ON Semiconductor Corporation (ON) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
May 16, 2023
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveGood enough. It's just not good enough for us, and it's definitely not good enough for our customers. And therefore, we need to keep pushing the boundary of technology, and you'll hear about it throughout this event. And we have to look at markets that matter. The 4% adding to a focus of technology that we enable gives you a much growth better growth in the market, and it extends even beyond that as we focus on the sustainable ecosystem, which is the future of this industry. For us to grow beyond, we have to anchor on technology in markets that matter. And for that, you see our growth being more indexed by capturing that value, by capturing these markets and targeting those megatrends that are enabling these markets with the electric vehicles, the EV trend that is not just again about the EV, it's about the EV ecosystem. And the ecosystem, it does create from cars all the way to chargers, all the way to energy generation. The machine vision that's going to improve throughput of our factory automation and it's going to improve the safety of automotive. That is the core of the sustainable ecosystem that's going to drive outsized growth, driving our overall growth at 3x what the market is. Why? Because good enough is not just good enough for us. But the formula does not change. Why change something that's working very well. And I think we all can agree that work pretty down well. So why change it? But what we do in every one of these is different. We still will play to win. That's who we are. That's how we operate. We always focus on everything we do being structural. So it's sustainable, it's consistent. It's all about value, but none of that matter unless we can execute to all of it. And one thing, hopefully, after this, we're not going to have an argument about is, can we execute? I think that's a nod event. We can argue about everything else. But our ability to execute, I will give credit to a great team we have worldwide that has done nothing but execute against all odds and all uncertainties. But what is it? It's about playing to win in the markets that matter, but doing it much better than we've done it yesterday than everybody else is doing it. It's improving upon what we do, setting our own benchmark and doing it well through vertical integration to deliver that innovation across the bill of material and capture that value and also never forget to build a sustainably future-driven workforce. Some of you may not have caught it our announcement with Penn State, about a very strategic investment we've done with Penn State the leader in material science in the country for a silicon carbide center. For onsemi for both of us to drive the future of this industry. So it's not about what we do today. It's not about what we do next year and the year after in the next 5 years. It's about what we do in a road map long beyond that. And it's about implementing structural changes and going to market differently than historically, all companies have done it. It's about going broad. It's about leading with digital, giving us that efficiency to scale fast, which we have done, but that ability to scale fast in a very sustainable way and outgrowing revenue and outgrowing the bottom line through those efficiencies of using technology to our advantage. Investing in opportunities to expand our TAM. Sudhir will talk about that and really optimize our manufacturing footprint in order to maximize that output and give us that value and the structural improvement and the structural stability that we have achieved in the last 2 years, and we will maintain and continue to achieve. And then capture that value. It's not just about creating. It's about capturing that value, capturing that value through a faster go-to-market with the best tools in the industry, whether it's simulation for power or an SDK or a software toolkit in our sensing. It's the ability to get every customer that values the product in that market to get to market with a low-touch model and extract that value from that market. A value that is driven by the innovation technology that we create every day and subsequently expanding that gross margin and delivering the best-in-class ROIC. And most importantly, again, it's about executing. It's about building this tight and powerful organization that is accountable for what they do, but the autonomy to make it happen. That's the ownership we have. That's who we are. That's the culture we drive. Everybody in the company believes that and drives to that. And they all will and have and will always get rewarded for doing this, doing the right thing and creating that value. Because we have a tremendous opportunity ahead of us that is expanding. Forever, expanding with a -- over $17 billion of LTSAs while maintaining that predictability of finance and performance that you have gotten used to us delivering quarter after quarter. And that is the formula that has not changed, but components of it will in order for us to maintain that trajectory and accelerate the trajectory that we have been on. And that formula will deliver the undisputed leader of the new world by executing day in and day out. [Presentation]
Simon Keeton
executiveWell, hello, and good afternoon. By way of introduction, my name is Simon Keeton, and I manage the Power Solutions Group for onsemi. Today, I'm going to talk about high-power products. And specifically, I'll touch a lot on silicon carbide. To do so, we'll look at 3 primary topics during our journey together over the next half an hour or so. The first topic will be a refresh of course on the EliteSiC advantage otherwise known as the 4 Ss for silicon carbide success, and that may ring a bell for those of you that joined me in Hudson last year. The second topic, we will look at innovation, both at the die level but also at the package level, which is incredibly important. And the third and the final topic we'll look at how onsemi is the undisputed leader in delivering our customers' solutions that are optimized to that end-use application, particularly in the 2 secular hyper growth areas of electric vehicles and energy infrastructure. So my goal is for the day, let's share, let's learn, let's have some fun and I'll be available afterwards as well. So we'll start out with the EliteSiC Advantage or the 4 Ss for silicon carbide success. S#1, Supply. Onsemi has a history of vertical integration. We are, in fact, the only integrated device manufacturer that grows their own silicon boules and silicon carbide boules. And looking at silicon carbide, not only do we have the boule growth, we have the wafering, the substrate the epitaxy, the device fabrication and then we marry it with best-in-class package technology, including modules, discrete and known good die. So that's S#1. S#2 is Scale. We have a very broad manufacturing scale and a multi-decade experience in automotive and industrial. We know how to make high-quality products in high volume. Case in point, over the last decade, we've made over 500 million automotive and industrial modules. We know how to do high volume and high quality. That allows us to ramp in line with customer expectations into these two secular hyper growth areas. The third S is Scope. We have a very broad portfolio that we bring to bear for our customers. a suite of sustainable solutions all the way from energy generation, think solar, to energy consumption, think electric vehicle and the depth and breadth of power technologies. Low-voltage FETs, medium-voltage FETs, high-voltage vets, IGBTs, silicon carbide, discrete, module, known good die, I can continue on and on. And at the end of the day, what's happening is customers want to reduce that supply chain footprint. It's complex. So with onsemi, we have LTSAs with literally hundreds of devices on a single LTSA for a single customer. They want to reduce that complexity in the supply chain. And we have a very broad supporting portfolio for optimized solutions and so Sudhir will talk about that too in just a minute. The fourth S and perhaps the linchpin of all the Ss, if there was a linchpin, it boils down to superior technology. And for onsemi, we lead with die performance, but we differentiate with that package technology. So you take Die plus Package, combine that capability together, and onsemi has the most optimal solution on the planet for our end customers, and that makes all the difference in the world. So let's dive a little bit deeper into superior technology. And when I'm discussing superior technology, you need a baseline capability to be able to deliver. So let's jump in our time machine and go backwards 18 months. Where was onsemi at? Well, we had a very good capability when it came to fab and package capability through brownfield development that Hassane touched on. We also have a lot of new product releases in Die, in Discrete, in Modules. And we were almost complete, but I'd say, almost. There was a missing piece to that puzzle. That missing piece was substrates. We solved that missing piece with the acquisition of GTAT 18 months ago, now known as onsemi Hudson. Now we have that base from which to develop the superior technology. And the question we often get, how is it going? It's going really, really well. So since the acquisition, if you look at substrate output up by a factor of 10, same time frame, Die output up by a factor of 12. Package output up by a factor of 4. Yields up by a factor of 1.7 covering boule growth, wafering and wafer fab, exceptional performance. 3x a number of new products in that time frame as well. This is why we're so confident on the path to the first $1 billion in silicon carbide. The onsemi manufacturing machine is firing on all cylinders. So let's go into topic #2. Looking at innovation, Die and Package. So we lead with the die performance but I'd be remiss without how we actually approach it with a customer. And the first thing we do, the first conversation that we have with our customers, what's your need? What's your problem? What are you trying to solve? We have a very broad toolkit that we can bring to bear. And we look at it from a customer perspective, customers want to solve a particular problem. We want to, let's say, extend range in a vehicle. Okay, let's translate that back to die performance, higher efficiency. They want to reduce size or save weight, as you heard on the testimonial from Mercedes. Well, let's increase the switching speed, let's reduce the size of the magnetics and give you a smaller, lighter solution for your electric vehicle. And do so with the highest reliability with the ruggedness and its reliability on 2 fronts. Yes, it's the quality aspect of long-term reliability, yes, indeed, but it's the reliability of supply as well. With the vertical integration, we can do that, all the way from powder to power. So here is what we're working on, which is 5 generations of silicon carbide and with each generation, an increase of performance, and we won't stop there. So how do we deliver it through cell structures and channel engineering. With self structures, we're actually shrinking the unit cell dimensions and getting more current through a particular area, basically pushing more into a smaller area and using geometry to help us as well. And we talked about this in Hudson a little bit. M1 was a square shape, cell design. M2, it was hex, M3, stripe and 4 trench and so on and so on. And here's a hint. Why are we able to do this so quickly and so effectively, well, we've been doing it for 30-plus years. The same concepts that were applied to silicon are now applied to silicon carbide. It's a different material, absolutely, different properties. But there's a lot of carryover from silicon to silicon carbide that allows us to execute to this road map, particularly quickly. Look at channel engineering, for example. It's a very deliberate process that we have in manufacturing silicon carbide. This allows us to shorten those channel lengths and increase the channel carrier mobility by reducing the density of what's called trapped charges. And we do it effectively well. And what does it mean at the end of the day. It means -- and a figure of merit is a quantitative performance metric that says, okay, how does it work? Well, onsemi compared to what's on the market today is 30% better figure of merit. And that translates directly to the performance that the customer is looking for. You build a better mousetrap, but we're not done yet, leave with die performance differentiate with packaging innovation. Think of it this way. Let's say, this clicker. There's a piece of silicon carbide. It's a great piece of silicon carbide. Let's say I didn't have the history in packaging that onsemi has, and I put it in some package. You won't get the heat out of the device like onsemi. You won't reduce the parasitic like onsemi. You won't have the performance like onsemi. Again, thinking from a customer perspective, they want range, for example. How do you get the range? Well, you need the performance of silicon carbide. How do you get the performance. You have to extract the heat out of the die and through the package and out to the fluid. We've been doing this for decades. We know how to do this extremely well. Customers want flexibility. We can give a solution to a customer, 1 footprint that starts out with an IGBT-based solution. Can migrate to a silicon carbide-based solution in the same footprint, an upgrade path