ESS Transcripts Funny Mistakes

ESS Q4'05 conference call transcript has a funny mistake in it:

"Now I’ll give you an update on our camera phone business. Our Digital Imaging business had revenues of approximately $5.4 million in the fourth quarter inline with our estimates. These revenues came primarily from shipments of 1.3 Megapixel launches for Samsung and 1.3 mega pixel chips sales to LG Electronics. We continue to move our business model away from selling modules to selling silicon chips only. Our major customers are inline with this strategy and we were working with several margin manufacturers worldwide.

Today we have camera designs in many different handsets worldwide. Many of these new designs come from Korea both from Samsung and LG as we mentioned previously towards all kind of manufactures in the world. We also planned an additional higher performance lower cost integrated image sensor and image processor systems on a chips in the next several months. These chips will utilize advance 40 and shared 40 pixel technologies. We demonstrated a new 41.3 Megapixel system on chip at the CES show this year and we will sample this product this month.

The initial feedback from our customers with the quality of the pictures taken with this chip is very nice, is very good and we believe it will be well received by the market. We believe these new products puts forth the base for future growth for the camera phone business. And I will get detailed guidance for ESS business in the first quarter of 2006."

Now what is 41.3 Megapixel? It was supposed to be "four-tee one point three megapixel = 4T 1.3MP", I believe. Same manner, "40 pixel technologies" are probably "4T pixel technologies".

In Q1'06 conference call transcript there is a similar mistake:

"Now, I'll give you an update on our camera phone business. Our digital imaging business had revenues of approximately $2.5 million in the first quarter inline with our estimates. These revenues came primarily from shipments of our 1.3 megapixel chips to LG Electronics.

Today, we are currently sampling our new 4T 1.3 megapixel, system-on-chip to customers worldwide. We are also developing new higher-performance, lower-cost, integrated image sensor and image process system-on-a-chip, which we plan to introduce to the market later this year. These new chips will utilize events, share at 14 pixel technologies, and we believe these advanced 4T-shared products will provide ESS with the combination of high-performance and low-cost products that the camera phone market requires."

14 shared pixel probably comes from they are saying "shared four-tee pixel=4T pixel" which sounds like "share at 14 pixel"