Rambus exceeds expectations with Q3 revenue of $178.5 million, fueled by strong DDR5 product sales and strategic focus on AI-driven market expansion.

OPERATOR - (00:01:45)

Welcome to the Rhombus third quarter fiscal year 2025 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 one 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 turn the conference over to Desmond Lynch, Chief Financial Officer. You may proceed.

Desmond Lynch - Chief Financial Officer - (00:02:15)

Thank you Operator and welcome to the Rhombus third quarter 2025 results conference call. I am Desmond Lynch, Chief Financial Officer at Rhombus and on the call with me today is Luke Seraphin, our CEO. The press release for the results that we will be discussing today has been filed with the SEC and 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 5:00pm Pacific Time, our discussion 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 ASC606 and reported revenue, amongst 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 or 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@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 and A. I'll now turn the call over to Luke to provide an overview of the quarter. Luke thank you Desmond.

Luke Seraphin - Chief Executive Officer - (00:04:59)

Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us. Rambus delivered a very strong third quarter with solid sequential growth and revenue above expectations. Product revenue led the way with a double digit increase and growth that outpaced the market. This was driven by sustained market leadership in DDR5 products coupled with ramping contributions from our suite of new products. We also delivered another quarter of excellent cash from operations highlighting the strength of our balanced business model while we continue to execute on our strategic roadmap, leveraging our core expertise in signal and power integrity. Our strategic focus on delivering complete solutions for high performance memory subsystems positions us well amid strong secular trends in data center and AI markets. Turning to our businesses, I'm extremely pleased with the performance of our chip business. In Q3 we delivered another product revenue record at $93 million and marked our sixth consecutive quarter of growth As a cornerstone of our success, our DDR5 RCD leadership and ongoing market share gains continue to fuel our top line growth. In addition, customer adoption of new products is progressing well with initial production shipments now in motion. Looking forward, we expect our continued RCD market share leadership and increasing contributions from new products to drive full year product revenue growth of over 40%. Our broad product offering including chips for all Jedex standard DDR5 and LPDDR5 modules supports the full spectrum of high performance computing platforms in servers and client systems. Our full chipset solutions offer customers not only the ease of one stop shopping but also the greater assurance of interoperability which becomes ever more critical as the complexity of design rises alongside data rates. Through ongoing leadership in our cities and growing traction across our portfolio of new products, we expect continued momentum and long term growth. Turning to Silicon IP AI continues to drive design win momentum. The increasing pace and diversity of AI, accelerator and networking IC designs is driving demand for high speed memory, interconnect and security IP led by our best in class HBM4, GDDR7 and PCIe7 solutions, our IP is critical to enabling the performance and security required by AI training and inference workloads focused on providing our customers with differentiated features and performance for the most challenging applications. We see momentum across our portfolio of cutting edge solutions and we remain on track for our long term growth targets as we look ahead. The rapidly rising adoption of AI is driving continued server growth. Training and inference require massive compute infrastructure to support increasingly complex and diverse workloads. Notably, agentic AI is emerging as a major catalyst for server demand, particularly for traditional CPU based systems. This is helping to fuel the ongoing hyperscaler and enterprise refresh cycle, amplifying the growth in server unit shipments. In addition, the amount of memory per server continues to grow. AI workloads demand unprecedented levels of compute performance driving increasing core counts and the need for more memory bandwidth and capacity. This translates to more DIMs per server at higher data rates as well as the need for novel high performance memory solutions and enabling technologies. MRDIMMM is a great example of this as it leverages an innovative architecture to double the capacity and bandwidth versus standard rdimms. Scaling the amount of memory per server also creates demand for increasingly sophisticated power management solutions that optimize the efficiency and quality of power delivery. We solve these complex problems for our customers with leading edge products and are pleased to be on track to intercept compatible future generation systems with our complete industry standard MRDIMMM and RDIMM chipsets Going Beyond Servers the release of each new client platform continues the trend of server class technologies waterfalling into AI PCs as performance targets continue to rise. This drives demand for faster memory and more module chip content, leveraging our fundamental signal and power integrity building blocks. Our client chipsets are progressing well with growing customer traction and we look forward to meeting this rising market need. The secular growth trend in data center as well as the rising performance requirements across the computing landscape driven by AI are highly favorable to Rambus and align directly with our long term strategy. Our groundbreaking memory connectivity and power management solutions are foundational to enabling the next generation of AI and HPC platforms by advancing system memory bandwidth and capacity capabilities. Having identified the increasing technical demands of data intensive applications as opportunities, we have developed a roadmap that builds on our leadership in signal and power integrity to enable robust high performance memory subsystems. In closing, Q3 was a very strong quarter with solid financial results. Our continued product leadership in DDR5 and increasing momentum in new products are underpinned by the company's strong alignment with positive secular trends in data center and AI. This gives us great confidence in our ongoing success and our ability to deliver long term profitable growth. As always, I want to thank our customers, partners and employees for their continued support and with that I'll turn the call over to DES to walk us through the financials.

