Navitas Semiconductor (NASDAQ:NVTS) reported third-quarter financial results on Tuesday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below.
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Summary
Navitas Semiconductor reported Q3 2026 revenues of $14 million, marking a 33% sequential increase and 38% year-over-year growth, driven by high-power markets.
The company has completed its strategic transformation to focus exclusively on high-power markets, with AI infrastructure projected to triple in size by 2027.
Gross margin improved to 40% and is expected to continue expanding due to a favorable revenue mix and increasing scale in high-power markets.
Navitas acquired Claros IVR technology, enhancing its capability to deliver efficient power solutions for AI infrastructure, and anticipates strong future demand.
The company provided Q4 guidance of $16 million in revenue, representing a 119% year-over-year increase, with further gross margin expansion anticipated.
Full Transcript
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Good afternoon, and welcome to Navitas Semiconductor’s Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. At the conclusion of today’s conference call, instructions will be given for the question-and-answer session. If anyone needs assistance at any time during the conference call, please press the star key followed by zero on your touchtone phone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
I would now like to turn the call over to Brett Perry of Shelton Group Investor Relations. Brett, please go ahead.
Brett Perry (Investor Relations)
Thank you, and good afternoon. Welcome to Navitas Semiconductor’s Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. Joining us today are Navitas President and CEO Chris Allexandre and CFO Tonya Stevens. I’d like to remind listeners that management’s prepared remarks contain forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, and management may make additional forward-looking statements in response to your questions. Therefore, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements that’s contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Actual results may differ from those discussed today, and therefore we refer you to a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company’s filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q. In addition, any projections as to the Company’s future performance represent management’s estimates as of today, November 3, 2026. Navitas assumes no obligation to update these projections in the future as market conditions may or may not change, except to the extent required by applicable law.
Additionally, the Company’s press release and management statements during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in GAAP and non-GAAP terms. Included in the Company’s press release are definitions and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP items, which provide additional details for those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time. A recording will be available via webcast for 90 days in the Investor Relations section of the Navitas website at www.navitassemi.com.
And now it’s my pleasure to turn the call over to Navitas President and CEO Chris. Please go ahead.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us on today’s third quarter 2026 earnings call. We appreciate your continued interest and support as we near completion of our strategic transformation and begin executing as Navitas 2.0. Our third quarter results reflect another period of solid financial performance and accelerated momentum. Total revenue was on the high end of guidance at $14 million, up 33% sequentially and 38% year over year, marking the company’s first quarter of year-over-year growth since 2024.
Revenue growth was driven by high-power markets, which increased more than 50% sequentially and grew by triple digits year over year. As anticipated, mobile and low-end consumer continued to decline as a percentage of revenue and remains on task to becoming insignificant, and in the fourth quarter by year-end high power will essentially represent the entire company and we will have substantially exceeded mobile and low-end consumer markets. In fact, as we have now delivered multiple quarters of double-digit sequential revenue growth and gross margin expansion driven by high-power markets and an acceleration in AI infrastructure, our core focus, gross margin expanded sequentially and was above the midpoint of guidance, reflecting the continued benefits of favorable revenue mix and increasing scale. Notably, third quarter non-GAAP gross margin of 40% was 130 basis points higher than the third quarter of 2025 when we began the Navitas 2.0 journey.
Book-to-bill remains well above 1 and has been for the last several months, and we currently have solid backlog extending into mid-2027. We also expect continued revenue growth and margin expansion in the fourth quarter, which will represent the fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and margin increase, with the company exceeding 2026 as a high-power company. Briefly stepping back, roughly a year ago we made a deliberate decision to pivot away from mobile and low-end consumer and focus our resources on the high-power market where GaN, high-voltage SiC, and ultra-high-voltage SiC provide greater differentiation and stronger long-term growth. We labeled AI data center energy and grid infrastructure, high-performance computing, and industrial electrification high-power markets as clear focus and AI infrastructure as North Star.
The success of this pivot is now clearly visible in our revenue mix. At the beginning of 2026, Navitas 2.0 was only a strategy, and now it is reality. By the fourth quarter, we expect mobile revenue to be effectively gone, as stated earlier, and the company revenue to be essentially all high power. More than offsetting our exit from lower-margin mobile and low-end consumer has been the tremendous growth of AI infrastructure, our North Star—AI data centers plus the grid and energy infrastructure required to power them.
We anticipate AI infrastructure to represent more than 40% of our total revenue exiting this year, and we believe this business is poised to triple in calendar 2027. Over the last few months, it has become clear and broadly accepted that power is now the number one constraint in AI compute. The question is no longer only how many GPUs or XPUs can be manufactured and deployed, but how many can realistically be powered. In other words, power efficiency is becoming capacity. When access to power is constrained, every watt saved in conversion and delivery can become another watt available for compute. It increases the scale of compute that can be deployed inside a given power envelope, not only the energy cost.
Together with our high and ultra-high voltage, and recently acquired Claros IVR technology stack serving both vertical and embedded power delivery architectures, further positions us to break the AI infrastructure power wall by addressing efficiency, power density, and performance bottlenecks across the full power chain from grid to XPU. With our strategic acquisition of Claros in early October, Navitas Semiconductor now has a complete platform that is capable of addressing the final stage of delivering efficient power all the way to the XPU.
