Parade Technologies, Ltd.

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Q1 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptApril 22, 2026

Operator

Welcome, everyone, to Parade Technologies 2026 1st quarter webcast investors conference. Investor relations of Parade Technologies, Mr.

Yo-Ming Chang, will present 2026 Q1 financial result first, and during the presentation, all lines have been placed on mute to prevent background noise. After the presentation, there will be a Q&A session in English by CEO Dr.

Jack Zhao and Vice President of Finance Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu.

We also will reserve the last 15 minutes for attendees who would like to ask questions in Chinese. Please follow the instructions given at that time if you would like to ask questions.

歡迎參加譜瑞科技股份有限公司 2026 年第一季線上法人說明會。今天的會議首先由投資人關係張又銘先生報告譜瑞公司 2026 年第一季的財務數字。而在指報告階段,您的電話都會處在靜音狀態。當報告結束之後,接下來我們會安排執行長趙捷博士與財務副總經理吳國維先生以英文的方式接受各位的提問。最後我們會另外保留 15 分鐘接受各位以中文的方式來做提問。 And now, I would like to introduce Mr.

Yo-Ming Chang, Investor Relations of Parade Technologies. 現在有請投資人關係張又銘先生。

Yo-Ming Chang

Thanks, Wangqi. Welcome, everyone, to Parade Technologies 2026 Q1 webcast investor conference.

Parade Technologies 1st quarter 2026 consolidated revenue was $126.14 million US dollar, and the net income was $16.73 million US dollar. Its basic and fully dilute after-tax earnings per share were 21 cents US dollar and 21 cents US dollar, respectively.

These results compared to consolidated revenue $126.23 million US dollar, and the net income of $20.19 million US dollar, or 25 cents US dollar and 25 cents US dollar per basic and fully diluted share in the year-ago quarter. In US dollar, the 1st quarter revenue increased 0.74% sequentially, and was down 0.07% year-over-year.

The gross profit in the 1st quarter of 2026 was $50.83 million US dollar, a decrease of 3.41% from the previous quarter, and a decrease of 5.38% compared to the same quarter of last year. On February 10th, 2026, Parade announced the production availability of the TC3408 and the TC3410 devices, the industry's first single-chip touch with Tcon embedded driver solution for the WXGA resolution mainstream notebook market.

These devices deliver extremely narrow panel borders and Tcon PCB form factors to enable ever-thinner notebook designs at cost-effective price points. TC3408 and the TC3410 incorporate the latest power-saving features of eDP 1.5 for unmatched logic power performance at up to 120 Hz display refresh rate.

The devices combine Parade's broad portfolio of patented touchscreen technology, and market-proven eDP Tcon, in-cell, and the high-speed signal technology to provide excellent picture quality and responsive touch performance. On February 12th, 2026, Parade announced the sampling availability of the TC3410AS device, the industry's first single-chip touch with Tcon embedded driver solution with integrated active stylus support for WXGA resolution.

This new device drastically reduces the silicon, hardware, sensor cost, and the logistic complexity associated with adding active stylus capability to existing touchscreen panels. The TC3410AS device combines Parade's broad portfolio of patented touchscreen technology, and market-proven eDP Tcon, in-cell, and high-speed signal technology to provide excellent picture quality at 120 Hz display with responsive 240 Hz active stylus performance.

On March 4th, 2026, Parade introduced the availability of two new quad-channel linear re-drivers to support both 224 Gbps and 112 Gbps ethernet applications for server, storage, and the high-performance AI scale-up data center cable use, with industry-leading linearity and the best possible group delay, particularly when there is a line-rate adjustment. The PS9524, PS9514 ethernet linear re-driver provide programmable EQ boost up to 25 dB, 22 dB, while operating from a single 3.3V supply.

Key parameters for the HPC, AI data center include low power and low latency, making retimed cable more problematic. With its small form factor and the low power consumption, the PS9524, PS9514 are optimized to fit existing metal shells of various form factors without the need for additional heatsink.