built in for our customers, allowing them to scale and power levels as well. And do so with that inherent reliability and ruggedness. So if we actually look at the different packages we offer, and this is an exhaustive list, but just a few of the things that we offer. You'll see this transition. On the very bottom, it's a Gel-filled case module, and we'll talk about this in a bit more in just a second. That's a great way to start. And it's been an industry standard for years. We supply these. It's a great solution up to about 150 degrees C for that die, maybe 170 if you push things. You want to get more out of silicon carbide, run it at 200 degrees C. How do you do that? Transfer molded modules, either discrete or in module format. We have the dual-side cool the half bridge going to the for bridge with the cooling channel, successive generations of improvement, reducing the thermal resistance significantly allowing you to drive more power, more efficiency, better range, lower cost, I can go on and on. But let me grab a couple of show and tell examples just to drive a point home, and you can play with these in the demo room after I'm done. So my left hand here is that case module in white. And what you see on the bottom is a cooling channel needed to call the device. My right hand over here, this is a dual-sided solution. They're functionally about the same. This is a full bridge. This is also a full bridge. Just so happens this one uses 3 half bridges. So it's an architectural concept. But they're functionally equivalent. Now if you see me shaking it all up here, I'm not nervous. This thing weighs about 5 pounds in my left hand, it's pretty heavy, and you'll get to pick it up here itself. When we develop the dual-side cool solution with a cooling channel, it's a 50% reduction in weight. It also has higher performance, higher temperature, higher power, significantly reducing the weight in a vehicle. I'm going to put this one down now before I drop. Actually, I'm joking. I'm picking up another one, and I'm coming right back. Do we stop with that? No. This is about innovation. Back again, my arm may start shaking. Let's see. This is a polymer cooling jacket. This is something that we created uses a capability called Jet impingement. You'll see inlet and an outlet. And when you take a look at it downstairs, you see these little holes. In those little holes, we'll spray the fluid on the backside of the module, pretty cool. We just wrote a paper on it. We patented it. What's really cool? It's a 90% weight reduction, 9-0, 90% weight reduction as compared to a metal cooling channel. Pretty cool. And we're working with our OEM friends on this as well. So we get to pick these up, and it's radically different. So if you think about it, what we're looking for is an optimized solution. When we say optimized solutions are in our DNA. And here's our Helix here. The blue strand is a die technology, the red strand that's about to pop up as a package technology. And the way that we develop these technologies is a little bit different. We developed 2 concurrent next generations in these technologies at any 1 period of time. Silicon carbide, today, we have M3. We already have M4 and M5 in development concurrently. IGBT, people ask, is IGBT going away? I will tell you No. We are investing full throttle and insulated gate bipolar transistors, at the same time as silicon carbide. Today, we have field stop 4, we already have field stop 7 and field stop 9 in development. Couple that with the package capability, discrete, gel-filled, transfer molded. You can mix and match between these technologies and the packages for the most optimized solution, the keyword being optimized. It makes all the difference in the world. So let's take a look at these optimized solutions applied to 2 of the largest, fastest-growing secular growth markets with a tailwind behind them. And the first one we'll look at is electrification. So again, coming at it from a customer perspective, let's say, I'm an OEM for a day. And most OEMs have multiple platforms. They're not trying to solve for 1 thing, they're trying to solve for many different platforms. This is a genericized look at what those platforms could be. Entry level, midrange, high performance, ultra-high performance. And what you see as you go up the triangle is an increasing level of content, makes intuitive sense. And as you go down the triangle, what you see is an increasing volume, unit volume or SAAR for these vehicles. This is what our OEMs are trying to solve for. So how does onsemi apply the optimized solutions for their OEMs? We power every architecture. So let's review some of these architectures together. Ultra-high performance. Case in point, this is a 4 inverter architecture, 1 inverter per wheel. So on motor per wheel. The highest-performing cars or trucks or vehicles, the fastest 0 to 60, the longest range, the top tier. Onsemi has the design wins and LTSAs using our quad silicon carbide architecture. That's 4 silicon carbide traction inverters, 1 per wheel. Let's take it a step down from there, high performance. So now we're moving from a quad solution, so a quad motor, quad inverter. Now we're going to a dual motor solution front and rear. In this case, we're looking for high performance with good range and acceleration. So silicon carbide used on the rear axle, motor and on the front axle motor. Great. Onsemi has the design win and the LTSA for this architecture today. Next step, back again with a dual motor solution, but this one is slightly different. You notice silicon carbide on the rear axle motor, IGBT is on the front axle motor. Well, why would you do that? It's a slight drop in performance. It's a good midrange performance with on-demand acceleration. The rear traction motor is silicon carbide, that stays on all the time. The IGBT kicks on when you need a power on demand. Think of merging onto a freeway. You hit that accelerator, you need to come up to speed, it turns on. And now you're gliding along. It turns off. It's a hybrid solution using both IGBT and silicon carbide. One on each axle. We have the customer design wins and the LTSAs today. Now we're looking at entry-level vehicles with extended range. Single motor, in many cases, rear axle motor, and this is with silicon carbide. Why silicon carbide, extended range. Onsemi provides the single silicon carbide traction inverter with the customer wins and the LTSAs. And here's another version of a single motor inverter solution, rear wheel. This is the entry point vehicle. This time, IGBT cost-effective IGBT-based solution with an upgrade path that I mentioned earlier, start out with a module IGBT based. You want the upgrade path or that next up vehicle, okay? Same footprint now with silicon carbide takes it up a notch. We have the design wins. We have the LTSAs. Next up, something interesting that people are talking about right now and is coming out a lot in the market. It's an evolving, what I'd say, an evolving need for increased performance at the entry level. This is a blended solution using IGBT and silicon carbide in a single traction inverter. And depending on the mission profile, where you are in the city, on the highway, you're using either the IGBT or silicon carbide in the same module, new concept, new capability, yes. I think you might have heard about it. Well, we've been doing it for 3 years in the industrial market. We're just going to take it and apply it to automotive. So we have that tool kit. So next, I just want to take just a minute or 2 and we're going to segue a little bit into motors. Onsemi isn't getting into motors. I'll tell you that right now. We're semis, but we can help with some issues with motors, allowing choice, allowing optimization because that is what we do. I'll tell you briefly what it is, and then we'll get into the details a little bit. It's called an exciter module. And think of it as a companion chip to our traction inverter solutions. So those are traction inverter solutions over there that I had in my hand. On that same cooling channel, you can add this additional device called an exciter module, and that can allow an OEM to change their EV motor. So why would you want to do that? Let's take a look. So most EV motors today are called permanent magnet motors. These permanent magnet motors are very efficient and they're very good. It's made of 2 primary components. You have the outside component is the stater, which is static. The internal component is the rotor and that rotates. And the way that, that thing works together is from that traction inverter, you're electrifying that state. So there you have the traction inverter, and it creates this rotating electromagnetic field. That's where you see rotating it around. And then with the permanent magnets that also creates a magnetic field from the magnets. And you'll see that kind of rotating around itself. Now here's the good news and the bad news. You want to use a very, very strong magnet when you do this. And in many cases, magnets that are used are made out of a substance, a rare earth metal called neodymium, okay? You might have heard of it, maybe. Here's the issue with neodymium. There's a lot of industrial waste. According to a Harvard study, a pound of neodymium, to make a pound of it can create 2,000 pounds of industrial waste. That's a problem. Now don't get me wrong. Many people are trying to solve this issue in many different ways, and this is just one of them. It also has a regional dependency to it to source at neodymium and as a result, governments don't like it. So what's 1 option. Well, 1 option, you remove the magnets all together. Hey, let's get rid of those magnets. We don't want to use neodymium. Okay. The problem there is you don't get that magnetic field on the rotator. So what you can do is replace that permanent magnet rotor and put it in, instead of magnets with windings and it's called a separately excited synchronous motor. And when we do that with the rotor, now there's no permanent magnets, there's no neodymium, there's just windings and that goes back into the [ stator ]. But now you have to excite that rotor to create a magnetic field because you need the 2 magnetic fields working together, and that's what drives the wheels. And that little blue guy at the end and the animation, that's the Exciter module sitting right next to the onsemi traction inverter. And what that little blue guy does, it completes a solution because it excites the rotor and creates that second magnetic field and then you're back in business because you have the 2 magnetic fields working together, driving the propulsion for the vehicle without the use of rare earth metals. So a couple of things that are cool about this. Number one, being repetitive, design wins and LTSAs on this product. Number two, it allows a greener choice, which is pretty cool. Solutions for a sustainable future, optimize choices, different solutions, different approaches. We give the customer the choice. So let's talk about the power of the portfolio. I've talked a lot today about the traction inverter itself. There's a lot of content in that traction inverter. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to talk about everything else in that portfolio that onsemi has to offer. Solutions for onboard charger, solutions for the DC to DC converter, 48-volt, e-compressor, EPS, a power steering, the PTC heater. We have every solution and again, what does that lead to? It leads to LTSAs with hundreds of devices as we can solve the entire problem and even go beyond this and Sudhir will take it even further. At the end of the day, what it means, 160% annual growth rate for the past 2 years and this year, so extremely high growth driven by customer wins and LTSAs with optimized solutions. So next up, we talked about electrification and now energy infrastructure, whether it be generation, whether it be storage or whether it be charging. So the first example, and before I go into it, everything that we have talked about before, those technology innovations, both at the die level and the package level are applicable to energy infrastructure, same thing. We lead with scalability in energy infrastructure. In this case, let's look at a solar example. Residential, got it covered. Commercial, covered. Utility, covered. And what you see is a broad solution set from 6 kilowatts all the way to 320 kilowatts and everything in between. And look at the technologies, silicon carbide, IGBT, hybrid familiar story? Absolutely. So we lead with the scalability, but we differentiate with optimization. So let's dive into 1 particular example. And this is with a specific customer, and it's a case study. So let's walk through this case study together. A 320-kilowatt, 1,500-volt utility scale solar inverter. That's the starting point. Why is that a big deal? Nobody makes a 320-kilowatt solution. Where they didn't, until we did. What do the customer need, performance, low weight, reduced size, a lower system cost, go-to-market speed and supply assurance, kind of the typical stuff. Well, what do we come up with, you see this hybrid solution IGBT, silicon carbide and silicon. What's a big deal about that. Silicon carbide was used for the boost portion of the architecture. IGBT was used for the inverter portion of the architecture. And what was our approach? What did onsemi deliver time to market. And so just to go into this for just a minute. So imagine I'm a solar company. And I'm looking for this 320-kilowatt solution or whatever solution it is. The usual approach