MXL - Earnings call transcript Q1 2019

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Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the MaxLinear 2019 First Quarter Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Brian Nugent of Investor Relations. Mr. you, Thank Nugent.

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Brian Nugent

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Kishore Seendripu

for and Thank you, Thank joining you us afternoon Brian good everyone. today.

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Steve Litchfield

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Operator

Thank you.

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Quinn Bolton

Hey few guys, a questions.

the on congrats OpEx First, nice reductions.

that? Steve, to of range you the you get even forward are million than something $XX of can $XX year in million targeting think Looking end, still to do it sort or kind lower

Steve Litchfield

of don't I go want guess to level I - don't specificity. I that maybe into

think, we some progress. I got look, good

that the we're You a things, don't got linear see one, may looking guidance can I legal fall we're of decline, so for nice our QX. think a to forward on an we've track but from decline the some that into year to expenses we one got QX, nice improvement. some in see exact we've that see

Quinn Bolton

I talk then of the you wireless great. for Okay, hear about in sort infrastructure? And PA front, a did guys on product product the script

Kishore Seendripu

this Quinn, a is Hi, It's not product. a PA module. Kishore. That's power high

customer X we started remote a there's power OEM that are XX out deployments which And shipment use for Tier we are these for power wireless, a right XG High volume So ampere ampere modules XX being the now. towards in design win multiple shipping. have module, they rolled unit. each radio wireless

module. huge sort point, our radio is long-term over the shipments our the XG coupling transceivers power us. this validates this our proposition power that primarily At And management thesis of so a in with a devices is winning for

in the will analog mix much possible. product is hope signal as that footprint our evolution content our Our the expectation expand XG include warm roadmap course as of we the portfolio, of and over

Quinn Bolton

that's so of sort Exar from module Okay, that power acquisition.

that outlook so Obviously, can cellular the undergoing of does up your like station some for product of the of on so big those would - sort outlook, be their you an your XXXX? least think Do of half ASIC and ramp would ASIC can pretty in design ASIC base your your partnerships. with a it that transceiver, changes sort you just take still think of I sort the at give ASIC second group efforts, impact you to couple How may the of changing. that transceiver business? us looks design and Moving - or that are update marry OEMs close transceiver

Kishore Seendripu

good So calls question, design very very company's very, XG, earnings very, landscape ineffective. people cost initial and on for Quinn, the privately on in deployments FPGA real the you the so and is hear based

are product of XG digital these So many semi-custom in product doing and latter part that platform custom ACIC happen the XXXX, operators for now serial is to own their some real rollout of expected XXXX.

chip So vendors. new major been coming our really the and meet these to chips are of that designed has generation from

we're to the smallest compared feel very, XX in anybody is CMOS best of we excellent the market, having integration. very, really the technology So, the and out and product knowing timing a nanometers in levels good position, the there,

actually the gung are now. ho about We wireless our very, on right feeling positioning XG very space

designed it OEMs ideally chip our very the direction comes really owned DFT our it's if the and the with thing to So the you meet ASICs - I in moment way think has with been will.

Quinn Bolton

great, Got it, thank you.

Operator

Rolland comes International. question with question. next Susquehanna Our with from the line of Christopher Please your proceed

Christopher Rolland

for thanks question. guys, Hey the

do now? So between PAMX, What three cable and from think management to backhaul. And transceiver node, fiber excited what the you XG about the some have most going it revenue of these most years power call are you call is here? including it products

Kishore Seendripu

their Chris, it's revenues a paired full strongly this with very, And is generating system microwave board, transceiver we've RF to millimeter Kishore. very excited wave solution. by it's growing Obviously, be with wireless was backhaul, notice today, the and right. and

everything that the the platform the are world only vendor on has We in right.

excited in call about position evolve years the that are in think evolve that way to it to pole I the really to and several needs I'm for we So market come. I what

is from technology brought in would that performance really, they exciting And where a very power really positioning now very, very three I in management exciting very on a will because market going landscape, position. us. of we full most onto out competitive has look that's very, market say strong really Obviously, a been for years are your I force. it's platform. the XG course, high So if that didn't to disingenuous now couple be the And strategic we're

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end towards feel should we However, the that start the happening. year of that

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Christopher Rolland

talk about other OEM. the the Okay, management on engagements XG transceiver products but some you win, congrats major power with the products for maybe can and of your

two the does you that them? how the Thanks. And confirmed is wins before the Do close? management? of guys, products you're you with of do five how that process out power Or or any to think going ramp? of ultimately have year? say you of nail would design Are large for So outside you one end going kind