I want to emphasize that there is a growing number of processor types—CPU, GPU, TPU, XPU, and other custom processors—as well as companies developing them, each requiring a specific power implementation for the last step of power conversion to core voltage. This requires a modular approach, which is one of the key differentiators of the Claros IVR technology stack, as it allows several IVRs to be combined very flexibly in a power array to deliver the required power level and density.
Navitas was already unique by having both GaN and SiC, and now with Claros we are even more so. We are now an enabler of efficient power delivery from the source of energy starting in the modernized grid with our ultra-high-voltage SiC, then high-density and high-efficiency centralized AC-DC and DC-DC conversion with our high-voltage SiC and GaN, and finally the power delivery to the XPU, with the Claros IVR technology stack going one step deeper.
IVR technology solves a real-world scaling problem. Processor power demands are increasing faster than lateral delivery can support, with packaged power moving from roughly the mid-1 kW range towards several kilowatts at sub-1 volt core and several thousand amps. By moving conversion closer to the XPU—vertical power delivery directly beneath the processor and embedded power delivery ultimately in the PCB, package, or substrate—the path is shortened from centimeters towards millimeters or even less.
This reduces resistance, inductance, droop, and heat. As an integrated IVR platform—not another power set—we are combining digital control, power transistors, high-density capacitors, embedded inductors, and packaging in one architecture. The platform is also designed to scale with processors, currently through a repeatable building block of the order of 40 amps, through larger chips and a modular power array into multiple-kiloamp systems, packaged and embedded.
In simple terms, the Claros IVR technology stack, with its ability to serve both future VPD and EPD architectures, gives us a complete power solution platform. Together with the addition of JFETs, it doubles our 2030 SAM to over $8 billion and represents a multi-year content growth opportunity that layers on top of the existing inflection points we are pursuing with our high-voltage silicon, GaN. The ultimate benefit is Navitas’s ability to help customers convert more of every available megawatt into useful AI compute.
While our transformation to a high-power company is effectively complete, our go-forward strategy remains grounded in multiple key pillars of transformation that we have discussed over the last 12 months: market focus, technology leadership, operational efficiency, and financial discipline. On market focus and technology leadership, we continue to advance a series of customer and technology proof points. Since our previous conference call, we announced our collaboration with NVIDIA on an 800-volt to 12-volt power delivery board for next-generation AI infrastructure.
This builds on our previously announced 800 V SiC, 800 V DC-DC conversion boards, further highlighting the breadth of our system knowledge and capability. We also licensed GeneSiC technology to MagnaChip, underscoring the strength of our trench-assisted planar process foundation and supporting expanded SiC adoption partners in Asia while also creating long-term potential for additional fund resource. We recently partnered with Microchip to deliver an 800-volt reference design for next-generation AI data centers.
Then in late September, Navitas was selected by the U.S. government to develop next-generation 10 kV SiC power semiconductors, which reinforces both technology superiority and domestic supply chain resilience. And we also announced the first shipments of our U.S.-manufactured, fifth-generation GaNFast technology as part of our long-term strategic partnership with GlobalFoundries, following shipments of the first wafers in September for the initial product family, including 650-volt GaN FETs, which we expect to have strategic customers sampled very soon.
On a related note, we previously talked about pursuing a foundry-plus model. Going forward, we rename and refer to this strategic operating model as Integrated Fabless Manufacturing, or IFM, a deliberate alternative to the traditional IDM approach. The core difference and principles are that we choose what to own, where to invest, and who to partner with, allowing us to retain the capabilities that differentiate product while leveraging partners for manufacturing at scale.
Importantly, we retain ownership of critical technology IP and selected manufacturing equipment, together with targeted co-investment—not purely supplier collaboration. For purposes of today’s call, I want to briefly take this opportunity to clearly define and lay the foundation of our IFM model, as I expect it to play a strategic role in our go-forward strategy. Looking near term, I will also note that we are actively taking advantage of our strengthened balance sheet to strategically build inventory buffers, including raw materials, and secure future capacity to support unexpected strong and consistent mid- to long-term growth.
Turning to an update on our progress towards the four inflection points that I introduced in our last conference call, which I intend to keep using to map our growth: Architecture Change in AI Infrastructure. Today the transition to 800 V architecture for next-generation AI data centers is now certain. The debate is no longer whether 800 V is happening, but instead how it will unfold. As previously outlined, the transition will have a series of inflection points that will drive increasing momentum and growing need for higher-power solutions.
Navitas’s unique combination of high-power GaN, high-voltage SiC, and now IVR capabilities will allow us to capitalize on each of these inflections. I want to emphasize that we are not dependent on one architectural transition and that we are not waiting for the final data center architecture to emerge. These inflection points represent successive opportunities, each of which can increase content per system as the overall market continues to grow and expand.
The first inflection, pre-800 volt, is already well underway. We are seeing an acceleration of silicon replacement for any AC-DC above a few kilowatts. Products based on our SiC technology addressing this opportunity are in production and driving accelerated growth in the fourth quarter and the first half of 2027. Across multiple hyperscalers and OEM/ODM, we are seeing an acceleration of demand, in particular for 1.2 kV SiC, where our previously mentioned Gen 5 is gaining strong traction.