is I have a concept, okay? I could solve this with IGBT. Okay. I'm going to go build a solution using IGBTs. I have to physically build it, I got to prototype it. I test it. I put it in the field. I see if it works. It didn't work, back to square one. It's right for silicon carbide, do the same thing I'd build it, I prototype it, put it in the field and see if it works, all right, not quite what I want, back to square one. We're talking 6 months to a year to go through that development stage. Onsemi authors, the elite power simulator. And this simulator doesn't just work off of data sheet specifications. Does it work just off the device specifications. It works off device, manufacturing parasitics, device parasitics, system parasitics, all combined into 1 simulator that the customer can then use in their system. So instead of taking 6 months, 9 months, 12 months to figure out the most optimal solution, you can get a good direction on this, 2 hours. It's that fast. Just another value proposition that we add to our customer set. Module design. So this optimized technology in this example or the combination, the best combination with silicon and silicon carbide. Again, I mentioned silicon carbide for the boost circuitry. IGBT for the inverter, best of both worlds. When you have the right tool kit, you can provide an optimized solution. Technology. We talked about the concurrent development of 2 generations of next-gen silicon carbide and IGBT. So we have the right technology for the end customer optimized with that leading performance. And then again, don't forget about the power of the right module and the packaging. So we developed a specific solution for solar with the best thermals. And with packaging, it's about extracting that heat, reducing the thermal resistance as compared to die, which is reducing the resistance of the on-channel in the circuit. So a 15% reduction when it came to thermals. The net-net, an unoptimized solution will be at least 30% worse than an optimized solution. And onsemi was able to deliver it. And in fact, this is the only at 320-kilowatt solution available industry first. We apply the same mindset whether it be any energy generation, energy storage, ultrafast charging with what does a customer need and bringing that very broad toolkit and that manufacturing capability to bear. And at the end of the day, we have LTSAs with 8 of the top 10 energy infrastructure customers driving a 70% annual growth rate in each of the last 2 years and this year. So with that, we talked about electrification. We talked about energy infrastructure. We talked about these hyper-growth markets. A lot of talk, but actions speak louder than words and our customer actions prove that we have value with $9 billion of silicon carbide LTSAs in electrification and energy infrastructure. It's a testament to what we can bring to our customers. And with that, I'll say thank you. [Presentation]
Sudhir Gopalswamy
executiveGood afternoon, everyone. It's super exciting for me to be here. I will say that I kind of feel like the third guy in a 4x100 relay where the first 2 guys just break out and outstanding lead. And really all I have to do is not face plant. So here goes. I'd like to talk to you a little bit more about the sustainable ecosystem. So Hassane described the sustainable ecosystem is the new world. You can also think of that sustainable ecosystem as being the onsemi flywheel with each push new product that we introduced. We generate more momentum and in doing that, create value for our customers and for our investors. And so what I want to talk to you about is what we are doing beyond silicon carbide. What are we doing to accelerate that flywheel. And what we're doing is we're starting with our core 2 value drivers. Silicon carbide and silicon power in the intelligent power realm, and that's what Simon talked about and image sensors in the intelligent sensing realm, and I'll talk more about that later. Now you guys understand that these are the core value drivers for onsemi is what you think about, it's what you write about, it's what you value us. The question I'd like to answer is what beyond, what are we doing beyond that? And we'll start with the power realm. As we talked about silicon carbide and silicon power is obviously a source of strength. We're #2 in the marketplace today, but number two, with a bullet. We're planning for 38% of CAGR in revenue over the next 5 years through 2027. And now we think about what can we do to create more value beyond that silicon carbide and silicon power device. It really comes down to delivering what customers want. And in the power realm, the most significant parameter, what customers value the most is efficiency. And every little bit of efficiency improvement matters tremendously. In fact, 1% can be the basis of winning and losing designs. It has a profound impact. And you may say to yourself, 1% is that really that big a deal? Well, think about it in the bigger picture context. First, starting with electric vehicles. Now we all understand that electric vehicles are going to grow in terms of deployment over the next several years. And if you think about that in actual miles driven between 2022 and 2030, we're going to see roughly a 5x increase in the miles driven. And now you heard from our customers and from Simon that what efficiency translates into for electric vehicles is additional range. And so the impact in 2022, if you were to get a 1% efficiency improvement would be an additional 3.2 billion miles per year driven in electric vehicles. So pretty substantial at 1% efficiency improvement. If you look further at the data center and think about that same 1% efficiency, the backdrop is this. Data centers consume about 205 terawatt hours of electricity per year. That's the equivalent of 19 million homes, and that's astounding amount of electricity. So here, the benefit of 1% efficiency is measured in reduced power consumption and as a consequence of that, reduced electricity cost. So that 1%, again in 2022 would translate into just under $400 million less in electricity costs in the data center. So these numbers are huge. They're impressive but they pale in comparison to the kind of benefits you can get by improving efficiency by 1% in industrial automation. Now in that area, industrial motors consume 50% of the world's electricity of their energy. And so 1% improvement again in 2022 would translate into a $25 billion reduction in electricity costs. So we're having this conversation in terms of costs, but we could also talk about it in terms of sustainability. So whichever way you look at it, it's obvious that 1% is profound in its impact. And so the question becomes, what are we doing? How can we impact that efficiency? Well, Simon talked about it already in the context of silicon and silicon carbide. But what we're doing is essentially augmenting starting with those. So in any power delivery system, silicon carbide or the silicon power device is really the core of value. That's the place where you're delivering value to the load. And Simon talked a lot about optimization, what we do in die, what we do in package, what we do in modules, it's all about optimization. Well, what we're doing is taking that optimization to the next level by adding more devices on the BOM. The first is the gate driver. Now a gate driver's job in life is simply to drive that power transistor, whether it's silicon carbide or silicon power. And if you do a really good job of co-designing, co-delivering these parts, you can actually deliver meaningful customer benefits. If you are the provider of the silicon carbide or silicon power device, then you can provide information back to that gate driver electrical information like voltage, current and temperature and a whole bunch of information. And then with that gate driver, you can drive that device to maximize performance which translates into efficiency. And you do that just at the cusp of losing reliability. And if you're pushing it to the limit there, you're going to deliver an optimized solution. So we're going to do that with gate drivers. And we won't stop there. Beyond gate drivers, we're going to do controllers. And controllers are essentially the brains of the system. They manage the power flow in any subsystem. There are a number of different control techniques that are used to manage this power flow, ranging from analog to digital. But regardless, if you do a good job of co-architecting, co-designing and co-delivering this solution to your customers, you deliver meaningful value. First and foremost, in terms of efficiency, where we can deliver anywhere from a 1% to 2% efficiency improvement by doing an exquisite job with these components. But also reliability and ease of design in that we're solving problems that customers would otherwise have to solve for themselves. And in doing this ourselves, we also can reduce some of the passive components in the system and that has the consequence of reducing system cost. So this is exactly what we're planning to do. And as we do, we're building from a leadership position today. So we've talked about where we are with respect to silicon carbide and silicon power. It turns out that engage drivers, we've been doing this for a while as well. But with respect to silicon. So we've been doing this for silicon power devices. And we've already, in that realm, delivered some of the advantages I talked about on the prior slide. We also have controllers. Today, customers value us for our controllers. The vast majority of what we do is control in the analog domain. And I'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. But we have this leadership position across the board. And what we're doing then is to build or expand on this leader position in each one of these categories of devices. So you know what we're doing in silicon carbide. And in that semiconductor power device domain, we're inevitably going to get to gallium nitride as well. Now I have no news to report here. It's really the same thing that we've been talking about in that we see GaN is something that's going to be required in the future but at the right time and at the right investment level. With respect to gate drivers then, we're going to extend the portfolio and do an exquisite job of gate drivers that are tightly coupled with our silicon carbide transistors and products and then as well extend those to gallium nitride. And in the controller domain, we're going to transition. We're going to migrate from analog to control to digital control. And this is hugely important. And to give you a sense for why that's important, I have to kind of give you some historical context. Historically, the control technique, digital versus analog, was a decision about what you want to optimize for. Digital offered all of the benefits that you know from digital. So it's typically more configurable and therefore, more flexible. It tends to be lower cost if you do it right and it's easier to design. For us, easier to design. But if you wanted to extract every bit of performance, every bit of efficiency out of a system design than doing that in the analog domain in the past, was the right answer. Now what we're doing is to introduce digital control techniques in a no compromises way. We're going to deliver all the efficiency. And we say, well, how are you going to do that? How are you going to deliver digital with all the efficiency that you have in analog? And the answer is we're going to leverage that analog expertise that we have and couple it with techniques in the digital domain. So you can kind of think about onsemi and the engineers here as being kind of in 2 classes. You've got the wise analog kind of -- I won't ascribe age to it, but the is analog guys working with the young bucks in the digital domain, and the analog guys kind of think of the digital guys as being kind of cute and driving innovation. But it's those guys working together that really deliver this no-compromises solution. And when we do, we're going to deliver an array of power ICs, ranging from AC/DC converters to point of load and PMICs, multiphase controllers, switches and eFuse that take advantage of these digital controllers. And when we do it, we're going to do it in a way that we extend across all of our target market segments from automotive to industrial to cloud. And ultimately, the impact of doing all of these things is to dramatically expand our TAM opportunity. So when we think of the power ICs that I'm just talking about, the TAM opportunity that gets exposed and becomes available to us is $14 billion that's just talking about the power ICs, not the silicon carbide and the silicon power devices. And controllers not all of them, but the higher end of controllers take us into very high gross margin territory where the industry has already established gross margins of being 70%. So by proliferating this power portfolio, we're creating value for our customers who are creating value for onsemi, and we're creating value for our investors and accelerating that flywheel. And how do the customers think of this? Ultimately, the customers are interested in the efficiency benefits, but they're also looking for a vendor that can do more for them. And the implication of proliferating this product portfolio is that we can provide solutions that solve all of the customer problems. The customers think of the power subsystem in the systems they design as a tree. And what we're doing essentially is delivering a full power tree solution. On the left side, this