Diodes Incorporated (DIOD) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Review management commentary and the analyst Q&A from Diodes Incorporated (DIOD)'s Q3 2026 earnings call. Use the transcript to track changes in demand, guidance, operating priorities, and the KPIs behind the company's reported results.
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Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome. To the Diodes Incorporated Third Quarter 26 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. At the conclusion of today's conference call, instructions will be given for the question-and-answer session. If anyone needs assistance, at any time during the conference call, please press star key followed by zero on your touch tone phone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today. Thursday, 11/05/2026. I would now like to turn the call over to Leanne Sievers, of Shelton Group Investor Relations. Leanne, please go ahead.
Leanne Sievers: Good afternoon, and welcome to Diodes' Third Quarter 26 Financial Results Conference Call. I am Leanne Sievers, President of Shelton Group. Dowd's Investor Relations firm. Joining us today are Diodes' President and CEO, Gary Yu; CFO, Brett R. Whitmire senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, Emily Yang; and Vice President of Marketing and Investor Relations, Gurmeet Dhaliwal. I would like to remind our listeners that the results announced today are preliminary as they are subject to the company finalizing its closing procedures and customary quarterly review by the company's independent registered public accounting firm. As such, these results are unaudited and subject to revision until the company files its Form 10 Q for its quarter ended 09/30/2026, In addition, management's prepared remarks contain forward looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, and management may make additional forward looking statements in response to your questions. Therefore, the company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward looking statements that is contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 2 thousand. Actual results may differ from those discussed today, and therefore, we refer you to a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Forms 10 ks and 10 Q. In addition, any projections as to the company's future performance represent management's estimates as of today, November 5, 2026. DAS assumes no obligation to update these projections in the future as market conditions may or may not change. Except to the extent required by applicable law. Additionally, the company's press release and management statements during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in GAAP and non GAAP terms. Included in the company's press release are definitions and reconciliations of GAAP to non GAAP items, which provide additional details. Also throughout the company's press release and management statements during this conference call, we refer to net income attributable to common stockholders as GAAP net income. For those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time, a recording will be available via webcast for 90 days in the Investor Relations section of Diodes' website at www.diodes.com. Now I will turn the call over to Diodes' President and CEO, Gary Yu.
Operator: Gary, please go ahead.
Gary Yu: Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us on today's conference call. As announced in our press release earlier today, our third quarter revenue reached record level, coupled with an over 500-basis-point year-over-year increase in gross margin to 36.1%. Driving significant expansion in non GAAP earnings. Global POS was also a record in the quarter increasing more than 30% year over year. Our sequential revenue growth of more than 19% was primarily driven by a record automotive revenue from continued market share gains stronger demand across broad industrial applications, and the sustained momentum in AI ecosystem applications. that contributed to record revenue in the computing market. Underpinning this growth, the benefit of the target investment we made in capacity expansion over the past year coming online. The resulting increase in loading at our manufacturing facilities also benefited gross margin along with the product mix and pricing improvements. Based on our current projection for continued growth in the fourth quarter, we expect full year revenue to increase approximately 30% over 2025 at the midpoint. In addition to being well above our historical CAGR of 10%, we continue to see strong demand momentum resulting from our new product initiatives market share gains as well as increasing content at customers. This anticipates sequential growth is once again coupled with the further non GAAP gross margin expansion up 80 basis points sequentially to 37% at the midpoint and increasing earning leverage as well as a strong cash flow generation. With that, let me now turn the call over to Brett to discuss our third quarter financial results as well as our fourth quarter guidance in more detail.
