Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. At this time, I’d like to welcome everyone to QuickLogic Corporation's Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2020 Earnings Results Conference Call. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded for replay purposes through August 12, 2020. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Jim Fanucchi of Darrow Associates. Mr. Fanucchi, please go ahead.

Thank you, operator and thanks to all of you for joining us today. Our speakers today are Brian Faith, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Dr. Sue Cheung, Chief Financial Officer. In line with social distancing practices, management is doing this call from remote locations today. As a reminder, some of the comments QuickLogic makes today are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to stated expectations relating to revenue from new and mature products, statements pertaining to QuickLogic's future stock performance, design activity and its ability to convert new design opportunities into production shipments, timing and market acceptance of its customers' products, schedule changes and projected production start dates that could impact the timing of shipments, the company’s future evaluation systems, broadening the number of our ecosystem partners, and expected results and financial expectations for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, profitability and cash. Actual results or trends may differ materially from those discussed today. And for more detailed discussions of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could result in those differences, please refer to the risk factors discussed in QuickLogic’s most recently filed periodic reports with the SEC. QuickLogic assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information which speak of their respective dates of any information or future events. In today’s call we will be reporting non-GAAP financial measures. You may refer to the earnings release we issued today for a detailed reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP results and other financial statements. We have also posted an updated financial table on our IR webpage that provides current and historical non-GAAP data. Please note, QuickLogic uses its website, the company blog, corporate Twitter account, Facebook page, and LinkedIn page as channels of distribution of information about its business. Such information may be deemed material information, and QuickLogic may use these channels to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. A copy of the prepared remarks made on today’s call will be posted at QuickLogic’s IR webpage shortly after the conclusion of today’s earnings call. I would now like to turn the call over to Brian.

Thank you, Jim. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining our second quarter fiscal 2020 financial results conference call. I would like to start by recognizing the tireless efforts of our talented QuickLogic team as we've rapidly adapted and responded to a new working environment during this COVID-19 pandemic period. This has been a challenging period for our team both personally and professionally and I appreciate their commitment. With that as a starting point, there were three key events that were announced in the second quarter that will have positive implications on our business in the future. First, on June 16 we announced the QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing, or QORC, initiative. This project, which was developed in collaboration with Google and Antmicro, broadens access to our EOS S3SoC, our FPGA technology and eFPGA IP for all embedded systems developers. We are the first programmable logic vendor to actively embrace a fully open source suite of development tools for its FPGA devices and eFPGA technology. QORC is an important milestone for us. Many industry observers have commented in recent years that the Programmable Logic industry is at a transition point. While it remains multi-billion dollars in size, the growth is expected to be at a moderate pace of around 7% per year over the coming five years. However, the open source RISC-V IP, software and tools market is predicted to grow at nearly seven times that of the FPGA Market rate. Given the changing landscape, we are aggressively redeploying our resources to make open source the primary foundation of our business going forward. The second significant event is the announcement that SensiML is collaborating with a consortium of companies, universities, and health organizations to help predict whether people are showing symptoms of COVID-19 infection. The goal of the initiative…

Thank you, Brian. Good afternoon and thanks to everyone for joining us. For the second quarter of fiscal 2020, revenue was $2.2 million, which was within the updated guidance range of $2.3 million plus or minus 10% that was included in our SEC filing on June 17th. This compares with revenue of $2.1million in the second quarter of 2019. Within our Q2revenue, sales of new products were $820,000. This compares with $711,000 in the second quarter of last year. Our mature product revenue was $1.4 million, which was the same as Q2last year. In the second quarter of 2020, we had three customers who each accounted for 10% or greater of our sales. Non-GAAP gross margin in Q2 was 47.1%, compared with 49.8% in the same quarter of fiscal 2019. The lower gross margin in the second quarter was mainly due to additional test costs to support a higher volume of products shipped to our primary smartphone customer. Non-GAAP operating expenses for Q2were approximately $3.2 million, down more than 30% from $4.8 million in the second quarter of last year. Through continued streamlining of our operations we believe operating expenses will trend lower through the remainder of fiscal 2020. Within our Q2 operating expenses, R&D was approximately $1.7 million, and SG&A was approximately $1.4 million. This compares with R&D and SG&A of $2.7 million and $2.1 million, respectively, in Q2last year. The net total for other income, expenses, and taxes in Q2 was a charge of $84,000, compared with $101,000 in the second quarter last year. Non-GAAP net loss in Q2 declined to $2.2 million, or $0.26 per share. This compares with a net loss of $3.8 million, or $0.54 per share in the second quarter of last year. The per share calculation for both periods reflects the one-for-fourteen reverse…

