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Item 1A. Risk Factors

2022-12-02 compared with 2022-08-26 · 219 added, 222 removed, 540 unchanged (45% of the section changed)

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Many of these risks and uncertainties are beyond our control, including business cycles and seasonal trends of the computing, infrastructure, semiconductor and related industries and end markets.

A manifestation of any of the following risks and uncertainties could, in circumstances, we may or may not be able to accurately predict, render us unable to conduct our business as currently planned and materially and adversely affect our reputation, business prospects, financial condition, cash flow, liquidity and operating results.

A manifestation of any of the following risks and uncertainties could in circumstance we may or may not be able to accurately predict, render us unable to conduct our business as currently planned and materially and adversely affect our reputation, business prospects, financial condition, cash flow, liquidity and operating results.

In addition, the trading price of our common stock could decline due to the occurrence of any of these risks, and you could lose all or part of your investment.

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You should consider all of the risk factors described in our public filings when evaluating our business.

• risks related to changes in general economic conditions such as economic slowdowns, inflation, stagflation, rising interest rates, and recessions or political conditions, such as the tariffs and trade restrictions with China, Russia and other foreign nations, and specific conditions in the end markets we address, including the continuing volatility in the technology sector and semiconductor industry and the U.S.

National Science and Technology Council’s designation of semiconductors as a critical and emerging technology;

• risks related to cancellations, rescheduling or deferrals of significant customer orders or shipments, as well as the ability of our customers to manage inventory;

• risks related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic or other future pandemics, on the global economy and on our customers, suppliers, employees and business;

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• risks related to the extension of lead time due to supply chain disruptions, component shortages that impact the costs and production of our products and kitting process, and constrained availability from other electronic suppliers impacting our customers' ability to ship their products, which in turn may adversely impact our sales to those customers;

National Science and Technology Council’s designation of semiconductors as a critical and emerging technology;

• risks related to the ability of our customers, particularly in jurisdictions such as China that may be subject to trade restrictions (including the need to obtain export licenses) to develop their own solutions or acquire fully developed solutions from third-parties;

• risks related to cancellations, rescheduling or deferrals of significant customer orders or shipments, as well as the ability of our customers to manage inventory;

• risks related to our ability to successfully integrate and to realize anticipated benefits or synergies, on a timely basis or at all, in connection with our past, current, or any future acquisitions, divestitures, significant investments or strategic transactions;

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• risks related to the highly competitive nature of the end markets we serve, particularly within the semiconductor and infrastructure industries;

• risks related to our dependence on a few customers for a significant portion of our revenue;

• risks related to our dependence on a few customers for a significant portion of our revenue including risks related to severe financial hardship or bankruptcy or other attrition of one or more of our major customers, particularly as our major customers comprise an increasing percentage of our revenue;

• risks related to our ability to execute on changes in strategy and realize the expected benefits from restructuring activities;

• risks related to our ability to maintain a competitive cost structure for our manufacturing and assembly and test processes and our reliance on third parties to produce our products;

• risks related to our ability to maintain a competitive cost structure for our manufacturing, assembly, testing and packaging processes and our reliance on third parties to produce our products;

• risks related to our ability to attract, retain and motivate a highly skilled workforce, especially engineering, managerial, sales and marketing personnel;

• risks related to any current and future litigation, regulatory investigations, or contractual disputes with customers

contractual disputes with customers that could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources that are needed to successfully maintain and grow our business;

that could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources that are needed to successfully maintain and grow our business;

• risks related to gain or loss of a design win or key customer;

• risks related to seasonality or volatility related to sales into the infrastructure market or other end markets;

• risks related to seasonality or volatility related to sales into the infrastructure, semiconductor and related industries and end markets;

• risks related to failures to qualify our products or our suppliers’ manufacturing lines;

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• risks related to our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) programs;

• risks related to severe financial hardship or bankruptcy or other attrition of one or more of our major customers, particularly as our major customers comprise an increasing percentage of our revenue;

• risks related to failures of our customers to agree to pay for NRE (non-recurring engineering) costs, failure to pay enough to cover the costs we incur in connection with NREs, or non-payment of previously agreed NRE costs due to us.

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Any litigation could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources that are needed to successfully maintain and grow our business.

CHANGES IN PRODUCT DEMAND CAN ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR FINANCIAL RESULTS

We face risks related to recession, inflation, stagflation and other economic conditions

Customer demand for our products may be impacted by weak economic conditions, inflation, stagflation , recession, rising interest rates, equity market volatility or other negative economic factors in the U.S.

or other nations.

For example, under these conditions or expectation of such conditions, our customers may cancel orders, delay purchasing decisions or reduce their use of our services.

