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| Debt paydown is a powerful contributor to our earnings |
| Entegris' unit-driven business model is unique, highly differentiated and has strong competitive moats |
| For the year, we outperformed the market by 6 points, driven in large part by our strong position at the leading-edge technology nodes and the backlog we had entering the year |
| So beyond slurries, we have great opportunity for the bad solutions that really work hand-in-glove with the slurries that we are providing our customers in Power Electronics |
| And we have demonstrated that you know we are really good integrator of businesses |
| I mean, obviously, the organic growth story is very compelling |
| And this ultimately translates into rapidly expanding Entegris content per wafer and strong outperformance for the years to come, reinforcing Entegris as a value compounder with attractive organic sales growth leading to significant EBITDA and EPS expansion, especially given our commitment to lower our debt |
| We help our customers improve their productivity, performance and technology by providing enhanced materials and process solutions for the most advanced manufacturing environments |
| This profile, unique in the industry, provides greater resilience and stability to our business model and financial performance on a cross-cycle basis |
| Remember that we believe that we have very unique capabilities around those solid precursors, not just the ability to provide the material but also to provide an industry-leading delivery system that can very effectively delivered the material onto the wafer at very attractive total cost of ownership |
| We believe that those discussions have been very constructive and very positive |
| And as our customers do need more filtration products, this is a very attractive portfolio, attractive from a mix perspective |
| But our long-term view on the market we've talked about it and it's very positive |
| The next dimension of our competitive advantage is our commitment to industry leadership in the areas of technology, global infrastructure and operational excellence |
| On the technology front, we have a very strong foothold |
| But that business did double from 2022 to 2023, and we expect that business to continue to do extremely well |
| But as we go-forward MS as we spoke about earlier and as Bertrand mentioned has tremendous opportunity |
| And we believe this brings huge value to our customers and ultimately means better device performance, lower-cost of ownership, and faster time to solution |
| So it's a very good outcome when we look at this three year target model |
| Key drivers of this as I mentioned on the previous slide, are gross margin expansion and SG&A leverage |
| A solution set that improves device performance, reduces time to yield, and provides superior cost of ownership for our customers |
| And we closed 2023 with strong fourth quarter sales and EPS results, both above our guidance |
| These investments are proving to be a great source of differentiation for us, accelerating learning and customer engagement |
| But let me just say that we are very pleased with the progress we have made in the construction phase of our KSP investment |
| The great news is, as I talked about in the presentation is we have a rock solid capital structure |
| And I'm also very, very pleased with the quality of the customer engagements that we've seen in the last 18 months |
| I talked about a few different metrics, but more importantly, the way the two teams have come together is extremely gratifying |
| So, we're very pleased with the way the combination with CMC Materials is shaping out |
| Our unit-driven model displayed resilience during the current industry downturn |
| We remain very optimistic about the long-term secular growth of the semiconductor industry |
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| So, AMH revenue margin decline in Q4 |
| Secondly, the 2023 downturn has been longer than expected |
| For your reference, the 2023 gross margin headwind from our Taiwan facility was approximately 70 basis points |
| So he's talking about Material Solutions down sequentially in the margins post divestiture |
| Another factor impacting the MS performance in Q4 was the existence of some pull-ins, customer pull-in, customers trying to get will take advantage of rebates available to them during calendar 2023 |
| We will still have headwinds in 2024 from the ramp of KSP |
| Finally, we must quickly ramp production to high volumes at extremely high levels of quality |
| First, there was some volume deleveraging based on the revenue |
| The recovery will be led by advanced logic and DRAM, 3D NAND is expected to stay relatively muted especially early in the year |
| Remember that the MS division has the most exposure to memory, which was a headwind, was earlier in the year |
| From a materials purity perspective, greater miniaturization is making yield management exponentially more challenging and more expensive for our customers |
| Here is what I would like to impress upon you today |
| In addition, some of the volume ramps really impact the gross margin |
| I mean, we are guiding sequentially down 4%, which is in line with normal seasonal cycles |
| And the first one is the complexity of the challenges our customers are inviting us to collaborate on is, as I mentioned, growing |
| And as you know, all of those significant projects can be the source of a lot of distraction, a lot of de-focus in the organization, and that was not the case |
| I mentioned in the comments that in 2023, those headwinds were approximately 70 basis points |
| These divestitures had low OpEx |
| And one other item I will mentioned is, last year, I talked a bit about the impact of our inventory reductions on margins |
| But that impact as we continue to reduce inventory will not be as great as it was |
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