Silvaco Group - Earnings Call - Q2 2025

Executive Summary

• Q2 2025 was a soft quarter: revenue $12.05M, down 19% YoY and 15% QoQ; GAAP gross margin 71% and non-GAAP gross margin 76%; non-GAAP diluted EPS $(0.16), all below prior-year levels and at the low end of Q1 guidance range.
• Mix shift was constructive: EDA and SIP grew YoY (+15% and +11%), while TCAD declined 34% YoY; bookings were $12.9M (−34% YoY) and RPO ended at $36.4M (50% to be recognized in next 12 months).
• Q3 2025 guidance introduced a sharp rebound: revenue $14.0–$18.0M, non-GAAP GM 81–85%, and non-GAAP diluted EPS $(0.12) to $0.02; FY25 guidance was maintained (revenue $64–$70M).
• Strategic M&A remained the narrative: completion of Mixel adds an estimated $110M to SAM; management targets revenue synergies in 2H with initial PPC and TechX contributions already embedded, while cost/tax synergies to follow.

What Went Well and What Went Wrong

What Went Well

• EDA and SIP momentum: EDA revenue +15% YoY to $3.4M; SIP +11% YoY to $1.8M (offsetting part of TCAD weakness).
• ACV growth and backlog health: TTM ACV up 26%; RPO $36.4M with 50% within 12 months, supporting 2H revenue visibility.
• Strategic expansion: “We estimate that we have expanded our SAM by another $110 million… in addition to the estimated $600 million in incremental SAM from our previous acquisitions this year” (CEO); completion of Mixel acquisition strengthens mixed-signal connectivity IP portfolio.

What Went Wrong

• Revenue and bookings pressure: Q2 revenue $12.05M (−19% YoY, −15% QoQ) and bookings $12.9M (−34% YoY), driven by timing of renewals and macro-related PO push-outs, especially in TCAD.
• Margin compression: Non-GAAP gross margin fell to 76% (vs 86% in Q2 2024) given lower volumes and higher COGS from acquisitions integration; non-GAAP opex rose to ~$14.9M on R&D and sales/marketing headcount and commissions.
• Miss vs consensus: Q2 revenue and EPS missed Wall Street’s mean estimates (see Estimates Context) as large renewals slipped and TCAD remained softer YoY.

Transcript

Speaker 6

Good afternoon and welcome to Silvaco Group's second quarter fiscal year 2025 conference call. All participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To participate, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear a message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, simply press star 11 again. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Greg McNiff, Investor Relations for Silvaco Group. Please proceed.

Speaker 3

Thank you. Joining me on the call today are Babak Taheri, Silvaco's CEO, and Dan Shaw, Silvaco's Director of FP&A. As a reminder, a press release highlighting the company's results, along with supplemental financial results and an earnings presentation, are available on the company's IR site at investors.silvaco.com. An archive replay of the conference call will be available on this website for a limited time after the call. Please note that during this call, management will be making remarks regarding future events and the future financial performance of the company. These remarks constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements.

It is important to also note that the company undertakes no obligation to update such statements except as required by law. The company cautions you to consider risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements contained in today's press release, earnings presentation, and on this conference call. The risk factors section in Silvaco's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2024, and the most recent Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission provide descriptions of these risks. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Silvaco's CEO, Babak Taheri. Babak?

Speaker 0

Thank you, Greg. Hello and welcome to Silvaco Group's second quarter 2025 earnings call. I am Babak Taheri, CEO of Silvaco Group. Thank you for joining us today. As we report on our financial performance and strategic direction, I want to pause and acknowledge something that doesn't always appear in the numbers, but underpins every line on the balance sheet. It is our people and investors. Not just any people or investors, the ones who remain through our product cycles that stretch into years, the ones who choose to be here when the market shifts, when uncertainty arises, and when the outcomes are not yet realized. The ones who commit to the mission even when the short-term picture is difficult. In the EDA space, where innovation is deep tech and long horizon, progress often demands patience.

