Jim Anderson
Analyst · Baird. Your line is open
Thank you, Rick, and thank you, everyone, for joining us on our call today. I'm pleased with our results in Q2 of 2020, as we continue to execute on our product road map and build momentum with our customer base. Let me cover a few highlights from our second quarter. We drove strong growth in our communications and computing segment, as our position continues to grow in server, client computing and 5G infrastructure. We continue to make steady progress on gross margin expansion, as non-GAAP gross margin increased 150 basis points sequentially and 230 basis points year-over-year. We also continue to expand profitability with a 17% sequential increase in non-GAAP net income, and we launched our new Certus-NX General Purpose FPGA on time as promised. Finally, we remain on track for our third Lattice Nexus product launch in the second half of 2020. Let me now provide an overview of our business by end market. In the communications and computing market, revenue was up 19% sequentially and 15% on a year-over-year basis. In computing, our revenue grew sequentially and year-over-year due to strong growth in both server and client computing. In servers, we benefited from increased attach rates and higher ASPs as well as higher revenue from data center customers due to the increased demands on data center infrastructure as people work from home. In client computing, we benefited from the start of a new client computing platform from one of our key customers. In the communications market, we continue to benefit from ongoing 5G infrastructure deployments, with 5G revenue higher, both sequentially and year-over-year. We expect 5G revenue will continue to grow over the long-term, as the 5G wireless infrastructure build-out progresses. Turning now to the industrial and automotive market. Revenue decreased 6% sequentially and was up slightly on a year-over-year basis. Despite the impact to near-term demand from COVID-19, we continue to believe this segment will remain a long-term growth factor for us, given the breadth of applications that we serve, including robotics, industrial automation and safety, embedded vision and automotive electronics. Turning now to the consumer market. Revenue declined 17% sequentially and 43% year-over-year. The decline reflects a full quarter of COVID-19 demand impact as well as the expected shift in the mix of our revenue profile over time. We remain focused on serving the areas of the consumer market that include applications with consistent multiyear revenue streams and higher margins, where our solutions are enabling customers to differentiate their products. I'll now provide some highlights of our recent product road map execution. When we launched our Nexus FPGA platform this past December, we also launched our first device based on that platform, the CrossLink-NX device. At that time, we committed to releasing two additional Nexus-based devices in 2020. We delivered on that promise with the June launch of Certus-NX, representing the second device from the Nexus platform. We are excited about the Certus-NX family, which relative to comparable FPGAs offer 70% faster performance, 4x lower power and up to 3x smaller footprint, each of these advantages provides meaningful differentiation of value for our customers' applications and systems. We remain on track to launch our third Nexus-based product in the second half of 2020. We continue to be very pleased with the enthusiastic and broad adoption of our Nexus platform, as the number of customer engagements and opportunities continues to increase. We are now introducing products at a pace that is roughly 3x faster than in the past. This accelerated cadence has provided our customers a broader portfolio of Lattice solutions to choose from. As part of the long-term investment strategy that we shared at our Investor Day in May of last year, we continue to invest in tools, solutions and software stacks to make it easy for our customers to design our products into their systems. In Q2, we launched Lattice Propel, our new embedded system design environment. For processor-based designs, Propel is an easy to use tool that enables FPGA-based processing in a wide variety of applications. We also remain firmly on track for the launch of our third solution stack, which is focused on security applications and plan for delivery to customers in the second half of 2020. This follows the two solution stacks that were previously launched. sensAI which is focused on low power inference processing at the edge of the network and mVision our solution stack for embedded vision applications. In summary, while COVID-19 continues to create some uncertainty in the near-term business environment, we remain focused on executing our business strategy and product road map for sustained long-term revenue growth and profitability. I want to thank the Lattice employees for their continued execution to our plan despite the current environment. I'll now turn the call over to our CFO, Sherri Luther.