In addition, these economic conditions could result in higher inventory levels and the possibility of resulting excess capacity charges from our manufacturing partners if we need to slow production to reduce inventory levels.

Further, in the event of a recession or threat of a recession our manufacturing partners, suppliers, distributors, and other third-party partners may suffer their own financial and economic challenges and as a result they may demand pricing accommodations, delay payment, or become insolvent, which could harm our ability to meet our customer demands or collect revenue or otherwise could harm our business.

Similarly, disruptions in financial and/or credit markets may impact our ability to manage normal commercial relationships with our manufacturing partners, customers, suppliers and creditors and might cause us to not be able to continue to access preferred sources of liquidity when we would like, and our borrowing costs could increase.

Thus, if general macroeconomic conditions continue to deteriorate, our business and financial results could be materially and adversely affected.

In addition, we are also subject to risk from inflation and increasing market prices of certain components, supplies, and commodity raw materials, which are incorporated into our end products or used by our manufacturing partners or suppliers to manufacture our end products.

These components, supplies and commodities have from time to time become restricted, or general market factors and conditions have in the past and may in the future affect pricing of such components, supplies and commodities (such as inflation or supply chain constraints).

See also, “ Our gross margin and results of operations may be adversely affected in the future by a number of factors, including decreases in our average selling prices of products over time, shifts in our product mix, or price increases of certain components or third-party services due to inflation, supply chain constraints, or for other reasons.

Unfavorable or uncertain conditions in the 5G and Cloud markets may cause fluctuations in our rate of revenue growth or financial results.

World-wide markets for our 5G and Cloud products may not develop in the manner or in the time periods we anticipate.

If domestic and global economic conditions continue to worsen, overall spending on our 5G and Cloud products may be reduced, which would adversely impact demand for our products in these markets.

In addition, unfavorable developments with evolving laws and regulations worldwide related to these products and suppliers may limit global adoption, impede our strategy, and negatively impact our long-term expectations in this area.

Even if the 5G and Cloud markets develop in the manner or in the time periods we anticipate, if we do not have timely, competitively priced, market-accepted products available to meet our customers’ planned roll-out of 5G wireless communication systems or Cloud systems, we may miss a significant opportunity and our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.

In addition, a s a result of the fact that the markets for 5G and Cloud are not yet fully developed, demand for these products may be unpredictable and may vary significantly from one period to another.

See also, “ Our sales are concentrated in a few large customers.

If we lose or experience a significant reduction in sales to any of these key customers, if any of these key customers experience a significant decline in market share, or if any of these customers experience significant financial difficulties, our revenue may decrease substantially and our results of operations and financial condition may be harmed.

” See also, “ Adverse changes in the political and economic policies of the U.S.

government in connection with trade with China have reduced the demand for our products and damaged our business” for additional risks related to export restrictions that may impact certain customers in the 5G and Cloud markets.

Our sales are concentrated in a few large customers.

We receive a significant amount of our revenue from a limited number of customers.

For example, during fiscal 2022, we had one distributor, whose revenue as a percentage of our net revenue was 10% or greater of total net revenues.

In addition, net revenue from our ten (10) largest customers, including this distributor, represented 56% of our net revenue for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2022.

Sales to our largest customers have fluctuated significantly from period to period and year to year and will likely continue to fluctuate in the future, primarily due to the timing and number of design wins with each customer, the continued diversification of our customer base as we expand into new markets, and natural disasters or other issues that may divert a customer’s operations.

The loss of any of our large customers or a significant reduction in sales we make to them would likely harm our financial condition and results of operations.

To the extent one or more of our large customers experience significant financial difficulty, bankruptcy or insolvency, this could have a material adverse effect on our sales and our ability to collect on receivables, which could harm our financial condition and results of operations.

If we are unable to increase the number of large customers in key markets, then our operating results in the foreseeable future will continue to depend on sales to a relatively small number of customers, as well as the ability of these customers to sell products that incorporate our products.

In the future, these customers may decide not to purchase our products at all, purchase fewer products than they did in the past, or alter their purchasing patterns in some other way, particularly because:

• a significant portion of our sales are made on a purchase order basis, which allows our customers to cancel, change or delay product purchase commitments with relatively short notice to us;

• customers may purchase similar products from our competitors;

• customers may discontinue sales or lose market share in the markets for which they purchase our products;

• customers, particularly in jurisdictions such as China that may be subject to trade restrictions or tariffs, may develop their own solutions or acquire fully developed solutions from third-parties;

• customers may be subject to severe business disruptions, including, but not limited to, those driven by recessions, financial instability, actual or threatened public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, other global or regional macroeconomic developments, or natural disasters.