It's not always easy to stay the course, yet time and again, our team does. Not because it's easy or glamorous or immediately rewarding, but because they believe in what we are building. Their loyalty and resilience form a competitive advantage that isn't easily replicated. Now, moving to our results, I'm excited to update you on the strong momentum we have built since going public in May of last year. For fiscal year 2024, we delivered a 13% increase in bookings and achieved 10% organic revenue growth over fiscal year 2023. We also added over 46 new customer logos, underscoring the growing demand for our software platforms. A core objective of our IPO was to position Silvaco Group for strategic acquisitions that would meaningfully expand our serviceable addressable market, or SAM.

We launched our acquisition strategy in Q1 of 2025 and have maintained that momentum into this quarter, targeting high-growth sectors such as AI, photonics, and high-performance compute for edge and data centers. Our first two most recent acquisitions have added more than an estimated $600 million in incremental SAM, reinforcing our position in fast-expanding markets and further diversifying our growth engine. The market response to this strategy has been very encouraging. Our new acquisition of Mixcell adds another $110 million of SAM for us. Revenue for Q2 came at $12.05 million within our guidance. Likewise, we are maintaining our fiscal year 2025 guidance in the range of $64 to $70 million, representing 7% to 17% year-over-year growth, which we intentionally set with a conservative approach given the current macroeconomic environment.

We are taking a conservative approach on this guidance and did not include the mix of potential upside revenue for the year. We are equally confident in our long-term growth trajectory, underpinned by strong market demand for organic growth, strategic expansion, and increasing value for our technology stack. Next slide, please. I will now highlight our non-GAAP results for Q2 2025, guidance for Q3, and full year 2025, and our Director of FP&A, Dan Shaw, will discuss our detailed financial results and guidance in his remarks. For Q2 2025, 14% of revenue from 10 new customer purchases in Q2, equivalent of $4.18 million in bookings. 6% of our revenue came from new customer purchases in previous quarters, totaling 20% of land and expense in new customers. We had also 40% of revenue from expansion in existing customers, 40% of revenue from renewals, totaling 100% for Q2 2025.

For Q3, we are providing the following guidance: Q3 booking guidance of $14 million to $18.2 million, revenue guidance of $14 million to $18 million, non-GAAP GM of 81% to 85%, non-GAAP OI or loss of minus $3.5 million to plus $0.5 million, non-GAAP net income or loss of minus $0.12 to plus $0.02 per diluted share. For the full year 2025, we are maintaining our existing guidance. Gross bookings in the range of $67 million to $74 million, reflecting an increase of up to 13% year-over-year. Revenue in the range of $64 million to $70 million, reflecting an increase of up to 17% year-over-year. Non-GAAP gross margin in the range of 83% to 86% compared to 86% in 2024. Non-GAAP operating income in the range of $2 million loss to $1 million income compared to $5.5 million in 2024. Non-GAAP net income per share of up to $0.03.

Please note that this guidance includes the acquisition of Cadence Design Systems' Process Proximity Compensation platform for the full year and Tech-X Corporation for Q2 through Q4, considering only initial revenue synergies, not including potential land and expense for these acquisitions, nor have we included Mixcell potential revenue at this time. We are strategically expanding our capabilities to meet the evolving needs of our customers, particularly in high-growth sectors for design and manufacturing of semiconductors and photonics. At the same time, we are taking a disciplined approach to managing operating expenses, cash flow, and liquidity, reflecting a prudent posture in today's macroeconomic environment. This balance between targeted investment and financial discipline positions Silvaco to lead in some of the fast-growing segments such as AI, high-performance compute, memory, power, and photonics, while protecting shareholder value and ensuring long-term sustainability.

Next, I'd like to discuss how Silvaco solves semiconductor and photonics challenges facing our customers. Acquisitions expand solutions in key AI markets. Today, we face numerous design and manufacturing challenges, and we believe Silvaco is well-positioned to address key AI markets with our organic strategies and our recent acquisitions. I have highlighted the key AI markets with dashed orange boxes that we are expanding into. These include memory, high-performance compute, photonics, automotive, data centers, and edge compute to augment and enable AI democratization. New technologies are emerging, product complexities are increasing, customers are challenged, their expectations are evolving, and we must lead in addressing and solving these challenges by doing what we do best, anticipating the next wave of technological breakthroughs, leading it through artificial intelligence, through advanced algorithms in multi-physics, through digital twin models that guide customers through complex design and manufacturing. To stay ahead, we don't work alone.

