25 Quotes by Brian Halla

We are ahead of schedule on the return to profits plan we announced on May 5.

We are ahead of our gross margin goals and we are continuing in the same direction.

We're in the analog business, and analog is what's driving all the displays, and audio, and battery life in wireless. Wireless is clearly our biggest segment, and we plan on this market doing exactly what it's been doing for the last three and a half years.

What's needed is more funding for basic research, a desire to compete globally and an awareness of the role technology plays in our security and quality of life.

We feel comfortable that the numbers we've got out there are achievable.

Led by robust analog and wireless sales, we had an outstanding quarter. Focus on execution drove our gross margins to 51 percent, up from 48 percent in the previous quarter.

Seven weeks ago at our Dec. 7 earnings announcement, we projected a falloff in the current quarter of 10 percent based on slowness in the wireless market, PCs and peripherals, and a broad-based distribution inventory correction.

Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those results into our earlier projections and issue this update.

Business conditions were stronger than we had originally anticipated. We reached our interim goal of 60 percent gross margin earlier than we expected and at the same time continued to gain market share in the analog standard linear market.