The second inflection—the sidecar rack and the first rollout of plus/minus 400 volt, or 800 volt—is also accelerating. We discussed this in our last earning call, and it was clear at the OCP Summit in October that this is coming and now definitely coming in 2027. We are seeing broader design conversion and programs across more customers and applications, including AC-DC, DC-DC, and battery backup units, or BBUs, all with more dollar content, large orders already in place, and slated to ramp in the first half of next year.
This will drive growth in 2027 on top of the first inflection point continuing across AI data centers that have not yet adopted high-voltage DC. The power level and density acceleration of AC-DC PSUs is really stunning and driving this content jump. On the DC-DC side, the same is true. We are currently progressing through the final stage of design-in and qualification with many customers, and orders are already in place, which will give us additional programs in support of continued growth over the coming year.
What is very interesting about this second inflection point is the variety of applications and boards—DC-DC, AC-DC, BBUs, and others—and the use of different technologies between SiC and GaN, which reinforces Navitas’s strategic positioning. The third inflection point, or native 800 volt, continues to progress. We all know by now, and it was reconfirmed again at OCP, that this is the only path to achieving really high-density, high-power racks—I mean 500-kilowatt and plus, and up to megawatt racks. We are advancing design and preparation for these high-density racks across multiple vendors. Depending on the XPU, everyone is looking at it. We continue to believe native 800-volt solutions will be in production before the end of 2027 and be material in 2028.
Today we are sampling and progressing with customers on more than a dozen programs and are currently in final stages with certain leading OEMs. One existing customer targeting hyperscalers has already placed a large order for significant system tests, which reinforces Navitas’s strong market position. The fourth inflection point—the complete modernization of energy and grid infrastructure—while further out, is also moving forward, driven by the speed and energy requirements of AI data centers. We are continuing to work to secure initial design wins with our ultra-high-voltage modules in solid-state transformers, which is really more of a 2028 and beyond growth driver. Interim, we’re also seeing an acceleration of engagement for shorter-term revenue opportunities with battery energy storage systems, or BESS, and other power grid-related applications, which are driving high demand for ultra-high-voltage SiC.
A portion of these opportunities are expected to continue to grow in calendar 2027, layering on top of the first and second inflection points with AI data centers. In closing, I’m very pleased with the progress. Navitas 2.0 is no longer a plan but a reality. The results are demonstrated by the revenue mix, growth, and margin expansion. By year-end, we will be a high-power company with mobile and low-end consumer essentially eliminated. The market rationale has sharpened: power is the immediate constraint on increased compute; therefore, power efficiency is the solution to expanding capacity. The architecture of AI infrastructure is in the early stage of being rebuilt from the grid to the XPU.
The acquisition of Claros completes Navitas’s platform and our grid-to-XPU strategy with SiC, GaN, and IVR. We are positioned not only to participate, but to enable a multi-year transition with more than one mobilization point. The timing of our complete transformation is ideal, as we are at the intersection of two secular trends: the growth of AI compute and the re-architecture required to power it from the grid to the XPU. Our end goal is to help customers turn more of every available megawatt into useful AI compute.
Specific to the fourth quarter, the midpoint of our guidance represents another consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential growth and more than 100% growth year over year, driven by high power and AI infrastructure and contributing to further gross margin expansion. Our expectations for the fourth quarter also represent a return to growth for the full year, increasing approximately 7% in 2026, with high-power growth more than offsetting our exit from the mobile business.
We believe this is only the beginning, as we remain committed on the path of delivering continued growth, incremental gross margin expansion, and ultimately, profitability. With that, I’ll pass the call to Tonia to review our third quarter financial results and outlook for the fourth quarter.
Tonya Stevens (Interim Chief Financial Officer)
Thank you, Chris. Before I begin, please note unless otherwise indicated, I will focus my comments on non‑GAAP results. A detailed reconciliation of all non‑GAAP to GAAP financial measures can be found in our press release published earlier. Today’s revenue in the third quarter of 2026 was at the high end of guidance, increasing 33% sequentially to $14.0 million, an acceleration from the 22% sequential growth we delivered last quarter. This represents an increase of approximately $3.5 million from the $10.5 million in the second quarter. As Chris highlighted, the double‑digit growth was driven by increased traction in high‑power markets which grew more than 50% sequentially and by triple digits year over year, reflecting our nearly complete shift in revenue composition away from our historical mobile and low‑end consumer business.
We continue to expect revenue contribution from mobile to become insignificant, in low single digits by year end. As a result of improved product mix and higher quarterly revenue, gross margin expanded by another 50 basis points sequentially to 40.0%. This represented our third consecutive quarter of sequential gross margin expansion. Our accelerating shift in overall revenue mix toward higher‑value high‑power markets and away from mobile and low‑end consumer remains fundamental to our gross margin expansion strategy.
