QuickLogic Corp 2026 Q2 Earnings Call

Thank you, operator, and thank you to all of you for joining us. Our speakers today are Brian Faith, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Elias Nader, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. As a reminder, some of the comments QuickLogic makes today are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to statements regarding our future profitability, revenue growth and cash flows, expectations regarding our future business, and statements regarding the timing, milestones, and payments related to our government contracts, statements regarding expected contracts and the expected magnitude of such contracts, and statements regarding expected adoption rates and/or orders by our customers.

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Go ahead. Thank you, Allison.

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining our second quarter 2026 conference call. Since our last conference call, we have made significant progress towards achieving our 2026 goals and have narrowed our full-year growth outlook to a range of 70%-80%. With this anticipated growth, we are continuing to model non-GAAP profitability and cash flow positive operations for the second half of 2026. In addition to contributions from Storefront and RadPro, we anticipate our second half growth will be driven in part by new customers and new market sectors, including automotive, robotics, and commercial satellite applications. We also believe there is good potential to sign an eFPGA IP architectural license late this year.

The short story is, 2026 is on target to be a very successful year for QuickLogic, and our accomplishments are positioning us well to continue our growth and market penetration trends in 2027 and beyond. Before I go into what has elevated our confidence in full-year 2026 revenue growth, let's take a moment to touch on what weighed on Q2 and why we will guide for flat revenue in Q3. We anticipated finalizing a seven-figure extension of an existing customer contract in late Q2. The revenue for this extension was forecasted to be recognized in Q2 and Q3. This contract extension has been delayed as the customer is re-evaluating what functions it wants to put in embedded FPGA versus the functions that will be locked down in the fixed portion of its ASIC prior to finalizing the design.

This delay is the sole reason why Q2 revenue was at the low end of our guidance range and we will forecast flat Q3 revenue. We remain confident in securing this contract extension, but this delay removes it from our 2026 forecast. In addition to this delayed contract extension, we are removing a commercial ASIC design targeting Intel 18A from our second half 2026 forecast. Several uncertainties involving this design arose recently, and in the best case scenario, the eFPGA hard IP contract for this ASIC will be a 2027 opportunity.

While these two changes lead us to forecast flat revenue for Q3, the value of contracts and orders that we have on the books and the progress we are realizing in other areas gives us the confidence to raise the low end of our full-year outlook. At the foundation of our anticipated Q4 growth is our ongoing contract with the U.S. government, which was increased last year to a total ceiling value of $89 million. We are forecasting revenue recognition from this contract will contribute a significant percentage of total Q4 revenue. In addition to this, we have a sound base of mature product business, continued demand for RadPro Dev Kits, and ongoing IP contracts that are already on the books scheduled for Q4. Since our last conference call, we have continued to receive and deliver orders for our RadPro Dev Kit.

We expect this trend to continue, and with a number of evaluations already underway, we are very optimistic that we will see initial Storefront device demand in 2027. We are continuing our work on the contracts targeting GlobalFoundries' 12LP process that we discussed in our last conference call. This includes the receipt of discrete FPGA test chips that we taped out for the contract with a $2.7 million ceiling value that we announced May 13th. Within the scope of this contract, QuickLogic will be provided test chips that we will characterize and include in a new 12LP eval kit that is scheduled to release in Q4. The eval kit will be compatible with common third-party development environments used by both DIB and commercial customers. This enables customers to accelerate evaluations of discrete and chiplet designs that we can provide as Storefront solutions.

Beyond these scheduled contributions is an anticipated extension of our 1 million LUT contract to target Intel 18A-P and pending contracts with new customers I mentioned earlier. The majority of our development and customer design activity in Intel 18A has shifted to Intel 18A-P. Intel 18A-P is capable of delivering over 9% higher performance at isotropic power, or more than 18% lower power at isotropic performance. Given the fact we have been able to leverage the development work we completed for Intel 18A, the time and cost to develop eFPGA hard IP for Intel 18A-P will be de minimis. As a matter of fact, we anticipate receiving a follow-on contract from the customer that funded our 1 million LUT developments in Intel 18A for an Intel 18A-P implementation that we are targeting for Q4 delivery.

We will continue working with some customers on Intel 18A designs, but we expect most will transition to Intel 18A-P, and that it will also be the focus for new design activity. We believe the release of Intel 18A-P will likely accelerate design activity, and with that, opportunities for our eFPGA hard IP. In addition to the follow-on 1 million LUT contract, we are working closely with several new customers on ASIC designs that target the incorporation of our eFPGA hard IP. Two of these potential contracts are in late-stage negotiations. The first is a design targeting automotive, industrial automation, and robotic applications. The second is an international customer that is developing an ASIC for a LEO satellite application. We are also working closely with a new customer that has interest in an eFPGA architectural license.

Earlier this year, we were awarded a five-figure feasibility study contract to evaluate our eFPGA IP for a particular use case. We have recently completed the contract, and the customer is now investigating if a custom implementation of our IP targeting its proprietary process will meet its PPA requirements. The initial results look promising, and if successful, this will lead to an eFPGA IP architectural license late this year. As most of you are aware, QuickLogic's initial FPGA devices leveraged one-time programmable anti-fuse technology. This is the highly reliable technology used in mature products we have been supplying to defense and aerospace contractors for decades. Beyond the ongoing demand for our mature products, which have recently been designed into new programs, certain DIBs have shown an interest in our existing devices in smaller packages than we currently offer.