Kishore Seendripu
Analyst · Stifel, Nicolaus
Thank you, Nick, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for joining us today. Before jumping into the financial highlights, I would like to note that in the first quarter of 2012, we witnessed momentum related to strong sequential growth in our Cable revenues. At the same time, we bolstered our position in the Cable segment with announcements of market-leading, full-spectrum reception cable receivers, representing our fourth generation RF Broadband Reception Technology platform. Additionally, we continue to make significant progress towards expanding our presence in terrestrial markets with exciting new product offering and seeing growth in future markets such as satellite.
Now to the specifics. Net revenue in the first quarter was a record high for MaxLinear at $20.7 million, up 7% over the fourth quarter of 2011 and up 22% from the year-ago quarter, which exceeded the high end of our guidance. GAAP and non-GAAP gross profits in the first quarter were 60% of revenue, within our prior guidance range of 61% plus or minus 2%.
GAAP net loss in the first quarter was $6.6 million or $0.20 per diluted share, which includes stock-based compensation expenses of $2.2 million, $1 million for an accrual related to our performance-based 2012 bonus plan which, if achieved, will be settled in stock in 2013, approximately $0.3 million in nonrecurring IP license expenses, and $1.1 million in professional fees arising from the voluntary export compliance review initiated by our audit committee.
The export compliance matter was disclosed in our fiscal fourth quarter 2011 results and in our most recent form 10-K filed on March 14, 2012. Non-GAAP net loss for the first quarter was $2 million or $0.06 per diluted share.
I will now discuss the current trends we are seeing in our business. Cable was once again the highlight of our business in the first quarter, with the Cable revenue increasing approximately 54% from fourth quarter of 2011. In the first quarter of 2012, Cable represented 58% of our total revenue.
We continue to benefit from the continued deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 Voice & Data Gateways at service providers for addressing the ever-increasing secular demand for broadband data and multimedia access at the homes. We are encouraged by our growth in Cable as it continues to be broad-based, with approximately half of the Cable revenues attributable to voice and data applications, and the remainder derived from video applications. These video applications range from single and dual channel high-definition digital to analog converter set-top boxes, basic set-top boxes, AVR boxes to high-end channel-dense video server gateways.
Recently, in March 2012, we announced our MaxLinear 265 and 267 Full-Spectrum Capture cable receiver solutions. These products represent our fourth generation industry-leading 40-nanometer CMOS RF Broadband Receiver Technology platform. The MxL265 and MxL267 Full-Spectrum Cable Capture receiver products set the industry benchmark for RF performance integration and low-power per channels, along with the total number of channels received simultaneously. The MxL265 and MxL267 devices capture the full 1 gigahertz cable spectrum and receive 16- or 24-channels, respectively, elevating the cable spectrum at a power per channel that is lower by a factor of 5 to 10 compared to discrete single-channel tuners. Each device replaces several discrete tuners in a gateway or a set-top box. With just one broadband multichannel receiver, it minimizes PCB footprint, eliminates expensive external RF component and simplifies design and cost of customer platforms that required multiple channel access. The MxL265 and MxL267 devices also support 8 upstream channels for interactive services. More importantly, these cable Full-Spectrum Capture receivers validate our underlying fourth generation 40-nanometer CMOS RF Broadband Technology platform, which is at the core of our new target-addressable, market-expanding product initiatives in satellite and other allied markets.
Moving to the Terrestrial market. Our Terrestrial revenues were down 26% quarter-on-quarter in first quarter 2012 as the TV market continues to struggle at a very macro level beyond the typical effect of seasonality. Despite near-term macro softness in the Terrestrial markets worldwide, we continue to garner strong design win momentum in key areas such as hybrid TV. In the Terrestrial market, we're investing to position ourselves for future growth in target-addressable, market-expanding set-top box system-on-chip solutions. Earlier in first quarter of 2012, we announced MxL683 which is a tuner demodulator, system-on-chip receiver as opposed to the ISDB-T broadcast digital TV standard deployed to the large population regions of Japan, South America, Indonesia and the Philippines. These solutions can be leveraged across a wide range of terrestrial platforms, from TVs to cable, satellite, DVR, BluRay and IP set-top boxes.
We continue to see strong design win momentum in both hybrid TV and in hybrid, terrestrial and IP set-top boxes. Recently, we announced that Cyfrowy Polsat, the largest Polish media group and satellite TV platform, has elected our MaxLinear 601 global TV tuner for use in its own T-High Definition 1000 set-top box, which is the heart of the new nationwide hybrid broadcast digital TV and IPTV service.
In conclusion, in the first quarter, we delivered revenue that was above the top of our guidance range and represented a new record for the company. We also continue to generate strong design win momentum in both cable and terrestrial applications. We're not only excited about our near-term revenue growth opportunities, but also look forward to the launch of additional market leading product offerings later in 2012 that will significantly expand our addressable market.
With that, now let me turn the call over to Adam Spice, our Chief Financial Officer, for a review of the financials and our forward guidance.