Lattice Semiconductor Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Key Takeaways

  • Positive Sentiment: Record Q2 performance: Revenue reached $201 million, up 62% year over year, while non-GAAP EPS rose more than 120% to $0.53. Gross margin expanded to 71.7%, supported by favorable product and customer mix.
  • Positive Sentiment: Demand remains strong across AI data centers, traditional server infrastructure, industrial automation, robotics, aerospace and defense, and other emerging applications. Bookings have accelerated, backlog extends into 2027, and management expects new products to exceed 25% of 2026 revenue.
  • Positive Sentiment: The AMI acquisition has closed and is expected to roughly double Lattice’s addressable market by combining FPGA solutions with firmware and infrastructure manageability. AMI is expected to generate more than $200 million in annualized revenue exiting 2026, with gross margins above 75%, EBITDA margins above 40%, and meaningful EPS accretion beginning in Q4.
  • Positive Sentiment: Q3 revenue guidance is $245 million to $265 million, including approximately two months of AMI revenue, with midpoint EPS of $0.56. Management also raised its longer-term ambition to reach $3 billion in revenue by 2030 and expects to reduce leverage below 2x EBITDA by the end of 2027.
  • Negative Sentiment: Assembly capacity remains constrained across the semiconductor industry, while supply-chain costs and expedite fees are increasing. Lattice expects to absorb some costs and pass some to customers, and forecasts lower Q3 corporate gross margin of approximately 69.5% due partly to AMI’s non-core, low-margin hardware pass-through business.
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Lattice Semiconductor Q2 2026
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Operator

Welcome to the Lattice Semiconductor second quarter 2026 earnings call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Rick Muscha, Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you, Rick. You may begin.

Rick Muscha
Rick Muscha
VP of Investor Relations at Lattice Semiconductor

Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. With me today are Ford Tamer, Lattice's CEO, and Lorenzo Flores, Lattice's CFO. We'll provide a financial and business review of the second quarter of 2026 and the outlook for the third quarter of 2026, followed by a brief overview of AMI and its business model. If you have not yet obtained a copy of our earnings press release, it can be found at our company website in the investor relations section at latticesemi.com. I would 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. We wish to caution you that such statements are predictions based on information that is currently available, and that actual results may differ materially.

Rick Muscha
Rick Muscha
VP of Investor Relations at Lattice Semiconductor

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 third quarter of 2026. 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. We 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.

Rick Muscha
Rick Muscha
VP of Investor Relations at Lattice Semiconductor

For historical periods, we've provided reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures that can be found on the investor relations section of our website at latticesemi.com. With that, I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Ford Tamer.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Thank you, Rick, and welcome everyone to our second quarter earnings call. Lattice delivered exceptional financial results this quarter, reflecting a healthy market environment, compelling catalysts, and our own strong execution. We have a focused and consistent strategy built to create durable value by growing faster than the markets we serve. We do this by expanding into new applications, serving leadership customers, delivering differentiated innovation, and driving sustainable shareholder value as a result. We are executing against each of these strategic elements. The results are increasingly visible across the business. Following last week's close of the AMI acquisition, Lattice is now positioned to deliver even greater value to customers and our shareholders. You will hear more about this acquisition shortly. First, let me update you on our second quarter results and outlook.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Revenue for the second quarter was a record $201 million, representing 18% sequential growth and 62% year-over-year growth, with strength across all our end markets. Our compute and communications end market reached another record revenue level, growing 18% sequentially and 83% year-over-year, driven by continued momentum in data center AI applications. Demand for Lattice solutions continue to be fueled by increasing CapEx, increasing AI content per server, expanding FPGA attach rates, rising security requirements, and the shift towards more complex disaggregated architectures. We also saw a continued recovery in our industrial and embedded end market, with revenue up 17% sequentially and 36% year-over-year. We see momentum building across a diverse set of end markets, including industrial automation, aerospace and defense, medical, robotics, and other emerging physical AI applications. These applications increasingly require our Lattice differentiation in low power, small form factor, low latency, and secure processing.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