Dev - (00:11:37)

Thank you, Luke. I'd like to begin with a summary of our financial Results for the third quarter on slide 3. We are pleased with our strong Q3 financial results as we continue to execute on our strategic initiatives. As Luke mentioned earlier, we continued our market leadership position in DDR5 products and have started to see increasing contributions from our suite of new products. Our diversified portfolio continues to deliver strong results which led to outstanding cash generation in the quarter of $88 million, which further strengthened our balance sheet. Our consistent ability to generate cash allows us to strategically invest in our product roadmap to drive our long term growth. Let me now provide you a summary of our non GAAP income statement on slide 5. Revenue for the third quarter was $178.5 million which was above our expectations. Royalty revenue was $65.1 million while licensing billings were $66.1 million. The difference between licensing billings and royalty revenue mainly relates to timing as we do not always recognise revenue in the same quarter as we bill. Product revenue was $93.3 million as we delivered another quarter of record product revenue. This represents a 15% sequential increase and a 41% year over year growth driven by continued strength in DDR5 products and ramping new product contributions. Contract and other revenue was $20.1 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 99.3 million dollars. Operating expenses were 64.6 million dollars. As we continue to invest in our growth opportunities in a disciplined manner, interest and other income for the third quarter was $6 million using an assumed flat tax rate of 20% for non GAAP pre tax income. Non GAAP net income for the quarter was $68.2 million. Now let me turn to the balance sheet details on slide 6. We ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaling $673.3 million up from Q2, primarily driven by strong cash from operations of $88.4 million. Third quarter capital expenditures were $8.4 million, depreciation expense was $8 million. We delivered $80 million of free cash flow in the quarter. Let me now review our non GAAP outlook for the fourth quarter on Slide 7. As a reminder, the forward looking guidance reflects our current best estimates at this time and our actual results could differ materially from what I'm about to review. The economic environment remains a dynamic environment and we continue to actively monitor this situation. In addition to the non GAAP financial outlook under ASC606, 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 fourth quarter to be between 184 and $190 million. We expect royalty revenue to be between 59 and $65 million and licensing billings between 60 and $66 million. We expect Q4 non GAAP total operating costs, which includes COGS, to be between 103 and $99 million. We expect Q4 capital expenditures to be approximately $10 million. Non GAAP operating results for the fourth quarter is expected to be between a profit of 81 and $91 million. For non GAAP interest and other income and expense, we expect $6 million of interest income. We expect the pro forma tax rate to be 20% with non GAAP tax expenses to be between 17.4 and $19.4 million. In Q4, we expect Q4 share count to be 109.5 million diluted shares outstanding. Overall, we anticipate the Q4 non GAAP earnings per share range between 64 and $0.71. Let me finish with a summary on Slide 8. In closing, our team delivered strong third quarter financial results, setting another record for product revenue and continued strong cash generation. Our robust balance sheet continues to allow us to invest in market expansion opportunities. Our product portfolio, including silicon, IP and chip solutions, is strategically aligned to capitalize on the growing opportunities in data center and AI. Before I open up the call to Q and A, I would like to thank our employees for for their continued teamwork and execution. With that, I'll turn the call back to our operator. To begin Q and A, could we have our first question?

OPERATOR - (00:18:35)

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. As a quick reminder, if you have a question, please press star one on your touchtone phone. The first question comes from Tristan Gara Whitbeard. You may proceed.