is an automotive example. On the left side, you see AC to DC. So that's in an automotive use case, the onboard charging. On the right side, you see what happens in the DC domain, and all of the boxes represent the specific power functions that get fulfilled. And the colors here refer to the colors that I've shown on the prior slides, and highlight what we can do when we proliferate our product portfolio. And it's not just automotive, that kind of capability, that kind of coverage of the power tree extends into industrial and cloud. And you can see that front end that AC to DC component looks remarkably similar across each of these and the backside of it in the DC domain looks different. But when we proliferate these products, we're able to solve all of these problems. So hopefully, that's clear for how we will ultimately deliver value to customers and grow our business. So shifting from the power round then to the sensing realm. As I said before, we start with a position of strength. That position of strength is our image sensor technology. And with our image sensor technology, we have a #1 global position in the markets that we care about, automotive, industrial. Those are the markets that are part of the sustainable ecosystem that we've been talking about all afternoon. We have about 46% market share in automotive overall and an even higher 68% market share when you look specifically at ADAS. So that's a very, very strong position. And I'd like to stop and talk a little bit about how we earned that leadership position. Well, Simon talked about the competitive advantage in silicon carbide, and I don't have something that is as effective or PFI as the 4s. But there are also 4 specific levers or advantage elements to our solution. The first 1 is superior technology. And here, it's about doing a good job with 3 specific capabilities, global shutter, doing an entire image at one time, which you have to do when there's a lot of motion. Rolling shutter, exposing rows at a time, which you have to do when you are optimizing for high dynamic range and image signal processing for readying that image prior to human consumption. You have to have all of these and we do. The second dimension of competitive advantage is just the focus Unlike some of the other competitors out there, we are exclusively focused on automotive and industrial. That means that every innovation that we do has a route in solving a customer problem in automotive and industrial. And here, we have a very large installed base. So for example, in automotive, we have over 450 million automotive sensors deployed, obviously have scale. The next lever is solution enablement. And I'll talk about this a little bit more in the next few slides, but the basic idea is this. We give customers everything that they need to design their image sensing solution, and we do a better job than the rest of the field. And the last dimension is really simple. It's the school of hard knocks. We've been in this and when you think about our predecessor companies for over 45 years. And so we've leveraged those years of experience and focused innovation to generate trust in our customer base, trust that we'll be able to solve problems going forward as well as we have done so far. So let's talk a little bit more about the superior technology. So I want to give you a glimpse into the specific aspects of that technology that we do exceedingly well. And I'll start with dynamic range. Remember, I talked about this. So the basic idea of dynamic range is you want to capture the brightest of the brights and the darkest of the darks in any image, the better job you do in terms of that range, the better performance that you'll have. And if you look here, you have a visual indication of that. You can see the image on the left is kind of washed out. The image on the right, which is one that we produce with our very high dynamic range, Actually, you can see all the clarities. You can see the differences between the lights and the darks and everything has absolute clarity there. That's the benefit of high dynamic range. That's what customers come to us for. Additionally, we do an exquisite job in low light performance. Low light performance is exactly what it sounds like. It's the ability to deliver high-quality images in an environment where there is relatively low light. Obviously hugely important in automotive but in a wide variety of use cases. To be excellent at low light performance, we not only have to use world-class design techniques, but you have to be world-class in terms of manufacturing cleanliness. This is an area where we distinguish ourselves as well. So being good at the manufacturing side as well as the design side. The next area within technology is low-power performance. So here, particularly with our latest generation device, we use techniques to intelligently manage power in the sensor and in the system overall. What that means is based on the situation and the needs that the customer has, you can reduce the power consumption throughout the chip and leave only portions of it on, if you think are operating and process images at low resolution. And then when, for example, there is a motion event, you wake up the rest of the chip in the system and get to the full level of performance. And as you do that, depending on the amount of time that you spend in that low-power state versus the high-power state, you can save as much as 30% to 70% of your power or at least become that extent power efficient to that extent. That's the kind of capability that we're driving. Now beyond all of these things, you have to do introduce system functions that are relevant specific to automotive and industrial. And so those system functions are cybersecurity and functional safety. There are ISO standards that govern this. We are the only supplier that meets all 5 cybersecurity threat mitigation and as well, we have functional safety, we meet ISO-2662. These are essential in the automotive and industrial environments where functional safety and security matter a great deal. So that's just a glimpse into what we do at the actual sensor level. But of course, the value that we create extends beyond that sensor. Let's talk a little bit about that solution enabling and think about it as kind of a value stack above the sensor. And it's this value stack that creates not just stickiness, but presents a bit of a competitive barrier. So we'll start with the lowest level of that stack above silicon, and that's DevWare. This is a software development kit. And as with any software development kit, the idea is to place the power in the hands of the customers to extract everything that they need in terms of performance and functionality out of your device without having to understand all of the details of how that device operates. So we put our learnings into this software development kit and then take that software development kit and put it in the hands of our customers, and then our customers can use a very familiar interface and very simply configure systems that meet their full range of performance requirements. And when we do that, we have the ability to scale the business. So we're not talking now about something that's just in the domain of very experienced system-level engineers, but we are basically lowering the bar in terms of technical sophistication required to implement an image sensing solution. And in doing that, creating the ability to scale to thousands of customers. We don't stop there. Beyond these, we do reference designs, both in the automotive world and in the industrial world. In the automotive world, our customers use our reference designs essentially as a development platform. Ultimately, they'll do their own designs and take those into manufacturing. In the industrial case, we do full module designs that they themselves can implement in their systems. Customers themselves can implement in their systems and some do. So again, not just the sensor but as well the software and the industrial design and on top of all of these things, our customers can take advantage of a complete ecosystem that ranges from lens vendors to discrete image signal processing vendors, providers of SerDes interfaces, SoCs and FPGAs and independent software vendors that write software for this platform, all who have worked with onsemi, all who are -- can be used to extract all of the system performance that our customers need. So it's really all of these things that we do that create that advantage. And as I mentioned before, all of this comes based on 45 years of image sensor leadership, 45 years of innovations in this area. And as I said earlier, it's the school of hard knocks. We've graduated that school, so our customers don't have to. We translate all of those learnings into product features and capabilities, whether at the sensor level or in the software that we create or the reference designs. Okay? So that's the basis for our advantage. That's sort of the core value driver in intelligent sensing. So as with the power realm, we're building on that and extending and creating more value in the form of new products. What we're doing first is to add depth sensing capability. So with depth sensing, we basically are using time of flight to gauge depth. So this is used, for example, in LiDAR applications. And we use different techniques to solve for long-range LiDAR and short-range LiDAR. But in each case, we improve the perception capability that our customers are embedding into their solutions. And so we're taking this step solution and extending across not just automotive applications used in LiDAR but also industrial applications as well where depth sensing is important. Beyond this, we have a suite of sensor interfaces. So these are think about them as analog front ends that sit in front of those sensors and translate those sensors into meaningful information. We're #1 today in ultrasonic sensors, we're #1 in inductive position sensors, rotary position sensors in automotive. And each of those sensor interfaces have application in the industrial realm. And so what we're doing is extending into the industrial realm with those solutions. So just as you saw in the power realm, we have the ability in the sensing realm to dramatically expand our TAM coverage. So here, again, specifically within the sustainable ecosystem, we open up a TAM opportunity of $5.3 billion by 2027. So very significant growth opportunity for us and one that we can get by building on the leadership position that we have today. Okay. So we've talked about intelligent power, specifically the silicon carbide and silicon power devices, the gate drivers and controllers, the power ICs that add value in the system in the form of efficiency, we've talked about the image sensor being kind of the core of the intelligent sensing realm and value proposition and expanding that with depth sensors and a variety of sensor interfaces. Now beyond these things, Onsemi has a number of parts that we have provided for many, many years that solve very specific problems in our customers' intelligent power and intelligent sensing solutions. So think about this as accessories. So we're accessorizing and customers can take advantage of these components to build out their solutions. And the effect of all of these devices together is to make us indispensable to our customers. They really rely on us to solve a variety of problems that they face at the system level. So silicon power and silicon carbide devices, now power ICs, image sensors, including depth sensors and sensor interfaces. So let's look at what this means in terms of customer opportunity. I'm going to start with the data center. So here's a picture of a data center server and you can see the different subsystems where we provide components. So the artificial intelligence accelerator part of most data centers today. And obviously, that's going to be a rapid growth trajectory. The AC/DC high-power AC/DC component, the server board itself, the motherboard and then the networking unit. If you look across all of those boards within a server, the opportunity that we have today, if you were to sum the boxes on the left is about $37 per server. And where we're going in terms of the product portfolio, is to enable over $150 of content per server. And that translates into an opportunity of $5 million per data center. So a very significant growth opportunity for us. And as excited as I am about cloud, I'm much more excited about automotive. Here, Simon talked about the power of the portfolio and talked about all of the solutions that we can deliver within these fields, within these specific subsystems. If you translate what Simon talked about to very specific devices that are designed in you get a picture that looks like this. So here, we're talking specifically about silicon power and silicon carbide devices. Obviously, quite a few products designed in, devices designed in. Now what we're showing you now from this point is an actual vehicle, a BMW i7. So all of the products that I'm going to talk about represented by these dots are designed into a BMW i7. And remember, this was just part of the picture. As we build out the car, you see the number of devices that we are actually designing into and have been designed into and here, we range from power ICs, sensor interfaces, image sensors and the other, what I termed as accessory parts, this is the kind of coverage you see. There are almost 500 devices designed into this BMW i7, almost 500. And I don't think anything else encapsulates my message to you better than that. In fact, I just often have to pause here because I love this slide so much and look at the dots and admire the dots and that number of 500, just kind of have to let that soak in a bit. That's the opportunity in front of us. It's actually an opportunity that we're realizing today. So to sum up, we talked first about what we're doing to expand our value creation in the intelligent power realm that's getting into silicon power devices that silicon ICs that allow us to build complete power trees, leveraging our strength in silicon carbide and silicon power devices. And in doing that, expose ourselves to even more of the TAM, $14 billion of TAM in product categories that scale up to 70% gross margin. We talked about building on leadership in intelligent sensing through focused innovation, whether that be in image sensing or depth sensing or sensor interfaces for automotive and industrial. And we talked about the fact that we continue to have a variety of other parts that allow our customers to accessorize their solutions in a way that make us indispensable to them. Thanks. [Presentation]
