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Good afternoon. Thank you for standing by and welcome to Navita Semiconductor's fourth quarter 2024 financial results conference call. Please be advised, today's conference is being recorded and a replay will be available on Navita Semiconductor's Investor Relations website. I would now like to hand the conference over to Stephen Oliver, Vice President of Investor Relations.

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Stephen Oliver
Vice President of Investor Relations

Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Stephen Oliver, Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you for joining Navitas Semiconductor's fourth quarter and full year 2024 results conference call. I'm joined today by Jean Sheridan, our Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder, and Todd Glickman, CFO. A replay of this webcast will be available on our website approximately one hour following this conference call and available for approximately 30 days. Additional information related to our business is also posted on the investor relations section of our website. Our earnings release includes non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures with the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in our fourth quarter earnings release and also posted on our website in the investor relations section. Non-GAAP expenses and operating margin exclude stock-based compensation amortization of intangible assets, and other non-recurring items. In this conference call, we will make forward-looking statements about future events or about the future financial performance of Navitas, including acquisitions. You can identify these statements by words like we expect or we believe or similar terms. We wish to caution you that such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from expectations expressed in our forward-looking statements. Important factors that can affect Nevitas business, including factors that could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements, are described in our earnings release. Please also refer to the risk factor sections in our most recent 10-Tay and 10-Qs. Our estimates or other forward-looking statements may change, and Navitas assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, change assumptions, or other events that may occur, except as required by law. And now, over to Gene Sheridan, CEO.

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Thank you, Steve, and thanks to everyone joining us today. We completed 2024 with an all-time high of $83 million in revenue, despite a semiconductor slowdown throughout the year in which most of our larger power semiconductor peers saw declining revenues. While our silicon carbide business was impacted by the slowdown in solar, industrial, and EV, our GAN business grew over 50% in 2024 to an all-time high, with revenues coming from mobile consumer appliance and the initial ramp-up of data centers. We also completed 2024 with an extraordinary $450 million of design mints, which reflects lifetime revenues of new customer programs in which Navitas products are expected to ramp to revenues over the next few years. This design mint total represents a win rate of over 50% and gives us increased confidence in and visibility to expected growth as we look into the second half of 2025 and 26. I'm also pleased with our total customer pipeline growth, which has nearly doubled from 1.25 billion at the end of 2023 to 2.4 billion at the end of 24, reflecting strong expected expansion in our major markets. Let me share some specifics in each. Our data center sector has the highest growth rates in revenue and design wins, with 40 customer project wins throughout the year. These wins were at top ODMs in Asia that target major tier one data center players such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Dell, HP, and others. Our system reference designs that span from 2.7 kilowatts to 8.5 kilowatts were key enablers for this new business as we showcase to customers the extraordinary energy efficiency and power density that is possible, particularly when combining our Genesys technology and the PFC circuit and our GAN safe technology in the LLC circuits for these AC to DC power supply units. Also, we view the emergence of lower-cost AI platforms such as DeepSeq as a positive development that we expect to drive a lower cost of AI implementations, which can accelerate AI adoption both in the cloud as well as the edge, potentially translating to greater overall demand for power and for Navitas technology. Our data center customer pipeline has more than doubled to over 165 million as compared to 70 million the year prior. As announced last quarter, we have started sampling our 80 to 120-volt family of GaN devices, targeting 48-volt DC-to-DC converters in data centers, as well as 48-volt EV battery systems and 48-volt robots in the longer term. We expect growing customer demand activity throughout 2025 and first appreciable revenues next year. In the EV space, we are happy to announce over 40 design wins in 2024 across Europe, U.S., China, and Korea, heavily focused on onboard chargers as well as roadside chargers. We're also excited to announce what we believe to be the industry's first GAN design win into any electric vehicle. China's number three EV player, Chang'an, has selected Navitas GAN Safe Technology to power their next generation EV onboard chargers, and they have achieved extraordinary powered densities of 6 kilowatts per liter and energy efficiencies of 96%. Chang'an estimates that these GAN safe powered onboard chargers could extend lifetime driving range by 10,000 kilometers and could reduce charging costs by 15 to 20%. We expect this project and other GAN EV projects to start production ramp in the first half of 2026. Our ED pipeline has expanded rapidly to over 900 million compared to 400 million a year ago and now represents nearly 40% of our $2.4 billion pipeline. In the mobile sector, we have enabled very broad expansion in the adoption of GAN chargers with over 180 design limits. This includes the first significant wins with Transient, now a top five global smartphone player and the leader in markets such as Middle East, Africa, and Central and South America. We also had our first wins in India with Jio, a leader in consumer networking who selected Navitas Scan ICs to power their next generation Wi-Fi equipment. We expect both of these new customers will reflect multiple million-dollar projects ramping in late 25, demonstrating greater mainstream adoption of GaN chargers expanding into these lower-cost regions. We now estimate that GaN chargers will reach over 10% adoption rate of all mobile chargers to power smartphones, tablets, and laptops in 2025 as the average power of these chargers approaches 45 watts. This power increase is an important trend to not only support faster charging for all consumers, but also our GAN value increases as that power level increases, delivering the maximum power at the highest efficiencies and with the smallest size and weight for these wall adapters. Malvitas continues to supply 10 of the top 10 mobile players designing with Malvitas GAN IC technology. In the solar space, we are on track for a major launch this summer with the leader in microinverters to begin an important and significant transition from silicon to GaN, enabling a new wave of energy efficiency, power density, and size, weight, and cost reductions for the solar industry. We see microinverters becoming the leading residential solar solution, and many other players in this space are expected to pursue a similar transition from silicon to GaN. Across solar, energy storage, industrial, and appliance sectors, we enjoyed over 170 customer design news in 2024, which we expect will fuel important growth in 2026 and beyond. I'm excited to share our plans for a major technology announcement coming up on March 12th. This will be our first-ever global online launch event, and while the details won't be disclosed until that event, we believe this announcement will usher in a new era for power electronics, and accelerate gallium nitride and silicon carbide in major multi-billion dollar markets. We hope you will all join us for this exciting event. Finally, looking towards 2025, we expect a Q1 revenue decline reflecting normal mobile seasonality coupled with continued end market weakness and some remaining inventory correction in the solar industrial EV markets. We expect a modest recovery in Q2 and anticipate returning to healthy growth in the second half of the year, fueled by our $450 million of design wins last year and the expected start of a semiconductor recovery. Now, let me turn it over to Todd Bookman, our CFO, to cover the financials in greater detail.