In addition, there has been a trend toward customer consolidation in the semiconductor industry through business combinations, including mergers, asset acquisitions and strategic partnerships (for example, Western Digital acquired SanDisk in 2017 and Toshiba Corporation sold control of a portion of its semiconductor business in 2018).

Mergers or restructuring among our customers, or their end customers, could increase our customer concentration with a particular customer or reduce total demand as the combined entities reevaluate their business and consolidate their suppliers.

Such future developments, particularly in those end markets that account for more significant portions of our revenues, could harm our business and our results of operations.

In addition, we may be less likely to negotiate as favorable terms with larger customers whether those customers resulted from customer consolidation, merger integrations or other reasons, and any such less favorable terms could harm our business and our results of operations.

We are subject to order and shipment uncertainties.

If we are unable to accurately predict customer demand, we may hold excess or obsolete inventory, which would reduce our gross margin.

Conversely, we may have insufficient inventory or be unable to obtain the supplies or contract manufacturing capacity to meet that demand which would result in lost revenue opportunities and potential loss of market share as well as damaged customer relationships.

We typically sell products pursuant to purchase orders rather than long-term purchase commitments.

Some of our customers may cancel or defer purchase orders on short notice without incurring a significant penalty.

Due to their inability to predict demand or other reasons, some of our customers may accumulate excess inventories and, as a consequence, defer purchase of our products.

We cannot accurately predict what or how many products our customers will need in the future.

Anticipating demand is difficult because our customers face unpredictable demand for their own products and are increasingly focused more on cash preservation and tighter inventory management.

In addition, as an increasing number of our semiconductor solutions are being incorporated into consumer products, we anticipate greater fluctuations in demand for our products, which makes it more difficult to forecast customer demand.

We place orders with our suppliers based on forecasts of customer demand and, in some instances, may establish buffer inventories to accommodate anticipated demand.

Our forecasts are based on multiple assumptions, each of which may introduce error into our estimates.

For example, our ability to accurately forecast customer demand may be impaired by the delays inherent in our customer’s product development processes, which may include extensive qualification and testing of components included in their products, including ours.

In many cases, they design their products to use components from multiple suppliers.

This creates the risk that our customers may decide to cancel or change product plans for products incorporating our semiconductor solutions prior to completion, which makes it even more difficult to forecast customer demand.

In addition, while many of our customers are subject to purchase orders or other agreements that do not allow for cancellation, there can be no assurance that these customers will honor these contract terms and cancellation of these orders may adversely affect our business operations and demand forecast which is the basis for us to have products made.

Our products are incorporated into complex devices and systems, which creates supply chain cross-dependencies.

Due to cross dependencies, supply chain disruptions have in the past and may in the future negatively impact the demand for our products.

We have a limited ability to predict the timing of a supply chain correction.

As we have a broad product portfolio and diversified products with many different SKUs, significant supply chain disruptions will cause us to have more work-in-process inventories we hold to ensure we have flexibility to support our customers.

If we cannot predict future customer demand or supply chain disruptions, then we may hold excess or obsolete inventory.

Moreover, significant supply chain disruption may negatively impact the timing of our product shipments and revenue shipment linearity which may impact and extend our cash conversion cycle.

In addition, the market share of our customers could be adversely impacted on a long-term basis due to any continued supply chain disruption, which could negatively affect our results of operations.

See also, “ We rely on our manufacturing partners for the manufacture, assembly, testing and packaging of our products, and the failure of any of these third-party vendors to deliver products or otherwise perform as requested could damage our relationships with our customers, decrease our sales and limit our ability to grow our business ” for additional information on the impacts of supply chain cross-dependencies on our business.

If we overestimate customer demand, our excess or obsolete inventory may increase significantly, which would reduce our gross margin and adversely affect our financial results.

The risk of obsolescence and/or excess inventory is heightened for semiconductor solutions designed for consumer electronics due to the rapidly changing market for these types of products.

Conversely, if we underestimate customer demand or if insufficient manufacturing capacity is available, we would miss revenue opportunities and potentially lose market share and damage our customer relationships.

In addition, any future significant cancellations or deferrals of product orders or the return of previously sold products could materially and adversely affect our profit margins, increase product obsolescence and restrict our ability to fund our operations.

We operate in intensely competitive markets.

Our failure to compete effectively would harm our results of operations.

The semiconductor industry, and specifically the storage, networking and infrastructure markets, is extremely competitive.

We currently compete with a number of large domestic and international companies in the business of designing semiconductor solutions and related applications, some of which have greater financial, technical and management resources than us.

Our efforts to introduce new products into markets with entrenched competitors will expose us to additional competitive pressures.