Thank you, Sue. To add on to the guidance Sue gave for the third quarter, based on current customer forecasts, our annual outlook has declined another $3 million for the reasons I have discussed in our mature product segment, plus the inventory absorption for our smartphone customer and pushout of voice-enabled hearables. With this change, we now expect our full year 2020 revenue will be approximately flat with fiscal 2019.While we are disappointed with the near-term outlook, we currently expect our Q4 product mix will have a heavier emphasis on software and IP-related sales. This should increase our Q4 gross margin back into the low to mid 60% range, which in turn should boost our fiscal 2020 gross margin to the high 50s. COVID has clearly disrupted the path to profitability I laid out at the beginning of the year, but based on the factors I have described, and with our significantly reduced operating expenses, our trajectory to profitability within 2021 looks promising. With the material progress in all of our new product lines, I am confident we have a path to achieve operating income breakeven by the end of the first half of 2020. In closing, I would like to thank all of our stakeholders for their ongoing support. These are extraordinary times for all of us, and we are doing everything possible to maintain a safe work environment, while also taking care of our customers who are facing their own challenges. That completes our prepared remarks. Operator, I'd now like to open the call for questions.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Richard Shannon with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed with your question.

Hi, Brian, Sue. Thanks for taking my questions. And I guess, first of all congratulations on the Google and Antmicro development, we look forward to seeing how that ramps out over time, here. I guess, my first question for you Brian is based on your prepared comments, you talked about a, I am going to probably butcher the language used here, you’ve engaged with a large design team with products for kind of home computing device, that they're targeting for next year. Maybe you can kind of talk to us more you know specifically about that or more generally about that engagements that you're seeing here with QORC, and what other opportunities you're seeing here, and maybe the timeframe by which you would see that?

Yeah, I can do that, Richard. Firstly, I can't go into too much detail on that product, that home computing just because for competitive reasons that I don’t want to tip our hands too much. But basically, that product wants some level of - always on computing. And that product team is a big believer that open source tools gives them the ability to innovate more freely, and also to apply their own resources to improve things and use it as around. So that's sort of a common theme that we're seeing with a lot of these companies by virtue of this whole initiative. We've had a lot of, you know, probably what people on the call have seen social media activity from the open source development community. We did launch actually with Crowd Supply, a development kit and we sold you know, more than 100 and just over a month, I think on that. And there's just a lot of momentum there, where people are finally appreciating an existing company in programmable logic is actually embracing and contributing to open source, whereas everybody else is, like I say, it gives them the stiff-arm and the Heisman move, because people may not sue people doing open source development, but we're actually openly contributing to it. And I think there's a lot of large companies that are starting to build or defined products around that. And what I've tried to alluded to as well, Richard, in the opening remarks is that, this is not just for EOS S3, that's part of it. But there's this whole now movement around the embedded FPGA and the fact that we have the open source tools support for that as well. And that's already opened up new opportunities that we're pursuing. So kind of like how we laid out on the blog. This is all about opening up to a new market that's not tapped yet. And just in this last few months we're starting to see a lot of movement in that area.

Okay, helpful. Helpful perspective, Brian. Thanks. My second question, looking at SensiML, it seems like there's a few avenues here for growth, customer additions, seems like QORC is certainly one of them. And maybe if you can kind of give us some context about where, you know, what channels and approaches, you're seeing that you hope to or already seeing some acceleration here in SensiML engagements? I know you said you've been impacted by COVID in terms of transitioning, you know, potential customers with a full license, but maybe you can give us a sense of at least kind of starting the pipeline and how that's been transitioning over the last quarter?

