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Operator
Welcome to the first quarter 2015 MicroVision, Inc. financial and operating results conference call.
My name is Lorraine and I will be your operator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Ms. Dawn Goetter. Ms. Goetter, you may begin.
Dawn Goetter - Director - Marketing Communications
Thanks, Lorraine. I'd like to welcome everyone to MicroVision's first quarter 2015 financial and operating results conference call. In addition to myself, participants on today's call include, Alexander Tokman, President and Chief Executive Officer and Stephen Holt, chief financial officer.
The information in today's conference call may include forward-looking statements, including statements regarding benefits under existing contracts and the negotiation of future agreements; our competitive advantages; progress with prospective customers; projections of future operations and financial results; product development, applications and benefits; availability and supply of product and key components; market opportunities and growth in demand; plans to manage cash used in operations, as well as statements containing words like believes, goal, path, expects, plans, will, could, would and other similar expressions.
These statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results could differ materially from the future results implied or expressed in the forward-looking statements.
Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements are included in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the heading Risk Factors Relating to the Company's Business and our other reports filed with the commission from time to time.
Except as expressly required by federal securities law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in circumstances or any other reason.
The agenda for today's call will be as follows. Alex will report on the operating results. Steve will then report the financial results. There will be a question-and-answer session, and then Alex will conclude the call with some final remarks.
And now I'd like to turn the call over to Alex Tokman.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Thank you, Dawn. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today for an update on MicroVision's first-quarter 2015 operating financial results.
The first quarter was marked by several significant business events providing strong momentum in what is expected to be a promising year for the Company. Now let's recap these events and see how they reflect on our set goals for the year.
We recently articulated that our top priorities for this year are first to support Sony with display module commercialization. Second, to develop new OEM and channel opportunities for display engine manufacturing partners. Third, to increase supply capacity for key MicroVision components. Fourth, to achieve significant year-over-year growth through component sales and licensing of PicoP display technology.
Our final goal for the year is to evolve PicoP technology platform to offer enhanced features and capabilities for a compelling roadmap for future and present licensees of our technology.
Now let's recap the results (technical difficulty)-related to the first goal Sony module commercialization. In March, we announced that we signed a multiyear licensing agreement with Sony for PicoP technology. This agreement included an $8 million payment which was received in March. Under this eight year licensing agreement, MicroVision will also be entitled to royalties on display modules sold by Sony to internal and external customers.
The completion of the license agreement marks the culmination of two years of close collaboration between the two companies and allows us to enter into exciting new opportunities together.
Also in March, we announced that we received a 14-1/2 million dollar order for new components to deliver to Sony to be fulfilled starting in the second half of this year, continuing in 2016. The components are expected to be incorporated into display modules developed and sold by Sony. Both of these first-quarter milestones are fundamental to our expected growth this year.
Next, let's recap the progress made on our second goal, creating new OEM and channel opportunities for our partners. In the first quarter, Korean OEM, Celluon introduced two new pico projection products that incorporate our proprietary PicoP display technology. The first product began selling in February and the second in April. Both products have been garnering very positive reviews from multiple digital media and print sources and, more importantly, from consumers who bought these products.
We mentioned during the previous call that several companies MicroVision worked with in 2014 on design-in activities have privately demonstrated products incorporating our technology at CES 2015.
Since then in the first quarter, we've added more OEM names to the list of customers who have begun to develop products based on PicoP display technology.
Last June, we announced a collaboration with a second consumer electronic company on the Fortune Global 500 list to develop a display engine for an innovative smartphone product planned to be offered by this company.
We have made significant advancements on the display module development with them and continued supporting them throughout last quarter. There were no new updates in the first quarter from the customers in the automotive and industrial segments. They continue their evaluation of systems that include our technology.
Let's now briefly focus on the third priority, which is increasing supply capacity of our key components. First, we increased the deliveries of our key components to Sony in the first quarter, versus fourth quarter of last year, as is evidenced by growth in product and licensing revenues. In fact, almost all of our revenue for the quarter comes from component sales and royalties. Steve will provide more information shortly.
Second, during Q1, we've put together a plan to increase the supply capacity of key MicroVision components, versus the baseline established in the second half last year, after we received a follow-on order from our key customer. We and our suppliers are current executing against the ramp plan to increase production capacity to larger numbers in the second half of the year.