With channel inventory at healthy levels and multiple new design wins beginning to ramp, we expect industrial and embedded to remain an important contributor to growth through the balance of 2026 and beyond. As we had anticipated, profitability continued to grow significantly faster than revenue, with second quarter non-GAAP EPS of $0.53, representing growth of more than 120% year-over-year. This outstanding performance underscores the operating leverage we have built into the model. We expect this momentum to continue based on demand trends building across our major end markets. This is evidenced by accelerated bookings and our backlog extending well into 2027. At the same time, design win momentum remains healthy across our FPGA portfolio and end markets. As demand continues to strengthen, we remain focused on working closely with our supply chain partners to ensure that we can support our customers' growth plans.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Taken together, we expect these trends to support a sustained multiyear growth outlook. Turning now to AMI. We're pleased to announce the successful close of the acquisition last week. It brings together Lattice's leadership in low-power programmable FPGAs with AMI's industry-leading firmware and infrastructure manageability portfolio. It positions us to create the industry's most complete secure management and control platform for AI data center infrastructure. We expect that this combination can double our addressable market. In the three months since the announcement of the transaction, we have engaged with about 100 hyperscalers, OEMs, ODMs, and ecosystem partners, including many at Computex in Taiwan. Uniformly, they have all given us unequivocal positive feedback about the time to market and value that our joint solutions can provide. This reinforces our confidence that the acquisition can provide long-term value to our shareholders.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

AMI is a highly attractive business with strong profitability and durable recurring revenue characteristics. As we exit 2026, we expect the business to be operating at a revenue run rate of more than $200 million, with gross margins above 75% and EBITDA margins above 40%. These metrics underscore the strength of AMI's market position, the depth of its customer relationships, and the highly efficient operating model the company has built over many years. The AMI business is well-balanced, with approximately 60% of revenue generated from its boot firmware franchise and 40% from its infrastructure manageability solutions. Revenue includes firmware licensing, royalties, and platform enablement services. This model creates strong visibility, attractive lifetime economics, and durable customer engagements across long product cycles. We see multiple avenues to grow AMI over time, winning more platforms, increasing content per platform, and expanding further into AI infrastructure and embedded markets.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

This includes new trends such as rack-scale architectures, secure boot, data center manageability, and remote monitoring and control. AMI will continue to operate with the same open, silicon-neutral approach that has earned it the trust of customers and partners across the industry for decades. We are excited to welcome the AMI team to Lattice, and we have already hit the ground running together. Looking forward to the third quarter, our revenue guidance for our FPGA business of $220 million at the midpoint represents approximately 65% year-over-year growth. When adding two months of AMI revenue contribution, our revenue guidance becomes $255 million at the midpoint, putting us at over $1 billion annualized revenue run rate. This strong outlook reflects our confidence in the accelerating momentum of the business and the breadth of demand across our end markets.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

The midpoint of our EPS outlook is $0.56, which reflects roughly 100% year-over-year growth. This highlights the powerful operating leverage in our model, the differentiated value of our products, and our disciplined approach to scaling Lattice. We expect that we'll be able to consistently drive earnings growth that significantly outpaces revenue growth. Looking ahead, accelerating AI infrastructure demand, the emergence of physical AI, and the addition of AMI create a powerful foundation for Lattice's next phase of growth. The secular trends fueling our business have never been stronger. We are confident that we are in the early innings of a multi-year growth cycle, and our focus is clear: deliver sustained above-market growth while converting that growth into strong earnings and cash flow to benefit you, our valued shareholders. With that, I'll turn over the call over to Lorenzo for a comprehensive review of our second quarter results and outlook.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Lorenzo?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Thank you, Ford, and good afternoon, everyone. I will begin with a review of Lattice's second quarter 2026 financial performance, followed by our outlook for the third quarter. We'll then close with a brief introduction to AMI and its business model. Q2 financial performance was exceptional, exceeding the high end of our guidance. Revenue reached a record $201 million, growing 62% year-over-year and 18% quarter-over-quarter. Earnings growth continued to outpace our revenue growth and exceeded the high end of our guidance. Q2 non-GAAP EPS at $0.53 a share demonstrated significant leverage, growing more than 120% year-over-year and 29% quarter-over-quarter. Q2 non-GAAP gross margin was above expectation at 71.7%, up 170 basis points quarter-over-quarter and up 240 basis points year-over-year. Q2 gross margin benefited from favorable product and customer mix. Q2 non-GAAP operating expense was $67.1 million, up approximately 10% sequentially and 30% on a year-over-year basis.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

