Lattice Semiconductor Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Key Takeaways

  • Record Q1 revenue of $184.3 M, up 22% year-over-year, with non-GAAP net income growing 36% year-over-year.
  • Non-GAAP gross margin expanded 260 basis points year-over-year to a record 70.3%, while operating margin rose 470 basis points year-over-year to a record 41%.
  • Industrial & Automotive segment revenue jumped 21% sequentially and 55% year-over-year, driven by new design wins in industrial automation, robotics, and automotive ADAS/infotainment.
  • Communications & Computing revenue fell 9% sequentially (up 4% year-over-year) due to softer server end-market demand, despite long-term growth drivers in data center and networking.
  • Advanced product and software roadmaps with the launch of its 6th Nexus device family, ramping the mid-range Avon FPGA platform, and achieving over 50% software attach rate on new design wins.
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Earnings Conference Call
Lattice Semiconductor Q1 2023
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There are 10 speakers on the call.

Operator

Hello, and welcome to the Lattice Semiconductor First Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to Rick Mache, Senior Director, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Speaker 1

Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. With me today are Jim Anderson, Lattice's President and CEO and Sherry Luther, Lattice's CFO. We'll provide a financial and business review of the Q1 of in 2023 and the business outlook for the Q2 of 2023. If you have not obtained a copy of our earnings press release, it can be found at our company website in the Investor Relations section atlatticemi.com. I'd like to remind everyone that during our conference call today, we may make projections or other forward looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the company.

Speaker 1

We wish to caution you that such statements are predictions based Information that is currently available, but actual results may differ materially. We refer you to the documents that the company files with the SEC, including our 10 ks, 10 Qs and 8 ks. These documents contain and identify important risk factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward looking statements. This call includes and constitutes the company's official guidance for the Q2 of 2023. If at any time after this call, we communicate any material changes to this guidance, we intend that such updates will be done using a public forum, such as a press release or publicly announced conference call.

Speaker 1

We will refer primarily to non GAAP financial measures during this call. By disclosing certain non GAAP information, management intends to provide investors with additional information to permit further analysis of the company's performance and underlying trends. For historical periods, we provided reconciliations of these non GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures that can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website atlatticesemi.com. Let me now turn the call over to Jim Anderson, our CEO.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Rick, and thank you, everyone, for joining us on our call today. We delivered strong results in Q1 with record quarterly revenue, which grew 22% year over year and non GAAP net income growth was 36% year over year. While we're certainly not immune to any macroeconomic challenges impacting the industry, growth in our core strategic markets is driven by growing demand for our leadership product portfolio, strong customer momentum and solid execution. Let me touch on a few Q1 highlights. In addition to the strong revenue growth, we expanded non GAAP gross margin by 260 basis points year over year to a record 70.3%.

Speaker 2

We achieved record non GAAP operating profit of 41%, which was an increase of 4 70 basis points year over year. We further expanded our product portfolio with the recent launch of the 6th device family based on our Nexus platform, where we launched enhanced versions of multiple software solutions tags as we continue to expand our software portfolio. Let me now provide an overview of our business by end market. In the Communications and Computing market, revenue was down 9% sequentially and up 4% on a year over year basis. As we expected, the sequential decline in revenue in this segment was primarily due to softer industry wide server end market demand.

Speaker 2

However, we continue to see this segment as a long term growth driver for the company as it includes multiple growth factors such as content expansion in data center servers, new Greenfield client computing designs and growth in wireless infrastructure and data center networking. Turning now to the industrial and automotive market, Revenue increased 21% sequentially and was up 55% on a year over year basis. Q1 growth reflects strong customer adoption of Lattice Solutions in new design wins across a broad range of applications, including industrial automation and robotics as well as automotive ADAS and infotainment systems. I'll now provide some product roadmap highlights. We're pleased to announce that Mach X05NX began production shipments in Q1, which is our 5th Nexus device family to enter production.

Speaker 2

We also recently introduced Mach X05 TNX, The 6th family built on the LatticeNexus platform. This device family provides advanced system control in multiple applications, including data center networking, machine vision and industrial IoT. Overall, we continue to be pleased with the broad adoption of our NexSys based products and our commitment to continued investment and expansion of our Nexus platform has further strengthened our leadership position in the small FPGA segment. We also continue to be pleased with progress on our new Lattice Avon platform, which launched in early December. Avon has targeted at mid range FPGA applications and doubles our addressable market and creates new greenfield revenue opportunities for Lattice as it ramps over the coming years.