The fourth goal is related to year-over-year growth. We're at the very early stages of the ramp cycle, which includes all participating parties -- OEM, Sony, us, our suppliers. As a result, the first-quarter numbers do not yet reflect revenue growth we are anticipating later this year. Although they clearly show the shift from development to product revenue, we believe that as the year progresses, the numbers will increase and measurable progress will be shown.
The final goal is to continue innovation. We are making important progress in several critical areas on our technology roadmap, related to key features, such as brightness and power, as well as assessing new promising applications beyond projection.
Our technical and business development teams are very excited about the prospects we are assessing currently. With this, I will now turn it over to Steve to recap financials for the first quarter.
Stephen Holt - CFO
Thank you, Alex. The numbers I'm about to share are included in our press release and in the 8-K filed today; both of which are available from the investor page of our website.
During the quarter we continued our transition from a development focus to one of commercialization. As we go through the financials, I will point out areas that reflect this change. Our revenue for the first quarter was $901,000. The revenue was almost entirely from product and royalty revenue.
In the first quarter of 2015, our revenue was 1.2 million and was primarily a result of our development agreement with Sony. And while we're on revenue, I want to update you on how we will recognize revenue from the Sony license agreement.
We will recognize the $8 million upfront payment as revenue at the rate of approximately $250,000 per quarter over the expected eight-year life of the agreement. Q1 royalty revenue includes $96,000, which is the prorated amount for the first quarter.
Also, as Sony reports their sales to us each quarter, we will recognize additional royalty revenue. Our cost of goods sold was $1 million for the first quarter. In the first quarter of 2014, the cost of goods sold was essentially zero. The increase in cost of goods sold reflects that we are now shipping product and ramping production.
Additionally, as our production is still in the early stages, we incurred startup and production inefficiencies one would expect in a new production environment and these costs also contributed to the increase in cost of sales. The Q1 operating expenses were $3.8 million, compared to $4.3 million in operating expenses in Q1 of 2014. And part of this reduction in operating expenses is due to the fact that some costs related to our supply chain and our quality organizations are now included in cost of goods sold.
As a result of the lower revenue and the lower gross profit, our first-quarter operating loss was $4 million, compared to $3.1 million in the first quarter of 2014. MicroVision's first-quarter 2015 net loss was $4 million or $0.09 per share, compared to $8 million and $0.23 per share in the first quarter of 2014. And as a reminder, the $8 million first-quarter 2014 loss included a $5 million non-cash loss on the exchange of warrants.
As we mentioned earlier, this quarter included the receipt of $8 million from our license agreement with Sony. And as a result, our cashflow from operating activities was positive. It was a positive $5.1 million in the quarter.
In the first quarter of 2014, there was a negative cashflow or cash use in operating activities of $2.9 million. Cash and cash equivalents on hand at March 31st were $16.7 million. And in the quarter we received proceeds of $2.3 million on the exercise of 1.1 million warrants. And we received proceeds of $1 million on the sale of common stock through our ATM facility and that facility is now closed out.
Backlog at the end of the quarter was $18.7 million: $17.2 million in product and $1.5 million in contracts. That concludes the financial results. We will now open it up to questions.
Operator
Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session.
(Operator Instructions)
And our first question comes from Mike Latimore from Northland Capital. Please go ahead.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
All right. Thanks a lot. Congratulations on the strong start to the year here.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Thank you, Mike.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
So on the -- I guess, Steve, you just mentioned -- did you say that the agreement with your Fortune 100 customer, is that an eight-year agreement? Is that what you say, an eight-year life?
Stephen Holt - CFO
Right. Yes. That's right.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
Okay. And on the -- how are you thinking about, I guess, gross margin? I know there's a startup cost here. I guess, you know, in the backlog. You mean, how do you think about the gross margins that may be reflected in the backlog?
Stephen Holt - CFO
Right. Well, you know, in the early phases of production, it's normal to experience less efficient production and startup expenses. And as we, you know, increase production, you know, we expect to see improvements in margin. And we don't have a whole lot more guidance, you know, at that point, other than that.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
Okay. And in terms of the increase in manufacturing capacity, can you give a little bit of sense of, you know, where you were in the fourth quarter, where you think that goes, in terms of, you know, ability to handle unit volumes on a quarterly basis? You know, or that might be, say, in the second quarter?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Yeah, absolutely. You know, we essentially -- we implemented baseline capacity in the second half of the last year. And we're now delivering based on that baseline capacity. Since we received the larger purchase order in March, we implemented plans to increase this capacity to fulfill much higher volume. And we're in the process -- in the middle of this cycle, we're increasing the capacity and increasing the output. And you know, what we expect is you're going to see every quarter increasing output and increasing revenue, as a result of these activities.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
Yeah. And I think you had mentioned that the, you know, the $14.5 million order might start shifting in the second half of the year. Does that include the third quarter? Are you saying you start shipping in the third quarter, as well?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Well, our target, you know, we've been pretty clear on this. Our target is to start fulfilling in -- yes, in the third quarter the larger purchase order...