Yeah, so the theme that we're using within QuickLogic is you know, everything has to have scale, and we don't want to do custom work for people. And so the way that we can scale SensiML is to have more hardware companies, more semiconductor companies, marketing and selling the upsell of SensiML on top their products. That's why getting this STMicro port is so important for it to be done, because now the STMicro sales and marketing team can be out pushing this to their sales force into their customer base. We have the COVID initiative that we talked about last time with respect to the cost detection and classification. That consortium of companies is moving forward. I think, later this month, there's going to be sample wearables out with the temperature sensor on that for the body temperature, layering in the app that they're delivering on the smartphone side with the SensiML AI software. So that's another avenue that we're using to get broader exposure without having to do custom work for folks. And then lastly, this is where this new development kit strategy from us comes into play. So with QuickFeather, we're selling it ourselves and through our own distribution channel. We also have now engaged Crowd Supply, and they've gotten orders for this. And what I alluded to in my prepared remarks was a roadmap for these types of products. We're not stopping at QuickFeather, we're going to have several more of these types of development kits out in the wild, all of which will have SensiML optimized and running on top. So you'll probably start to see some type of promos for us where we're selling boards, and then there's an option to upgrade on top of that with SensiML. And the benefit of doing it in that way, as we just get these really large distributors or open source visionary folks out selling our products and then basically SensiML gets, not free marketing, but they get a lot of attention in doing so. So those are the strategies that we're employing now to increase the top of the funnel for SensiML and also how well we qualify the opportunities coming through. And that's in addition to just the normal ongoing organic sales that we're doing with some SensiML.

Okay…

It's probably actually worth mentioning that we got our first test agreement revenue signed affiliated with the COVID-19 initiative. So, you know, doing things like that where you come out with a narrow application focus, I think it does resonate and it starts to bring in more qualified leads.

Okay. Brian as an aside here on SensiML, I think it's been of quarters since you mentioned this, but how many fully paid licenses do you have for SensiML today?

I think we've talked about that somewhat recently, it was in the few dozen folks that have paid for some level of this app.

Okay. That is helpful. My next question here is on hearables market and AVS. What gives you the confidence you're going to see the certification happen and to what degree does your progress and success here in hearables depend on AVS?

So I would say the success really does depend on it because there's a you know, there's a set of wearables and hearables that want to not use Alexa, they're going to be sold overseas or in China, and they'll never touch the Alexa ecosystem. But for the Western countries Alexa is definitely something that people are wanting to integrate. So is very important what gives me confidence is the level of engagement we have directly with Amazon, AVS team in the last quarter and also just seeing today in fact even though are working remote, I can see videos of what our engineering folks are doing and I saw the working system in video today, so I know that that's going to be shortly getting into the Amazon labs for finishing up what we need to do there to get on their dev kit page. So that's what gives me the confidence, seeing is believing.

Okay, fair enough. And last question, I'll jump on line here. Looks like the OpEx is a little bit lower here than I think what you talked about last quarter, which is good to see, lower is the burn rate. Does this help us lower the breakeven point here and when would you speculate, we could – could we see, obviously it seems like not going to happen in fourth quarter, but is first quarter or soon thereafter a good timeframe to think about that Brian?

Yeah. In fact, we've been constantly looking at OpEx and opportunities to reduce that. I think - so this is very product mix driven at this point, I don't see us taking OpEx down further from where we are now, like Sue mentioned in the prepared remarks. So now it's all revenue and product mix game. As we get more of these SensiML licenses and IP deals in place, that's going to drive that higher gross margin. And really, the OpEx now is at a point where the breakeven point of revenue could be like as low as $5 million, maybe $5 to $6, somewhere in that range, which is substantially lower than it was, if you remember just even half ago is almost pushing $10 million, so they need to tap in there. So yeah, I guess if you're like, folks to model it on the call something like $5.5 million mid-size range as the current gross margins of this OpEx get us to that breakeven point. And like I said in the prepared remarks, we're modeling it out to be a Q2 event next year. But again, sort of the product mix is going to drive that and if we can get more IP deals in that maybe that comes sooner.