Speaker 2

Customer engagement and momentum continues to grow and we look forward to launching 2 new Avant device families later this year. Turning now to our software strategy. As we've discussed over the past few years, software is a key component of our strategy. We've been increasing investments in our software portfolio. These investments are driving faster customer adoption of Lattice products.

Speaker 2

Over half of our new silicon design wins are now enabled by at least one of our software solution stacks, which increases the value that we're delivering to our customers and the long term stickiness of our products. In Q1, we expanded the capabilities of 3 of our solutions to X and we expect our expanding software portfolio to remain a key driver of customer enablement and momentum. In summary, while we're certainly not immune to any macroeconomic challenges impacting the industry, Lattice continues to be well positioned in long term secular growth markets with an expanding product portfolio, accelerating customer and strong financial execution. We look forward to sharing more about our future plans at our Investor Day on May 15. I'll now turn the call over to our CFO, Sherri Luther.

Speaker 3

Thank you, Jim. We are pleased with our strong financial results in Q1 with record profitability driven by double digit revenue growth and continued gross margin expansion. We continue to focus on cash generation while investing in our long term product road map. We also returned capital to our shareholders through our 10th consecutive quarter of share buybacks. Let me now provide a summary of our results.

Speaker 3

1st quarter revenue was a record $184,300,000 Up 5% sequentially from the 4th quarter and up 22% year over year. Q1 was the 12th consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth. Revenue continued to grow year over year in our 2 strategic market segments of Industrial and Automotive and Communications and Computing. Our non GAAP gross margin increased 30 basis points to a record 70.3 percent in Q1 compared to the prior quarter And was up 260 basis points compared to the year ago quarter. Both the sequential and year over year increases in gross margin continue to be driven by strong execution on our gross margin expansion strategy, which is now in its 5th year.

Speaker 3

Non GAAP operating expenses were $54,000,000 compared to $52,500,000 in the prior quarter $47,200,000 in the year ago quarter. Both R and D and SG and A expenses increased sequentially as we continue to make investments in our product portfolio, customer support and demand creation. Our non GAAP operating margin increased 80 basis points to a record 41% in Q1 compared to the prior quarter And was up 4 70 basis points compared to the year ago quarter. We continue to balance operating margin expansion with investments that will drive Lattice's long term revenue growth. Q1 non GAAP tax expense increased to $3,200,000 primarily due to tax reform changes related to the capitalization of R and D costs.

Speaker 3

Q1 earnings per diluted share was $0.51 compared to $0.37 in the year ago quarter, which represents 37% year over year growth, Quarter with $112,000,000 in cash after repurchasing 119,000 shares or $10,000,000 in stock and we also paid down 25,000,000 dollars on our credit revolver. Subsequent to the end of the quarter, we paid down an additional $60,000,000 on our credit revolver. Let me now review our outlook for the Q2. Revenue for the Q2 of 2023 is expected to be between $183,000,000 $193,000,000 Gross margin is expected to be 70% plus or minus 1% on a non GAAP basis. Total operating expenses for the 2nd quarter are expected to be between $56,000,000 $58,000,000 on a non GAAP basis.

Speaker 3

In closing, I'm very pleased with our strong financial results and continued execution despite the macroeconomic challenges impacting the industry. We are looking forward to our Investor Day on May 15, when we will share our plans of how we continue to build long term shareholder value. Operator, we can now open the call for questions.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

Operator

Our first question today is coming from Matt Ramsay from TD Cowen. Your line is now live.

Speaker 4

Yes. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everybody. Jim, I wanted to start my first question. I think in Sherri's script, She mentioned 12 consecutive quarters of sequential revenue growth, which is remarkable.

Speaker 4

And You guys just put up 22% growth in Q1, which is a lot better than the industry is doing, let's say. If you could talk to us a little bit about the drivers of the growth now, as you continue to consolidate share in the low to your FPGA market. And then, in particular, do you feel comfortable one of the questions I get as you've gone put up this much growth is, Do you feel comfortable with where distributor and channel inventory is, and the inventory levels, so we can Still see further growth going forward at maybe a similar pace. Thanks.

