want to give the overall ASP. But, may be you can give little bit of just a trend in terms of ASP for your three product group, the AG and the G and also [11n]. Did you see ASP decline in all three groups? Or did you see once that they grew all, any group that actually see a flattish growth in ASP?
Jack Lazar
Well, I think in any quarter we would expect to see some level of ASP decline in every one of our product groups. But, clearly the ASPs will decline more in certain technologies than others. And of, course the one that would come to mind is one that's priced the highest, which would be 11n.
So we are focused on really driving down the price for 11n. That makes sense because we have the cost effective solutions, we have the integrated solutions. So, that's the one where you saw the most pricing pressure. I think I commented on the call that 11g was relatively benign pricing and AG is increasingly less important.
So, g and n affect us the most. To make n successful we will continue to drive down the price and the cost. With 11g I think we have some of the best solutions in the marketplace. We are seeing that was pretty amazing design wins that we've had against competition.
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
I think you're right way. Fortunately you are doing pretty well. So, thanks for answering my question.
Craig Barratt
Thanks Edwin. So, we did like to thank all of you for joining us today with a special thanks to all of our employees for their continued dedication and hard work. In September we will be attending the AG Edward's Growth Conference in New York and the ThinkEquity Fifth Annual Growth Conference in San Francisco, as well as marketing in various parts of the country. If you are interested in a call or a meeting, please contact Stapleton Communications.
We thank you for your interest in Atheros and we look forward to speaking to you along the way. Good bye for now.
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Live updates
Family say they have "lost a daughter" and "she is in danger"
A spokeswoman for the family of the 15 year old Bristol schoolgirl who is thought to be heading for Syria has said they have 'lost a daughter' and believe she is 'in danger'.
Anira Khokhar addressed a gathering of reporters and cameramen in the girl's home district of Easton.
Neighbour says missing girl had "sadness in her face"
A neighbour of the missing teenage girl from Bristol who is thought to be heading for Syria says she thought the girl looked sad recently.
"A few days ago I came out of my house and she just came out of her house and I could see that she had a sadness on her face.
"I said 'are you alright?' and she would always answer me with a smile but she just did this [put her hand up]. I was thinking 'what's happened to her?' I didn't know."
Speaking about the suspicions she may have been radicalised and recruited to fight in Syria, she said:
"These people must have really got through to her.
"She always had a smile on her face. I'm shocked this has happened. She is a very good girl. "I'm shocked about her going to fight a war at 15. She still goes to school.
Classmates of Bristol teen are shocked at her disappearance
Friends of the Bristol teenager who is believed to be heading for Syria have been talking about their shock at her disappearance.
Pupils outside The City Academy in Easton, Bristol, said the girl had not seemed any different when they last saw her.
"She is a good friend. I have no idea what made her leave.
"I think the police have asked one of her friends to text her to see where she is. She is a really nice girl."
"I was sat next to her and she seemed fine,"
"She didn't have any new friends that we knew about, and she was a completely normal girl."
Syria bound teenager is a student at City Academy
The Bristol teenager who is believed to be heading to Syria is a student at Bristol's City Academy, it has been confirmed
British teen 'probably believes she will be a jihadi bride'
The British teen who is believed to be travelling to Syria will probably "become a jihadi bride," according to a radicalisation expert.
Haras Rafiq from the counter-extremism think tank, the Quilliam Foundation told Good Morning Britain: "It's more than likely that she will go and become a jihadi bride. She, at the age of 15, will marry someone she considers to be a holy warrior."
Teenager described as "popular and gifted"
The missing teenager is described as "popular and gifted" and wanted to be a dentist. There is now concern for others in the area.
Family plead with teenager to return home
Avon and Somerset police fear a schoolgirl missing from Easton in Bristol may be attempting to get to Syria after becoming radicalised. The 15-year-old Somalian, who hasn't been named, has been tracked by police and is believed to be in Turkey. Officers are now keen to stop her before she crosses the border into Syria. Hibaq Jama, a councillor for the Lawrence Hill area of Bristol has been with the girl's family tonight and made this statement:
Missing Bristol teen is 'incredibly bright' and 'popular'
A spokeswoman for the family of a missing teenager from Bristol has described her as being "incredibly bright," "articulate" and "popular".
She said the teen had left for school as usual on the morning of her disappearance, but that when her father went to collect her at 3:30pm "she wasn't there".
The spokeswoman said the family were "devastated" and "distraught".
Family of missing Bristol teen urge her to come home
The family of a 15-year-old girl who is believed to be attempoting to travel to Syria, have urged her to return home to Bristol.
A spokeswoman, Hibaq Jama, read this message on behalf of the family:
Please come back, we miss you very much. You are not in any trouble. We just want you to be safe and to come home as soon as possible.
Missing Bristol girl "may have been radicalised"
Police say a missing 15 year old Somali girl from Bristol may be attempting to get to Syria.