Brett R. Whitmire: Thanks, Gary, and good afternoon, everyone. Revenue for the third quarter 2026 was $533 million, An increase of approximately 36% over $392 million in the third quarter 2025 and up approximately 20% compared to the $446 million in the second quarter 2026. Gross profit for the third quarter was $192.5 million or 36.1% of revenue. compared to $121 million or 30.7% of revenue in the prior year quarter and $148 million or 33.1% of revenue in the prior quarter. Non GAAP gross profit was $193 million and non GAAP gross profit margin was 36.2%. Which excluded $400 thousand of inventory accounting associated with the acquisition of ElevATE Semiconductor. GAAP operating expenses for the third quarter were $129 million or 24.2% of revenue. And on a non GAAP basis, were $122 million or 22.9% of revenue. Which excludes $5.2 million of acquisition related intangible asset cost and $1.8 million of acquisition related costs. This compares to GAAP operating expenses in the third quarter of 2025 of $109 million or 27.8% of revenue. and $114 million or 25.6% of revenue in the prior quarter. Non GAAP operating expenses in the prior quarter were $109 million or 24.4% of revenue. Total other income and expense amounted to approximately $400 thousand of expense for the quarter, Consisting of $6 million in unrealized loss on investments, $3 million in foreign currency losses, and $800 thousand in interest of expense, offset by $4.8 million in interest in interest income, $3.8 million gain on disposal of a subsidiary, and $800 thousand in other income. Income before taxes equity and net earnings of equity investments, and non controlling interest in the third quarter of 2026 was $63 million. Compared to $19.5 million in the prior year period and $58 million in the previous quarter. Turning to income taxes. Our effective income tax rate for the third quarter was approximately 23.2%. For 2026, we continue to expect the tax rate for the full year to remain at approximately 18% plus or minus 3%. GAAP net income for the third quarter was $43.7 million or $0.95 per diluted share, compared to net income of $14.3 million or $0.31 per diluted share in the prior year quarter and net income of $46.6 million or $1.00 per diluted share last quarter. The share count used to compute GAAP diluted income per share for the third quarter 2026 was 46.2 million shares. Non GAAP adjusted net income in the third quarter was $54.5 million or $1.18 per diluted share, which excluded net of tax $7.9 million of unrealized loss on investments. $4.2 million of acquisition related intangible asset amortization costs, a $3 million gain on disposal of subsidiary, $1.4 million of acquisition related cost, and $300 thousand of acquisition related inventory amortization cost. This compares to non GAAP adjusted net income of $17.2 million or $0.37 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2025 and $32.5 million or $0.70 per diluted share in the prior quarter. Excluding noncash share based compensation expense of $7.4 million for the third quarter, net of tax, both GAAP net income and non GAAP adjusted net income would have increased by $0.16 per share. EBITDA for the third quarter was $89.7 million. Or 16.8% of revenue. Compared to $46.6 million or 11.9% of revenue in the prior-year period and $83.5 million or 18.7% of revenue in the prior quarter. We have included in our earnings release a reconciliation of GAAP net income to non GAAP adjusted income and GAAP net income to EBITDA which provides additional details. Cash flow provided by operations was $97.2 million for the third quarter. Free cash flow was $43.9 million including $53.2 million of capital expenditures. Net cash flow was positive $134 million which includes $35 million for the stock buyback program. Turning to the balance sheet. At the end of the third quarter, cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash plus short term investments totaled approximately $578 million. Working capital was approximately $1.1 billion and total debt was approximately $405 million. During the quarter, we completed a private placement of 0% convertible senior notes due 2031, the aggregate principal amount $375 million. Including the initial purchaser's exercise of their option to purchase additional notes in full. Generating net proceeds of $343 million after deducting $10.2 million in debt issuance costs and $21.9 million of capped call transaction premiums. The company also used $35 million of the net proceeds to repurchase 360 thousand shares of our common stock in a privately negotiated transaction. In terms of inventory, at the end of the third quarter, total inventory days decreased 11 days to approximately 141 as compared to 152 last quarter. Finished goods inventory days were approximately 44 compared from 51 days last quarter. Total inventory dollars increased $30.5 million from the prior quarter to $535 million. Consisting of a $25.1 million increase in work in process. $14.8 million increase in raw materials and a $9.4 million decrease in finished goods. The increase in inventory helps to support our customers and expected growth as well as longer wafer manufacturing lead times. For the third quarter, there was a $29.5 million addition to inventory associated with the acquisition of ElevATE Semiconductor. Without this increase, total inventory dollars would have been approximately flat compared to last quarter. Capital expenditures on a cash basis were $53.2 million for the third quarter or 10% of revenue, which is above our targeted annualized range of 5 to 9% of revenue. But within the range year-to-date at 8.6% of revenue. Now turning to our outlook. For the fourth quarter, we expect revenue to increase to approximately $550 million plus or minus 3%. At the midpoint, this represents a 40.4% increase year over year and a 3.2% increase sequentially. Non GAAP gross margin is expected to expand to 37% plus or minus 1%. Non GAAP adjusted EPS is expected to be $1.35, plus or minus $0.10. With that, I now turn the call over to Emily Yang.
