SOITEC : SOITEC REPORTS FY'18 SECOND QUARTER REVENUES
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SOITEC REPORTS FY'18 SECOND QUARTER REVENUES
* Q2'18 revenues reached ?73.3m, up 31% at constant exchange rates compared
with Q2'17
* Further incremental growth recorded in Communication & Power 200-mm wafer
sales compared with Q2'17
* 300-mm wafer sales more than doubled versus Q2'17 thanks to strong
performance achieved across all products
* New significant milestones reached in the adoption of FD-SOI technology
* FY'18 revenue growth still expected at around 25% at constant exchange rates
and FY'18 Electronics EBITDA[1] margin[2] now expected around 25%
Bernin (Grenoble), France, October 18, 2017 - Soitec (Euronext Paris), a world
leader in designing and manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials, today
announced consolidated revenues of 73.3 million Euros for the second quarter of
FY'18 (ended September 30(th) 2017), up 29% compared with 56.7 million Euros in
the second quarter of FY'17. This represents a 31% increase at constant exchange
rates. On a sequential basis, second quarter FY'18 revenues were up 9% at
constant exchange rates compared to the first quarter of FY'18.
For the first half of FY'18 as a whole, revenues reached 143.0 million Euros.
Compared with the first half of FY'17, they were up 27%, or +26% at constant
exchange rates, in line with the sales growth of around 25% at constant exchange
rates expected for the full year of FY'18.
Paul Boudre, Soitec's CEO, commented: "As expected, after a strong start of our
fiscal year 2018, sales growth has further accelerated during the second quarter
as we posted a more than 30% increase in sales at constant exchange rates.
Demand remains strong in Communication & Power 200-mm wafers. In the meantime,
the growth of our Digital and Emerging SOI products has really gained momentum
leading to the doubling of our 300-mm wafers sales. At the end of the first half
of the year we are in line with our full year sales growth target as we continue
to expect around 25% revenue growth at constant exchange rates. We are however
raising our expectations regarding the Electronics EBITDA margin which we now
see around 25%.
"At the time when there is more and more evidence of the adoption of FD-SOI
technology, we are very pleased with the signing of a long-term supply agreement
with GlobalFoundries. On our side, to guarantee a secure, high-volume supply of
FD-SOI technology we made a further commitment by making the decision to launch
a FD-SOI pilot line in our Singapore plant, which comes on top of our ongoing
investments in Bernin," added Paul Boudre.
Comments on second quarter FY'18 sales by business unit
Communication & Power
In the second quarter of FY'18, the demand for 200-mm wafers - radiofrequency
(RF-SOI) and power electronics (Power-SOI) products - has been holding up well.
The sales of RF 300-mm wafers which started to pick up in the first quarter of
FY'18 maintained a good momentum in the second quarter of FY'18.
The RF-SOI product line is dedicated to the ever-growing needs of smartphones.
It has become the solution of choice for switch and antenna tuners, as it helps
coping with the rising number of frequency bands and higher data speed
requirements of mobile communications.
The Power-SOI substrates are dedicated to the manufacture of power conversion
circuits that are widely used in the automotive industry, but also,
increasingly, in industrial and consumer applications (including white goods).
Digital
In the digital business unit, revenues have more than doubled in the
second quarter of FY'18 compared to the second quarter of the previous year.
After the strong surge in the level of sales of SOI substrates for emerging
applications recorded in the first quarter of FY'18, sales of Imagers and
Silicon Photonics both remained at a high level in second quarter
of FY'18. Demand for Imager-SOI is maintaining at this higher level driven by
strong activity in image sensor segment. Demand for Photonics-SOI is supported
by the needs for increasing data transmission speed in data centers for
applications hosted in the Cloud.
