Welcome to the Rambus First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. At the conclusion of our prepared remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, you may press star 1 on your touchtone phone at any time. If anyone should require assistance during the conference, please press star zero at any time. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to John Allen, Interim Chief Financial Officer. You may begin your conference.

Thank you, Operator, and welcome to the Rambus First Quarter 2026 Results Conference Call. I am John Allen, Interim Chief Financial Officer at Rambus, and on the call with me today is Luke Serafin, our CEO. The press release for the results that we will be discussing today has been filed with the SEC on Form 8K. We are webcasting this call along with the slides that we will reference during portions of today's call. A replay of this call can be accessed on our website beginning today at 5 p.m. Pacific time. Our discussions today will contain forward-looking statements including our expectations regarding projected financial results financial prospects market growth demand for our solutions other market factors including reflections of the geopolitical and macroeconomic environment and the effects of ASC 606 and reported revenue among other items these statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may be discussed during this call and are more fully described in the documents we file with the SEC, including our 8Ks, 10Qs, and 10Ks. These forward-looking statements may differ materially from our actual results, and we are under no obligation to update these statements. In an effort to provide greater clarity in the financials, we are using both GAAP and non-GAAP financial presentations in both our press release and on this call. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financials to the most directly comparable GAAP measures has been included in our press release, in our slide presentation, and on our website at rambus.com on the Investor Relations page under Financial Releases. In addition, we will continue to provide operational metrics such as licensing billings to give our investors better insight into our operational performance. The order of our call today will be as follows. Luke will start with an overview of the business. I will discuss our financial results, and then we will end with Q&A. I will now turn the call over to Luke to provide an overview of the quarter. Luke?