We partner with universities, with leading research labs, with our strategic customers, and through targeted strategic acquisitions. We are focused on AI, we are focused on photonics, we are focused on high-performance computing and connectivity. Let's look closer at the challenges shaping our markets. First, design and manufacturing complexity. Transistors are getting smaller with more functionality packed inside. Complex multicore architectures are being designed, all of it impacting memory, high-performance computing, automotive, and more. Second, new materials such as gallium nitride, silicon carbide, and photonics integrated devices are pushing the boundaries of fabrication and design. Third, go-to-market challenges, including rising costs and rising risks, cost of design, cost of tools, cost of wafers, and pressure of time to market. This is the landscape we are navigating. This is the opportunity we are capturing with technology, with strategy, and with vision. Next slide, please. Executive summary for the quarter.

We just announced the acquisition of Mixcell Incorporated, which we believe expands our SAM by another $110 million with silicon-proven mixed-signal IP in the world's leading foundries, many of which are ISO 26262 and ISO 9001 certified, representing the high quality of the products for automotive and other markets. That's not all. We announced the addition of three new executives, which I will give more details in the next slide. We also announced some of our recent customer successes. Alps Alpine adopted Silvaco's Jivaro Pro to accelerate SPICE post-layout simulations. Fraunhofer ISIT, one of the top leading R&D companies in the world, to advance next-generation gallium nitride with Silvaco's DTCO flow. WaveTech deployed Silvaco's Victory TCAD to drive innovation in GaN-based connectivity solutions, helping our lead position in power electronics. There is more coming. We expect to announce new customer wins in the second half of the year.

In Q2 2025, we didn't just grow our customer base. We landed 10 new customers in photonics, automotive, mil-aero, foundry, and power markets. Three in photonics, one in foundry, two in power, and others in markets such as mil-aero. Furthermore, we achieved ACV of 26% TTM, ending in Q2 versus 21% ending in Q1. Next slide, please. We've added three new executives to our team: Andrew Wright as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Semiconductor IP Group BU, Jasvinder Singh as Senior Vice President and General Manager of EDA Group BU, John Berg as Vice President of Business Development. Collectively, they bring decades of experience in semiconductor design and software development to Silvaco, and will play pivotal roles in accelerating innovation and operational excellence. Adding these accomplished leaders strengthens our ability to innovate and scale Silvaco's organic growth. This will be our main focus for the remainder of 2025.

Their insights and proven track records will help advance and accelerate the next phase of our growth. With their expertise, we are well-positioned to broaden our market presence and deliver even greater value to our customers worldwide. On the next slide, I will walk you through our recent acquisitions that are accelerating our expansion into new high-growth markets. Next slide. Expanding market opportunity using AI-based digital twin modeling. On our last earnings call, I discussed the strategic rationale and opportunity behind the acquisition of Cadence Design Systems' Process Proximity Compensation, or PPC, product line, which, combined with our acquisition of Tech-X Corporation, we believe has increased our SAM to $4.4 billion. Today, I'm excited to share an overview of our recently announced acquisition of Mixel mixed-signal IP, including our technology integration plan and the strategic rationale driving this move. We believe Mixel expands our SAM by an additional $110 million.

It is important to note that historically, Silvaco Group's digestion period for acquisitions of these sizes has been about six months. We have already integrated the initial revenue synergies for the two previous acquisitions and are on track to complete the operation and tax synergies over the coming quarters. This year, Silvaco Group's total SAM has expanded by over $710 million through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions. The increase is from $3.8 billion in 2024 to $4.5 billion in 2025, positioning us for stronger long-term growth. Next slide, please. Expanding market in silicon photonics integrated circuits. For the first time, we are excited to share our strategic expansion and roadmap for photonics, which builds on our strong momentum in the market. As I mentioned, our total SAM now stands at $4.5 billion, which includes $260 million from the Tech-X Corporation acquisition.

This includes $115 million from photonics design software and $145 million from wafer fabrication solutions, covering advanced capabilities such as plasma etch at the tool level and packaging impact on photonics integrated circuits. This new segment represents a compelling growth engine for the coming year and beyond, expanding our reach into high-growth, high-value markets. Next slide, please. Mixel mixed-signal IP strategic rationale. Silvaco Group's acquisition of Mixel brings in a portfolio of silicon-proven mixed-signal IP that is already deployed in the world's leading foundries. Mixel has a 25-plus-year track record of delivering successful silicon solutions and is widely recognized for its low-power, high-performance IP. Strategically, Silvaco Group expects to land new customers through Mixel's base while driving revenue synergies with existing accounts. Leveraging Silvaco Group's global channel is projected to accelerate revenue growth. Please turn to the next slide for specific examples of how this technology is changing the industry.