The advanced linearity allows the data centers to trade off extend cable distance versus thinner cables to reduce routing and the system thermal complexity. On April 2nd, 2026, Parade announced the availability of PS8651B, DP 2.1a HBR3 1-to-2 MST hub controller for automotive accessories and video displays designs that need DP or eDP port expansion.

It adds to Parade's DP MST hub solutions, which include the PS8650, DP 2.1a UHBR20 1-to-4 MST hub controller already on the market. The PS8651B is compliant with VESA DisplayPort 2.1a and eDP 1.5 specifications up to HBR3, or 8.1 Gbps per lane link rate up to four lanes.

It is AEC-Q100 Grade 2 available, -40 to 105 °C ambient temperature qualified for automotive applications. Based on the current business outlook, Parade is providing the following guidance for the second quarter of 2026: revenue is between $127 to $141 million US dollar; gross margin is between 40% to 44%; operating expense is between $33 to $36 million US dollar.

各位投資界的朋友大家好,午安。歡迎大家來參加譜瑞公司 2026 年第一季線上法人說明會。首先由我跟各位報告譜瑞公司 2026 年第一季財務數字。本公司 2026 年第一季合併營收為美金 1 億 2,614 萬元,稅後淨利為美金 1,673 萬元,除權後基本與稀釋每股稅後盈餘為美金 0.21 元,約當新台幣 6.77 元,及美金 0.21 元,約當新台幣 6.73 元。而去年同期合併營收為美金 1 億 2,623 萬元,稅後淨利為美金 2,019 萬元,除權後基本與稀釋每股稅後盈餘為美金 0.25 元,約當新台幣 8.38 元,及美金 0.25 元,約當新台幣 8.33 元。 2026 年第一季合併營收較前一季增加 0.74%,較去年同期則減少 0.07%。在營業毛利方面,本公司第一季營業毛利為美金 5,083 萬元,較上一季減少 3.41%,較去年同期則減少 5.38%。西元 2026 年 2 月 10 日,譜瑞公司宣布 TC3408 與 TC3410 晶片正式量產供應。此二產品為業界首款針對 WXGA 解析度主流筆記型電腦市場推出的單晶片觸控與時序控制器整合驅動器解決方案,可實現極窄邊框面板與輕薄化時序控制器印刷電路板設計,協助廠商打造更輕薄的筆記型電腦產品,同時具備高性價比優勢。

TC3408 與 TC3410 整合譜瑞廣泛的觸控螢幕專利技術,以及經市場驗證的 eDP 時序控制器、內嵌式顯示屏與高速訊號技術,可提供卓越的畫質與靈敏的觸控效能。西元 2026 年 2 月 12 日,譜瑞公司宣布 TC3410AS 晶片正式開放樣品供應。該產品為業界首款整合主動式觸控筆支援功能的單晶片觸控與時序控制器整合驅動器解決方案,專門針對 WXGA 解析度市場設計。這款全新晶片大幅降低了在現有觸控螢幕面板中新增主動式觸控筆功能所需的晶片、硬體、感測器成本,同時減少供應鏈的物流複雜度。 TC3410AS 整合譜瑞廣泛的觸控螢幕專利技術,以及經市場驗證的 eDP 時序控制器、內嵌式顯示屏與高速訊號技術,可在 120 Hz 顯示更新率下提供卓越畫質,並具備 240 Hz 的高回應速度主動式觸控筆效能。西元 2026 年 3 月 4 日,譜瑞公司宣布推出兩款全新四通道線性中繼器,可支援 224 Gbps 與 112 Gbps 乙太網路運用,專為伺服器、儲存設備與高效能 AI 擴容資料中心的線材應用所設計。譜瑞 PS9524、PS9514 乙太網路線性中繼器擁有業界領先的線性度以及極佳的群延遲表現,尤其在進行線路速率調整時,可提供高達 25 dB、22 dB 的可程式化等化增益,並採用單一 3.3 伏電源供應供電運作。高效能運算人工智慧資料中心的核心關鍵參數包含低功耗與低延遲,這也讓具備重新定時功能的線材面臨更多技術挑戰。