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Gene. In my comments today, I will first take you through our fourth quarter and annual 2024 financial results, and then I'll walk you through our outlook for the first quarter along with some of the market dynamics we are currently seeing. Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2024 was within guidance at $18 million. As expected, most of the sequential decline was in the mobile and consumer markets. The decline compared to a year-ago quarter was primarily the result of lower revenues in the EV, solar, and industrial markets. For the full year of 2024, we grew revenue to $83.3 million, or 5%, from $79.5 million in 2023. Our GAN revenue grew more than 50% for the full year and reached an all-time high as aggressive adoption of GAN to replace silicon continued in the mobile, consumer, and appliance segments, with data setter revenues starting in the second half of the year. Before addressing gross profit and expenses, I'd like to refer you to the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations in our press release earlier today. In the rest of my commentary, I will refer to non-GAAP measures. Gross margin in the fourth quarter was 40.2%, which was relatively flat sequentially compared to 40.1% in the third quarter. For the fiscal year 2024, non-GAAP gross margin was 40.4% compared to 41.8% in 2023, primarily due to less favorable market mix. In the fourth quarter, we executed on expense management initiatives and reduced operating expenses sequentially to $19.9 million, comprised of SG&A expenses of $8 million and R&D expenses of $11.9 million. This demonstrates our ability to balance operational efficiency while we continue investing in next-generation GAN and SICK technology and in market development, primarily in data center, EV, and mobile sectors. For fiscal year 2024, non-GAAP operating expenses were $83.4 million compared to $73.5 million in the prior year. Adding all this together, the fourth quarter 2024 loss from operations was 12.7 million, flat sequentially as cost reductions offset the quarter-over-quarter revenue decline, and a loss of 49.7 million for the full year compared to a loss of 40.3 million for 2023. Our weighted average share count for the fourth quarter was 187 million shares. Turning to the balance sheet, in Q4, the company disengaged with a silicon carbide distributor, resulting in a one-time $11.6 million expense related to an inventory reserve and bad debt. Accounts receivable sequentially declined to approximately $14 million from $26 million in the prior quarter, and inventory fell to $15.5 million from $21.3 million. in turn reducing our days of inventory to 130 down from 147. Our balance sheet remains very strong as we enter 2025 with high levels of liquidity and an improved working capital position. Cash and cash equivalents at quarter end were 87 million, and we continue to carry no debt. Moving on to guidance for the first quarter. We currently expect revenues in the range of 13 to 15 million, reflecting greater than typical seasonality given continued softness and remaining inventory corrections in solar, EV, and industrial end markets. Overall, while we continue to forecast a more muted first half of 2025, we anticipate growth to resume in the second half, fueled by 2024 design wins and expected recovery in a number of our end markets. Gross margin for the first quarter is expected to be slightly lower than the fourth quarter with our guidance at 38% plus or minus 50 basis points as our expected mix continues to lean toward the mobile market in the near term. We expect modest margin improvement throughout the year aligned with the growth anticipated in our higher power markets. Turning to operating expenses, we have completed some additional workforce reductions and are realizing further synergies and operational efficiencies associated with prior acquisitions, all of which align our cost structure with revenue expectations. By consolidating certain support and engineering functions and sites and further streamlining the company, we anticipate a reduction of our first quarter operating expenses to $18 million. and approximately 15.5 million per quarter thereafter. Combining all of our cost reduction and efficiency improvements with our strong past position, clean balance sheet, and growth outlook firmly positions the company to reach expected positive EBITDA in 2026. For the first quarter of 2025, we expect our weighted average share count to be approximately 190 million shares. In closing, While we are thoughtfully navigating the near-term softness in some of our end markets, our substantial customer pipeline and design wins, and ever-increasing technology lead puts us in a strong position to scale to profitability as we enable the next generation of power electronics.

