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Additionally, this conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed by all interested parties in the Investors section of MACOM's website at http://www.macom.com. To listen to the live call, please go to the Investors section of MACOM's website and click on the conference call link at least fifteen minutes prior to the start of the conference call. For those unable to participate during the live broadcast, a replay will be available shortly after the call and will remain available for approximately 30 days.
About MACOM
MACOM enables a better-connected and safer world by delivering breakthrough semiconductor technologies for optical, wireless and satellite networks that satisfy society’s insatiable demand for information.
Today, MACOM powers the infrastructure that millions of lives and livelihoods depend on every minute to communicate, transact business, travel, stay informed and be entertained. Our technology increases the speed and coverage of the mobile Internet and enables fiber optic networks to carry previously unimaginable volumes of traffic to businesses, homes and datacenters.
Keeping us all safe, MACOM technology enables next-generation radars for air traffic control and weather forecasting, as well as mission success on the modern networked battlefield.
MACOM is the partner of choice to the world’s leading communications infrastructure, aerospace and defense companies, helping solve their most complex challenges in areas including network capacity, signal coverage, energy efficiency and field reliability, through its best-in-class team and broad portfolio of RF, microwave, millimeterwave and lightwave semiconductor products.
MACOM is a pillar of the semiconductor industry, thriving for more than 60 years of daring to change the world for the better, through bold technological strokes that deliver true competitive advantage to customers and superior value to investors.
Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard. MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
MACOM, M/A-COM, M/A-COM Technology Solutions, M/A-COM Tech, Partners in RF & Microwave and related logos are trademarks of MACOM. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For more information about MACOM, please visit www.macom.com, follow @MACOMtweets on Twitter, join MACOM on LinkedIn, or visit the MACOM YouTube Channel.
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release and our commentary in our conference call held today each contain forward-looking statements based on MACOM management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. Forward-looking statements include, among others, information concerning our stated business outlook and future results of operations, the opportunity for the combined AppliedMicro and MACOM business in Cloud Data Centers and elsewhere, our plans to divest AppliedMicro's Compute business, our positioning and growth aspirations in Aerospace & Defense, Multi-market, Cloud Data Centers and the electronics industry generally, our expectations as to the growth prospects of the Cloud Data Center market, our GaN strategy and expectations for execution on that strategy, the expected outcome of our ongoing litigation against Infineon and any other statements regarding future trends, business strategies, competitive position, industry conditions, acquisitions and market opportunities. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and generally may be identified by terms such as "anticipates," "believes," "could," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "may," "plans," "potential," "predicts," "projects," "seeks," "should," "will," "would" or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release reflect
MACOM's current views about future events and are subject to risks,
uncertainties, assumptions and changes in circumstances that may cause
those events or our actual activities or results to differ materially
from those expressed in any forward-looking statement. Although MACOM
believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking
statements are reasonable, it cannot and does not guarantee future
events, results, actions, levels of activity, performance or
achievements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements. A number of important factors could cause
actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the
forward-looking statements, including the potential that we are unable
to identify and timely enter into new markets for our products, such as
our publicly-announced market opportunities in Cloud Data Centers, 100G
optical networks, GaN technology and Active Antennas, the potential that
we are unable to timely deliver the quantities of our products targeting
Cloud Data Center or other applications at the right price point due to
design challenges, manufacturing bottlenecks, supply shortages, yield
issues or otherwise, the potential that the expected rollout of Cloud
Data Center build-outs, 5G network upgrades, fiber-to-the-home network
technology or other new optical or other network technology deployments
in the U.S., China, Japan and other geographies fails to occur, occurs
more slowly than we expect or does not result in the amount or type of
new business we anticipate, lower than expected demand in the Cloud Data
Center market, the optical network infrastructure market or any or all
of our primary end markets or from Huawei, Cisco or any or all of our
large OEM customers based on seasonal effects, regulatory action or
inaction, macro-economic weakness or otherwise, the potential for
greater than expected pricing pressure and average selling price erosion
based on attempts to win or maintain market share, competitive factors,
technology shifts or otherwise, our potential inability to ramp key new
products into volume production with acceptable manufacturing yields to
satisfy key customer demand in a timely fashion, the potential for
inventory obsolescence and related write-offs, the expense, business
disruption or other impact of any current or future investigations,
administrative actions, litigation or enforcement proceedings we may be
involved in, the potential loss of access to any in-licensed
intellectual property or inability to license technology we may require
on reasonable terms, the impact of any claims of intellectual property
infringement or misappropriation, which could require us to pay
substantial damages for infringement, expend significant resources in
prosecuting or defending such matters or developing non-infringing
technology, incur material liability for royalty or license payments, or
prevent us from selling certain of our products, greater than expected
dilutive effect on earnings of our equity issuances, outstanding
indebtedness and related interest expense and other costs, our failure
to realize the expected economies of scale, lowered production cost and
other anticipated benefits of our previously announced GaN intellectual
property licensing program, the potential for defense spending cuts,
program delays, cancellations or sequestration, failures or delays by
any customer in winning business or to make purchases from us in support
of such business, lack of adoption or delayed adoption by customers and
industries we serve of Cloud Data Centers, MACsec, single-Lambda PAM4,
MMICs, Active Antennas, SPAR tiles, GaN, InP lasers or other solutions
offered by us, failures or delays in porting and qualifying GaN or InP
process technology to our fabrication facilities or third party
facilities and achieving anticipated manufacturing economies of scale,
lower than expected utilization and absorption in our manufacturing
facilities, lack of success or slower than expected success in our new
product development or new product introduction efforts, loss of key
personnel to competitors or otherwise, failure of any announced
transaction to close in accordance with its terms, failure to
successfully integrate acquired companies, technologies or products or
realize synergies associated with acquisitions, the potential that we
will experience difficulties in managing the personnel and operations
associated with our acquisitions, loss of business due to competitive
factors, product or technology obsolescence, customer program shifts or
otherwise, the potential for a shift in the mix of products sold in any
period toward lower-margin products or a shift in the geographical mix
of our revenues, the impact of any executed or abandoned acquisition,
divestiture, joint venture, financing or restructuring activity, the
impact of supply shortages or other disruptions in our internal or
outsourced supply chain, the impact of changes in export, environmental
or other laws applicable to us, the relative success of our cost-savings
initiatives, as well as those factors described in "Risk Factors" in
MACOM's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"),
including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
ended December 30, 2016, as filed with the SEC on February 1, 2017, and
its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30,
2016, as filed on November 17, 2016. MACOM undertakes no obligation to
publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.