indie Semiconductor Exceeds Third Quarter 2024 Growth Expectations, Guides Accelerating Fourth Quarter

• Delivers Q3 2024 Revenue of $54.0M, up 3.1% Sequentially, with Non-GAAP Gross Margin of 50.4%

• Guides Q4 2024 Revenue up more than 7% Sequentially at the Mid-point of $58.0M

• Expands Strategic Backlog to $7.1B, up from $6.3B last year, driven by strong ADAS design-win momentum

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–indie Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq: INDI), an automotive solutions innovator, today announced third quarter results for the period ended 30 Settembre 2024. Third quarter 2024 revenue increased 3.1% sequentially to $54.0 million, above the mid-point of the outlook with Non-GAAP gross margin up sequentially to 50.4 percent. On a GAAP basis, third quarter 2024 operating loss was $49.9 million compared to $136.2 million a year ago. Non-GAAP operating loss for the third quarter of 2024 was $16.8 million, versus $13.0 million during the same period last year. Third quarter 2024 GAAP loss per share was $0.28, while Non-GAAP loss per share was $0.09.

“indie exceeded consensus revenue forecasts in Q3, despite the persisting near-term challenges impacting the automotive industry,” said Donald McClymont, indie’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “Crucially, the market for indie’s innovative portfolio remains strong, driven by the long-term catalysts of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), in-cabin user experience and electrification, consistent with the 12% year-over-year increase in our strategic backlog to $7.1 billion. Our continued design-win momentum has been broad across our extensive product portfolio, particularly in vision and radar, which now comprise over 72% of our strategic backlog. Delivering class-leading solutions and support to our global OEM and Tier 1 customer base ensures that indie remains well-positioned to capture significant value in the rapidly growing automotive semiconductor market opportunity.”

Business Highlights

• Expanded strategic backlog to $7.1 billion, driven by new ADAS program wins

• Flagship ADAS programs in customer homologation, are on track for 2025 volume shipments

• Secured design-win for LiDAR optical engine and photonics module program

• Captured design-win for Vision processor in Avatr12 EV, a leading Chinese OEM

• Extended ambient lighting design-wins in China, across Xiaomi, Avatr, BYD & Li Auto models

• Secured multiple wins for a large North American EV maker with high-performance custom networking solutions

Q4 2024 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 header captioned “Discussion Regarding the Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this release for a further discussion of our use of non-GAAP measures.

“For the fourth quarter of 2024, we expect indie’s revenue to increase by more than 7 percent sequentially at the mid-point, once again outpacing the industry,” said Raja Bal, indie’s chief financial officer. “Based upon the continuing strong design-win activity for indie’s new radar and vision products, we anticipate a return to our industry-leading growth trajectory in 2025 and beyond.”

indie’s Q3 2024 Conference Call

indie Semiconductor will host a conference call with analysts to discuss its third quarter 2024 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 1-(877) 451-6152 (domestic) or (201) 389-0879 (international), Conference ID: 13747703.

A replay of the conference call will be available beginning at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time on 7 Novembre 2024 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on 21 Novembre 2024 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: 13747703.

About indie

Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, indie is empowering the automotive revolution with next generation semiconductors, photonics and software platforms. We focus on developing innovative, high-performance and energy-efficient technology for ADAS, in-cabin 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. As a global innovator, we are an approved vendor to Tier 1 partners and our solutions can be found in marquee automotive OEMs worldwide.

Please visit us at www.indiesemi.com to learn more.

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