PS9524、PS9514 具備小尺寸封裝與低功耗優勢,經最佳化設計後可直接適配現有各種規格的金屬殼體,無需額外配置散熱片。其先進的線性度特性讓資料中心得以延長線材傳輸距離與採用更細線材之間取得平衡,進而降低線材佈線難度與系統散熱複雜性。西元 2026 年 4 月 2 日,譜瑞公司宣布推出 PS8651B DP 2.1a HBR3 1-to-2 多串流傳輸集線器控制晶片,專為需要擴充 DP、eDP 連接埠的汽車周邊配件與影像顯示產品設計打造。該產品加入譜瑞既有的 DP MST 集線器解決方案陣容,旗下已量產上市的 PS8650 DP 2.1a UHBR20 1-to-4 MST 集線器控制晶片亦屬此系列。 PS8651B 全面相容於 VESA DisplayPort 2.1a 與 DP、eDP 1.5 規範,每通道連接速率最高可達 HBR3 8.1 Gbps,最多支援四通道傳輸,並已通過 AEC-Q100 Grade 2 車用認證,可在 -40 °C 至 105 °C 的環境溫度下穩定運作,完美契合車用領域的需求。基於目前對 2026 年第二季營運的展望,我們預期合併營收為美金 127 至 141 百萬元,合併毛利率為 40% 到 44%,合併營業費用為美金 33 到 36 百萬元。

It is my presentation for the 2026 Q1 financial results. Now I transfer to CEO Dr.

Jack Zhao to answer your questions. Wangqi, you may begin.

Operator

Yes, thank you, Yo-Ming. Ladies and gentlemen, we will begin our Q&A session in English.

If you wish to ask questions, please press star key and 1 on your telephone keypad, and you will enter the queue. After you are announced, please ask your questions.

Should you wish to cancel your questions, you may just press star key and number 2. Now please press star key and 1 if you would like to ask questions.

Thank you. The first one to ask questions, Mike Young, Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Mike Young

Can you hear me? Thank you for taking my question.

Jack Zhao

Yes, I can hear you.

Mike Young

Hi, Jack, and also Kuo-Wei and Yo-Ming. My first question is kind of housekeeping.

Could you also break down the first quarter revenue by business?

Jack Zhao

Thank you. In the past Q1, our DisplayPort or DP was slightly above 30%, our PS or high-speed category was above 50%, the TC or source driver was below 10%, and the TT include our TTED was close to 10%.

Mike Young

That is very clear. Thank you, Jack.

The second one is about the PC market outlook. Do we have an update regarding to maybe this year's estimate or year-on-year growth or decline?

Thank you.

Jack Zhao

I think that since the coming new year, and it has been report or it's a factor, memory price increase dramatically. That does cause the trouble to PC and notebook the area, as the increase of memory cost the system price increase.

Many research report and also had updates. We also check with our OEM customers, and it's getting lot more the kind of lower forecast than what it was.

We see the lower forecast in the 2026 compare what we had last Q4 when we do our planning work. The 2026 we will see PC and notebook the unit shipment decrease due to the memory, primarily memory increase, and also due to the war in the Middle East cause depress the demand side.

Mike Young

Got it. Thank you, Jack.

Then my follow-up question is on the gross margin side. It looks like when compared with last quarter, fourth quarter, the product mix improved, but it's not so much on the gross margin side in first quarter.

I'm just wondering if there any kind of impact coming from the wafer price already, or can we attribute this more to the competition?

Jack Zhao

It's mainly related to the increase of a cost, rather than the competition. I think that in the Q1 the margin as we forecast in the Q4, the cost increase really came from OSAT side, and the packaging, and final test, and if you are in the industry and the current situation from the Taiwan OSATs, and increase a lot of price, and not once, not twice, and some of them many times.