Speaker 2

Thanks for the question, Matt. Yes, we're quite pleased with the Results that we saw in Q1, in particular, the year over year growth of 22%, we feel like Roftik kind of a good start for the year, Especially considering over the last 2 years, we've grown at over 20% per year and like you said 12 consecutive quarters Of growth, we feel good about that. I attribute it to really two things. Number 1, from a market perspective, We position the company in I think the right long term secular growth markets and we have really strong specific growth drivers within those markets. And then number 2 is product portfolio expansion.

Speaker 2

And we're right now, we're in the midst of, I would say, the largest product portfolio expansion the company has ever done in its history. And so I think both of those have just positioned us really good for growth. On the first one, just a little bit more color on from a market perspective. We're certainly pleased with our continued progress in the Industrial and Automotive segment. Industrial robotics, industrial automation, automotive electronics like ADAS and infotainment systems, all of those applications are really good locations for Lattice devices, the power efficiency that we bring, the flexibility, the increasing software content that we're delivering to our customers, all of those help us bring really unique and I think compelling solutions to our customers and that growth that we're seeing in those segments Really driven by design wins that we've accumulated and driven over the last 1, 2, 3, 4 years And those design wins entering productions, we're quite pleased with the growth that we see in that segment.

Speaker 2

And even comms and computing, even though we saw some sequential decline in that segment, we again chalked up growth on a year over year perspective from that segment and I think that stands out relative to the industry. And there again, we see growth in content expansion and servers, Good growth in data center networking, wireless infrastructure, so a number of specific growth factors there. And then like I said on number 2 on the product expansion, we continue to expand out our small FPGA platform of Nexus, just got our 5th device family into production number 6 we just launched and AVANT is still ahead of us in terms of Revenue ramp, we're just kind of just getting started with Avant this year. And so we're pretty excited about the continued product expansion. And I think the last part of your question was around disti and channel inventory.

Speaker 2

When I look at our distribution channel inventory At the end of Q1, relatively it was relatively unchanged from the end of last year Q4. And our disty and channel inventory is still low relative to what we would consider normal levels of inventory. So we look at the channel inventory and say, well, that's looks pretty healthy and over time we'll need to replenish that a bit. And so We feel well positioned for long term growth for the company. We're certainly not immune to any of the macroeconomic challenges or any demand fluctuations in our end markets, but we feel really well positioned over the long term.

Speaker 4

Thanks so much for that Jim and all the detail there. As my follow-up, you mentioned in some of your commentary as to Cherry, The growth in the Auto and Industrial segment being really, really strong, but comps in Computing, it's no secret that there's been some temporary server build softness and also some softness in the PC market that seems to be bottoming and maybe starting to turn. So if you could maybe talk us through the next Couple of quarters in that particular segment, maybe lead times for your devices relative to when servers ship or when PC builds start turnaround, if you could just kind of walk us through how should we think about the sort of reacceleration of that segment if those end markets do turn? Thanks.

Speaker 2

Yes, thanks Matt. Yes, we've certainly seen just along with everybody else in the industry, we've certainly seen some end market unit softness in both servers in PCs. For us, servers is a bigger factor. Our position or revenue in servers is much larger than what we have in PCs at this point, although we see PCs as a continued long term large TAM opportunity for the company. But in the servers space, both hyperscale and enterprise servers, that's been a great growth area for us for at least the last 3 to 4 years.

Speaker 2

Actually comms and compute has grown double digits for us now for as of the end of last year, 4 years in a row, Servers being one of the main drivers of that. But for us, most of that revenue growth in servers has actually been driven by content expansion. That's either higher attach rates, higher ASPs. That's been a much bigger factor for us than the underlying server unit growth in terms of Sure, but Tam. And we expect that to continue to be the bigger driver for us over the long term, the continued expansion of dollars and content for Lattice.

Speaker 2

We continue to see great areas of opportunity to grow that and we expect that to be The bigger factor in our continued growth. That said, to the extent that there starts to be a pickup in end market server demand, we would expect to benefit from that. Generally, we would benefit from that maybe a quarter or so ahead of when the actual servers start to Chip, just given the systems getting built and our system or our chips getting ordered ahead of time. So we would expect to see a pickup about a quarter ahead of when the end server deployments hit. But But again, I'd stress that, the majority of our growth in that segment is really more driven around, again, that dollars of content per server.

Speaker 4

All right. Thank you very much. Congrats again. I'll jump back in the queue.

Speaker 2

Thanks, Matt.