Emily Yang: Thank you, Brett, and good afternoon. As Gary and Brett mentioned, revenue in the third quarter was up 19.5% sequentially, and up 35.8% over the prior year period. Exceeding the midpoint of our guidance This is mainly driven by very strong demand across all regions, and led by North America, followed by Asia and Europe. Pericom product revenue reached a record high, which is greater than 3x since the acquisition. Global POS also reached record levels, driven by the Americas followed by Europe and Asia. And channel inventory decreased in terms of weeks again this quarter with weeks lower than our normal range of 11 to 14 weeks. While supply continues to be tight, we remain strategically focused on long term sustainable business and demand creation. Our third quarter results and the expectation for the continuous growth into the fourth quarter reflects our focus on key customer partnerships as well as market share gains, combined with our strong operational performance, capacity expansion activities, and the success of our hybrid manufacturing strategy. Looking at the fourth quarter, we see continued strength in automotive, industrial, and AI related applications. With a strong backlog and demand pipeline, we are guiding more than 3% quarter over quarter growth compared to our usual 5% to 6% down. During the quarter, our margin also improved 300 basis points from 33.1% to 36.1%. This was mainly driven by product mix improvements price adjustments, and capacity utilization improvement and our fourth quarter guidance of 37% underscores our continued momentum in margin improvement. Looking at global sales in the third quarter, Asia represented 79% of the revenue Europe 11%, and North America 10%. In terms of our end markets, computing was 27% of Diodes product revenue, industrial 24%, automotive 22%, consumer 17%, and communication 10% of product revenue. Our automotive and industrial revenue combined totaled 46% of product revenue which was up 2 percentage points from last quarter. Now let me review the end markets in greater detail. Starting with the automotive market, revenue grew 26% sequentially and almost 60% year-over-year to reach a quarterly record, driven by content expansion and market share gains. This momentum is extending into the fourth quarter as demand remains strong. We continue to benefit from the application trend of connected driving advanced vehicle electronics, and electrification, which are driving higher semiconductor content per vehicle During the quarter, we saw continued design-win momentum across ADAS, telematic, infotainment, and digital cockpit applications. As vehicles incorporate more displays, sensors, processors, and communication interfaces, demand for our timing, connectivity, and power management solutions continue to increase. We also saw strong traction across lighting, body electronics, and safety applications. Supported by new production ramp and design wins for LED drivers, smart power devices, current monitors, protection products. In electrification, we secure additional wins in the EV power system onboard charging, and battery related applications. Overall, our expanding content position across connected driving, vehicle electronics, lighting, safety, and electrification continues to create growth opportunities across both ICE and EV platforms, and support our long term automotive growth strategy. Turning to the industrial market, revenue increased 20 percent sequentially and 50% year-over-year, Market demand continues to strengthen especially for expanded content opportunities across AI infrastructure, automation, energy, smart metering, and emerging robotic applications. In humanoid robotics, we secured a design-in for our level shifter portfolio on robot control board. Demand for power management solutions also remain strong across smart meters, energy systems, embedded systems, industrial automation, cooling applications, smart buildings, outdoor lighting, and power adapters. We also continue to strengthen our position in AI data center power infrastructure, seeing increasing demand for our silicon carbide solutions in high power 800 volt and 400 volt server and AI platform power supplies. Through our acquisition of ElevATE, we are benefiting from favorable conditions in the semiconductor automated test equipment market, which is experiencing 1 of the strongest growth cycles in its history. Industrial growth is being driven by increasing demand for higher voltage and more capable test platforms. We believe ElevATE is well positioned to capitalize on this trend with its differentiated high voltage product portfolio and new product introductions. In the computing market, revenue increased 16% sequentially and 33% year over year to reach a quarterly record and remained the largest end market for Diodes. During the quarter, we continued to see strong momentum in AI server, data center and enterprise storage, whereas mobile demand was a little soft. We expect AI server data center and the enterprise storage will continue to drive momentum in the fourth quarter to offset the slowdown in the notebook and the PC market. AI infrastructure investment is also driving growth across our broader server portfolio. Our configurable low power PCIe packet switch business saw significant growth. Demand for our PCIe 6.0, 7.0 timing product remains strong. With new clock generators multiplexers, and buffers gaining adoption across next-generation AI server platforms. Our PCIe timing portfolio is seeing huge traction with several recent design wins with major AI, clock, and server customers. We