It's understood the teenager has travelled to Turkey.
Assistant Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe said there are indications the girl "may have been radicalised".
"Since she was reported missing by her parents we've carried out extensive work to trace her footsteps from the time she left home to her arrival in Turkey. We're giving every support we can to her family; we want to find out where she is and encourage her to return safely. Our officers are working closely with the Metropolitan Police and their network of international liaison officers to find her.
"There are indications she may have been radicalised but at the moment our priority is to find her before she crosses the border to Syria and make sure she is safe.
"We must all be vigilant and ready to spot the signs of radicalisation. Often, young Muslims who go to Syria hold can be naïve and don't recognise that they are being sucked into joining extremist groups. This is not about criminalising these young people, it's about preventing tragedies."


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Skip to comments.Unedited Britney Spears Song Without Auto-Tune Leaks And It's Painful
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No one ever thought Britney Spears' songs were untouched in the recording studio, but the singer's voice without Auto-Tune is even worse than we could have imagined.
On July 2, the unedited vocal version of Spears' track "Alien," off her most recent album, "Britney Jean," leaked and it ain't pretty. Take a listen:
The video has picked up so much steam online that the song's producer, William Orbit, posted a statement to Facebook explaining that the track is from a vocal warm-up session, not a final take.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Which just shows you that pop stars today are signed, groomed and promoted on the basis of looks and image. Hire a few songwriters, musicians and rent a state of the art studio and anybody can be made to sound good. It's why most of these pop stars all sound the same.
It sounds like the audio was auto-detuned. It has that weird sound you get when you play a record backwards. The "photo" of her is SO reworked it looks like it came from a Playstation game.
I like it.
There is a copy of the released song below, it's not a rock anthem or anything but it's nice enough.
I say it is a medium hit.
I like her for some reason. Seems to have grounded herself quite a bit in the last few years. Can't be more offensive than the rest of the crap that passes for music these days.
Has Britney ever sang the Star Spangled Banner LIVE, with no lip syncing?
THAT would be one good test to see if she can still sing.
That's so funny! It's personal, really. I remember when me and some buddies when we were overseas in the military were going to go to the base theater to see "WOODSTOCK" the movie when it first came out.
One of the guys that had just flew in on the island had brought a square of hash wrapped in tinfoil in his wallet, and we planned to smoke it before seeing the movie.
We did, and I sat there in that movie, and the music was gargantuan! Birdsong Melodious!.....I particularly remember "Wooden Ships" by CSN. Sweetest thing I'd ever heard - perfectly in tune!. That pretty much squared me off that the Hippie, Love, Dove movement was nothing but drugged out nothing.
Years later, I watched the same movie and the same song "Wooden...." and I just refused to believe they were the same!........
I guess that's what this new-fangled "auto-tune" does. Damndest thing I ever heard.....
bump for later perusal.
I don't like this lady as a human and have never heard her music till now, but this is much ado about nothing. Hardly worth posting.
She can come over and read the phone book to me and I'll pay attention. Just sayin'...
Read the phone book yeah.... but please don't sing it....
The assets which landed her this career are not in her throat.
It's not really her voice, it's her pitch control. It ain't there. Warmed up or not. It's not like she is missing trying to hit the high end of her range. Thus the need for autotune. Just another example of how devoid of talent most current hip hop is.
Here ya go.
Britt & Baraq
what a pair....
Which explains Taylor Swift....
"No one ever thought Britney Spears' songs were untouched in the recording studio"
I did. None of these teenager crooners are natural. They all sound 100% digitally edited.
Which just shows you that pop stars today are signed, groomed and promoted on the basis of looks and image. Hire a few songwriters, musicians and rent a state of the art studio and anybody can be made to sound good. Its why most of these pop stars all sound the same.
It's always been that way.
Agreed. I could only make it through 57 seconds. She sounds terrible.
RE: None of these teenager crooners are natural. They all sound 100% digitally edited.
Britney Spears is 33 years old and has two kids.
I use to sing semi-professsional.
I put out all kinds of notes while working out a song but, the final is on key and time.
I make up stuff as I work a song out that many times sounds like I can't carry a note in a back pack but, there is no way I'd need AutoTune for a final product.
Go listen to any studio outakes for popular artists of the 60's and 70's. You'll hear all kinds of "Ain't right" and then the final version as the artist works out where they'd like to take the song.
When I woke up this morning, I assumed that there was the usual 0% chance of intentionally listening to Britney Spears singing.
I was wrong.
Wow. Pretty pitchy, dawg, as Randy Jackson would say.
"She can come over and read the phone book to me and I'll pay attention. Just sayin'... "
If it was Shaaakeeeeerahhhhhh, definitely.
Abba, SOS, from 1975:
yuck. She was all worn out by the time she got out of her teens.
I saw her once on Saturday Night Live many years ago trying to sing without autotune and she was horrible.