Mike Latimore - Analyst
That's correct.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Into 2016.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
Yeah. And then this last question. You know, you spent a lot of your resources through the last couple years working with the Fortune 100 customer. I guess, you know, now that module developed and, you know, getting it to market, how much of those resources can you say -- you know, redirect other prospects?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Considerable amount of those resources, Mike, will be reallocated to new projects and this will include existing activities to solidify the operations in delivery of components, as well as looking at new opportunities that we were not able to do because we were so dedicated to making Sony successful.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
All right. Thanks a lot. Good luck, sir.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Thanks.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Henry James from State of Michigan. Please go ahead.
Henry James - Analyst
Yes. My first question had to do with -- also with your product gross margins. And so, was there anything unusual other than just, I guess, startup costs there impacting the margins?
Stephen Holt - CFO
No. I'd say it was the normal experience of when you're bringing up production and less -- you know, some less efficient production, some startup expenses. But you know, along the lines of what we would expect.
Henry James - Analyst
Okay. And with respect to your royalty revenue, is there a lag at all in how that's reported or were the royalties related to, say, modules that were sold in the first quarter by Sony? Is that what is reflected in the royalty revenue?
Stephen Holt - CFO
Right. There's going to be about a quarter lag from their reporting to what we -- by the time we get the information and can report it as revenue.
Henry James - Analyst
Okay. So then those royalties in the quarter are sort of primarily what was, say, from the fourth quarter of last year?
Stephen Holt - CFO
Yeah. So I'll just say -- yeah, of the 144, $93 million was from the Q1 pro-ration of the $8 million. And then the balance is royalties that primarily -- from that number, I'll go with you primarily from Q4.
Henry James - Analyst
Okay. Okay.
Stephen Holt - CFO
Is that clear for you?
Henry James - Analyst
Yes. Yes, it is.
Stephen Holt - CFO
Okay. Great. Okay.
Henry James - Analyst
Now with respect to the Fortune 500 Company, my understanding is that they're developing their own module. And so my question is would they require a licensing and commercial agreement related to that?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Henry, it's a great question. It's too early for us to comment, because we're still in development. Once we've completed the commercial agreement, it will be determined what specifically we supply and how the transactions will take place.
Sometimes, you know, we have situations where we have royalty, as in the case in Sony. Sometimes when we provide more components, we actually build in royalty into the component's price. So it would be determined, based on that commercial transaction. And once we get close to this, we'll be able potentially to provide more information.
Henry James - Analyst
Okay. I mean, as far as you know, is their timing still for second half of 2015?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Our goal -- you know, so first of all, we're very excited about working with this customer. And our goal is to be ready to support them in the second half with what we would provide to them.
Henry James - Analyst
Okay. Okay. All right. That's all I have. Thank you.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Tom Szulist, and he's a private investor. Please go ahead.
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Hey, Alex. Congratulations on a nice execution for the quarter and especially the positive reviews on the PicoP projector. It's nice to finally see other people starting to recognize. So great job.
My first question was the ASICs chips. If these companies are starting to come out with products, most of them would have their own ASICs chip. Is that correct?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Not necessarily, Tom. It's going to be depending on a type of agreement. Some companies produce their own. Some companies rely on others, including us. So it's strictly, it's case specific.
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Right. And the time frame with the Company has made a decision and they've got to burn an ASIC if they want particular issues or things included. What is the fastest time frame that they can get that done, because I know that's always been a bottleneck.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Typically, just to take us out of this equation with typical industry lead time on getting ASICs done, anywhere between nine to 15 months, depending on complexity and how many iterations they have to go through to get it right.
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Okay. So that still is a bottleneck in people being able to get the latest and greatest features built into a chip.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Not really. Think about this because the ASICs will be produced by people who manufacture engines, not products. So the product guys, the OEMS, receive the most complex (technical difficulty) that has -- already has been completed. And therefore, it reduces the product development timeline on the part of OEM. So actually put these engines aside for us.
