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| We're very encouraged by the progress that we're seeing in demand and the improvements that we're seeing |
| Endpoint IC revenue grew 22% year-over-year, with enterprise solution wins and inlay partner inventory rebuilds more than offsetting retail apparel destocking headwinds |
| Our focus on silicon and enterprise solutions paid dividends in strong fourth quarter endpoint IC volumes, led by our two strategic verticals; retail and supply chain & logistics |
| We have delivered nine consecutive quarters of positive adjusted EBITDA, even as we continued investing in our business |
| And I personally am very excited about DPP, what it means for our business going forward |
| Although I still feel it is premature to call the retail downturn over, the green shoots I cited last quarter, feel a shade greener post-NRF, buoyed by secular growth opportunities in supply chain and logistics, retail general merchandise, apparel and a long tail of other applications |
| I think what's encouraging to me and our team is that we and our partners are seeing increased sales activity, increased detailed project planning, increasing the number of proof of concepts that are activating at this time |
| Turning to silicon, our 2023 endpoint IC unit-volume growth exceeded our industry's historical 29% CAGR, with opportunity expansion and inlay-partner inventory rebuilds more-than-offsetting the retail destocking headwinds |
| Systems revenue grew 10% year-over-year, with test and measurement and gateway strength more than offsetting weakness in our partner-led reader business |
| I was just going to add that our systems pipeline remains strong |
| Fourth quarter also showed strong test and measurement product deliveries to our inlay partners, as they expand their inlay manufacturing capacity |
| We believe those capacity expansions bode well, for the long-term endpoint IC opportunity |
| Moving to solutions, the visionary European retailer's ongoing rollout of our self-checkout and loss prevention solution contributed strong fourth-quarter gateway revenue |
| Looking a little bit further out than that first half systems revenue benefits from the Indy reader IC last time shipments related to that product's end of life |
| We are very pleased that we are now modeling our third quarter in a row of sequential demand increase |
| It's just overall good news for them, for us, an incredible product, and they will see a benefit from it |
| So I feel good about where we are to date |
| The M800 is our best performing and most feature-rich endpoint IC ever and, so far, customer feedback has been very positive |
| We as a company have been very excited about the opportunity for consumer use cases |
| Harsh Kumar And Chris, you sound fantastic about the prospects of the business |
| This is allowing us to do that in a better way, while also running our channel reader business in a more profitable fashion |
| We bucked that seasonality this Q4, and we were able to deliver 11% sequential endpoint IC revenue growth, even as we took down more channel inventory in Q4 than we did in Q3 |
| In closing, 2023 was another year of solid growth despite market headwinds, with annual revenue crossing the $300 million threshold for the first time |
| We delivered four quarters of positive adjusted EBITDA, successfully defended our IP, introduced market-leading new products and are well down the path to normalizing our inventory levels |
| But we're feeling pretty good about where we are at this point |
| As we continue driving our bold vision to connect every item in our everyday world, I remain confident in our market position and energized by the opportunities ahead |
| And I would add, in addition to the performance and manufacturability gains, the M800 also carries a significant cost advantage for Impinj given the die strength that's built into that endpoint IC |
| 2023 was another year of strong revenue growth, driven by our enterprise solution wins and end-market diversification into supply chain and logistics and retail general merchandise |
| Despite those fluctuations, our team executed well, delivering non-GAAP profitability in each quarter of the year |
| If that macro improvement actually happens, then we see strength in the back half of the year as well and the potential for gains as we have seen in other years |
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| Free cash flow was negative $68 million, driven by our endpoint IC inventory rebuild |
| Fourth quarter revenue was $70.7 million, up 9% sequentially compared with $65 million in third quarter 2023 and down 8% year-over-year from $76.6 million in fourth quarter 2022 |
| Fourth quarter systems revenue was $16.8 million, up 2% sequentially compared with $16.4 million in third quarter 2023 and down 6% year-over-year from $17.9 million in fourth quarter 2022 |
| Fourth quarter endpoint IC revenue was $53.9 million, up 11% sequentially compared with $48.6 million in third quarter 2023 and down 8% year-over-year from $58.7 million in fourth quarter 2022 |
| Free cash flow was negative $1.2 million |
| That said, we also navigated a fluid retail environment, marked by significant retail apparel inventory destocking that elevated our first half revenue and depressed our second half revenue as our inlay partners first overbuilt endpoint IC inventory and then adjusted stock back to healthier levels |
| Some of our smaller partners still hold elevated inventory, which we expect them to bleed down as their project-based demand returns |
| So although, it's painful, very painful to go through a headcount reduction and it's not something we take lightly or easily |
| And I'm wondering, is this quarter a little bit more challenging to forecast it |
| And we think in the first quarter, we'll be shipping closer to demand, whereas, the last couple of quarters, we've been pulling down channel inventory and as a result, undershipping demand |
| Full year 2023 gross margin was 51.9%, compared with 55.5% in 2022, with the decrease due primarily to lower endpoint IC product margins from less specialty and industrial ICs as well as mix within those specialty and industrial ICs |
| So, we guide one quarter at a time as you know, and making predictions at this point in time relative to overall 2024 is quite difficult |
| The year-over-year decline was driven by higher indirect costs against lower production volumes |
| Q4 is seasonally our softest quarter as we typically ship in front of the holiday season |
| So is this largely over now for you? Do you still see much excess inventory on the endpoint IC side? Or is it on the reader side? And I know you mentioned smaller partners that still have some elevated inventory |
| As you look at the overall market, we do see the retail inventory destocking at the end user level starting to taper |
| Fourth quarter GAAP net loss was $15.2 million |
| Looking forward, we anticipate first quarter to again deliver modest endpoint IC unit-volume growth |
| Just know that, as we migrated to a more advanced process mode, cost of digital logic came down |
| We're not as concerned about that |
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