Tristan Gara Whitbeard - (00:18:48)

Hi, good afternoon. You recently quantified the MRDIM TAM opportunity. Is it fair to assume you can. Replicate the market share with MRDIMM that. You have currently in DDR5? And also, when do you think you. Can fully realize the time that you qualified for MRDIM? Is that something that we could envision for 28?

Luke Seraphin - Chief Executive Officer - (00:19:17)

Hi Tristan, thank you for your question. We're very pleased with the progress we're making with the MRDIMM development. We do believe that, you know, with time in the long run we can reach, you know, similar market share as we have with DDR market share we currently have on DDR5. The timing of that really depends on the rollout of platforms from, you know, our main partners on the CPU side, you know, intel and amd. But to the extent that they roll out their platform, I think it's fair to say that, you know, we're going to ramp in large volumes towards the very end of 26 and probably 27. So 28 is probably a good time to look at, you know, this type of market share. The other thing I would add regarding MRDIMM is that it's a much more complex system and because of the system requirements, we will need a tight coupling of the chips on that MRDIMM. So there's an opportunity for us to have more content as the interoperability of all those chips on that MRDIMMM is going to become very critical. Great.

Tristan Gara Whitbeard - (00:20:29)

And then as a quick follow up. Regarding the recently announced Ethernet scale up networking architecture at OCP, does that provide. Opportunities for Rambus on the licensing side?

Luke Seraphin - Chief Executive Officer - (00:20:48)

Thank you, Tristan. You know, our Silicon IP portfolio is very focused on, you know, high speed memory and high speed interconnect and security. Certainly, you know, with our networking customers and our memory customers, we are on the leading edge of technology, whether it is on GDDR, on HBM, on the memory side or PCIe 7. You know, on the networking side. What we've seen recently is an acceleration of demand for the latest technology. The transition from PCIe 5 to PCIe 7 is moving very, very fast and that's certainly an opportunity for us. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you.

OPERATOR - (00:21:32)

Thank you. The next question comes from Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo. You may proceed.

Aaron Rakers - Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo - (00:21:39)

Yeah, thanks for taking the questions. I've got a couple as well. I guess first, kind of sticking on the technology evolution of what we're seeing in some of these processors is there's a lot of news recently around the move towards SOCs and SOC-2 in particular is getting JDEC standardization. Can you help us maybe think about Rambus opportunity set in SOCAM two modules and when maybe you would expect to see that and any kind of framing of kind of the dollar content opportunity on those modules. Thank you, Aaron. The first thing I would say is that we are excited to see the emergence of these new architectures that actually play on our strength and focus in signal integrity and power integrity. As you know, the first attempt at SOC didn't work that well. And as a reminder, the attempt was actually to take benefit of the low power and high bandwidth of lpddr, but to put these on modules. And when you put this on modules, you actually break the signal integrity and the reliability of the system. So we are pleased to see those efforts going into jedec because, you know, I think the industry is eventually going to resolve those issues. And as a reminder, as we said in our remarks, we currently have solutions for all JEDEC module systems, both for LPDDR and DDR and both for client and server. So the fact that it's going through Jedec is actually good news for us. There will be opportunity for us, certainly opportunity for the SPD Hub chip. There's going to be some development on voltage regulators but as we said, you know, power management is also something we're focusing on. So we see this as an opportunity. We don't expect the volumes to be very high. These things actually go into system on chip solutions, very tight systems where the volumes are not necessarily very, very high. It's early to say what the content is going to be, but that's certainly an area we're going to play in given that the company focuses on both the signal integrity and power integrity. And the fact that it's moving to JDEC is good news for us. Yep, very good. And then maybe as a follow up to that, that that answer is on the PMIC side. You know, your, your product chipset business did really well this quarter, growing over 40% and it looks like that, that, that appears to be sustainable. You know, as we look forward, how do we think about the, the opportunity of pmix? How much does that represent of your product chipset business today? And, and maybe unpack of how quickly you're seeing that ramp, you know, looking forward. Thank you Aaron. The way we look at these products is, you know, we have a whole suite of new products including the Pimics. And the Pimics is actually a suite of products. If you remember the product announcements we've made over the last few years. We had the first generation of PMIX family announced in Q2 of last year, the clock driver announced in Q3. Then we had the second generation of PMIC announced in Q4, as well as Gen 2 RCDs and MrDiMMS. And this year in Q2 we announced a family of PMICs for the client space. So what you see is we do have a whole suite of products that are not that are companionships. We're pleased with the progress this year. In Q2 these chips represented low single digit contribution to our product revenue. As we indicated, Q3 was on track with mixed digits and in Q4 it's going to be mid to high single digits. So in aggregate we are pleased with the momentum, but it's not going to be a step function. We have different stages of qualification and pre production on different modules on different platforms, current platforms and future platforms. We have products that are in early qualification, we have products that are in pre production and we have products that are in full production now. But there's a strong momentum and as these products percolate through the ecosystem, we do believe that we're going to continue to see growth. Now specifically to pmic. What we have observed is that, you know, we have lots of success with a very high end pmix. You know, there's a lot of excitement there. They are the most complex PMICs to make, but they're also the ones that are showing the best performance compared to our competition. So that's exciting for us. These very high end PMICs are going to be linked to next generation platforms with AMD and Intel. But we certainly have the early generation of PMICS also rolling out in the market. So difficult to separate PMIC from the rest. As I said, we have many products at many stages of development and with our customers. But what we see is very strong momentum to grow that revenue quarter over quarter given the progress we're making. Yep. Thank you very much. Thank you.