We're facing the challenge the environment to manage the manufacturing cost. We're gradually also in the Q1 to see fab side, especially the foundry, China side, and but we cannot use them many of China side.

The fab increase is to us it's not that significant at this moment, but the back-end OSATs did increase quite a lot. That's what we headed the forecast, the margin increase.

That's the current operation environment.

Mike Young

Thank you, Jack. Maybe my last question is about the forward outlook on the gross margin.

Seems that there could also be some foundries joining the price hike going forward from second quarter or second half. How should we expect about your pricing absorption on the product?

Then also how should we think about the gross margin impact in the upcoming quarters?

Jack Zhao

As the our manufacturing cost increase, and we've been forced to adjust our price, product price. We did do selective product, since we have some of our product has embedded the flash there.

In the Q1, we did in the late of Q1, we did increase some of selective product the price. Moving forward, and as our competitor all are already adjust their price or increase their price, we also consider to have selective product which forced by our manufacturing the cost increase to do adjustment.

We provide the guidance. We will treat this gross margin guidance very seriously.

Hopefully as the product mix getting better with our new price, the Q3, Q4 might can slightly improve. That's what we expect.

The whole dynamic really is going to see the manufacturing side increase, and how much. We're also doing diversify our back-end to the OSAT side to the other regions, which may provide a more stable price the environment.

That's what we are current thinking, and what we are current the operation towards those direction. We also implement a few the our own measures to improve our gross margin.

Those are gradually will coming to effect.

Mike Young

That is very clear. Thank you, Jack, and I will go back to the queue.

Thank you.

Operator

Next one to ask questions, Jamie Ye from KGI. Go ahead, please.

Jamie Ye

Hi. Can you hear me?

Jack Zhao

Yes, perfectly.

Jamie Ye

Hi, Jack. I would like to know about I think the first one is ASIC-like projects.

How is your confidence level now? I think I remember second half last year you say that 6 months later we will know better.

Then how do you think about that, and do you still think that visibility for those projects into next year still improving?

Jack Zhao

We had implemented multiple ASIC-like project, and in fact, we are very busy on the those big projects, and most of our engineering resource are designated to those area. Some of big project will take almost 100 engineers to do.

We are very busy and to do those the project, and we hope and so far so good. Actually the project is moving smoothly in terms of milestone, in terms of the design the milestone achieved.

Looks good, and we hope that we're on time to tape it out and deliver to customer afterwards, and that will be a major contribution to our 2027 the revenue.

Jamie Ye

If I remember right, I think you mentioned maybe next year revenue with this ASIC-like multiple projects can maybe back to pre-COVID level?

Jack Zhao

Those will be after tape-out, because those are deep sub-micron parts. After tape-out some times, and hopefully the late of the second half, it will be contributed to our the top line and the bottom line.

Jamie Ye

Second half next year. Supposedly

Jack Zhao

that's what we let's look at it and by that time I will report to you.

Jamie Ye

Thank you. The second thing is Spectra7.

I think you also mentioned I think you are developing some driver that customers will not necessarily use a DSP that will consume more power. Can you share with us that how is the progress for for this project after you acquire Spectra7's equipments?

Also how can we see the contribution for those optical projects?

Jack Zhao

You see, Yo-Min has gone through our announcement. We have two product, 9514, 9524.

One is silicon-germanium high-speed re-driver and achieved speed at 112 Gbps. Another device is achieved 224 Gbps.

Those both are came in with Spectra7, but we as Parade, we brought into the production stage, doing the qualification, on and so forth. Both product are engaged with data center cable designer guy, which typical you can imagine for 1.6T,

Jamie Ye

and

Jack Zhao

those using 224 Gbps the chip, and the 112 gig for 800 Gbps the cables. Those re-driver cable are based on our the cable guy taught us, as well as the data center guy taught us, it's useful for 2 m, 3 m application versus the 5 m.

We have design multiple design going on with those cables.

Jamie Ye

I see. I think your customers are transceiver module maker customers, and they buy this product driver product from you, and then they will purchase maybe laser on their own and then put together.

