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Ambarella 28th Annual Needham Growth Conference Virtual summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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28th Annual Needham Growth Conference Virtual summary13 Jan, 2026

Company transformation and AI product evolution

  • Transitioned from video processors for consumer applications to AI SoCs for edge and infrastructure markets over the past decade.

  • Developed three generations of proprietary AI accelerators, with the latest focusing on transformer-based models and supporting advanced GenAI applications.

  • Edge AI now accounts for approximately 80% of annual revenue, with over 40 million AI SoCs shipped and more than $1.3 billion invested in AI R&D.

  • ASPs for new chips range from $20 to $400, up from $15 to $75 for previous generations, with edge infrastructure products like N1-665 featuring three-digit ASPs.

  • AI is now embedded in all new products, with a differentiated "AI Algorithm First" approach for efficiency and scalability.

Product and technology highlights

  • Announced CV7 chip with 2-2.5x AI performance and lower power than previous generation, and introduced the first 4nm and 2nm AI SoCs.

  • Third-generation chips support models from 500 million to 100 billion parameters, with low-end chips running 2 billion-parameter models at 2W.

  • Demonstrated 31 new edge AI applications at CES 2026, showcasing the open Cooper Developer Platform and expanding Developer Zone.

  • Continued investment in advanced nodes (down to 2nm) to improve performance per watt and enable new applications.

  • Platform enables high programmability and flexibility, supporting a wide range of customer applications and markets.

Market opportunities and applications

  • Transformer-based chips open new markets in robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, and edge infrastructure.

  • GenAI applications demonstrated in retail and hospitality, enabling advanced analytics and marketing data collection from existing security cameras.

  • IoT business diversifying, with security now less than 50% of segment revenue; growth in drones, wearables, and portable video.

  • Edge infrastructure products aggregate multiple endpoints, upgrading legacy devices with AI capabilities.

  • AI is expanding use cases in enterprise security, smart home, automotive, robotics, and edge infrastructure.

Impact of new 2nm semi-custom ASIC model?
GenAI customer project pipeline and traction?
Mitigate China dual supply chain risks?
New custom ASIC model: Scaling potential
IoT diversification: Key growth drivers
Transformer AI: When will revenue significantly ramp?
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Ambarella, Inc. develops semiconductor processing solutions for video that enable high-definition (HD), video capture, sharing, and display worldwide. The company's system-on-a-chip designs integrated HD video processing, image processing, computer vision functionality, audio encoding and decoding, and system functions onto a single chip for delivering video and image quality, differentiated functionality, and low power consumption. It offers H Series solutions for IP security cameras; S Series solutions for sports cameras; A Series solutions for automotive cameras; and CV flow processors to address AI computing initiation from the Edge of the cloud. The company has a collaboration with Baidu Research to support car maker demand for next-generation ADAS and autonomous driving platforms.

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