瓦倫斯半導體 (VLN) 2026財年第二季度業績電話會議：受AV需求推動上調營收指引

核心要點

• Valens Semiconductor公佈2026財年第二季度營收為1810萬美元，高於公司此前給出的1720萬至1760萬美元的業績指引。相比2026財年第一季度的1690萬美元和2025財年第二季度的1710萬美元均有所增長。
• GAAP毛利率為61.5%，處於60%至62%的指引範圍內。調整后EBITDA虧損為420萬美元，優於公司指引的虧損490萬至440萬美元。
• 在VS100、VS3000和VS6320芯片組需求的支撐下，跨行業業務營收達到1310萬美元。汽車業務營收為500萬美元。
• 基於VS6320的USB3與4K視頻參考設計已從多家客户獲得數百萬美元的預訂。部分客户已通過送樣和認證，正在開啟量產。
• 所有四項VA7000汽車設計方案定點均在按計劃推進。管理層預計這些項目的收入將於2027年開始放量，而更大規模的機遇將與隨后的量產掛鉤。
• Valens將2026財年全年營收指引從7500萬至7700萬美元上調至7800萬至8100萬美元。據管理層稱，指引中值代表着13%的同比增長。

核心財務業績

跨行業業務毛利率為69.2%，而2026財年一季度為70.8%，2025財年二季度為67.8%。汽車業務毛利率從上季度的46.2%和去年同期的50.5%降至41.5%，主要原因是為優先保障和支持生產需求而產生了額外的測試設施費用。

業務與運營表現

音視頻與跨行業業務

音視頻仍是公司核心業務的基礎。二季度的增長主要由成熟的VS100芯片組系列以及支持通過網線延長未壓縮HDMI 2信號的VS3000驅動。

Valens還報告稱其VS6320 USB 3.2延長芯片繼續保持增長勢頭。包括快思聰（Crestron）和埃斯頓（Extron）在內的製造廠商推出了搭載該公司先進芯片組的新產品。巴可（Barco）在其ClickShare網線USB-C延長套件中採用了Valens HDBaseT芯片組，從而為ClickShare產品組合賦予了有線連接能力。

Valens開發了一款將VS6320與配套芯片結合的參考設計，可通過單條線纜傳輸USB3和4K視頻。配套芯片由ODM客户自行採購，因此當前的參考設計不會改變Valens的平均售價（ASP）或毛利率。管理層表示，該解決方案已獲得數百萬美元的預訂，多家客户已開始量產。

該公司還在研發未來的單芯片產品，以集成USB與4K視頻功能。管理層表示，這將能簡化系統設計、減少零部件數量並降低成本，但未透露發佈日期。

汽車業務

被Valens稱為首款符合MIPI A-PHY標準的芯片組VA7000，依然是該公司汽車業務戰略的核心。Valens已獲得四項A-PHY設計方案定點，管理層表示所有四個項目都在按計劃推進。

Valens已向製造電子控制單元（ECU）的一級供應商（Tier 1）交付芯片。管理層表示，后續的生產時間表取決於更廣泛的新車型上市進程以及與其他汽車行業參與者的協調。預計這四個項目的收入將於2027年開始放量，隨着產量提升，未來可能會帶來更大貢獻。

該公司還在與多家主機廠（OEM）參與進一步的評估流程。迪恩·馬丁（Dean Martin）將於9月1日起出任汽車業務部門負責人。

管理層業績指引

管理層將全年展望的上調主要歸因於VS3000和VS6320在客户產品中的採用率不斷提高，而不是來自計劃於2027年開始產生收入的四個汽車項目的貢獻。

風險與關注焦點

• 汽車項目的開發和生產周期長達數年。儘管Valens已完成並交付了當前四個項目屬於自身的部分，但新車上市仍取決於一級供應商、整車廠以及生產環節的其他要素。
• 由於額外的測試設施費用，汽車業務毛利率降至41.5%。管理層表明，與產能相關的壓力暫時可能持續存在。
• Valens在二季度仍處於虧損狀態，GAAP淨虧損為810萬美元，調整后EBITDA虧損為420萬美元。
• 現金、現金等價物及短期存款從一季度末的8610萬美元降至8340萬美元，而存貨則從1090萬美元增加到1250萬美元。

