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| But the feedback's really good, especially doing this on a sub 50-watt SoC |
| In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, our revenue increased about 2% sequentially, and we slightly exceeded the midpoint of our guidance range |
| We were pleased to receive a CES Innovation Award for the second year in a row, this time for our centralized radar processing architecture |
| And I'm excited about what we will achieve in the years ahead |
| And that's, and with our run rate, we think that we can maintain very healthy, not only ASP but also cost margin in that product line |
| During the CES show, we demonstrated a stack running on a single CV3 automotive AI domain processor in our own autonomous vehicle, successfully completing over 150 autonomous drives |
| And we see really good feedback about what these products can do |
| However, there were key industry developments and the company's specific achievements that we believe leave us very well positioned for growth as the market recovery plays out |
| And when we compare to them, just like when we compare to them in the automotive space, I think we can deliver higher performance at low power consumption |
| And we see the secular trends we address, safety, security, and automation remaining very strong |
| And that's our strength, our architecture, that we can use a smaller top number and lower bandwidth to achieve similar or higher performance |
| The fact that we have already achieved a high volume mass production at 5-nanometer helps pave the way for our other 5-nanometer SoC, such as the CV3 family |
| So far, we are finding success in L3 and above commercial vehicles |
| This offering addresses the up growing market demand for a diverse range of neural networks and LLMs and the well-empowered business across sectors, including autonomous vehicles, smart surveillance, robotics, and healthcare |
| I've been working with the team for seven years and I'm very excited to help the company as it pursues growth in its target markets |
| This software is optimized and can scale across our entire CV3 processor family, enabling OEM to get to market faster and reduce development costs |
| In the new year, we are very excited about the opportunities we are working on and look forward to move more business into one column |
| Our early actions during the cyclical downturn in the semiconductor industry have helped our customers navigate their high inventory balances, and these actions are now enabling our business to stabilize and begin to recover |
| The CV2 family is expected to continue to be the key driver of our revenue growth in fiscal year 2025 |
| Furthermore, returning our IoT business to its positive secular growth trajectory is very important |
| And we believe that the momentum of CV2 family will continue, particularly after the inventory problem is behind us |
| In the Chinese automotive market, we continue to expand our position in this important market |
| So, I think we believe that the AI performance demand in security camera will continue to grow |
| So I think at that point, I think CV2 family will drive the growth for us |
| And I guess it's not a surprise to me, given that the engineering and architecture team is getting good feedback on low power inference |
| So it will help us to keep those customers, but also for the new customer, even in the LLM part, I think that we can provide an environment for customers to quickly convert their software algorithm to run on our chip |
| Looking ahead to fiscal year 2025, we continue to expect both our automotive and IoT business to grow |
| So I think that's how we feel comfortable that automotive will also have growth this year |
| For the basic highway L2 plus opportunity in China, we introduced a CV72AQ, and we have numerous tier one design wins and OEM discussions underway |
| So that's definitely we believe we can monetize our CV3 technology in China faster than any other areas |
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| For the full fiscal year 2024, our revenue declined 32.9% year-over-year, as our customers digested inventory resulting from the industry-wide semiconductor cyclical downturn |
| IoT revenue was about two-thirds of the total revenue and declined about 40% for the year |
| Fiscal 2024 was certainly challenging for most of the industry |
| Auto revenue represented the balance of revenue and declined about 14% for the year |
| That means the video processor business will, which was down substantially, as John mentioned, in fiscal 2024, it dropped about $80 million |
| Fiscal year 2024 revenue decreased 32.9% to $226.5 million |
| So you said you were seeing project delays from Tier 1s and OEMs, as well as volume reductions in planned projects, which you called out more of an inventory issue |
| Non-GAAP operating expense was $44.1 million, approximately flat with the prior quarter, and below our prior guidance range of $45 million to $48 million, driven by continued expense management and the timing of spending between quarters |
| From a product point of view, a large majority of our fiscal 2024 revenue decline was from our human viewing video processor, SoCs |
| But our total tops, top number as well as the bandwidth, is much lower than our competition |
| Inventory dollars declined 6% sequentially and declined 28% from a year ago |
| Obviously, there's still probably some lingering inventory, especially on the auto side |
| So on the auto side, regarding inventory, you aren't seeing any improvements? Fermi Wang We haven't seen any improvement, but we are not saying there's -- it's getting worse |
| So I think overall, although that automotive market continues to be weak based on the feedback from the market, but I still believe that we are a small player in the automotive space and we are trying to be a big one throughout the process |
| We reported a non-GAAP net loss of $9.8 million, or a $0.24 loss per diluted share |
| In conclusion, we have not been distracted by the prolonged industry-wide cynical downturn |
| As the cyclical challenges went and the secular growth of AI strategy emerges |
| For fiscal Q4, revenue was $51.6 million, slightly above the midpoint of our prior guidance range, up 2% from the prior quarter, and down 38% year-over-year |
| I can see big potential here, but there's also some limitations on capital, given where the business is |
| Fiscal Q4 cash and marketable securities decreased $2.4 million from the prior quarter to $219.9 million |
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