Tore Svanberg
Okay. I am just going to sneak in one last follow-up, so your inventory days are now at 105. I think they were 100 days last quarter and that is a little bit higher than what it is usually for Linear. Now you mentioned some inventory build or buffer because of the shutdown a related to Chinese New Year but, is there anything else structurally going on in the market that is causing you to maybe hold a little more inventory than historically?
Paul Coghlan
Well, I don’t know if it is structure but there are few things idiosyncratic to us. If you go back to, I don’t know what historic base your saying, but if you go back a few years, our average selling price is higher now, so if we have maintain a similar number of units, our inventory value be higher. We have less concentration of sales in the computer market than we had several years ago, so we have a broader disbursement of our sales. In the mix of our products is moving more towards newer products and the newer products are more complex than the older products, carry a bit higher ASP…
Lothar Maier
Longer cycle times.
Paul Coghlan
And longer cycle times to build. Then if you add to that the module business, which we have, that has raw material parts that our chip sales do not have, so the raw material would have been impacted by module sales and the module sales have been quite strong for us. So, overall, I think if you add all those pieces together, you would get to the reason why the inventory overall is increased.
Tore Svanberg
That is very helpful. Thank you very much.
Operator
We will take our next question from David Wong. Go ahead. Your line is open.
David Wong, Wells Fargo
Thanks so much. Can you give us some idea of where in cars your products are used in particular what application segment in automotive have driven automotive growing as a percentage of your total sales?
Paul Coghlan
If you look back a few years, the majority of our automotive sales really came in the navigation and infotainment part of the vehicle. If you probably look in the last five years, we have held that business, the navigation portion, pretty steady and the growth we have seen is in sort of everything other than navigation. So it is in the drive train, it is in sensors, it is in everything else around the car, the BMS products have been a good growth for us. Basically, we are probably about half in sort of navigation type of the applications and the rest is around the car. Certainly the part that is growing the fastest is sort of the non-navigation. If you want better fuel efficiency, you want one better, lower emissions — those types of enhancements are all going to come from sort of the non-navigation. Kind of an interesting thing though that is starting to come up in the last few years is that, the new cars or the leading-edge cars, are just jammed full of sensors and this is cameras, it is radar systems, it is laser system, it is image detection systems and a lot of that electronic actually goes back through sort of the navigation system, console that is there, so there is good growth we think going forward. People talk a lot about this, autonomous driving. I think that is a long way away, but sort of a step in that direction is all of the sensing applications and that is an area that, we see a lot of interest in the automotive customers.
