What is the expected family of chips that will be built on 5-nanometer technology? 
 automotive business. Now we reached that, and we are confident that we're going to pass the ASIL B qualification. I think that investment is behind us. But however, that's really it. I think that's basically -- if you view that as a barrier that we have to cross over to get in auto. But from an engineering development point of view, from a technology point of view, it's just similar to the CV2.
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
That's very helpful. And Fermi, you mentioned 5-nanometer. When should we expect products to be in production on 5-nanometer?
Fermi Wang -- Chief Executive Officer
Well, what I say is, we are planning to take our first 5-nanometer chip, but we haven't talked about the product plan, how we're going to -- what kind of product we are going to be used based on 5-nanometer. But based on history, you should expect that we're going to build 5-nanometer product across the board for auto, for security camera, for smart city, smart home, and it will be a family of chips. I think that we kind of basically say we are going to skip 7-nanometer, go to 5-nano directly as our engineering investment. But you should see that in the next few -- after -- when we think about 5-nano, we're going to provide much more detailed description about our plan for products with the 5-nanometer projects.
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
Sounds good. And one last question for Casey. Casey, the R&D is obviously something quite a bit here in the April quarter. Will it kind of flatten out, do you think a little bit for the remaining quarters? Or will we continue to see these types of step-ups?
Kevin C. Eichler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. So again, we don't typically guide beyond one quarter. But what I'd say is you're not going to see a step function like that throughout the year. Like I said, there's some unusual things that come in like the payroll taxes and some of those that tend to feather out as you get further in the year. So I think you're going to see us continue to invest in the R&D, and our OpEx will stay fairly constant where we are today. But you're not going to see us back off R&D or really accelerate it much more.
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
Very helpful. Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. And this does conclude today's question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the call back to Dr. Wang for closing remarks.
Fermi Wang -- Chief Executive Officer
And thank you for joining us today. I will talk to you the next time. Thank you. Bye.
Kevin C. Eichler -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 56 minutes
Call participants:
Louis Gerhardy -- Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Fermi Wang -- Chief Executive Officer
Kevin C. Eichler -- Chief Financial Officer
Adam Gonzalez -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Matthew D. Ramsay -- Cowen and Company, LLC -- Analyst
Ross Clark Seymore -- Deutsche Bank AG -- Analyst
Joseph Lawrence Moore -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Quinn Bolton -- Needham & Company, LLC -- Analyst
Sujeeva Desilva -- ROTH Capital Partners, LLC -- Analyst
Charles Lowell Anderson -- Dougherty & Company -- Analyst
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
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 automotive business. Now we reached that, and we are confident that we're going to pass the ASIL B qualification. I think that investment is behind us. But however, that's really it. I think that's basically -- if you view that as a barrier that we have to cross over to get in auto. But from an engineering development point of view, from a technology point of view, it's just similar to the CV2.
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
That's very helpful. And Fermi, you mentioned 5-nanometer. When should we expect products to be in production on 5-nanometer?
Fermi Wang -- Chief Executive Officer
Well, what I say is, we are planning to take our first 5-nanometer chip, but we haven't talked about the product plan, how we're going to -- what kind of product we are going to be used based on 5-nanometer. But based on history, you should expect that we're going to build 5-nanometer product across the board for auto, for security camera, for smart city, smart home, and it will be a family of chips. I think that we kind of basically say we are going to skip 7-nanometer, go to 5-nano directly as our engineering investment. But you should see that in the next few -- after -- when we think about 5-nano, we're going to provide much more detailed description about our plan for products with the 5-nanometer projects.
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
Sounds good. And one last question for Casey. Casey, the R&D is obviously something quite a bit here in the April quarter. Will it kind of flatten out, do you think a little bit for the remaining quarters? Or will we continue to see these types of step-ups?
Kevin C. Eichler -- Chief Financial Officer
 Yeah. So again, we don't typically guide beyond one quarter. But what I'd say is you're not going to see a step function like that throughout the year. Like I said, there's some unusual things that come in like the payroll taxes and some of those that tend to feather out as you get further in the year. So I think you're going to see us continue to invest in the R&D, and our OpEx will stay fairly constant where we are today. But you're not going to see us back off R&D or really accelerate it much more.
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
Very helpful. Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. And this does conclude today's question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the call back to Dr. Wang for closing remarks.
Fermi Wang -- Chief Executive Officer
And thank you for joining us today. I will talk to you the next time. Thank you. Bye.
Kevin C. Eichler -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 56 minutes
Call participants:
Louis Gerhardy -- Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Fermi Wang -- Chief Executive Officer
Kevin C. Eichler -- Chief Financial Officer
Adam Gonzalez -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Matthew D. Ramsay -- Cowen and Company, LLC -- Analyst
Ross Clark Seymore -- Deutsche Bank AG -- Analyst
Joseph Lawrence Moore -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Quinn Bolton -- Needham & Company, LLC -- Analyst
Sujeeva Desilva -- ROTH Capital Partners, LLC -- Analyst
Charles Lowell Anderson -- Dougherty & Company -- Analyst
Tore Egil Svanberg -- Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated -- Analyst
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