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| But I think we're in a very good position |
| Our strategy and business fundamentals are strong |
| We're thrilled that the team itself, which is significantly in Bangalore, India, as well as in other parts of the world, has integrated wholly into SiTime and become a very significant part of SiTime's success |
| The second thing is that clearly by the time the second half rolls around, we expect to be in good shape for strong growth |
| In the second half of the year, we saw sequential improvement as channel inventories continued to be consumed and demand in some markets such as consumer and data center improved, and we finished the year strong |
| Most importantly, though, through all these changes, the strength of SiTime's business based on SAM, or served market, ASP, or average selling price, design wins, and single sourcing has only become greater, and we are better positioned than ever to accelerate our growth |
| We think we have an enormous opportunity in that space |
| Our ASPs continue to remain strong, design wins continue to grow, and a large majority of our business remains single sourced |
| We finished 2023 strong and rounded out our timing story with the acquisition in December of Aura Semiconductor's clocking products |
| And we're seeing that not only in tier one and auto, but in other customers as well, where our unique solutions are well-positioned for those customers |
| All in all, we are excited about the market position and believe our growth strategy is fully intact |
| And I think it comes back to the strength of our design wins and the product and the unique technology and relationship that we have built with the customer |
| As I think we both talked about, we do expect that we continue to see improvement in the second half versus the first half, both in terms of the demand picture, but also as those inventories continue to get drawn down, and so we get to a more normalized back half |
| The early design momentum is promising, and we are well on our way to building a large funnel, though, as expected, revenue will take time |
| So I'm actually feeling pretty good about it |
| I think overall, we're optimistic about 2024 and excited to be growing in the year |
| That said, I think we see the opportunity to go upstream, as you pointed out, Tore, where as processor companies think of their architecture for clock trees, SiTime has the ability to show up with the clocks, the ability to modify those clocks significantly to deliver what they want, and to connect them to our Epoch family, our Elite RF family, our Elite X family, which are, as you know, three unique products and oscillators that nobody else has, and are significantly better than anything out there from the legacy technologies |
| So I think it's a little bit of mixed outcome, but in general, our strength continues because of a superior product, our better supply chain, our quality, our reliability |
| In conclusion, we're pleased with our current opportunities in the AI segment, and believe additional applications will materialize as the segment is still in its early stage |
| For the aerospace defence markets in Q4, we introduced a transformative product, the Endura Epoch OCXO, and we're seeing excellent design interaction with customers |
| This new product delivers superior operations for radio, data link, navigation, and guidance systems in military environments |
| Our ASPs grew from Q3 to Q4 2023, driven by stronger sales in comms enterprise data center and automotive industrial aero defence markets, where we bring significant value to our customers |
| We feel pretty good about the way we are in the second half of the year |
| Also, in general, we think that we're going to finish the year strong in the second half of the year |
| We have unique technology that addresses a large and growing market, and our design wins reinforce the strength of our value proposition with customers |
| Our funnel continues to show robust growth |
| If things are a little bit better, then we expect to be able to grow better |
| We also expect revenue this year to exceed 2023 as our growth trends back to our model of 30% annual growth |
| As Rajesh mentioned, we do expect to see sequential growth quarter to quarter as we go through the year with the second half being stronger than the first half |
| We have strong engagement with two of the top cloud service providers, or CSPs, and the top AI server supplier, using our new clock and oscillator products together |
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| The first half of the year saw declining revenue because of over-ordering at our customers, leading to a build-up of inventories and clearly weak demand |
| For the full year, we delivered revenue of $144 million, down 49% from fiscal '22, and non-GAAP gross margins of 59.2% |
| What I mean by that is there's the largest customer, they're down as expected, and maybe even a little bit more |
| Drilling into revenue by market segment, sales into our mobile, IoT, and consumer segments were $17.1 million, or 40% of sales, down 4% from Q3, as expected |
| As a result, we expect non-GAAP earnings per share to be a loss in the range of $0.12 to $0.17 per share |
| And it's only as referenced by Beth earlier, that the inventory is taking probably a little bit longer than we thought previously in Q1 and Q2 |
| And then some of the other consumer business that we have is also sort of still not fully recovered |
| We clearly had a tough 2023, no bones about that |
| First of all, so back to the previous question about the segments for Q1, Rajesh, I think you said consumer was doing okay, but obviously for Q1, we should expect that segment to be down sequentially, or are you saying that your largest customer would be down and then the X, the largest customer, it would be not down? Rajesh Vashist Yes, no, I think consumer is doing okay, but consumer is also lower as well, if that makes any sense |
| Is that the right way to think about it, or is there just some continued drastic inventory problem there? Thank you |
| Some customers have gotten back to normal levels, as we've been talking about |
| But as we look forward, we look at the first half, continuing to clear out that excess inventory in the channel and get back to normalization |
| Could you give us a rough sense, how much of that $9.7 million is the faster growth AI, data center bucket, and how much is more 5G or telco related, which as you said in your comments, certainly has a slower growth outlook in the near term, I think because of inventory digestion and continued weak demand or deployments of 5G.? Thank you |
| In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed during this call may not occur, and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated, or implied |
| Could you just give us some of the puts and takes there? Rajesh Vashist Yes, I think the US companies are a little bit taking a breather, as you read from the headlines |
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