Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). And your first question comes from the line of Steven Fox of Merrill Lynch. Please proceed.
Steven Fox - Merrill Lynch
Hi, good afternoon. Martin, can you maybe dive a little deeper into your comments on the consumer, especially, since you seem to be implying out there some sell-through pressures of the products that are being produced, I am not sure if I took that the right way? But any other details and whether, it seems also be that you are saying it’s not just limited to handsets. Can you just elaborate a little bit?
Martin Slark
Sure. Thanks for the question, Steve. If you look at that consumer sector and just ignore cell phones for a second because, you know, that consumer data that I reported it’s really -- they are not included in that sector. What we have seen coming out of Christmas '06 was a significant amount of inventory and the traditional build that we have seen for the Christmas sector always being meeting with all that Japanese customer that would normally start in the summer seems to have been delayed by ongoing inventory in the channel and in fact if you look at the results of companies like Best Buy and Circuit City, I am sure you've seen those results have been disappointing, as well.
Route in that sector, as well is also fair to the white goods market, and of course appliances are down based on the fact that the housing market have struggled. And as I mentioned, that the game sector has been okay, but primarily, strongest player there has really been Nintendo with the [Wii] machine. We participate in all of the three major players there and that has been a most stable sector, but the consumer market in general seems to be struggling from weaker end demand, but we think that’s probably going to get stronger as we get towards Christmas, and we certainly see in the first six months.
Steven Fox - Merrill Lynch
Great. That’s very helpful. I am just curious also maybe in your broad consumer segment it might, if you have this number handy, if not going to tomorrow but, how much of that is related to white goods versus game machines and other items, is there anyway you can parse portion of --?
Martin Slark
I think Steve, when you are at the meeting tomorrow, we’ll web cast that part of the meeting. We’ll attempt to break down the consumer sector into those various sector, but I don’t have that data in front of me, what I can do is look it by customer then I can give you an estimate tomorrow.
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