OPERATOR - (00:26:56)

Thank you. The following comes from Gary Mobley with Loop Capital. You may proceed.

Gary Mobley - Equity Analyst at Loop Capital - (00:27:03)

Good evening guys. Let me extend my congratulations to the solid results and I want to start asking about any sort of supply chain considerations. First on your side, do you see any extension of the order lead times that your customers are seeing as they place an order with you, given any sort of constraints the TSMC may have? And then you know, away from you, are you seeing any sort of impact on the market to any sort of constraints on high capacity server dimms or the DRAM that support that market, considering most of the memory IDMs are prioritizing HBM at this point? Hi Gary, it's Dev here. Thanks for your question. Like others within the industry, we are carefully monitoring the supply situation. With regards to Rambus, I was pleased that we were able to grow inventory in the third quarter. We grew inventory by about $6 million which support our growth in Q4. In addition, I would highlight that we've not seen any notable buildup of customer inventory in the third quarter. Really looking at our own supply chain and manufacturing, you know, in terms of front end manufacturing is important to note that we are not on leading edge technology nodes. And on the back end we continue to have a strong long term relationships with our manufacturing partners. We do see some pockets and we continue to work with our partners to improve the lead times there. And looking at Q4, I would expect to see a slight increase in our own internal inventory to support customers Q1 2026 demand. I would say overall we have a robust supply chain which has enabled our strong product revenue growth and we'll continue to work with our manufacturing partners to support our growth objectives going forward. Got it. That's helpful. In the RCD market specifically, I would assume that you're running about, you know, or above 40% market share. Do you see a natural cap there? Given that this is more or less a three, you know, sort of a three supplier market, maybe two additional suppliers in sort of the nascent stages of their development. Do you see that as a natural cap or do we see maybe 45, 50% market share on the horizon?

Luke Seraphin - Chief Executive Officer - (00:29:40)

Thanks, Gary. You know, what we said last year in 2024 is that on the DDR5 generation, we were in the early 40% market share. We actually disclosed market share once a year because of some fluctuations we have every quarter. But if you look at the current outlook for this year, it looks like we're going to continue to grow share. You know, the market for servers or DIMMs has increased mid to high single digit. And you know, as Des indicated in his prepared remarks, you know, we grew 40% year over year. So we have certainly gained share this year on this market and we still believe we can continue to gain share. You know, we always have the objective of 40 to 50%, so there's room to gain share. We also early in the DDR5 cycles, it's been three years in and we expect the DDR5 cycle to last about seven years. So we do expect to continue to have, you know, the possibility of winning shares. The other thing is I think that when the products become more complex and the interoperability becomes more complex as well, because we have, you know, a complete chipset that's going to help us, you know, continue to gain share. Certainly there's going to be a cap, but we don't see the cap in the near future at this point in time. Thank you both. Thanks, Gary. Thanks, Kelly.