Thad Trent
executiveThanks, everyone, for joining us today. For those of you that I haven't met, I'm Thad Trent, CFO. And I think Sudhir is a hit stride. I've just got to get it across the line by taking everything that you've heard and stitching it all together to tell you what it means for us financially. So we'll jump right into it. But before I do, it's really important to acknowledge what we've done over the last 2 years. The last 2 years have actually set up the growth for the next phase of our transformation and the structural changes actually make this possible. So if you look at the performance since we started this journey, we've outperformed the SOX by 147%. Hassane talked about the winning formula, but he didn't tell you what it meant for us financially. He went through the components of what we've done and what we're going to do as we continue to march down that path and continue that transformation journey. But let me take you through the points of what it's done for us financially because I think it is compelling. And again, it sets the foundation for what we're going to do next. So first, let's talk about the revenue growth. So what you have here is 4 years of revenue. It would have been easy for me to go back to 2020 an anchor on that, but that was the COVID year. So I put 2019 on here. But I'm telling you today, we are a radically different company than we were historically. And I'm going to prove it to you as we go through this. But you can see the revenue growth that we've gone through here. It's compelling. We doubled down on automotive and industrial. And for 2022, we were almost 75% automotive industrial. In Q1, we were 79%. So we achieved our target there. Over the last 2 years, as we've executed our transformation, we've grown at a 26% CAGR over the last 2 years. And at the same time, as you've seen, we've been doubling down on silicon carbide, and that's working out pretty well for us. Also in these numbers, we've walked away from approximately $300 million of non-core business that was low margin business, highly competitive business. So we've walked away from about 300 that's not reflected in these charts. So if you take that forward to gross margin and operating margin, our gross margins since 2019 to 2022 have improved over 1,300 basis points. This is, again, we exit that low-margin business. We executed our fab-lite strategy or Fab Liter strategy. We also closed the gap on the price-to-value discrepancies. So we are underselling the value of our products. We're below market. We've closed that gap and we're now delivering the value out of the products that we deliver for our customers. And you can see the trajectory. We ended 2022 at 49.2% gross margin for the year. If you look at the operating margin, you can now see that the operating margin actually is up in the realm of where historically the gross margins of the company used to be. So that's why I'm telling you this is a radically different company, and we've structurally changed this to go forward and growing. So our operating income actually grew 5.3x faster than revenue. We also reduced our OpEx through structural changes. We reallocated resources into high-growth areas. You've seen us make some structural changes in there. And we're running about 15% now. And that's through us being very intentional taking out inefficiencies in the company, structurally changing it and doubling down in areas of growth. And from a free cash flow standpoint, we've actually grown our free cash flow from 2019 to 2022, 10x. At the same time, we invested in silicon carbide. We've been bringing on our 300-millimeter fab capabilities in East Fishkill. In 2022, we started buying back our shares again. And earlier this year, we announced a $3 billion share repurchase program that was authorized by our board that will go out through 2022, I mean, 2025. So curly, cash flow is the outcome of everything that you've seen on the slide. So again, this sets the structure for what we're going to do next. At the same time, if you look at what that means from an industry perspective, we're now generating industry-leading performance. So the free cash flow during this time was #1 among all the global semiconductor players. Our ROIC for 2022, which approached 39% and is the top 4 of global semis. And our operating income growth, which grew 3.7% -- 3.7x during the time is in the top 3. So we're getting the lead performance out of our structural changes as well. So taking the market, the sustainable ecosystem, Hassane did a great job of describing this, focused on auto and industrial, intelligent power, intelligent sensing, the structural changes that we've made inside of our businesses, and I'm going to tell you now, we've turned up these businesses to the point that they're premium businesses. They're high-value businesses. I'm going to walk through each of them briefly here for you. You've seen each of Hassane, Simon and Sudhir talk about these individually, but I'm going to sum it all up for you on why we think these are premium businesses. For silicon carbide, Simon didn't say it, but we're going to grow 2x the market at a 70% CAGR from '22 to '27 staggering growth. We're vertically integrated. We talked a lot about that. And we're taking advantage of our long history in our DNA of packaging and module capabilities. And we've been able to leverage that and accelerate our ramp very quickly. So it's been in our DNA. We're ramping quickly. We've been very successful. And I think Simon did a great job of talking about that. In Silicon Power, another great opportunity here for us. We're #2 position in market share and we're growing. We're expanding our BOM coverage. And this is the area that we exited some of the price-sensitive business. So we will not be playing in that market. We've got about $350 million more to exit this year. And by that time, we think we're done with the exits, and that the business is totally tuned up at that point. And for power ICs. Sudhir talked about it. We're going to double down on the $14 billion TAM. This is a TAM that has 70% gross margin, so a big opportunity for us to get a margin uplift out of this. We can optimize our system cost with gate drivers, and controllers. And we'll expand our leadership through the Power Tree. On the intelligent sensing side of things, I've talked a lot about this over the last several quarters. This is a totally different business. It's focused on auto and industrial, Sudhir walked through it. The team has done an amazing job of actually turning this business around. We've got #1 position in Auto and Industrial. We're growing in machine vision, big opportunity for us. We're playing where we can win and where we can differentiate. We've got 68% market share in ADAS, 27% market share in Industrial. So clearly, they're the market leader. We've got 8 mega-pixel ramping and the ASPs are 2.5x, the 1 mega-pixel. So a big opportunity for an ASP uplift and the margin uplift there as well. We're #1 in ultrasonic sensing and inductive sensing. And when you roll all this together, the team is delivering high-value products for our customers that are highly valued, high margin. We said on our last call that gross margins are now exceeding 50% in this business and continuing to go up, and it's the most profitable sensor business in the industry, and we'll continue to expand on that. So taking the premium businesses, bringing it back into the market, this is going to drive our shareholder value. So our premium businesses will drive premium results. You've already seen it, I pointed out industry-leading results over the last several years. We'll continue to do that. You've seen our ability to execute. So when you think about it from a shareholder value there's really 4 vectors we're going to focus on. Revenue growth at 3x the market, expanding gross margin, accelerating free cash flow and shareholder returns. So I'll walk through each of these and give you a little bit more color. So starting with the revenue growth. Hassane showed this slide talk about the sustainable ecosystem. Our growth there is 21%. Overall, company is going to grow 10% to 12%. The market is forecasted during this time frame of '22 to '27 to grow around 4%. So that's the 3x the industry here. You can see where we're focused. You've seen us where we focus, we execute, where we exit, we win or execute we win. So we'll continue to do that. So that gives you kind of the indication of what we're looking at. Let's break this down a little bit further. We report in auto, industrial and other. We've been doing that for a while here. So let's take the 10% to 12%, and let's break that out on where we see that growth coming from. So in the other market, there's a really key component in this bucket. It's our 5G and cloud power. That's forecasted to grow 22%. So that's significantly up from what we told you 2 years ago. And that is a strategic part of our market, even though it is in other. We report it another. On the other pieces of that business, it's actually going to decline because we're not investing in the broader market. We're going to engage with strategic partners where we can provide differentiated solutions and win, but we're not going to go broad. We'll be very opportunistic in this bucket. So over time, because we're not investing, it will slowly decline, but it's offset by the growth in cloud and 5G. On Industrial, it will grow 10% CAGR '22 to '27. Industrial is energy infrastructure, factory automation, EV charging. And on the automotive, growing 19%, that gets you to the 10% to 12%. But in automotive, it's electrification, obviously, silicon carbide, IGBT, it's increasing ADAS adoption for our sensors and it's power management, LED and advanced safety as well will drive growth in that market as well. So that gives you to the 10% to 12% over this time frame. So now if we actually break it out by the product categories we talk about, we talk about intelligent power, intelligent sensing and other. Let's build this one out as well. So same time frame. Intelligent Power is going to grow 16%. We got SiC growing 2x the market, 70% CAGR. And we expect by the time we get out to 2027, we've got 35% to 40% market share of the SiC market. Silicon power, we've got share gains in auto and industrial, and we'll accelerate our Power IC growth as well through controllers and gate drivers, which will drive growth as well for us. Intelligent sensing. I think we've covered this quite a bit here, but we're going to grow in machine vision focused on auto and industrial, that's the majority of that business today, advanced safety for ADAS and in-cabin vision, factory automation. And we'll be opportunistic in human vision. So we're only going to play where we can win, differentiate. We're not going to get into the dog fights down in the low end. Sudhir did a really nice job of showing the competitive advantages that we have at the high end, and that's where we're going to continue to play. So that's what we'll continue to drive high profits out of that business going long term and grow at 8%. On the other, I look at this as a very attractive cash flow business. Sudhir called it accessorizing and I think about it as kind of bedazzling. But it's the same thing. How do we have more BOM coverage and then it's complementary to everything that we do as well. So you've seen some videos from some of our customers. We have a highly diverse customer base, geographically diverse as well. You can see some of the names here, the marquee names in the industry. We're engaged with everybody that we should be engaged with. We've got a broad channel. We've got a broad direct sales staff as well that covers these customers. And the guys have talked about what customers need, but kind of stepping it up at a little bit more of a higher level, they need best-in-class performance. I think you saw that between all the slides. They need suppliers that can scale, reliable with them. They want fewer suppliers, not more, so they don't want an entire supply base. And then everything is about system cost. So how do we put it all together at a cost-effective solution for those customers. So what we deliver is obviously the industry best products, most efficient products. We are vertically integrated. As Simon talked about, we acquired GTAT about 18 months ago, gave us vertical integration on the silicon carbide. That's very important to our customers. We've got a broad