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Okay. All right. Good. Pertaining to scalability. You've got an $18 million backlog right now and you're scaling up to be able to meet production for that. If your production were to go up to $100 million, is it five times where you're at? Is it scalable? What type of time frame would it take for you to be able to do that? And is there a capacity you could handle?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
So -- so you're asking, sorry, let me just rephrase. You're asking if the backlog was five times higher, would we...
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Right.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
...we be able to support it? So the answer -- I mean, the simple answer is yes, not immediately. But we would put together the measures in place to increase the capacity of our specific components and the -- over the course, we would be able to support. But not immediately. It's not a step function, it's a ramp function.
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Right. And that ramp function, does it become efficient or does your fixed-overhead tend to stay? In other words, do you have to have five times the employees to be able to handle that?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
No. That part becomes -- it actually becomes simpler because you start replicating the existing, well-functioning processes and replicating something is much easier than creating it from scratch.
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Okay. Also one of the things that -- we hear a lot about 3-D and holograms. In your -- you know, your realm of your technology limits, do you have applications in there. In other words, can you -- are you able to participate in the future? Does your technology lend itself to 3-D projection and holograms?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Well, from the time we first defined PicoP platform, which has eight years, we made it such that we defined and designed it such that it would be scalable to other applications beyond projection. And you know some of the areas we discussed in the past, and it's still applicable.
So now, as we have resources coming off a very resource-intense program, we'll be able to focus on some of these activities and determine how to go forward.
Tom Szulist - Private Investor
Okay.
Just one last question, again, for the --
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Go ahead.
Stephen Holt - CFO
Tom, you still there?
Operator
Okay. And we'll go onto our next question from Randy Hough from ProEquities. Please go ahead.
Randy Hough - Analyst
Hey, good morning, fellas. Randy Hough. Congratulations on getting off to a good start. Just second the comments already made.
Alex, can you give us a feel with respect to the flow-through at Celluon on their Pico projector?
Yes, I've seen the same rave reviews. I haven't seen a single negative review. But the end of the game here is, of course, how the consumer reacts to the product in terms of flow-through and reorders and that sort of thing.
Could you characterize that, or is it too early to tell at this point?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
There's a couple questions, so let me try to address it.
So first of all, the reception that Celluon's products receive are beyond our expectations. You can see it's really unprecedented that every review that come out has been very, very positive.
The beautiful part about most of those reviews is that they highlight the advantages of PicoP technology -- focused free operation, immersive experience, long battery life, no fan, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera -- so we're actually very pumped about this. And obviously, we want for Celluon to have great success, and the initial indication is that they're doing well.
But ultimately, you're absolutely right. The adoption will be determined obviously not by Celluon but how major retailers, mobile operators, people who touch consumer, how they promote and sell this product. We believe there's enough evidence provided to these entities that they understand what would they need to do, what they need to execute on this.
And we have to wait to see how the adoption curve takes place. Is it going to be a 45 degrees slope, or is it going to 15 or 95? That part, we don't yet know. But initial indicators are exciting.
And obviously, Celluon is the first OEM in the market. We expect that all these development that we executed with Sony and stand-alone will produce additional results and hopeful you will see additional products in the market.
Randy Hough - Analyst
Just to follow on that idea before I shift to a second one, is there some macro view floating around out there that gives an estimate of the total or aggregate demand for those kinds of external projectors?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
You know what? It's such a new market, the predictions are all over the place. It's almost like the predictions are worth -- the variance is huge.
I think what we're going to find out in the next 18 months is, what is the true adoption opportunity for this market and it will establish [sure and slow] to understand what is the demand, so we can adjust our capacity and output based on what we see flows through our partners and our partners' partners.
But we expect growth. The question is, how big or how small? We'll find out.
Randy Hough - Analyst
Okay. Great.
Let me move onto my second question with regards to Sony. From the original announcement, we've been led to believe that Sony is working on multiple products using our technology.
And how would you guide us, Alex, or how will we come to know what products are being brought out? Will it be announced by you on a conference call or some sort of news release, or are we just going to pick it up in virtue of new product announcements from Sony over time?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
It's the latter, Randy. It's the latter.
And as soon as something comes, we will be able to chime in and comment. Until then, we just can't comment on other people's products. There's some legal implication, there's business ethics implication, and we have great relationship with Sony, and we want to maintain it for many years to come.
Randy Hough - Analyst
Okay. That seems reasonable.
And since this is an eight-year contract, could you speak or give us any guidance at this time as to any change in the attitude of Sony, now that we've been working with them for two years, as to the number of potential applications?