It was after she had been caught lipsyncing and I guess she wanted to prove she could sing. She cannot. Most of the people you see on the covers of the magazines at the supermarket who are "singers" can sing.
With or without autotune that song is terrible.
I honestly did not think it was that bad. No real talent there but talent isn't what sells, I guess. Problem is, she is running short on the other stuff that sells. (youth, hotness, dancing ability, etc.) (:
I bet that Justin and Katy and NotaLady could never sing a tune without special effects.
Blows me away that people are spending 115 (min) to 500 bucks for that show.
Singing from the old days without autotune:
Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, "Under Pressure", a capella
Poor Britney. She should study Jo Stafford for vocal lessons so she sounds less like Darlene Edwards. (Do a youtube search for Darlene Edwards. I dare ya.)
Is she still hot?
This isn't new info...when she was on the Mouse channel there were times that tape came out of her 'singing' .... and it clearly had no auto tune. It is one of the reasons that I dislike most of the 'entertainers' who are coming up these days....they don't have honest voices.... a few do but most are products of the old mix master
It's the same on American Idol, I expect. All those fab singers are digitally enhanced?
Most of the people you see on the covers of the magazines at the supermarket who are singers cannot sing.
RE: Its the same on American Idol, I expect. All those fab singers are digitally enhanced?
Actually it is NOT the same as American idol.
Those who compete in that contest go through a grueling audition process, initially WITHOUT any backup music.
I highly doubt that an unknown Britney Spears can even get through when she auditions.
RE: Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, Under Pressure, a capella
Now that was different.
When you remove the music from the QUEEN song, "Under Pressure" it sounds like a convention of manic depressives.
Which I guess is what the point of the music is :)
Just make sure you have your mental airbrush functoning properly, because the media pix we see of her look nothing like what she looks like in person.
Not so much. Taylor Swift plays her own guitar and writes her own songs.
Not so much. Taylor Swift plays her own guitar and writes her own songs.
That is true, but I have been told (complete hearsay) that she uses pitch correction in concert. Very different from autotune. Fake but accurate, in that the voice itself it unchanged, it just nudges the pitch sharp or flat as needed.
It will be interesting to see how she moves past that wide eyed teenager thing she has done to perfection. But she gets a pass from me for the reasons you mention - she plays her own guitar (a Taylor of all things) and does her own writing, she is not waiting for the Nashville Hit Consortium to send her her next hit song, culled from a Monday morning songwriting session with 4 guys and a rhyming dictionary.
That's what auto tune does. It nudges the voice sharp or flat as needed. Just like "pitch correction". Both end up with weird sounding vocals when the pitch is adjusted too much. We used to call those weird sounds "artifacts". In the old days you would process it repeatedly.... moving the pitch a small amount each time on the areas that were "way out".... trying to avoid the "artifacts". These days the artifacts are just part of the vocal. Artifacts begin to surface when you try to move the pitch more than 1/2 of a semitone. The more you adjust the pitch, the more artifacts you hear. It also makes a difference how fast you adjust the pitch. If it is a note that is held and you have time to slide it up gently (like an actual voice might do) you have better results. If the processor is set to a quick adjust, you will hear the obvious sounds that it has been "tuned". Every album is tuned in this day and age. All of them. Most singers use it while performing live.
I have admittedly minimal acquaintance with either, although the guy who recorded my band's cd demonstrated pitch correction in protools for me. We did not use it. I guess I think of autotune as pitch correction with other varieties of signal processing.
Thankfully, in the modern acoustic world, in the roots rock world, and in the jazz world, authenticity is still the name of the game - though it would not surprise me if some of the jazz vocalists use pitch correction - so I don't see a lot of it when I go out to shows. But rarely am I at a venue of >2500 people, and usually smaller than that.
And while she is better known for belting out hard rock songs like this one:
And this, sort of a commentary of pop music:
She can also sing other styles of music including country.
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"It will be difficult but not impossible" for him to play against Boise State, Richt said. "It may be too difficult even if (he does return Monday). He has, to his credit, paid attention to what to do."
GLORY DAY: Bryan McClendon rarely, if ever, thinks about Oct. 18, 2003. He promises.
That's tough to believe considering it was his most productive day as a Bulldog. The senior from Mays High School started and caught six passes for 108 yards against Vanderbilt. That's one more catch and 59 more yards than he had in the entire 2004 season.
"I've never really thought about that day," McClendon said.
Despite the lack of opportunity last season, McClendon, who has 21 career catches for 301 yards, is confident he can have a breakout year this season. He and Sean Bailey will start for the Bulldogs.
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Graduation rates among U.S. high schoolers have risen for the fourth straight year. Which reforms are making a difference? And who, or what, should get credit?
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The hallmark of a successful education system is increasing or maintaining high student achievement. RAND research measures the effects of various types of school reforms on student achievement, with recent studies focusing on charter schools, No Child Left Behind, reform-oriented teaching, and classroom sizes.


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