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Earnings Call: Q3 2026

Oct 28, 2026

Summary

Q3 revenue, net income and gross profit declined YoY, with Q4 guidance calling for $95M–$105M revenue and 41%–45% gross margin. Growth prospects include TTED, automotive, high-speed connectivity and ASIC programs, tempered by notebook demand and manufacturing-cost pressures.

Operator

Welcome everyone to Parade Technologies Limited 2026 third quarter webcast investor conference. Investor relations of Parade Technologies, Mr. Yo-Ming Chang, will present 2026 third quarter financial results first. During the presentation, all lines will be placed on mute to prevent background noise. After the presentation, there will be a question and answer session in English by CEO Dr. Jack Zhao and Vice President of Finance, Mr. Kuowei Wu. We also will remain the last 15 minutes for the attendees who would like to ask questions in Chinese. Please follow the instructions given at the time if you would like to ask a question. Welcome to Parade Technologies Limited 2026 third quarter webcast investor conference. Today's meeting will first be presented by Mr. Yo-Ming Chang, investor relations of Parade Technologies. Mr. Chang will present Parade Technologies' third quarter 2026 financial results.

During this presentation, your phone will be in mute mode. After the presentation, we will arrange for CEO Dr. Zhao and Mr. Wu, Vice President of Finance, to take your questions in English. In addition, we will reserve the last 15 minutes to take your questions in Chinese. Now I would like to introduce Mr. Yo-Ming Chang, investor relations of Parade Technologies. Mr. Chang, please begin. Now I would like to introduce Mr. Yo-Ming Chang, investor relations. Yo-Ming, please begin.

Yo-Ming Chang
Head of Corporate Governance, Parade Technologies

Thanks, Jason. Welcome everyone to Parade Technologies 2026 Q3 webcast investor conference. Parade Technologies third quarter 2026 consolidated revenue was $130.83 million, and the net income was $18.49 million. Its both basic and fully diluted after-tax earnings per share were $0.24 and $0.24 respectively. These results compare to consolidated revenue of $146.14 million, and a net income of $27.24 million, or $0.35 and $0.35 per basic and the fully dilution in the year-ago quarter. In U.S. dollars, the third quarter revenue decreased 2.71% sequentially and was down 10.48% year-over-year. The gross profit in the third quarter of 2026 was $52.7 million, a decrease over 2.50% from the previous quarter and a decrease over 15.14% compared to the same quarter of last year.

On September 1, 2026, Parade announced its PS9010 USB-IF certified USB4 dock controller has been integrated into the Acer ProDesigner PE320QX, a professional-grade monitor for creators. Designed to meet the rising demand for high speed and multi-protocol connectivity in creative workflows, the PS9010 enables the Acer ProDesigner PE320QX to serve as both the ultra-high-resolution display and a high-performance single cable USB4 docking hub. The Acer ProDesigner PE320QX is built to optimize the user experience in workflows where high bandwidth data transfer and multi-display connection are critical. By integrating the PS9010, the monitor seamlessly supports USB4, DP 2.1 and SuperSpeed USB, ensuring robust compatibility with a wide range of host systems and peripherals. With the dedicated USB4 upstream and the downstream facing ports supporting 40 Gb per second bandwidth, the Acer ProDesigner PE320QX enables effortless daisy chains of secondary high-resolution displays and high-speed storage arrays over a single USB-C connection.

On September 7th, 2026, Parade announced in cooperation with FIT, a leading cable manufacturer, the successful deployment of a Parade Ultra Linear Redriver in the OSFP, Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable for inclusion on the June 2026 PF43s InfiniBand Trade Association Integrators' List at both XDR 224 Gb per second and NDR 112 Gb per second data rates. Such lists ensure seamless operation with key AI server, XPU and switches. OEM can now feel confident employing Parade LRDs in copper cable solutions from 2 m-4 m to reducing power latency and the rack weight, as well as improved rack routing. Parade Ultra Ethernet series of linear redrivers are capable of supporting the latest 802.3dj ethernet specification, as well as InfiniBand, UALink, NVLink and OIF standards and extend our commitment to enable the short-reach high performance AI scale out market with low power, low latency solutions.