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. We opened 2026 with a strong first quarter, meeting our financial targets and broadening our portfolio to address the accelerating demands of AI. The quarter reflects solid momentum as we execute against our roadmap to support long-term profitable growth for the company. This is an exciting time for Rambus, and we are well positioned to capitalize on the market trends in the data center and AI. For decades, we have developed foundational technologies and solutions across a wide range of memory and interconnects. That heritage positions us well as systems become more diverse, memory-dependent, and performance-driven. To give more context, there are several market and technology trends playing out across the data center and AI that continue to work in our favor. As AI adoption accelerates and inference use cases expand, workloads are becoming more persistent and context-rich, and performance is increasingly defined by how efficiently data can be stored, accessed, moved, and secured. To support these workloads, AI infrastructure is becoming more complex and heterogeneous, combining a mix of traditional and AI server platforms to support orchestration, data management, and real-time execution at scale. At the same time, the expansion of inference, and particularly agentic AI with continuous reasoning and multi-step workflows, is driving more always-on activity and placing even greater demands on memory capacity, bandwidth, latency, and power efficiency. Together, these trends are driving new memory and connectivity architectures to support purpose-built solutions across a wider range of use cases and form factors. This increases our opportunities for richer chip content and broader adoption of our industry-leading IP, reinforcing our position for sustainable long-term growth. Now let me turn to our quarterly results, starting with our chip business. Our performance reflects point execution and ongoing leadership in our core DDR5-RCD chips. We delivered product revenue of $88 million in Q1 in line with our guidance and up 15% year-over-year. Looking ahead, we expect to deliver double-digit product revenue growth in the second quarter. We continue to see increasing customer adoption of new products and remain well-positioned to support the ramp of next-generation platforms at the end of the market. We continue to execute on our strategy of delivering comprehensive, industry-leading, cheap solutions to address growing customer and market requirements. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, we recently expanded our product portfolio with the introduction of our chipset for JEDx standard LPDDR5X SOCAM2 modules, building on the same signal and power integrity expertise we have applied across multiple generations of DDR. This chipset is the first offering in our roadmap of LPDDR-based server module solutions and includes new voltage regulators as well as the SPD Hub support reliable, power-efficient server-class operation. As part of that roadmap, we are actively working with industry partners on the definition and development of LPDDR6-based SOCAM2 solutions, which would offer a natural upgrade path for future-generation AI platforms. As AI server architectures diversify to address varying performance, power efficiency, and form factor requirements, some platforms are now leveraging LPDDR-based memory. While LP memory offers attractive power characteristics, it was originally designed for mobile environments with very short signal paths and tight power margins, making reliable deployment in server systems inherently challenging. The SOCAM 2 addresses these limitations through a compact CPU-proximate module architecture with optimized signal routing and localized power management to enable LP DDR modules to operate in server environments. The Rambus SoCam 2 chipset enables power-efficient, reliable operation of up to 9.6 gigabit per second in a compact module form factor. As LP-based server modules scale to higher speeds and bandwidth in future generations, they will require increasingly sophisticated interface power and control functionality. This progression is similar to what we have seen in DDR-based server modules and reinforces our opportunity to extend our roadmap of high-value chip content across memory types in the future. As I mentioned previously, the ongoing expansion of AI is driving demand for a broader range of memory types and form factor. To meet these needs, we continue to build on our leadership solutions in DDR5, including chipsets for RDM and MRDM, and selectively expand our roadmap of novel solutions as they begin to play a complementary role in heterogeneous systems. With active engagement across customers and ecosystem partners, we're helping shape next generation server modules, reinforcing the opportunity for richer chip content and sustained growth. Turning now to Silicon IP, we saw strong customer traction in the first quarter with continued design wins at tier one companies and growing engagement across our portfolio. We remain focused on delivering industry leading premium IP that enables differentiated solutions to AI in the data center, including accelerators and networking chips across a wide range of architectures. There's increasing momentum for custom silicon in AI, especially among hyperscalers, as they tailor hardware to their own software stacks and deployment needs, optimizing for performance, power efficiency, and total cost at scale. This is driving an accelerating pace of design and expanding demand for value-added IP to support memory bandwidth, advanced connectivity, and security. During the quarter, we saw growing traction for our value-added PCIe retirement switch IP to support increasingly complex AI systems across scale-up and scale-out environments. We also expanded our memory IP portfolio with the introduction of the industry's fastest HBM4E controller, setting a new benchmark for AI accelerator memory throughput. In addition, we launched a new network security engine designed for ultra-internet to protect distributed AI clusters. All of these IP offerings are in great demand and further strengthen our position as a critical enabler of next-generation compute and connectivity solutions for AI infrastructure. In summary, we executed well in the first quarter. We delivered solid results and expanded our offerings for both chips and IP to extend our leadership in our core markets. As we look ahead, Rambus is well positioned to capitalize on the mega trends in data center and AI. Our sustained technology leadership, disciplined execution, and increasing traction across our portfolio of leadership products will continue to fuel our results. With that, we expect strong growth in 2026, and I'm confident in our long-term trajectory.