Mixcell's MIPI 5 cores stand out in the market due to their comprehensive support across the entire MIPI multimedia ecosystems, including automotive, camera, display, and storage. Mixcell is the number two company in terms of MIPI revenue. The diagram highlights Mixcell's broad coverage of multi-protocol layers such as CSI2, DSI2, UFS, all supported by versatile FI implementations, including DFI, CFI, MPI, and other combinations. This flexibility enables associate designers to integrate a single interoperable physical layer IP across a wide range of use cases, reducing time to market and validation complexity. Additionally, Mixcell's longstanding track record of first-pass silicon success and compliance with MIPI Alliance standards position it as a trusted supplier.

These technical strengths, coupled with seamless support for emerging standards and multi-protocol convergence, differentiate Mixcell in a crowded space and position the company to capture significant market shares as demand grows for high-speed, low-power interfaces in mobile, automotive, and other applications. Next slide. Strategic focus for the remainder of 2025 and 2026. Silvaco is positioned for significant growth by capitalizing on immediate revenue synergies from recent acquisitions, unlocking access to over 30 new customers, and enabling expanded cross-selling and landing of new logos in high-demand sectors such as AI, photonics, and advanced semiconductors. Leveraging acquired technologies and established channels, the company is well-positioned to deliver multi-physics simulation solutions across semiconductor and display applications.

Strategic next steps include deepening AI-based FTCO engagement with memory, advanced CMOS, power, and photonics R&D customers, broadening semiconductor IP portfolio, and driving expansion in the high-growth market of silicon-based photonics integrated circuits for HPC, automotive, and sensing applications that play a large role in AI enablement and infrastructure. With a sharp focus on enhancing customers' time to market and costs, we are able to command higher margins and flow through new product development and recent acquisitions. To summarize, strategic next steps include deepening engagement with R&D customers, broadening semiconductor IP portfolio, and driving expansion in the high-growth market of silicon-based photonics to enable, enhance, and support AI infrastructure, AI architecture, AI power management, and compute resources for both static and autonomous applications. Together, these strategic priorities position Silvaco Group to accelerate growth, strengthen margins, and deliver sustained profitability through the remainder of 2025 and into 2026.

With that, I'll turn it over to Dan to review details of quarter financials and our guidance for Q3 and fiscal year 2025. Thank you, Dan.

Speaker 5

Thanks, Babak, and thank you all for joining us today. My name is Dan Shaw, Silvaco's Senior Director of FP&A. Today, I will be reviewing our financial results for the second quarter of 2025 and providing guidance for the third quarter and full year of 2025. Please note that I will be discussing non-GAAP results going forward. As a reminder, our GAAP financial results, along with a reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results, can be found in our earnings press release and the appendix of the presentation and within supplemental financials on our website. Moving to the next slide, I'd first like to start the financial overview by saying that our long-term target model remains intact, and we remain confident in our ability to achieve our strategic and financial objectives. Q2 results fell within our quarterly guidance range.

While some orders were shifted from Q1 into Q3 and Q4, we fully expect to book those POs later this year. We exited the quarter with $55.5 million in cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and marketable securities. This is down from $74.5 million at the end of Q1, primarily due to the NAND Gate litigation settlement and the acquisition of Tech-X Corporation during the quarter. Other expenses this quarter have also increased as a result of both organic R&D investments as well as recent acquisitions, impacting both our gross margin and operating expense forecasts for the short term. We are actively working to minimize these effects. Following the Process Proximity Compensation platform product acquisition in Q1, and now with the recent acquisitions of Tech-X Corporation in Q2 and Mixcell Incorporated in Q3, our focus has shifted to integration and driving higher revenue through land and expansion.

