Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen we will now begin the question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Mark Moskowitz with JP Morgan. Please go ahead.
Mark Moskowitz - JP Morgan
Yes, thank you. Good afternoon. I have a few questions that I need to ask. Wayne, I guess, may be you could kind of give us some context here as far as the incremental competitive pressures that you are seeing in your traditional 3.5-inch platform, is that because of technology improvement of the competition or increased capacity of the competition or is that more driven by the actual disk drive manufacturers?
Wayne Fortun
I would say it's really starting at the disk drive manufacturers. I would not say that there is any evident shift in technological pairings or matchings to us in the competition in either direction. And it really is one in which we're experiencing some decisions made at the drive levels that are affecting how the mix will move about between from supplier to supplier.
Mark Moskowitz - JP Morgan
Okay. And then either for you or Kathleen, as far as the TSA+ you sound somewhat encouraged about some of your progress, but by most accounts it seems like we are years away from buoyant revenues, was I mistaken? So, how much further are you along in terms of the spending required to the fully ready to attract these customers, to be honest of the initial demo-customer you have right now? I mean are we in the second inning, the third inning or the fourth innings, where are we in the spending perspective?
Wayne Fortun
Well, I may try this first Mark. We have said and we remained confident that we will be production volume capable this fall. And we have been hitting our milestones with the development of the particular program and that will now be dependant upon when the drive makers decides that they want to launch the product, but we will be prepared to do it.
We are now working with other customers in terms of sampling and the initial design work for designing or other programs. So, it's not like this current program will standalone for a long period of time. There will be other smaller ones that we think are pretty briskly behind it. And in fact we've been somewhat trying to manage it so that we didn't just get hit with a bunch of new products in a new line, all at once, and find ourselves overwhelmed with just the typical learning curve that one experiences when starting that up.
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