As always, I want to thank our customers, partners, and employees for their continued trust and support now i turn the poll over to john to walk through the financials john thank you luke i'd like to begin with a summary of our financial results for the first quarter on slide three we delivered first quarter revenue and earnings in line with our guidance with solid contributions from each of our diversified businesses we also continued our strong track record of cash generation this performance reflects the continued strength in our business model our strong balance sheet and discipline capital allocation enable us to invest in growth initiatives while returning value to shareholders let me now provide you a summary of our non-gap income statement on slide five revenue for the first quarter was 180.2 million dollars which was in line with our expectations royalty revenue was 69.6 million while licensing billings were 70.8 million the difference between licensing billings and royalty revenue mainly relates to timing as we do not always recognize revenue in the same quarter as we bill our customers product revenue was 88 million representing 15% year-over-year growth driven by continued strength in ddr5 products and ramping new project contributions contract and other revenue was 22.6 million consisting predominantly of silicon IP as a reminder only a portion of our silicon IP revenue is reflected in contract and other revenue and the remaining portion is reported in royalty revenue as well as in licensing billings total operating costs including cost of goods sold for the quarter were 104.6 million dollars operating expenses of sixty nine point nine million were up sequentially due to seasonal payroll related taxes in connection with equity vesting interest and other income for the quarter was six point nine million dollars using an assumed flat tax rate of sixteen percent for non-gap pre-tax income non-gap net income for the quarter was sixty nine point three million dollars now let me turn to the balance sheet details on slide six we ended the quarter with cash cash equivalents and marketable securities totaling seven hundred eighty six million dollars of 24 million from q4 2025 with strong operating cash of 83 million partially offset by 38 million in taxes paid on equity vesting and 17 million in capital expenditures we increased our inventory balance by 14 million dollars during the quarter and expect to continue building inventory strategically in the second quarter our strong balance sheet gives us the flexibility to increase inventory to support our product revenue growth and manage through potential supply chain constraints first quarter depreciation expense was 8.5 million dollars free cash flow in the quarter was 66.3 million Let me now review our non-GAAP Outlook for the second quarter on Slide 7. As a reminder, the forward-looking guidance reflects our best estimates at this time, and our actual results could differ materially from what I'm about to review. In addition to the non-GAAP Financial Outlook under ASC 606, we also provide information on licensing billings, which is an operational metric that reflects amounts invoiced to our licensing customers during the period adjusted for certain differences we expect revenue in the second quarter to be between 192 and 198 million dollars we expect product revenue to be between 95 and 101 million a sequential increase of 11% at the midpoint of guidance we expect royalty revenue to be between 72 and 78 million and licensing billings between 76 and 82 million. We expect Q2 non-GAAP total operating costs, which includes cost of sales, to be between $114 and $110 million. We expect Q2 capital expenditures to be approximately 14 million. Non-GAAP operating results for the second quarter are expected to be between a profit of 78 and 88 million dollars. For non-GAAP interest and other income and expense, we expect 7 million dollars of interest income. We expect non-GAAP tax expenses to be between 13.6 and 15.2 million in Q2. We expect Q2 share count to be 110 million diluted shares outstanding. Overall, we anticipate Q2 non-GAAP earnings per share to range between $0.65 and $0.73. Let me finish with a summary on slide 8. In closing, we delivered solid results in line with our objectives, driving ongoing profitability and cash generation. Our diversified portfolio remains a core strength, with each of the businesses contributing meaningfully to our performance. Our patent licensing business continues to deliver consistent, predictable performance, supported by the long-term agreements we have in place. Our silicon IP business is well positioned, driven by critical interconnect and security technologies, addressing the accelerated demand for AI solutions. Our product business grew 15% year-over-year and has toys for sequential growth in the second quarter. We remain focused on delivering long-term shareholder value with year-over-year revenue growth in 2026. Before I open the call up to Q&A, I would like to thank our employees for their continued teamwork and execution. With that, I'll turn the call back to our operator to begin Q&A. Can we have our first question?

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have a question, please press star one on your touchtone phone. Your first question comes from the line of Kevin Garrigan with Jeffries. Please go ahead.

Yeah. Hey, team. Thanks for taking my questions. Can you just help us think about your product revenue into the June quarter? So, last quarter, you discussed the low double-digit revenue impact from the one-time OSAT issue. And I think we may have been expecting a larger sequential increase for June, just kind of given how strong demand has been. So can you just walk us through the drivers for the June quarter product revenue and why the recovery might be a little bit more measured?

Thank you, Kevin. So the first thing I would say is that the issue that we have talked about in the prior call is behind us. Everything is being resolved. And it's a question now for us to re-stabilize the supply chain, which we are doing. and we see a normalization of that supply chain. So, you know, it is behind us, and the revenue for Q2 is guided at 11% over Q1, so that's the right trajectory, and we continue to expect to grow sequentially after that in an environment where our footprint continues to be very strong. You know, I mentioned in an earlier call that it was an older generation of DDR5. The market is transitioning from Gen 2 to Gen 3, which is a good catalyst for us. But I would say, you know, we met, or we died, you know, to double digit in the second quarter. We met, you know, what we said we would meet on the operational strain in Q1, and we would continue to grow sequentially quarters after that. We don't see any, you know, issue with the demand, and we don't see any more issues with the quality issue that we had in Q1. So we feel quite confident for the rest of the year as the market moves from then to Gen3.