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Operator, let's begin the Q&A session.

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Thank you. As a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question, please press star and the number one on your telephone keypad.

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We're the first question. This is coming from Ross Seymour from Deutsche Bank.

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The line's open.

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Ross Seymour
Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Hi, guys. Thanks for letting me ask a question. Gene, just wanted to talk a little bit about where you think the cyclical bottom is. I know seasonality plays a big part in the March quarter overall in some of your more consumer and mobile areas, but do you think the cyclical side of the equation has found the bottom now? And if so, how do you view the slope of the recovery?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, good question, Ross. Certainly Q1, by all measures, looks to be a cyclical bottom, at least from a Navitas perspective. Obviously, we're a smaller player. We have maybe different market dynamics on where GAN and solar and carbon are being adopted. Industrial still seems pretty sluggish. Solar, we're a little more bullish on, especially as the GAN adoption starts middle of the year. EV is probably where we've seen the best pickup, starting in China. I think others have observed the same. And we're more bullish there, too, because we've just got such a strong pipeline in onboard chargers, in particular, a combination of silicon carbide and GaN, as well as the roadside chargers, which is all silicon carbide in brand-new modules we introduced. So I think all of those are sort of at play, but from our perspective, cyclical bottom certainly seems to be Q1, but we see the recovery starting in Q2, a nice, healthy growth outlook for the second half.

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Ross Seymour
Analyst, Deutsche Bank

And I guess as my follow-up question, You talked about the strength of the GAN business growing over 50% last year, and I'm not asking you for specific numbers in the silicon carbide side of things, but how are you viewing that market? Was it, in your mind, just weaker because the end market was weak, inventory burn, et cetera, and we've heard that from many, many players, or was there something a little more Navitas-specific in that that would potentially adjust your strategy for your silicon carbide business going forward?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, no, great question. Certainly the market slowdown, you know, solar and carbon is specifically focused primarily at EV, solar, and industrial. And those are the three things we've seen slow down in the last year as the whole industry has seen them. So that's certainly first-order effect. But also we talked about increasing our focus as a company around strategic applications last quarter, and that's really in the EV space where we're leveraging GAN and solar and carbon together with our system reference designs. And those have – increased dramatically in terms of pipeline, the design wins, a big percentage of that $450 million of design wins last year was in the EV space, which leverages both GaN and silicon carbide. Secondarily, as they said with roadside chargers, that's all silicon carbide. I think that's shifting things for us. Then, of course, we're just rolling out in the last couple of quarters the data center strategy, which again has a combination of GaN and silicon carbide playing into it. I think we had our own investment and focus areas to sort of work through, and I think we're starting to see that come through, particularly as the market improves. But even without that market improvement, we'll see these design wins kicking in and the silicon carbide business growing nicely throughout the year.

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Thank you. Thanks, Ross. Thank you.

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Our next question comes from the line of Quinn Bolt from Needham & Company. The line's open.