For example, we are facing, and expect we will continue to face, significant competition in the infrastructure, networking and SSD storage markets.

Additionally, customer expectations and requirements have been evolving rapidly.

For example, customers now expect us to provide turnkey solutions and commit to future roadmaps that have technical risks.

Some of our competitors may be better situated to meet changing customer needs and secure design wins.

Increasing competition in the markets in which we operate may negatively impact our revenue and gross margins.

For example, competitors with greater financial resources may be able to offer lower prices than us, or they may offer additional products, services or other incentives that we may not be able to match.

We also may experience discriminatory or anti-competitive practices by our competitors that could impede our growth, cause us to incur additional expense or otherwise negatively affect our business.

In addition, some of these competitors may use their market power to dissuade our customers from purchasing from us.

In addition, many of our competitors operate and maintain their own fabrication facilities and have longer operating histories, greater name recognition, larger customer bases, and greater sales, marketing and distribution resources than we do.

Moreover, the semiconductor industry has experienced increased consolidation over the past several years.

For example, NVIDIA Corporation acquired Mellanox Technologies in April 2020, Infineon acquired Cypress Semiconductors in April 2020, Analog Devices Inc.

acquired Maxim Integrated Products Inc.

in August 2021, Renesas Electronics Corporation acquired Dialog Semiconductor in August 2021, AMD acquired Xilinx, Inc.

in February 2022 and Pensando Systems in May 2022.

In addition, MaxLinear, Inc.

announced plans to acquire Silicon Motion in May 2022 and Broadcom announced plans to acquire VMware in May 2022.

In addition, we license technology from Arm Limited that is included in a majority of our products and would be adversely impacted if the pricing for, or availability of, the relevant technology is changed in an adverse manner as a result of similar future transactions.

Consolidation among our competitors has led, and in the future could lead, to a changing competitive landscape, capabilities and market share, which could put us at a competitive disadvantage and harm our results of operations.

Our gross margin and results of operations may be adversely affected in the future by a number of factors, including decreases in our average selling prices of products over time, shifts in our product mix, or price increases of certain components or third-party services due to inflation, supply chain constraints, or for other reasons.

The products we develop and sell are primarily used for high-volume applications.

While prices of our products have increased recently due to inflation and additional costs resulting from securing an increase in supply in the current constrained environment, the prices of our products have historically decreased.

We expect that the average unit selling prices of our products will continue to be subject to significant pricing pressures.

In addition, our more recently introduced products tend to have higher associated costs because of initial overall development and production expenses.

Therefore, over time, we may not be able to maintain or improve our gross margins.

Our financial results could suffer if we are unable to offset any reductions in our average selling prices by other cost reductions through efficiencies, introduction of higher margin products and other means.

To attract new customers or retain existing customers, we may offer certain price concessions to certain customers, which could cause our average selling prices and gross margins to decline.

In the past, we have reduced the average selling prices of our products in anticipation of future competitive pricing pressures, new product introductions by us or by our competitors and other factors.

We expect to continue to have to reduce prices of existing products in the future.

Moreover, because of the wide price differences across the markets we serve, the mix and types of performance capabilities of our products sold may affect the average selling prices of our products and have a substantial impact on our revenue and gross margin.

We may enter new markets in which a significant amount of competition exists, and this may require us to sell our products with lower gross margins than we earn in our established businesses.

If we are successful in growing revenue in these markets, our overall gross margin may decline.

Fluctuations in the mix and types of our products may also affect the extent to which we are able to recover the fixed costs and investments associated with a particular product, and as a result may harm our financial results.

Additionally, because we do not operate our own manufacturing, assembly, testing or packaging facilities, we may not be able to reduce our costs as rapidly as companies that operate their own facilities and our costs may even increase, which could also reduce our gross margins.

Our gross margin could also be impacted for example by the following factors:

increased costs (including increased costs caused by tariffs , inflation, higher interest rates, or supply chain constraints);

loss of cost savings if parts ordering does not correctly anticipate product demand or if the financial health of either our manufacturers partners or our suppliers deteriorates;

excess inventory, or inventory holding and obsolescence charges.

In addition, we are subject to risks from fluctuating market prices of certain components, which are incorporated into our products or used by our suppliers to manufacture our products.

Supplies of these components may from time to time become restricted, or general market factors and conditions such as inflation or supply chain constraints have in the past affected and may in the future affect pricing of such commodities.

For example, supply shortages in the semiconductor industry of multi-layer complex substrates, IC packaging capacity and fab constraints have resulted in increased lead times, inability to meet demand, and increased costs.

Any increase in the price of components used in our products will adversely affect our gross margins.