Okay, great. And then just as a follow-up on your LPDDR5 SOCAM2 server module chipset, when would you expect to start seeing revenue from this chipset, and what kind of milestones should we watch to gauge traction?

You know, I would see this as having a very good strategic impact at this point in time. The financial impact in the short run this year is going to be very minimal. just because the volumes are very small for this type of solutions. You know, as a reminder, it only addresses a very small portion of the AI workloads. The volumes are small. The content is small as well. But strategically, I wouldn't put it in the model for 2026, but it's strategically very, very important because there is a trend to look at LPDDR in the server environment in the long run. LPDDR still has issues to address the server requirements, but it also has traction and it has benefits. So we see this as a stepping stone for us. It builds on the fact that, you know, over the last few years, we have developed our product line as chipsets. So we have the whole chipset for the SOCAM 2. We have our own teams for power management development. And these are the two new chips that we are proposing for this solution. So we see this as a stepping stone. It allows us to engage with us, with other AI players in the industry. And we're working on next generation as well. But I don't think that the financial impact is going to be significant this year, just given the volumes.

Okay, great. I appreciate the call, Luke. Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Tristan Guerra with Bayard. please go ahead hi good afternoon a quarter ago you highlighted shortages and and sounded a little bit maybe not cautious but muted on on the growth opportunity and you provided a fairly muted data data center unit forecast how are shortages for component potentially impacting your revenue this year? What are you seeing, you know, that's different now than a quarter ago? And given the outlook for D1 to remain very tight next year, you know, how should we look at your product revenue growth and specifically your RCD growth with excluding, you know, the new product layers that will be adding on to that from a year-over-year growth standpoint?

So, in other words, would you expect you know the same type of growth next year year over year versus this year and i understand you're not guiding for next year but just wanted to get a bit more color on what you see on the market that potentially could put constraint on your growth and clearly that's an issue for a lot of other companies as well yeah thank you tristan uh first of all you know let me say a few words about the the the demand you know we do see uh demands uh continue to grow for standard servers which is you know which is good for us uh you know with with agentic ai in particular we expect the server market to grow faster this year than last year we model it at uh you know low low double digit growth because you know despite the excitement around ai there's also a large portion of the server market so that is not ai related but we do see demand growing uh you know on the server side which is really uh a good catalyst for us but as we said last quarter uh we're watching the situation with uh with supply especially on the back end uh certainly since last quarter the situation has not improved you know we're working with our suppliers but the lead times uh you know uh are long uh and there there is tension on on the uh you know on the back end. So we take this into account when we forecast our business. This is one factor. You know, the other factor that affects or that comes into play when we forecast is the timing of launch of new platforms in the market. You know, as you know, it's been the case in the past for us. You know, the launch of our new product depends on the launch of new platforms in the market and that's the dependency that we have so we don't see a situation as materially different than what we saw in q1 but from a supply standpoint things have not have not improved and we expect the supply situation to be tight uh going into 2027 as well when we talk to industry players okay that's useful and then as my follow-up question any additional color on the mr dem opportunity i know you've talked in the past about you know some very initial shipments late this year uh specifically with influencing any any additional color as to you know where it

could be in terms of revenue in 27 i i think you've talked in the past about your expectation that you probably fully realized that 600 million time for mr dim by 28 so you know what should we be looking at for next year kind of in between and what's really driving that um what's going to be driving the demand is it going to be mostly influencing and any additional color you may have you know beyond uh what you've said in the past on on you know customer interest you know for this technology and and where it's going to ramp uh thank you tristan first we we you know we

continue to make progress in the launch of these products and the interaction with our customers on this MRDIN we're excited by the opportunity for the reasons we've always talked about larger capacity larger bandwidth in the same ecosystem so the adoption is easier the main I would say factor affecting the ramp of our MRDIN is going to be the timing of the launch of the platforms from Intel and AMD in particular where they do have this capability attached you know in the next generation platform. So we continue to see the ramp starting in 2027 in earnest and a SAM at this point in time, which we still value at about $600 million. You know, if I keep saying, you know, the SAM, once the products are in the market, you know, and we get feedback and the market gives us feedback, we're going to have a much better view of that SAM.

