These forward-looking statements 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, 10G PON, 25G
lasers, L-PICs, Active and Security Radar Antennas and our AlGaAs,
heterolithic microwave ICs (HMIC), Indium Phosphide (InP) etched facet
laser and GaN technologies, the potential that we are unable to timely
deliver the quantities of our products targeting these 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 any or all of our large OEM customers based on
seasonal effects, regulatory action (such as the recently resolved ZTE
export ban or previously announced Huawei investigation or other denial
orders prohibiting sales to certain Chinese aerospace customers) or
inaction, technology shifts, standards changes, macro-economic weakness
or otherwise, and other events and trends on a national, regional and
global scale, including those of a political, economic, business,
competitive, intellectual property and regulatory nature, 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, the impact of international
trade agreements, including new or potential increases in existing trade
tariffs, on our business, our suppliers, or our customers, 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, a delay or failure to efficiently transition the activities
from our Ithaca facility to our headquarters, 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,
increased customer penetration and other anticipated benefits of our
previously announced GaN intellectual property licensing program or
supply chain build-out initiatives, 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, L-PICs, Active and Security Antennas, SPAR
tiles, GaN, InP lasers, AlGaAs HMIC, 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, including
its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 29,
2017, as filed on November 15, 2017, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the fiscal quarter ended December 29, 2017, as filed on February 7,
2018, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended
March 30, 2018, as filed on May 3, 2018 and its Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 29, 2018, as filed on August 1,
2018. MACOM undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.