OPERATOR - (00:31:16)

Thank you. The next question comes from Medi Hosseini with Susquehanna. You may proceed.

Medi Hosseini - (00:31:26)

Yes, thanks for taking my question. This is for the team. I think it would be very helpful if you could remind us how to think about different TAM and give us an update. In the past we have talked about the buffer chip companion CXL and HBM IP, perhaps with a diversification in the DRAM with inclusion of MRDIMM. There are some changes there and in that context it would be great if you could give us what the time will look like, let's say two, three years from now. And I have a follow up. Yeah, thank you, Mehdi. So we'd like to separate the, I would say the product from, you know, from the silicon ip. You know, on the product side, you know, we estimate the time for the RCD market to be around $800 million. Then you add to this $600 million of companionships, half of it being power management shapes and the other half being the other companionships and you can think about the market growing mid to high single digits in aggregate. There's additional, I would say tailwinds to this with the increase of number of channels and the increase of number of DIMMs per channel. But you know, this will translate into not into a step function but some tailwinds to that tam. Then in addition to that, you know, we see a tam of about $600 million for the MRD itself which adds to this. But the MRD, as we discussed earlier, is not going to hit the market before, you know, very late in 20, 26, 27, depending on the rollout of the platforms from AMD and Intel primarily. Now if you turn to the silicon IP business, it's hard to have a tan number for the silicon IP business. What I would say is that as part of our portfolio we are at the center of what matters for AI. Our portfolio is focused on PCIe 7 and the future generations, on HBM 4 and future generations and on GDDR and future generations. So there's a pool for design starts on all of these ip. But it's hard given the type of business model. On the licensing side, it's hard to estimate a stand for this. But what I would say is that we are on track to meet our growth targets that business of double digit growth. Okay, great. Just a quick follow up here. Should I assume that MRDEM margin is comparable to product or would it be more like an IT type of margin?

Des - (00:34:11)

Hi Mehdi, it's Des here. In terms of the MRDIMM, this is obviously a chip product that we will be selling here. What I would say is I would. Keep it within the same sort of margins of our product business. The long term goal of that business is 60 to 65% and I would keep the MRDIMM margins within that. We continue to produce strong margin results on the chip side and we're really pleased with the portfolio that we have. Sure.

Luke Seraphin - Chief Executive Officer - (00:34:42)

Great. And my second question has to do with just looking beyond December and seasonality. I'm under impression that when it comes to servers and companionship, maybe there could be better than seasonal trend into into early part of 26 and I want to see how you're looking at those trends. And I'm not asking for a guide, I'm not asking for a specific revenue guide, but just trend would better than seasonal trend that I see in the server and AI will also apply to Rhombus. We do see a. Thank you, Mehdi. We do see the market for servers to continue to grow between mid to high single digit going into next year. There's some tailwinds, as we said, because of the, you know, the growth of inference, for example, or agentic AI that's going to create tailwinds for standard CPU types of solutions. But we do see a growth between mid and high single digit for the server market next year. Typically, you know, in Q4, you know, we have our customers being prudent with the inventory before the year ends. That happens every year. But that's included in our guide for Q4 that we just gave and things are going to be back on track in Q1 of 2026. We keep saying that one of the reasons we don't guide beyond one quarter is that things are changing very, very fast and visibility is not the best. But we do see all the favorable tailwinds for our business going into 2026. Thank you.

OPERATOR - (00:36:39)

Thank you. The next question comes from Kevin Cassidy with Rosenblatt Securities. You may proceed.

Kevin Cassidy - Equity Analyst at Rosenblatt Securities - (00:36:46)

Yes, thanks for taking my question and congratulations on the great results. Just looking at the market, the DRAM market and maybe Gary touched on it, with the lead time stretching out and prices going up, is there any concern at all of servers, you know, de-specing as the price of DRAMs go higher or is the need for DRAM and AI applications so strong that there won't be a de-specing? Well, you know, that's good question for the memory, you know, vendors, I would say that historically we've been kind of agnostic to DRAM pricing. You know, we, you know, I think what the industry is going to have to go through is to deal with a growth of demand for data centers in general and to have some arbitrage between the different types of memory. But I don't think that the DRAM pricing is going to have any impact on, you know, on the demand for our products. There's.