Entry into new markets, such as markets with different business models, as a result of our acquisitions may reduce our gross margin and operating margin.

For example, for certain products we use an ASIC model to offer end-to-end solutions for intellectual property, design team, fab and packaging to deliver a tested, yielded product to customers.

This business model tends to have a lower gross margin.

In addition, the costs related to this type of business model typically include significant NRE (non-recurring engineering) costs that customers pay based on the completion of milestones.

Our operating margin may decline if our customers do not agree to pay for NREs, if they do not pay enough to cover the costs we incur in connection with NREs, or non-payment of previously agreed NRE costs.

In addition, our operating margin may decline if we are unable to sell products in sufficient volumes to cover the development costs that we have incurred.

In addition, the ASIC business model requires us to use third-party intellectual property and we may lose business or experience reputational harm if third parties, including customers, lose confidence in our ability to protect their intellectual property rights.

With respect to risks related to our use of third-party intellectual property, see also, “ We have been named as a party to several legal proceedings and may be named in additional ones in the future, including litigation involving our patents and other intellectual property, which could subject us to liability, require us to indemnify our customers, require us to obtain or renew licenses, require us to stop selling our products or force us to redesign our products .

WE ARE SUBJECT TO RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC

We face risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic which currently has, and may continue in the future to, significantly disrupt and adversely impact our manufacturing, research and development, operations, sales and financial results.

Although restrictions have eased in many places, the ongoing pandemic, including large outbreaks, resurgences of COVID-19 in various regions (such as the United States, Singapore, China and various other countries throughout Asia and India) and appearances of new variants of the virus, has resulted, and may continue to result, in their full or partial reinstitution.

In addition, although many countries have vaccinated large segments of their population, COVID-19 continues to disrupt business activities, trade, and supply chains in many countries.

We expect these impacts to continue for the foreseeable future.

Our business has been, and will continue to be, adversely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We face risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic which has, and may continue in the future to, significantly disrupt and adversely impact our manufacturing, research and development, operations, sales and financial results.

Our business has been, and may continue to be, adversely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to global and domestic macroeconomic effects, the COVID-19 pandemic and related adverse public health measures have caused disruption to our global operations and sales.

Our third-party manufacturing partners, suppliers, distributors, sub-contractors and customers have been, and are expected to continue to be, disrupted by worker absenteeism, quarantines and restrictions on their employees’ ability to work;

Our third-party manufacturing partners, suppliers, distributors, sub-contractors and customers have been, and may continue to be, disrupted by worker absenteeism, quarantines and restrictions on their employees’ ability to work;

office and factory closures;

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Depending on the magnitude of such effects on our manufacturing, assembling, testing, and packaging activities or the operations of our manufacturing partners, suppliers, distributors, sub-contractors and customers, our supply chain, manufacturing and product shipments will be delayed, which could adversely affect our business, operations and customer relationships.

Although the pandemic related restrictions above have eased in many places, the ongoing pandemic, including large outbreaks, resurgences of COVID-19 in various regions and appearances of new variants of the virus, has resulted, and may continue to result, in their full or partial reinstitution.

In addition, although many countries have vaccinated large segments of their population, COVID-19 continues to disrupt business activities, trade, and supply chains in many countries.

We expect these impacts to continue for the foreseeable future.

For example, we were impacted by COVID outbreaks in Asia during the first half of fiscal 2023 that resulted in closed factories, clogged ports and a shortage of workers as officials imposed lockdowns and mass testing requirements.

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There can be no assurance that any decreases in sales resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic will be offset by increased sales in subsequent periods.

We have experienced and expect to continue to experience disruptions to our business operations resulting from work from home, quarantines, self-isolations, or other movement and restrictions on the ability of our employees to perform their jobs, innovate, work together in teams and collaborate and such disruptions could impact our ability to develop and design our products in a timely manner or meet required milestones or customer commitments.

See the Risk Factor entitled “ If we are unable to develop and introduce new and enhanced products that achieve market acceptance in a timely and cost-effective manner, our results of operations and competitive position will be harmed .” These disruptions may also impact our ability to win in time sensitive competitive bidding selection processes.

See the Risk Factor entitled “ We rely on our customers to design our products into their systems, and the nature of the design process requires us to incur expenses prior to customer commitments to use our products or recognizing revenues associated with those expenses which may adversely affect our financial results.

” In addition, work from home, quarantines, self-isolations, continuing macroeconomic related uncertainty or caring for family members may result in heavy psychological, emotional or financial burdens for some of our employees, which may impact their productivity and morale and may lead to higher employee absences and higher attrition rates.

Moreover , many of our employees have expressed a preference to continue to work from home two to three days a week post-pandemic.

