Marvell Technology, Inc. Q4 FY2023 Earnings Call

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Quarter & Full-Year Financial Highlights

  • Q4 revenue: $1.42B, up 6% year-over-year, down 8% sequentially. Above guidance midpoint due to stronger data center networking results.
  • FY23 revenue: $5.92B, up 33% year-over-year, outperforming long‑term model and industry.
  • Non-GAAP Q4 gross margin: 63.5%, down due to unfavorable mix (lower storage and merchant networking; higher 5G & ASIC).
  • Non-GAAP EPS: $0.46 in Q4; FY23 EPS: $2.12, up 35% year-over-year.
  • Operating cash flow: $352M; inventory rose to $1.07B but expected to decline starting Q1 FY24.

Market Segment Performance

Data Center (35% of Q4 revenue)
  • Q4 revenue: $498M, down 13% year-over-year and 21% sequentially, mainly due to storage products.
  • Non-storage assets (optics, switches) performed better than expected but are now also experiencing inventory corrections.
  • Q1 FY24 expected to decline mid-teens sequentially; storage down again across HDD, SSD, Fiber Channel.
  • Cloud‑optimized silicon ramps delayed by “a couple of quarters,” reducing planned FY24 contribution from ~$400M to roughly half.
  • AI demand continues to accelerate; PAM DSP revenue tied to AI more than quadrupled in FY23.
Carrier Infrastructure (19% of Q4 revenue)
  • Q4 revenue: $275M, up 14% year-over-year and 1% sequentially.

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Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome to Marvell Technology’s Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. And please note that this event is being recorded today. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Ashish Saran, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please, go ahead, sir. Ashish Saran: Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Marvell's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2023 earnings call. Joining me today are Matt Murphy, Marvell's President and CEO; and Willem Meintjes, our new CFO. Let me remind everyone that certain comments made today include forward-looking statements, which are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from management's current expectations. Please review the cautionary statements and risk factors contained in our earnings press release, which we filed with the SEC today and posted on our website, as well as our most recent 10-K and 10-Q filings. We do not intend to update our forward-looking statements. During our call today, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation between our GAAP and non-GAAP financial measure is available in the Investor Relations section of our website. With that, I'll turn the call over to Matt for his comments on our performance. Matt? Matt Murphy

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