On October 5th, 2026, Parade announced UGREEN has selected Parade's chipset solution for its flagship USB4 hub. Powered by Parade's USB-IF certified PS9010 USB4 dock controller and the PS5513 dual-port USB Power Delivery controller. The hub delivers certified multi-protocol high-speed connectivity, comprehensive peripheral expansion and robust fast charging in a single compact form factor. The new UGREEN USB4 hub address the connectivity demands of modern workstations by equipping users with an all-in-one expansion interface.

In addition to host pass-through charging, the hub provides a dedicated USB4 downstream port for daisy chain multiple USB 3.2 10 Gb per second and 5 Gb per second ports, a 2.5GBase-T Ethernet port, dual SD and TF card readers, an HDMI display output and an integrated audio headphone jack. Based on the current business outlook, Parade is providing the following guidance for the fourth quarter of 2026. Revenue is between $95 million-$105 million .

Gross margin is between 41% to 45%. Operating expense is between $33 million- $36 million . [Non-English content].

Now, I transfer to CEO Dr. Zhao to answer your questions. Jason, you may begin.

Operator

Yes. Thank you, Yo-Ming. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the English question and answer session. If you wish to ask the question, please press star key and number one on your telephone keypad, and you will enter the queue. After you are announced, please ask your question. Should you wish to cancel your question, you may press star key and number two. Thank you. Now first question will be coming from Annie Chan of UBS. Go ahead, please.

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Hi, this is UBS, Annie Chan, on behalf of Jerry Su. Thank you for taking my question. My first question is, could you provide the revenue mix for Q3 2026 and also the outlook by each segment into Q4 2026? Thank you.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

I understand your question is about Q3, what is the percentage of each segment? The answer is, for DP, was slightly lower than 30%. The PS, our high-speed product line, is around 45%. The TC, our source driver, was about 10%. And TT, which include our TTED device, exceeds 15%.

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Got it. Thank you. Maybe as a follow-up, or as a next question, could you give us some color on the near-term notebook demand and your outlook for 2027?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yeah.

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Do you see like—

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yes, it has been better on the past Q3. From the IDC report, our own results reflect notebook had a pretty big reduction in the Q3 or in the second half. That pretty much resulted from the first half. Many OEMs expected the components or DRAM increase, so they pre-order quite many parts in the first half of 2026. In addition, the OEMs also increased their notebook price in the July time frame this year, which also reduced the demand from the consumer space of demand. Certainly, the current AI spending squeezed the IT budget for the commercial notebook, the purchasing. So those are the factors impact the Q3 or the Q4 notebook demand reduction. Moving forward, what do we expect? The notebook still in 2026

Productivity, important that the tools, especially for the current AI computing demand. Recently, NVIDIA introduced those notebook for AI computing. We think those will expand the notebook market, hopefully, from traditional consumer commercial to more computing inference. All the notebook unit wise, as the research report will be flat type of thing with 2026. But we think the value wise will increase, as the high-end notebook demands lot more high-speed device.

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Yes, understood. As for the third question, could you provide some updates about your ASIC-like business? Is it taped out? Should we expect this to contribute revenue in second half 2027 or more likely in 2028? Thank you.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

We're working very hard to tape out those chips, and the progress very well. Those are the two big chips. We did a lot of system verification with our customer. The development progress well. In terms of whether the second half—

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Sorry, I think it's breaking out a little.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Can you hear me clearly right now?

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Yes. Perfect.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Okay. Yeah. The customer schedule did not change. We don't expect much of change on the 2027 second half. Yeah. That's the current schedule we have.

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Thank you. Understood. As for our final question, may we know your initial view on the overall revenue growth outlook for 2027? How should we think about the OpEx?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

The spending side, we don't expect much change. Maybe a couple percentage increase, that's about it. On the revenue side, we hope the revenue will be better than this year, and really driven by our multiple program and especially our In-cell TTED, our hub device. As we said, we may start to have some ASIC revenue contribution. Yeah, that's what we view. Of course, the 2027, our revenue also will very much depend on the broader market demand. Hopefully, the broad market, the components, the DRAM for notebook will stabilize.

Annie Chan
Analyst, UBS

Yeah, got it. Thank you. Very clear. Thank you, Jack and Yo-Ming. I'll head back to the queue.

Operator

Thank you. Next one, Joey Lee, HSBC. Go ahead, please.

Joey Lee
Analyst, HSBC

Okay. Hi, Yo-Ming and CEO. Thank you for taking my question. I would like to ask some question about the. In August, you indicate that second quarter might be this year's gross margin growth and supported by the price adjustments and relocation part of your back-end supply and foundry. I would like to know, has the broader price adjustment now been accepted by your major customers? In which quarter should we expect the back-end savings to show up in gross margin? Third, how many percentage in the price increase is transferable to customer from your point of view? Thank you.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yeah. I think that's a good question. Yeah, we do the product line by product line to adjust the price reflecting our manufacturing cost increase. We start to do the end of Q2, Q3, and from now pretty much are completed. So those adjustment reflecting into our financial, it's gradually going up because if the effective day is not, you adjust, you affect it. Some of the customer will negotiate with you. They accepted it, but adjust a few months later. So that's the typical business process. In today's market, the demand is reduced. So it's a tough process to increase the product price. On other hand, our customer understand the manufacturing costs broadly increase. So even though it's tough to them, they largely accepted the price increase.

The price increase range is dependent on our cost range, and we basically share some of cost increase with our customer. They may not be full range considered, and that's a lot of negotiation in between. We will see the recovery, our gross margin, in coming quarters, and hopefully, we're more into our guidance instead of a burden to the more center place and those companies. Yeah, that's what we do, is try to achieve that goal.

Joey Lee
Analyst, HSBC

Okay, thank you. My second question is about the auto business. Can you share about the progress of the auto business comparing to Q2, and are there any new customers?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Actually, auto business is particularly good from Q2, Q3, and moving forward. It is very encouraging. Since our designing are more associated with more EV car or more advanced cars. Recently, the gasoline price has been up quite long. The EV demand actually going up. We have a top brand name in U.S. with multiple chips. We have a top China EV guys, and are using our chips. Also, we have a more designing or different device designing to those auto customers. We are start to shipping our DP hub, auto-grade DP hub, to the well-known auto manufacturer. That probably will expand more. So yeah, auto is a lot more encouraging and is growing up after many years. We expect the auto will have a double-digit growth year-over-year. That is the sort of bright point for our business.

Joey Lee
Analyst, HSBC

Okay, thank you. My last question is about the data center opportunities regarding the ACC redriver. Can you share about the current competitive positioning of Parade's ACC driver in this market, and how many percentage of shares do you expect to gain in the future? Thank you.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

I would think, as we announced, we are engaged with a cable or leading cable to making those ACC cables, and to get a certification qualification. We are pretty much about to complete all those process. We are also in the designing to CSP guys and for their application. We have more customer on the 800 Gb side. It seems the 800 Gb is a lot more stable, a lot more easy to use, those cables. Hopefully, we will create some revenue in the 2027 and on those high speed ACC cables.

Joey Lee
Analyst, HSBC

Okay. That is all my question. I will go back into the queue. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next one, Daniel Yen, Morgan Stanley. Go ahead, please.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Hello. Good afternoon, Yo-Ming and Jack. Could you hear me?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yes.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Yeah. Hi, Jack. Thanks for taking my question. The first question I want to follow up on the ASIC design business. I recall you do provide some of your target TAM, addressable market, opportunities for this ASIC business into next year. Could you give us your updated thoughts on how should we think about the opportunities? Maybe not only for next year, but for the next few years.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yeah.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Yep. Thank you.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Okay. I think previous, the ladies asked a question, when we expected to start have a revenue. We expected the second half. The customer schedule to create some revenues in 2027. When you full scale range to ramp up those products in the full range based on the customer forecast to us, will be over 100 million or more. I probably have to give some discount, but well over 100 million for sure. That is why we spend so much effort, so much engineering resource to do it. We would like to do a good job to not only the performance and the cost and the power, I think very important, the power. Those are the things. Besides, we are doing multiple, the ASIC-like business. I think you are focused on something many people talk about.

But we have others, and those also will create a revenue later for 2027 and early 2028. It is multiple product going on. So it is not just one or two. There are multiple there. But I know what you are referring to, but I would try to say we have multiple there, and some of them already taped out on the 6 nm and those kind of thing are already out. But it is less for people to pay attention to.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

I see. Thanks. So when you are referring to this 100 million opportunities, is this only one product or that also includes all the chips? You said multiples.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yeah.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Multiple chips.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

There are multiple product there, and some of high-end, some of middle, and there are some of low-end there. Multiple product there. Added together, exceed 100 million, I would think, based on what we understand and our customer told us.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

I see. In your view, how should we think about Parade's growth in 2027? On one hand, we have these new opportunities. On the other hand, I think it's a pent demand for notebook. Maybe still a little bit, I would say lukewarm. How should we think about what could be Parade's growth in 2027? What could be the new growth drivers?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Okay. Basically, I explained to the previous question as well, that the market is similar to 2026, right? The growth engine for us is really one. Very clear our In-cell TTED will have a large volume of shipment this year already, have quite successful many millions shipped out. Next year we'll have lot more. So those are the high single digit, the TTED device. But less people talk about. We have a high-speed device, multiple being used for those, the high-end, the notebook for AI application, right? I thought those are the pretty source for those systems. We do hope those systems, even though the price now is high, we all understand, but will take more inference computing since it can stand alone to run the AI inference. Right. So it has its value there. Those we think will generate more attractiveness there.

And, of course, our high-speed product, the retimer DP hub and USB hub all will have to contribute. Besides what you had said, later on the ASIC and those kind of thing. We are also getting a lot more excited for the current USB4v2 market, which we are pretty prepared for those market.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

I see. Thanks, Jack. Maybe my last question, more on the near term. Based on your guidance, your gross margin still improved. Actually improved, I think pretty well in full Q. Is it more on the product mix or is it more on the pricing versus the cost? How should we think about that?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

I would think the previous, also after question was, we had a price adjustment to reflect our manufacturing cost increase. So previously, we are almost getting close to the bottom of the guideline. That is part of result of this. Of course, the product mix towards our high end, especially those TTED, the high speed, the retimer is helping a lot.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

I see. If I may follow up then, given that you are mentioning there are several new products in 2027, I know it is still a little bit far away, but, yeah. How do you think about your gross margin profile in 2027?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

As we said, we will adjust to our guidance, like more middle point and hopefully that's the goal. This thing is dynamic. Why the dynamic? The manufacturing cost continue increase. I think you heard that people raise the price pretty frequently, and we are mitigated to the issues, especially on OSAT. We have to pull into a more efficient, more cost-effective area. That's Parade in the process to do it. Basically, we have to survive or to have to serve for our customer, to serve for our investor and, yeah, this dynamically change and that's the goal. But our manufacturing environment is pretty inflationary.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

I see. Yeah, that's all my questions. Thank you, Jack. I'll be back in the queue.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Okay. Thank you.

Daniel Yen
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Thank you.

Operator

Next one, Lucas Liu, KGI. Go ahead, please.

Lucas Liu
Analyst, KGI

Hi, Jack and Yo-Ming, and thanks for taking my question. The first question is regarding the integrated touch and the display solutions. Could you quantify that integrated touch and display shipments in 2026 and your target for 2027? Because now that oxide panels are supported, I am curious about, does the adoption still depend on touch notebooks? Because we are seeing substrate shortage and higher PCB costs, is that possibly to accelerate the adoption by the panel makers, in terms of your integrated solutions?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

You said many correct thing. You did a lot of good study. What you had said exactly is our thesis for we do integrated solutions to TTED. Also, we consider it as pretty successful in 2026. We are shipping more than 5 million units. Alone, you consider 2025 is almost zero, and 2026 it is quite impressed to move up. Those are the TTED price is high. TTED has many advantage in which you lower power, simplify the manufacturing. Now, you can make a thinner panel, and you can make a narrow border. You actually, as you said, you can really almost, you don't need the PCB for the Tcon board. Now it is getting a lot more expensive. We have a technology breakthrough, and we are entering to the oxide space, which will be massive address for notebook panels.