Operator

Thank Next question is coming from Tristan Gerra from Baird. Your line is now live.

Speaker 5

Hi, good afternoon. Great gross margin showing in In terms of results and guidance, could you talk about the driver and also how sustainable that is? If you could talk The key drivers and your expectation for pricing for the rest of the year.

Speaker 3

Yes. Thank you, Tristan for the question. So we're really very pleased with our another record quarter gross margin for us 70.3%, 2 60 basis points improvement year over year. As I mentioned in my prepared remarks, I mean, we're now in our 5th year of our gross margin expansion strategy, Where we've driven a 13 60 basis points improvement since we started this program in 2019. So and really the drivers are multiple factors.

Speaker 3

New products have added value to our gross margin, pricing optimization, mix, product cost efficiencies, all of those items have been factors that have contributed to us expanding our gross margin. So we'll continue to focus on gross margin And we'll look forward to our Investor Day on May 15th. We will give you an updated financial model at that time.

Speaker 2

Yes, maybe I'll jump in. I think Tristan also asked about pricing at the very end of the question, Tristan, just to address the pricing perspective. I think you're asking kind of go forward pricing. We believe our pricing is durable. As Sherry mentioned, part of that gross margin improvement initiative that we've been working on over the past now, our 5th years that included pricing optimization and just frankly better pricing discipline within the company.

Speaker 2

And so we feel like we've built some strong muscles around pricing and we feel like our pricing is durable. And also what I would add is we've added a tremendous amount of software content to our software portfolio. And we see increasing adoption from our customers of our higher level software, our application solution stacks, The adoption rate or attach rate is now over 50%. And software, when it's adopted by our customers, that also helps us secure higher ASPs and helps drive generally higher, better solutions to our customer and better ASPs fees for us over the long term. And so that's a net tailwind to our ASPs over time as well.

Speaker 5

Great. And then for my follow-up, you've mentioned the attach rate above 1 in data center. You mentioned Just on this Q and A that you expect the attach rate will continue to increase. So if you could talk about the drivers, obviously, as you Expect to continue to outpace data center units. What are going to be the driver for attach rate to go even beyond where they are today And or the ASPs to go further, is that going to be reliant on new products?

Speaker 5

Or do you feel that there is more Functionality that you can address or that your existing products already addressing in data center, any color on that

Speaker 2

Yes. It's a great question, Tristan. And on let me talk about both parts, the attach rate and the ASP expansion, which combine to drive dollars of content per server. On attach rates, which are now, I would say, well above 1x, we continue to see more opportunities for across the server infrastructure for more Lattice chips to be used within the server, whether it's on the motherboard itself or the cards that are attached into the motherboard or just sort of multiple different Places where we can see additional lattice chips being adopted and so we continue to see more opportunity there, number 1. And then number 2, And you kind of alluded to this is as we bring more functionality, more capability through our or new products, new devices through the new software that we're developing and even with Avan coming out as well, We see opportunities to just bring additional content and capability to servers just like we've been doing over the past 4 to 5 years.

Speaker 2

And so when you combine that opportunity to continue to bring more content which brings higher ASPs with continued growth in attach rates. We continue to see this as a really good growth area for the company. And you should expect us to talk in a little bit more detail about this at our upcoming Investor Day. We'll give some more kind of specific examples of where we see continued opportunity in the Server and Data Center Infrastructure segment.

Speaker 5

Great. Thank you very

Speaker 1

much.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is coming from Christopher Rolland from Susquehanna. Your line is now live.

Speaker 6

Hey, guys. Thanks for the question. I was wondering, I don't think you guys have given this before, but I have a feeling it's growing a little bit more. I was wondering about auto as a percentage Total and I and A now, you mentioned ADAS, but would love to know what's driving that? Or is it really just Purely Industrial Automation.

Speaker 6

And then also sometimes you guys kind of force rank the segments. I'd love a little bit of color there too.

Speaker 2

Yes. Thanks, Chris. So On automotive, yes, we're very pleased with the continued progress on automotive electronics. And it is a combination of ADAS and infotainment Payment applications, just in many different places where a power efficient, flexible, adaptable chip like we provide can be used in automotive electronics applications both for EV applications, but also for The increase in electronic content that's growing even within gas powered cars, right? So we're pleased with the growth that we've seen The most recent full year, automotive and industrial overall grew very strong.

