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.
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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 integration and future performance of AppliedMicro’s business, our GaN strategy, our execution on that strategy, expectations for customer orders and customer conversion from LDMOS to GaN, expectations for adoption of MACsec and 100G to 400G single-Lambda PAM4 by major Enterprise and Cloud Data Center providers, expectations for our high performance MMIC products, growth in our A&D or Multi-Market businesses in fiscal year 2017, the sustainability of our optical growth aspirations, 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 the expected
rollout of 5G network upgrades, fiber-to-the-home network technology or
other new optical or other network technology deployments in 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 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, 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 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
September 30, 2016 filed on November 17, 2016, the Registration
Statement on Form S-4 filed on December 21, 2016 and Amendment No. 1 to
the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 18, 2017 and
those factors described in “Risk Factors” in AppliedMicro’s filings with
the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended March 31, 2016 filed on May 20, 2016, its Quarterly Report on 10-Q
for the quarter ended June 30, 2016 filed on August 3, 2016 and its
Quarterly Report on 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2016 filed
on November 2, 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.