We expect further gradual expansion of gross margin over the coming quarters as we continue to drive top‑line growth in high‑power markets. Operating expenses for the third quarter were $16.5 million compared to $15.5 million in the prior quarter and $15.4 million in the same quarter a year ago. Consistent with the guidance we provided last quarter, OPEX increased by approximately $1.0 million as we began making targeted incremental investments in the business, particularly in new R&D programs to support accelerated growth. Having diligently maintained effectively flat OPEX through the first half of the year, we are increasingly focused on deploying resources and investments in a deterministic way to support the longer‑term success and sustained growth of the transformed company.
OPEX for the quarter increased roughly 6% sequentially, which was meaningfully lower than our top‑line growth rate of 33%. This and future incremental OPEX, including expenses related to Claros IVR technology stack and product development, will be allocated to scaling the business, including investments to accelerate new product development, strengthen our engineering and application support for key committed programs, and reinforce operational readiness in advance of expected growth in ramping shipments.
Loss from operations for our third quarter was $10.9 million compared to a loss of $11.4 million in the prior quarter and $11.5 million in the third quarter of 2025. In Q3, weighted‑average basic and diluted shares outstanding were approximately 261.5 million, resulting in a Q3 loss per share of $0.03 compared to a $0.04 per‑share loss in the prior quarter and a loss of $0.05 per share in the year‑ago third quarter. Turning to the balance sheet, cash and cash equivalents at the end of the third quarter 2026 were $531.5 million compared to $557.4 million at the end of the second quarter. The decrease in cash and cash equivalents primarily reflects our ongoing build of TSMC buffer inventory. Also note the quarter‑end cash balance was prior to the payment of the cash portion of the Claros transaction which closed on October 6th; our effective pro forma cash balance adjusted for approximately $126 million payment for Claros subsequent to the quarter end would have been approximately $405 million.
As a reminder, the company continues to have no debt. Also of note, I want to briefly highlight that we did not utilize any of our ATM facility during the third quarter and are comfortable with our current cash position following the Claros acquisition. Post‑Claros transaction, we continue to have ample capital resources to further accelerate and scale as a high‑power company. This includes further anticipated strategic investments in support of advancing our integrated fabless manufacturing, or IFM, model initiatives, potential capacity expansion and supply reservation agreements with our U.S.‑based foundry partners, as well as potential pursuit of selective strategic opportunities.
With respect to inventory, we ended the third quarter with $32.4 million of inventory, including $11.2 million of inventory classified as long‑term on the balance sheet. This compared to $19.5 million in the prior quarter and reflects our previously planned build of appropriate buffers of TSMC wafers to ensure a smooth transition for our customers, as well as other supply‑chain‑related investments. Similar to the previous quarter, the sequential $12.9 million increase in Q3 inventory primarily reflects our measured investment to support AI data center customers’ future anticipated growth.
More broadly, channel and distributor inventory remains healthy. Moving to guidance for the fourth quarter of 2026, we expect continued sequential growth with revenue increasing 14% to $16.0 million, plus or minus $0.5 million at the midpoint. This represents 119% growth year over year and what will be our fourth consecutive quarter of sequential growth driven by high‑power markets and specifically AI infrastructure. Also, based on this guidance, we anticipate achieving revenue growth of 7% for the full year 2026, with our core high‑power business continuing to deliver triple‑digit growth, even with our mobile business dropping to effectively zero after representing a large majority of total revenue last year. Exiting the year, we expect high‑power market to represent almost all of our business, with over 40% of total revenue coming from AI infrastructure, which includes both our AI data center business and the grid and energy infrastructure business needed to support AI data centers.
Lastly, I would also add that we closed out the third quarter with a very strong book‑to‑bill ratio well above one, and we currently have solid backlog that extends into mid‑2027. Non‑GAAP gross margin is expected to expand to 40.5%, plus or minus 100 basis points, which at the midpoint represents a 50‑basis‑point increase, reflecting our fourth consecutive quarter of margin expansion and the continued favorable shift in the revenue mix toward high‑power markets and marginal incremental benefit from improved scale.
As previously discussed, OPEX will step up in the fourth quarter as we take on the overhead operating expenses associated with Claros, as well as continue to make incremental investments organically, primarily focused on R&D and operational readiness in advance of our anticipated growth over the coming year. Non‑GAAP operating expenses for the fourth quarter, which again will include Claros, are anticipated to be $25.0 million, plus or minus $1 million.
That concludes our formal remarks. Operator, please open the call for questions.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Thank you. We will now begin the question‑and‑answer session. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press star one again. If you are called upon to ask your question and are listening by a loudspeaker on your device, please pick up your handset and ensure that your phone is not on mute when asking your question.
For today’s event, we kindly request everyone to please limit yourself to one question and one follow‑up only. If you find yourself having additional questions, you may rejoin the queue. Your first question comes from the line of Quinn Bolton with Needham & Company. Your line is now open.
