Already inside the gate: the company is specified into someone else's next wave, and the wave has not yet shipped
The model's full reasoning — Q2 2018 call → NOWe need answer YES/NO. Need analyze transcript. Need determine if management describes already chosen/designed into another org's future product/platform, wave not yet arrived, position large, preparing. Let's parse transcript. Company Alpha Omega Semiconductor, power semiconductors. Mentions initiatives: Chongqing JV (manufacturing capacity) and digital power. Digital power: "newly added digital power capability... technology we acquired... integrate with existing MOSFET and Power IC products to offer total solution... opportunities to expand into broad markets... computer server market, which has an additional $400 million BOM content for us to tap. In addition, this digital capability will also elevate our position to the upper stream of design cycle. This will enable us to engage earlier with OEM customers..." This is about capability, not yet secured position? Later Q&A: "Can you give us an update in terms of - it might still be early, but do you have more of an idea of maybe what - when we might be able to see initial product and what - which Intel platform you're targeting at this point?" Yifan: "This team, right now we're building up the digital power team. And then we're targeting and - we're developing new products for Intel's VR13.HC platform soon, which will be - we expect to be rolled out close to the end of this year or early next year also. So in terms of revenue from this digital, on the power team, I would expect -- give them a year or 2 to develop products and then a year or so to design and qualify with customers and so on. I would expect probably 2 to 3 years down the road, we can expect some revenues from this team." This is targeting Intel platform, developing new products, not yet designed in/qualified. So not already chosen. Also "we're targeting" not secured. So NO. Other possible: IGBT product line crossed $10M annual revenue, gaining momentum, design cycle converting. Not future wave? Already revenue. Chongqing JV: capacity for own manufacturing, not another org's product. No. Computing segment: "continuous gains of market shares of our higher ASP products in notebook applications across the board" - ordinary vendor, not specific future platform. Communications: "increasing shipment of AlphaDFN products for smartphone battery management applications" - already shipping.
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