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Quinn Bolt
Analyst, Needham & Company

Hey, guys. I just wanted to ask and make sure, Todd, I heard you right on the OpEx beyond Q1. Did you say it would come down to $15.5 million? And if that's right, how long do you think you can keep it at that level? And then I guess a follow-up question. Obviously, you guys have cut OpEx now by – you know, roughly 25%, you know, at what point, you know, how much fat do you think you've got here, or do you, you know, feel like you're starting to potentially limit, you know, growth in some of these new opportunities with the cuts you've made?

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, thanks, Gwen. Let me take that first question. So, yes, $15.5 million on a go-forward basis. We expect to keep that fairly flat on a go-forward basis as we're continuing to leverage what we currently have in our business, and so we don't expect much growth on that OpEx number. In regards to your second question on basically, yeah, is there any fat left in the business? We have been pretty diligent on looking internally and on acquisition synergies, and we feel like the business is right-sized right now. So we do not see any more fat to trim. We are properly sized to grow, especially in the second half that we're seeing today, and across markets such as data center, EV, and mobile.

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Quinn Bolt
Analyst, Needham & Company

Maybe if I could just one quick one on data center. I think in the past you guys had sort of thought that could be a $10 to $20 million business in 2025. Just wondering if that's still – sort of the right ballpark to be thinking about for data center or if you've seen, you know, any movement in that kind of expectation. Thank you.

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah. Yeah, thanks, Quinn. We're not obviously giving out full year guidance or breaking it down by sector, but do feel good about the trajectory. We started ramping in Q3, as you know. The design wins grew nicely. I mentioned 40 total for the year. I think through Q3, it was only 9 or 10 year-to-date last year or so. a really strong Q4 design win period, which will only help to accelerate that. So no specific breakout for the year, but the trajectory is good and growing sequentially throughout 25.

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Great. Thank you, Hugh. Thanks, Seth. Thanks, Quinn. Thank you.

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Our next question comes from the line of Kevin Cassidy from Rosenblatt Securities. The line's open.

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Kevin Cassidy
Analyst, Rosenblatt Securities

Yeah, thanks for taking my question. Mine also is centered around data center. Of the 40 design wins, can you describe kind of what the bell curve is of the various power supplies? You know, you mentioned in the press release it's 2.7 kilowatts, the 8.5 kilowatts. But, you know, I guess is it weighted one side or the other? Is it right in the middle for where most of the designs are?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, good question. It started off pretty broad from even some below two kilowatt, which was a little surprising because our technology is best for the high density, the high powers, you know, Kevin. But I think in many cases, people really want to try it out. They know the future is GaN and silicon carbide for data center power supplies because the future is high density and high efficiency. But now we're seeing, I think, the sweet spot is really where you can max out that power density. And there's two form factors in data center for AC to DC power supplies. There's CRPS form factor, we pushed that to its limit at 4.5 kilowatt, and we're seeing nice pickup, probably more concentrated there. Or you can go where the entire power shelf is dedicated power supplies. That's the ORV specification. There we pushed it to 8.5 kilowatt and going even higher. So I'd look at those higher power levels as where we're seeing the increased concentration, because that's really where that GAN and SICK combination can give you really the efficiencies and densities so like we can't and we're going to keep pushing those limits going forward.

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Kevin Cassidy
Analyst, Rosenblatt Securities

Okay, great. And just a couple other questions. Are these deployments, are they going to be tied to any particular GPUs, or are these going to be deployed despite any GPU upgrade cycle?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, I think a lot of people now are shifting beyond Blackwell to Rubin. So I think without obviously getting the customer confidential specific projects in terms of market trends, I think we'll see a lot of the designs starting now. They're going to be Rubin focused or let's say Rubin class of processor focused. And it's not all about NVIDIA. Of course, we're seeing other processors pop up, traditional server ones as well as new AI ones that are getting into the mix as well. So, I think right now we're kind of focused on next generation that are going to drive a lot of the, the new designs are going to drive a lot of the ramps in 26 at this point.

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Okay, understood. Thank you. Thank you.

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Our next question comes from the line of Jack Egan from Charter Equity Research. The line's open.

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Jack Egan
Analyst, Charter Equity Research

Hey guys, thanks for taking the questions. I was hoping you could talk a bit about the distributor disengagement. Was that a part of the cost production plan or something else?

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

No, that was separate. Given the lack of performance across silicon carbide, we decided to replace one of our channel partners because they really weren't achieving the design wins we were expected across EV and industrial, and their lack of ability to pay for some delivered products. But on a go-forward basis, we have interned a new channel partner, and that's going to help us with our growth in the second half of 2025.