Speaker 2

I think it was about 41 Year over year, but our automotive business actually grew well above that. And in the most recent quarter Q1, we again saw very strong growth in automotive. And so we see this as a really good growth area for the company, very, very, kind of compelling and exciting design win pipeline that we have And so we feel good about that growth. And now that said, it is still the smaller portion of that segment, But we're pleased with the growth of it. And but we are seeing strong growth Industrial Automation Robotics applications as well.

Speaker 2

Although over the past quarters, automotive has been growing a bit faster, We're still quite pleased with the growth we're seeing throughout the Industrial segment in many different applications, especially when it relates to automation and robotics.

Speaker 6

Great. Yes. And if you could if you can kind of force rank the segments and give us an idea of where you think we may have more or less strength in the next quarter?

Speaker 2

In terms of next quarter, if you look at Q2, I would expect, on a sequential basis, Certainly, if you take the midpoint of our guide for Q2, we've guided up sequentially. I would expect the sequential growth in industrial and automotive. I would expect comms and computing to be sequentially flat, and but overall for the revenue to be sequentially up based on the midpoint.

Speaker 6

Very helpful. And then just lastly, comms, wireless and wireline, kind of what's going on there? Are there any highly significant drivers coming up here in your opinion?

Speaker 2

In Q1, we did see a bit of sequential weakness in wireless infrastructure, which I think is pretty consistent with what the industry has seen. So part of that sequential drop that we saw in comms and compute primarily server but a little bit of it Being wireless infrastructure as well, moving forward, we still see wireless infrastructure as a great long term growth area for the company, especially given the greater amount of content that we have in 5 gs base stations and other equipment related to telecom infrastructure. The other Area of growth that we've talked about more recently that we're excited about is data center networking. We continue to see Good growth there and a very healthy design win pipeline there as well. And again, all of this we'll touch on in or detail at our Investor Day in a couple of weeks from now.

Speaker 6

Thanks so much. Really appreciate, Jim.

Speaker 2

Thanks, Chris.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is coming from Hans Mosesmann From Rosenblatt Securities, your line is now live.

Speaker 7

Thanks. Hey guys, congratulations. Good results in a tough market. Most of my questions have been answered. But I am curious, Jim, in the new design engagements where software is a big Of that, up till the design win, what is the competitive dynamic for those Specific new sockets that you're winning.

Speaker 2

Yes. I think that so in general, We feel like we've got really good competitive position in general. I'll come back to the software part of your comment, I want to start with just the devices themselves, if you look at Nexus, extremely competitive versus other FPGAs that are out there, we're able to deliver power efficiency that's 2 to 3 times better than our competition, incredible Physical size advantages where our devices are much, much smaller. So I think even at just the device level, we feel really well positioned competitively. And then similar for AVANT as we're we've launched the 1st device family based on AVANT.

Speaker 2

We have 2 more device families. We're planning to launch this year and more to come in the future. We also feel really well positioned competitively there. And so the devices themselves are competitive. But I think when then when we add to that the software capabilities and portfolio that we've Built out over the past 4 to 5 years, I think that makes a really compelling combination for our customers.

Speaker 2

Our software solution portfolio is now 5 different application specific software solution stacks for common customer We're seeing great adoption of those software solutions. As I mentioned, the attach rate of our software solutions is now over 50%. And what that software does is that, number 1, that helps our customers design our products in very quickly, either helps them switch from a competitor's device to our device quickly, but more importantly helps them get to market easily and quickly and that helps drive their time to market but also helps improve our time to revenue. We also believe it creates much more long term stickiness for our solutions. That software, once it's It's kind of integrated into their system level software that creates multi generational stickiness for our entire solution including the silicon.

Speaker 2

So we feel very good about the software and the level of competitiveness and stickiness that it creates. It's certainly a big investment area for the company. We've been growing investment there for we're now in our 5th year of increased investment And we continue to be excited about the potential moving forward.

Speaker 7

That's great. Jim, but what I want to get to is how does your Competition compete against that specifically, what are they doing to compete against you recently? Or is there any competition down there in the small FPGA? That's what I'm looking for. Their behavior or your customer behavior is like, hey, I got to use you.

Speaker 7

You're the only guy That can really address this. That's what I'm trying to get to.

Speaker 2

Well, I think that what we're doing in the marketplace is, we believe It's unique or specific to Lattice. And so I think that combination of silicon tightly coupled with the specific application solution stacks, we believe that that's a really competitive and compelling offering in marketplace. That's something that's really differentiated versus our competition and I think our we believe our customers recognize that and definitely appreciate that. We think that's borne out by The adoption rates that we're seeing for our software.