are also seeing solid momentum in enterprise SSDs and AI data center storage supported by growing NVMe SSD demand. Increasing AI server power density is creating additional opportunities across power management, monitoring, protection, and thermal management. Overall, increasing AI infrastructure complexity and power requirements are expanding our content opportunities across timing, connectivity, storage, power management, protection, and thermal management. Positioning computing as an important growth driver for diodes. In the consumer market, revenue increased over 20% sequentially and 30% year-over-year. We continue to see positive momentum in our consumer business supported by growth across premium home audio, consumer controls, energy efficiency lighting, USB-C power, and protection products. USB-C adoption continues to expand across connected consumer devices, including TV set top boxes, routers, and handheld gaming systems, driving growth for our USB-C power solutions as the interface become more widely used for both charging and data connectivities. These opportunities demonstrate the increase breadth of our product portfolio across audio, power, protection, connectivity and timing for consumer applications. Lastly, in the communication market, revenue increased 10% sequentially and approximately 6% year-over-year, representing 10% of our total product revenue. Networking driven by AI applications continue with strong momentum while smartphone market in China remains soft. AI driven networking is creating new growth opportunities with continued demand for 800-gigabit optical modules and the beginning of the 1.6T ramp is expanding opportunities for our connectivity and timing products. Our level shifting solutions are also gaining traction with optical module manufacturers. As data center move to a higher network speed, optical transceivers require increasing precise ultra low jitter timing to support high-speed connectivity between servers and clock infrastructure. This plays to the core strengths in quartz-based timing solutions, including differential oscillators used as a reference clock for optical modules and other communication applications. In summary, we are very pleased with the achievement of our record quarterly revenue and strong gross margin expansion as we benefit from the improved product mix through the record revenue in automotive and computing market combined with pricing and loading improvements. With our broad portfolio and diversified end market, we are less dependent on any 1 market segment. Our key focus areas of automotive, industrial, and AI applications are well balanced and will continue to drive diodes future growth momentum. In fourth quarter, we are guiding for further expansion across revenue, gross margin and non GAAP earnings. Which put us well ahead of our time line towards achievement of our 3-year financial goals. With that, we now open the floor to questions. Operator?
Operator: We will now begin the question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on your touch-tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question today comes from David Williams with Needham. Please go ahead.
David Williams: Hey. Good afternoon, everyone, and congratulations on the solid results here.
Emily Yang: Thank you.
David Williams: I guess maybe first thing that comes to mind, and, Emily mentioned this but your target. So your targets you set earlier this year are looking a bit out of date, given your success here. Just curious if that is something you would revisit here in the near term or if there is anything we should be thinking about in terms of those targets and how you are thinking about the growth over the next year?
Emily Yang: Yeah. Hi, David. This is Emily. We will definitely revisit again during probably the next earnings call to reset some of the goals. But now for this quarter, I think our IR material will actually reflect you know, the result as of today or at as of end of Q3. So you should be able to get some of the information out from the IR presentation. But thank you.
David Williams: Alright. Very good. And then, just kind of thinking about the lead times and the inventories. Can you talk a little bit about the price environment that you just mentioned? But also how are your lead times trending? And is that creating any issues in terms of, are you able to meet demand and maybe how long your forecasts your customers are providing you? Thanks.
Emily Yang: Yeah. So in general, lead time is still extended. Right? The supply is still a little bit constrained. What we are doing is actually working with the customers, understanding their true demand, and provide the best support we can If you look at overall unit shipment, that we provided, you know, I think, physically, calendar year 2025, we ship about 45 billion units. And using Q3 run rate, we are actually at the run rate about 60 billion units. So as you can see, we actually increased the shipment volume significantly. This is actually driven by some of the aggressive initiatives that we put together, including capacity expansion, product mix improvements, and stuff like that. So I would say all in all, it is a good representation of the increased focus of expansion our capacity and better support the customer.
David Williams: Okay. Brett. And if I could sneak just 1 last 1 in, and that is on the AI infrastructure or AI opportunity for you all. that is been a very, a big area of growth. Is there a way for us to think about the magnitude of what that contribution is today in terms of your total revenue base?