分析師問答要點

• VS6320參考設計：管理層明確指出，ODM客户自行採購配套的4K視頻芯片並構建最終系統。Valens提供VS6320及軟件實現，因此當前的產品方案不會影響其平均售價（ASP）或毛利率。
• 集成化產品路線圖：Valens意圖在未來的單芯片解決方案中結合USB與4K視頻功能。目前，客户使用的是該公司搭載第三方配套芯片的參考設計實現方案。
• 汽車業務量產里程碑：Valens表示，對於四個VA7000項目，公司已完成向一級供應商交付芯片組。其對2027年收入放量的信心，建立在一級供應商推進至整車廠裝配線的進展之上。
• 上調2026財年指引的原因：管理層表示，業績指引的上調是由VS3000和VS6320在客户產品（包括各大專業音視頻廠商的產品）中更廣泛的應用所驅動的。
• 巴可帶來的機遇：管理層認為，巴可在ClickShare產品線中增加有線連接功能，驗證了市場對高性能有線解決方案的持續需求。

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管理層陳述

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Valens Semiconductor's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference over to Michal Ben Ari, Investor Relations Manager. Please go ahead.

Michal Ben Ari

Thank you, and welcome, everyone, to Valens Semiconductor's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. With me today are Yoram Salinger, Chief Executive Officer; and Karine Pinto-Flomenboim, our new Chief Financial Officer. Earlier today, we issued a press release that is available on the Investor Relations section of our website under investors.valens.com.

As a reminder, today's earnings call may include forward-looking statements and projections, which do not guarantee future events or performance. These statements are subject to the safe harbor language in today's press release. Please refer to our annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on February 25, 2026, for a discussion of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. We do not undertake any duty to revise or update such statements to reflect new information, subsequent events or changes in strategy.

We will be discussing certain non-GAAP measures on this call, which we believe are relevant in assessing the financial performance of the business, and you can find reconciliations of these metrics within our earnings release.

With that, I will now turn the call over to Yoram.

Yoram Salinger

Thank you, Mike. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us, and welcome to our new CFO, Karine Pinto-Flomenboim, who brings with her extensive financial and operational leadership experience from both public and private technology companies. We are very happy to have you here with us.

Since joining Valens, I spent a lot of my time with our teams, our customers and our partners. And what has struck me most is the depth of technology we've built and how directly that translates into customer adoption from audio-video products shipping today to automotive design wins that are advancing towards production.

We provide high-performance chipsets that are in demand across industries because they offer OEMs a foundation upon which they can build the innovations of the future. Our technological leadership, combined with our growing commercial momentum, give me confidence in our ability to capitalize on many opportunities that lay ahead. I'll speak more about how this impacts our full year revenue towards the end of my remarks.

I'm happy to share that this quarter, we exceeded the top end of our revenue guidance at $18.1 million. GAAP gross margin for the second quarter came in at 61.5%, well within our guidance, and adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $4.2 million, lower than anticipated compared to our guidance.

During the remainder of my remarks, I'd like to highlight the key developments across our business, and I'll start with Audio-Video.

Audio-Video continues to be the core foundation of our business. Our activities here continue to expand steadily and the momentum we saw this quarter reflects continued customer adoption and commercial traction across our chipset portfolio. The revenue growth this quarter came primarily from 2 chipsets, our legacy VS100 family and our cutting-edge VS3000. We are encouraged that the market continues to find value in our VS100, the first generation of HDBaseT chipsets.

For customers looking for next-generation AV platforms, we are happy to see that they are increasingly choosing our VS3000, the only solution for uncompressed HDMI 2 extension over widely deployed category cables. In addition, we saw continued momentum building from our VS6320 chip, which extends USB 3.2. We expect integration of those chipsets to grow as more OEMs adopt higher-resolution video and more advanced USB protocols into their designs.

In Q2, we saw additional products hit the market based on our most cutting edge chips, including from leading AV manufacturers, Crestron and Extron. Adoption by 2 top-tier AV manufacturers like these is exactly the kind of commercial traction that turns technology leadership into recurring revenue and give us confidence in continued growth from these products as we move further into 2026.

Beyond these newer products, our broader Audio-Video portfolio also continued to perform well. During the quarter, we announced that Barco selected our HDBaseT chipset to power its new ClickShare USB-C Extension over CAT kit. Barco is one of the most recognized names in collaboration technology and the ClickShare product is known for its wireless connectivity.

The company's decision is a clear signal of market demand for higher performance wired connectivity and of Valens's position as a leader in this space. We see wins like this as further validation that our technology continues to add value as collaboration systems evolve.

At this point, I'd like to mention an important initiative we undertook aimed at converting our technology into new revenue opportunities. When I took the helm at Valens, we quickly established an internal task force focused on identifying new opportunities that could be pursued with minimal incremental R&D investment beyond the chip we are currently selling and with accelerated time to market. The team exceeded my expectations.