Sales of FD-SOI wafers (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) have made further
progress compared to the first quarter of FY'18. FD-SOI is becoming a standard
technology in high-volume consumer, IoT and automotive applications,
offering the best power, performance, area and cost (PPAC) optimization of
advanced planar technologies. End-products based on the FD-SOI technology which
have already reached the market include connected watches, personal digital
assistants and driver assistance systems.
Sales related to PD-SOI 300-mm wafers (partially depleted silicon-on-insulator)
were actually higher than in the second quarter of FY'17. However, after the
decline that occurred in the course of the fiscal year 2017 reflecting the drop
in demand for ASICs, servers and networking applications, sales should remain
more or less at the low current residual level, with no further significant
rebound.
Second quarter FY'18 consolidated sales (unaudited)
Q2'17 Q2'18 Q2'18/Q2'17
(Euros thousands) % % at cst FX
200-mm 44,706 47,389 +6% +7%
300-mm 10,676 23,743 +122% +125%
Royalties and IP 1,314 2,214 +68% +70%
Total revenues 56,697 73,345 +29% +31%
Whilst 200-mm wafer sales enjoyed another solid performance in the second
quarter of FY'18, the strong growth recorded in 300-mm wafer sales compared to
the second quarter of FY'17 resulted in a further rebalancing of Soitec sales
breakdown: indeed, 300-mm wafer sales raised from 19% of total sales in the
second quarter of FY'17 to 32% of total sales in the second quarter of FY'18;
consequently, the proportion of 200-mm wafer sales went down from 79% to 65% of
total sales.
200-mm wafer sales
Sales of 200-mm wafers went up 7% at constant exchange rates in the second
quarter of FY'18 compared with the second quarter of FY'17.
Demand for 200-mm wafers remained strong. The increase in the second quarter of
FY'18 sales results fully from higher volumes. Whilst already operating at full
capacity, the Bernin I 200-mm production site succeeded to marginally increase
its output. However the main contribution to the volume increase came from the
200-mm wafers produced by Simgui's manufacturing facility in Shanghai, using
Soitec's proprietary Smart Cut(TM) technology, which helped Soitec to better
meet market demand for 200-mm SOI wafers.
On a sequential basis, sales of 200-mm wafers raised by 5% at constant exchange
rates compared to the first quarter of FY'18.
For the first half of FY'18 as a whole, 200-mm wafer sales were up 6% at
constant exchange rates compared to the first half of FY'17.
300-mm wafer sales
Sales of 300-mm wafers in the second quarter of FY'18 were up 125% at constant
exchange rates compared with the second quarter of FY'17. This results from the
combination of:
* a much higher level of sales of FD-SOI products;
* a sharp increase in Emerging SOI 300-mm products for new digital
applications, both Imager-SOI and Photonics-SOI;
* higher sales in RF 300-mm wafers;
* an increase in sales from PD-SOI product line.
On a sequential basis, 300-mm wafer sales of the second quarter of FY'18 were
16% higher at constant exchange rates than in the first quarter of FY'18. The
capacity utilization rate of Bernin II 300-mm production site has further
increased in the second quarter of FY'18 and is still expected to reach around
50% towards the end of FY'18 / early FY'19.
For the first half of FY'18 as a whole, 300-mm wafer sales were up 102% at
constant exchange rates compared to the first half of FY'17.
Royalties and intellectual property
Revenues from royalties and intellectual property (3% of total sales) reached
2.2 million Euros in the second quarter of FY'18, compared with 1.3 million
Euros recorded in the second quarter of the previous fiscal year.
First half FY'18 consolidated sales (unaudited)
H1'17 H1'18 H1'18/H1'17
(Euros thousands) % % at cst FX
,
200-mm 87,384 93,922 +7% +6%
300-mm 22,031 44,867 +104% +102%
Royalties and IP 2,719 4,186 +54% +52%
Total revenues 112,134 142,975 +27% +26%
For the first half of FY'18 as a whole, revenues reached 143.0 million Euros.
Compared with the first half of FY'17, they were up 26% at constant exchange
rates.
