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| Our mobile products had a strong quarter, driven by improved demand across our Chinese customer base, as well as the ramp of our new design win for the Samsung Galaxy S24 |
| And we're doing well across the ecosystem with our wireless products |
| Our gross margins were at the midpoint of our guidance despite an unfavorable product mix, headlined by mobile performing better than initially forecast |
| We're seeing the first signs of success in our wireless area with the normalization of channel inventory |
| So I think that we feel good about the market sizes for our enterprise business |
| So I think we feel really, really good about where that business is |
| Our wireless success is driven first by a return to normal inventory levels and a resumption of shipments to existing customers, but should be further bolstered by new design wins |
| So our wireless business feels very good |
| Look, we feel very good about it |
| Our wireless sales funnel continues to increase, and we have new wins for our high-performance products in audio equipment, consumer security and action cameras |
| We've done a good job, I think, capturing the high end of the market |
| We are experiencing strength across the Android ecosystem in China, as well as ramps from new flagship smartphones |
| This marks one of the strongest mobile quarterly sequential increases since our fiscal 2022 |
| Mobile product revenue was up 42% sequentially in the December quarter and up 10% year-over-year |
| The good news story was our Core IoT business, led by our wireless product line, which will increase nearly 20% quarter-on-quarter and should show sustained growth from this point forward |
| With the GS24 win, we solidified our leadership position in touch controllers for the high-end Android handset market |
| As you know, our committed level on operating expenses has been $100 million a quarter or below and we've done a pretty good job to sort of keep it maintained inside that range |
| Although early in the design cycle, our new SmartBridge product is central to our automotive strategy, adding a second product to the portfolio, giving us additional differentiation and delivering system cost savings, while also helping defend our TDDI position |
| Inventory appears to have largely bottomed for our Core IoT products, and we expect the March quarter revenue to be up nearly 20% sequentially |
| And I'm not looking for guidance, but is it fair to assume that kind of a growth rate is sustainable through the remaining quarters this year? Michael Hurlston Again, we feel pretty good about the business |
| I don't think we have necessarily perfect visibility on the timing, but we feel very good that that's closer in than some of these other things in terms of the inventory levels |
| But we feel pretty good, I think, for the second quarter in a row about declaring absolute bottom, and numbers are starting to reflect that |
| They like it and they think it's incredible in terms of the level of performance and differentiation it brings |
| Near term, our processor products are seeing traction in our traditional operator space, and we expect those wins to translate to revenue in fiscal year 2025 |
| So our customer is pretty excited |
| On the product front, our new cost-effective, high-performance 1x1 device, the 43711, is enjoying initial success in home appliances, smart speakers, industrial qualified modules and security cameras |
| The funnel is very, very strong here |
| As we look into the future, we see opportunities to maintain our differentiation at the high end |
| Look we're sort of bottom, we're coming up, Core IoT is growing nicely |
| While processors will be a longer road to measurable success, we are coming off CES where we had increased customer engagement around both our general-purpose low-end MCUs and higher-end MPUs, both of which feature AI engines, which enable customers to deploy their own computer vision use cases |
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| In enterprise and automotive, December quarter revenue was down 12% sequentially and down 40% year-over-year |
| As stated earlier, our enterprise products have been largely characterized by persistent inventory and weaker-than-expected IT spending |
| However, enterprise spending has been significantly reduced, which presents a new impediment to our higher-margin products, keeping our overall top line revenue flat and margins below our outlined targets |
| Enterprise and automotive products have not yet fully bottomed and we believe will continue to decline into the March quarter |
| We continue to attribute this to a slowdown in enterprise IT spending, which has impacted higher-margin areas of our business such as docking stations, enterprise telephony and high-end headsets |
| For example, Core IoT really was plagued with a lot of inventory |
| December quarter non-GAAP operating expense of $92 million was down $4.7 million from the preceding quarter and below our guidance range |
| I think that we certainly realize that behind some of the inventory, there is a current depressed demand environment due to the enterprise IT spending |
| Mobile is expected to decline due to seasonality and lack of customer ramps in the coming quarter |
| Our aggregate automotive revenue will likely be choppy as the two curves cross over in the next couple of quarters |
| What we have seen is slower than expected customer ramps |
| But I think the worst is behind us on the margin front |
| Here, many customers began their slowdown two to three quarters after we began experiencing declines in our Core IoT products, which leads us to believe that enterprise may require some additional patience |
| We're forecasting the PC market to be down sort of high-single digits |
| Synaptics delivered earnings that were largely in line with expectations, a small achievement in a period marked by industry-wide uncertainty, reduced overall demand and an accumulation of inventory |
| Core IoT revenue was roughly flat sequentially and down 46% year-over-year |
| Just -- there's been a lot of weakness in IoT and you're calling the bottom and seeing it coming back |
| All of these new wins we have are taking more time than before, largely because our customers have kind of cut their engineering budgets, and so the ramp up time has been slower than we've historically seen |
| I'd say for where we are, there's limited upside |
| On the other hand, we still have some work to do in enterprise, where inventories are moving slower than expected |
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