David Milne

We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size. ”

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 are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed. ”

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us. ”

There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year. ”

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. ”

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

All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s. ”

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business. ”

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