Gene Sheridan
Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open
Thanks, Steve. I’m very pleased with our Q1 results, as we exceeded our guidance for all financial metrics and experienced solid growth in key markets including electric vehicle, solar, energy storage and appliance industrial with a market recovery started in our mobile business. In the past 12 months, we completed 3 strategic transactions. All 3 are progressing and integrating very well. With VDDTech, we will be sampling our GaN and silicon carbide optimized high frequency digital isolators by the end of this year, with revenues to ramp late next year adding up to $4 per system when combining with GaN and silicon carbide in electric vehicle, solar, energy storage and appliance industrial applications. With Elevation, we have just launched our next generation platform called GaNSense Control and, in total, we already have over 50 customer projects in development and have shipped accumulative 1 million units into mobile and consumer customers. The GaNSense Control family will be expanding to address appliance industrial customers as well as data center customers over time. GeneSiC is our largest acquisition to date and positions Navitas as the only next-generation pure-play power semiconductor company. I’m excited to announce that nearly the entire GeneSiC team is relocating to our new headquarters in Southern California and is integrated very nicely across all key functions in the company, especially taking advantage of the Navitas global sales, FAE and system design centers driving over 100 new opportunities since the acquisition across all of our target markets. Let me now update on our product and business development progress in each of our key markets. In electric vehicle, which includes onboard charging, DC to DC converters, traction control and fast roadside chargers. Across both GaN and silicon carbide, we have strong momentum in shipments, backlogs and pipeline with over 25 customer projects either shipping with silicon carbide or in development with GaN and silicon carbide, and a total revenue pipeline of over $300 million. In particular, our prior announcement for our joint system design center with Geely, the 5th largest EV supplier globally last year, has already delivered exciting results with our new silicon carbide onboard charging design that will generate an additional $15 million to $20 million in revenue next year. We are still on track for GaN based EVs in production in 2025. Our EV system design center now has 5 system designs in development, working closely with our top EV customers, utilizing a combination of GaN and silicon carbide. In solar and energy storage, we have strong momentum in shipments, backlog and pipeline with over 35 customers in production or in development, and a total revenue pipeline of over $150 million. We have development projects with the majority of the top 10 solar players globally, with many shipping now with silicon carbide and GaN shipments into the solar market on track to ramp next year. In home appliance and industrial, we have over 45 customers in production or development and a revenue pipeline of over $150 million, fueled by strong government funding and regulations in U.S., Europe and other regions driving clean energy upgrades to homes and factories. Last week at PCIM, a major Power Electronics Trade Show in Europe, we introduced our first silicon carbide power module called the SiCPak. This strategic announcement is the first of many as Navitas enters the high power silicon carbide module market, which is a significant percentage of the entire silicon carbide market. The SiCPak will be a key package technology to expand our silicon carbide business in the industrial markets in the near-term. In data centers, we are well positioned to address the accelerating power requirements being driven by AI, IoT and data in general. We continue sampling our new high powered GaN ICs, which we launched to the market in Q4 and have increased our customer development projects to 15, representing a revenue pipeline of over $60 million. Our design center is developing 6 system designs that are supporting and accelerating these customer revenues, which are on track to ramp late this year and next. Also at PCIM last week, we announced our Gen-5 silicon carbide MPS diodes, which are a perfect fit for data center power supplies and a great complement to our new GaN ICs, adding appreciably to the total value and dollar content we expect to deliver to all of our data center customers. Finally, in our mobile business, we see the beginning of a market recovery with 20 new mobile chargers launched in Q1 and strong bookings going into Q2. These launches include the latest Xiaomi 13 Pro and Ultra flagship phone inbox designs and Lenovo’s ThinkBook biscuit laptop charger, which has an amazing profile of only 12.8 millimeters. In mobile, we have over 150 customer projects in development with a revenue pipeline of over $100 million. In summary, I’m very pleased with our progress across acquisitions, product launches, customer developments, and market expansion. We now see all target markets in solid growth mode, and our strategy to deliver leading edge GaN and silicon carbide with complementary silicon controllers and isolators is translating into significant customer value, market adoption and financial results. Now, let me turn it over to our CFO, Ron Shelton, to update on those financial results as well as our guidance.