Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from Richard Shannon with Northland Securities.
Richard Shannon - Northland Securities
Very nice guidance for the fourth quarter, I guess that's probably my first question here. Bruno, I'd love to get your thoughts on how you handicap the various end markets that lead into your fourth quarter guidance, and if you could specifically reference directionally where you think initiatives like China 3G wireless, your plat panel display design when you talked about it and your computing market, I think you have some server wins there, if you could reference those, that would be great, please?
Bruno Guilmart
Let me just address those. Let's start with the server market. This has been our strength in the US, which is not necessarily, by the way, reflected in the US numbers because, as you are aware, a lot of American companies are using Compaq manufacturers in Asia, so we are seeing the orders coming in our Asian numbers. So we will continue to see some strength. It's reflected in the backlog on that piece of the business.
The flat panel win that we had in Japan started to ramp in Q3. I think it will continue, also, to ramp in Q4. I would say the demand is going to be really a function of the acceptance or the new model of TV using this backlight display in the marketplace. So today it's probably about 30% of the flat panel display that are sold with this feature, which provides better quality, so that's the caveat on that.
In China, I think we are now down to a more normalized level after the big push in the first half of the year with the 3G deployment and we will anticipate again to see some broad-based growth in China.
Richard Shannon - Northland Securities
Did I hear in your prepared comments specifically referring the server opportunity, you expect that one to show us some strength in the fourth quarter as well?
Bruno Guilmart
We are seeing also some strength there.
Richard Shannon - Northland Securities
To follow-up on the topic of the flat panel display design win, obviously, that's in the consumer space and if I am calculating my numbers correctly for the third quarter, your consumer revenues were down a little bit. Can you tell us what was going on in that end market if flat panels were strong?
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