Luke Seraphin - Chief Executive Officer - (00:37:50)

Thanks, Luke. Kevin, can you hear me? Yeah, Kevin. I would just add in the fact that, you know, the inventory levels within the channel continue to remain sort of lean. When I look at inventory in Q3 versus Q2 and this is of our chips that our customers are holding, we saw no notable inventory build. And I would really put that down to two factors. One, it's been the multiple generations of DDR5 being in the market and really the legacy overhang of over ordering of DDR4 inventory from a couple of years ago. So I would say the inventory position just now is lean in terms of our sort of chips.

Des - (00:38:34)

Right. Okay, great. And maybe just along that, you know, that you mentioned, you're two, two years into this DDR5 cycle and maybe it's three generations of DDR5 modules. What's the bell curve like of your shipments? And you know, what is that doing to ASPs as you go forward? Hey, Kevin, it's Des. We've been really delighted with how we've been able to execute on the DDR5 cycle. You know, we're in the middle of a fast paced DDR5 transition with multiple generations in the market today. I would say that in Q3, the predominance of our shipments was the second generation of DDR5 with growing in early production volumes of the third generation coming into the market. And as I look ahead into Q4, I would still expect the predominance to be the second generation with really growing contributions with the third generation coming into the market. In terms of pricing, what we've talked about in the past is when we move from one generation to the next generation, we do see a bump up in sort of pricing, which is obviously beneficial for us from there. And we'll continue to sort of see that benefit going into the numbers. We saw the benefit in the gross margin outlook in the third quarter on the product chip side, which increased about 300 basis points, which was really a combination of the product mix as well as continued manufacturing savings coming into the model. So overall, we're really pleased with how we're executing on the DDR5 generation. And really, irrespective of what generation is ramping into the market, through our early investment and continued leadership, we have confidence in our overall market share and leadership position.

Kevin Cassidy - Equity Analyst at Rosenblatt Securities - (00:40:33)

Okay, great. Thank you.

Des - (00:40:36)

Thanks, Kevin.

OPERATOR - (00:40:38)

Thank you. The following comes from Nam Kim with Arity Research. You may proceed.

Nam Kim - (00:40:45)

Hi. Thank you for taking my question. I want to ask about outlook for cxl. There are a lot of perspectives on how this market develop, especially with the CXL 3.1 expected next year and your competitor like Montage becoming increasingly aggressive on the controller side. At the same time, greater adoption of MRDMs in the future could address current memory capacity constraint. So can you share your view on how you see CXAIR market evolving and what the rhombus strategy is in terms of controllers or other engagement in this space? Thank you. Thank you. Nam. We have two plays or two possible plays in the cxl. One is on the Silicon IP business We do have CXL controllers of different generations. And this has been part of this focused portfolio we're talking about where we do have traction. You know, a lot of people developing chips, you know, need a CXL interface, and they have the possibility of buying that interface from us. So this has been one of the driver vectors of our growth in silicon IP business. But what we have observed is that every one of our customers tends to develop a bespoke solution for one, sometimes only one or two customers. So the chips that use the CXL market is very fragmented. That's how we look at it. And although we did have, and we do have a CXL product development, we believe at this point in time that it does not make economic sense to actually roll out that product in the market. Because what we noticed is that we would have to develop a specific chip for a specific customer, who themselves would have a specific customer as well. So we'd rather play on the FIP side for cxl. So what I would say is that CXL is very exciting in terms of being an interface that is accepted by everyone, but for us, it's not that exciting in terms of products. And we do believe that the usage model that is the most promising is actually memory expansion. And to your question, a very good question. The MrD monsters that because it uses the current infrastructure of standard servers, and just by using this MRD type of architectures, we can double the the capacity and the bandwidth using that same infrastructure. So that's the option we've taken at this point in time. You know, as the market develops, as we've done in the past, you know, we can pivot, but at this point in time, this is where we are. Thank you. It's clear. Thank you. Thank you.

OPERATOR - (00:43:42)

Thank you. The following comes from Kevin Garrigan with Jefferies. You may proceed.