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Jack Egan
Analyst, Charter Equity Research

Great. Okay. And then it's good to see that your cash burn has slowed a bit or a pretty good bit over the past two quarters. How are you thinking about raising capital at all? I mean, are you comfortable with your current cash balance and, you know, the cost reductions to kind of wait out the cyclical slowdown?

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

That's a great question. To your point, right, we finished the year with $87 million. We burned $12 million in cash in Q4. And on a go-forward basis, if we look past one-time events in Q1, we do expect that cash usage to decrease over time. And so right now, we have two-plus years of cash available to us. So we don't see any need organically to raise cash. However, as we've stated in the past, if there's a strategic initiative that we want to pursue, then that would be an avenue where we'd raise cash.

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Got it. Thanks so much. Thank you.

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Again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and the number one on your telephone keypad. And our next question comes from the line of John Tanwantang from CJS Securities. The line's open.

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John Tanwantang
Analyst, CJS Securities

Hi, thanks for taking my question. I was wondering if you could talk about the $450 million in the design wind pipeline. Maybe how much of that falls into this year, next year, and the year after, as you see it scheduled from today? And I know different end markets can act differently there.

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, thanks, John. And it's important to clarify it's our first time to give kind of a total design win indication coming out of the pipeline. So first let me clarify design win is not a purchase order, but it is where the customer has actually selected Navitas to be included in the final production hardware. So it's a very significant industry-wide event, let's say, or common term to get into that design validation phase, which is what people also call it. The $450 million does represent the lifetime revenue. We take a pretty conservative view. Mobile and consumer products may be one or two years. The more industrial or higher power markets may be three or four years, so it's spread out over that lifetime period. But to your question, when does it start to ramp? We also try to take a conservative view on the ramp time. So we've only considered programs that are ramping in 25, 26, or 27. We are working on things that could kick in or start in 28 or beyond, but we excluded them. So between all of my comments there, it kind of gives you a feel for how does that layer in over the next three years and run for the next one to four years.

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John Tanwantang
Analyst, CJS Securities

Got it. Thank you. That's helpful. And then could you help us understand the margin profile in the second half of the year as you get these design wins ramped? How much comes from the higher volume GAN products and higher margin ones in things like data center versus recovery and SIC markets?

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, well, we don't, you know, comment on margin specific as it relates to end market. We always know that our corporate margin mobile is always slightly below our corporate margins, and higher power markets such as EV and data center will be bigger than our company margin level. And so as the second half picks up and those higher markets start to convert, design wins, we do expect some marginal margin growth. But long-term, I think what those markets lead us to is our long-term goal of 50% plus margin, and that's no change from that.

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John Tanwantang
Analyst, CJS Securities

Okay, great. And then one more if I could. The reduction in OPEX that you're talking about in the next two quarters, how much is coming out of R&D versus SG&A?

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

No, great question. I think if you look historically at our splits, you're going to see that same split on a go-forward basis as you look at R&D and SG&A. as we've taken those synergies via the acquisitions from both avenues. Understood. Thank you.

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Thank you. Our next question comes from the line again from Ross Seymour from Deutsche Bank. The line's open.

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Ross Seymour
Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Hi, guys. Thanks for letting me squeeze in one follow-up. Just want to talk about the competitive landscape. Gene, have you seen... Any significant changes in the aggressiveness of the competition, pricing, need to burn inventory, any sort of those cyclical dynamics, especially with a downturn as persistent as this one, oftentimes you'll get those sorts of acts of desperation by about this time in the cycle. Have you seen that?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, I think we saw it more concentrated, not surprisingly, on silicon carbide just because that's where some of the market slowdown occurred. So in the last year, even a year and a half ago when we started talking about some of the solar slowdown and industrial and EV. With that slowdown, you get pockets of inventory. You also get a little bit more ASP erosion. That does seem to have stabilized. I think the inventory pockets are reducing and stabilizing, maybe one more quarter, as we mentioned in the prepared remarks, and the ASP erosion seems to be stabilizing. So I think that's all pretty encouraging. Again, not as dramatic because, again, it's been a little bit more healthier supply and demand across the mobile and consumer space and a little bit of appliance.

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Perfect. Thank you. Thank you.

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Our next question comes from the line of Richard Shannon from Craig Holland. The line is open.