portfolio of products, as you saw from the dots on the BMW i7, and we optimize the solution cost across the BOM as well. So our top 20 customers represent about 35% of our revenue today. We have [ no ] 10% customer. And those top 20 customers, on average, purchased 800 products. So that demonstrates the breadth of the portfolio. And as we continue to expand, we'll continue to expand that number as well. And you can think about us signing LTSAs that span multiple years with hundreds of part numbers, which gives us really good visibility and tight integration into our customers on how do we align with them. It's a more strategic relationship and partnership. So moving on to expanding the gross margin. So almost 2 years ago, I stood on this stage and I introduced the concept of Fab Liter I'm here to tell you that we're done with Fab Liter. We've executed very well. We executed faster than we expected during this time frame. If you ask what is Fab Liter. It was really getting more flexibility getting a low-cost fixed cost structure for us to be able to leverage and grow off of. So in '22, we divested 4 Fabs in 1 year. We thought it would take us much longer. We executed very quickly, and we're able to divest those. We'll exit those 4 Fabs over the course of a few years, transition that product into our existing network. But during this time frame, we actually took our capacity down by about 17% as we exited these Fabs and tuned up our Fab Liter strategy. So we're using our captive capacity, our internal capacity for differentiated products, and we're flexing to the outside for anything that is a common technology. And what that allows us to do is make brownfield investments that drive a high ROIC and a high return off of those investments. The other thing that this does is by eliminating this fixed cost structure and optimizing, it allows us to reduce the gross margin variability and the volatility that we've seen in the company in the past. And I think as you've seen with the market uncertainty and the softness, we've actually been holding margins. So I think that's an example of what we can continue to do. So the question is Fab Liter is done, what's next? Where are you going to go next? So while we were doing the Fab Liter, we're actually growing revenue. So although our internal capacity was going down, we were actually growing revenue, and that's a part of the mix. So now what's next? The next is Fab right. So we're going to move from Fab Liter to Fab Right . What's Fab Right? Fab Right is we're going to actually optimize now within our footprint. We're going to drive efficiencies and we'll continue to drive best-in-class ROIC on the investments that we make and on the assets that we deployed today. So we've got to get the mix correct within the manufacturing footprint for the optimal cost structure. We've been talking about we've been moving IGBTs out of Korea into East Fishkill. It creates the capacity for silicon carbide, very low investment at that point because it's brownfield investment again. As we think about this and the red is where we're going to grow strategically, silicon carbide, East Fishkill primarily. We'll make those investments, but we've got great visibility as we actually bring capacity on because of the LTSAs. So again, we're very tied to the hip with our customers and their volumes. And that gives us the ability to know what's coming at us and build capacity as we need it, not build capacity and hope to fill it later. And with this, the fab filler strategy of the past is dead. So Fab Right is not about filling a fab, it's about optimizing the footprint. Also, our EFK, our 300-millimeter fab is the only U.S.-based 300-millimeter power semiconductor fab. We're also bringing sensing in there, so that actually expands it as well. At the same time as we do this, we'll extract that $160 million of fixed cost from the divested fabs during this time as well. So that gives us a nice little margin tailwind. So as we optimize here in fab right, we'll drive our cost down, reduce our fixed cost, optimize within the 4 walls and drive investments that drive a higher return. And then we'll use external flex to optimize the internal and then flex to the outside when we need to, and we'll use outside for common technologies. But the goal here is to maximize our utilization first and then flex to the outside. And we'll do that, and that allows us to go up and down with market conditions. Historically, we've manufactured about 65% of our product in-house. The last couple of quarters, we've been running somewhere between 55% and 60%. When you get out a couple more years, we'll be back up to about 65% in-house again as we do this. And again, we've got that outside capacity up and down to modulate low investment, high return on that. So that's Fab Right. That's the next strategy here when it comes to the manufacturing footprint. Fab right is also our path to net 0. So we've said we aspire to be net 0 by 2040. We've been doing a lot of work on it. I think the team has done a great job. If you look at what we've done over just the last year, we've reduced our scope 2 emissions by 21%. Our waste reduction has gone down 23% in 2022. And our water usage has gone down 19% in 2022. And then as we continue to optimize our fab footprint in Fab right, we expect to get an 18% savings on energy between now and '27 when you think about it in terms of kilowatt per hour per wafer. So we start to get more efficiency, which drives down energy consumption. And this helps us start to achieve the net 0 by 2040. There's obviously a lot more that we have to do, but this is definitely putting us on the path to achieve that. And as we make investments, we think about this in terms of the equipment we bring in, the energy usage and how we continue to drive that down as well. So what does that do for gross margin? Our previous gross margin target was 48% to 50%. You guys have already read the slide, the next target, the next milestone here is 53%. So how do we get there from where we are today? So in anchoring back on 2022, 49.2%. We've talked about '23 being a transition year. I'm not going to touch on '23. I'm going to talk from '22 to '27 and talk through the different components. So one of the drivers is just mix and new products. So as we continue to focus on auto and industrial, that drives higher gross margin. You've heard us talking about expanding on new products, high-margin products that will continue to give us a margin uplift there as well. Next piece is silicon carbide. As we ramp silicon carbide. These margins are at or above the corporate average. We absorbed that ramp costs that we do report in our non-GAAP results. And then the last piece is Fab Right. So again, we recognize the $160 million of savings from the 4 divested fabs. We optimized, so we drive our costs down there as well. And then we also have a boost from utilization as utilization goes up over this time frame as well. So we maximize that, again, we flex to the outside where we need to, and it gives us that flexibility. And that gets us to 53% gross margin by 2027. So going from gross margin to free cash flow, it all flows through to cash flow. So we'll accelerate our free cash flow as well. I showed you this chart earlier on one of the previous pages during this time frame to 2019 to 2022, 10x growth in free cash flow. As we look forward, we're looking at free cash flow margins of 25% to 30%. So we're upping that target as well. How do we get there? Outgrowing the industry by 3x, expanding the gross margin, as I just covered. When we think about our operating expenses is very targeted, focused on investments. We'll continue to make investments in R&D, high ROIC investments. I'll show you more on that and then working capital management which includes inventory as well. So by doing that, we're looking at 2x growth in our free cash flow. And as you guys are all sitting there probably going through your models, trying to figure out what that means. I'll just give you the punchline. $3.5 billion to $4 billion of free cash flow in 2027. The market success drives our investments. So we will continue to invest in fab right in our 300-millimeter fab. We'll expand for strategic growth, as we've talked about. We're going to ramp 300 millimeters expand there, and we're going to augment by investments in packaging as well and advancing that as well. The other piece that we're going to be looking at doing for the next 2 to 3 years is a $2 billion investment in end-to-end silicon carbide. We're currently evaluating the U.S., Europe, specifically the Czech Republic and Korea. This is where we've got a footprint already. We can do additional brownfield investments there, which reduce the capital intensity. So what does this all mean for capital intensity? So capital intensity will be 15% to 20%, consistent with what we've been saying through 2024. And then it will decline over time to about 11% through 2027. So that's higher than what we had previously but Simon talked about $9 billion of silicon carbide LTSAs, as we continue to have success in the market, we'll continue to make those investments and those are high ROIC investments. The LTSAs that we have with our customers, minimize the risk of building capacity and not being able to fill it. And then any government subsidies will be a benefit it will offset the CapEx and enhance our ROIC. So as we think about our investments, we'll continue to invest for growth while focusing on best-in-class ROIC. So speaking of ROIC, how have we been doing? I mentioned it earlier, nearly 39% in 2022. Here's a similar chart to what I showed you earlier, 2019 to 2022. And if you went back further, the company ROIC was pretty close to the cost of capital. We're now best-in-class. And you say, okay, well, how did we do this? We've been expanding rapidly, how are we able to do this? If you look at our capital intensity in 2022, we're about 12%. That's about half of the median of our peers. Again, how do we do that? It's through these brownfield investments. So brownfield investment is about 40% less capital compared to a greenfield where we're actually bringing infrastructure in, shovels in the ground. What we're able to do is actually leverage that footprint, that infrastructure and continue to expand. And as we think about that $2 billion of expansion, it's that type of expansion, leveraging the infrastructure. And oh, by the way, while we do that, we accelerate time to market by 2 years. So we get questions on how are you able to ramp so quickly on silicon carbide. This is it. It's that we had less capital required to ramp, and we are faster time to market because we are leveraging our footprint. That's the value of the network we have that we'll continue to use. So shareholder returns going to create a lot of cash flow. What are we going to do with it? So if you think about it from an investment and capital allocation, we'll continue to invest in our business. We're going to invest for growth, expand our competitive advantage. I've talked a lot about ROIC. M&A. We are in a consolidating industry. We'll look at strategic M&A. You've seen us do it already with GTAT and seeing that we can actually execute very well. We'll look at technology tuck-ins where it makes sense. It will also be accretive to our financial model. So it's got to be strategically important and financially accretive as well. And because we have low leverage, we've got firepower if and when we want to make a move. And then third piece is just balance sheet flexibility. We'll maintain the flexibility to continue to invest back in our businesses. We're going to keep our credit ratings the same, BB+, Ba1, no change there. And then we've got shareholder returns. So our policy remains unchanged here. 50% of our free cash flow will return to our shareholders. As I mentioned earlier, we have $3 billion authorization through 2025. You can see even as of last quarter, we were putting this to work. So what does that mean from a financial model. So anchoring on 2022, $8.3 billion, 49.2% gross margin, you can read it. We look forward. So you've already seen the 10% to 12% in terms of revenue growth, growing 3x the industry, 53% gross margin. This is through mix, Fab Right, silicon carbide ramping. Our OpEx will be 13%. This demonstrates the leverage in our model. As we drive this, our OpEx dollars are actually going to continue to increase but our percentage will decline because of the leverage that we have there. We'll continue to invest in our people. We're also going digital first, where we're investing in new capabilities and data analytics. In our operating margin, if you do the math, actually, we'll outgrow the revenue growth. CapEx, 11%. Previously, that was at 9%, so we did take it up slightly. But we also took up our free cash flow margin from 25% to 30%. So strong returns to shareholders. As I said earlier, about $3.5 billion to $4 billion of free cash flow by the time we get to 2027. So premium businesses driving premium results, take the markets, intelligent power, intelligent sensing, automotive, industrial, cloud, 5G take our premium businesses, silicon carbide, silicon power, power ICs, image sensors, Put that all together, you got premium results and shareholder value. So talk about the premium results. I'll let you hear from some of our premium partners now. [Presentation]
Thad Trent
executiveAll right. So we'll open it up to some questions here. We've got a couple of mics. So raise your hand and we'll get the mic runners to run them out.
