GSI Technology, Inc. Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2022 Results
GSI Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: GSIT) reported its financial results for the first fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2021. Net revenues reached $8.8 million, up from $6.6 million year-over-year. Gross margin improved to 54.4% due to higher SigmaQuad sales. The net loss narrowed to $(4.2 million) or $(0.17 per share), in contrast to $(6.1 million) in the same period last year. Future guidance indicates net revenues of $6.9 million to $7.9 million for Q2 2022, impacted by supply chain challenges and COVID-19 effects.
- Net revenues increased to $8.8 million from $6.6 million year-over-year.
- Gross margin improved to 54.4%, up from 46.1% year-over-year.
- Operating loss decreased to $(4.4 million), an improvement from $(5.7 million) a year ago.
- Sales to Nokia surged to $3.8 million, accounting for 42.7% of net revenues.
- Net loss remains significant at $(4.2 million), although reduced from $(6.1 million) year-over-year.
- Supply chain shortages and rising COVID-19 infections are expected to affect sales fulfillment.
- Projected revenues for Q2 2022 are lower than Q1 2022 results.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GSI Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: GSIT) today reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2021.
Summary Financial Results Table (in thousands, except per share amounts)
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| Gross margin (%) | 54.4 | % | 50.2 | % | 46.1 | % | |||
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Lee-Lean Shu, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "First quarter net revenue improved year-over-year and sequentially due to higher sales to Nokia, our largest customer. Increased demand for our SigmaQuad products improved gross margin and narrowed our operating loss in the quarter. The net revenues from our legacy SRAM business continue to support our newer product categories, primarily radiation tolerant devices and Gemini APU solutions. Our efforts to build market recognition of these new product categories yielded several promising results in the first quarter.”
“We shipped our first radiation-tolerant devices for a prototype satellite and increased beta customer engagement for Gemini-I systems. Winning first place in the MAFAT Challenge has opened the door to an Israeli prime contractor with whom we successfully demonstrated Gemini's overall value proposition for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications, leading to a proof-of-concept engagement for SAR systems. We have successfully demonstrated that the APU significantly accelerates, at low power, vector search performance in such applications.”
“GSI has now expanded the market reach of the APU into applications by becoming an Amazon OpenSearch Service partner. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released their version 1.0 of OpenSearch for users of Elasticsearch and developers building products and services based on Elasticsearch. AWS has selected partners that offer software and extensions that support OpenSearch. GSI’s K-NN plug-in extends OpenSearch capability to K and Approximate Nearest Neighbor (KNN and ANN) implementations.”
“Our plug-in allows OpenSearch to accelerate searches, add dense vector support, and multimodal queries to very large, and billion scale databases. The acceleration of searches increases performance and lowers power consumption, providing lower cost per query to the OpenSearch community compared to CPU’s and GPU’s and enables the usage of much larger and complex databases. These product features widen our market reach and create more customer opportunities. We anticipate increasing the number of Gemini system beta users in the second half of calendar 2021 and opening up to general customers in calendar 2022.”
Commenting on first quarter results and the outlook for GSI's second quarter of fiscal 2022, Mr. Shu stated, "Supply chain shortages and the impact of rising COVID infections in Taiwan that have recently impacted the operations of our manufacturing partners are expected to impact our fulfillment of sales in the near term, and possibly for the remainder of the calendar year. Our current expectations for the upcoming second quarter are net revenues in a range of
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Conference Call
GSI Technology will review its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021 and discuss its current business outlook during a conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific (4:30 p.m. Eastern) today, July 29, 2021. To listen to the teleconference, please call toll-free 1-800-437-2398 in the U.S. or 1-856-344-9206 for international approximately 10 minutes before the above start time and provide Conference ID 1559772. You may also listen to the teleconference live via the Internet at www.gsitechnology.com, where it will be archived.
About GSI Technology
Founded in 1995, GSI Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of semiconductor memory solutions. GSI's resources are focused on bringing new products to market that leverage existing core strengths, including radiation-hardened memory products for extreme environments and Gemini-I, the associative processing unit designed to deliver performance advantages for diverse artificial intelligence applications. GSI Technology is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has sales offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.gsitechnology.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding GSI Technology's expectations, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to GSI Technology as of the date hereof, and GSI Technology assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve a variety of risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks include those associated with the normal quarterly and fiscal year-end closing process. Examples of risks that could affect our current expectations regarding future revenues and gross margins include those associated with fluctuations in GSI Technology's operating results; GSI Technology's historical dependence on sales to a limited number of customers and fluctuations in the mix of customers and products in any period; global public health crises that reduce economic activity (including the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic and the governmental and regulatory actions relating thereto); the rapidly evolving markets for GSI Technology's products and uncertainty regarding the development of these markets; the need to develop and introduce new products to offset the historical decline in the average unit selling price of GSI Technology's products; the challenges of rapid growth followed by periods of contraction; intensive competition; and delays or unanticipated costs that may be encountered in the development of new products based on our in-place associative computing technology and the establishment of new markets and customer and partner relationships for the sale of such products. Many of these risks are currently amplified by and will continue to be amplified by, or in the future may be amplified by, the COVID-19 global pandemic. Further information regarding these and other risks relating to GSI Technology's business is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in such filings.
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| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS | |||||||||||||
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| (Unaudited) | |||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||
| June 30, | March 31, | June 30, | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||
| Net revenues | |||||||||||||
| Cost of goods sold | 4,009 | 3,828 | 3,571 | ||||||||||
| Gross profit | 4,782 | 3,858 | 3,050 | ||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | |||||||||||||
| Research & development | 6,103 | 6,124 | 5,825 | ||||||||||
| Selling, general and administrative | 3,040 | 2,999 | 2,920 | ||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 9,143 | 9,123 | 8,745 | ||||||||||
| Operating loss | (4,361 | ) | (5,265 | ) | (5,695 | ) | |||||||
| Interest and other income, net | (20 | ) | (21 | ) | 106 | ||||||||
| - | - | ||||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (4,381 | ) | (5,286 | ) | (5,589 | ) | |||||||
| Provision for income taxes | (172 | ) | (304 | ) | 487 | ||||||||
| Net loss | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||
| Net loss per share, basic | ( | ) | $ | (0.21 | ) | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net loss per share, diluted | ( | ) | $ | (0.21 | ) | ( | ) | ||||||
| Weighted-average shares used in | |||||||||||||
| computing per share amounts: | |||||||||||||
| Basic | 24,095 | 23,912 | 23,440 | ||||||||||
| Diluted | 24,095 | 23,912 | 23,440 | ||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation included in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations: | |||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||
| June 30, | March 31, | June 30, | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||
| Cost of goods sold | $ | 86 | |||||||||||
| Research & development | 470 | 400 | 413 | ||||||||||
| Selling, general and administrative | 283 | 267 | 254 | ||||||||||
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| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS | |||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||
| (Unaudited) | |||||||||||
| June 30, 2021 | March 31, 2021 | ||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | |||||||||||
| Short-term investments | 7,048 | 9,717 | |||||||||
| Accounts receivable | 4,619 | 3,665 | |||||||||
| Inventory | 3,931 | 4,343 | |||||||||
| Other current assets | 1,798 | 1,487 | |||||||||
| Net property and equipment | 7,492 | 7,328 | |||||||||
| Long-term investments | 4,281 | 5,792 | |||||||||
| Other assets | 10,878 | 11,046 | |||||||||
| Total assets | |||||||||||
| Current liabilities | |||||||||||
| Long-term liabilities | 4,524 | 4,558 | |||||||||
| Stockholders' equity | 72,974 | 75,592 | |||||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | |||||||||||
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