Kevin Garrigan - (00:43:48)

Yeah, hi all. Let me echo my congrats on the results. Hey, on the Mr. Dimm opportunity, you know, you talked about customers starting qualifications. I mean, is there anything more that you need to do or can do to kind of help yourselves capture share there, or is it pretty much all in the customer's hands at this point? It's in customers hands, our hands, and the hands of the people who deploy the platforms like intel and amd, because they have to be ready with their platforms as well. But I would say on our hand, what plays in our hand is really the fact that we have a complete chipset for MrDimm. And that's critically important, because when you double the capacity and you double the bandwidth. That interoperability is critical to the MRDIM actually working. And I think that customers are going to be looking at their suppliers like us, to really help them, not only on the development of the chips, but also on the testing of the whole platform, given how compact is going to be and how fast it's going to have to run at. So this is what I think is going to play in our hands. The fact that we have invested for a long time in signal integrity and power integrity allows us to have a complete chipset. And having a complete chipset is going to help us with interoperability testing with our customers. Yep, got it, got it. Okay, that makes sense. And then just as a quick follow up, you know, going off of a previous question in your Silicon IP business, now you guys are doing well in hbm, but can you just talk about how, how traction has been with PCIe 7 and secured IP in that business? I'll start and let's just jump in. You know, typically we don't, you know, split these things, but at a high level, you know, security is about 50% of our business. And you know, between your controllers, memory controllers or PCIe controllers, that's the other 50%. I would say security is widespread in terms of its application. It's really, you know, going into lots of applications with lots of customers in very different markets. You know, PCA and hbm, we tend to work with a large number of customers, much smaller, and we tend to work on the bleeding edge solutions for these. So, you know, we mentioned HBM4 and PCAE7. So we typically work with large customers who need to develop the latest and fastest solution, mostly for the data center and the AI market. So it's a different dynamic there, you know, higher. You know, typically we have higher asp, longer time development with, you know, the bleeding edge solution for memory and PCIe, it's a much broader and faster cycle on the security side. That's the way to look at it. Okay, perfect. Thank you and congrats on the results. Thank you, Kevin.

OPERATOR - (00:46:53)

Thank you. The final question is a follow up from Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo. You may proceed.

Aaron Rakers - Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo - (00:47:00)

Yeah, thanks for doing the follow up question. Just kind of thinking back again to the architecture evolution in this AI demand that you're seeing when you guys look at your RCD business today. How do you assess kind of the number of channels today that you're shipping into on a per socket or per CPU basis and how that's evolved and whether or not, you know, moving from 8 to 12. And do you see 12 going to 16 channels as we look out, you know, into 26? Thank you, Aaron. Certainly, you know, AI workloads need more memory than, you know, standard types of applications and more bandwidth. So the very fact that the industry is converging to 12 channels is, is good. But remember the, it's only lately that, you know, intel moved to 12 channels. So it's going to have, you know, a, I would say modest impact, but positive impact. You know, we do see these memory, these CPU vendors, you know, announcing the 16 channel solution and that's going to be, that's going to be necessary. This talk also, no plans of going beyond, you know, beyond maybe to 20. But the issue is you cannot just add channels after channels. It creates constraints on the packaging designs and the chip designs. So I think there's going to be a limitation there, but that's certainly a tailwind for us. That's going to help us, as we said earlier, continue to grow our product business. And on that channel discussion, how does that work with Mr. DIMMs? So the NRD is going to intercept, you know, the next generation of platforms from AMD and Intel. You know, these next generation platforms on AMD and Intel, they announced, you know, 16, 16 channel, you know, but, but, but MRD is a very dense solution. So, you know, the number of beams per channel is, you know, is going to be the question. But these new platforms for Gen 5, you know, are going to be around 16, 16 channels per CPU. And that's, that's the generation that intercepts MRDM. Yeah. Right, right. Thank you.

OPERATOR - (00:49:34)

Thank you. I will now pass it back over to Luke for closing remarks.

Luke Seraphin - Chief Executive Officer - (00:49:41)

Thank you. To everyone who has joined us today for your continued interest and time, we look forward to speaking with you again soon. Have a very good day. Thank you.

OPERATOR - (00:49:53)

Thank you. This now concludes today's conference.