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Richard Shannon
Analyst (Craig Holland / Quake Hallam)

Okay, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Gene, maybe I'll ask a question here on calendar 25 sales outlook. I know you're not quantifying any sort of thought process here, but Obviously, last year had a really good year in GAN, and obviously, silicon carbide markets were very challenged, to say the least, here. How do we think about 2025 between the two material systems here? Is one going to be notably better than the other?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, I think, as I mentioned earlier, Rich, We really like our focused strategy on data centers, which is going to see a combination of growth in both GaN and silicon carbide. We're using that silicon carbide in the PFC circuit for most designs, GaN on the second stage or LLC. That's getting us the best efficiency, the best density for the customer. So I think that trend speaks for itself. I think the same kind of thing, as I mentioned, is going on with EV onboard chargers. bullish that roadside chargers is also improving as that infrastructure does need to get filled out around the world and that's a hundred percent silicon carbide so I think all of those will have a healthy growth going forward I think for both technologies because they're often used in combination in a number of our key market growth drivers okay fair enough thanks for that maybe a quick question for Todd

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Richard Shannon
Analyst (Craig Holland / Quake Hallam)

I've heard about the new OPEX spending level here and obviously still have a profile of 50% gross margins here at the high-end model here. And then also getting to EBITDA break-even here. I guess my question here is how do we think about the revenue to get to that break-even level?

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, right. So I think this is our second reduction. I think we went from break-even EBITDA of the mid-50s to mid-40s. This brings you to a a break even in high 30s, obviously dependent on gross margins, but that's what we feel like this OpEx level brings us to, a break even in high 30s in revenue per quarter.

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Okay, perfect. Thanks. That'll be all for me. Thank you.

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Our next question comes back from the line of Jack Egan from Charter Equity Research. The line's open.

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Jack Egan
Analyst, Charter Equity Research

Great. Thanks for taking the follow-up. You mentioned you found some additional synergies in OpEx, and last quarter you said you were targeting a 14% reduction in force. So is that going to be higher, like up towards 20% now, or were the cost savings found elsewhere?

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Todd Glickman
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, these cost savings were found elsewhere, as we've gone through a number of acquisitions historically. So those cost savings were separate from the ones in Q4, and and were directly related to synergies across those acquisitions.

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Great. Thanks so much. Thank you.

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Our next question comes back from the line of Richard Shannon from Quake Hallam. The line's back open.

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Richard Shannon
Analyst (Craig Holland / Quake Hallam)

All right. Well, that was fast getting back in here. Let's hear two questions. I got on the call late, so I may have missed some prepared remarks here. But, Gene, did I catch accurately that you had a very market acceleration design went to the data center space here? If I heard you correctly, 10 to the first three quarters and then 30 in the fourth quarter to get to 40. If that's accurate here, can you kind of lay out the dynamics here, what's going on as a share gains acceleration in the market? And then when do these design wins go to market? Can they happen this year or is it beyond this year?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, yeah, both. Both good points, and yes, you got the facts right, Rich. So I think it is an acceleration. I'd like to think it's probably an acceleration of share gain, but let's hold that until we sort of deliver on the POs and the revenue. But certainly the market continues to accelerate, and we're pleased to see, even after things like DeepSeek, that the CapEx numbers keep going up globally. The power requirements even continue to go up. As I talked about, a lot of our design ones are now pushing to that power limit, 4.5 kilowatt on the CRPS. 8.5 kilowatt, and we're going to go even higher than that on the ORV3 platform that I mentioned. So I think that's all pretty encouraging outlook for us.

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Richard Shannon
Analyst (Craig Holland / Quake Hallam)

Okay, fair enough for my follow-up question. No, that was it. Just another big picture question for you, Gene. Just, obviously, I have a different geopolitical environment since the last earnings call. I wanted to see if there's any changes that you would highlight, either positive or negative, globally?

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Jean Sheridan
Chairman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder

Yeah, good question. Those are always broad macro questions, right? So obviously, there's talk about tariffs. Hard to know how tariffs play out. Where are they? Which countries? How do people respond to the equipment level, the chip level? But fundamentally, we're one of the few companies doing semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. As you know, we build silicon carbide at XFAB in Texas. So that probably puts us a little bit better positioned than many others. We're already well into our China for China strategy, which was really about providing localized support for our China customers, kind of defending and protecting that business, but also trying to grow and accelerate it over time. So I think both of those gives us a pretty good position in the changing macroeconomic environment, but we'll have to see. It's a complicated world out there.

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Okay, perfect. Thanks, Jeannie. Thanks, Rich. Thank you. Excuse me.

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