G. Tyson Tuttle
Analyst · B. Riley
Thanks, Bill. At a high level, we're encouraged by the strength of the business. We're maintaining a tremendous drumbeat of design wins with lifetime revenue potential up over 50% compared to Q1 of last year. Where demand weakness in the market has persisted, we've been able to secure new business and expand our served markets. In the product areas where we're dealing with some headwinds, in touch, in handsets and tuners and in modems, we're offsetting these declining businesses with exciting new products. Let's start with Broadcast, which was 35% of revenue in Q1. Revenue was up 7% sequentially and more than 20% year-over-year. The video business performed well through the 2013 model year transition in our customers and was up 8% sequentially. Video is on track to be a strong growth driver in 2013. We're expanding our market share to greater than 1/3 of the total TV market this year. We're also getting better visibility into 2014. The 2014 model year design wins are already going very well. Total wins were up by nearly double compared to Q1 of last year. Good traction at new customers in Europe and China are certainly contributing to the market share expansion we're anticipating next year. But Broadcast growth is about more than video alone. If you look at our Broadcast business over a 5-year period, we believe it can grow 10% or greater on a compounded basis, and that growth is not resting on the shoulders of any one product area. Let's start with our audio products. We've been weathering the decline of our FM tuner business and handsets. That product revenue will go from 5% of total revenue last year to 2% to 3% of revenue in Q2. The remaining majority of the audio product revenue will be driving a compelling long-term growth trajectory starting this year. We've leveraged an efficient, proprietary architecture to create products than open up markets and cement our position in consumer radio. For example, at the low end, we recently announced another addition to our consumer radio family. This new all-in-one, AM/FM radio solution addresses the 115-million-unit-per-year market for wheel-tuned radios built in China. Existing solutions use dozens of discrete components requiring labor-intensive hand tuning and provide poor performance. We can resolve these issues for customers in a single cost-effective IC. At the high end, we just announced our first family of digital radio products addressing the opportunity for HD radio and digital audio broadcasts in consumer and, ultimately, automotive applications. Leveraging Silicon Labs' proven architecture, digital radio is an exciting new vector for our AM/FM radio solutions. Already shipping to customers, these new products solve a number of the issues limiting digital radio adoption in the past. They reduce complexity and system costs, and they improve performance and reduce power consumption. The high dollar content per system and our competitive differentiation are expected to create another incremental growth driver. And then there's automotive radio. This is a market we're beginning to penetrate that has a $300 million TAM. We've been steadily making progress against the incumbent competitor with our highly integrated CMOS-based solution, and we expect automotive alone will be a $100 million business for us over time. So with video looking strong through 2014 and an increasingly diverse growth story in audio, we believe the Broadcast business will be an important brick in our foundation as we build towards $1 billion in revenue. Our Broad-based business, which was 46% of revenue in Q1, was up 15% year-over-year. With large end markets, relatively small market share and very competitive products, we've just started to scratch the surface in this area. We took a pause in Q1 with Broad-based down about 10% sequentially driven primarily by our legacy touch business, which declined by about 25%. As you know, this trend will accelerate into Q2, providing a continued short-term headwind for us. Our MCU and Timing businesses were down modestly in Q1 as industrial and communications demand remained muted, but we're expecting a rebound in these product lines in Q2 as the end market shows signs of life. In fact, we expect industrial revenue will be up by nearly 10% across the company in Q2 as new customer projects begin to ramp. Our confidence in our Broad-based business has a lot to do with the target markets we're attacking. For example, we're directly targeting energy efficiency. We have an industry-leading suite of solutions to enable energy-efficient design in a small footprint without performance compromise. Our power products fall into this category. We offer the industry's best solution alternative to opto couplers and opto drivers, for example. This quarter, we'll be announcing our latest innovation targeted at energy savings and motor control applications, one of the largest segments of the embedded industrial market. We're also attacking the wireless connectivity market, developing into the Internet of Things. Our low-power capability is critical here, where battery life is often a primary design criteria. We're seeing increasing activity in areas like solar power monitoring, street lighting and RFID readers. We made a number of announcements recently reflecting our continued push into connected applications for the Internet of Things. We are one of the first vendors to be certified on the newly released ZigBee IP specification, the first open standard for IPv6-based wireless mesh networks. This and other standardization efforts to simplify the interoperability between connected devices will be important enablers for the Internet of Things. We introduced an ultra-low-power transceiver optimized for China's rapidly growing smart metering market. The new solution is ideal for in-home energy management systems and other smart grid infrastructure applications. The installed base of smart meters in China is expected to grow from 139 million units last year to 377 million units by 2020, and we plan to be part of that growth story. And we announced a collaboration with SIGFOX to deliver Ultra-Narrowband, long-range and low-cost wireless M2M communication for patient monitors, security devices, street lights and environmental sensors. This solution enables Internet connectivity for devices that would have been otherwise difficult or impractical to reach until now. And the third major trend we're attacking is the explosion in demand for bandwidth and related infrastructure to support it. Our Timing products, one of our most promising growth areas, was down modestly off a record quarter in Q4 but up more than 20% compared to Q1 last year. Carrier infrastructure investments have been slow to materialize, but we've been growing the business by expanding our content and communications systems through new product introductions and by adding new customers in embedded and consumer applications. Timing is leading our design win growth with wins at record levels. Near term, Timing revenue is expected to grow into Q2, and we're incrementally more positive on the back half as the communications market begins to show some signs of improvement. The Access business was about 18% of revenue and was up year-over-year but down sequentially by mid-single-digits, as expected, due to some choppiness in our Voice over IP business. Modems and Power over Ethernet remain stable. We expect the Access business will decline into Q2 as our modem business and set-top boxes continues to wind down. Now for Q2 guidance. We expect revenue will be between $140 million and $146 million. The revenue outlook is driven by the decline in businesses that we've been exiting for a number of quarters. Combined, FM tuners and handsets, our touch controller and modems and set-top boxes will be down 50% sequentially, which is over $10 million. As we exit Q2, these declining businesses will drop to under 8% of revenue, and we believe they will reach a steady state by year end, becoming a negligible headwind. Our remaining products are conservatively forecasted to grow about 6% in Q2, which will be driven by our key investment areas: MCU, Timing and Broadcast. As Bill mentioned, we expect gross margin to improve with mix by about 100 basis points to 61% to 62%. We anticipate operating expenses will be up by about $1 million, and our tax rate will be about 17%. Therefore, GAAP EPS guidance for the second quarter is approximately $0.30 to $0.36 and on a non-GAAP basis is $0.46 to $0.52. That's all we have for prepared comments for now. I would like to take your questions. Shannon?