Perhaps if they thought there were three at the beginning and they now work with it, could it be that they've increased that anticipation, or do we know with some degree of accuracy that there are three products involved, four products involved, two products involved?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
The only thing I can tell you is that they're very bullish on this opportunity. Just look at the numbers.
They invested in us, including purchase orders, $32 million, $33 million over the past two years. If somebody does this and it's a fraction of what they spent internally to support this proposition and get it to market, you would think that they're motivated to make it successful.
And so we really, really like this relationship, and both sides have been working as true partners, helping each other in difficult times. And we hope that Sony will become very successful from this proposition, and hopefully, we'll become successful because they become successful.
If you look at Sony's recent financial quarterly results, they invest in the areas that focus on organic growth of Sony business units. And that's one of the initiatives that they fund while they divest from low-end cell phones, television sets, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So Sony, as a corporation, is actually investing into the areas where we're attached.
Randy Hough - Analyst
So good. So they share your vision that these are high-potential growth areas, I would assume from that.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Yes. Yes.
Randy Hough - Analyst
Okay.
And then the last question, to pick up on a question asked earlier, just to avoid some confusion, the gentlemen was inquiring about your ability to ramp with respect to the components being provided by MicroVision.
It is the case, isn't it, that we are subcontracting out, or MicroVision is subcontracting out, to existing fabricators or whatever you might want to call them? The actual production, it's not that we're going to be making them in-house at some facility with MicroVision --
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
That's correct. That's correct, Randy.
(Multiple speakers)
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
It's our design that we give to our contract manufacturing partners, and they're doing the volume production. We're obviously supervising certain activities, but we're not producing it. Yes.
Randy Hough - Analyst
Right. That was my understanding.
But it could've been interpreted by the question and answer to the question that -- at least in the mind of caller, I may be wrong -- that we were making these things in-house. I just wanted to make sure that that was not misunderstood.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
No.
Stephen Holt - CFO
Thank you.
Randy Hough - Analyst
Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you.
And our next question comes from Mike Latimore from Northland Capital. Please go ahead.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
Yeah, great. Just a few other things here.
Alex, you said that obviously at CES, there was a number of private demonstrations of products. Are all those products generally these sort of independent projectors, or are other types of products that were being demoed?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Mike, I can't give you specifics, because we're just simply not allowed to discuss this. But I can tell you there are different permutations and different application types of devices that included devices beyond companion projections.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
And would we -- do you expect to see a few of these late this calendar year hit the market?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
That was a great question that I cannot publicly address.
Again,?. We're working with these people. These are not our products. What we know, we can't, unfortunately, communicate.
But again, if some showcase something at CES, you would assume that they would not show their products if they didn't want to introduce them in a certain period of time.
So again, I can't directly comment, but you can draw a conclusion.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
Sure.
And then just with regard to royalties, it sounds like you receive royalties when your customer ships modules, right, to their customers. But also, it sounds like you receive royalties when they ship modules to other divisions within their own company. Is that right?
Stephen Holt - CFO
That's correct.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
It's independent. So whether internal or external customer, it's same result.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
And just last, do you have the stock comp in the quarter, stock comp amount?
Stephen Holt - CFO
190,000.
Mike Latimore - Analyst
All right, guys. Thanks a lot.
Operator
Thank you.
And our next question comes from Mike Scott from Stephens Inc. Please go ahead.
Mike Scott - Analyst
Hey, guys. Long-time shareholder representative.
Question -- a couple questions, actually.
One, is the thought process as far as stand-alone -- I guess this is what Celluon is selling at this point -- do we have other people that you know that are looking to introduce to where, at some point, obviously, our product is the gold standard for stand-alones, whatever the size of that market is?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Mike, it's a good question. It's similar to what Mike was just asking before.
So basically, remember, at CES, there was several OEMs introduced there, products, under [NDA] to their customers, so they are developing it.
And since then, we just mentioned that we added several new names to the list of customers who started developing products based on our technology.
I can tell you that there are a variety of different products. A variety of products. As far as standalone is concerned, if you look at the standalone ecosystem, it -- we believe it becomes a very attractive offering, because, think about what happened over the past couple years.
First of all, there is the HDMI and miniature, so basically video out function was added to all the cell phones and tablets. That's number one.
And about a year and a half ago, there's a new wireless capability was added to the same products, which means now you can have two standalone devices, cell phone and a projector or a tablet and a projector, and a projector is -- the size of the projector is less than the size of the phone. So it offers a pretty compelling value proposition as an application.
