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1. Investment Snapshot
2. Thesis
3. Valuation & Price Target
4. Business & Product Moat
5. People & Governance
6. Market & Macro
7. Financial Quality
8. Risk Register
9. Prediction Market
10. 𝕏 Posts
Discussion
1. Investment Snapshot
2. Valuation
Discussion
Symbol
AIP
Event Date
2021-10-27
Sector
Information Technology
Subsector
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment
Offer Range
$14.00-$14.00
Shares Offered
5M
31.25M
$449.9M
16.0%
Implied Upside vs Midpoint
Description
We are a leading provider of interconnect and other intellectual property (“IP”) technology that manages the on-chipcommunications in System-on-Chip (“SoC”) semiconductor devices. Our products enable our customers to deliver increasingly complex SoCs that not only process data but are also able to make decisions. Growth in the total addressable market (“TAM”) for our solutions is being driven by the addition of more processors, channels of memory access, machine learning sections, chiplets, additional input/output (“I/O”) interface standards and other subsystems within SoCs. The growth in the numbers of these connected on-chip subsystems places an increasing premium on the interconnect IP’s capability to move data inside complex SoCs. We believe this increase in SoC complexity is creating a significant opportunity for sophisticated SoC system IP solutions, which consist of Network-on-Chip (“NoC”) interconnect IP, IP deployment software and NoC interface IP (consisting of peripheral data transport IPs and control plane networks connected to NoC interconnect IP). Founded in 2003, we believe we have pioneered and emerged as a global leader in the development of interconnect IP technology for on-chip communication that address the complexity, performance and cost requirements of advanced SoC semiconductors. Over time, we have expanded and scaled our interconnect IP and other IP businesses to provide hardware, software, documentation licenses, support and training under a license fee and a royalty business model, to companies that design and produce semiconductors worldwide. Our IP deployment solutions, which were significantly enhanced by our acquisition of Magillem Design Services SA (“Magillem”) in late 2020, complement our interconnect IP solutions by helping to automate not only the customer configuration of interconnects, but also the process of integrating and assembling all the customer’s IP blocks into an SoC. Products incorporating our IP are used to carry important data inside complex SoCs for sophisticated applications, including automated driving, artificial intelligence/machine learning (“AI/ML”), 5G and wireless communications, data centers, and consumer electronics, among other applications. Our interconnect IP solutions offer proven connections to multiple industry standard processors such as Arm, RISC-V, CEVA, Synopsys ARC and MIPS, as well as memory controllers, I/O and a variety of IP subsystems, to enable customers to integrate such IP blocks with high levels of efficiency and performance. Our solutions enable customer innovation because they are configurable for each customer’s design flow and SoC development projects, and have wide applicability for many types of complex SoCs. Our products have been designed into billions of SoCs. Traditional on-chip communication methods, including bus and crossbar, are generally inadequate in handling advanced semiconductor communications for sophisticated applications. Technological advancements have led to increasingly complex SoCs that integrate numerous functions into a single semiconductor device. Massive amounts of wires, challenging timing closure and routing congestion lead to greater die area and chip cost. Increased transistor density and design frequencies create higher power consumption leading to heat dissipation challenges and shorter battery life for electronic devices. These challenges have significantly complicated SoC innovation. We leveraged our extensive technological expertise to develop a new method for on-chip communication to address these critical semiconductor development challenges. We accomplished this by pioneering the use of proprietary networking techniques for on-chip communications to remove the inherent architectural limitations of traditional on-chip communications, thereby improving ease of integration, performance, silicon area, and power consumption. In doing so, we enable our customers to achieve their design goals faster, easier and at lower costs. We also offer an interconnect configuration cockpit that intelligently assembles a NoC interconnect from a library of NoC interconnect IP elements. In addition, our IP deployment software enables easier IP integration of our interconnect IPs – among other IP blocks that make up an SoC. We work directly with our customers throughout the SoC development process and seek to develop long-term, sustainable relationships with them as our technology becomes embedded in their products. We also leverage our long history in interconnect IP designs and are able to serve a broad range of applications and deliver customer-specific features that are useful to our other customers. For example, we are a leader in the market of interconnect for advanced driver assistance systems (“ADAS”) SoCs, which we believe is a result of our quality, reliability, and innovative technology targeted at that business application. We provide solutions for the global SoC market and we estimate our TAM for SoC system IP solutions to be $1.1 billion in 2020. We estimate that our TAM will reach $3.2 billion in 2026, driven by an increasing number of SoC designs and growing complexity, increasing average selling prices of interconnect IP and IP deployment software, and our move deeper into the NoC interface IP market segment. More specifically, we believe our growth will be driven by technology trends requiring more sophisticated on-chip processing in the automotive, AI/ML, 5G and wireless communications, data center and consumer electronic markets. Also, the need for sophisticated SoC system IP products is growing rapidly in order to address the requirements of smaller die size, lower power consumption and higher operation frequency, as well as management of critical net latency in a timely and cost-effective manner. As a result, we believe these trends have led to an increased economic benefit of in-licensing commercial semiconductor design IP. During 2020, we generated $31.8 million in revenue, which includes in each period revenue recognized pursuant to substantial up front licensing payments due to how we structured certain customer contracts during these periods, $2.2 million in cash flows from operating activities, and $3.3 million in net loss. We expect to incur further net losses in the short term as we invest in our business. As of December 31, 2020, we had Annual Contract Value, which we define for an individual customer agreement as the total fixed fees under the agreement divided by the number of years in the agreement term, of $37.7 million. Since inception, our interconnect IP solutions have been used in over 500 unique SoC Design Starts, which we define as when customers commence new semiconductor designs using our interconnect IP and notify us. As of June 30, 2021, we had 166 Active Customers for both IP licensing and software products. In the first half of 2021 we added 16 new Active Customers. We define Active Customers as customers who have entered into a license agreement with us that remains in effect in our installed base across multiple applications that are utilizing our SoC system IP solutions in production. --- We were incorporated in the State of Delaware in April 2004. Our principal executive offices are located at 595 Millich Dr. Suite 200 Campbell, CA 95008. Our telephone number is (408) 470-7300, and our website address is www.arteris.com.
Arteris, Inc. annual income statement and balance sheet, FY 2021 to FY 2025, as reported in SEC filings.
| Metric | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $37.9M | $50.4M | $57.7M | $70.6M |
| Gross profit | $34.1M | $46.1M | $51.8M | $63.7M |
| Operating income | ($21.8M) | ($28.9M) | ($31.6M) | ($33.1M) |
| Net income | ($23.4M) | ($27.4M) | ($33.6M) | ($34.7M) |
| Metric | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | $120M | $116M | $106M | $115M |
| Total liabilities | $67.5M | $78.0M | $107M | $130M |
| Total equity | $52.9M | $37.5M | ($1.2M) | ($14.6M) |
| Cash & equivalents | $85.8M | $37.4M | $13.7M | $33.9M |