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| To conclude, we're encouraged by the continued positive momentum we're seeing for silicon carbide in electric vehicles and also very excited about the expanding growth opportunities we're seeing in several additional markets with current and prospective customers |
| Our investments in sales and marketing staff continue to have a positive impact on expanding our customer engagement and marketing reach to support revenue growth |
| We're seeing continued momentum for new WaferPak designs with existing and new customers to meet their customer and market requirements |
| During the quarter, we had record shipments of our FOX WaferPak Contactors in both revenue and units with revenues reaching well over 50% of total revenues for the quarter |
| We're also very pleased with the continued stream of new designs for WaferPaks we're seeing |
| And our FOX new production system configuration, which can be used to test and burn in these new optical I/O devices expands the market opportunity of the FOX-XP system even further |
| Gayn Erickson I just said another customer that's in here looking at it, and they're very excited, and they gave us some very good feedback |
| I know that's teasing and they're super impressed with it, and we're just pretty proud of it |
| Our FOX wafer level test and burn-in solution with our proprietary WaferPak full wafer contactors are a great fit for the silicon photonics semiconductor market |
| We finished the first quarter with solid revenue of $20.6 million and non-GAAP net income of $5.2 million, the strongest first quarter in our history, which has historically been our seasonally softest quarter |
| Acceptance and production release of these FOX XPs with the integrated aligners and the associated revenue recognition provide a solid start to our second quarter revenue and pave the path for revenue recognition immediately upon all future shipments of these products to this customer and forecasted shipments to additional customers this fiscal year |
| We're very excited about this prospect as well as the opportunity to showcase our capabilities to the GaN team with the silicon carbide team watching closely |
| We're pleased to announce another strong quarter for Aehr Test Systems after record fiscal 2023 |
| So in the next couple of years, we expect Aehr to benefit from both an increased number of electric vehicles being sold as well as a significant increase in silicon carbide needing our solution for those electric vehicles |
| While we believe it will likely be several years before we see significant revenue generated from this optical chip-to-chip communications market, this order from our lead silicon photonics customer and their request for an accelerated shipping date is encouraging and provide some data to suggest that this market opportunity could happen sooner |
| We continue to believe in the company's growth trajectory as our differentiated products and technologies continue to attract and win new customers who design more cost-effective and more efficient wafer level test and burn-in solutions |
| Strong demand for our WaferPaks contributed to a significant year-over-year increase in revenue in the first quarter |
| We continue to generate healthy cash flow and finished the quarter with a strong cash position |
| So that's what we did for we're thrilled to death, and the systems - the systems are working really well |
| We exceeded the consensus on both our top and bottom line |
| We're getting really good feedback |
| Also contributing to the increase in gross margin in the first quarter was the overall higher revenue level compared to Q1 last year |
| With this, we're off to a very good start to our fiscal year, and we're reaffirming our expectation to grow fiscal full year revenue by at least 50% to over $100 million and profit by over 90% year-over-year growth to at least $28 million |
| The increase in gross margin reflects a favorable product mix of higher-margin WaferPaks |
| So nice |
| Larry Chlebina Excellent, really exciting |
| We continue to be very enthusiastic about this market, which includes the current photonics transceiver market used in data and telecommunications and the upcoming application of silicon photonics integrated circuits for use in optical chip-to-chip communication, which we see as a major market opportunity |
| These additional applications expand our market opportunity beyond the 4.5 million 6-inch equivalent silicon carbide wafers that William Blair forecast will be needed per year by 2030 just for electric vehicles |
| We continue to feel confident that this customer will move forward with us using the FOX-XP multi-wafer solution for their high-volume needs, including initial purchase orders and system shipments this fiscal year |
| I'm feeling really good |
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| At this voltage, the devices will experience electrical arcing when tested at 1,200 volts under normal testing environments, which creates a very real problem for conventional testers on wafer probers and probe cards |
| So anyhow, it was worse than would be expected if that helps |
| However, this spark actually damages the devices permanently |
| But operating margins dropped by 500 basis points |
| Chris, on the 300 basis point decline in gross margin |
| Bookings in the first quarter were $18.4 million, up from $15.2 million in the preceding Q4 and down slightly by 4% from $19.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 |
| So if you remember, historically and actually consistently, our aligners have been amongst our lowest margin products |
| So I think that has a chance to collapse itself |
| Basically, when a device is first manufactured, all semiconductor devices, as soon as they are functionally good, they have a likelihood of failure at that point in time |
| And as time goes on, the likelihood that they fail actually decreases |
| But that's probably the most extreme |
| The cars were 2015 and older, and they had to recall 3.5 million cars because 22 cars had some break leakage event that caused the fire and 22 overheating |
| By contrast, other competitive systems using standard wafer progress see arcing in as little as 900 volts, which makes it impossible to do high-voltage reverse bias test and burn-in at the wafer level for devices aimed at these new 800-volt battery vehicles |
| Last week was that Hyundai had a recall of cars |
| And we think over time, they will get down to that |
| We have yet to lose a prospective customer after demonstrating our test and burn-in capabilities on their wafers |
| So I'm not sure I want to perfectly carve it because I might end up being wrong, but engineering systems, first production systems, quantities, perhaps we make it quantities with longer lead times because it's getting pretty serious with companies now |
| In fact, we've never lost a head-to-head evaluation to a competitive product since introducing our FOX-NP and XP configured with the silicon carbide and gallium nitride test resources |
| So what that looks like is the likelihood of failure drops as time goes, and then at some point, it stops dropping and it's the bottom of the bathtub curve |
| I think two to three might be aggressive, but we weren't sure |
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