Shady Mwali (Analyst)
Hey guys, this is Shady Mwali in for Quinn. Thanks for taking the question and congrats on the results. I think you guys mentioned that backlog is extending into mid‑2027, and as these high‑power markets start to inflect, it’d be great to get a sense on how we should be thinking about growth heading into next year. Thank you.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Thank you, Shady, for the question, and appreciate you giving us a platform to talk about the outlook for next year. Right. So as we talked about in the last two earnings, we’ve seen consistent increase in book‑to‑bill. As a matter of fact, the book‑to‑bill last quarter, or in Q3, was actually 2 and has been consistently way above 1 for the last two quarters. Right. So the way we see ’27, with the inflection point unfolding on top of each other, is the path for us to be a double‑digit growth quarter over quarter, fueled by the acceleration of AI infrastructure, which we mentioned in the earlier remarks, that will triple from the baseline in ’26, and that double‑digit growth will continue to accelerate as each of these inflection points come on top of each other.
So basically the message today is we’ve done the first part of the transformation of the company, which is the financial pivot we talked about, consumer to high power, as you mentioned. And now entering the other phase of the company where the growth is just starting, driven by the AI infrastructure, will give us multiple years of double‑digit quarter‑over‑quarter growth.
Shady Mwali (Analyst)
Great, that was helpful. And then maybe just on the Claros acquisition, we’ve seen a number of IVR acquisitions get announced over the past few months, so we’re just curious: can you guys talk about what you saw in Claros and maybe some of the advantages of their technology versus competing IVR technology? Thank you.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Thank you. Very good question. So the first thing before I answer specifically your question, what I would say is the fact that other MOSFET and silicon companies are acquiring IVR is a confirmation that what we talked about, which is the architecture has to change. Okay. The way lateral power delivery today, moving to vertical power delivery using the same technology kind of put together in a vertical package, it’s not going to sustain the density and the amount of current that those processors need.
What we saw in Claros—and I’ll put aside the culture, very similar to us, and the quality of the engineering team—is real IVR technology stack designed for XPUs, instead of IVR that was designed for computing converted to AI data center like we’ve seen in some of the companies that just got acquired. Right? A true 3.3‑volt starting point, allowing you to do a 3‑2‑1, everything integrated in the stack—the capacitors, the inductors, the controllers, the FinFET—basically enabling you to do real high density because you don’t need external components.
Right. And that’s what we saw. And the modularity, which I mentioned in the webcast, is also important. What we see is, of course, everyone talks about the lead GPUs, but there’s as many processors now that we have use cases, and all those processors—call it TPU, XPU, NPU, LPU, GPU, customs, right?—they all need super high‑density, high‑current type of IVR and power delivery. And I think the flexibility and the modularity that we saw in Claros is unique.
And that’s why we made that move. Thank you, Shady, for your question.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Your next question comes from the line of Kevin Garrigan with Jefferies. Your line is now open.
Kevin Garrigan (Analyst)
Yeah. Hey, Chris and Tonya, congrats on the great results and all the progress. Hey, going off of Shady’s question, can you just give us a sense of how much of the 2027 growth is supported by awarded programs and what is already in your backlog today versus expected design conversions?
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
I’ll start and Tonya can add some comment. Right. So we have backlog way into ’27 already. So we cannot say the whole year is done, right. But what I would tell you is we are very surprised, and I mean positively, by the acceleration of the Inflection 1, which we saw really in Q3 and Q4 this year. But Inflection 2, right, which is the sidecar where we see an accelerated conversion of the number of programs across AC-DC, DC-DC and BBUs. So more programs converting faster into a higher power.
Converting from design-in to design-win to backlog. And last but not least, because we talked about Inflection 3 in the last call. Now we start to see, and we mentioned it in the remarks, right, we’ve actually got a pretty large order: a million units of GaN devices for an 800-volt DC-DC high-density brick for Inflection 3. Right. So things are really coming into shape. I would tell you, Kevin, slightly faster than I even expected six months to three months ago.
Tonya Stevens (Interim Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, and I would just go on top of that. That’s exactly what I see and how I think about it. The Inflection 1, like Chris talked about, it’s in our revenue. We saw it in our revenue last quarter, we see it in our revenue this quarter accelerating. Inflection 2 in our backlog, that’s helping us fill out 2027, and even Inflection 3, we’re starting to see that move beyond just high-volume orders and sampling. He talked about the 1 million units. That’s a significant amount of volume that we’re looking at for Inflection 3.
So that’s exactly what we’re seeing.
Kevin Garrigan (Analyst)
Yep, got it. Okay, that’s perfect. And then just on gross margins, congrats on the continuing expansion. Can you just give us a sense about how we should think about the gross margin profile between silicon carbide, GaN and IVR as each business scales?
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
So we don’t really kind of give detail on the split on gross margin between the different technologies. What I would tell you is if you look at the gross margin expansion in ’26, right, so let’s go back a year ago to this day, we talked about transforming this company from consumer to high power. Basically, the gross margin has increased, if you look at the guidance for Q4, by 2 points. That was essentially moving from consumer to high power. The next phase of the expansion of gross margin is coming from scale as we continue to grow double digit, but also with the AI infrastructure which is now 40% of the company in Q4 and poised to triple next year. And that part of the business is actually also on a higher margin.
So what you’re going to see is, I just got the question before, how do we see growth? Right. I mentioned double digit, quarter over quarter. With that double digit kind of accelerating over time, I think you’re going to see the same on the gross margin, consistent gross margin expansion quarter after quarter as we scale and of course as we continue to make fundamental transformation, moving to 8-inch GaN, continuing to work with our foundries on cost reduction and so forth.