Next, I'm excited to announce that we have achieved trailing 12 months ACV growth of 26% in Q2 2025, which is up from last quarter. As a reminder, annual contract value, or ACV, is a meaningful metric for measuring Silvaco's underlying performance as it normalizes for multi-year deals as well as minimizes the impact of ASC 606 revenue accounting rules. Lastly, I will get into details on the guidance shortly, but I want to highlight that our annual guidance remains the same. Let's turn to the next slide. To begin, our Q2 results in more detail. Gross bookings for our software and semiconductor IP products in the second quarter were $12.9 million, down 34% year-over-year. Revenue was $12.05 million, down 19% year-over-year. The Q2 year-over-year decline was primarily due to the high value of the FTCL booking in Q2 2024, as well as pressures stemming from short-term macroeconomic uncertainty.

Our non-GAAP operating expenses were $14.9 million, up from $14 million last quarter. Breaking down our cost structure, R&D was 42% of revenue, sales and marketing was 36%, and G&A was 46%. The increase in operating expenses was primarily driven by higher headcount-related costs in research and development, as well as sales and marketing, which also included commissions. Non-GAAP operating loss was $5.7 million, down from non-GAAP operating income of $1.7 million in Q2 2024. Our non-GAAP net loss for the quarter was $4.6 million, compared to a non-GAAP net income of $1.8 million in the same period last year. Diluted non-GAAP net loss per share came in at $0.16 compared to a non-GAAP net income per share of $0.07 in Q2 2024. Our weighted average diluted share count for the second quarter was 29.3 million shares.

For the year, we reiterate that we are expecting to be neutral in non-GAAP net income and break even on a free cash flow basis. Turning to our bookings performance in more detail. As Babak mentioned, we did have some delays in customer POs in Q2. However, we are proud to have still added 10 new customer wins for the second quarter. In terms of product breakouts, TCAD bookings were down 55% year-over-year due to the timing of large renewals that happened last year. EDA bookings were down slightly by 7% year-over-year with some partial offsets coming from the addition of PPC. We are also pleased that our bookings for our SIP product increased by approximately $1.5 million, a growth of 87% year-over-year, and we expect continued growth from this product line.

Remaining performance obligations, or RPO, at quarter end stood at $36.4 million, with 50% expected to be recognized as revenue within the next 12 months. Moving to revenue, Q2 was down 6% year-over-year on a trailing 12-month basis ACV. For the quarter, our software licenses accounted for 60% of our total revenue, while maintenance and services accounted for 40%, consistent with historical levels. Looking by product, TCAD revenue was down 34% year-over-year, once again due to the timing of renewals. EDA revenue was up 15% year-over-year, again driven by a key renewal for our recently acquired PPC product line. Revenue for our SIP product increased by 11% year-over-year due to traction and technical enablement for foundries. Turning to our split between geographic regions, revenue from the Americas was down 44% year-over-year due to lower revenue from our TCAD product. Asia Pacific was up 11% year-over-year, driven by higher EDA sales.

EMEA was down 22% year-over-year due to lower TCAD sales in this region. I will again reiterate that despite the current macro headwind, as we continue to work towards closing some of the delayed customer orders and introducing our new products acquired to existing and new customer base, we believe the company is well-positioned for higher growth rates moving forward. Moving to the next slide. Our non-GAAP gross margin for the quarter came in at 76%, down from 86% in Q2 2024. The year-over-year decline was driven mostly by lower revenue due to temporary order push-outs. You can see from this chart that historically our cost of goods sold was relatively fixed, and therefore the gross margin closely coordinates with revenue.

As was the case with last quarter, this quarter we saw an increase in our cost of goods sold due to higher headcount-related costs, in part from a cost structure that now also includes both the PPC and Tech-X Corporation acquisitions. With both acquisitions now in our rearview mirror, we are now focused on optimizing costs as part of integrating the operations. As we continue to scale, we still expect non-GAAP gross margins to expand towards our long-term target of 90% plus. We believe the company is poised for significant growth by capitalizing on immediate revenue from recent acquisitions and increases by our land and expand strategy, unlocking access to over 30 new customers and enabling expanded cross-selling in high-demand sectors such as automotive, robotics, and AR/VR. Leveraging acquired technologies and established channels, we believe the company is well-positioned to deliver multi-physics simulation solutions across semiconductor and display applications.