Emily Yang: Yeah. We have not really broken out the AI revenue and report it that way. But I did mention before the whole AI ecosystem, data center server is definitely a major portion of it. We also mentioned the total content per box is about $109. But on top of that, we have the industrial applications, all the power supply. We see that as a big potential upside for us, especially next year, you know, with some of the new designs, you know, transition to the 800 volt, 400 volt, and stuff like that. We also see networking, as an example. Whether it switches or routers. Also, you know, the transceiver the optical modules will continue to drive a lot of momentum. But I would say, all in all, this is really positive for us, and we are excited for the growth. But 1 thing I do want to point out, right? I know AI is a really hot topic today or for the last few months. But 1 thing about Diodes, we are very well diversified into a lot of different end market. Using the example of automotive,, we actually grow more than 60% or close to 60% year-over-year. Even industrial, we actually grow 50% year-over-year, right? So I think that is 1 thing I want to point out. AI will continue to drive the momentum as well as automotive and industrial, and some other applications.
David Williams: Alright. Thanks so much.
Operator: The next question comes from Will Stein with Truist. Please go ahead.
Elliot: Hi, this is Elliot on for Will. Thanks for letting me ask a question. First, if we could start with margins. As we move into calendar year 2027, can you help us think about potential margin expansion and incrementals for both gross and operating? And maybe generally the puts and takes as we get outside of the next couple of quarters?
Brett R. Whitmire: Yeah. Elliot, this is Brett. I will make a couple of comments here. That I think what we. As we have kinda said before, I think we will continue to have improvement in our margin and leverage based on improved, utilization in our wafer fabs that we have positioned for expansion. We are also going to see improved margin as our revenue grows, which we would expect that to continue. I think at our we are growing at a really great rate in the back half. We would expect to continue to grow to gain share as we go into next year. And so I think those are the main. From an additional leverage, you have the manufacturing, but you have also got the improved product mix. And the improvements that we are going to be making that will benefit us on the margin side.
Gary Yu: Yes. You know, this Gary. At this moment, we are hitting on that 37% as we give you the guidance in fourth quarter. I think our target model is, like, USD 2.5 billion with a 40% margin, and we are marching forward on the right track toward that direction.
Elliot: Okay. Brett. Thank you. And then my follow-up, could you talk a little bit about just demand linearity that you saw through such a strong quarter Did it build as the quarter went? You have guided for more accelerating growth as we move forward. So how did the linearity trend throughout the quarter And maybe anything you have seen in October relative to your prior, such a strong quarter? Thanks.
Emily Yang: Yeah. So this is Emily. I think Q4 usually is a down quarter, about 5% to 6% for us. We guided more than 3% quarter over quarter. This is actually based on the strong backlog and design guidelines for which we actually have visibility. I think if you really look at the end market, right, automotive, industrial, AI-related applications will continue to drive some of the momentum into the Q4. October compared to the previous quarter, we definitely have good visibility from the backlog. as well as a very strong beginning backlog. So with all this factors put together, we actually provided much stronger guidance than our usual, seasonality. Thank you.
Operator: The next question comes from Tristan Gerra with Baird. Please go ahead.
Tristan Gerra: Given the decline that is been well advertised in PCs, notebooks, into Q4, Is it fair to assume that there is fungibility and you can reallocate quickly do this to other end markets, which presumably will be a higher margin and that helps the mix, but also to reduce maybe lead times in some areas that are very constrained.
Emily Yang: Hi, Tristan. This is Emily. Right. So, of course, it is product by product. it is not across the board. But in general, the capacity should be able to share among different products as well as sometimes the front end capacity as well as the wafers. So not 100%, but there is a lot of flex that we can work things around. Just also keep in mind that I think I mentioned, the AI portion of the servers and the data center will continue to be strong. And that also will help us offset some of the softness in a specific market segment.
Tristan Gerra: Okay. And then as my follow-up, the higher loadings that you described, is it solely driven by a higher demand, or is there also some migration from products that were previously outsourced that you are migrating in-house?
Gary Yu: Okay. Hey, Tristan. This is Gary. So like Emily mentioned, market demand for Diodes is very, very strong. Right? Even though we continue to expand our capacity and most of our internal facility are fully loaded. Right? So far, the. Our fab in Scotland and the fab in South Portland are still not fully loaded yet. But we will continue to see utilization improve on second source program, from outside fab and also the new demand for our newly designing, designing into those 2 fabs for customers. So I would say both. Right.
