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| The increase in gross margin was driven mainly by our favorable product mix shift, our transition to a direct sales model in our CATV business, and the impact of non-recurring engineering sales during the quarter |
| Revenue for our 100G products, more than double year-over-year, and revenue for our 400G products increased more than eight times in the same period |
| We're pleased by the continued progress we have made on improving our gross margin, which combined with our expense management allowed us to generate a small non-GAAP net income in the fourth quarter for the first time in many years |
| Further, we generated positive adjusted EBITDA of $4.8 million in Q4 |
| Further, we generated positive adjusted EBITDA of $4.8 million in Q4 |
| While not likely to contribute meaningfully to revenue in 2024, we also are very optimistic about our 1.6 terabit products as we move into 2025 |
| We are encouraged by the sequential growth that we saw in our CATV business in Q4 |
| We are pleased by the continued progress we have made in improving our gross margin, which combined with our expense management, allow us to generate a small amount of non-GAAP net income in the fourth quarter for the first time in many years |
| While these are early samples, the feedback we received on their performance and pricing is extremely encouraging |
| I think we're well positioned for that |
| While not guaranteed, we continue to believe that the revenue opportunity for our 400G and 800G products could be greater and a longer duration than the revenue contribution we saw from this customer during the peak of the 40G product cycle, which suggests that revenue from these products may exceed $300 million over the several years of these build outs |
| In Q4, we generated non-GAAP gross margin of 36.4%, which was above our guidance range of 34.5% to 36% and was up from 32.5% in Q3 of 2023 and up from 21.4% in Q4 of 2022 |
| Further, we are confident that our products are aptly designed for the deployment of amplifiers and other network elements required for DOCSIS 4.0 |
| Revenue for our 200G and 400G products increased 79% sequentially, which we believe is largely driven by AI demand for compute infrastructure |
| So the opportunity is huge |
| Excellent |
| As we began to see some softness in demand late in the quarter, we delivered a non-GAAP gross margin of 36.4%, which is the highest quarterly gross margin that we have generated in the last five years, and was above our guidance range of 34.5% to 36% |
| We shipped samples to three different data center customers in 2023 and have received initial positive feedback on our 800G products |
| With the improvement we expect in the second half, we currently expect our first full year of non-GAAP profitability since 2018 |
| We anticipate this transition will begin to take place sometime in mid-2024 and are optimistic about the second half of the year |
| Mainly driven by improved product mix and some contribution from non-recurring engineering projects, we generated a small non-GAAP net income of $0.04 per share, which was at the high end of our guidance range of a loss of $0.02 to earnings of $0.04 |
| During Q3, and as we had discussed on our prior earnings call, we received requests from Microsoft to expedite our production ramp for these products, which I'm pleased to report we were able to accommodate |
| Same thing, I think we believe that Q2 to 400G may be very strong |
| And so I think that along with our commentary about a markedly improved Q2 would hopefully give you guys some level of confidence that this is a temporary condition |
| As a reminder, with the direct to MSO sales model we implemented late last year, we expect margins in our CATV business to be meaningfully higher than our historical average |
| As we stated last quarter, we continue to carefully monitor MSO plans to upgrade to DOCSIS 4.0 networks, and we continue to believe AOI is a leader in technologies that will enable DOCSIS 4.0 |
| Another item to note, we believe that the value proposition that we offer to Microsoft is just as strong with other data center operators, and we are working with several of them to evaluate our technology and qualify our products |
| It's a little early to say, but the market opportunity there is huge |
| Despite the softness we are seeing in Q1, we have been experiencing significant traction with several new data center customers recently for both 400G and 800G products, and we expect one or more of these customers to begin to contribute meaningfully to revenue starting in Q2, which gives us a basis for the optimistic outlook, despite the slow start to the year |
| While we do see some softness in Q1 due to the combined effects of the Lunar New Year holiday in our Asian factories, along with some price reductions which are scheduled to take effect, we expect a strong recovery in Q2 and are currently anticipating a markedly improved second half of 2024 |
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| During the fourth quarter, we delivered revenue of $60.5 million, which was below our guidance range of $63 million to $67 million, primarily due to somewhat lower than expected data-centered revenue |
| Now turning to our telecom segment, revenue from our telecom products of $2.8 million was down 56% year-over-year and down 8% sequentially, largely driven by ongoing softness in 5G demand, particularly in China |
| Turning to the quarter, our total revenue for the fourth quarter decreased by 2% year-over-year to $60.5 million, which was below our guidance range of $63 million to $67 million |
| As Thompson mentioned, this was largely due to somewhat lower than expected data center revenue as we began to see some softness in demand late in the quarter, which we attribute to timing of orders |
| As we had anticipated, revenue for our 100G products decreased 31% sequentially |
| Total revenue in our CATV segment was $12.6 million, which was down 67% year-over-year and up 22% sequentially, largely driven by generally slow sales of DOCSIS 3.1 equipment as the industry prepares for transition to DOCSIS 4.0 |
| Looking forward, we continue to expect that our near-term CATV business will be down compared to historic highs we saw in 2021 and 2022 as the MSOs transition to next-generation architecture |
| In line with our expectations, CATV revenue in the fourth quarter was $12.6 million, which was down 67% year-over-year and up 22% sequentially |
| Turning to our data center business, our Q4 data center revenue came in at $44.5 million, which more than doubled year-over-year and was down 9% sequentially, as noted above |
| This compares to a net loss of $5.4 million, or a loss of $0.19 per basic share in Q4 of the prior year |
| I assume that's where the weakness is from a demand standpoint |
| Non-GAAP operating income in the fourth quarter was $0.4 million, compared to an operating loss of $7.9 million in Q4 in the prior year |
| So, these things are difficult to predict |
| We noted in our prepared remarks earlier that, it's a combination of factors there that the Lunar New Year, a lot of these products are made in our China facility and so the mix of those products shifted a little bit unexpectedly on us towards the end of last year, which resulted in having to make new products essentially that we hadn't necessarily planned for in advance and that's why the Lunar New Year caught us a little bit unprepared this year |
| GAAP net loss for Q4 was $13.9 million, or a loss of $0.38 per basic share, compared with a GAAP net loss of $20.3 million, or a loss of $0.71 per basic share, in Q4 of 2022 |
| There may be some recovery in 100 gig, it's a little bit unclear, but that technology is clearly, in the waning phase of its life cycle |
| It kicked in towards the end of last year and both of those two factors account for the bulk of the decline |
| The data center, the individual data centers where those are getting installed are taking a little bit longer than expected to actually deploy those transceivers in the data center |
| Total revenue for our data-center products of $44.5 million, more than doubled year-over-year, but was down 9% sequentially |
| So, first of all, I guess some commentary on the slower start to the year that we're seeing, specifically with the data center deployment that I mentioned earlier |
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