Strategic next steps include deepening engagement with memory, advanced CMOS, power, and photonics R&D customers, broadening semiconductor IP portfolios, and driving expansion in the high-growth market of silicon-based photonics integrated circuits for HPC, automotive, and sensing applications. With a sharp focus on enhancing first article yield and accelerating customer time to volume, the company is targeting fast-growing segments with robust markets for FTCO, silicon photonics, and power semiconductors, creating what we believe to be a compelling trajectory for sustained investor value. Moving to the next slide. As we introduced last quarter, I'm excited to look at our new non-GAAP performance metric, annual contract value, or ACV.

We believe that ACV is a more meaningful metric for measuring the underlying performance and health of the business, particularly in light of the quarterly volatility in revenue that results from ASC 606 revenue accounting rules, as well as from large multi-year deals and the impact from the timing of renewals. Our ACV calculation includes all of our software licenses from EDA and TCAD, as well as maintenance and services. Please note that the definition excludes semiconductor IP product sales as they are generally not recurring in nature. We believe this new metric reflects a more stable, normalized growth by accounting for all contract types over a 12-month period. Further details around the definition of ACV are provided in our earnings release, as well as our investor presentation.

Moving to the next slide, you can see the quarterly fluctuations in bookings and revenue, which is specifically why we will be providing ACV as an additional metric starting this year. On a trailing 12-month basis, ACV was $55.9 million for the second quarter, up 26% year-over-year, an increase of 5% from Q1. While quarterly revenue may fluctuate, core recurring revenue from new bookings has shown consistent annual growth. Moving on to the next slide, I will now cover our Q3 and full year 2025 guidance. Our Q3 2025 guidance, our updated forecast is gross bookings between $14 million and $18.2 million, revenue in the range of $14 million and $18 million, non-GAAP gross margin between 81% and 85%, non-GAAP operating loss between $3.5 million and a positive $0.5 million, non-GAAP net loss per share between $0.12 to net income per share of $0.02.

For our full year 2025, we are maintaining our guidance. Gross bookings are between $67 million and $74 million, revenue in the range of $64 million and $70 million, non-GAAP gross margin between 83% and 86%, non-GAAP operating loss between $2 million and income of $1 million, non-GAAP net loss per share between $0.07 to net income per share of $0.03. Given the recent timing of the acquisitions, this forecast does include assumptions of initial revenue synergies for the PPC and Tech-X acquisitions, but does not include cost or tax synergies. Moving on to my final slide. With macros expected to stabilize, we are confident in our ability to regain momentum and execute on our long-term strategy.

With the acquisitions of PPC, Tech-X, and now Mixel, we continue to execute our goals to drive revenue growth through expansion of our SAM through M&A, which was one of the primary expected uses of the capital raised in our IPO. We expect to return to 15% top-line growth once macroeconomic conditions stabilize and continue to target 15% to 25% top-line growth, 90% non-GAAP gross margin, and 25%+ non-GAAP operating margin. We expect to achieve these targets by expanding our presence in key markets and continuing to pursue the right strategic inorganic opportunities, with additional focus on driving expansion in the high-growth market of silicon photonics integration circuits for HPC, automotive, and sensing applications. With that, Babak and I would be happy to answer your questions. Operator?

Speaker 1

Thank you so much. As a reminder, if you do have a question, press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To remove yourself, press star 11 again. Our first question is from Blair Abernathy with Rosenblatt Securities. Please proceed.

Speaker 4

Thanks. Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Speaker 7

I'm Blair.

Speaker 4

Can you hear me okay?

Speaker 7

Absolutely.

Speaker 4

Listen, yeah.

Speaker 7

Thanks for providing the ACV number again and updating that. I guess the first question is around, you know, that's pretty good growth overall, but you did make certainly the PPC acquisition would have affected that, maybe the Tech-X a little bit, but would you tell us what the ACV organic growth was and how much was acquired?

Speaker 4

Yeah, if I can take that.

Speaker 7

Hi, Blair. For that growth, we were seeing obviously a sizable portion of that coming from the additional revenue from our acquisitions. I think the organic component of that was in the 1% to 2% range of that 5% increase. Okay. Great. Can you talk a little bit more about the Cadence Design Systems division integration? That's obviously the one that you've held the longest now, a few months. What's the integration looking like on the go-to-market side?