The sequential increase was primarily driven by continued R&D investment. Performance-based bonuses and commissions associated with our stronger revenue and profitability also contributed. Our Q2 non-GAAP operating margin expanded 390 basis points sequentially to 38.3%, while our EBITDA margin increased 340 basis points to 43%. GAAP net cash flow from operating activities for the second quarter of 2026 was $88.3 million, compared to $50.3 million in Q1. Free cash flow in Q2 was $81.3 million, with a 40.4% free cash flow margin, up from $39.7 million and 23.2% in Q1. Strong financial performance and the fact that we paid out our 2025 annual bonus in Q1 were factors in the sequential improvement of cash flow. In summary, Q2 demonstrated the strength and leverage of our financial model with non-GAAP EPS growth significantly outpacing revenue growth.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Now for our guidance, which will include our FPGA business and approximately two months of the AMI business, given the closing at the end of July. Our FPGA business continues its accelerated growth trend. Revenue is expected to grow into the range of $210 million-$230 million. AMI revenue for the partial quarter is expected to be between $33 million and $37 million. In total, Lattice revenue is expected to be in the range of $245 million-$265 million. Gross margin for the FPGA business is expected to be 70% ±1% as we continue to manage our supply chain and costs in the face of increasing pressure. Combined, Lattice Q3 corporate gross margin is expected to be 69.5% ±1% on a non-GAAP basis. This guidance reflects transitory issues in the AMI business, and I'll discuss those in more detail shortly.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

We expect non-GAAP operating expense to be between $83 million and $90 million on a combined basis. Most of the growth in OpEx will be in R&D and reflects our continued disciplined investments to drive long-term sustained revenue growth. We expect income tax rate for Q3 to be between 4% and 6% on a non-GAAP basis. We expect non-GAAP EPS to be in the range of $0.54 and $0.58 per share. In summary, our Q3 outlook continues to reflect strong revenue and earnings momentum, with EPS growth expected to once again significantly outpace revenue growth. This underscores the leverage in our model and our ability to scale profitably while continuing to invest in long-term growth. Earlier, Ford provided a strategic overview of AMI in his prepared remarks. I'll provide additional color on the business model and the near-term factors that will affect comparability as we integrate AMI.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

I will also cover the acquisition financing. AMI brings a highly attractive business model that is closely aligned with Lattice's long-term financial framework. We expect a base revenue of greater than $200 million in 2026 will achieve significant growth in 2027. AMI has built a very profitable business with gross margins in the mid to high 70% range and EBITDA over 40%, which should improve our already strong business model. As AMI is integrated with Lattice, we expect to see meaningful accretion to EPS starting in Q4. AMI revenue is primarily driven by firmware licensing, recurring maintenance and subscription revenue, and per-unit royalties that scale with customer platforms over time. AMI also provides platform enablement services that support customer adoption and help establish durable long-term royalty streams. One of the transitory issues referenced above is a low-margin hardware pass-through business that is not core to AMI's strategic value.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

AMI began proactively divesting this business before the acquisition. While we expect this non-core business to be fully exited by the end of 2026, Q3 and Q4 will include this revenue. Completing the exit in Q4 should structurally expand AMI's margin profile in line with our expected go-forward model. We anticipate that any other adjustments will be normalized by the end of 2026 as well. To reiterate, as we integrate AMI, we will show accretion across our business model with meaningful accretion to EPS starting in Q4, while we enable additional strategic growth opportunities. Regarding the acquisition structure, we purchased AMI for $1 billion in cash and 5.2 million shares of our stock. We funded the cash portion of the acquisition with $925 million of financing and $75 million of cash from our balance sheet.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