But at this point in time, this is right number to keep in mind great thanks again thanks your question your next question comes from the line of aaron rakers with wells fargo please go ahead yeah thanks uh for taking the questions um i guess kind of just building off that last question first you know when when you kind of think about the 600 million you know incremental opportunity around mr dims i i can appreciate that you know there's a lot of unknown variables at this point but i'm just curious as you rolled up that expectation what what what assumption are you making in terms of attach rate

uh on amd venice and diamond rapids at this point and and you know how might that evolve i i mean i i would assume that you're being rather conservative on that attach rate at this point and then also on that how do you see cxl starting to play out uh you know at this point in time we we model you know a a low attach rate as i said you know until my experience is until a product is in the market it's hard to make those models you know more more significant there are a lot of variables coming into play as as we just said you know the the most important one is the timing of rollout of these platforms in the market there's also uh you know the whole situation with you know vram pricing and the uh you know the prices of modules and how you know our customers customers are going to make the decisions between the combination of modules they want to have in in the current you know memory cycle environment so we model a I would say a conservative percentage you know for an argument this point in time but you know ramp will start when the platforms ramp in the market and that's we're going to have a better view any thoughts on csl oh sorry i missed the second part of your question sorry aaron uh csl you know we do have very good traction on our ip business um we are not planning to uh you know launch a a semiconductor product at this point in time you know we we do have this on our shelves if you wish as we designed one a couple of years ago So, but we do see with Agentsic AI, we do see demand for, you know, standard DIMMs and MR DIMMs, you know, as being the main benefactors of that, and that's where we will continue to focus our attention.

And then one final quick one. When you guys talk about the opportunity to grow sequentially in the product revenue, into the back half of the calendar year. I'm curious if you were asked about seasonality in the second half versus first half, if there's anything that changes your views maybe relative to the last couple of years on, you know, I think you've seen some decent growth second half versus first half. Thank you.

Yes, thanks, Aaron. That's a good observation. We actually do see, you know, the second half shaping out slightly different than the first half, you know, better growth in the second half. You know, a lot of times it had to do with the launch of new platforms. You know, they typically hit the market if they are on time, you know, in the second half of the year. And that's where you have, you know, more, you know, more products there. But even if you look at the first half of this year at the midpoint of our guidance for Q2, and you look at the first half of last year, you know, we're still growing, you know, close to 18 percent. And so, you know, the first half, despite our issue in Q1, is still much higher than the first half of last year. And we believe the second half is going to show growth. We do see some seasonality, and typically our second half is stronger than our first Thank you. Thank you, Aaron.

Your next question comes from the line of Gary Mobley with Loop Capital. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thanks for taking my question. If I take the sum of your license billing in your contract and other revenue in the first half of this year for the results in the guide and compare that to the same period last year, it looks like you're generating some abnormally strong growth. um is that due to any sort of variance in the patent licensing or should i take this to mean that your silicon ip business might actually be running north of 150 million dollars annually right now so you know thanks gary the we we can see some quarter to quarter variations in in these

