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| Our financial position remains strong boasting a debt-free balance sheet and the highest cash balance in company's history |
| Additionally, our new industrial STT-MRAM product line has continued to gain momentum in terms of design wins, showcasing the importance of ramping technology from the last few quarters |
| This led to a record full year revenue of $63.8 million, which was up 6% year-over-year |
| We are pleased to report record annual revenue and profitability for 2023 with a strong gross margin, a solid balance sheet with no debt and the highest cash balance in our company's history |
| We recorded our 11th quarter in a row of GAAP profitability, a strong focus for the company |
| In summary, we are pleased to report another solid year of growth with record annual revenue, profitability and earnings per share |
| Our pipeline of new design wins for our MRAM products remain strong and exceeded our internal expectations |
| As part of our fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results, we are pleased to announce that we have achieved record annual revenue of $63.8 million and record profitability with net income of $9.1 million in 2023 |
| Our revenue outperformance was preliminarily driven by the success we have seen in our RAD-Hard deals, which have continued to progress well from a technology standpoint |
| We are seeing good traction in the industry even in Asia Pac |
| We expect Q1 to be strong again from a licensing and royalty perspective |
| We continue to have good visibility and a strong pipeline driven by solid product backlog |
| In addition, we generated positive cash flow from operations resulting in the highest cash balance of our company's history of $36.9 million |
| Q4 2023 also marks our 11th consecutive quarter of positive net income |
| We delivered strong quarterly results above the high end of our guidance range of $15.4 million to $16.4 million, with revenue of $16.7 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.09 |
| We also recorded positive cash flow from operations of $2 million |
| We remain committed to preserving Everspin's position as a leader in MRAM technology and this is reflected in our extensive intellectual property portfolio and the successful licensing of our technologies |
| Moreover we expect to see continued growth in our Toggle MRAM products, as well as additional design wins |
| Fully diluted EPS of $0.09 was above the high end of our guidance range reflecting our strategic operational discipline and ability to drive profitability in the face of macroeconomic uncertainties |
| We expect growth to accelerate in the second half of 2024 as we begin to recognize revenue from design wins of our STT and Toggle MRAM products |
| And as you know with all the supply chain issues that everybody had last year and the year before Everspin actually managed the supply chain very well |
| So the gross margin has performed really well over last year right? So we've been saying we'd be mid-50s in gross margin |
| The increase in cash quarter-over-quarter is a result of Everspin's continued focus on strong cash management while growing cash flow from operations as the company continues to operate debt-free |
| While we expect to experience a slower start to the year, we expect a solid second half of 2024 |
| Cash flow from operations was healthy at $2 million for the fourth quarter |
| So we expect that we'll be able to get some traction in the second half of 2024 |
| We delivered gross margin of 58.1% in the fourth quarter, up from 51.4% in Q4 2022 |
| GAAP gross margin for 2023 was 58.4%, an increase from 56.6% in 2022 |
| The year-over-year increase in gross margin is a result of being able to offset increased pricing from suppliers with increased yields on our Toggle products and increased licensing revenue to offset the decrease in product sales |
| As discussed, we believe our DMRAM approach is revolutionary and will give us an edge on energy efficiency and scaling, as we deploy the solution in FPGAs and AI inference engines |
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| We anticipate revenue to ramp as we move through the year with the first half a bit lower than our traditional seasonality given ongoing economic weakness in China and softness in the industrial and automotive sectors |
| We expect the first half of the year to be more muted given economic weakness in China and softness in industrial and automotive sectors in part due to inventory digestion and rebalance |
| So I think from a backlog perspective, right? As you look at the backlog you're seeing challenges within the Industrial and Automotive space |
| So Japan and China there's been some challenges there |
| And to your question in terms of geographies, APAC in general has shown some weakness |
| We do see some decline in product revenue |
| It's again mainly because of the APAC challenges and the challenges in China |
| We're also seeing customers looking at bleeding down inventory and concern with their inventory |
| It sounds like that continued in the fourth quarter given the quarter-over-quarter decline in product revenues |
| And then my follow-up is last quarter you talked about some of the weakness in industrial automation in China |
| Sanjeev Aggarwal So just to add to that Neil, I think we are still optimistic on the second half of this year are really focusing on a few things |
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