We put in place a financing structure with a $1.15 billion credit facility consisting of a $950 million term loan, drawing down only $925 million of it, and a $200 million revolving credit facility. We were pleased with the strong participation from a high-quality syndicate of financial institutions, reflecting confidence in the Lattice AMI combination. Given the strong free cash flow profile of the combined company, we currently plan to reduce leverage to below 2x EBITDA by the end of 2027. In closing, this has been an incredible few months for Lattice with our record Q2 results, our closing of the transformational AMI transaction, and our record Q3 guide. We are very well positioned for strong near-term growth as well as the next level of strategic growth with accelerating revenue, earnings, and cash flow generation. Operator, that concludes our formal remarks. We can now open the call for questions.

Operator

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you'd like to move your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Our first question is from Quinn Bolton with Needham & Co. Please proceed with your question.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Hey, guys. Congratulations on the continued strong results and outlook. I guess, Ford, just wanted to start with the Comms & Compute business. Obviously, very strong growth in AI data centers and general purpose as well. Wondering if you could talk about trends you're seeing in terms of FPGA attach rate per server, dollar content or ASP per FPGA. Have you seen those trends continue to increase sort of on a quarter-to-quarter basis here in 2026? I've got a follow-up.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Thank you, Quinn. A few things that I was noting this quarter. Number one, the latest DigiTime report shows the server TAM is now up to 20 million units forecast for 2026, which is a really strong growth, much stronger than prior year. We're seeing the agentic revolution still continuing, we're seeing that drive not just the AI server, but more traditional server, networking, storage, all the cloud infrastructure that goes along with this inference and agentic revolution. That has helped our business because we participate in both. We participate strongly in the AI attached server and clients. We also participate in the supporting infrastructure, the client infrastructure. We're really happy about that. The attach rate continues to grow. The CapEx continues to grow. The new applications continue to grow.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

The ASP of some of the new products continue to grow because we're coming in now with further and more complex security requirements as an example. We continue to be very positive on the characteristic of our FPGA, such as low latency determinism, parallel processing, connectivity, wide range I/O. These are the 1.2 to 3.3-V I/O in the data center, connecting up to 1,200 sensor in some of these servers together. Our FPGA continues to find use cases in numerous new applications such as, for example, power and cooling.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Excellent. Thank you, Ford. I guess maybe for Lorenzo, as you bring AMI on board, it looks like it has gross margins in maybe the mid to high 70s. I think you said op margins above 40% in the core FPGA business. You're already approaching a 40% op margin, you've kind of highlighted that earnings growth will grow much faster than revenue. Now that you've closed the AMI acquisition, can you give us some thoughts on where you think a longer-term model might be for gross margin and operating margin? Could it be in the low 70s and low 40s? Is there another range where we should be thinking maybe a year or two out on a combined basis?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah. I'll try to answer your question in near-term and long-term. We are benefiting right now in our business model from very strong revenue growth. If you look underneath, we continue to invest. AMI is also a R&D heavy organization because they continue to invest for the future. The model that you see right now is probably approximately what we'll see for the next little bit. As we get into 2027, if our longer-term growth aspirations manifest themselves, we see a little bit better performance in our business model than we may have been expecting before. 70-ish% on the gross margin and a little bit sooner to 40% on the operating margin level than we had seen in the past, probably where we're taking it. But keep in mind, that's in the face of or with the accelerated revenue growth we're expecting.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

With that model, you'd start to see very significant acceleration in EPS as well.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Excellent. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Christopher Rolland with Susquehanna International Group. Please proceed with your question.