It was not the case, even three or four years ago, because you need to connect it with cables, and now you don't have cables, you have two devices talking to each other, and project it anywhere you are. And you don't -- and in many cases, you didn't even need WiFi connection to get it done.
So it's really the companion projection application has its own merit. And we believe a lot of people would love this experience, as was evidenced by the Celluon reviews.
Mike Scott - Analyst
Any thought of this product being Apple friendly at some point, or is that a back way of asking you a question that you can't answer.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Can't answer at this point of time. But, you know, our goal is to help our engine manufacturing partners to put into as many products as possible and include the major names. That's our goal.
And obviously, their goal is the same.
Mike Scott - Analyst
As far as the Sony relationship, and how privy are you guys to what their plans are as far as the use of the product? Is it, to them, you're just a component? Or do they kind of share with you their vision and you help them integrate that into what they can to accomplish with their products?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Okay, we can't say much on this, because what we know, we can't share publicly because of the confidentiality between Sony and us.
Mike Scott - Analyst
Okay. One other thing, I guess, really. It appears that if, as it were, that we're in a fairly strong cash position. I can't see -- and you can answer this -- whether we'd have any need for cash at all at this point, any time going forward, additional capital, necessarily?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
Well, you know, we're happy about the cash position. As you just said, we've got $16.7 million. We have a good runway up.
But we always evaluate opportunities. And that's what we've done in the past. We never treat cash raising as an event. It's a process to us, just like any other program. Just like Sony program.
So we cultivate this over time. We evaluate all the opportunities. And when we do something, making sure that we evaluate all the options and we take the best option.
Mike Scott - Analyst
And, I guess the last question I would ask, and I don't want you to answer this either, which is fine, but at some point in time, when we become an important enough customer for a company, if it's going to be integrated into their full line of products, they're a world-class company, would we be open for an additional equity investor, or is it the Company's intention to stand totally independent?
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
You can never predict anything. But, you know, it's obviously possible, but you can't count on this or predict. We have to rely on ourselves. And something like this happens, it would be a good bonus.
Mike Scott - Analyst
All right. Thank you, Alex.
Operator
Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Alex Tokman for closing remarks.
Alexander Tokman - President, CEO
All right. First quarter was very important for us, as we completed two strategic milestones, which produced several leading indicators of what to expect this year.
We are excited about the prospects in front of us, and we expect to achieve significant year-over-year growth this year by focusing attention on making our customers successful, whether providing them with high quality components or assisting them with their go-to-market efforts.
Every quarter there is more and more data in the market demonstrating that watching video on mobile devices is accelerating and that content providers are catering to this audience.
Adobe, for example, reported in its inaugural US Digital Video report that market share of online video consumption continues to be driven by mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, with year-over-year growth of 63%.
The report also predicted that in 2015, TV Everywhere should cross the chasm from the early adopter stage to the early majority stage.
We firmly believe that solutions with MicroVision's PicoP technology are poised to enable truly differentiated end user experiences, experiences that are not attainable with other Pico projection devices.
As the Celluon products are reviewed in the press and by consumers, features and benefits being noted by reviewers are enabled by our technology.
For example, in one of the most recent reviews, PC Mag named PicoPro, one of the Celluon's products, an editor's choice Pico projector.
Let me read some of the quotes that review included. These are the actual quotes.
�One of the advantages of using the laser as the light source is that you don't have to focus. Just point a projector at whatever you are using for a screen. You also get remarkably uniform brightness image. Another plus for this projector is it stays cool enough it doesn't need a fan. That makes it as noise-free as you can get, and saves power, which extends the battery life.�
This reviewer, also an editor, also notices that PicoPro offers sleek design that doesn't look like any other projector you've seen.
So, again, this is a sample. But this is a repeated trend of every review that we've seen that highlight features of the product that are based on what we and Sony produced.
As you can see clearly the advantages of our PicoP display technology of immersive imaging, high definition, low power, in a tiny form factor, are truly manifested in this review. And there's at least a dozen of independent media reviews and many more customer reviews that highlight these features.
We developed PicoP technology as a true platform technology that can enable projection and image capture solutions and scale to a wide variety of applications. We continue to focus on growth and further commercial opportunities in the projection space, but we're also excited by the future potential of our technology for applications that go beyond projection.
At this point, let me now pause and on behalf of Steve and Dawn thank you for joining us this morning. And we will now conclude this call.
Operator
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