Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Edwin Mok, Needham & Company.
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
So let me first start with the packaging side, our (inaudible) is very strong. Can I ask you if any of that is related to TSP or is it more on expanding existing packaging technology like bumping and stuff like that?
Larry Murphy
Edwin, yeah that's -- there were some related TSD with a by far of the majority of it was advanced packaging, bumping redistribution layers, things like that, that free packaging as well. But a little bit of TSD, the most was data and the packaging area.
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
Okay, great. That was very helpful. Do you expect the strength to continue in terms of your bookings point of view or do you think it is more a one quarter event or how do you go to?
Larry Murphy
Well, you know those things have to play out, but the market, the uptick in the market we saw last quarter you know the general trend is still there, there is still a lot of activity out there. Most of our activity as you know that was in Asia last quarter and we expect that to continue. We are somewhat granular in our nature so depends how (inaudible) get the order December 31 or January 1 the quarter falls in, but we feel pretty optimistic about 2010 and going forward from there.
Edwin Mok - Needham & Company
Great. Good color there and just quickly on TSD. I understand you guys have a partnership applied on this plating equipment and practically it’s hard to sell module meaning you know they try to sell a whole line of product. Are you guys benefiting from that strategy, because I know they have done that before and they consider doing that for TSD market?
Larry Murphy
Not so much in that strategy, but we certainly benefit from that relationship. We have a great technology partnership from them on TSD as well as copper damascene. And really understand the integration everything from barrier seed in the PVD space to our plating follow-on whether CMP has definitely been advantages in the market space. So they're going to [financially] outstanding partner we expect that continuing going forward. So we haven’t done any packaging if you will, for the product lines like you said that we said we have sold and services are as separately somewhat (inaudible) as is done.
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