Christopher Rolland
Analyst at Susquehanna International Group

Hi there. Maybe just following up on the last question about gross margin. Lorenzo, I think you said there was a hardware business associated with AMI. How much revenue is that hardware business? Was that on top of the 200, or does that take from the 200 annual revenue? Is that the reason for margins being down in September?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah. Look, this is a really transitory issue. It's as we pick them up, we have a partial quarter. They have already begun to, as I said in my comments, divest the hardware part of the business while maintaining the royalty stream. It's not from the Lattice perspective overall, it's not a meaningful amount of revenue, and by Q4, it won't have an impact on our overall financials or actually even the AMI specific financials. It's just something that we wanted to point out because it does cause a Q3 little step down from where we were expecting.

Christopher Rolland
Analyst at Susquehanna International Group

Okay. Was that revenue on top of the 200?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Thank you.

Christopher Rolland
Analyst at Susquehanna International Group

Roughly how much?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

The $200 million a year run rate for AMI would exclude that in the end.

Christopher Rolland
Analyst at Susquehanna International Group

Okay, excellent. Thank you. Perhaps a follow-up. I'll talk about I&A. I think the situation with I&A is maybe they didn't understand we were in a new semiconductor cycle, and we're kind of holding back spending. Any update on bookings there? Has it accelerated? Have they finally got the message? I think we, back in the day, were talking about maybe a $75 million normalized run rate for that business, but it now appears maybe to be higher, particularly with the guide-

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Industrial-

Christopher Rolland
Analyst at Susquehanna International Group

Next quarter, I would imagine it's higher. Can you talk about I&A and what's happening there with the channel, what a new normalized level is? That would be great. Thank you.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah. Thank you, Chris. Our industrial and embedded segment is doing great. I&E is doing good. We have talked about the really strong sequential and year-over-year growth, and we see this continue to grow throughout the rest of the year. The PMI now is at very positive levels worldwide. There's a bit of a temporary slowdown in China, but continue to be very excited about the design wins, the physical design momentum, and the recovery of that business. The channel is inventory is now where we need it to be. We're not focused as much on the channel inventory anymore as we're focused on supply being the main focus. Very positive on all the different segments, including some of the new robotics and humanoids were doing quite well, some of the new autonomous vehicles, new medical application, new aerospace and defense.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

The list goes on penetrating a few new market segments and accelerating the growth into 2027.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah, let me just add on. One of the things at Lattice we are not impacted by is automotive. It's a relatively small business for us. That end market weakness is not having a drag on us.

Christopher Rolland
Analyst at Susquehanna International Group

Excellent. Thank you, guys.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

The only other one, Chris, I mentioned. Yeah, that's fine. Please go ahead.

Operator

Our next question is from Melissa Weathers with Deutsche Bank. Please proceed with your question.

Melissa Weathers
Melissa Weathers
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Hi there. Thank you for the question. I wanted to touch on something you just talked about, the supply side. With everything seeming like it's coming back pretty hard, can you just talk about any constraints that you're seeing on the supply side, how you're managing it, and could this actually gate your growth going into next year?

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah, thank you, Melissa. As I said, we're doing good on sort of the fab side at the front end and the testing side on the back end. In the middle, on the assembly side, there are constraints across the industry right now. Us and the rest of the industry are experiencing these constraints. We are putting capacity agreement in place and then qualifying new capacity that we believe will get us supply and demand in line by September. We should be in good shape in Q4 and definitely for 2027.

Melissa Weathers
Melissa Weathers
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Great. On AMI, congrats on getting the deal closed. I know you've talked about your SAM, I think, doubling with the inclusion of AMI. Can you just talk about, is there any new kind of long-term growth rate framework that we should be thinking about for FPGAs? Is there an adder to whatever percent growth you could have grown in the past? Just any help on how we can think about AMI actually accelerating your FPGA sales? I think that would be helpful.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah. Melissa, a couple of things I'd like. Number one, from a long-term aspirational goal, we'd like to hit $3 billion by 2030. That's the goal. We are already ahead by about a quarter. If you look at, we had three months ago said that we'll hit a $1 billion run rate by Q4 and the combination of Lattice plus AMI, we just hit this in our guide in Q3 a quarter ahead. We're seeing the benefit of this. We should exit this year at a $1.2 billion run rate. You could see where our growth is accelerating.