In response, we adopted a hybrid work policy for our employees, where employees split their time between home and the office.

See the Risk Factor entitled “ We depend on highly skilled personnel to support our business operations.

If we are unable to retain and motivate our current personnel or attract additional qualified personnel, our ability to develop and successfully market our products could be harmed .”

We may become subject to claims or lawsuits by employees, customers, suppliers or other parties regarding actions we take in our operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic including our vaccination policies.

Our ongoing efforts to manage these impacts may be unsuccessful, and the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic also depends on factors beyond our knowledge or control, including the duration, severity and geographic scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, the availability, widespread distribution, and use of safe and effective vaccines or treatments and the actions taken to contain its spread and mitigate its public health and economic effects.

Our ongoing efforts to manage these and other potential impacts may be unsuccessful, and the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic also depends on factors beyond our knowledge or control, including the duration, severity and geographic scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, the availability, widespread distribution, and use of safe and effective vaccines or treatments and the actions taken to contain its spread and mitigate its public health and economic effects.

Due to the continued uncertainty regarding the severity and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health measures and macroeconomic impacts, at this time we are unable to predict the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows.

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We may not be able to scale our business quickly enough to meet our customers’ needs or in an efficient manner, which could harm our operating results.

Over the last few years, the Company has rapidly increased in size.

As a result, we have to appropriately scale our business, internal systems and organization, including our ability to attract and retain personnel, and continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures, to serve our growing customer base.

Any failure of, or delay in, these efforts could negatively impact our performance and financial results.

Over the last few years, we have rapidly increased in size.

As a result, we have had to, and expect in the future to continue to need to, appropriately scale our business, internal systems and organization and to continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures, to serve our growing customer base.

Even if we are able to upgrade our systems and expand our staff, any such expansion will likely be expensive and complex, requiring management’s time and attention.

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We cannot be sure that the expansion and improvements to our business operations will be fully or effectively implemented on a timely basis, if at all.

These efforts may adversely affect our financial results.

Any failure of, or delay in, these efforts could negatively impact our performance and financial results.

Recent, current and potential future acquisitions, strategic investments, divestitures, mergers or joint ventures subject us to significant risks, any of which could harm our business.

Our long-term strategy has included in the past and may continue to include in the future identifying and acquiring, investing in or merging with suitable candidates on acceptable terms, or divesting of certain business lines or activities.

In particular, over time, we may acquire, make investments in, or merge with providers of product offerings that complement our business or may terminate such activities.

Our long-term strategy has included in the past, and may continue to include in the future, identifying and acquiring, investing in or merging with suitable companies, or divesting certain business lines, assets or activities.

In particular, over time, we may acquire, make investments in, or merge with providers of product offerings that complement our business or we may terminate or dispose of business lines, assets or activities if they are no longer in alignment with our operational strategy and priorities.

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures include a number of risks and present financial, managerial and operational challenges.

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Our acquisitions may not further our business strategy as we expected, we may not integrate an acquired company or technology as successfully as we expected, we may impose our business practices that adversely impact the acquired business or we may overpay for, or otherwise not realize the expected return on our investments, each or all of which could adversely affect our business or operating results and potentially cause impairment to assets that we recorded as a part of an acquisition including intangible assets and goodwill.

In addition, the use of our stock to finance an acquisition, such as our acquisition of Innovium in October 2021, will result in an increase in the number of outstanding shares of stock and reduce the ownership percentage of each of our outstanding stockholders.

In addition, the use of our stock to finance an acquisition will result in an increase in the number of outstanding shares of stock and reduce the ownership percentage of each of our outstanding stockholders.

When we decide to sell assets or a business, we may have difficulty selling on acceptable terms in a timely manner or at all.

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Failure to complete a transaction may result in negative publicity and a negative perception of us among the investment community.

For all these reasons, our pursuit of an acquisition, investment, divestiture, merger or joint venture could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.

Recent or potential future acquisitions involve a number of risks, including, among others, those associated with our use of a significant portion of our cash and other financial risks.

We used a significant portion of our cash and incurred substantial indebtedness in connection with the financing of our acquisition of Inphi, which was completed in fiscal 2022.

In addition, we used a significant portion of our cash and incurred substantial indebtedness in connection with the financing of our acquisition of Inphi, which was completed in fiscal 2022.

Our use of cash to fund our acquisitions has reduced our liquidity and may (i) limit our flexibility in responding to other business opportunities and (ii) increase our vulnerability to adverse economic and industry conditions.

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See also, “ We are subject to risks related to our debt obligations .”

For all these reasons, our pursuit of an acquisition, investment, divestiture, merger or joint venture could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.