Kishore Seendripu

say know I be five would a So there OEM generous large would if are statement. don't guys, four I

the four one bit more a little four assume geography. in because they're very efficient the players, let's of So gets fifth small early top a

players, got them. with customers So philosophy starting is all intensive And investments of and I would engagements obviously, joint strong signed without in technology top lead development absolutely say us. be they're four R&D something predicated two on development a with up least as we at MaxLinear's to in never

So natural going market of that basis your But offer one as thin nailed those remaining kind so that are two is on supplier down requires to question, would can who technology get we're the I we the well. getting the right? that think this answer of traction with two

timing each we on get ramps timings, different one's rare ahead good So platforms feeling be all I them. I the think for about we but to are. myself, of say - me I of where that all should I will but of is feel When very that it based the very have think we

Christopher Rolland

Thanks Kishore. so much

Operator

next proceed Stifel. with question Tore comes of from your the from question. Our Svanberg Please line

Tore Svanberg

thank questions connected Yes, and you. A me with let start few home.

of now some to sort recovering thinking low just Can going seemed it and supply from going challenges what's a it it's a some revert your steadily on about that these was maybe have? on seems of especially that us you that So back of like business bit. when and update little customers

Kishore Seendripu

Tore, that's good point. very, a very

now, right think there's please I some - the fluctuation talked around in the previous lows a about quarter. we sort of it's noise

and Comcast, Global. customer return acquired And of this weakness a large like end is they at assets, are they've macro of actually same baking them these we really primary a Liberty Global new So strength chain time source up because a then reordering their ours, lot manufacturing there's of also are lot spent waiting cash Liberty and or of right. for assets the within supply their a were some weakness process operators of of a for the

softness and also that's weakness patterns. spend So in their created some

we of week seeing, all, a year. expect of we environment of in what think in return this all So half but it's do we the strength as into head I are terms second

before. other than it's I the that given - that. this be it than So nothing But same the there quarter Nothing we exactly has fact stronger is. on don't changed narrative that in has thought would reasons we'd changed the

Tore Svanberg

growing on good segment and in XX% this talked that Very past year. about the think you infrastructure, I

well what's on as growing Given data are center XX%? still you track on on happening as a both wireless for

Kishore Seendripu

for with data we are wireless more ramps on that up that think yet to look pick and you the track of designing data right, center closer the it and mentioned, process I XXX how the we XG the factors access, I happen This the and is really on should center the wireless much optical optical and RF at speed. is transceiver gigabit.

months beyond XX terms of that that right now. rates So sort growth digit in I think of we the double assume accelerate low the the next double digit, should

Tore Svanberg

be could will just in one question And on last call, attached grow good, steady this be this power, more going kind of of that's I Very then kind material mean, is how today's to is the just is to start XXXX? business extensive mean, there? kind something of me you. it Or I quite surprise of slow? that for already from

Kishore Seendripu

- me think what's that. I let explain

of products the products We right, which our wireless be year. have lot has bit those the been the standalone products end chips months. the benchmark over we Having that but the and speak said since basis our is the up portfolio announced expect next much earnings beginning, the major for the growing actually, slow XX XX our that main of end ever roadmap accelerate revenues lost will That the in market. lot by a set of a product infrastructure, calls that, quite be transformed, in will that number new both we also of that in multi-market, happen little on quite attached will the categorization the because designing a to describe products don't actually But It's - or the server steadily, next will that, the we for and pick a power industrial connected that months the new at a story we in feel market program and markets, developed so said so we're home, a the and telemetry about the totally XX launch products way well along as we or in and a that so efficiency. launched is with our is so. a last earnings in will there call. having been steam of months radically integration And as

Tore Svanberg

you thank good, much. very Very

Operator

question Bill from Peterson of question. line with JPMorgan. next comes proceed with Please Our your

Bill Peterson

first have Yeah, the all, the tariff and I surety customer I maybe guess in be we Is second the the a related back your should for do changed want and to being come customer, engagements arena prepared issues to it in supply thing Thanks acquisition? just in ask think I on question. and with a anything me largest the since let the resolved. remarks you of tariff you confidence should half connected guess your talked now home. acquired press release with and about any the want chain that when

Kishore Seendripu

So obviously, trailing last least months. it's looking customer XX our largest at

senior job spending time them. with we with that engaged full directors sales constantly two have are working them We

so should the the and territory manufacturing manufacturing pattern are but more is that related So the input, due but the we return some are have just regulations. their resolving supply than consequence recover to normalcy, they issues uncertainty lot dynamics a right there's complete. based of locations, Having chain still that now to issues ordering acquisition on of right, that manufacturing should customer said also more

the largest we to patterns we but well, weakness where our return to it us now However, uncertainty second much for half that XXXX. some it also expect customers is in this of seeing as is are in are there's the not right weakness, beyond ordering operators so as of strength that ordering

So issues those to current are biggest are our two customer. different issues, related but