Melissa Weathers
Melissa Weathers
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Kevin Garrigan with Jefferies. Please proceed with your question.

Kevin Garrigan
Kevin Garrigan
Analyst at Jefferies

Yeah. Hey, team. Congrats on the great results. Hey, Ford, just on the supply again. With these new negotiations that you're doing, are any of your manufacturing partners trying to negotiate higher prices? Can you pass those along to your customers?

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yes. The costs are increasing across the industry, not just costs from supply chain point of view, but a whole bunch of expedite fees, because the customers are all under pressure to get supply ASAP. We're seeing the cost increase across the industry, and we're doing the best we can to absorb some of these costs, and we're going to have to pass some of these costs. It's going to be a mixture of absorbing some and passing some.

Kevin Garrigan
Kevin Garrigan
Analyst at Jefferies

Okay, great. You continue to see strong bookings, strong backlog kind of all the way into 2027. I mean, has that visibility extended over the last three months, and how much of that backlog is non-cancelable?

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Very good question. The visibility is increasing daily. I mean, it's really unprecedented. We've got visibility all the way to the end of 2027. 2027 is pretty much booked. We're seeing that to be very strong. We are putting capacity agreements in place with our supplier, where we're going to have to take the capacity. We are, in turn, putting capacity agreements with our customers and partners to make sure that our customers provide us with the same commitments. Yes, I think you're seeing this across the whole supply chain now, us with our supplier and us with our customers, putting all these agreements in place.

Kevin Garrigan
Kevin Garrigan
Analyst at Jefferies

Okay, perfect. Congrats again on the great results.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Ethan Potasnick with TD Cowen. Please proceed with your question.

Ethan Potasnick
Ethan Potasnick
Analyst at TD Cowen

Yeah. Hey, guys. Congrats on the results. Just a near-term question. You guys guided the standalone FPGA business. I was wondering, could you guys help us think about the sort of the relative growth rates across the various segments as we move through the second half?

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah. We do break down our FPGA business. We do break down our Comms & Compute and our Industrial and Embedded. Those have been broken down, and you could see that the Comms & Compute has been growing very strong. This Q2 was 83% year-on-year growth, 18% sequential. Industrial Embedded, 36% year-on-year growth, 17% sequential. We haven't broken this up for Q3. On the AMI side, we expect AMI to grow about 25% year-on-year. That would give you all the three major segments.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

We're seeing strong demand across our end markets, though. I'd just say the Industrial & Embedded business has been lumpy in the past and probably going to behave that way in the future, but the general trend is upward.

Ethan Potasnick
Ethan Potasnick
Analyst at TD Cowen

Okay. Great. Very helpful. Last quarter, the team suggested AI-related revenue would sort of approach 25% of company revenue in 2026. I was wondering if there was an update there and sort of how AI demand tracked during the quarter and where within that opportunity that growth is sort of coming from?

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

No, we're on track to meet this 25% coming from AI revenue and exceed it. We had a discussion, actually multiple discussions around this metric. What's interesting is the AI, the agentic revolution is driving actually more of the traditional infrastructure. We're seeing tremendous growth in the traditional supporting cloud infrastructure, from servers to networking, to storage, to memory, that drives, in turn, our FPGA demand. It's a bit harder to just say AI, which if you want to categorize AI as sort of AI with GPU or TPU or XPUs inside, this is the 25%, or where in some cases we assist that. The other 75% of the business is also growing very rapidly. As you could see inside our Comms & Compute, our server business is growing even faster than Comms & Compute, which grew at 83% year-on-year.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

You could see the rest of the traditional infrastructure is growing actually at the same rate, if not faster now.

Ethan Potasnick
Ethan Potasnick
Analyst at TD Cowen

Okay, great. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Ruben Roy with Stifel. Please proceed with your question.

