11/4/2025

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Didi
Conference Operator

My name is Didi and I will be your conference operator today. Welcome to the Silicon Labs third quarter fiscal 2025 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Giovanni Pacelli, Silicon Labs Senior Director of Finance. Giovanni, please go ahead.

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Giovanni Pacelli
Senior Director of Finance, Silicon Labs

Thank you, Dede, and good morning, everyone. We are recording this meeting, and a replay will be available for four weeks on the investor relations section of our website at investor.silabs.com. Our earnings press release and the accompanying financial tables are also available on our website. Joining me today are Silicon Labs President and Chief Executive Officer Matt Johnson and Chief Financial Officer Dean Butler. They will discuss our third quarter financial performance and review recent business activities. We will take questions after our prepared comments, and our remarks today will include forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. We base these forward-looking statements on information available to us as of the date of this conference call and assume no obligation to update these statements in the future. We encourage you to review our SEC filings, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Additionally, during our call today, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial information. Reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in the company's earnings press release and on the investor relations section of our website. I'd now like to turn the call over to Silicon Labs Chief Executive Officer, Matt Johnson.

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Matt Johnson
President and Chief Executive Officer, Silicon Labs

Matt? Thanks, Giovanni. Good morning, everyone. Silicon Labs delivered third quarter results consistent with our outlook, demonstrating strong sales and profitability growth driven by disciplined execution throughout the company. Based on our Q3 results and Q4 outlook, we expect full-year revenue growth of 34% compared to 2024. Even more exciting is the continued growth ahead with many customers at various stages of qualification and new production ramps leading into 2026 and beyond. Our industrial and commercial business continued a strong performance in the quarter, extending the momentum we have seen throughout the year. Demand for commercial applications such as building safety, lighting, and access points experienced strong quarter-over-quarter sales growth, while normal variation in electronic shelf-label shipments drove softened quarter-over-quarter results. In industrial, smart meter demand continues to build as utilities worldwide deploy near real-time tracking of critical infrastructure and resource usage. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is driving new growth in energy demand, increasing the need for intelligent load balancing across the world's electrical grids. In response, many regions, including the United States, India, and Japan, are expanding, upgrading, or installing new monitoring infrastructure to strengthen grid resilience. This trend reinforces the importance of connected solutions that enable efficient, data-driven management of energy systems. As the global leader in smart metering, we're well positioned to benefit from this trend. Our home and life business grew as expected with smart home applications delivering another consecutive quarter of sequential growth with medical customers up nearly 60% year over year as we ramp new programs and continue to expand our market share in this area. Our strong customer engagements with high win rates in this space validate our conviction that Silicon Labs wireless solutions are setting the benchmark for continuous glucose monitoring and remote outpatient care. Markets where reliability, performance, and security are critical. As connected health and smart living ecosystems mature, our differentiated portfolio positions us to capture substantial new design wins across next-generation monitoring, diagnostics, and wellness devices. At this year's Works with Austin Summit, we were joined on stage by senior leaders from Amazon and Cisco as we introduced two groundbreaking design tools that are redefining how customers develop and deploy connected solutions. The first, Studio 6, is a fully revamped enablement platform that streamlines development, integration, and debugging, reducing complexity for engineers across product lines. It offers a powerful suite of tools that have become the hallmark of Silicon Lab's success and a key differentiator valued by our channel partners and broad base. The second, the Simplicity AI Software Development Kit, or SDK, is a new platform we believe will become the de facto standard for IoT developers. It enables customers to leverage agentic AI trained directly on Silicon Lab software design rules and frameworks, delivering a step function increased in the speed quality, and efficiency of customers' code creation and testing. While currently available to select customers, we believe this first mover advantage demonstrates our continued innovation and leadership in this space. The combined impact of these tools is powerful. Easier wireless adoption, faster development cycles, and over time, entirely new applications created through human-AI collaboration. Another emerging trend we see as a significant future growth opportunity is accelerating demand for active wireless asset tracking. Customers increasingly want to monitor high-value assets in real-time, moving beyond today's passive RFID tags and costly cellular solutions that limit scalability in battery life. Silicon Labs' latest solutions make this possible with advanced radio location features that deliver real-time beaconing with high accuracy and ultra-long battery life. This enables real-time GPS-like precision at a fraction of the cost, which is ideal for an increasing set of emerging applications. As supply chains and operations become more data-driven, secure, and accurate asset tracking will become increasingly essential across logistics, shipping, retail, manufacturing, and so many other environments. Looking ahead, we believe our technology leadership and scale in IoT uniquely position us to enable a new wave of IoT growth. Consistent with our existing plans to strengthen our supply chain resilience, this past week we announced the expansion of our partnership with Global Foundries to manufacture industry-leading Series 2 wireless SoCs at its Malta, New York facility. This long-term partnership will add needed U.S. capacity for competitive IoT wireless solutions for the next decade and beyond, and production will ramp over the next several years. Finally, the continued strength of our Series 2 platform, combined with the ramp of Series 3 that will be even more impactful, extends our leadership position in ultra-low power performance with next generation compute, connectivity, and security to bring more secure, interoperable IoT devices to market faster. The Silicon Labs team continues developing and deploying the next wave of IoT innovation. I'm proud of their consistent execution and remain confident in our strategic direction. Looking forward to next year, we expect continued momentum from our share gains converting into revenue, gross margin expansion, and the benefits of disciplined operational management, all of which will support our commitment to delivering sustained earnings growth. With that, I'll turn it over to Dean for a closer look at the financials. Dean?

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