Monolithic Power Systems 2026 Q2 Earnings Call
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- Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) reported record quarterly revenue of $981 million for Q2 2026, representing a 22% increase from Q1 2026 and a 48% increase from Q2 2025.
- Enterprise data market grew 45% sequentially, driven by strong broad-based ordering patterns and ramping of existing and new customers.
- MPS extended capacity goals beyond $6 billion to support future revenue growth and transformation into a full solution provider.
- Initial orders were received for high-speed DDR5 memory components, expected to grow the SAM into next year.
- Sampling began for high-voltage AC to DC products for 800-volt data center architectures, expanding beyond AI and server core power solutions.
- Automotive market shipments included products for over 1500 new sockets year to date, expanding footprint in ADAS and other vehicle applications.
- The Board authorized an additional $500 million for stock repurchases, increasing total authorization to $1 billion.
- Communications segment grew 80% sequentially, driven by both optical module solutions and switches including power solutions for top of rack switches, GPUs, and NIC cards.
- 48-volt vertical power modules are shipping to multiple customers, with new customers coming online and modules and solutions expected to be an increasingly important part of the business.
- Enterprise data segment growth was driven by platform refreshes, CPU demand, and increased module content, with channel inventory remaining very low.
- MPS is sampling new 800-volt silicon carbide power solutions for data centers, with revenue expected as data center transitions occur.
- Automotive demand is expected to ramp in the second half of 2026, with mid-teens year-over-year growth forecasted and broad-based socket diversification.
- CPU server power market share is comfortably above 30%, with broad indexing across x86 and ARM players and continued growth expected.
- Optical transceiver power modules are highly integrated with the highest power density in the industry, and MPS sees substantial growth opportunity and share gains in this segment.
- Capacity expansion beyond $6 billion is geographically balanced between China and non-China, including both front-end foundry and complex back-end module assembly processes.
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Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Monolithic Power Systems Inc.'s second quarter earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising that your hand is raised. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. Now I would like to turn the conference over to Arthur Lee to read the safe harbor statement.
Please go ahead. Earlier today, MPS released a written commentary on the results of its operations for the second quarter ended June 30th, 2026.
This document can be found on our website. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that in the course of today's presentation, we may make forward-looking statements and projections within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risk and uncertainties. The risk, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements are identified in the safe harbor statements contained in the Q2 2026 earnings commentary and in our SEC filings, including our Forms 10-K and Forms 10-Q, which can be found on our website. We assume no obligation to update this information. Now I would like to turn the call over to Tony.
Thanks, Arthur. Good afternoon, and welcome to our Q2 2026 earnings call. In Q2, MPS achieved record quarterly revenue of $981 million, 22% higher than the first quarter of 2026 and 48% higher than the second quarter of 2025. Our performance was a result of our continued innovation, our consistent execution, and the resilience of our diversified market strategy. Let me take a moment to call out a few of the highlights from the quarter. All-in markets grew sequentially, with enterprise data growing 45% as we continue to see strong, broad-based ordering patterns. We extended our capacity goals significantly beyond $6 billion to support future revenue growth and our transformation into a full solution provider. We received initial orders for high-speed DDR5 memory components, which we expect to grow our SAM into next year.
We began sampling high-voltage AC to DC products for 800-volt data center architectures as we expand beyond our current AI and server core power solutions. Finally, in our automotive market so far this year, we have shipped products for over 1,500 new sockets as we increase our footprint in both ADAS as well as in other applications within the vehicle. Overall, while we continue to adjust for the fluid geopolitical and macroeconomic environment, our diversified market strategy remains unchanged. MPS focuses on innovation and solving our customers' most challenging problems. We consistently invest in new technologies that open new end markets and applications and accelerate our transition from chip-only to a full-service silicon solution-based provider. Finally, we continuously expand and diversify our global supply chain, allowing us to capture future growth opportunities, maintain supply stability, and rapidly adapt to market changes as they occur.
Before moving to Q&A, I am also pleased to announce that our board of directors has authorized an additional $500 million for stock repurchases, increasing our total current authorization to $1 billion. Operator, you may now open the webinar for questions.
Ladies and gentlemen, to ask a question at this time, you will need to press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question coming from the line of Rick Schafer with Oppenheimer. Your line is now open.
Thank you, congrats on the big raise, you guys. I guess I don't have to ask about capacity, Tony. communications was up 80%. I think last quarter it was up about 50%, if memory serves. That's a pretty big step-up. I'm just curious, is that mostly transceiver power, or are you seeing meaningful contribution now from the other sockets, switch, DPU, SmartNIC? Has that kicked in? Is that helping drive that? Any color you can give on how the second half sets up. Does that momentum continue to grow into 3Q?
Hi, Rick. We see a lot of growth and a lot of demand, modules, chips, we see from multiple of our customers.
Tony, you want to have a detail?
Yeah. I'll just add a little more color. Rick, you do see contribution from both optical module solutions as well as from what we've generally bucketed as switches. As I think as I'd mentioned previously, that's kind of a big bucket that would include power solutions for not only top-of-rack switches but TPUs, NIC cards, and other things in the rack. You're starting to see that grow as well. Optical's still the bigger portion, just because it's had a longer runway since last year, but you are seeing growth from both of those really driving the comms market.
Okay. As my follow-up, I'm just curious. I believe you're shipping 48-volt vertical power modules to a couple of customers now, I don't know if you could update us on that. Do you expect to add any more this year? Maybe a sense of what your expectations are for 48-volt vertical power mods, in terms of maybe the mix versus VR this year.
Next year, however you want to count it.
Thanks. It's more than a couple of customers, okay.
We see new customers who are coming online, okay, we start to ship.
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