But, I mean, look at this as a continuous gross margin expansion organically with the migration to high power and now to AI infrastructure.
Tonya Stevens (Interim Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, and I would just confirm that the way we think about it is not relative to the technology, but complexity. And we’ve given you sort of the insight before that the higher power, higher complexity it is, the higher the ASPs and margin tend to be. And that includes, you know, more difficult technology problems to solve, including the IVR technology stack. Those tend to contain higher margins versus splitting that between GaN and SiC.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Yeah. Kevin, one thing I would add is, I mean, Tonya is spot on. Right, margin comes with value. Value comes from the complexity you’re solving, the customer problems. What we see is, look at Inflection 1 and Inflection 2, right, or even going to Inflection 3. We are talking about multiple X of density of power on the AC-DC front, moving from silicon to silicon carbide, then moving to GaN when the add-on volt become negative. Those complex problems, customers are basically retributing with good margin if we solve their problem with speed.
And I think this is what goes back to the core of what we are trying to do as a company.
Kevin Garrigan (Analyst)
Yep, got it. Okay. That makes a ton of sense. Okay, perfect. I appreciate the color. Congrats again on the results.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Thank you.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Your next question comes from the line of Kevin Cassidy with Rosenblatt Securities. Your line is now open.
Kevin Cassidy (Analyst)
Thanks, and I’ll echo the congratulations on the steady progress in the IVR market. That’s a new market. How early on in the XPU or GPU design do you have to be to define the IVR? Do you have to work with them as they’re designing the XPU?
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
So it’s a very good question, Kevin. Thank you for asking it. So first of all, I think what you need is what we call an IVR technology stack. That’s what we got with Klaus, right. So integration of the FinFETs, the controller, the inductors, the capacitors all together into the same technology. Then you apply that to either a vertical power delivery, which is basically a chip that you put on the backside of the PCB, or in the PCB, right, in the form of an array as we talked about, to deliver the power density to customer, or even going one step further where it’s not a chip anymore, you embed the full system or subpart of the system into the substrate and the XPU. In both ways, you have to work with the XPU vendors. In both ways, you have to work with the OEM or power OEM that serve the last step of power delivery to the XPUs to basically fit the right architecture.
And that’s what—I got the question from Sean early on—I think it was, Kevin, what did we like about Klaus? Well, I liked, beyond the best density in my opinion because there’s no caps outside, this modularity. So every customer needs a different type of shape of the power VRM and a different level of voltage and current, and that’s kind of where you have to work with those. The other thing I would say is keep in mind that many customers are becoming vertically integrated.
So we used to have GPU companies, now we have hyperscalers doing their own processors. We also have processor companies that become rack companies, right. So the answer to your question is the technology stack is the same, but you have to work with the processor companies which are becoming rack companies or even hyperscaler companies to basically deliver the power delivery.
Kevin Cassidy (Analyst)
That’s great. Yeah, it’s getting to be a complicated design cycle and, you know, which brings me to the, you know, interesting strategy you brought up is integrated service manufacturing where you’re going to buy the equipment and, you know, I guess is that going to be in the back end? Like as you’re describing, the IVR could all be different shapes and packages for different designs. Is that where you’re bringing in the equipment or will it be on the front end too?
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
So let me just correct you for a minute, right? We talk about integrated fabless manufacturing, or IFM, right? Primarily on the foundry side. So the best way to think about this is, if you look at both SiC and GaN, we actually own the technology stack. Same on the IVR, right. So on the SiC side we have GeneSiC, which is a full stack high-voltage technology. On the GaN side we overlay on top of TSMC in the past, now GF, our own IP to differentiate in reliability and other figures of merit.
And same with the IVR where we own the full stack, right. So what we want to do is to own the stack but partner with foundries where we invest capital to basically secure capacity and supply to enable cost, predictability and competitiveness. So the best way to think about this is a bit of the similar kind of we announced with GF on the GaN side and other foundry we work with: can we put the best of both together? We don’t want to be an IDM, we don’t want to be a fabless. We’re somewhere in the middle and we believe this is the best capital-effective way to deliver the high growth while controlling our technology.
Kevin Cassidy (Analyst)
Okay, great. Thank you.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Thank you, Kevin. Your next question comes from the line of John Tanwanteng with CJS Securities. Your line is now open.
John Tanwanteng (Analyst)
Hi, good afternoon, guys. Thank you for taking my questions and congrats on a nice quarter and outlook. I was wondering, I think I heard pretty clearly that you expect to grow data center infrastructure revenue by three times going into next year. What do you think the non–data center portion contributes? If you could tell us what’s involved there and what the contribution might be.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Yeah. Hi John, thanks for asking that question. You know, as I talked about, we have backlog way into ’27. As a matter of fact, the visibility we have in AI infrastructure is much longer, much extended compared to other markets, right. So what we’ve modeled for next year is anything non–AI infrastructure is more or less flat. We see some growth in industrial, we see some flat in the computing. Remember we address the super high-end computing market, not the computing market as a whole, right.