Bill Peterson

I optical in on traction you opportunity speak that first of depth off to Coming could I digit of are that you us I pipeline a you you wins few thanks where this opportunity the to a if this your still then I and let yard now next can your design we design you to guess back year? and and see wins the year. the the on focus more the space. market wonder And and year, millions color. single look as for Okay, but track guess business, for announced guess breadth importantly, for market the

Kishore Seendripu

obviously, earlier our happen going that the the anticipated. on had So mass track scale we than but on or win are design designing what is - will hyper activities, from the and rollout on slower data - ramp they center

the we forecasted correctly think the in we of So timing. expectation this have

are worried about So it. we still not

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feel in and from So And one entering we into the that top basis, PAMX, directly won't executed the gig should market for we have entry NRZ they a with breath sure. if the clearly team zero on XXX here market. our hundred are the proud the of position the leading two be very first not PAMX, the market gig we the XXX feel this gig have really - to top one, engineering so players our it's

plus one portfolio is with we DSP fact only really only integrated the SOC offering laser only of the of SOC are TIA the the that the drivers laser a the depth PAMX or the by XXX of the with XXX with we're one. system solution system gig so indicative core And gig solution integrated silicon PAMX full drivers,

solution. pure gig Secondly, breakout fiber and gig lane single for we offering also XXX the other version XXX PAMX PAMX for have

to XXX fulfills you so space, And XXX fiber in need portfolio, gig the the completely PAMX that's play gigabit space. single lane

product significant solutions in positioned player support XXX to a to newer of technology will a there's too. that gig next be in is a that node we're So going obviously, generation well that and be

a and are in present in we to way. long-term this enterprise and in obviously, be market a praise larger So succeed in win

secure. So I are think very, those very two

revenues does you that for year, it layered in manner. what comes talk Regarding Really, the next like? the about look think a it I

of rest have and there's big data of in more First, you sampling spreads the from then one the towards center come there'll dynamics it second more online And then half year, scale next customer, then there's be happens, the end hyper PAMX to to onwards, gig next they'll be obviously, then marketplace going there. XXX the the while year and at that them. of this

going upside; very all, we're constitute in however, slower all what bit So would little basis very, an it's shape. good on in a well, baseline all than

Bill Peterson

more suite XG if like guess one this backhaul Okay, wireless lot transceivers, your about I content the near thanks for the is modems we full when for that. driver. Maybe A kind for been guess, would you think you business? what of say backhaul has of like term the uplift I have XG,

Kishore Seendripu

want to capacity and One the is frequency increasing two that space same think right. to in XG XG the ways. then you higher look, moving fold and much multiple is data time about the frequencies XG So, differences about

that have change modems millimeter then from microwave wave modems, transceivers. with we to comes enhancement the that will probably the So millimeter you'll the and wave the have - mix radio will

So I market increase, content dollars of think we XX% as over to - much the that maybe the the ASP the as moves accumulate that to bound can XX% content should itself once XG.

that offering do also new the we have. have products we So that will to enhance obviously

content I And would us dollar play, so general, that to in ASP because but stand for approximately market in us. expect double all of primarily goes in the for

Bill Peterson

great. for Appreciate Thanks it. Okay, that color.

Operator

your question comes William Our Alessandra question. Please proceed of Vecchi line with Blair. next from the with

Alessandra Vecchi

for thanks the guys, question. Hi,

a in gross modeled. margin than are Just think gross had coming little obviously, we bit front, better on I analysts QX margins the

increases margin talked On half. as infrastructure you products back call up we in the of expect gross about some of should earnings sort ramp that start to last the sequential the higher

still about can cable go margin gross Or think you of think margins the back we view target infrastructure in today, sort Given data the the mix do from the long-term half? how and do up on here?

Steve Litchfield

there's, then cost as the this slightly even you're I work I work we've were coming kind QX, the done HPA comes lot Alessa, connected I mix with little strong I is this in mean, Hey, kind we that in And definitely reflects so mean, that reducing some mix, Steve, think to able pretty HPA down of a given through QX. on right. side as ahead our hard. plan on and bit I this for right. mean, think well especially business of within the of structure. is the home a of QX,

think I of of still year. plan ahead the for the half we're back

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Alessandra Vecchi

XX for Great, repayment for on annual that's the one on year it you're Actually side, the debt targeting sort million of me. similar, more, basis. an

Steve Litchfield

cash the little lowered said pleased been had mean, that right, fed. XX and in Yeah, QX the that I we'd leverage with kind so just the it we, million, of continue revenue about back talked to so is and we on we've loaded, number. get we a performance and even down revenue given the

I think the well side. cash done we've pretty on

Alessandra Vecchi

Okay.

for it me. Thank much. very that's Now, you

Steve Litchfield

thanks. Okay,

Operator

the line Please Ross Bank. Deutsche question. with of comes question from Seymore next with proceed Our your

