Recent Business Highlights
- Launches New Machine Learning and Sensor-to-Cloud Security Solutions for Intelligence at the Edge: Lattice's iCE40 UltraPlus accelerates innovation in smartphones, wearables, drones, 360 cameras, human-machine interfaces (HMIs), industrial automation and IoT security. New reference designs offer additional resources for customers to develop differentiated, innovative products, while meeting fast time-to-market requirements. Reference designs take advantage of iCE40 UltraPlus’ power efficient parallel processing for sensor stitching and repetitive number crunching.
- Lattice's ECP5™ FPGA Enables Energy-Efficient Embedded Vision Systems at the Edge: Lattice announced the implementation of its ECP5 FPGA into embedded vision applications for smart surveillance and automotive applications at the Edge. Reinforcing Lattice’s commitment to the industrial and automotive markets, the Company’s ECP5 family of low power, small form factor FPGAs enables CPU acceleration for license plate detection and image enhancement in intelligent traffic cameras. In addition, Lattice’s ECP5 FPGA enables the integration of image stitching and 3D merging for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) 360 surround view systems.
- Lattice Introduces Ultra HD Wireless Solution to Deliver Blu-ray Quality Video: Lattice introduced an ultra-high-definition (UHD) wireless solution to deliver Blu-ray quality video for broad market applications. Using the MOD6320-T and MOD6321-R wireless video modules based on Lattice’s SiBEAM 60 GHz technology and the Sil9396 HDMI 2.0 video bridge device, Lattice is the first to bring to market a 4K wireless video solution that transmits in the 60 GHz band, ensuring robust, low latency video transmission free from interference. The new wireless reference design provides a high bandwidth, wireless audio/video interface compatible with the HDMI standard for in-room applications in a range of markets including medical and industrial.
- Proposed Merger with Canyon Bridge: The Merger was approved by Lattice’s shareholders on February 28, 2017. On June 9, 2017, Lattice and Canyon Bridge Fund I, LP (“Canyon Bridge”) jointly withdrew and re-filed their joint voluntary notice to the Committee on Foreign Investment ("CFIUS") under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, to allow more time for review and discussion with CFIUS in connection with the proposed merger (the “Merger”) between Lattice and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Canyon Bridge. Lattice and Canyon Bridge remain fully committed to the Merger and plan to continue to actively engage in further discussions with CFIUS during its review, and to allowing Lattice’s stockholders to realize the value offered by the proposed transaction.
Investor Conference Call / Outlook:
As a result of the acquisition announcement with Canyon Bridge, the Company will not hold a quarterly conference call and webcast, and will not provide an outlook for its future financial results.
Forward-Looking Statements Notice:
The foregoing paragraphs contain forward-looking statements that involve estimates, assumptions, risks and uncertainties. Any statements about our expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical facts and may be forward-looking. Such forward-looking statements include statements relating to: our expectation that we will continue to invest in our business as we capitalize on exciting opportunities, including video and enabling applications in consumer and industrial led by our fast growing CrossLinkTM video bridging product, along with our wireless products showcased in leading edge OEM wireless VR headsets; our expectation that our FPGA technology will allow us to thrive as we leverage the many advantages of our low power solutions critical to the interconnected world of smart devices; and our intention to remain committed to actively managing our operating expenses as we focus on our financial model. Other forward-looking statements may be indicated by words such as “will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “may,” “expect,” “plan,” “project,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “forecast,” “future,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “propose,” “potential,” “continue” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology; and our expectation that we will remain focused on maximizing the leverage of our operating model and reduce our outstanding debt balance. Lattice believes the factors identified below could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
Estimates of future revenue are inherently uncertain due to, among other
things, the high percentage of quarterly “turns” business. In addition,
revenue is affected by such factors as global economic conditions, which
may affect customer demand, pricing pressures, competitive actions, the
demand for our Mature, Mainstream and New products, and in particular
our iCE40™ and MachXO3L™ devices, the ability to supply products to
customers in a timely manner, changes in our distribution relationships,
or the volatility of our consumer business. Actual gross margin
percentage and operating expenses could vary from the estimates on the
basis of, among other things, changes in revenue levels, changes in
product pricing and mix, changes in wafer, assembly, test and other
costs, including commodity costs, variations in manufacturing yields,
the failure to sustain operational improvements, the actual amount of
compensation charges due to stock price changes. Any unanticipated
declines in revenue or gross margin, any unanticipated increases in our
operating expenses or unanticipated charges could adversely affect our
profitability.