Jack Zhao

Those are the copper for copper application,

Jamie Ye

right?

Jack Zhao

Those are copper application for the copper cables, yeah.

Jamie Ye

Copper cable, okay.

Jack Zhao

Copper cables.

Jamie Ye

Okay. If it's copper, then I think shortage issue will be less, and then probably we can expect some contribution maybe sometime second half this year?

Jack Zhao

We hope so. We are doing the qualification with the customers, and hope those will be the let's see the project the continue going, yeah.

Jamie Ye

I see. Is that CPO, or it's just outside the

Jack Zhao

Those are just cable, just the cable.

Jamie Ye

Just cable, okay. I see.

Okay. Also my last question is CPU.

I think we experience some CPU shortage, mainly on the server side, maybe some impact some consumer application. Do you also see that?

If that is the case, then maybe customers will need to buy more from Qualcomm, and then maybe buy more USB re-timer from you? [laughter]

Jack Zhao

We heard the both Intel and have certain the SKU has a CPU has a shortage, right?

Jamie Ye

That

Jack Zhao

maybe they allocate the silicon resource to the AI's the CPUs or GPUs. It's not large-scale, I would think.

We do see some of them shift to the Qualcomm. Yes, it does,

Jamie Ye

but

Jack Zhao

not large-scale, I would think. Hopefully this situation might improved.

That was the first quarter we heard something, but I'm not that sure the how big the scale, because the end-market demand due to the DRAM

Jamie Ye

and

Jack Zhao

due to the flash increase is the major thing to depress the demand from the PC and notebook. Those one probably less pronounced, and we do see, yeah, we heard some of them model convert to the Qualcomms, yes.

Jamie Ye

Thank you. It's very clear.

Thank you for my questions. Now back to queue.

Thank you, Jack.

Jack Zhao

Thank you.

Operator

Next one to ask questions, Jerry Su from UBS.

Jerry Su

Hi. Thanks for taking my question.

Maybe circling back to the second quarter outlook. I think Yo-Ming already provided the revenue guidance range, but can we have some more comments about the outlook for each product line compared with Q1?

Jack Zhao

Compare with Q1, our as Yo-Ming in the announcement our two TTED chip, and those are will be significant increase in the Q2. Q1 already ship quite many on the production.

Q2 will ship a lot more. The other area might be the PS parts will continue to kind of uptrend, even though the overall the notebook demand will not be as good as we had thought, but still PS parts are continue doing well.

We also will ship Q2 will ship some parts outside the PC notebook side, for example the automotive will ship more. Those are the few themes.

Jerry Su

Thank you. Then probably also want to understand the outlook into the second half, because I think Jack, you previously mentioned that the notebook demand or PC demand seems to be softer than what you have previously expected.

How much visibility do you have into the second half of the year? How should we think the revenue outlook for second half comparing with first half?

Jack Zhao

I would think that the in terms of our PO receiving for the second half, it's healthy, and meet our expectation in terms of seasonality. The even though the 2026 and in a large picture of PC demand may not be as good as we had a wish, but we do think the second half still will be better than the first half.

For our own business, and we continue pulling some segment outside the PC area will contribute start to contributing in the 2026. Also the late of 2026, we even have some of the driver parts design to the data center the storage side.

It will start to shipping. Those will help on the late of 2026.

Jerry Su

I see. Speaking of the data center related product, I think previous one of the investor asked around the business from Spectra7.

I think if I hear correctly that currently you are shipping for cables, but can you give us some idea about what's Parade's opportunity once the transmitting method move from copper into optical, for example in CPO these product lines, what's Parade's opportunity and potential revenue can be coming from? Thank you.

Jack Zhao

Those optical things to Parade is a longer-term thing for us, and in terms of revenue the opportunity is more on the copper cable. There are two area is driving the cable.

One as we reported and discussed on the ethernet cable, and that's relatively easy to understand. There are another category under data center and now is getting hit up.