Vivek Arya
analystVivek Arya from BFA Securities. I actually had 2 questions. One, very strong gross margin performance over the last few years. But that was also a time when your customers were dealing with a lot of shortages, right? So yourself -- your peers benefited from pricing as one of the key drivers of growth. What is your assumption about industry pricing as part of that 10% to 12% growth? Do you think it stays supportive? And then I have a quick follow-up.
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveYes. Look, we look at pricing as stable because just look at it from the LTSA perspective, our LTSA is a multiyear in duration, where both volume and pricing is locked in. So that anchors on the value. Number 2 is the new products. If you look at that time horizon, as new products become a more meaningful part of revenue than they are today, we know those products already are accretive. And then last but not least, a big driver of new products is on silicon carbide. And as that scale, we've always said it's at or ahead of the corporate margin. So all of these together give us that confidence that pricing is not a detractor in it. Because it's very important to note when you talk about the environment in the last few years, we talk about pricing. We talk about pricing very differently than some of our peers. When we talk about pricing, it's really that price to value discrepancy and proof in point, we're not -- the stuff that we wanted to lose. We "price" ourselves out of the market yet here we are not at the same rate. That gives you where the value is coming from and even customers are willing to pay that higher price because of the value. So it's bringing those value up, and that's sustainable over that long period of time.
Vivek Arya
analystAnd then for my follow-up, Hassane, if I did the math right on silicon carbide and your market share assumptions, you're doing roughly $1 billion, right? That's your target for this year. And if I follow it out to 2027 it seems like it will be about $2.7 billion, $2.8 billion roughly in that year as kind of that run rate. And when I look at market share, it stays in that 35% plus/minus throughout that time frame. So the question is that is your assumption that the market dynamics of silicon carbide, the competitive landscape essentially stays as it is over the next several years? Or do you think as more players enter into this market bring on more capacity, are you really able to hold to that 35% market share? And is that kind of a bottoms up or a top-down number?
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveSo most of it is, I would say, bottoms up because it's again, it's supported by the LTSAs, which extend through that period of time. But let me just cover a little bit on the market dynamic. If you look at IGBT today, there are 2 players and then everybody else. And when I say everybody else, you're talking about single -- low single-digit percent for everybody else, except the top 2 players. Why? Because of everything that Simon talked about. Silicon carbide is now a different level. It's new. So talking about in the next -- even -- let's talk just the next 5 years. Talking in the next 5 years about the competitive landscape is going to be any different than it is today. Let first the current competitive landscape scale properly. I know what we're doing. Others have some challenges on their own. So we don't see that changing. We don't see new entrants. We don't -- we're not going to see new entrants that are credible at the high-quality, reliability and the scalability, the Ss that the 4 Ss that Simon talked about. And that if I extend beyond that window that we talked about through '27 I mean we're projecting from an EV market perspective, 50% penetration by 2030, give or take a few years depending on which report you go to. So the runway of that growth is beyond even 2027, and that's what's going to keep propelling us through that. So again, it's not a destination, it's a milestone. We do see our strength. We have established a very strong infrastructure and a very strong foundation. Today, with the $1 billion in '23 and LTSAs moving forward, and we're going to sustain that.
Ross Seymore
analystRoss Seymore from Deutsche Bank. Couple of gross margin questions. First one, I think, for Thad. 2 years ago when we all sat here, you talked about a 45% peak target, and you said you hope to hold a 40% trough cycle target. Now 53% on the high end. I think recently on calls, you've talked about a 45% trough. How does that trough change going forward? How much variability cyclically do you expect in the gross margin between now and that 53% mark in 2027?
Thad Trent
executiveWell, look, there's a lot of uncertainty in the market right now. We're holding our gross margins, right? And we've said that our trough should be at the mid-40. We continue to execute that. Now as we can -- over time, as we execute towards that 53%, my assumption would be that trough continues to come up on a relative basis. Right now, I think we're testing it, and we're proving that we're holding it.
Ross Seymore
analystGreat. And I guess a follow-up for Simon. You had a nice, I guess, pyramid chart talking about the value going up and the volumes rising and different ways you guys attack that with IGBTs and silicon carbide, et cetera. Can you just talk a little bit about the value contribution at the high end per vehicle versus the low end? How much variability that is there is between that and maybe with [indiscernible], is there a huge gross margin difference between that? Because investors are worried that the mix of vehicles have been so high in over the last few years as we go to lower-priced cars, you can play in that, but is there a negative financial implication?
Simon Keeton
executiveSure. So if you look at that ultra-high performance, for example, that's using the Quad inverter solution, that's got a lot of content in it. And in cases, it's north of $1,500. That ranges from $1,500 or so down to several hundred dollars for a single inverter-based solution. And that will also change between silicon carbide and IGBT. The value proposition remains the same throughout that stack, right? Whether it's the ultra high performance or the entry level, there's a value that the customer is trying to solve for. And so the margin is quite stable across that.
Gary Mobley
analystThis is Gary Mobley at Wells Fargo Securities. I wanted to maybe read between the lines from what you wrapped up in your prepared remarks about the $2 billion in silicon carbide investment. That sounds like it might be a new greenfield wafer processing facility. And so my question is, do you see the brownfield investments that you've made so far to support the revenue you have today and maybe a few years into the future, do you see that having some limitation on the revenue? And what is the risk of not investing in greenfield quick enough?
Thad Trent
executiveYes. So first of all, the $2 billion is brownfield. So the 3 locations that we're looking at is where we have infrastructure already and we have a footprint. It's end to end is the way you should think about it for silicon carbide. We believe there's a lot of brownfield investments we can do before we have to move to a greenfield investment, right? We have that large footprint. We can continue to leverage it, but that is clearly brownfield, which will reduce the capital and, again, high return on that investment.
Simon Keeton
executiveAnd that's a pure end-to-end type solution. Wafer growth, or boule growth wafering, epitaxial growth and fab, the whole thing, the full suite.
Christopher Danely
analystOver here. I'd love to see the 40% operating margins. I just had 2 brief questions. The first is just to drill down on the pricing comment you made earlier. So are you guys assuming that the semiconductor industries you operate in go back to normal historic pricing. And given the LTSAs you blow right through it or something else, I just want a little more clarity there and a quick follow-up?
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveYes. I can't speak generally on the semiconductor market, I can speak on the businesses that we're operating in specifically. So one, obviously, the LTSA exists the visibility, the stability and really the outlook on where the pricing is. our new products give us the layer on top of that. But beyond that, we are operating where we bring value, which means this expectation of on January 1, set your clock January 1, different price for us on our approach and the mindset that we have with the customer, those days are over for us. There are efficiencies that will be gained. We are -- you heard us talking about efficiencies, whether it's fab output or cost or energy costs. Those are efficiencies that we will capture, and those will give us more competitive new products but an expectation of pricing just for the sake of pricing, that's the, I would say, the old world.
Christopher Danely
analystGreat. And then just briefly on the $9 billion in LTSAs in silicon carbide. I assume that's not the next 12 months. Can you just tell us how far out that goes?
Simon Keeton
executiveYes. So it's a range. LTSA is a range of years. Typically, they are 3 to 5 years, a number for the $9 billion, it's lifetime. Vast majority of that is over the next 5 years.
Rajvindra Gill
analystRaji Gill from Needham & Company. Great presentation. Just on the margin commentary. You mentioned that mix is a big part of it. So as of the most recent quarter, less than 80% of your revenue is coming from auto and industrial already today. What are the expectations of auto industrial as a percentage of total revenue over the next 2, 3 years? Is that going to go up to 90%? Or maybe you could elaborate that.
Thad Trent
executiveYes. So you're right. So last quarter, 79% of our business was auto and industrial. I would tell you, part of the reason for that was the other markets were soft right now, right? So I think when you return to normal, you're going to see auto and industrial growing at a faster rate, obviously. So if you model that out over the time horizon, you're looking at auto and industrial being north of 85% of the total company.
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveBut also the one thing when we talk about mix, it's not necessarily a market mix or a market shift mix. You also have the new product mix because that is. Again, we've been doing a lot of investments in the last 2 years. That and now, you've heard us talk about how we focus on new product from a margin perspective, tied to the value that Sudhir and Simon talked about. So there is a mix within those markets, that's also going to drive the margin.
William Stein
analystWill Stein from Truist Securities. Thanks so much for a very informative analyst saying a great message. First, I'd like to ask about new products. You talked about time-of-flight sensors. Is that LiDAR? Is that the same thing? Or is this a different sort of sensor that maybe some of us are less aware of?
Sudhir Gopalswamy
executiveTime-of-flight sensors is the basis for LIDAR, yes. It is.
William Stein
analystOkay. Great. And then the follow-up is maybe a different way to look at I think the question people have been focused on around margins. But less around margins, more of this concept that the whole industry may be perceived to be over-earning a little bit right now. And the other way you get there is through units. I wonder where you perceive on to be in that cycle when you think about inventory levels on your own balance sheet and at customers, should we expect a sort of meaningful correction on the path to 2027? Or do you think the whole supply chain is actually much tighter than people are concerned about.
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveYes. I mean I'll cover a little bit on the dynamic and Thad if you have any more info. So overall, we look at -- we've been taking a very cautious approach on inventory. You've heard us stock quarter after quarter about inventory, whether it's in the channel or with the customer, including as late as last quarter. So we're going to continue to do that. But we are not doing that. It's -- you call it good years, soft years. We do that as a matter of structure. So structurally in the company, our approach with the customer for managing inventory is to solve a very specific problem. So what you'll see us do is be very dynamic with it. When we have a very strong ramp coming up, we're going to stage inventory. Silicon carbide is a perfect example where a lot of -- you mentioned balance sheet. A lot of the inventory on the balance sheet is the growth in days and dollars is silicon carbide getting ready not just for the $1 billion, but for next year's growth on top of the $1 billion that we're projecting in '23. So you're going to see us use that as an asset in order to stage and support our growth. You're not going to see us, for example, doing it blindly from a manufacturing perspective. The Fab Filler days are over. And you've seen us do exactly that even last quarter when we talked about utilization beyond 71%. So we're going to manage very, very tightly agnostic of where we are in up or down years from an industry perspective, we're going to use this as a tool for our own business as we want to run it and as we see it with the LTSAs, which is a very, very clear view of where demand is.