Darrell Gustafson

see run OpEx Darrell kind question significant precludes the Hi, It's top I rate nice guess grow us at investments question. OpEx lower this of from it's point line? do than bottom is pretty Ross. one, for I a ask where behalf think it our of does reduction the the early there. the almost of a making so And in out? to trajectory you you downward that OpEx adequate my and potentially two, what kind XXXX, think letting math, probably was by is guidance, to XX% continued on Thanks

Kishore Seendripu

the off. wouldn't at got So risk to - products anything several as that we're we're new putting year, in programs revenues, developing that upside far some as not just this bigger degree obviously, the It's we've happened of we pipeline. to rolling

Now, back up early XXXX. that'll in pick

of have going we've efforts on up a fact, XXXX math; some In see where that QX right got will early go bit. we some we are that now, even

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some in So that year increase and degree down throughout and XXXX. see the QX, starts pretty decline in to been that kind then some you'll end respects, this it we've in messaging to that of consistent comes around

was on on XXXX basis, I Now as increases very because, any wouldn't because a year-over-year end frankly XXXX expect loaded. in look you huge front

So about we're ability the I don't going also very think and development invest investing, future you these a we're forward. the giving more have up excited ramp standpoint, as anything will revenues from to

Darrell Gustafson

that and I appreciate Awesome, XG. just another one quick on

earlier of potential break down? talked percent ASPs its XG peak driven terms ASP, and kind thinking hits was that years your by investment cetera? few XG see you about you're hit share of in that you just as So I How could a revenues guess maybe XX% there'd of you would be content What out that more gain, et content if market cycle.

Kishore Seendripu

is revenues to that our before revenues. the would and But story And based all purpose Obviously, amount driver or if profile the in we only to laid XG our right at had somewhere used in now. right. have revenues time that for million million really be company's defined dual you $XXX our cover infrastructure are that in of XG backhaul growth both $XXX It's be will it in such infrastructure XXXX, I little out products. is The window look nothing this overtake the almost said as XG we and growth somewhere 'XX XG XG. deployments non-infrastructure between revenue between that revenues for will we really

to billion So we around of management sort constitute $XXX interconnect some for expect in infrastructure and and center timeframe. variability, that power the revenues XG together data

a power home pretty revenue to point connected part we're hard growth substantial that in obviously, XG, interconnect, see growth then going well. by but we bracket, strong management to being as is data very in So of it, and growth timing the at followed fiber then center see optical

look sort why think TAM investments, this of, high products at to and made you long-term, where really smaller we I product So ago because a investment situation we cycles large coming growth with going long if been decision, different revenues. years will that and quality really is we revenues hard a and has enjoy are in large the type many really, infrastructure three pivot a invest made we're that in in come to but we're it last to know, going you

and well we a reflected very we and there off we're positioned So this there. get to a through OpEx those almost is have as tailing in just have to play to get long-term Things very, should result, be in are the markets.

Darrell Gustafson

Thank you so much.

Operator

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Gary Mobley

the off Hey, about I question call. the June multi-market million commentary quarter. is in have multi-market, to to from with pace guys, a and Still the XXXX. to the industrial as back guess the thanks guidance bounce the your you the per poised on I'll for glad Kishore, $XX taking mark start question industrial back revenue

to with So tailwind true shipping Or demand think still do you're cleared? still with the being catch end we as have close market up inventories demand? you some get market we do end to

Steve Litchfield

I So so Gary, went would the was QX QX think I through adjustment, we this market describe way it, down, was definitely down.

demand So drop. we've seen

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think pick QX. expecting we've seen there. couple a up of drivers, that customers, mentioned I we're definitely I things some secular to And in kind we've got of see bigger

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Gary Mobley

as that Have may products as call CommScope today? CommScope. And and of the the was to acquired areas future, not determine to the discussions on it know, into some recently most designing I with people to plenary of had you're penetrate the guess what you roadmap by largest well then your design Okay. your products any be customer opportunities CommScope's

Kishore Seendripu

cable right is started interaction CommScope worked preliminary We've refrain which Very, broader of Obviously, from comment now, engagement that obviously business Arris scope had because investing and in with as areas I having much right being and very which with - just as relationship, wireless years we us. markets well. contacts larger the we had in for out CommScope these such communicating within than are of obviously several infrastructure just data the them very of like with are good now. we they but deepens to source regard have is infrastructure would times but but with them them, in had communication before ago. sort part question And to other are

Gary Mobley

All guys. right, you thank

Operator

call end comments. to in management to There are no for the further questions back the I'd queue. like closing

Kishore Seendripu

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Operator

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MaxLinear (MXL) 1 May 192019 Q1 Earnings call transcript