two categories just for the nature of the business. I would say that underlying this, we see very good traction on our Silicon IP business. Actually, AI has an impact on our Silicon IP business, which is also very positive as people who develop custom solutions for AI are looking for new interfaces and new security solutions like the ones I mentioned in the uh in the prepared remarks so we do have very good traction on the silicon ip business and we continue to expect this business to grow 10 to 15 percent a year uh based based on that um our our other business patent licensing business it can also be uh changing from quarter to quarter you know we do renew uh agreements on a regular basis and sometimes these agreements are you know structure in different ways depending on the customers and their and and what they want to do so we have some strong quarters some squalors that are not not too good uh but but on average you know this business continues to be stable at 200 220 million dollars i would say i would not you know pay too much attention on the quarterly split you know on these revenues but the fundamentals are really really good what i would add to this is if you look at our patent licensing business, our Silicon IT business, or our product business, they all benefit from, you know, what's happening in the memory subsystem area. You know, they all benefit from AI and the move from, you know, from, or the, yeah, the move from AI to AI inference. So, and that gives strength to our results, you know, and when we have a challenge like we had last quarter on the product line, then we have these two other product lines also that allow us to meet our Okay.

Thank you, Luke. As a follow-up, I wanted to ask about CPU roles in AI-optimized servers. I think there's been a lot more noise recently indicating a higher ratio of CPUs to GPUs in AI optimized servers given by Agentec workloads, and you sort of hinted to that. To put this into a question, I'm curious if we've moved to a point in time where we might see a one-to-one ratio of CPU to GPU.

Does this alter your view on the growth rate of your SAM for your product revenue or the size of it? so we are excited with you know where the market is evolving with with agentic ai and inference if you look at the types of architectures software architectures hardware architectures that inference requires then you clearly see that the ratio between cpus and gpus is changing and is changing in favor of cpus so overall that's a very good thing for us uh it's just coming from the nature of you know what inferences or what agentic ai is so that's a good thing for us is it going to be a one-on-one very difficult to say at this point in time you know everyone is trying to optimize now the memory subsystems uh you know everyone is trying to use hdm where it's really good huge lpddr where it's really good and use ddr and mr dims where it's really good And I would say that DDR and MRDIMS will continue to be, you know, the workhorse of these, you know, inference AI solutions. But the fact that all of these systems starts to coexist, you know, HBM, DDR, LPDDR, is really good. you know they all try to resolve a different part of the ai workload and displays to our strengths because this is what we've been doing for you know forever at rambus but i would say that the move to ai inference and the the move to agentic ai will change the ratio in favor of cpus and that's good for us.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Sebastian Nagy with William Blair. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Maybe my first question, I wanted to ask about the new SOCAM products that you announced last week.

Could you maybe just comment on what Rambus's dollar content looks like for each SOCAM module just across the different voltage regulators and the spd hub any any unit economics you can give us uh you know given the the the current competitive environment i cannot stay away from giving you know pricing on these things but i would say that the content on you know on a so cam from the standpoint of rambus you know we have three voltage regulators and an spd hub so the content is minimum this is what i was saying you know and earlier on one of the questions i do believe that This is strategically important for us because in the long run, LPDDR may play a larger role, especially in next generation LPDDR solutions in the data center. But from the content standpoint, it stays minimal and the volume stays minimal. And I would leave it there.

Okay. And maybe just turning back to the RDEMs, could we get an update on the progress you're seeing with companion chips, how much revenue came from those companion chips in Q1? And then maybe just relatedly, how important is it for your silicon customers that they have all of these DIMM components bundled together coming from one provider versus having to put these together from different providers? Yes, thank you.

John, go ahead.

The newer products, Sebastian, they're contributing low double-digit percent of our total product revenue during the first quarter. We would expect it to be roughly the same in the second quarter as we see some growth in the overall revenue contribution from that part of our business.

Yeah, and what I would add to this is that this is steady growth quarter over quarter. You saw this in 2025 every quarter. We had a slightly higher percentage. We continue to do that. And we expect to continue to do that for the second half of the year with this. and we expect maybe to exit the year as a mid-double digit of product revenues on, you know, coming from our new chips. Now, to your other question, it is becoming more and more important for customers to, you know, have the whole chip set from one supplier, especially as the performance requirements increase. and the reason has to do with interoperability you know making sure that all of these chips on a module work well together at very very very high speed in very very harsh environment is becoming one more difficult to achieve and that's why our new customers request you know us to have the whole solution and to have them go through these generational changes makes a lot of sense thank you

Thank you, Luke. Thank you, John. Thank you, sir.