New significant milestones reached in the adoption of FD-SOI technology
The FD-SOI ecosystem continues to strengthen and the use of FD-SOI technology is
progressing. Multiple foundries, IDMs and fabless customers are engaged with a
growing number of FD-SOI tape-outs and wafer starts. FD-SOI offers a unique
value proposition for low-power applications, which makes it well suited for
rapidly growing electronic market segments such as mobile processing, IoT,
automotive and industrial. Significant milestones were reached in the adoption
of FD-SOI technology in the course of the past few weeks including:
* GlobalFoundries and Samsung foundries are both currently working on the
integration of additional options enabling the combination of data
processing (FD-SOI) together with connectivity (RF option) and memory (eMRAM
function) on a single FD-SOI technology-based chip;
* GlobalFoundries announced the availability of its radio frequency/analog PDK
(22FDX®-rfa) solution for the next-generation wireless and IoT chipsets and
its mmWave PDK (22FDX®-mmWave) solution for emerging high-volume
applications such as 5G, automotive radar, WiGig, SatComm and wireless
backhaul. GlobalFoundries also announced the availability of eMRAM
technology on its 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX®) platform providing embedded memory
solution for broad consumer and industrial applications (controllers, data
centres, Internet of Things and automotive);
* Samsung Electronics, who also announced derivatives that include RF and
eMRAM, taped out its first eMRAM test chip based on 28FDS process
technology.
* So far, Samsung has taped out more than 40 products based on the FD-SOI
process for various customers in connection with applications dedicated to
IT networks and servers, consumer goods, Internet of Things and automotive;
* GlobalFoundries and Samsung both announced new partnerships with design
firms Synopsys and Cadence.
Key events of the second quarter of FY'18
Successful early amortization of 2018 OCEANEs
In August, Soitec announced the successful early amortization of all the
outstanding OCEANEs issued by the Company on September 18, 2013 and expiring on
September 18, 2018. The holders of the OCEANEs had the option either to exercise
their shares allocation right or to receive a cash reimbursement of their
OCEANEs, at par value plus accrued interests since the last interest payment
date. Almost all the OCEANEs holders have opted for shares allocation, leading
to an increase of the Company's share capital by about 3.48%. This process gave
Soitec the opportunity to early reduce its debts by ?41.8 million, to reinforce
its equity by nearly the same amount, and to have a positive net cash position.
Capex plan
Since the beginning of FY'18, Soitec has been going ahead with the 40 million
Euros investment at Bernin II aimed at progressively increasing FD-SOI
production capacity from 100,000 to 400,000 FD-SOI wafers (300mm) per year
whilst Bernin II full capacity will remain at 650,000 wafers per year. The
project is progressing well. As a reminder, these capex will be spread between
FY'18 and FY'19.
In September, Soitec announced that it was launching a pilot line to produce FD-
SOI wafers in its Singapore wafer fab. This is the first stage in beginning FD-
SOI production in Singapore and providing multi-site FD-SOI substrate sourcing
to the global semiconductor market in order to address long-term demand for FD-
SOI wafers. The decision to launch this FD-SOI line in Singapore is based on
direct customer demand. Soitec plans to get full qualification at the customer
level in the first half of 2019 and then increase capacity in line with market
commitment. This investment to launch a pilot line in Singapore is worth
approximately US$40 million, to be spent over a 24-month period.
FD-SOI wafers long-term supply agreement signed with GlobalFoundries
In September, Soitec announced it has entered into a five-year agreement with
GlobalFoundries to ensure the volume supply of state-of-the-art fully depleted
silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) wafers. This agreement extends the current
partnership to provide a solid foundation for both companies to strengthen the
FD-SOI supply chain and help ensure high-volume manufacturing. For Soitec, this
agreement represents a long-term commitment from a key strategic customer
involving very significant wafer volumes. It reflects GlobalFoundries' strong
confidence in Soitec as the company is building the required capacity to serve
the growing FD-SOI demand.