Those are the PCIe Gen 6 active cables, and really address the issue that the PCB board with the high-grade, high-speed PCB is getting a lot more expensive, and in some case PCB in the shortage. Many data center, the demand to use a cable for high-speed signal, and the rest of them just use on the PCB can use more lower-grade PCB board.

That's another area working on with multiple customer with our PCIe Gen 6 the re-driver there. That's what we are working on two area.

One is those ethernet, one is the PCIe Gen 6, or later on Gen 7 those kind of cables.

Jerry Su

I see. For optical, this is more like several years out from today?

Or it's more like 2027, 2028 we should start to see once copper moves to optical, you will have some exposure there as well?

Jack Zhao

That's the little bit longer-term, I would think.

Jerry Su

Very longer-term. I see.

Got it. Maybe then my last question before going back to the queue is that for ASIC business, can you give us a little bit more color like what kind of categories or products you'll enter into?

Is it more display-related or high-speed like a hub, host, or re-timer? What kind of project you are working with your customer?

Jack Zhao

I would think those are the high-speed system solution. A few of are related to display.

Maybe one for us a new category is a high-speed system-level chip. It's not re-timer.

Jerry Su

I got it. All right, thank you.

Operator

Next one to ask questions, Vivian Yang from Nomura.

Vivian Yang

Hi, Jack and Yo-Ming. Thanks for taking my questions.

Can you hear me clearly?

Jack Zhao

Yes. Please go ahead.

Vivian Yang

Thank you. My first question is a follow-up to your pricing adjustment.

Could we know more details about for which segment or what kind of application are you going to adjust your price? Also are we only passing through the inflated cost, or is there any markup for us to see gross margin improvement [opportunity?]

? Also what's customer's feedback on this activity?

Jack Zhao

We broadly choose the selective parts, but the Q1 adjustment is more targeted whatever we have a parts flash embedded. That's the successfully.

Customer did not have much of complaint either, because people know the flash device went up a lot. The Q2 adjustment or upcoming adjustment will be targeted pretty broad-based, and not everyone, but product broad-based, and our sales team work with our customer together to present and to let customer understand we've been forced to do those adjustment, and because of cost increase significantly.

Certainly we hope, and pretty much our gross margin is a lagging factor is the manufacturing cost increase, and so that we hope those adjustment price will help us to improve our gross margin and make our business financially sustainable.

Vivian Yang

Thank you. My second question is regarding the shortage.

Other than CPU, do we see any other component are facing shortage?

Jack Zhao

I think the shortage all are on the manufacturing side, I would think. You heard a lot of substrate shortage, T-glass substrate shortage, right?

Then in the manufacturing side, you will hear the lead frame has a long lead time, and you may have a test capacity shortage. In terms of components, and besides memory, flash, CPU, I think those are the industry focus.

It's less for the other components, but I would think the IC supply like us, most of them all suffer from the cost increase.

Vivian Yang

Thank you. My third question is regarding your Standard Plus customer.

We all know that they are growing demand for, for example, some specific series of Mac for applications like OpenClaw. Do we see increases in demand for this part?

Jack Zhao

I think yeah, we have a device there for their Mac mini, as what you said, the OpenClaw, the sudden uptick. You do see the market they are the purchase lead time getting very long.

They order extra parts, but I'm not that sure how long could sustain those upticks, right? Besides, they have a new product cycle and introduce the low-priced MacBook and the new, and we have a device on the panel side, those are benefit from the uptick of their business.

One thing I do want to emphasize: those OpenClaw phenomena really indicate AI may going to the edge to the consumer space, and it happened now to be the Apple mini, may other device or the Unix or Linux related machine will also can act for those applications. As long as the AI goes to edge, we hope we will be benefit.

I do hear more and more start to AI inference goes to the edge.

Vivian Yang

Thank you, Jack and Yo-Ming. I will back to the queue.

Operator

Right now we have Ethan Zhang from Morgan Stanley. Go ahead, please.

Keith Ng

Thank you, management, for taking my question. I have a question on the automotive end market.

