"I think its in the nature of the word soon to be imprecise. But let's take the VCSEL transceiver development as an example. If we say this development will be (successfully) completed soon, this implies that today we are much closer to the end of this process than to its beginning. And that beginning was roughly one year ago." Next, you'll tell us it depends what "is" is!

geez, Rainer, too bad you weren't born in America, with language like that, you'd be odds on to win this year's Presidential election!

For me, I would say that it would be a huge disappointment if the integrated circuit, in butt-kicking form, is not done by the end of this year.