Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. (Operator Instructions). And our first question comes from the line of Peter Kim of Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.
Peter Kim - Deutsche Bank Equity Research
Hi. Thanks for taking my question. First, I want to ask about the Qualcomm issue that occurred in the quarter. I was wondering if you would be willing to side the business and talk about how long you think you'd carry that business?
Kenneth Joyce
Could you give some clarification on that Peter with respect to the Qualcomm answer you're trying to?
Peter Kim - Deutsche Bank Equity Research
I think that Qualcomm during the quarter said that they was to get regards to the issue that they had, that they've moved some of their capacity to Amkor. I was wondering if you could find that business and talk about how long you expect to hold that business?
Joanne Solomon
So, we see Qualcomm as a total customer and we will not comment on how much business was shifted to us, it's really hard for us to tell what was shifted first what was intended to be with us. This is being part of a long-term strategy of Qualcomm so this wasn't a short-term decision based on for the ITC ruling.
So there's no way for us to bifurcate it. Qualcomm is a very important customer of ours and they'll continue to be, we expect that they'll continue to be a very important customer of ours even after as the years progressed.
Peter Kim - Deutsche Bank Equity Research
Okay. And then, could you talk about your, the mix of revenue from the flip chip capacity. Considering that over the last year or two, I think that you've noted that most of your capital spending was going towards adding capacity in the flip chip area. And yet, your revenue as a percentage from flip chip has remained relatively steady as a percentage of total. I was wondering if you could talk about, what kind of returns you expect from these continued investments in this phase?
Joanne Solomon
That's a great question. Flip chip is a very interesting business line and when you look at the data that we've provided in the press release, it doesn't entirely tell the whole story.
We've talked in the past that, part of our, some of our customers consign substrates... some of the assets to procure substrates. We had a significant demand increase as one of our customers that actually consigned substrate to us. So, the average selling price actually goes down but, our utilization with respect to flip chip is very high and it's one of our advanced technologies, we see exceptionally strong demand and we'll continue to invest as well and support that strong demand.
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