Speaker 0

Hold on. I'll take that one. Thanks for that. That's a good question. As we said, we've already recognized some revenue last quarter from that. To us, the integration consists of having the R&D team and all the other teams to be integrated physically and software-wise within the organization. That's already done, completed. The only portion of the integration that we're still working on is financials in terms of some of the other synergies and tax synergies that we are working on, including, if you will, OpEx, R&D, as well as SG&A. That's what Dan reported that we're working on. We expect we also provided the guidance in terms of annual revenue from that to be in the $2 to $4 million range. We've already, as we said last quarter, $1.92 million of it was already recognized in Q1. We have still additional revenue to be recognized from PPC acquisition.

As we are working with the teams and the customers, our expectation is always higher to be able to close more deals with the existing and as well as the new expansion.

Speaker 7

Okay, great. Babak, on the macro environment, you came in sort of, you were trying to get your bookings. This Q2 was sort of $14 million to $18 million, I think was the original range. You came in around $13 million. Is that, you know, what's the environment like there versus Q1? Any change in your China end markets?

Speaker 0

That's a great question. No, no impact to the China market. As a matter of fact, we said in Q1 that some of the push-outs came from Asia. As a matter of fact, the ones that came from Asia, we've already closed in Q1. Our expectation is that the other portions of the delays will close in Q3 and maybe Q4, but we expect most of those delays to be covered in Q3.

Speaker 7

Okay, great. Thanks. I'll jump back in the queue.

Speaker 0

Thanks, Blair.

Speaker 1

Thank you. Our next question is from Blaine Curtis with Jefferies. Please proceed.

Speaker 7

Hey, good afternoon, guys. Maybe you can ask on Mixcell. It's closed, so I was just curious if you could outline how much revenue contribution to think about from that one for September and December quarter.

Speaker 0

You bet. You didn't say that in our written statements, but from where, as you know, we just closed it last week. To be conservative, we haven't included, as I mentioned earlier, any of the potential revenues coming from them this year. However, we can provide a range of numbers that we think is within our capability to close. That range is between $3 million to $5 million additional revenue.

Speaker 7

Is that quarterly or annual?

Speaker 0

For the remainder of the year.

Speaker 7

Three to five for the starting point.

Speaker 0

For Q3 and Q4, yeah.

Speaker 7

Got you. I guess I wanted to talk about, you kept the annual guidance. I think you made the comment that it's conservative to keep it, but your results have come in lower throughout the year. To get to the midpoint would require 50% sequential growth, 90% gross margin. I guess I'm just trying to figure out, I know you're confident you're going to get back these sales that were delayed, but are we talking about that magnitude of a Q4?

Speaker 0

Yeah, and we've already given guidance for Q2, and if you see our numbers for Q4, we'll get us to those points. We're very confident also that some of these delays in POs from Q1 and trickling into Q2 will close in Q3 and Q4, and that's part of it. There has not been any cancellation. As a matter of fact, as you know, the macro with regards to Asia has improved for everyone in our industry, and we expect to actually grow that as well. Those are some of the regional, I would say, growths that we expect to get. Also, the acquisitions we've done, as we've done our analysis, you know, we've always historically, up to last quarter, we said our main markets have been photonics, have been power, have been memory.

As you see more and more of what our commentary was that we see also we can expand really nicely with the combined synergy in terms of products for a go-to-market. In terms of expanding into new markets, that we have played a smaller role, but we can play a bigger role, and those include a wider base for high-performance compute, automotive, especially the introduction of all these new IPs for automotive, and being ISO 9001 and 2662 compliant, which makes us very unique in terms of the offering that will help us expand in those as well.

Speaker 7

Thanks. Maybe just one last one. If I do contemplate adding that Mixcell revenue back in, I mean, is what about on the OpEx side? Is that, I mean, these employees now work for you today. Is that contemplated in OpEx? I think I've seen some numbers of employees, so maybe you can just help us with how much OpEx per quarter you're going to bring over.

Speaker 0

Let Dan answer it, but let me start it then. What I would say, in terms of our annual guidance, as we said, we did not include any Mixcell contributions either in terms of OpEx or revenue. As we are closing on quite a bit of the books and financials, we will have OpEx associated with it, and we're looking at synergies for all three acquisitions, as I said, and we are getting more mature in terms of our understanding of our synergies for PPC as well as Tech-X. I think we'll have a very good handle on what it is that Mixcell would bring in in terms of both revenue and OpEx by end of the quarter, hoping that on the next call, we'll give you a lot more detail than what we have provided today.