One of the best examples came from our VS6320 with software enhancement, we created a new offering that addressed a clear market need. Rather than simply selling the chip, Valens developed a joint reference design for USB3 and 4K video by combining the VS6320 with a companion chip and introduced it to leading ODMs customers. We also work with those customers to design firmware tailored to their specific needs.

The company has already seen millions of dollars in bookings across multiple customers, several of which have already progressed to sampling, completed qualification and are now beginning volume production. This is an elegant production-ready solution for extending both USB3 and 4K video. It also provides a clear bridge to the next step of our road map.

We're currently developing a new single-chip solution that will integrate these capabilities into one package. Instead of pairing the VS6320 with companion chip from other vendors, OEMs will be able to achieve the same functionality with a single device, simplifying system design, reducing component count, lowering cost and streamlining integration. The strong market interest in our USB3 and 4K reference design reinforces our conviction that the chip's integrated feature set will address a real and growing customer need.

Before I move to our Automotive business, I'd like to mention our presence at the InfoComm trade show, one of the marquee events in the pro AV industry, which took place in Las Vegas in June. Both the VS3000 and the VS6320 generated strong interest from OEMs, ODMs and ecosystem partners. Throughout the show, we held a large number of strategic meetings that resulted in new business opportunities, expanded engagements and a robust pipeline of follow-up activities. Overall, the event further strengthened our confidence in our Audio-Video strategy and growing demand for our technology and our ability to translate that demand into future design wins and revenue growth.

Let's turn now to the automotive industry. I'd like to start this section with the exciting news that we are welcoming Dean Martin as the new Head of Automotive business unit, effective on September 1. I had the pleasure of working with Dean for more than a decade at Redmond later acquired by Harman and saw firsthand his exceptional ability to turn innovative technologies into significant commercial success. Dean has a track record of securing major design wins, leading global automakers and building the customer relationships needed to support the long-term growth. And at that note, I'd like to thank Adar Segal, who is stepping down from his position for his significant contribution to Valens over the recent years.

Now turning to our performance in Automotive during Q2. As you know, this industry represents one of the most important long-term growth opportunities for Valens. As vehicles add more cameras, radars and other sensors to support ADAS and autonomous driving, the industry needs a new class of high-performance, reliable, standardized connectivity. We believe Valens is well positioned to become a leading provider of that connectivity for the years to come.

At the center of this opportunity is our VA7000 chipset, which offers high-performance connectivity for cameras and radars using ADAS and autonomous driving. The VA7000 is the first chipset on the market to comply with the MIPI A-PHY standard. We now have 4 design wins for our A-PHY chipsets, and one of our primary focus is on executing those programs successfully. I'm pleased to say that all 4 projects are progressing according to plan, and our teams are working closely with customers to support their development towards production.

As a reminder, Automotive programs follow long development and production cycles, often several years from design wins to volume production, but we expect to see revenues from these projects ramping up during 2027. While initial revenue represents an important milestone, the larger opportunities will develop as these programs advance into volume production over time. We continue to participate in several evaluation processes at various stages with multiple OEMs, providing additional opportunities to expand our design wins portfolio.

To conclude, we delivered a strong execution during the past quarter. Building on the continued strength of the professional AV foundation, we also made meaningful progress across our Automotive programs while our technology leadership continues to translate into growing commercial momentum, positioning us well for future growth.

As a result of our strong first half performance and the visibility we now have into the remainder of the year, we are raising our full year revenue guidance to between $78 million and $81 million, up from our previous guidance range of $75 million to $77 million. This would mark 13% year-over-year growth at the midpoint of our guidance. Our updated guidance reflects the strength of our current customer programs, improving revenue visibility and confidence in our ability to execute during the second half of 2026.

And on that note, I'll turn the call over to Karine to discuss our financial performance in more detail.

Karine Pinto-Flomenboim

Thank you, Yoram. And before I dive into the financials, I'd like to say how excited I am to be joining Valens and to participate in my first earnings call as CFO. As this is my first week in the role, I'll be brief on qualitative observations today, but I look forward to engaging more deeply with all of you in the quarters ahead.

Now let's dive into our second quarter 2026 results. We achieved quarterly revenue of $18.1 million, which exceeded our guidance of between $17.2 million to $17.6 million. This compares to revenue of $16.9 million in Q1 2026 and $17.1 million in Q2 2025.

The Cross-Industry Business, or CIB, accounted for $13.1 million or approximately 70% of total revenue, while Automotive contributed $5 million or approximately 30% of total revenue this quarter. This compares with Q1 2026 revenue of $11 million from CIB and $5.9 million from Automotive, which represented approximately 65% and 35% of total revenue, respectively. It also compares to Q2 2025 revenue of $12.8 million from the CIB and $4.3 million from Automotive, representing 75% and 25% of total revenue, respectively.