Thad Trent
executiveYes, I think you're absolutely right. I think if you look at what we started doing in Q2 of last year, as we slowed starts down, right? We slowed it down before the market got soft, if you look at the inventory on the balance sheet, we're building strategic inventory, as Hassane said, for silicon carbide and also for our fab transitions. But if you look at the rest of the inventory, it's running lean. The channel is running lean as well. So I think you're going to see us be much more proactive on that side of things than reactionary.
Joshua Buchalter
analystJosh Buchalter from TD Cowen. I wanted to ask about silicon carbide on the substrate side. First, can you confirm that we're still on track for 50% on internal substrates exiting this year? And then longer term, what's the right ratio of how we should be thinking about your substrate mix internal versus merchant to hit your longer-term targets?
Simon Keeton
executiveSure. So certainly, I'll confirm that we'll exit this year north of 50%. So we're still on target for that. That percentage will grow from internal substrates, while we'll also keep a variety of external substrate capability for flex capacity. I think that's important to do. But with internal substrates, we don't have the margin stack right? So we're going to keep driving that number up while still keeping the flex capacity available.
Christopher Rolland
analystChris Rolland, Susquehanna. Thanks for the day. Regarding silicon carbide, I guess I'll just throw out a couple of hot topics. Some that you mentioned, just to get your thoughts on. The first is, I think you mentioned trench. I would love to know how you feel about that, the reduction in die size. Second is wafer splitting on the silicon carbide side, feasibility, economics behind it. And last is Chinese wafers, Infineon now using 2 that they think are pretty good. How do these things affect the industry and your outlook?
Simon Keeton
executiveAll right. So I'll start off with the trench. We looked at the different generations of technology and M4 technology for us will be a trench-based technology. But I'll also remind you to think about it a little bit differently in that not all trench is the same and not all fabs are the same. So that figure of merit that I showed, that performance capability, that was a comparison of M3, which is planar, against competitors and some of those competitors with trench. And we still outperformed with planar or planar versus competitor trends. So trench isn't necessarily a magic bullet. However, it is a step forward, and we've seen it in silicon. We will see it in silicon carbide as well, but not all trench will be the same. And one of the concerns that you have to have in wide spread adoption is planar is very well known. It's very rugged. And with trenches, other issues that you have to deal with, especially things like current crowding. We have a very unique approach to taking care of things like that. So at the right time, we'll be introducing trends to the market very reliability -- very highly reliable, we can scale it and the performance levels go to the next level. So not everything is the same in the market. Your second question, please. Yes. So splitting. That's another technology development that we are aware of that we're working with various partners with. We've also got internal developments around those areas. At the right time and the right place, it could make sense where we have to look at what can it give? Is it reliable? Can we do it at a large scale, et cetera, et cetera. So we're aware of all the developments going on in the outside world. We're also conducting our own developments internally right place, right time will be there if it makes sense.
Thad Trent
executiveIn Chinese.
Simon Keeton
executiveChina for yes. So I'll start off with, as I said before, we have multiple external suppliers. Some of those are Chinese. So we understand where things are at. Now you have to take a look at the bigger picture is, can you reliably get high volume or potentially are you getting the cherrypicks stuff, just something you have to think about. At the end of the day, I know that when I sign an LTSA with a customer, right, that's an obligation that I have with that customer. That's a trust factor. And I know where I can place my bets and feel very confident that we can supply. And I think having that internal capability is paramount. So could you get it elsewhere? Yes. Would I bet the company on it? No, I would not.
Jonathan Dorsheimer
analystJed Dorsheimer from William Blair. Thanks for the presentation and also take my question. First question, just as a follow-up to the previous gentleman's question on the substrate capacity. It looks like you've had a remarkable progress in the yield increase to 1.7x. And if I look at the $1 billion of target, that's about 250,000 wafer starts. And so when we were up at Hudson, it's roughly had space of about 400 furnaces, plus or minus. So is most -- I guess my question is most of the yield increase of that 1.7x on the substrate that you've seen, because it seems like your yields downstream are pretty good all along. So I'm just curious, where has the progress been? And then I have 1 follow-up question.
Sudhir Gopalswamy
executiveSure. So I'll try and address that. It's not 1 area, right? It's this incredible, very deliberate focus that we have across boule growth, across wafering and across fabrication. So that 1.7x represents across that entire manufacturing spectrum. And it's important that we do that because focusing only on 1 area means you're not getting that full capability. We have to complete the full product. So we attack on all avenues at the same time. It's incredibly important.
Tore Svanberg
analystTore Svanberg from Stifel. My first question for Simon. Simon, as we think about that additional $14 billion TAM in power, and specifically the controller part of the market, there's some pretty established players there already. I was just wondering if you could add a little bit on how you intend to capture that additional TAM with some share gains?
Sudhir Gopalswamy
executiveSure. I think maybe you intended to ask that question of me. So the point that I think I was trying to make there is if you have the silicon carbide or silicon power switch and you tightly couple the gate driver and then as well, tightly couple the controllers, such that you have 3 ingredients that are optimized to work together to solve those customer problems and deliver the efficiency. Is that optimization that becomes the source of competitive advantage. And the optimization is only possible if you have the fundamental power switch, be it silicon carbide or silicon.
Tore Svanberg
analystIt's for Hassane. I saw your list of customers. There's a few Chinese on there. And I was just hoping you could just talk to us about either strategically or philosophically, how you feel about going after more Chinese customers over the next few years given the current geopolitical terminal?
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveYes. Look, from our side, we've always said and we've been consistent that whether it's LTSAs or even our revenue, we're geographically distributed, customer distributed within those geographies and even within a customer, platform distributed because it's not just about the geopolitical or kind of geography, even within a customer, you have to be distributed over a platform because what if this model doesn't really hit the market, but the other one does, you have to win with the customer across the board. So that is very important from a strategy perspective, which goes back to the diversification of our go-to-market. And I talked a little bit on the formula, the go-to-market being deep, broad and very fast with the tools that Sudhir mentioned and Simon mentioned, whether it's simulation or SDK for amerencing. So that's from a strategy perspective is consistent across the board. Now from a geopolitical aspect, obviously, we look at it just like everybody else, a lot of our peers, where it's 2 ways. From a manufacturing we are in a very good spot. Manufacturing, we have it across the board. Our Fab Right, which is optimizing where we have the same device in multiple fabs because, again, for us and business continuity and really for the customer, it's not just about geopolitical. What if you have a flood, you have to have that continuity. So we look at -- when you look at it from a business continuity perspective, it really wipes out any geopolitical because you have to do the right thing for the company regardless of geopolitics, and that's how we have been approaching it across the board.
Thad Trent
executiveAll right. We probably have time for 2 more questions.
Gary Mobley
analystI could tell Parag was reluctant to give me the microphone. Thanks for allowing me to ask a follow-up question. So complements to establishing a great automotive business but there are some holes that you could fill, no doubt. And I'd love to get your updated thoughts on the radar sensor market and then maybe extending the conversation further into the compute domain as it relates to fusion processing for all the sensor modalities.
Sudhir Gopalswamy
executiveYes. So I'll take the -- I'll start with that. We don't have any intention to do RADAR. It's something that we looked at the past, and we're making the very conscious decision not to pursue RADAR as a sensing modality. We did talk about depth sensing and of course, depth sensing using time of flight and just to elaborate on the prior answer. And basically, what we're talking about is measuring the time of flight of optical signals. And in that realm, when we're doing that, we actually do some of the processing. So we do the image signal processing for traditional image sensing. We do processing as well to measure the time of flight for specifically optical images that relates to the depth sensing capability. And so to the extent that we combine those together at the system level, there's sensor fusion that happens there. What we're not doing is talking about moving to that next wave of really complex processing.
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveYes. From a strategy perspective, obviously, I anchor always personally and for the company, we anchor on focus. Do what you do, do it well, double down and focus on it. So that's part of what Sudhir mentioned, we go deep, we lead and we innovate.
Thad Trent
executiveAll right. Last question. Parag has got it.
Harsh Kumar
analystGuys, first of all, thank you for 3 plus tremendous years of execution. We appreciate that. So to investors. Last time we heard a lot about silicon carbide. I felt like this time, we heard a lot more about silicon and packaging. So I'm assuming that you're pretty happy with where silicon carbide is in the state of affairs. But the question is when you talk to your customers, how important is the need for vertical stack of silicon carbide. I think you've taken share from non-vertical silicon carbide producers. Do you expect to continue to take more share as time goes on? And then secondly, as a house having silicon, silicon carbide and packaging under one roof, are there other competitors, U.S. or foreign that you can think of that can challenge you in the future with or without government subsidies. And I've got a follow-up.
Simon Keeton
executiveSure. So I'll start the answer there. If I think about silicon carbide, people tend to hyperfocus on the device itself, and it's incredibly important. And that's where I showed we have the differentiation on the die technology, given the performance advantage. But you need to think of it like a tripod to be successful, right? We need boule growth, you need the device and you need the packaging. Those 3 things have to be there to really give the value proposition to the end customer. So today, we wanted to talk about silicon carbide, but there's silicon carbide out there. Okay, that's fine. But can you get it in the right package, right? That's the next step. It doesn't just float in mid-air as a piece of silicon carbide, you have to get the right package in and that's really bringing the value up and why the vast majority of our revenue today is coming out of silicon carbide modules. And so if we look at the competitive landscape, I think we stand alone. And we've looked worldwide, right? And it's not hubris, it's just a fact and that's where we are.
Thad Trent
executiveAll right. I think that wraps things up. We invite you to join us in the demo area. Take a look at everything we have there, and thanks again for coming out today.
Hassane El-Khoury
executiveOkay, before I lose everybody, I just want to take a few minutes. We had 2 hell of a year, and it's a 2 positive years against a very challenging environment. I know from a P&L and from results and so on, it's been great, but I can tell you it's been a hell of a lift for our employees who are worldwide that are going through a transformation through a journey, while managing this backdrop. So I do want to thank everybody in the company for supporting the transformation, delivering the results with their unwavering commitment. specifically, of course, my direct team, some of which are here. We have a solid executive team that is, again, focused and committed to achieving those results and the ones we just highlighted. And more importantly, the team that's been pumping day and night to deliver this event here that you see here but also downstairs. So I just want to take that time to say thank you and enjoy the rest of the evening.
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