Speaker 7

Great. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2

Thanks Hans.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is coming from David Williams from Benchmark Company. Your line is now live. Hey,

Speaker 8

Mix perspective that surprised you during the quarter. Asia was down, again quite a bit this quarter, but just wondering if you're seeing anything in terms of And then maybe what drove the Americas and Europe improvement?

Speaker 2

Thanks, David. So just as a reminder, the revenue breakdown by geography, that's shipped to revenue. So that's where Lattice products are shipped. And it doesn't necessarily reflect where the end product is actually consumed. So I just want to say that from the outset.

Speaker 2

So you got to keep that in mind. A lot of times where the Lattice product is shipped, the system will be assembled there and shipped to a different geography. Now that said, yes, we're pleased to see continued growth In North America and Europe, we've certainly seen strong growth with those customers over a number of quarters. We have seen some softness in the Asia geography. We attribute that to some of the softness that we talked about earlier in terms of server demand, many servers are assembled in Asia, for instance.

Speaker 2

But we when we look for longer term, we see good growth expectations across our geographies over the long term.

Speaker 8

Great. And then maybe just from a fungibility standpoint of the products and customers, can you talk maybe about that fungibility? Obviously, Maybe not between specifics with the software stack, but just kind of thinking about the inventory levels and those are fairly flat, just Modestly, but is there much fungibility that you have between those different products and customers?

Speaker 2

Yes, there's very high fungibility. One of the great things about FPGAs, one of the things I certainly like about FPGA products is Because they're programmable, the same product can get adopted across almost every market that we serve. So we often see, Especially our popular products, we often see those being used across every single market that we serve. And so there's great fungibility Across our markets. And I think that's a real strength to the business.

Speaker 8

Thanks so much.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is coming from Reuben Roy from Stifel. Your line

Speaker 9

Thank you. Hi. Jim, I guess most of my questions have been answered, but I did have a question on software. You started to talk a little bit about this. And I guess, when you think about software attach rates and a little over the half to design wins, having some sort of the Soft IP course involved, is there an upper limit for software attach rate, I.

Speaker 9

E, are there some end markets or applications where we wouldn't see software that kind of limits growth or is it if you build the stacks, your customers will come and use software and eventually Maybe not 100%, but does that number keep going up?

Speaker 2

Yes. Thanks, Ruben. I think there is an upper Per Stack, we don't know exactly what that is. We don't believe we've hit that yet. But yes, I would assume that some portion of our customers would not adopt and just use their own software, their own specific programming modules.

Speaker 2

So but yes, I can't say that we know what that limit is. We don't believe we've hit it yet.

Speaker 9

Great. The follow-up to that is A lot of us investors focus on new products, NEXUS and of course, Avant coming up. But in terms of software and sort of the way you're looking at markets and addressing customers, is the software are the software specs sort of pulling through interest and adoption of preNexus products would you say?

Speaker 2

Yes, that's a great question, Ruben, and that's Absolutely correct. We've seen in a lot of cases software kind of rejuvenate products, older products that have been around for Quite a while. And yes, so one of the other benefits that we've seen to the software portfolio is not just helping enabling and driving the new products, but actually rejuvenating and lengthening the lifetime of the existing product. We're quite pleased with that because the amount of incremental investment to activate that on older products It's very, very low and so it's a really good ROI for us. And so we have seen our pre Nexus products continue to grow in a very healthy way as well.

Speaker 2

If we look at last year's growth or the most recent Q1 growth, Pre Nexus products continue to be a big growth driver for us as well and at least part of that is certainly due to software enable end.

Speaker 9

Excellent. Thanks for that detail, Jim.

Speaker 2

Thanks, Ruben.

Operator

Thank you. That does conclude our question and answer session. I'd like to turn the floor back over to the CEO. Mr. Anderson, please go ahead, sir.

Speaker 2

Yes. Thank you, operator, and thanks again everyone for being on the call today. We're certainly pleased with our continued execution and strong results in Q1. And of Of course, we look forward to sharing more details about all of our future plans at our Investor Day on May 15th. Operator, that concludes today's call.

Operator

Thank you. You may now disconnect your lines and have a wonderful day. We thank you for your participation today.

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