Okay. I appreciate the perspective. That's all for me, guys. Thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Sujeeva Desilva with ROTH Capital. Please proceed with your question.

Hi, Sue. A quick financial question. Just could you reiterate the gross margin guidance. I wasn't sure if I heard 55 or 65, I think it was 55. But wanted to check.

Hi, Sujeeva and thanks for the question. The guidance for Q3 is 55% for gross margin and we plus minus 5%. So we widened range a bit. So basically between 50% to 60% gross margin.

Okay, thank you. And then on the - on some of the customer announcements or product announcements, maybe Brian we can start with the remote-control program. You talked about aligning with a microphone vendor to help you get traction? Is that something you've done historically? Was that new and why did that help in this instance? I'm curious about that comment.

Yeah, on the microphones side, we've never really partnered deeply with any microphone guy, other than Infineon, which we did with the whole integrated alarm system. And that's an ongoing activity with them and Flextronics. And that's really more on the industrial IoT side, on the consumer mobile side we never really did. And so basically, us and this microphone player, we're going after that same opportunity that ended up getting cancelled after roughly the last call when I updated everybody. So you know, the CEO and I discussed, you know, how do we take this engineering work that we've put into this and actually roll this out to folks. And so we're in the process of doing that. The benefit being that they know microphone technology really well, we know the processing technology really well. And if we can go at these customers with these sort of canned reference solutions, it's going to have a higher likelihood of success, just because customers don't have to reinvent the wheel. So we're in the process of doing that. Now, that's actually wrapping up from an engineering point of view. And I think imminently we'll be releasing that to the field and to customers that we’re already engaged with.

Okay, so that could target multiple customers over time, certainly sounds like?

Absolutely, multiple customers. And the whole value proposition to that, by the way, Sujeeva is to think about these battery powered remote controls you have in your house, going always on, no touching, battery life of anywhere between four and six months.

Right. Okay. And then I think you touched on this in the Q&A and the prepared remarks, but I would imagine the open source tools are really one of the things that could kind of break open the floodgates for embedded FPGA fabric on an chip that people are designing, because I would think one of the biggest hurdles was, if we put a FPGA fabric on it, or die, how are we going to tweak it and manipulate it. But this sounds like that could really make that happen. Is that overstating the opportunity here? Or is this - was that really one of the things in your mind that maybe kept the FPGA from becoming widely adopted?

Now you hit it dead on, Suji. It’s a huge opener for embedded FPGA, you know, large companies, they want to sort of own the whole tool chain, because when they sell a chip to their customer, they want to have one person just as a support flow. And so this basically allows them to take the open source tools integrated with their own and have that single package out to the customer. If you're talking about a smaller customer, they may not have that kind of resource available. But they know that as a smaller customer, it’s the community is behind these open source tools. And folks like Google are pouring so much resource into it, they're going to get better over time. In fact, they may even be better than proprietary tools in the near future. And so they love that that story and the fact that these big companies are absolutely behind this open source initiative. So yeah, you hit it right on, this definitely opens up a lot of new doors.

Okay, and then lastly, what’s a good run rate to assume for mature products after we have this sort of put and take with the civil engineer - civil aviation that's going on, what's a good run rate to think about there?

Yeah, so for - like I said in the script remarks, this will take us back to Q3 of last year, at the revenue level. I think Q3 to some extent has been soft historically, just because Europe tends to not order so much during this period for vacation reasons, not because of the pandemic, obviously. I think moving forward, we’re modelling somewhere higher than that, like around 1.5 or so in certain quarters it could be even higher than that, if we get some of these larger military deals coming in. So I do think it's going to recover. The civil aviation space part of that will probably be the longer part of it to recover. But we do have other military folks that moved out of Q2 this year throughout the Q3 this year for the obvious reasons, because revenue is lower, but we do expect them to come back because they're not subjected to the consumer air travel industry, ups and downs.

Okay, all right. Thanks, Brian. Thanks, Sue

Thank you.

Thank you. We have no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the floor back over to Brian for closing comments.

Well, thank you for your participation in today's call and continued support. We look forward to speaking with you again when we report our fiscal third quarter results in November. Again, thank you very much, and talk to you then. Bye-bye.

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