indie Semiconductor Exceeds Q1 2023 Growth Expectations

• Delivers Revenue of $40.5M, up 84% YoY and 22% Sequentially
• Expands Non-GAAP Gross Margin to 52.2%, up 484 Basis Points YoY
• Guides Q2 2023 Revenue up 102% YoY and 28% Sequentially to a >$200M Annualized Run-rate

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–indie Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq: INDI), an Autotech solutions innovator, today announced first quarter results for the period ended March 31, 2023. First quarter revenue was up 84 percent from the same period a year ago and 22 percent sequentially to a record $40.5 million, ahead of indie’s guidance and consensus estimates. Non-GAAP gross margin expanded 484 basis points year-over-year to 52.2 percent and was also better than analyst expectations. On a GAAP basis, first quarter 2023 operating loss was $37.0 million compared to $34.3 million a year ago. Non-GAAP operating loss for the first quarter of 2023 was $16.8 million, versus $16.5 million during the same period last year, reflecting customer-driven R&D, sales and marketing investments.

“indie once again delivered record results ahead of guidance and is off to a strong start to 2023,” said Donald McClymont, indie’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “Our growth trajectory reflects continued design win momentum spanning ADAS, vehicle electrification and user experience applications. At the same time, our deeper R&D investments and targeted acquisitions are beginning to contribute, enabling us to sharply outpace our peer group. Accordingly, today we are even better positioned to capitalize on the 2025 Autotech market opportunity of $42 billion.”

Business Highlights

• Awarded an ADAS design win at General Motors in partnership with Sharp Japan
• Launched breakthrough 120 GHz Radar transceivers for in-cabin monitoring applications
• Captured advanced lighting design wins at leading Chinese EV OEMs including BYD, Nio and Li Auto
• Secured initial Vision sockets at Panasonic in support of Honda
• Closed the acquisition of GEO Semiconductor and Silicon Radar

Q2 2023 Outlook

We provide guidance on a non-GAAP basis only because certain information necessary to reconcile such results and guidance to GAAP is difficult to estimate and dependent on future events outside of our control and, therefore, is not available without unreasonable efforts. Please refer to the attached Discussion Regarding the Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures in this press release for a further discussion of our use of non-GAAP measures.

“Given indie’s order visibility and the depth of our new product pipeline, we plan to demonstrably outperform the Autotech market over the forecast horizon,” said Thomas Schiller, indie’s chief financial officer and executive vice president of strategy. “Specifically, for the second quarter of 2023, we plan to scale to a $205-$210 million annualized revenue run-rate, with non-GAAP gross margin in the 52 percent range and a narrower operating loss. Further, we are on track to reach profitability in the second half of this year on our way to achieving our target operating model driven by sustained topline growth, further gross margin expansion and operating expense leverage.”

indie’s Q1 2023 Conference Call

indie Semiconductor will host a conference call with analysts to discuss its first quarter 2023 results and business outlook today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. To listen to the conference call via the Internet, please go to the Financials tab on the Investors page of indie’s website. To listen to the conference call via telephone, please call (877) 451-6152 (domestic) or (201) 389-0879 (international), Conference ID: 13737926.

A replay of the conference call will be available beginning at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time on May 11, 2023 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on May 25, 2023 under the Financials tab on the Investors page of indie’s website, or by calling (844) 512-2921 (domestic) or (412) 317-6671 (international), Replay Pin Number: 13737926.

About indie

indie is empowering the Autotech revolution with next generation automotive semiconductors and software platforms. We focus on developing innovative, high-performance and energy-efficient technology for ADAS, user experience and electrification applications. Our mixed-signal SoCs enable edge sensors spanning Radar, LiDAR, Ultrasound, and Computer Vision, while our embedded system control, power management and interfacing solutions transform the in-cabin experience and accelerate increasingly automated and electrified vehicles. We are an approved vendor to Tier 1 partners and our solutions can be found in marquee automotive OEMs worldwide. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, indie has design centers and regional support offices across the United States, Canada, Argentina, Scotland, England, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Israel, Japan, South Korea and China.

