Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions).Your first question comes from the line of Jed Dorsheimer of
Your first question comes from the line of Jed Dorsheimer of Canaccord Adams. Please proceed, sir.
Jed Dorsheimer- Canaccord Adams
Hi. Thanks and congratulations on a good quarter, guys.
Bill Weissman
Thank you.
Jed Dorsheimer- Canaccord Adams
A couple of questions, I guess first, Raja, if I heard you correctly, is this a correct way to look at it that in the LED market, you're starting to see 4-inch commercial adoption and starting to see 6-inch at the R&D level? I haven't heard of any 6-inch. That's why I was asking.
Raja Parvez
Yes. The 4-inch has already started a volume production in commercial production. But still our customers and our customer's customers are still optimizing their manufacturing processes. And yes, 6-inch R&D efforts have already started. As I mentioned that we have requests from two companies and we've provided samples to one of them to start the next-generation LED development in this area as well.
Jed Dorsheimer- Canaccord Adams
All right. And then looking at the Blu-ray opportunity, which is starting up and those laser diodes are manufactured on sapphire, is that going to be manufactured on 2-inch sapphire or 3-inch? And are you starting to see that business ramp?
Raja Parvez
I think that it will be a combination of 2-inch and 3-inch. As you know there are one of the majority LED manufacturers in Asia is manufacturing those. So their standard LED-manufacturing pattern is 2-inch moving to 3-inch, so it will be a combination now. But I believe eventually the way the market is right now we see is the LED industry is moving towards larger and larger diameters because of the higher throughputs and larger die size needs.
So I believe as we move forward, later part of this year, you will see that more and more the laser diodes will be manufactured on the larger size die, especially 3-inch and plus.
Jed Dorsheimer- Canaccord Adams
All right. And then as you ramp your new facility, any updates I guess on the new facility? I think last comments you made was that you expect to have 40% of the new facility completed by the end of the year.
It sounds like that's going ahead of schedule based on the upside this quarter. Is that still the metric that you're using for the end of the year, or is that build out happening faster than that?
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