Tristan Gerra: Thank you very much.
Emily Yang: Thank you, Tristan.
Operator: The next question comes from Michael Manning with Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Michael Manning: Hi. Thanks so much for taking my questions. To start, I wanted to get your sense of where you think we are in the cycle. Revenue right now is past the prior peak. You have essentially outgrown seasonality for the last 2 years. So, I mean, are you seeing restocking behavior consistently across all your end markets? And how do you ensure the quality of demand, especially in the distributor channel, which grew a lot on this past quarter? How do you ensure there is no double or excess ordering, given that there is some supply constraints cropping up elsewhere in the industry? Thank you.
Emily Yang: Yeah. So I think, Michael, it is a little bit hard to predict the overall market. But all in all, I would just talk specific on the Diodes situation. I did mention, our POS quarter over quarter growth. If we look at year over year, actually more than 30% year-over-year growth. So you can actually see demand is actually very, very strong. Right? So all in all, I also mentioned that our channel inventory decreased in terms of weeks again this quarter. That is below our normal range, which also means that we do not really have the privilege to restock anything. Our key focus is actually a continued focus on the POS growth, right? I think the number of weeks of channel inventory a lot of time is based on the POS results. What we want to focus is actually putting the right product, putting the right mix, on the shelf of the distribution to continue to enable our POS future growth down the road. So that will continue to be our focus. And, I would say that will be our strategy moving forward. We definitely do not want to repeat the challenge that we faced few years back. So we actually monitored this very, very closely.
Michael Manning: Brett. Thank you. And as a follow-up, on this touches on some of the other questions that were asked prior. For gross margins, I know there were a number of initiatives done over the last 2 to 3 years to essentially help them structurally improve when demand returns. I think 1 of those initiatives was moving more wafers internally, right, from your third-party foundry network. Another 1 was moving to larger wafers. You were also doing cost reductions on a broad swath of parts. So for all of those kind of internal initiatives, have you largely completed those? Is there still a lot more to go as you look throughout the rest of the portfolio, And when do we really start to see the margin tailwinds from this? It seems like it is already happening, but how much more left is there from those internal self-help initiatives? Thank you.
Emily Yang: Yeah. I think like Gary mentioned, right, we have a goal of $1 billion gross profit dollars. And with the model of 40% margin, as you can see with our fourth quarter at 37%, we still have room to go. I think the key focus for margin improvement is separated into a few areas. 1 of the key initiative is product mix improvement. And as you can see in the third quarter, our auto and industrial increased to 46%, which is a 2-percentage-point improvement compared to last quarter. We also mentioned Pericom products, a record. All this is actually a good demonstration of the product mix improvement initiative that we continue driving. Right? The second thing is, you kind of alluded to, we call them manufacturing efficiency improvement. Whether it is actually moving to a larger wafer or more loading into the factory. This will directly helps with the revenue improvement overall, right? Revenue usually increases the loading. At the same time, we are doing a lot of initiatives to maximize the capacity return overall and reducing the underloading cost. Right? So we believe that with the combination with the new product introduction, well, with the initiative that we put in place, there is still a lot of room for us to continue to improve the margin for the quarters to come.
Michael Manning: Thank you.
Operator: The next question comes from Tristan Gerra with Baird. Hi, Tristan. Tristan, your line is open. You may ask your question.
Tristan Gerra: Can you hear me now?
Operator: We can hear you now.
Tristan Gerra: Oh, okay. Sorry about that. I could not help coming back. Quick follow-up. At the OEM level, and outside of AI, obviously? Is there any attempt to rebuild inventories? there is been some advertised China softness into European exports. Or maybe even in industrial, or do you see OEM -- not in this sphere, but OEM inventory levels, still very low, depending on whether you actually have visibility on that.
Emily Yang: Yeah. Tristan, this is Emily. Based on based on our communication with all our Tier 1 customers, at this moment, we still more on a hand-to-mouth situation. I do not really think there is a lot of privilege for them to build up inventory at this moment. So we are working with them very closely to try to understand their shelf policy, how many weeks, and we actually monitor very closely.
Tristan Gerra: Thank you very much again.
Operator: This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Gary Yu for any closing remarks.
Gary Yu: Thank you, everyone, for participating on today's call. We look forward to reporting our continued progress on next quarter's conference call. Operator, you may now disconnect.
Operator: The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect your lines.
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