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RECONCILIATION OF PRELIMINARY NON-GAAP MEASURES TO GAAP

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The reconciliations of our preliminary GAAP to non-GAAP measures are as follows (in thousands, except share and per share amounts):

Discussion Regarding the Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Our earnings release contains some or all of the following financial measures that have not been calculated in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”): (i) non-GAAP gross profit and gross margin, (ii) non-GAAP operating loss, (iii) non-GAAP net loss, (iv) non-GAAP share count and (v) non-GAAP net loss per share. As set forth in the tables above, we derive such non-GAAP financial measures by excluding certain expenses and other items from the respective GAAP financial measure that is most directly comparable to each non-GAAP financial measure. Management may use these non-GAAP financial measures to, amongst other things, evaluate operating performance and compare it against past periods or against peer companies, make operating decisions, forecast for future periods and to determine payments under compensation programs. These non-GAAP financial measures provide management with additional means to understand and evaluate the operating results and trends in our ongoing business by eliminating certain expenses and other items that management believes might otherwise make comparisons of our ongoing business with prior periods and competitors more difficult, obscure trends in ongoing operations or improve management’s ability to forecast future periods.

We provide investors with non-GAAP gross profit and gross margin, non-GAAP operating loss, non-GAAP net loss and non-GAAP net loss per share because we believe it is important for investors to be able to closely monitor and understand changes in our ability to generate income from ongoing business operations. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures give investors an additional method to evaluate historical operating performance and identify trends, an additional means of evaluating period-over-period operating performance and a method to facilitate certain comparisons of our operating results to those of our peer companies. We further believe these non-GAAP financial measures allow investors to assess the overall financial performance of our ongoing operations by eliminating the impact of (i) acquisition-related expenses (including acquisition-related professional fees and legal expenses, deemed compensation expense, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles and certain license rights, and expenses recognized in relation to changes in contingent consideration obligations), (ii) gains or losses recognized in relation to changes in the fair value of warrants and contingent considerations issued by indie, acquisition-related holdbacks and unrealized gains or losses from currency hedging contracts, (iii) non-cash interest expenses related to the amortization of debt discounts and issuance costs, (iv) share-based compensation, and (v) income tax benefit (expenses). We believe that disclosing these non-GAAP financial measures contributes to enhanced financial reporting transparency and provides investors with added clarity about complex financial performance measures.

We do not report a GAAP measure of gross profit or gross margin because certain costs related to contract revenues are expensed as incurred and included in research and development expenses, and not in cost of sales, as it is not practicable for us to bifurcate these expenses. We derive and reconcile non-GAAP gross profit from the most relevant GAAP financial measures by subtracting GAAP cost of sales, adjusted for acquisition-related expenses and share-based compensation, from GAAP revenue. We calculate non-GAAP operating loss by excluding from GAAP operating loss, any (i) acquisition-related expenses (including acquisition-related professional fees and legal expenses, deemed compensation expense, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles and expenses recognized in relation to changes in contingent consideration obligations) and share-based compensation. We calculate non-GAAP net loss by excluding from GAAP net income (loss), any (i) acquisition-related expenses (including acquisition-related professional fees and legal expenses, deemed compensation expense, and amortization of acquisition-related intangibles and certain license rights, and expenses recognized in relation to changes in contingent consideration obligations), (ii) gains or losses recognized in relation to change in the fair value of warrants, contingent considerations issued by indie and acquisition-related holdbacks (iii) non-cash interest expenses related to the amortization of debt discounts and issuance costs, (iv) share-based compensation, and (v) income tax benefit (expense). We calculate non-GAAP share count by adding (i) weighted average Class A common stock, (ii) weighted average Class V common stock, (iii) Escrow Shares and (iv) vested but unexercised options issued as part of the TeraXion acquisition. Non-GAAP net loss per share is calculated by non-GAAP loss divided by non-GAAP share count.

We exclude the items identified above from the respective non-GAAP financial measure referenced above for the reasons set forth with respect to each such excluded item below:

Acquisition-related expenses – including such items as, when applicable, amortization of acquired intangible assets and certain license rights, fair value charges incurred upon the sale of acquired inventory, and acquisition-related professional fees and legal expenses because they are not considered by management in making operating decisions and we believe that such expenses do not have a direct correlation to our future business operations and thereby including such charges do not necessarily reflect the performance of our ongoing operations for the period in which such charges or reversals are incurred.

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