You previously indicated the auto revenue could represent a few percentage of revenue this year. My question is whether there's an update to that expected contribution, and how do you see the outlook of the auto end market in 2026?

Thank you.

Jack Zhao

Actually, the auto we're doing relatively good, and we had a announcement, Yo-Min gone through, the 8661B, and which already in MP, as we announced. We're in the shipper MP volume now, and multiple customer were using this DP hub, because you have a multiple panel in the automotive, and those DP hub become very convenient.

We continue shipping to the multiple automaker, like whatever the EV car in the US, and the top EV car in China, all using our device, and are pretty high volume. We are optimistic for the 2026, especially second half.

We probably will see more auto revenue. However, that the units of auto revenue are not as the PC type of thing, but it's help for our when the PC demand is not as good as we wish, the automotive will come up may help us to for the overall revenues.

Keith Ng

Thank you. That's very helpful.

I will go back to the queue.

Operator

Next one to ask question, Jerry Su, UBS.

Jerry Su

Thanks for taking my question again. Just want to follow up on Jack's previous comment about the second quarter or later this year, you will see more contribution from TED, TTED.

Could you give us some more color about the current adoption of these products, and also the competitive landscape, what makes these integrated solutions from Parade that can stand out, and then taking more market share or higher penetration from the industry? Thank you.

Jack Zhao

The solution itself very attractive, because to lower the cost and make the panel border thinner, and the panel itself thinner. Especially the TTED, which has a significant software integration and firmware integration.

For ourselves, in terms of touch, we have a lot unique IPs. Far on the TTED, we have not seen any competition close to us, as we visit the OEM customers, the panel customers.

They love the solution a lot. We continue expand those TTED to the more general so-called oxide and amorphous solution.

You will see our market share will continue grew. At this moment, for 2026, based on the unit shipment we have, probably we're getting close to the 10% of those kind of level.

With the TTED together, yeah, very close. I would think very close to 10%.

Hopefully next year, you will see that go quickly above that. We're big hope, and we are introduce whole product line spectrum, and you will see more announcement.

We deeply engage with customer, and the integrated with the discrete or traditional Tcon source driver plus touch chip, that's not competitive. We on that front, we work very well, especially TTED, and it's amazing, and we also can support with stylus, and really to the customer there's no much increase at all.

They can use the panel for whatever the purpose. You can do the touch, you can do it without touch, you can do with the stylus support.

Really help them to manage SKU. The major customer are yeah, adopt very quickly.

Jerry Su

Thank you. Then I just also want to follow up on the question about the margin as well as the operating expense.

For second quarter gross margin, I think you provided a 40 to 44% range. I just want to get a feeling that given the cost increase, and then you are negotiating with your customer, are you able to fully pass through those costs and maintaining the same margin?

How should we think about the gross margin for second quarter? Is it going to be similar to 1Q, or there should be some upside?

[laughter]

Jack Zhao

I think this very dynamic, right? You understand, and we hopefully the manufacturing side will not probably at the stage will stop, right?

Overall, we are lagging from the manufacturing the increase, and so we are adjustment talk to customer. Customer need probably will take such a period of time.

I would think by the Q3, Q4, probably will more meaningful to see our strategy, and that's our guidance. We definitely will hit our guidance.

Jerry Su

That's helpful. On the operating expense, yeah, I think Q2 guidance is a similar range, but for second half, or further out into 2027, as you have a lot of different project or business continuing to grow, how should we think about the longer-term operating expense?

Jack Zhao

I would think the operating expense will be very caution, and because our major business on the PC side, and it was not as we had a thinking, we'll be caution. On the second half, on our other business outside the PC side, especially moving forward to 2027, hopefully those will make a contribution more towards our both top and bottom line.

Got it.

Jerry Su

Got it. Maybe last question regarding the Standard Plus customer.

I think you have mentioned about the better demand for some of the products this year. Are you seeing any other new opportunities in this customer into next year also is particularly recently they have some management change?