Q2 2026 gross profit was $11.1 million compared to $10.5 million in Q1 2026 and compared to $10.8 million in Q2 2025.

Q2 2026 gross margin was 61.5% compared to our guidance of between 60% and 62%. This compares to a Q1 2026 gross margin of 62.2% and Q2 2025 of 63.5%. On a segment basis, Q2 2026 gross margin from the CIB was 69.2% and gross margin from Automotive was 41.5%. This compares to a Q1 2026 gross margin of 70.8% and 46.2%, respectively, and to Q2 2025 gross margin of 67.8% and 50.5%, respectively. The decrease in gross margin in Automotive compared to Q1 2026 was mainly due to additional testing facility expenses incurred to prioritize and support production requirements. Non-GAAP gross margin in Q2 2026 was 64.3%, which compares to 65.2% in Q1 2026 and 67.2% in Q2 2025.

Operating expenses in Q2 2026 totaled $19.1 million compared to $19.4 million in Q1 2026 and $18.2 million in Q2 2025. Research and development expenses in Q2 2026 totaled $10.1 million compared to $10.3 million in Q1 2026 and $10.2 million in Q2 2025. SG&A expenses in Q2 2026 were $9 million compared to $9.4 million in Q1 2026 and $8.9 million in Q2 2025.

GAAP net loss in Q2 2026 was $8.1 million compared to a net loss of $8.3 million in Q1 2026 and a net loss of $7.2 million in Q2 2025. Adjusted EBITDA in Q2 2026 was a loss of $4.2 million, better than the guidance range of a loss between $4.9 million and $4.4 million. This compares to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $5.5 million in Q1 2026 and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $4 million in Q2 2025.

GAAP loss per share in Q2 2026 was $0.08, the same as in Q1 2026 and compared to a loss of $0.07 for Q2 2025. Non-GAAP loss per share in Q2 2026 was $0.04 compared to a loss of $0.05 in Q1 2026 and a loss of $0.04 in Q2 2025. The difference between GAAP and non-GAAP loss per share was mainly due to stock-based compensation as well as depreciation and amortization expenses.

Now turning to the balance sheet. We ended Q2 2026 with cash, cash equivalents and short-term bank deposits totaling $83.4 million and with no debt. This compares to $86.1 million at the end of Q1 2026 and $92.6 million at the end of Q4 2025. Our working capital at the end of Q2 2026 was $88.9 million compared to $91.3 million at the end of Q1 2026 and $95.7 million at the end of Q4 2025. Our inventory as of June 30, 2026, was $12.5 million, an increase from $10.9 million on March 31, 2026, and $10.1 million on December 31, 2025.

Now I would like to discuss our guidance for the third quarter of 2026. We expect Q3 2026 revenue to be in the range of $21.3 million to $21.7 million. We expect gross margin for Q3 2026 to be in the range of 60% to 62%, and we expect an adjusted EBITDA loss for Q3 2026 between $3.4 million and $2.8 million loss. As Yoram said earlier, we are proud to raise our full year guidance between $78 million to $81 million. It's certainly an encouraging start to my time at Valens, a reflection of the team's strong execution.

I'll now turn the call back to Yoram for his closing remarks before opening the call for Q&A.

Yoram Salinger

Thank you, Karine. I'm happy that we were able to raise our full year guidance. This reflects the progress we are making across our core businesses, both in the established Audio-Video unit and the high-growth potential Automotive offering. With our differentiated technology, strong balance sheet and focus on our core markets, we're well positioned to capitalize on the opportunities ahead and drive meaningful growth, not just in 2026, but beyond as well.

With that, I'll now open the call to answer your questions. Operator?

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And your first question comes from Quinn Bolton with Needham & Company.

分析師問答

Quinn Bolton

Welcome, Karine. I wanted to start on the new reference design, Yoram, that you mentioned in the script. One, can you just give us a little bit more detail on what that solution involves with the VS6320 and what type of companion chip did you integrate into that solution? And then sort of a related question, as you look to bring that companion chip into an integrated solution with the 6320, how does that affect ASP and margin for that new solution?

Yoram Salinger

So as you probably know, our part in the reference design is the 6320 and a software implementation that enables a companion chip running 4K video to coexist over a single cable in order to transmit video in parallel to USB.

As we said in the script, this is getting a ton of traction from ODMs and it already generated bookings of millions of dollars. And basically, it doesn't affect the gross margin and the ASP because we are not the one selling the end product.