WE ARE VULNERABLE TO PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING-RELATED RISKS

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It is possible that their customers that are larger and better financed than we are or that have long-term agreements with our main foundries may induce them to reallocate capacity to those customers.

Most of our manufacturing partners may reallocate capacity to their customers offering them a better margin or rate of return than provided by the Company.

Most of our manufacturing partners may reallocate capacity to their customers offering them a better margin or rate of return than provided by us.

This reallocation could impair our ability to secure the supply of components that we need.

Moreover, if any of our third-party manufacturing partners or other suppliers are unable to secure the necessary raw materials from their suppliers, lose benefits under material agreements, experience water shortages, power outages or labor shortages, or, lack sufficient capacity to manufacture our products, encounter financial difficulties or suffer any other disruption or reduction in efficiency, we may encounter supply delays or disruptions, which could harm our business or results of operations.

There are a very limited number of foundries and consolidation of the foundries that provide services to us or to the semiconductor industry due to bankruptcy or through business combinations, including mergers, asset acquisitions and strategic partnerships which may adversely impact us.

A foundry, supplier or other manufacturing partner could become unavailable to us if it is acquired by a competitor or a large company that may change the scope of the offerings.

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These penalties may be expensive and could harm our financial results.

Supply shortages in the semiconductor industry of multi-layer complex substrates, IC packaging capacity and specific wafer process node constraints have resulted in increased lead times, inability to meet demand, and increased costs and these supply constraints are currently expected to continue throughout fiscal 2023 .

Of these shortages, ABF substrates and specific wafer process nodes are the most constrained at this time and most of these suppliers are located in Japan and Taiwan.

Because of the geographic concentration of these suppliers, we are exposed to the risk that their operations may be disrupted by regional events including droughts, earthquakes (particularly in Taiwan and elsewhere in the Pacific Rim close to fault lines), tsunamis or typhoons, severe storms, power outages, or by actual or threatened public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, or by political, social or economic instability.

In addition, while we don’t expect Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to materially impact us directly, due to our limited sales to Russia and Ukraine we are unable at this time to predict the indirect impact this conflict will have on us due to impacts on the supply chain, global and domestic economies, interest rates and stock markets.

In addition, while the Russian invasion of Ukraine has not had a direct material impact on us due to our limited sales to Russia and Ukraine, we are unable to predict the indirect impact this conflict will have on us due to impacts on the supply chain, global and domestic economies, interest rates and stock markets.

Uncertain Yields and Quality

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In addition, the development of new semiconductor solutions is highly complex and, due to supply chain cross-dependencies and other issues, we may experience delays in completing the development, production and introduction of our new products.

See also, “ We may be unable to protect our intellectual property, which would negatively affect our ability to compete.

Our ability to adapt to changes and to anticipate future standards, and the rate of adoption and acceptance of those standards, will be a significant factor in maintaining or improving our competitive position and prospects for growth.

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Software and firmware updates and/or other mitigation efforts may result in performance issues, system instability, data loss or corruption, unpredictable system behavior, or the theft of data by third parties, any of which could significantly harm our business and reputation.

See also, “ We may be unable to protect our intellectual property, which would negatively affect our ability to compete.

We rely on third-party distributors and manufacturers’ representatives and the failure of these distributors and manufacturers’ representatives to perform as expected could reduce our future sales.

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If export restrictions related to Chinese customers are sustained for a long period of time, or increased, or if other export restrictions are imposed, it will have an adverse impact on our revenues and results of operations.

In addition, companies in the semiconductor industry, including us, may be impacted by rules and regulations related to business activities in China, or other locations, due to concerns that semiconductors are necessary for U.S.

In addition, companies in the semiconductor industry, including us, have been impacted by rules and regulations related to business activities in China, or other locations, due to concerns that semiconductors are necessary for U.S.

national security, manufacturing and critical infrastructure, and compliance with these rules and regulations may adversely affect our revenues and results of operations.

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national security, which could result in more stringent export controls or a greater number of our products requiring a license for export to China.

In addition, in October 2022, the U.S.

Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security released new controls on the export of advanced computing and semiconductor manufacturing items to China as well as transactions related to supercomputer end-uses in China with the aim of addressing U.S.

national security and foreign policy concerns.

The regulations published in October 2022 include new restrictions on U.S.

persons with respect to activities that are not subject to the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), which differs from the agency’s historical approach of controlling items that are subject to the EAR, and could further restrict our engagement in the China market.

Most of our products are manufactured by third-party foundries located in Taiwan.

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or foreign international tax, social, political, regulatory and economic conditions or in laws and policies governing foreign trade, manufacturing, development and investment in the territories or countries where we currently sell our products or conduct our business have in the past and could in the future adversely affect our business.