Jack Zhao

That management change is just very recent, and I have not seen just like you, I read the news, right? We are execute multiple project with them, and in fact in just Q1 we win another project, pretty big project there, and we're in the execution.

We hope, and that's you earn the project, your IP earn the project. Certainly, we're very close to them.

We know each other very well. I would think that your IP, your engineering capability makes it different, and that's whether you could win the projects.

The relationship will help, the proven tracking record help, and but very important, your IP is very important.

Jerry Su

Can you give a little bit more color on this? As you mentioned, you won the project in Q1.

Is this for something that is already the end product already out there, or this is something new, or you are just getting into a certain new category, or providing a new chip?

Jack Zhao

I don't want to [laughter] I don't want to get into I don't want to get into those. I just yeah, we have win some more new project.

Jerry Su

When should we expect revenue contribution from this new project, this year or maybe next year?

Jack Zhao

Those big project, it's always will take more than a year to execute.

Jerry Su

Okay. I see.

All right, got it. All right, thank you.

Operator

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嗨,Jack、又銘,你們好。謝謝你們接受我的提問。那我兩個問題想請教。第一個是我想在 follow

Raymond Kuo

up 現在 ASIC-like 的業務。那之前

Jack Zhao

Jack 有提到說我們現在這一顆使用 6 奈米的製程,那我想請教的是我們現在有沒有在跟客戶談比方說下一代的產品?那下一代的話,它用的這個製程節點可能會用在哪個部分?那會不會面臨到一些比方說

Raymond Kuo

foundry 這邊產能的一些限制?這是我第一個問題。 我們在用到的是 6 和

Jack Zhao

3 nm 這些東西。在

Raymond Kuo

foundry 現在比較緊張的 for

Jack Zhao

AI 的是 2、3 這種

Raymond Kuo

level。 5、6、12 這種

Operator

level 是並不是那麼緊張。而且 12 現在 nm getting more and more availability 在這個 globally。 the key to win 今後的 generation 的 the opportunity 或者這些 big project,是你的 high-speed IP readiness。所以你會看到我們 continue 會 develop 很多 high-speed 的 IP。

once 你的 customer 要 comfortable work with you,是你的 maturity of high-speed 的 IP。所以你會看到我們 continue 會在 6 或者今後 below the 6 去 develop 我們這些 high-speed 的 IPs。 好,Jack,那我在 follow up,那我們這個 high-speed 的 IP 在接下來比方說 ASIC-like 的業務會有機會在下半年認一些 NRE 或者是 royalty 嗎?就是說這個 business model 我們現在是 busy 今天了啊,因為那些 project 都很大,所以呢 engineering team 都在 busy on the execution 在做這些 project。那我們有 IP team 在 continue develop 後面 generation 的 IP。因為你的 customer 會告訴你我今後幾年以後要哪些東西,你要 ahead of time 就去 develop 它。

好喔,好。那 Jack,我第二個問題想在 follow up 我們子公司 Spectra7 這邊。那我想問的是說,除了它在這個 ACC cable re-driver 這麼強之外,我很好奇說比方說它有沒有發展一些新的一些 IC,比方說像 TIA 這種接收端或是之類的,[laughter] 這我好奇說有沒有一些隱藏版的一些產品可能正在耕耘當中? [laughter] 我想這個今天 investment conference,我們比較 focus on 這個這個 這個 the product 或者 東西可以變成 revenue 的東西,對吧?這些比較 future 的東西,我們 yeah,silicon-germanium 要做這些東西。

So can you say 我們有沒有在?我覺得 先等到我們比較 這個有一些結果再來談這些東西比較好。 好,謝謝 Jack,我的問題就先到這邊。

目前沒有人提問。非常感謝各位的提問,同時也感謝各位今天參與譜瑞科技股份有限公司 2026 年第一季線上法人說明會。今天的法說會就到此結束,您現在可以離線了。謝謝您,再見。

Jack Zhao

Thank you very much.

Yo-Ming Chang

Thank you.