Dennis, below are the inventory figures as of Mar. 31. If they continued to grow the inventory in the June quarter they way they did in the March quarter, then your estimate of $10 M inventory would be about right.
I'm curious, though, why you expect that all of these inventories can actually be converted into sales, if the co. just said the product doesn't work yet. It's fairly common for inventory in initial stages of ramp to just go into scrap -- why don't you expect that to happen here?
5. Inventory consisted of the following at: March 31, December 31, 1998 1997 ---- ---- Raw Material $3,422,895 $901,548 Work in Progress 72,147 24,272 Finished Goods 2,794,514 775,115 ---------- ---------- $6,289,556 $1,700,935 |