SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) ("QuickLogic" or the "Company"), a developer of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, ruggedized FPGAs and Endpoint AI solutions, today announced its financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended July 2, 2023.

Highlights

• Significant revenue contribution from the next, executed phase of the large eFPGA contract we announced in 2022 is expected during the second half of 2023
  
  
• Sales funnel grew to a record $140 million, with conversion expected to accelerate during the second half of 2023

• Top-tier microcontroller company is in the final stages of integrating its private label version of SensiML AI/ML solutions across its broad product line
  
  
• Our first 12nm eFPGA IP core expected to be completed this quarter

"While the timing of the award for the next phase of the large eFPGA contract negatively impacted our second quarter results, with this next, substantially larger contract phase fully executed and new bookings generated from our growing sales funnel, we reaffirm full year revenue growth will be above 30%," said Brian Faith, CEO of QuickLogic. "In addition to accelerated revenue growth, we also are affirming our expectation that we will report second half and full year non-GAAP profitability for 2023."   

Fiscal Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results

Total revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2023 was $2.9 million, a decrease of 29.3% compared with the first quarter of 2023, and a decrease of 35.7% compared with the second quarter of 2022.

New product revenue was approximately $2.2 million in the second quarter of 2023, a decrease of $0.9 million, or 26.9%, compared with the first quarter of 2023, and a decrease of $0.9 million, or 28.7%, compared with the second quarter of 2022. The completion of the $6.9 million government contract in the second quarter and the delay of the add-on contract led to the lower than anticipated revenue.

Mature product revenue was $0.7 million in the second quarter of 2023, a decrease of $0.4 million, or 36.2%, compared with the first quarter of 2023. Mature product revenue in the second quarter of 2023 decreased 51.2% compared to the second quarter of 2022.

Second quarter 2023 GAAP gross margin was 41.2% compared with 57.8% in the first quarter of 2023, and 56.0% in the second quarter of 2022. The decrease in gross margins was primarily related to revenue volatility resulting from delays in starting new phases of an existing contract.

Second quarter 2023 non-GAAP gross margin was 44.2% compared with 59.7% in the first quarter of 2023, and 58.6% in the second quarter of 2022.

Second quarter 2023 GAAP operating expenses were $3.4 million compared with $3.5 million in the first quarter of 2023, and $3.2 million in the second quarter of 2022.

Second quarter 2023 non-GAAP operating expenses were $2.9 million compared with $2.9 million in the first quarter of 2023, and $2.8 million in the second quarter of 2022.

Second quarter 2023 GAAP net loss was $2.3 million, or $0.17 per share, compared with a net loss of $1.2 million, or $0.09 per share, in the first quarter of 2023, and a net loss of $0.5 million, or $0.04 per share, in the second quarter of 2022.

Second quarter 2023 non-GAAP net loss was $1.7 million, or $0.12 per share, compared with a net loss of $0.5 million, or $0.04 per share, in the first quarter of 2023, and a net loss of $47 thousand, or $0.00 per share, in the second quarter of 2022.

Conference Call

QuickLogic will hold a conference call at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time today, August 14, 2023, to discuss its current financial results. The conference call will be webcast on QuickLogic's IR Site Events Page at https://ir.quicklogic.com/ir-calendar. To join the live conference, you may dial (877) 407-0792 and international participants should dial (201) 689-8263 by 2:20 p.m. Pacific Time. No Passcode is needed to join the conference call. A recording of the call will be available approximately one hour after completion. To access the recording, please call (412) 317-6671 and reference the passcode 13740059.

The call recording, which can be accessed by phone, will be archived through August 21, 2023, and the webcast will be available for 12 months on the Company's website.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic is a fabless semiconductor company that develops low power, multi-core semiconductor platforms and Intellectual Property (IP) for Artificial Intelligence (AI), voice and sensor processing. The solutions include an embedded FPGA IP (eFPGA) for hardware acceleration and pre-processing, and heterogeneous multi-core SoCs that integrate eFPGA with other processors and peripherals. The Analytics Toolkit from the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, SensiML Corporation, completes the end-to-end solution with accurate sensor algorithms using AI technology. The full range of platforms, software tools and eFPGA IP enables the practical and efficient adoption of AI, voice, and sensor processing across the multitude of mobile, wearable, hearable, consumer, industrial, edge and endpoint IoT (Internet of Things) applications. For more information, visit www.quicklogic.com and https://www.quicklogic.com/blog/.

QuickLogic uses its website (www.quicklogic.com), the company blog (https://www.quicklogic.com/blog/), corporate Twitter account (@QuickLogic_Corp), Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/QuickLogic), and LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/13512/) as channels of distribution of information about its products, its planned financial and other announcements, its attendance at upcoming investor and industry conferences, and other matters. Such information may be deemed material information, and QuickLogic may use these channels to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Therefore, investors should monitor the Company's website and its social media accounts in addition to following the Company's press releases, SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filings, public conference calls, and webcasts.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

QuickLogic reports financial information in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or U.S. GAAP, but believes that non-GAAP financial measures are helpful in evaluating its operating results and comparing its performance to comparable companies. Accordingly, the Company excludes certain charges related to stock-based compensation, in calculating non-GAAP (i) loss from operations, (ii) net loss, (iii) net loss per share, and (iv) gross margin percentage. The Company provides this non-GAAP information to enable investors to evaluate its operating results in a manner like how the Company analyzes its operating results and to provide consistency and comparability with similar companies in the Company's industry.

Management uses the non-GAAP measures, which exclude gains, losses and other charges that are considered by management to be outside of the Company's core operating results, internally to evaluate its operating performance against results in prior periods and its operating plans and forecasts. In addition, the non-GAAP measures are used to plan for the Company's future periods and serve as a basis for the allocation of the Company's resources, management of operations and the measurement of profit-dependent cash and equity compensation paid to employees and executive officers.

Investors should note, however, that the non-GAAP financial measures used by QuickLogic may not be the same non-GAAP financial measures and may not be calculated in the same manner as that of other companies. QuickLogic does not itself, nor does it suggest that investors should, consider such non-GAAP financial measures alone or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. A reconciliation of U.S. GAAP financial measures to non-GAAP financial measures is included in the financial statements portion of this press release. Investors are encouraged to review the related U.S. GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures with their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, expectations regarding our future business, and actual results may differ due to a variety of factors including: delays in the market acceptance of the Company's new products; the ability to convert design opportunities into customer revenue; our ability to replace revenue from end-of-life products; the level and timing of customer design activity; the market acceptance of our customers' products; the risk that new orders may not result in future revenue; our ability to introduce and produce new products based on advanced wafer technology on a timely basis; our ability to adequately market the low power, competitive pricing and short time-to-market of our new products; intense competition by competitors; our ability to hire and retain qualified personnel; our ability to capitalize on synergies with our subsidiary SensiML Corporation; changes in product demand or supply; general economic conditions; political events, international trade disputes, natural disasters and other business interruptions that could disrupt supply or delivery of, or demand for, the Company's products; the unpredictable and ongoing impact of the effects from the COVID-19 pandemic; and changes in tax rates and exposure to additional tax liabilities. These and other potential factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results contemplated or implied are described in more detail in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the risks discussed in the "Risk Factors" section in the Company's Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and in the Company's prior press releases, which are available on the Company's Investor Relations website at http://ir.quicklogic.com/, and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov/. In addition, please note that the date of this press release is August 14, 2023, and any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. We are not obliged to update these statements due to latest information or future events.

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