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| We expect success given our proven track record and have a strong plan and road map in place, which will allow us to capitalize on the recovery and growth in our markets and of the broader market opportunities |
| But nevertheless, I think we are doing a great job in keeping up with the demand both internal and external supplies |
| This is a super, super exciting and super-hot market |
| We emerged from the second quarter with greater confidence and excitement regarding a return to stronger growth and meaningfully enhanced profitability |
| For the quarter, we delivered solid sequential improvement in revenue and margins |
| The highlights of our second quarter include: healthy sequential increases in both gross and operating margin, ongoing AI driven strength in the datacom vertical of our communications market, signs of improving demand in all four verticals within our industrial market, and the telecom vertical of our communications market for the confirmation of the previously announced transactions with Mitsubishi Electric and DENSO Corporation, in which they invested in aggregate of $1 billion in our silicon carbide business and entered into long-term supply agreements supporting demand for silicon carbide substrates and epitaxial wafers; and five, an increase in our planned debt repayment in fiscal 2024, resulting from the Silicon Carbide LLC being able to fund its own operating and capital expenditures |
| So as we said earlier, we have -- the advantage of being basically integrated to have a very a good understanding of the needs of the supply required by our -- both internal and external customers |
| So it's a very sharply growing market and we expect -- we aim to grow faster than that market |
| These actions, along with rigorous cost and expense control across the company, helped drive our sequential improvement in gross and operating margin in the second quarter |
| We've done a really good job in our SG&A expenses |
| The second is utilization within our fabs, which really two of our six fabs have really improved in terms of the utilization and also the reliance of our synergy plan, the reliance of our restructuring plan is really going to be utmost of importance in terms of increasing our gross margin going forward |
| So we are very active in many of these technologies that will be an advantage from a profitability standpoint |
| So we think that will be very, very powerful, not only to remain competitive standpoint and a road map standpoint, which are very strategic to our hyperscale customers and the like, but also from a cost structure standpoint |
| And based on the demand -- the demand is definitely stronger than what we could supply |
| Obviously, we are going to -- we are aiming to do even better than that in terms of the second half of the fiscal year |
| So we think in addition to the existing customers they keep ramping production, you see the major advantage of the spot-free, no-porosity kind of well quality provided by our ARM laser people, we believe that to grow in the market space |
| So we are projecting a very strong growth in our 800G shipments |
| Coherent is well-positioned with differentiated technology, exceptional talent and high-quality efficient manufacturing platforms capable of delivering products to markets that are rapidly growing |
| And I believe we are better positioned than others to take full advantage of our existing market positions and to penetrate deeper into these markets, largely because of the intimacy, trust and partnerships we have cultivated with market leaders and our increased scale, creating stability in our core business and creating a flywheel effect of other growth opportunities that many of our competitors simply don't have |
| In the upcoming years, we have tremendous upside potential and platform cost optimization attributable to the ongoing legacy Coherent integration, special restructuring and transformation projects that we've announced |
| So we are really excited with the ramp and the growth of the market |
| And beyond that, in '25, as the market improves we expect additional growth, both from the market coming back but also a lot of the engagement we have with customers on design wins for new products |
| The announcement with Mitsubishi and DENSO have strengthened our position, and we are seeing more engagements and especially a lot of interest from both existing and new customers for 200 millimeter |
| So we're seeing increasing customer engagement and are very excited about the impact of MicroLEDs on the television market |
| We are quite bullish about the silicon carbide market and the growth prospects over the next five to 10 years |
| We posted revenue of $1.131 billion, which was above the midpoint of our guidance, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.36, which was above the high end of our guidance |
| It's a unique capability |
| So we think it's going to be a huge opportunity for gold, since it's one of the largest battery makers in the world |
| We think that we will have always the best margin profile versus those that have to pretty much buy everything on the merchant market |
| There's also tremendous opportunities to partner |
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| And we have had similar ramps in the past this is a challenging ramp in terms of the data rate |
| And I'm struggling candidly because it seems like demand is great, which should be margin favorable, but some of your competitors probably are willing to take lower margins and so that might pressure profitability |
| That’s anomaly |
| And of course, there is also external supply chain, particularly around ICs, that will impact our ability to ramp |
| Currently, we don't have experience -- going back to your first question, we don't experience a challenge from a VCSEL production standpoint |
| Actually just recently, we learned that major battery maker in China kind of displaced our competitor laser to replace it with ours on the production line |
| So I guess, are you looking for -- and even if you look at your Q2 results, it seems like the lower speed stuff might have come down pretty good |
| So we don't see that being a challenge at least for our VCSEL supply |
| So we heard, for example, people talking about shortage of pixels |
| But when you see the size of the ramp that we're going up, we have to manage a number of constraints |
| No, it's not, okay? So we don't have a challenge from a supply standpoint from the VCSEL standpoint |
| Now the traditional networking market is certainly not growing at that clip, and we are not really factoring a significant rebound in our non-AI, if you will, market growth or our revenue growth |
| Again, sorry if I might have missed this earlier |
| The shareholder letter and our SEC reports set forth risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially |
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