For example, while we don’t expect Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or the related current or future export and other business sanctions on Russia to materially impact us directly due to our limited sales to Russia and Ukraine, we are unable at this time to predict the indirect impact this conflict will have on us through impacts to the supply chain, the global and domestic economies, interest rates or stock markets.

The prior U.S.

presidential administration instituted or proposed changes in trade policies that included the negotiation or termination of trade agreements, the imposition of higher tariffs on imports into the U.S., economic sanctions on individuals, corporations or countries, and other government regulations affecting trade between the U.S.

For example, while the Russian invasion of Ukraine (including related export and other business sanctions on Russia) has not had a direct material impact on us due to our limited sales to Russia and Ukraine, we are unable to predict the indirect impact this conflict will have on us through impacts to the supply chain, the global and domestic economies, interest rates or stock markets .

government has in the past, and may in the future, instituted or proposed changes in trade policies that included the negotiation or termination of trade agreements, the imposition of higher tariffs on imports into the U.S., economic sanctions on individuals, corporations or countries, and other government regulations affecting trade between the U.S.

and other countries where we conduct our business.

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trade policy could trigger retaliatory actions by affected countries, and certain foreign governments have instituted or are considering imposing trade sanctions on certain U.S.

The prior U.S.

presidential administration also focused on policy reforms that discouraged corporations from outsourcing manufacturing and production activities to foreign jurisdictions, including through tariffs or penalties on goods manufactured outside the U.S., which required us to change the way we conduct business.

The current U.S.

presidential administration has continued certain import tariffs and export restrictions against certain foreign manufacturers initiated by the prior administration.

In addition, the U.S.

government has in the past, and may in the future, adopted policies that discourage corporations from outsourcing manufacturing and production activities to foreign jurisdictions, including through tariffs or penalties on goods manufactured outside the U.S., which required us to change the way we conduct business.

Political changes and trends such as populism, protectionism, economic nationalism and sentiment toward multinational companies and resulting changes to trade, tax or other laws and policies may be disruptive to our businesses.

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In addition, many of our customers are located outside of the United States, primarily in Asia, which further exposes us to foreign risks.

Sales shipped to customers with operations in Asia represented approximately 76% and 80% of our net revenue in the three months ended July 30, 2022 and July 31, 2021, respectively.

Sales shipped to customers with operations in Asia represented approximately 75% and 79% of our net revenue in the three months ended October 29, 2022 and October 30, 2021, respectively.

We also have substantial operations outside of the United States.

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• compliance with domestic and foreign export and import regulations, including pending changes thereto, and difficulties in obtaining and complying with domestic and foreign export, import and other governmental approvals, permits and licenses;

• local laws and practices that favor local companies, including business practices in which we are prohibited from engaging by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws and regulations;

• difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations;

• local laws and practices that favor local companies, including business practices that are prohibited by the U.S.

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws and regulations;

• difficulties in staffing, managing, or closing foreign operations;

• natural disasters or other events, including droughts or other water shortages, earthquakes, fires, tsunamis and floods, or power outages;

• trade restrictions, higher tariffs, worsening trade relationship between the United States and China, or changes in cross border taxation, particularly in light of the tariffs imposed by the prior U.S.

presidential administration;

• trade restrictions, higher tariffs, worsening trade relationship between the United States and China, or changes in cross border taxation, particularly in light of the tariffs imposed by the U.S.

• transportation and port-related delays;

• difficulties of managing foreign distributors;

• difficulties in obtaining, managing or terminating foreign distributors;

• less effective protection of intellectual property than is afforded to us in the United States or other developed countries;

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dollar versus currencies in jurisdictions where we have large fixed costs, or where our third-party manufacturing partners have significant costs, will increase the cost of such operations which could harm our results of operations.

CHANGES IN PRODUCT DEMAND CAN ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR FINANCIAL RESULTS

Unfavorable or uncertain conditions in the 5G and Cloud markets may cause fluctuations in our rate of revenue growth or financial results.

Markets for our 5G and Cloud products may not develop in the manner or in the time periods we anticipate.

If domestic and global economic conditions continue to worsen, overall spending on our 5G and Cloud products may be reduced, which would adversely impact demand for our products in these markets.

See also, “ Our sales are concentrated in a few large customers.

” See also, “ Adverse changes in the political and economic policies of the U.S.

Our sales are concentrated in a few large customers.

We receive a significant amount of our revenue from a limited number of customers.

For example, during fiscal 2022, there was one distributor, whose revenue as a percentage of our net revenue was 10% or greater of total net revenues.