Speaker 7

Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1

Thank you. Our next question comes from Craig Ellis with B. Riley Securities. Please proceed.

Speaker 2

Yeah, thanks for taking the question. I wanted to go a little bit deeper into the inorganic growth activity and what it could mean a little bit further out than I think where Blaine was headed with implications for this year. I think the company indicated that acquisitions pre-Mixcell were adding $6 to $11 million in revenues this year. If I annualize Mixcell potential revenues, that would be $6 to $10 million. If we double that, $3 to $5 million, so in total, it seems like there could be from acquisitions $12 to $21 million in annual revenues. The question is this: is that the reasonable way to think about the inorganic growth revenue range for next year? If not, can you help us with what a reasonable range might be?

Speaker 0

Absolutely. That's a fantastic question, Craig. As usual, thank you for that. You know, the general guidance we've given for OPC this year, since it was Q2-ish, we said 2 to 4 for Tech-X. We gave the range of $1 million to $2 million. For Mixcell this year, we said 3 to 5. A good assumption to think about. We'll be glad by the end of this quarter, we will be helping in terms of whatever details we can provide so that you can fine-tune all these models for at least this year and the remainder for next year. One linear way of interpolating the data I gave you for this year is you can see the partial revenue from these acquisitions, what they are. I've given you the numbers just even now. Those are the partials.

If you think of Mixcell, we said 3 to 5, which is only, you know, two quarters, I would say, you know, two quarters, but less than one month less, right? About five months of revenue. You can extrapolate that for the full year next year. You can do the same thing for the other two. What you're saying is not unreasonable. What we would like to do is give us a bit of time till the end of this quarter so we can fine-tune these and give you a much better feel for it because as we speak, my whole executive team from the sales from all over the world are in Santa Clara.

They've been there this whole week trying to merge and hash out what are the new opportunities for each of these acquisitions, what are the new customers that we need to go after, plus how can we expand into the 30+ customers that we require through this acquisition.

Speaker 2

That's helpful, Babak. Thank you. My next question was related to the cash balance. I believe, in the deck, it showed that cash was $555 million. I expect that's before we've completed the cash part of the Mixcell payment. Can you just confirm that is so? If so, I would expect that we would be about $35 million in cash, with the cash part of the Mixcell payment made. Is that a fair way to look at what's happened, as we started out the month of August here, mid 3Q? Thanks, guys.

Speaker 0

That's a perfect way to look at it. Initially, you said $550 million, not $55 million, and I was getting excited about that.

Speaker 7

Give you a little bit too much credit. Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 0

You're right. Your final number came down to 35. I think that it's reasonable to think that $30 million to $35 million would be the right number. Absolutely.

Speaker 7

Excellent. Thank you, guys.

Speaker 1

Thank you so much. Our last question comes from Ross Cole with Needham & Company. Please proceed.

Speaker 7

Thank you for taking my question. I wanted to dive in a little bit to the recent acquisitions of PPC and Tech-X and what the 3Q 2025 guidance would look like without those acquisitions. I know the full year they're adding $6 to $11 million, but do you think the third quarter guidance would be slightly different? Thank you.

Speaker 0

We've included what we have seen from the customers from PPC and Tech-X in Q3. Our guidance includes what we've seen. As I said, for the fraction, I would say to just estimate, frankly, right now, as we said, again, I'll reemphasize, these are great questions, by the way, Ross. Thanks for joining. One is the fact that we said 2 to 4 for OPC. We've recognized two already. For the remainder of the year, there's another $2 million at least on the table for the range we've guided. For Tech-X, we said $1 to $2 million, and I think there's another $1 million or so left for the rest of the year. If you look at the numbers we've provided, I would say a third or so of those totals would come in Q3, the rest in Q4.

Speaker 7

Great. Thank you so much.

Speaker 0

You bet. Great question.

Speaker 1

Thank you. This concludes our Q&A session. I will turn it back to Babak Taheri for final comments.

Speaker 0

Thank you, operator. I wanted to thank everyone for being part of our journey, and thank you again for your support. We look forward to our Q3 and Q4, and we'll see you soon. Thank you.

Speaker 1

This concludes our conference. Thank you all for participating, and you may now disconnect.