Navitas Semiconductor Corporation Common Stock Citi’s 2026 Global TMT Conference
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- Navitas Semiconductor has completed its strategic pivot from low-margin mobile consumer markets to high-power, high-value applications such as AI data centers, grid infrastructure, high-performance computing, and industrial electrification.
- Mobile business, which was 85% of revenue a year ago, will be insignificant by the end of the year despite recent double-digit quarterly growth.
- The company leverages two core technologies: gallium nitride (GAN) for high-power, high-density switching applications close to compute loads, and silicon carbide (SIC) for high-voltage AC/DC conversion and grid-tied applications.
- Navitas has shipped 350 million GAN units historically and is a pioneer in GAN technology.
- The company sees a multi-stage transition in data center power architecture: from 50V to 800V systems, with intermediate steps like sidecar power shelves and eventual native 800V rack architectures, driving increased adoption of SIC and GAN.
- Navitas models a total addressable market (SAM) of approximately $3.5 billion for GAN and SIC in the U.S. data center and grid markets by 2030, with an additional $1 billion from JFET technology and a similar amount from vertical power delivery (VPD) and integrated voltage regulator (IVR) technologies, effectively doubling the SAM.
- The company works directly with hyperscalers (Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Google), GPU/XPU vendors (NVIDIA), and contract manufacturers (Flex, Delta, Lite-On) to design and supply power solutions.
- Navitas announced the pending acquisition of Clarus, a vertical power delivery and IVR company, expected to close around Q4, which will expand Navitas's SAM and enable power delivery closer to the processor, addressing current bottlenecks in delivering thousands of amps to GPUs and XPUs.
- Navitas is fabless, partnering with foundries such as GlobalFoundries for GAN, X-FAB for SIC, and Samsung for Clarus's 14nm process, investing in proprietary process moats and capacity to ensure supply and quality without owning fabs.
- The company has a backlog extending into 2027 and expects consistent double-digit growth over the next few quarters as the AI infrastructure transition accelerates.
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Welcome to Citi's 2026 GlobalFoundries TMT Conference. My name is Kelsey, one of the analysts here at Citi covering U.S. semis. We are very pleased to have Chris Allexandre from Navitas Semiconductor here with us today. Chris, it's been roughly a year since you stepped in as CEO and launched the Navitas 2.0, shifting Navitas away from lower margin consumer markets to higher power, higher value applications. Perhaps we can start there. Tell us where are we in the transformation strategy?
Okay. Thank you for having me, and welcome, everybody. As you said, when I came on board a year ago, the prime goal was to transform and pivot the company from mobile, low, and consumer to high power. What I would say today is that pivot is pretty much done. Now the job is to basically, from there, scale the company to, of course, bigger, scaled, more valuable, and profitable company ultimately.
The change was first go-to-market. As we move from mobile, essentially focused on China, OEM, ODM- Right moving to the high power market, which are AI data center, grid infrastructure, high performance compute, and industrial electrification.
We had to complete pivot the go-to-market. Focusing on the hyperscalers, the XPUs companies, the ODM, OEM, merchant power companies, as well as anybody in the ecosystem. That was a big change. The other change was capitalizing on the underlying technology of the company, i.e. GaN, because we were one of the leader or pioneer in GaN, as well as high voltage and ultra-high voltage SiC to basically use those technologies to drive the disruption that we're going to talk about in the- Yeah infrastructure.
That was fundamentally more accelerating some of the investment that we already made, partly in getting GaN pivoted from mobile, as I said, to AI infrastructure as well as the ultra-high voltage SiC. The last thing was to kind of make sure the team is in place. So a lot of work was done into upgrading the application team and the leadership team.
Okay to build the culture.
I said earlier that essentially today the pivot is done, and you can see that in the revenue. I am sure you are going to ask question about where are we in that transition, right?
Yeah. At the end of the year, we started the journey where mobile was nearly almost the entire company.
up to 85% of the company. At the end of the year, mobile will be insignificant. Okay? Okay. So basically essentially gone despite having grown double digit per quarter for the last few quarters.
That is kind of where we are. Year one was transition the company, and now we can start to build from there.
Okay. So before we head into the details, perhaps can you give us a simple version of why is GaN and silicon carbide gaining traction today?
Okay. Why now? Also, if there is a rule of thumb to think about which part of the power stack are we using GaN, which part of the power stack are we using silicon carbide, and how do you see both materials accelerating from here?
I assume you want answers without getting into a EE type of class.
Yeah, no. I get it.
Just simple framework. Simpler framework.
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