Changes to Soitec's governance organization
In July, Soitec changed its governance with the dissociation of the duties of
the Chairman of the Board of Directors and those of the Chief Executive Officer,
in line with best practice. Victoire de Margerie - an independent director of
Soitec since the AGM held on July 26(th), 2017 - has been elected as Chairman of
the Board of Directors whilst Paul Boudre remains in charge of the executive
management of the Company as Chief Executive Officer.
Outlook
Based on the strong performance achieved in the first half of FY'18, Soitec
confirms expecting FY'18 sales to grow by around 25% at constant exchange rates
whilst it is now expecting FY'18 Electronics EBITDA(1) margin(2) to be around
25%, including the impacts of its hedge accounting policy implemented since
April 1, 2017.
Soitec reminds that it has put in place a forex hedging policy aimed at covering
the business transactions recorded in the balance sheet as well as any future
transactions deemed to be highly probable. Using derivative products, whether
forward sales or options, the company's policy is to hedge at the end of any
given fiscal year a very significant part of its expected US-dollar-denominated
commercial transactions for the next two years. At the end of FY'17, Soitec had
hedged the bulk of its forecasted US-dollar-denominated sales until the end of
FY'19 at an average rate of 1.09 US$ for 1 Euro in FY'18 and of 1.13 US$ for 1
Euro in FY'19.
Disclaimer
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connection with the announcement of the sales figures of the second quarter of
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Agenda
First half FY'18 results are due to be published on November 29(th), 2017, after
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About Soitec
Soitec (Euronext, Tech 40 Paris) is a world leader in designing and
manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials. The company uses its unique
technologies and semiconductor expertise to serve the electronics markets. With
more than 3,000 patents worldwide, Soitec's strategy is based on disruptive
innovation to answer its customers' needs for high performance, energy
efficiency and cost competitiveness. Soitec has manufacturing facilities, R&D
centers and offices in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
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Appendix
Consolidated sales (Q1 and Q2 FY'18 unaudited)
Quarterly Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
sales
(Euros '16 '17 '16 '17 '16 '17 '17 '18 '17 '18
thousands)
200-mm 43,030 44,706 44,219 47,896 42,463 47,215 42,677 46,534 44,706 47,389
300-mm 10,715 10,676 13,097 13,366 17,995 21,266 11,355 21,124 10,676 23,743
Royalties 1,053 1,314 1,593 1,806 4,975 2,026 1,405 1,973 1,314 2,214
and IP
Total 54,799 56,697 58,908 63,068 65,432 70,506 55,437 69,630 56,697 73,345
revenues
Quarterly Q2'17 Q3'17 Q4'17 Q1'18 Q2'18
sales
(vs change change change change change change change change change change
previous reported at cst reported at cst reported at cst reported at cst reported at cst
year) FX FX FX FX FX
200-mm +3.9% +4.3% +8.3% +6.6% +11.2% +7.3% +9.0% +5.6% +6.0% +7.1%
300-mm -0.4% -0.0% +2.1% +0.4% +18.2% +14.0% +86.0% +80.2% +122.4% +124.8%
Royalties +24.8% +25.2% +13.4% +11.6% -59.3% -60.7% +40.4% +36.1% +68.4% +70,2%
and IP
Total +3.5% +3.8% +7.1% +5.4% +7.8% +4.0% +25.6% +21.7% +29.4% +30.8%
revenues
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[1] The EBITDA represents the operating gain (EBIT) before depreciation,
amortization, non-monetary items related to share-based payments, and changes in
provisions on current assets and provisions for risks and contingencies. This
indicator is a non-IFRS quantitative measure used to measure the company's
ability to generate cash from its operating activities. EBITDA is not defined by
an IFRS standard and must not be considered an alternative to any other
financial indicator.
[2] Electronics EBITDA margin = EBITDA from continuing operations / Sales.
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