Ruben Roy
Ruben Roy
Analyst at Stifel

Yeah, hi. Thank you. Ford, maybe just to follow up on that last point. Thinking about the server growth, we've heard a lot recently about CPU attach and CPU. You talked about agentic a little bit in the prepared remarks. I'm just wondering if you could maybe talk about where you are on the CPU side with the core processors, and is that starting to drive some of the growth that you're seeing or is that still on the comms? How do you think about that as you think about 2027? Thank you.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

CPU has definitely been a very strong driver of growth with traditional servers. We have not broken up our server growth, but our server growth is higher than the Comms & Compute, which was at 83%. You could see the server has been growing very nicely year-on-year. We also feel that the AMI acquisition is going to help both the compute and comms and help the Industrial Embedded both segments of our FPGA business grow faster. There are some synergy at customers, and we're working together on joint solution. That AMI acquisition should be able to help drive a higher growth rate in both the compute and comms and the Industrial Embedded. In turn, we should be able to help them drive faster growth in AMI itself. Go ahead, Lorenzo.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Just refresh what Ford said earlier that in the traditional servers our attach rate is growing as well. One CPU is multiple FPGAs going with it in the infrastructure that's supporting AI. It's a very.

Ruben Roy
Ruben Roy
Analyst at Stifel

Okay.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Very healthy ecosystem for us.

Ruben Roy
Ruben Roy
Analyst at Stifel

Yeah. Got it. Thanks, Lorenzo. Maybe just follow up. Ford mentioned 25% year-over-year growth for AMI. Was that for Q3 or second half? I guess, kind of the bigger question around that is I think you framed previously that AMI growth was maybe in the high teens accelerating into 2027 off of that rate. Thinking through firmware attach rates on servers, could we assume at some point that AMI grows something closer to your own server growth rate?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Right now, just clarify that when we said 25%, that's our expectations for 2027. Thought that would be helpful for you guys to start building your models. We are still in the very initial period of integrating. We closed on the 27th of July. We are beginning to put meat around the bones of the strategy we talked about when we were talking about the acquisition, which is developing these solutions that we'll bring to market in the future that would further accelerate that growth rate. That we've yet to really quantify, but that is strategic driver of this acquisition.

Ruben Roy
Ruben Roy
Analyst at Stifel

Very helpful. Thank you.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Sure.

Operator

Once again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question is from Srini Pajjuri with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question.

Srini Pajjuri
Srini Pajjuri
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Thank you. Ford, on the new products, I think you gave us a target number for this year, roughly 20%-25%, I believe. Just wondering how that's tracking? Also, given how strong of a growth you are seeing, I just looked at one of your competitors' reporting, and it looks like you grew 50% over competition. I'm just trying to understand, is this driven by share gains for you, new products, or is it pricing related? I know you talked about demand being very strong, but just curious to understand how the new product ramp is going. Thank you.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Excellent. Good question, Srini. Thank you. We had guided to that range, and now we're going to exceed the high end of that range. We expect new products this year to exceed the 25% of total revenue. As you can see, our new product are doing fine and definitely contributing to that growth rate. The growth rate is across all our markets. We're seeing it in computer and comms, we're seeing it in industrial and embedded, and we're going to start seeing it with AMI. We're quite excited. The one thing, Srini, I wanted to point out is recently I've been reading these reports about people talking about the rule of 60. It used to be the rule of 40, now the rule of 60, and the rule was like adding CAGR plus EBIDTA percent margin.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

I just want to point out we're at a rule of 105 right now. We're above 100. We'll enjoy it for both Q2 and Q3. We're not promising to do this in the future, 62% growth and 40%+ EBITDA gets us to about 105. You could see not just the revenue growth, but also the EPS and profitability growing faster than revenue growth. We're excited about that.

Srini Pajjuri
Srini Pajjuri
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Got it. That's very helpful. Then on the AMI, the 25%, I just want to clarify that it's 25% over $200 million, because you did talk about some hardware-

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yes.

Srini Pajjuri
Srini Pajjuri
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Pass through revenue. Okay.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

That's correct, yes.