Your next question comes from the line of Kevin Cassidy with Rosenblatt Securities. Please go ahead.

Yeah, thanks for taking my question.

During the quarter, as you're building inventory, were there any orders that you had to leave on the table that you weren't able to book because you didn't have the inventory, but maybe uh some upside surprise uh no you know we've we've not been in that situation uh but uh there are a few uh market dynamics that we have to anticipate uh one is as i said earlier we do see supply tightening uh especially on the back end so we want to make sure that you know we have if that situation continues we have enough supply to supply our customers the second thing that is happening is that, you know, there's fast transitions between generations. And you remember we were talking about Generation 1 moving to Generation 2. We indicated in the last call that, you know, Generation 3, you know, is ramping very, very fast. So we want to make sure that on these new generation of products, we also have enough inventory because the ramps, you know, on the customer side can be quite steep.

And we just don't want to miss them. okay i understand it maybe even when you're using your balance sheet to build more inventory it you know when intel reported they said they had uh even were able to some uh ship some previously written down inventory um you know it seems like the demand for cpus is so strong and also uh d ram that you know maybe older generations are uh will get a little bit of a revival is that anything possible or it sounds like you're saying everything shifting to gen 3 very quickly but from a demand standpoint it's certainly the bulk of the demand uh for ddr quarters is shifting

to gen 3. uh but what you're describing in terms of you know using inventory of old products to serve you know demand is is something that we continuously do you know and and look at Yeah, that's part of our, you know, inventory management processes.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Mehdi Hosseini with SGI. Please go ahead.

Hi, Luke. This is Pashian filling in for Mehdi. My first question is on LPDDR SOCAM II chipset.

Would you mind clarifying the content of the chipset? it seems that the solution consists of one spd and three voltage regulators do you expect to add any payment content there and what does the pricing looks like of the spd and voltage regulator relative to the ddr dim and i have a follow-up sure so uh yes uh on on the SOCAM solution, we have one SPD hub and two types of voltage regulators, three voltage regulators in total, the two types, one 12-amp regulator and two 3-amp regulators. So that's the content. So as I said, the content is minimal. You're talking about PINIC. There's no power management IC per se you know that function is um is is done by the voltage regulators that that in this generation of product but the way that's why we say it's very strategic for us the way we look at this is that when uh lp dr6 is is available you know that that lp memory will offer even more speed and in even more you know power capabilities then it will require you know possibly more complex you know chips for power management and we will work on those and one can imagine as well that you know as the market evolves you know in the longer run the market will probably need as well as the equivalent of of uh you know of rcds in the long run and this is all exactly in our strategy and that's why i'm talking about the stepping stone we want to make sure that we are early in these new technologies they do not cannibalize the old technology they are complementary to them and in the long run they they have the potential to grow quite nicely and they build on strengths that we have which has to do with signal integrity and power integrity now in the short run for the SOCAM 2 on LPDDR5X, you know, as I said, the volumes and the content, the dollar content is going to be very low, but that's a very interesting and strategic stepping stone for us in that area.

Thanks, Luke. That's really helpful.

And I guess my second question is on DDR5. how should we think about the timing of the ramp of Gen 4 and Gen 5 as they go to higher volume manufacturing so Gen 4 you know is going to start the ramp this year but Gen 4 is a kind of a niche generation if you wish it doesn't have the same traction as your Gen 1 Gen 2 Gen 3 or Gen 5 I think everyone is now waiting for Gen 5. We're going to start shipping products that correspond to Gen 5 towards the end of the year, but just like for the MR-DIMM, Gen 5 is completely dependent on the timing of the ramps of the next generation platforms for Intel and AMD.