Quinn Bolton

I guess when you mentioned you were getting to an integrated solution, would you bring that functionality into a chip designed by Valens? Or would it just be a solution where you buy the companion chip and pass it through as part of a solution, but it's not something that really affect -- you're not designing a new chip? Or are you going to design a new chip with that companion chip functionality integrated into the 6320?

Yoram Salinger

So that's a very good question. The companion chip is going to be bought by the ODMs who is eventually going to design and build the system and sell it to the market.

You're right about the intent of having a solution to be introduced later in coming years where we would integrate the 2 capabilities, 4K video alongside with the USB kind of 6320 into one chip, and that's kind of a road map plan for us. But for now, it's ODMs that we have built a reference implementation for them. They're buying the companion chip and they build the PCB in order to get it to the market.

Quinn Bolton

Understood. Got it. And then, you already mentioned that all 4 of the VA7000 wins are progressing towards initial production in 2027. That's still potentially about a year away. Can you give us a sense what are the key milestones left on the time line to achieving start of production on those programs? Are there major milestones? Or do you feel like most of those milestones have now been met? Just trying to get a sense of what the challenge is or what the next big steps are for those 4 Auto designs.

Yoram Salinger

So I'm proud to say that our piece in that very complex puzzle has been completed and delivered. So we have delivered chips to the Tier 1s who are building the ECUs in order to get into the manufacturers or the OEMs, the carmakers to build the car. So our part in that has been completed and done in a very effective manner.

Obviously, launching cars is a complex task, and it takes a few other elements of the car industry to get together at the same time in order to -- for the OEM to launch the product. So our part in that is pretty much completed. And the reason we are saying we see that moving on track is because we are working with the Tier 1, and we know that they're advancing towards releasing their piece into the assembly line of the car manufacturers, and this is what gives us the confidence.

Quinn Bolton

Excellent. And then just a last quick one for Karine. Karine, you mentioned the Auto gross margin declined in the June quarter due to some testing facility expenses. Will those expenses continue into future quarters? Or were those expenses more onetime in nature? Any thoughts on how you see the Auto gross margin moving in the third quarter would be helpful.

Karine Pinto-Flomenboim

Sure. So as we mentioned, the gross margin for this quarter was impacted by additional testing costs. But going through to next quarters, I think overall expenses, we do not expect them to change significantly. We do not know to foresee those testing costs going forward. But due to the capacity issues that we are experiencing, we assume it's pretty stable to say that they're with us for the time being.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Dave Storms with Stonegate Capital Partners.

Maximus Alexander-Nino

This is Maximus. I'll be asking questions for Dave this morning. Just wanted to start on the full year guide. The raise implies a pretty meaningful step-up in the second half with the 4 Automotive programs really expected to ramp in '27, should we think about the second half acceleration of 2026, primarily CIB? Or are there meaningful contributions from existing Auto businesses as well? And if you can give us a little bit more color on overall visibility that gave you the confidence to raise guidance.

Yoram Salinger

Sure. So as we stated on the call, the Automotive business is going to be impacting revenue starting 2027. The reason to increase our guidance has to do with the fact that our flagship chips, the VS3000 and the VS6320 are being designed in to [indiscernible] more products of our customers, the likes of the Crestron, the Extron, the large techs and others. So when we see the adoption increasing over time and actually more and more products are being shipped to the market, leveraging the Valens chipsets, we feel confident that our visibility and the adoption is going to stay at the same -- at least at the same level we've seen through the first 2 quarters. And therefore, we raised the guidance to reflect that demand that we see for our products.

Maximus Alexander-Nino

Great. I wanted to pivot over with Barco and I want to see if you can walk us through a little bit of how that design came in together and what the remaining rollout looks like?

Yoram Salinger

Could you repeat the question? Sorry, I didn't get your question.

Maximus Alexander-Nino

With Barco, if you were able to walk us through how that design came in together and what the remaining rollout looks like?

Yoram Salinger

So first of all, ClickShare is a flagship product of Barco, leveraging Wi-Fi. Now Wi-Fi connectivity as good as it gets, have its issues. And the idea of Barco kind of splitting the product, which is a flagship product into a wireless implementation as well as wired suggests that the wired connectivity is still there and is still there for [indiscernible]. So this decision is extremely meaningful, and this is why we've decided that if Barco is going, splitting the ClickShare back to wired alongside with wireless, okay? We need to be fair to the situation. It gives us a ton of confidence that they would be shipping this to the market in high volumes in the years to come.

Operator

And that concludes our question-and-answer session. I will now turn the conference back over to Yoram for closing comments.

Yoram Salinger

Thank you for joining us today and for your continued interest in Valens Semiconductor. We look forward to speaking with you again next quarter. Goodbye.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's conference call. Thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect.