Thank you everyone for joining us today. Welcome to Arbe's first quarter of 2022 financial results, Fireside Chat: Imaging Automotive in 2030. My name is Mor Assia, and I will be moderating today's event. I'm a director on Arbe's board, and the founding partner of iAngels, one of Israel's most active VC firms. Arbe is one of our largest investments. We've been supporters of Arbe since the beginning, where we led their seed financing round, and have invested in each of Arbe's financing rounds since. The automotive industry is progressing quickly, and ultra-high-resolution imaging radars are going to be critical for achieving truly safe driver-assist systems and hands-free driving. Arbe is driving this revolution. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that certain information provided on this call may contain forward-looking statements, and the safe harbor statement outlined in today's earnings release also pertains to this call.
Please also note that this event is being recorded. Today, we are joined by Kobi Marenko, Arbe's co-founder and CEO, who will begin the call with the business update. Then we will turn the call over to Karine Pinto-Flomenboim, Arbe's CFO, who will review the financial statements, followed by an insightful fireside chat with industry experts from Arbe's leadership team and board of directors about the promises and challenges of automotive autonomy over the next decade. We will conclude with a question and answer session. With that, I would like to turn it over to Kobi Marenko. Kobi, please go ahead.
Thank you, Mor, and hello, everyone. It is great to have you with us. Today, we are going to discuss the future of autonomy in 2030, and the leading role that Arbe will play in this world. First, I would like to go over some of our recent business highlights. We made great progress in the first quarter, particularly with our tier one relationships, and OEM customers. Hyundai, a leading car manufacturer, and one of our early investors, held a POC testing the safety enhancement introduced by our next-generation radar. Just yesterday, they showcased our joint pilot at their KOMOTION event. Working closely with world-leading car manufacturers like Hyundai is important for us, as it allows us to evaluate how our technology addresses their safety and autonomy needs in real time. Let's view some highlights from the pilot.
Arbe's developed the first ultra-high-resolution imaging radar, 100 times more details than any other radar on the market.
We have been tracking Arbe technology for a very long time and even invested in the company in the early stage. We believe in Arbe advanced radar technology offering to enable our advanced safety and autonomy, which required by our customers.
As part of the evaluation process for this new technology, we work closely with the car manufacturers such as Hyundai to really evaluate and really test the technology in the limits.
We've tested the solution ability to work in challenging use cases. For example, to separate object by elevation. We have seen how the radar detect bike rider in an angle of 100 degrees. We were easily able to see pedestrians and bike riders between vehicles from a distance. We demonstrated that the radar can detect an object in a distance of more than 300 meters.
Due to our high resolution and advanced processing capabilities, we are able to complement the camera in a perfect way that is resilient to any weather conditions, and really allow true redundancy for the perception systems for tracking objects and mapping the environments using advanced algorithms like SLAM.
We will continue to work with Arbe, and our internal technology groups, supporting their need to evaluate Arbe technology.
During the first quarter, Arbe engaged with five new customers, including OEMs who are leaders in level two plus passenger vehicles, design, and new mobility players focusing on level four applications. Part of our business progress during the first quarter is attributed to our first tier-one relationships who develop radar systems based on our chipset. The success and commitment of our partners is critical to our ability to scale in terms of production, unit sales, and market reach. In the first quarter, our tier-one relationships submitted five RFPs and RFQs with Arbe's chipset to major OEMs, committing to supply the customer with volume of 400,000 systems to 1,000,000 systems per year. In the first quarter, Arbe secured a wealth of knowledge and experience with the addition of several new members to our leadership team.
Joining our board of directors is Thilo Koslowski, a renowned thought leader and visionary in automotive and digital technology, who previously served as the founder and CEO of Porsche Digital. Thilo also founded the Automotive and Smart Mobility practice at Gartner, where we advise global automakers, technology companies, and governments on harnessing new technologies and innovation. Alexander Hitzinger, who also joined our board of directors, is the former Volkswagen Group Senior Vice President of Autonomous Driving and a member of the management board of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Additionally, Alex held the position of Head of Product Design for Autonomous Transportation at Apple, where he led the automotive team. Finally, Gonen Barkan, who joined Arbe's management as our new Chief Radar Officer, will head Arbe's technological strategy.
Gonen comes to us from General Motors, where he led a global team and was responsible for all aspects of radar technology development, radar product development, and radar integration into GM vehicles. We are proud that Gonen, Alex, and Thilo chose to join Arbe, demonstrating their confidence in our vision. Their knowledge and expertise will strengthen our strategy, tighten our relationships in the auto industry, and expedite our progress. Alex and Gonen will join our fireside chat today. On the product front, back in January at CES, we introduced the addition of Free Space Mapping to our Imaging Radar perception stack. This is the first time an automotive radar is able to perform Free Space Mapping, a critical function of autonomous driving, that requires great accuracy and redundancy. Last week, we were happy to announce the launch of our latest RF chipset in the final production configuration.
The new chipset increases range, allowing radars to detect vehicles at 800 meters or about half a mile. This functionality will make our radar extremely viable across customer verticals, including trucks, a key vertical for Arbe, as the truck industry will be one of the first to introduce autonomous driving on mass scale. Our new chipset offers the industry-first combination of system design flexibility, with ultra-high resolution, providing optimal performance, across challenging driving scenarios, such as spotting a flat tire on the highway, enabling delivery robots to drive safely on the sidewalk, and developing forward and backward free space mapping, particularly for unprotected left turns, T-junctions, merging into the highway, and more. Now I'd like to highlight some of the exciting news that we shared demonstrating the market recognition of Arbe's innovative technology.
We are honored to be recognized for our product innovation, recently winning some of the most prestigious awards in our industry. Back in January, Arbe's perception imaging radar was recognized for revolutionizing autonomous vehicle and sensing to support advanced perception capabilities at an affordable cost for the mass market by CES 2022. Additionally, we were proud to have won first place at the 2022 Tech.AD Europe in the category of sensor perception, which highlights the superiority of our advanced perception radar, designed to create ultimate safety in the autonomous vehicle industry. This meaningful validation, combined with three industry executives choosing to join our management team and our board, are all important signals that we are on the right path. We are extremely pleased to be progressing according to plan.
We are confident in our leadership role in the EV evolution of the industry, and we look forward to continuing to achieve major milestones. I'd like now to turn it over to our CFO, Karine. Hey, Karine.
Hey, Kobi. Thank you. Thank you, Kobi, and hello, everyone. I would like to review our financial results for Q1 2022 in more details. Total revenue in the first quarter was $0.9 million compared to $0.6 million in the first quarter of 2021. Backlog as of March 31, 2022 was $2.8 million, consisting mainly of chipsets and samples, orders, and service from several leading car manufacturers and tier ones. Gross margin for Q1 2022 was 56.1% compared to 44.3% in the same period in 2021. The gross margin increase was primarily related to a lower cost per unit as we expand toward production. Moving on to expenses. In Q1 2022, we reported total operating expenses of $11.1 million, an increase from $4.5 million in the first quarter of 2021.
The increase in operating expenses was primarily driven by, labor cost uptick, non-cash share-based compensation expenses, and additional general overhead costs related to our status as a public company. Research and development expenses increased from $3.7 million in Q1 2021, to $7.8 million in Q1 2022, reflecting growing investment in labor and moving toward production. Net loss in the first quarter of 2022 decreased significantly and was $7.9 million, which included $2.8 million of financial income, compared to a net loss of $18.4 million in the first quarter of 2021, which included $14.1 million of financial expenses.
Both years' financial expenses and income related to the revaluation of convertible loans and warrants. Looking at adjusted EBITDA in Q1 of 2022, a non-GAAP measurement which excludes expenses for non-cash share-based compensation, and for non-recurring items, was a loss of $8.6 million compared to a loss of $4.1 million in the first quarter of 2021. Moving to our balance sheet. As of March 31st, 2022, Arbe had $87.3 million in cash and cash equivalents. Total debt as of March 31st, 2022 was $5.1 million, which we expect to pay by July 1st, 2022. With respect to our guidance for 2022, we would like to reiterate what we previously shared. Revenue is expected to be in the range of $7 to $11 million, heavily weighted toward the end of the year.
Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be a loss in the range of $34 million to $38 million. Additionally, we believe that we are on track to reach our $312 million revenue goal for 2025. Now, I will turn it back over to Mor to open the fireside chat with the rest of our team.
Thanks, Karine. This is a pivotal time in the automotive industry, with changes occurring faster than ever before. At the heart of these changes, is technology innovation, and at the heart of this technology innovation is Arbe. With us today, we have several industry experts, Alex, Kobi, and Gonen. Thank you all for joining us today. Let's discuss the promises and challenges of automotive autonomy over the next decade. Some questions to pose to the group.
When we think about books and movies, what we expected for 2030 might be very different from what we anticipate today. Whereas we once might have imagined flying cars, today, I think we can all agree that 2030 will likely look much closer to our daily lives today, than what we once might have thought. That being said, there are so many new advances and improvements in this space, and I'm excited to talk about some of them with you today. Alex, why don't you start us off? What will a day in 2030 look like? In terms of mobility, how will it be, the same or different from today?