This is where they're going to be adopted and that's why you know we do see you know initial volumes this year but the bulk of the volume just like for MRD is going to start in 2027 got it that's very helpful thank you look thank you your next question comes from the line of mark liposis with evercore ISI please go ahead great thanks for taking my question um a question on the the dim attach rate is it different for cpus used uh to perform orchestration in agentic ai versus cpus used in standard servers versus cpus

that might be you know um uh put next to the the gpus and the xpus and the custom asics should we think about the attach rates differently for these um it's a very good question very difficult question also mark uh i i would say that the way we look at it is if you look at inference and agentic ai the functions that have to be performed by these uh you know standard cpus are they are closer to standard cpus i think the highest attach rate that you would find is really close to the uh the gpus hbn platforms that's where you you have the the heaviest loads if you wish for these cpus so that's that's how at this point in time i would compare it i would say if you take in a vgx box you know with with gpus and hbm then then the cpu there are the cpus that use the most memory in terms of capacity and bandwidth. I would say that when you go to inference, then it's probably a little less, but it's difficult for us at this point in time to model that.

Mark, your line is open.

Hi. Sorry, I guess my phone dropped. I don't know if my question came through. But, Luke, I was wondering, should we think about the DIMM attached rate differently for CPUs that would be used in orchestration for agentic AI versus CPUs used in standard servers versus CPUs that are used for inferencing that get put next to the GPUs and the ASICs and the XPUs? Is there a different density there for the DIMMs?

So, it's a very good question, Mark, but a very difficult question to answer. I would say, you know, the way we look at it at this point in time is that the highest use of memory capacity and bandwidth really resides, you know, close to the GPUs and these GPU HBM clusters, if you wish. that's where you know you have you have the most need for very high capacity and very high bandwidth which on average you know could be higher than what we found found you know in inference and other solutions but you know we have not modeled that at this point in time it's hard to model but we do see in aggregate the fact that, you know, inference is being added to training as a very good traction for, you know, the use of, you know, standard DIMMs or MR DIMMs in general. The attach rate is difficult to model at this point in time.

Gotcha. Okay, that's fair enough. And then the The tightness in the back end that you're noticing, is this, do you know or can you explain what the cause of that is? Is that because of, you know, the idea that a lot of the back end happens in Southeast Asia and they procure a lot of energy from the Mideast? Is that it, or is it capacity? Is it more like just the whole industry is in a great recovery time, and the capacities utilization rates are really ticking up? Do you have a sense of the cause of the tightness in the back end?

There's a couple of reasons. One is the demand, especially in the data center, has become very high. recently. So there's increased demand there. And the second reason is that a lot of semiconductor suppliers have moved their back-end supply chains away from China to other countries in Asia. And that has put a strain on the total capacity of these back-end back-end suppliers so it's the combination of the two we've not seen an effect yet not yet of you know the the the war and you know there are discussions about some some basic elements like gas that are going to be affected but we don't see this yet the main reason at this point in time is increased demand especially in the data center combined with you know semiconductor to companies moving the supply chains outside of china okay that that's really helpful and

the last question if i may be um as you think about your market share uh in this year are you of the view that you are a share gainer or you keep share flattish or or down like what is your view on uh your ability to gain share thank you yeah so we continue to gain share i know 24 to 25 you know, we were, we exited 25, we were, you know, mid 40% share.

There's no indication that, you know, we're not going to continue on that trajectory. This year, the market is really at a high level transitioning from Gen 2 to Gen 3, and our footprint in Gen 3 is really, really good as well. So, you know, there's no sign of any erosion of the share. You know, if we add the other components, then we'll go faster than market because we add content as well to what we ship to the market. So, again, we're very pleased with, you know, where we were in 2025. As you know, Mark, we tend to talk share on a yearly basis. You know, they can fluctuate from quarter to quarter, but we don't see any sign of erosion of our share going into 2026.

Gotcha. Very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you, Mark.

At this time, there are no further questions. This concludes the question and answer session. I would now like to turn the conference back over to the company.

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