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| Our PON business continues to grow outside of China, and we remain confident our PON business will grow over the next several years as global demand for higher access bandwidth drives an increase in global PON deployments |
| For the remainder of the year, we expect to see 100 to 150 basis-point improvement in gross margin driven by a higher mix of Semtech Organic revenue and achievement of material cost synergies |
| Our efforts to diversify our revenue geographically are showing signs of success |
| In FY23, our LoRa business continued to make solid progress on the growth metrics we have established |
| We remain confident that our full portfolio of data center platforms, including ClearEdge and Tri-Edge CDRs, FiberEdge PMDs and CopperEdge re-drivers will enable us to rapidly grow our hyperscale data center business nicely over the next several years |
| We expect to achieve our long-term gross margin target of 58% to 63% through: one, sustained growth of data center, 5G wireless base stations, passive optical networks, broad protection industrial and automotive product platforms; two, accelerated deployment of LoRa endpoint from improved cellular connectivity; and three, growth in annual recurring revenue from Sierra’s managed connectivity, software services and LoRa Cloud services |
| Our LoRa-enabled revenues also grew 40% for the year to achieve a record $187 million |
| Semtech is a very resilient company, and I’m confident that we will successfully manage through the headwinds we currently face and deliver profitable growth in the years ahead |
| In FY23, our SIP product group grew 4% annually and achieved record revenues of $304 million driven by record PON revenues of $142 million, which grew 58% annually and record 5G revenues of $11 million, which grew 18% annually |
| In FY23, organic Semtech also achieved record gross margins of 65.1%, record operating income of $213 million and record EPS of $2.80 |
| Semtech Organic delivered a record operating profit of $212.7 million, up 5% versus the prior year, with minimal revenue growth due to gross margin expansion and controlled expenses |
| Emeka Chukwu I would expect to see continued gross margin expansion on an annual basis every year for the next several years |
| In addition, over time, as the current business climate improves and we execute on the vision behind the Sierra acquisition of driving LoRa endpoint proliferation, we expect to achieve our long-term operating margin target of 32% to 36% |
| In fiscal year ‘23, organic Semtech net revenues achieved a record $742 million |
| We delivered record revenue and operating income and closed on the largest acquisition in our history |
| The team has actually done a very good job of the integration so far |
| The combination of LoRa and cellular technology is a highly strategic opportunity that positions Semtech as the clear leader in the fast-growing ultra-low power IoT market |
| In our base station business, again, we have momentum in China, but we also have momentum outside China, which is also good |
| The last 17 years have been an incredible journey for me, I’m very proud of the growth and transformation of Semtech and our many accomplishments during this time |
| We expect both, our protection and sensing businesses to rebound as the overall consumer market improves in the second half of fiscal year ‘24 |
| In addition, our increasing design wins for USB-C protection across all end markets, position our protection business for growth as USB-C becomes the high-speed interface of choice across the high-end consumer and ITA segments |
| We have a lot of good design win momentum in our Signal Integrity product group across all three of the major segments |
| That should also be a driver of the gross margin expansion for this year |
| We recently announced several new innovative products that extend our leadership position in PMD and CDR platforms targeted at the data center, wireless base station and PON segments |
| In FY23, our organic Wireless and Sensing business grew 40% to achieve a record $200 million |
| I think Sierra has -- and now Semtech has a very good opportunity to really educate to the market and gain share, particularly on the security side and also on the supply chain side |
| In fiscal ‘23 for organic Semtech, our growth drivers of data center, LoRa-enabled, PON, broad protection industrial and automotive platforms drove record non-GAAP gross margin of 65.1%, up 180 basis points |
| We are delighted with the large increase in gateways deployed globally as this LoRa infrastructure is critical to enable the broad range of industry use cases that are emerging |
| Fiscal year ‘23 operating profit was a record $210.7 million for the combined company |
| But on the positive side, the bookings were actually up for the legacy business, was actually up about 10% during Q4 |
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| In Q4, our LoRa-enabled revenues were down 12% sequentially and flat over the previous year due to softer demand from China and a significant drop in Helium revenues |
| We saw reduced demand from all our infrastructure segments across all geographies with China data center and China wireless base station being particularly weak |
| Revenue from our wireless base station business was down in Q4, both on a sequential and year-over-year basis |
| The organic Semtech demand remains very weak due mostly to a weak China and consumer demand |
| However, our consumer demand currently remains very weak and inventory levels remain high |
| In Q4 of fiscal ‘23, the company delivered net sales of $167.5 million, down 6% sequentially and 12% year-over-year |
| Q4 gross margin for organic Semtech declined 80 basis points sequentially to 64.7%, driven primarily by a return mix of the high-end consumer end markets revenue |
| I mean, for example, I can tell you that the data center business in China is very weak |
| The decline was driven mostly by the economic slowdown in China and excess inventory as customer consumption declined |
| In FY23, our protection products business declined 8% over the prior year |
| The decline was due to ongoing weakness from the consumer segment, including from smartphones, wearables and PCs |
| Q4 net revenue from our Advanced Protection and Sensing product group decreased 6% sequentially and 32% annually and represented 29% of total revenues |
| Net revenue from the industrial end market declined 18% year-over-year and 15% sequentially and represented 40% of total net revenues |
| In addition, the Sierra Wireless demand, which is typically seasonally weaker in Q1 is also being negatively impacted by the overall macro weakness in North America and Europe, resulting in both pushouts and some cancellations |
| For fiscal ‘24, we expect cash flow from operations to be pressured by transaction and acquisition-related expenses and lower profits due to the weak demand environment |
| Consumer demand for both China and Korea remains extremely soft |
| In Q4 of FY23, our Signal Integrity product group revenue was down 21% sequentially and represented 36% of total revenues |
| We have, in LoRa, a specific issue also with Helium, which has also come down |
| As a result, we expect our Advanced Protection and Sensing business to be down significantly in Q1 |
| I think it’s more, Harsh, that when you look at some of these segments and some of the regional kind of balance here, we’ve seen pretty weak China now for several quarters |
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