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| I'm pleased to report to you our second straight quarter, delivering robust operating cash flow of over $500 million |
| In addition, on a non-GAAP basis, the Marvell team drove a substantial 330 basis point sequential increase in gross margin, completed execution on the OpEx reduction plan we outlined earlier in the year and delivered earnings per share of $0.46, growing 12% sequentially |
| We're very excited about that |
| It's a very exciting time in the semiconductor industry relative to sort of the opportunity that's in front of us |
| We are very optimistic about our growth prospects and our role in enabling accelerated infrastructure |
| As Willem will tell you in greater detail, we also drove another strong quarter of operating cash and increased share repurchases |
| The 800 gig for AI has still got tons of legs, right? And it's going to be very, very strong this year, very, very strong next year |
| In our data center end market for the fourth quarter, we drove record revenue of $765 million, above our guidance, growing 54% year-over-year and 38% sequentially |
| The strong revenue growth in the quarter was driven by the cloud portion of our data center end markets |
| While AI has been a key growth driver, I am pleased that our standard cloud infrastructure revenue has also grown every quarter, and we see that continuing next year |
| We are encouraged by the traction we are seeing with both existing and new customers, which has expanded our opportunity funnel for cloud switching dramatically over the past year |
| We also benefited from higher sequential demand for our storage products as that portion of our data center end market continues its recovery |
| Revenue from our Teralynx Ethernet switches also grew sequentially in the quarter |
| So there's actually kind of a virtuous cycle happening where being at that bleeding edge is now we're able to show our other solutions that interoperate with this custom silicon, really a best-in-class roadmap there |
| It also has a side benefit by driving this advanced technology for the custom ASIC side, is it's pulling along the technology development that benefits all the other businesses in Marvell, like our high-performance switching, our DSP for optics, et cetera |
| We project our electro-optics revenue to continue to be strong, and we also expect to benefit from the initial shipments of our cloud optimized AI silicon programs |
| So yes, and there'll be more to come sort of at our AI Day, but I would just say our 3-nanometer funnel and our 3-nanometer hit rate and design win rate is very encouraging and it really gives us this tremendous confidence in where this business is headed |
| So the overall Inphi business, if that's what you're asking, since we bought it has clearly outperformed the deal model and has just become an incredibly strategic asset for us, both in terms of just the technology we picked up, but the team, the synergy with the other portfolio, the other product lines we have, and so just super positive about that, and it looks like that whole opportunity is going to be much larger than I think we were in [indiscernible] just a few years back |
| In aggregate, we see a favorable setup for the second half of this fiscal year, driven by continued growth from our data center end market, ongoing growth from automotive, and a recovery in carrier, enterprise and consumer |
| Driven by AI applications, our data center revenue in the second half grew by approximately 50% over the first half |
| We see exciting new opportunities ahead of us from growth in generative AI applications, driving cloud customers to build new data centers |
| We also expect a positive uplift from increased investment in inferencing, which will drive more bandwidth between data centers |
| We are shipping our 400-gig DCI products in high volume today and are seeing strong interest for our next-generation 800-gig products |
| I'm also very pleased to report to you that in fiscal 2024, we significantly expanded our DCI customer base with design wins at multiple data center customers |
| And remember, we still have very strong gross margin merchant businesses in storage and in networking, automotive |
| I mean we did great on 5-nanometer, we’re going to do great on 3-nanometer, and we’re going to do great in the future |
| Combine the Innovium team with Marvell's very successful enterprise and carrier switching organization |
| And on top of that, with the scale of Marvell and our strategic partnerships, we really look to our customers like an incredibly solid, trustworthy long-term partner for their needs to really help them realize their AI silicon ambitions |
| Marvell delivered $5.5 billion in revenue with a strong second half performance from our data center end market |
| So we’re very excited about where the company is positioned |
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| Revenue in the fourth quarter was $82 million, declining 17% year-over-year and 22% sequentially |
| This forecast reflects the completion of deliveries for an end-of-life program in the prior quarter as well as significantly weaker demand from the game console market |
| As we have been communicating, these end markets have been dealing with a period of soft industry demand |
| As expected, the sequential weakness was primarily driven by a sharp decline in the industrial portion of this end market, where order patterns can be lumpy in any given quarter |
| Revenue declined in the fourth quarter as expected and is projected to decline approximately 70% sequentially in the first quarter |
| On a sequential basis, we expect revenue in the first quarter from carrier to decline by approximately 50% and enterprise networking to decline by approximately 40% |
| GAAP gross margin was 41.6%, GAAP operating margin was negative 10.3% and GAAP loss per diluted share was $1.08 |
| GAAP operating margin was negative 2.3%, while non-GAAP operating margin was 33.8% |
| As a result, both were down sequentially in the fourth quarter and we expect them to decline again in the first quarter |
| We are forecasting a sequential decrease in non-GAAP gross margin due to lower revenue impacting fixed cost absorption |
| Partially offsetting this growth, we are projecting a more than seasonal sequential decline in revenue from enterprise on-premise data centers |
| Obviously, there's some timing issues in terms of supply chain and things like that |
| But the GMs, just due to the nature of that business model will always be a little bit lower than the total |
| The magnitude of the drops ex your data center are kind of shocking |
| Looking ahead, we expect revenue declines in these end markets to be behind us after the first quarter and forecast a recovery in the second half of the fiscal year |
| Some of those were even under-shipping demand right now |
| I think near term, it seems in Q1, there's probably a little bit of a breather after several strong quarters |
| We anticipate GAAP earnings per diluted share in the range of a loss of $0.18 to a loss of $0.28 |
| We're definitely going through a cyclical downturn in the industry, you've been doing this a long time, so have I, we've seen that happen, and that's what we're going through |
| I would say just a couple of months later now sitting here on this call, our confidence in our growth this year and the robustness of these programs has only gotten stronger and only increased |
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