Srini Pajjuri
Srini Pajjuri
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

25% over $200 million.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

That's correct. It's 25% over the $200 million, yes.

Srini Pajjuri
Srini Pajjuri
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

My question on that, Ford or Lorenzo, is that it's a pretty solid growth. It's a very healthy environment out there. I'm just curious, I know it's early days, but does it include any of the revenue synergies that you talked about, or is it still kind of early days, is it more of an organic?

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

It is early days. It is early days on the revenue synergies. I do believe we're going to have revenue synergies on top of that. This does not include the revenue synergies.

Srini Pajjuri
Srini Pajjuri
Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Got it. Thank you.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

They'll take a little bit of time to bring to market.

Operator

Our next question is from Quinn Bolton with Needham & Co. Please proceed with your question.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Hi, thanks. Just had a couple quick clarifications or follow-ups. On AMI, will you report that as a third segment, or going forward, do you plan to put it into Comms & Compute and Industrial Embedded?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah, that's a great question. What we are thinking right now is, as we close the quarter and we report, we're gonna talk about the FPGA business as a segment and the AMI business as a segment. We'll provide revenue, and gross margin by those, and we are working right now on how to best articulate the operating margins, given that we're in the process of developing shared infrastructure and support, so.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Will you break out Comms & Compute and Industrial Embedded within-

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah. I'm sorry

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

FPGA?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Sorry, yes. I should have said that.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Got it.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Within FPGA, we'll give you the same revenue look we're giving you today.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Perfect. Then, I don't know if I missed it, apologize if I did you say where channel inventory ended the June quarter? Was it below your two months target that you discussed last quarter?

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah, well, here's the way we're thinking about it now, because we've gone from an environment of having to manage that down to get to the right level. We got there, and what we're doing right now with the channel is using it to help us ensure supply to our customers. I think I've said before in different forums, once we got to the two-ish, it would probably fluctuate up and down, and that's what we're seeing. We're staying in that range.

Quinn Bolton
Quinn Bolton
Analyst at Needham & Co

Great. Thank you.

Lorenzo Flores
Lorenzo Flores
CFO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yeah.

Operator

Once again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question is from Melissa Fairbanks with Raymond James. Please proceed with your question.

Melissa Fairbanks
Melissa Fairbanks
Analyst at Raymond James

Hi, guys. Thanks so much. Can't argue with the rule of 105. Yeah, that's not a bad target to hit.

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

It's what we achieved, Melissa, that's not a target.

Melissa Fairbanks
Melissa Fairbanks
Analyst at Raymond James

I know. I'm teasing. I had a follow-up question. I know that AMI helps expand your addressable market and how much you can actually address within those markets. In industrial and embedded, I'm assuming, especially as we get into more of robotics or some defense applications, automotive, some of these more highly regulated applications, is the go-to-market a little bit different, even with AMI, than it is in the compute segment?

Ford Tamer
Ford Tamer
President and CEO at Lattice Semiconductor

Yes. I think there's gonna be tremendous opportunities for AMI and Lattice to work together in Industrial Embedded because these systems are very big on the need for platform firmware and for infrastructure manageability. The early meetings, we've had many meetings with Computex in Taiwan. We've had many follow-on meetings with other partners on physical AI, and very excited about how the integration of AMI and FPGA can offer new solutions to customers. Stay tuned. We'll have a lot more to say on that on the future calls.

Melissa Fairbanks
Melissa Fairbanks
Analyst at Raymond James

Great. Thanks so much. That's all for me.

Operator

We have reached the end of the question and answer session. I would like to turn the floor back over to Rick Muscha for closing comments.

Rick Muscha
Rick Muscha
VP of Investor Relations at Lattice Semiconductor

Thanks everyone for joining us on the call today. We will be attending the following investor events this quarter: the KeyBanc Technology Leadership Forum on August 11th, the Jefferies Semiconductor, IT Hardware & Communications Technology Conference on August 26th. Lastly, the Benchmark TMT One-on-One Conference on September 10th. Thank you very much for your participation, and have a good evening.

Operator

This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.

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