We are very exciting for 2027, and we think that we will continue growth in that segment in 2027. We know leading customer are getting very excited for us to move to the oxide base. Previously, I don't think anybody believed we could do TTED in the oxide panel, but we did it, and the chip is already sampled to the customer, and hope and this we can deploy quickly and with volume. The good thing is TTED qualification is very long, and it is very difficult. We have all the customer with us, so we build up the infrastructure as well. Our solution is so secure, we not only can support touch, we can support active pen, Wacom pen. We all pass the Wacom pen.

So yeah, although the customer is very exciting for those panels, there are many efficient improvements included. Your Tcon is almost, you do not need to, and reduce a lot of cost.

Lucas Liu
Analyst, KGI

Sure. Got it. Very clear. I have a follow-up question regarding your Standard Plus customer, which is recently introducing their new OLED iPad and maybe touch notebooks. Based on my understanding, we are still mainly doing eDP Tcon business with them. Is there any possibility that we could do some touch IC business regarding their IT products going forward? Is there any color that you can share with us?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

We more focus on their Tcon side of it. Standard Plus customer has its own strange way and define their supply. So majority our business is two portions. One is on the panel, and even higher panel, we are doing quite a lot and continue doing a lot. As we have talked, we have three projects running. Besides, we are also doing their high-speed side, right? We are shipping their large volume, the converter chip, and we have more opportunity. We are not on the touch or even we promote our touch many times whatsoever, they just define you on those areas. We are at the best. So that is what the case is. You never know because they love our touch, and they knew our touch doing very well. So I do not know how they define their supply.

Lucas Liu
Analyst, KGI

Sure. Okay. That is very clear. Earlier, you have cited that higher back end costs and tightness in maybe like T-glass, lead frames, and testing. How much further cost inflation, including gold and substrates, do you expect in 2027? How should we think about Parade's margin profile moving into next year?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

As we said, the manufacturing environment is very fresh in it, especially the Taiwan side of it. Because they are squeezed by the AI application. I think it is difficult to measure broadly what it looks like in 2027. However, as we said, we will improve our gross margin, hopefully to more recover from our previous move to the more middle historical level. We are doing a lot of adjustment to stabilize the capacity, to stabilize the price, and include from the different OSAT and the manufacturer. Even our customer asks us to searching for those that more long-term can work with or people more like the consumer type of business to support us. We are start to adopt the policy in the back end. For big customer, we would do supply, manufacturing supply.

Hope that will stabilize and we can leverage the dual sites to help that will stabilize. Because otherwise, the increase just single source, very difficult. Our big customer, everybody is encourage us to do this, and encourage us to find other alternative, which has a more stabilized or more eager to do those kind of business.

Lucas Liu
Analyst, KGI

Got it. Very helpful. That will be all of my queues. I will be back to the queue. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next one, [Jamie Ye], KGI. Go ahead, please.

Speaker 8

Hi, Jack, Yo-Ming. My first question is about, I think in earlier call, you mentioned that there should be some edge compute AI, because the token now is quite expensive thing in the cloud. Do you see that happening, and do you see that Parade can benefit from that other than the existing ACC project? Do you see any more developments in AI for Parade?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

I think in the Silicon Valley, more general talk, as you say, the talk on getting a lot more expensive. Enterprise environment, the inference, the computing were getting popular, start from the tenant. We think once those will go to your server room instead of data center, we will have more opportunities. It's more edge calculation. Whether you have a notebook here, right? So the NVIDIA's higher notebook can take it. Or few days ago, you have—or a few weeks ago, Apple with Meta demonstrate that using Apple Studio through USB4v2 or what is called a Thunderbolt 5 to connect multiple, two or four, the system together to run the Meta, the most leading newest model, and that the result looks very good. In fact, we, Parade, also using quite a lot of AI, generative AI model. We have quite a lot of license.

We decided to go ahead and try those models internally to use. Those method, basically doing the offline AI, become very critical. So we have this market there, and if you USB4v2 connection, yeah, we can do very well. We have all the IPs. So we are starting and work with customers to look at whether those computing will have led to continue grow in the enterprise environment, in the company, those kind of thing. You could back and forth with Apple, the Studio today, through RDMA, the software, and you can run the AI very well via that. You don't really need to go out. We are actually going to try to run our design through on it and see how it goes. So yeah, I think those will be 2027 work group.