So we’ve assumed that flat because we don’t have a full-year or even two-quarter type of visibility. But on the AI infrastructure, as you pointed, because of the visibility we have, because of the accelerated momentum in Inflection 1, Inflection 2, because of number of designs we’re converting, we are clearly seeing a potential for that business to more than triple next year, right. So the best way to think of it is, you know, ’26 was a year of high power, basically compensating the exit of mobile.
This is done. This even allowed us to get higher than when we started this journey from a revenue standpoint and getting ’26 with 16 million. Next year, really the growth is coming from AI infrastructure and we assume the rest being flat.
John Tanwanteng (Analyst)
Okay, great, thank you. And then more interestingly, as you head into ’28, I think you’ve got multiple accelerations, right? You have the NVIDIA 800-volt products ramping, you have the SST products ramping, you have Claros ramping. Do you see further acceleration in ’28 or is it hard to comp against the growth you’re going to see in ’27? Or maybe it’s a small enough base that you can still accelerate from there.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Of course it’s more difficult to predict as you get longer in the horizon, right. But I would tell you is we see, based on the product we have, the technology we have, the engagement we have, the inflection points, double digit. And that double digit quarter over quarter is going to accelerate as each of those inflections overlays with each other. So it’s not inconceivable to see the quarter-over-quarter compound growth start to accelerate late ’27 into ’28 into ’29 as each of those technologies, SiC, GaN and even IVR, overlay on top of each other and each of those inflections come on top of each other.
John Tanwanteng (Analyst)
Great, thanks for that. If I could ask one more, just Tonya, how do you see OPEX scaling with all this revenue growth? Do you have a number as maybe as a percentage of revenue growth or is there another way to think about it over the next year or two?
Tonya Stevens (Interim Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, that’s a great question. So the step-up you saw in Q4, we talked about, that was our normal run rate of our guidance as well as Claros, taking on Claros. And the way we think about that is still what we’ve talked about before: OPEX increasing at a percent of revenue. So after that initial step-up, we see that happening in ’27. So as a fraction of our revenue growth, we’re not really giving the full year out, but that’s how we’re thinking about that.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
John, I think one thing I would add on top of what Tonya said is we’ve been very clear since the beginning of this transformation that our eyes are on getting to profitability. Profitability will come from scale. We have two vectors. One is scale and consistently growing double-digit revenue, as we talked about. Number two is gross margin expansion. And gross margin expansion will continue as we just talked about. And when IVR comes into play, we see also a step function in the combined gross margin of the company.
But we remain focused on making sure we do that by increasing OPEX at a fraction of the revenue growth so we can get to profitability at the horizon, which remains a very important focus for us.
John
Great, thank you.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad, and your next question comes from the line of Richard Shannon with Craig-Hallum. Your line is now open.
Richard Shannon (Analyst)
Great. Thanks, Kristen, for taking my questions. I’m going to follow up on the last question and answer, especially take it to the obvious end goal here, which is thinking about a break-even model here. Not asking for the time frame you might hit this, but how do we think about that model here? And I presume that it would, or I guess I’d prefer an answer that would include IVR with the gross margin dynamic you described here, but kind of scale and what’s the margin structure?
Or I guess maybe I’ll just let you answer of how we can look at the breakeven model and I’ll follow up.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
So thank you, Richard, and good to hear from you. I think the best way to think about this is I think we’re going to continue organically to grow the consistently gross margin. We see the company gaining a couple of points over time, and then it’s not inconceivable, as I said, once we have IVR ramping, that the blend of the gross margin is north of 50. Once you get there, if you take OPEX in Q4 this year, kind of multiply by four, annualize it and increase, apply a yearly increase which is less than revenue, you’re basically getting OPEX in the low 30s, which at 50% gross margin would basically make the breakeven point around the low 60s.
So that’s kind of, if you ask me about a model, that would be kind of the model you have to keep in mind.
Richard Shannon (Analyst)
Okay, perfect. That’s very helpful. Chris, maybe just ask a bit of a high-level question here since we’ve seen some activity both with Navitas as well as across the industry, but some patent arguments, I guess we’ll call it there. And you’ve been on both sides of this. Maybe you can help us understand where you sit here and how you expect kind of the industry to evolve over the next couple years in this dynamic.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Richard, I think I kind of got the question in the last earning about the litigation. I think I was fairly explicit on the last earning on my view of this. If you don’t mind, I would defer to what I said before. We’ll continue to defend our IP, and we respect IP, but we’ll continue to defend our IP. And I would defer to what I said on the last earning, if you don’t mind.
Richard Shannon (Analyst)
No problem there. Maybe let me ask another question or replacement of that one here, Chris. Maybe you can talk about the inflections here, and obviously you’re gaining some real traction and backlog here and inflections numbers one and two here. Maybe if you can talk about your share in any kind of qualitative terms here in any way that you think is interesting, like SiC versus GaN or any specific pieces within those inflections, that’d be helpful, thanks.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
It’s hard to give you a blended market share, right, of the Inflection 1, Inflection 2, but a couple of data points, right? Number one is Inflection 1 is essentially replacing, as you move to 3, 5, 8, 10 kilowatt density of PSUs, you’re replacing silicon with silicon carbide. And the beauty of this is this is replacing with 1.2 kV, so the content is pretty nice. And usually you have two to three vendors, right? So some programs we have first source, some programs we have second source.
