http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/9811
some more information sounds like they have another new infotainment system for chrysler starting late 07
Hi.
Q - Chris Ceraso
A few items, first, I guess back to one of the original comments about the BMW program. Can you just give us a quick explanation of what exactly the technology is that you're bringing to market here, how it's different and what it offers to consumers?
A - Berine Girod
This is a rear seat entertainment device. Traditionally rear seat entertainment devices have been standalone. There's an award made for the head unit and the award for the rear seat entertainment might go to a totally different manufacturer. It's a different, an additional DVD player screen, totally different software, and usually not even hooked up to the front, to the head unit. With this technology, we can now link the head unit with the rear seat entertainment, reduce the number of hardware devices, have full communication between front and rear seats, like you can display navigation, for example, in the rear seat. So make for some excellent back seat drivers. And you can play cartoons on the display in the front unit while you drive.
A - Sidney Harman
Let me just add that this dual core operation that we referred to has particular consequence in the whole area of latency. This stuff is immediate. It's real-time. That's not the state-of-the-art today. It will become state-of-the-art with this BMW system. And it is one software system. So the whole system is compatible, all the commands are compatible. So it reduces costs. It increases functionality. It's a very nice piece of technology.
Q - Chris Ceraso
Great. One other conceptual question. You mentioned, Dr. Harman, that QNX is proliferating across different makes. Would that include, I guess this ties into your previous comments about Toyota. Do you see down the road, Japanese makes adopting that operating system as well?
first quarter of fiscal 07
http://seekingalpha.com/article/19259
Sidney Harman
I am saying that absolutely and I'm saying that there is an interesting parallel here, Scott. You will remember that this infotainment business was really in affect invented on the basis that originally there existed a number of relatively small companies doing just pieces of this work. The particular facilities that this company brought to that work at the time was the bringing into house of the many areas of technology that in total represent an infotainment system. But more important than that, the particular – the peculiar ability to integrate them to make them whole and debug the systems.
When this additional layer of driver assistance and pedestrian safety is built into the systems, the need to make those systems compatible with all the other electronic systems in the car gets to be crucially important. Our experience, the first time around, in bringing together and integrating those many functions which were if you will, multimedia functions, audio functions, video functions and the like is going to be duplicated as we bring additional processes such as the kind of camera and processing units that I referred to in my original set of observations, integrating all of that into a single comprehensive system is going to be our big future opportunity and we're getting ready to do it.
Scot Ciccarelli - RBC Capital Markets
All right, so this is something that you guys have been working on for a while and unveiling it to the investment community at this point. Is that the right way to interpret it?
Bernard A. Girod
We've been working on it for awhile and we’ve made some reference to it before. We'll make continues reference because it takes years for this kind of work to fully develop, but we're at it