If you read the report carefully, through the USB4v2, the latency is very low compared with those Ethernet solutions. Of course, I think Ethernet has much more power, can do training and those kinds. But if you want to have control your token spending and sensitive for your budget, those solutions definitely is alternative. We think, as I talk to the people, the enterprise, the edge, the AI, will start to become a market for company to use that model. Almost every company in the Silicon Valley is thinking about this because the token just too expensive, right? Even ourself, Parade, and we start to have AI to use it, I think, the March, April timeframe. Now the budget already, especially design team, going up very quickly. So, yeah, it's real. Token is not cheap, it's expensive. But today—

Yeah. Using the-

Speaker 8

If—

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Anthropic. Yeah.

Speaker 8

If that happened, the players will be your notebook customer?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

I think it will be somebody like AMD, NVIDIA. They all work for Apples, and we're thinking about those solutions.

Yeah. But technically, very much doable.

Speaker 8

Mm-hmm. I see. Okay, cool. Also, my second question is about text.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

It demonstrate—

Speaker 8

I think, sorry.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Apple already demonstrated to the market.

Speaker 8

Okay. Is that using our solution?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

No, today it is using the Intel Thunderbolt.

Speaker 8

Okay.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

But those very much we can do. You have people, they cannot use Intel Thunderbolt, whether AMD or NVIDIA or Qualcomm, they cannot.

Speaker 8

Yeah.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

But that is why they use our terminal, do not use Intel's terminal, right?

Speaker 8

Mm-hmm. Okay, I see. Cool.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

But—

Speaker 8

Second question. Yeah.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

I do not even know who we are leading to, but those are the exciting areas, right?

Speaker 8

Okay. Second question is very quick about the tax. I think third quarter tax kind of smaller than expected. Can we expect that kind of credit in the future?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

I think I would like to invite Kuowei to explain, our VP of Finance. Kuowei, could you jump on this?

Kuowei Wu
VP of Finance, Parade Technologies

Yeah. Can you hear me?

Speaker 8

Yes.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yeah, we can.

Kuowei Wu
VP of Finance, Parade Technologies

Okay. Thanks for your question. I think you are looking at a lower tax rate in Q3. Well, that probably just a one time, because you know we have the onshore/offshore tax model, and it highly vary, depends on where the sales are made. We also constantly adjust the rate based on what we see for the current business environment. This is probably just one time, and I will not count it as going forward.

For model purpose, I would still suggest using 9% plus.

Speaker 8

Okay. 9%+ . Okay, great.

Kuowei Wu
VP of Finance, Parade Technologies

Yes.

Speaker 8

Thank you.

Kuowei Wu
VP of Finance, Parade Technologies

I think that will eventually converge. Thank you.

Speaker 8

Mm-hmm. Okay. Thank you very much.

Operator

Thank you. Next one, [Jennifer Ye], JP Morgan. Go ahead, please.

Speaker 10

Hi, Jack. Hi, Yo-Ming. Can you hear me?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Yes, go ahead.

Speaker 10

Yeah, thanks for taking my question. I just have a quick follow-up on the near-term margin and notebook demand. We are saying that we are seeing some destocking for notebook in third quarter and into fourth quarter. Do we have an expectation on how long the destocking will be, like initial view into, let's say, first quarter next year?

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

We do not know exactly, but we do get opportunity to talk to the OEM executive for procurement side of it. They are also disappointed for whatever the current situation. They will, of course, complain a lot. They told us they expect the overall 2027 should be similar to 2026. The thing is largely subject to the DRAM price. The good thing is DRAM price in China is already stabilized, or if not, reduced somewhat in the Q3, Q4. So yeah, if DRAM continue price elevated, notebook price will be in trouble. If the DRAM price stabilized, I think will be better. That is the information. That is the talk I got with those OEM procurement people. Yeah.

Speaker 10

Understood. Very clear. Second question from me is on the gross margin. So, when we are saying that we expect gross margin to recover in following quarters, do we price in the potential, let's say, foundry price hike or OSAT, since I think we have some initial discussion now for 2027 pricing. Are we trying to, let's say, negotiate some kind of LTA, to stabilize the pricing at this moment, or are the suppliers not willing to take the LTA yet? Thank you.

Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Lucky enough, we have a bigger LTA on the 22 nm, 28 nm. That price are fixed on the wafer. Other were subject to change. But the business for everybody or consumer are not good. So price increase, it's a tough sale. But we understand that what is the current situation is pretty inflationary, and we have to address it. Whether through we dodge it, whether through price increase, whether through other thing, and that's the order. We have to address it. We also want to see what is going on. Yeah.

Speaker 10

Understood. Very clear. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now move on to the Chinese question and answer session. Thank you. [Non-English content]

Cathay Securities, [Raymond Guo] [Non-English content]

Speaker 11

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Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

[Non-English content] USB-C [Non-English content] USB4v2 [Non-English content] USB4 [Non-English content] cable, [Non-English content] ship quite a bit, [Non-English content] the Silicon Transmit device, and we're talking about few hundred K this kind of thing. [Non-English content] This [Non-English content] and ACC for ultra fast ACC for 800 gig and 1.6T [Non-English content] is a [Non-English content] market, [Non-English content] or PCIe Gen 6, we're working on the PCIe Gen 6 [Non-English content] cable as well. [Non-English content] PCIe Gen 6 has a more design opportunity, [Non-English content] relatively [Non-English content] simple [Non-English content] because these are our current customer.

Most simple is USB, [Non-English content] these are our original customers, [Non-English content] we are very familiar. [Non-English content] Next is PCIe [Non-English content] these, [Non-English content] then the next layer is Ethernet or InfiniBand, [Non-English content] these ultra fast 800 gig, 1.6T [Non-English content] cable. [Non-English content] I believe we have already gone through [Non-English content] a qualification [Non-English content] stage, [Non-English content] we are more confident that our [Non-English content] these just done Spectra7 acquisition

[Non-English content] products, quality, performance are good, [Non-English content] so we are quite confident in this. [Non-English content] We have already design in, [Non-English content] and with some customer cable [Non-English content] already all done, [Non-English content] already sent to some CSP [Non-English content] customers, [Non-English content] to do system level test. [Non-English content] Hopefully we'll have a, [Non-English content] we also have test, [Non-English content] we have equipment, [Non-English content] including we have high speed BER, [Non-English content] including we have high speed NVIDIA [Non-English content] switch, NVIDIA [Non-English content] card, NVIDIA [Non-English content] switch.

Broadcom [Non-English content] these switch [Non-English content] are all in our laboratory. [Non-English content] We have tested ourselves and it's good, [Non-English content] we will look at this. [Non-English content] But I should be confident [Non-English content] that our [Non-English content] these ultra fast [Non-English content] will contribute some [Non-English content] to our revenue, in the 2027.

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Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

[Non-English content] misleading. [Non-English content] Google [Non-English content], Google 1.6T [Non-English content] data center [Non-English content] rest people, [Non-English content] provider [Non-English content] number of cable [Non-English content] number [Non-English content] difficulty [Non-English content] new comer [Non-English content] market [Non-English content] market, [Non-English content] newly established market.

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Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

[Non-English content] diversify out from [Non-English content] PC position, PC notebook position [Non-English content] auto, [Non-English content] different [Non-English content], [Non-English content]. [Non-English content] high end edge computing [Non-English content] engage into the AI, [Non-English content],[Non-English content] edge computing, [Non-English content] realistic, [Non-English content] In-cell [Non-English content] TTED[Non-English content] bring to you solution, everything. [Non-English content] DP hub, USB hub [Non-English content] bring new customer into [Non-English content] area. [Non-English content] DP hub[Non-English content] USB hub [Non-English content]business, [Non-English content] newly developed [Non-English content].

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Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

[Non-English content] PCIe Gen5 [Non-English content] developed, [Non-English content] power is much much lower [Non-English content] not equivalent [Non-English content] function, [Non-English content], [Non-English content] one to [Non-English content] orange [Non-English content] apple [Non-English content] compare. [Non-English content] Leading function,[Non-English content] power [Non-English content PCIe is almost stable. [Non-English content] function [Non-English content] support, [Non-English content] support.

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Jack Zhao
CEO, Parade Technologies

Thank you everyone.