And you know, when you have three vendors, one gets 40, the other one gets 30, the last one gets 30. So I would say over time, you know, it trends to a good third to 40% share of the market of the PSU we participate in. What is interesting in the Inflection 2 is number one, it’s a lot more applications. So there is AC-DC which is basically now taking it to 15, 18, 25, 27, 30 kilowatt. There is also DC-DC with 15–30 kilowatt DC-DCs and BBU which start to use both SiC and GaN. So the beauty of Inflection 2 is not just a SiC play, it’s also a GaN play. And here we’ve seen in some cases we are sole source, in some cases we are, again.
So, you know, for me, the way I view it is what you want is to be first on the print, and give customers a secured path from a reliability standpoint and execution standpoint so they can run to production. Because I talked about it earlier, we see an acceleration. If you would have asked me six months ago, do you see Inflection 2 and Sidecar coming that fast? I would have said it’s coming, but it’s definitely coming faster than we expected. Same with Inflection 1.
That’s why you saw us kind of coming on top of the estimates that we had set for ourselves, that you had set for ourselves. So I think the speed is helping because if you are first, and speed is core to our values, if you’re first, you can command more share. But it’s difficult to give you kind of how much market share of that market we own. What I would tell you is if you remove mobile, we grew in ’26 based on the midpoint of the guidance for Q4. We grew 125%. I believe this is faster than the market. If you look at GaN and SiC serving high-power slash AI infrastructure, it’s faster than the market. So the momentum is there for us to gain share. And we are not here to participate. As I mentioned, we have to gain share. So I think we have, with our speed and the technology and the focus that we have.
We’re not a company that does EV on Monday, industrial on Tuesday, and AI data center on Wednesday and Thursday. That’s the only thing we do. And that focus helps us to secure more share than our competitors.
Richard Shannon (Analyst)
Great, Chris, thanks for all that detail. Appreciate it.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Your next question comes from the line of John Tanwanteng with CJS Securities. Your line is now open.
John Tanwanteng (Analyst)
Hi, thanks for the follow-up. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit more about Clarus. I think you disclosed on the update call you gave a week or two ago that they have an anchor customer for the IVR product. What is the potential scale of that one customer, number one, and number two, what is the pipeline of additional customers behind that and how quickly could those come into play over the ’28 to ’29 time frame? Thank you.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Thank you, John, for that follow-up question. So the anchor customer is a vertically integrated customer that looks at processor up to the system level. Clarus has been working with them from the beginning; to Kevin’s point earlier, it has helped to shape the technology because it’s not just about the technology stack. It’s how do you put that into a chip, into an array, into a system that delivers density. So that customer, as we mentioned at the acquisition, is going to ramp in a meaningful way really in our late ’28 and ’29.
Since, and Clarus before the acquisition was essentially focused on that customer to prove their technology and get scale, since we combined the two companies, we’ve met pretty much everybody out there doing an IVR program, and we’re starting to see good feedback but also good momentum in the technology that we have. And again, the consistent feedback we have is this is a race for density, and now you’re going to get into argument into Clarus vs. Ferric vs. Empower vs. Power Lattice and others who has the best density and who has the best approach. And I don’t want to bore you with details, but density without caps outside or density with caps outside is different. But this is not what customers tell me. Customers love the modularity of Clarus. They say this is something which has been thought through with the system in mind — not even the XPU in mind — with the system in mind.
And that is getting a lot of traction, and I think we’ll, under Navitas Semiconductor, be able to scale that actually to more customers. Bit too early to declare victory. There’s a lot of work to do.
John Tanwanteng (Analyst)
Okay, great. Thank you.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
Thank you, John.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
That concludes our question and answer session. I will now turn the call back over to Mr. Chris Allexandre for closing remarks.
Chris Allexandre (President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))
So thank you everybody for listening to us. I leave you with something which I said but I think it’s very, very important that you crystallize that in your mind. A year ago to this day we said we’re going to transform this company from a consumer-centric company to a high-power company. We’ve done that at the same OPEX more or less. We gained 2 points of gross margin. And while we have been able to deliver consistent double-digit growth for the last few quarters despite the headwind of consciously moving away from mobile, now we’re entering into the second phase of the company.
We’ve focused ourselves into AI infrastructure. We have the technology stack that we need from the ultra-high-voltage SiC to high-voltage SiC, GaN, and IVR in our AI infrastructure which is data center and the grid. That power infrastructure is 40% of our sales at the end of Q4, is going to drive the growth in the future. And I think we just got started and I feel there’s a lot of work to do. This market is very demanding in reliability and speed.
But I think we have the right team, the right technology and I think now you have to think about us as a consistent double-digit growing company leveraging the inflection points that come on top of each other. That’s what I want to leave you with. And I also want to take this opportunity to thank our employees. It’s a lot of work to transform a company and they’ve been very resilient and determined to do this and now we just can scale Navitas to the next level. So my closing remark goes to them and all the work they’ve done for the last 12 months and what they’re going to do in the future. Thank you.
OPERATOR (Moderator)
Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today’s call. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.
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