I hope you can hear me well. I think mobility will be safer, it will be cleaner, and it will be more convenient. I mean, it will be safer because there will be a widespread use of ADAS systems in the cars and in trucks. It will be cleaner because I think electrification will have gone really mainstream and the majority of new vehicles sold will be electric. It will be also more convenient, because the overall spectrum of transportation, I think, will be expanded. Micro mobility will play a much bigger role for the short distance travel.
We'll have vehicles which will have ADAS systems, which will make driving more enjoyable even in higher traffic conditions. We will also start to see things like eVTOL in the early stage. Overall, the spectrum of transportation will be much broader and therefore will make it more convenient to get from A to B.
Kobi, anything to add?
First of all, I agree with Alex that this is the main change and the main difference is that everything will be safer. I think that autonomous driving is like the ambitions to reach to the moon. It's a 10 years plan. It will take time. It will take a lot of effort. In the middle, there is a lot of byproducts from this ambitions that will play a large role in our lives. First of all, safety above all, and I think that the majority of the car manufacturers today put the safety as their first goal and safety anywhere, safety in every weather, safety in every lighting condition. I think this is gonna be a major change.
Also, I think that the fact that you can get a delivery from a delivery robot to your home easily without a human being is also a great change. It will dramatically reduce the time of the delivery and the ability to get deliveries home. I think also the fact that trucks will drive more and more in a safer way and in almost automated way, will change also our lives and the ability to bring things to our home in a better price and even in better timing.
Excellent. Gonen?
Yeah. Thanks. I agree with you both, and I'll add that also a lot of driving functions that today we are used to do, I think will start to become much more automatic and autonomous, but step by step.
Right.
Well, I believe that by 2030 it's safe to expect that L2+ will become an industry standard with approximately 70% penetration and an emphasis, as previously mentioned, on safety rather than comfort, driven by both consumer demand and regulation. Gonen, what new technologies will be available in 2030?
Yeah, thank you. As we said, to get to this safety level, especially when you wanna get much more complex driving tasks but on a safe level, which is not what L2+ today, I think technology, especially sensing, will have to step up. L4 I don't think will be as widespread, and I think the mass market will require safe and widely available driving features. We see the radar as the major driving force in getting there, bec ause you get some higher resolution cameras, you get some LiDARs on the front probably, but to get to this safety level and performance, you need a new generation, a new scale of radars, and I think that will be the major change in technology.
Thank you. Alex?
I think generally it will be a phased approach, right? There won't be any big bang when you say, okay, now autonomy is available or something, right? There will be level four will start to appear, right, in premium products, I think. There will be level four functionality available on the highway, in specific routes, which will make traveling, especially long-distance traveling, a lot more convenient, as I mentioned early on. The technology will penetrate first the premium products, where people are a bit less cost sensitive. As Kobi just mentioned, I totally agree, long-haul trucking, where you have a very good business case, and an easier use case, I think is a perfect way of rolling out level four functionality.
We will see that in the next years until 2030. As the technology penetrates these areas and therefore volume of components go up, and therefore costs come down, then this technology will get more and more into mainstream products. Level four will sort of start to happen slowly, and will penetrate the other areas over time. This is really quite natural for new technologies. It will also help to sort of raise awareness in the public and make people accept these technologies and will basically then drive the adoption over time.
Excellent. Kobi, anything to add?
I would like to add maybe two points. One, I'm confident about it, so the car, as the car will become more and more autonomous, it will be more and more entertainment area. The screens will be bigger, maybe there will be commercials inside our car. We will be able to see video, maybe to play games, maybe to see a movie. I think that the car in 2030, will be part of the ecosystem of the entertainment and advertising. Second thing, which I think is questionable, is how much of this industry will become service-oriented. How many people will abandon the car, will decide that they don't need a car, and they can just take a car for hire?
I think especially in big cities where there's no parking, and it's crowded and you don't want to look for parking, this kind of a car as a service that is coming more and more natural to the market, will take more and more market share. I think this is the way that it should work is if you can get the service of level three, level four on the highway at least. This makes sense that on the weekend instead of using your car, you will hire a car, even if it's a bit premium, that can drive you all of this weekend without you need to hold the wheel.
Excellent. Thank you. We all understand that in order for technology to be car and road ready, the model specification cutoff is approximately three years prior. Given that timeframe, what technologies will not be available in 2030, either because they'll be phased out or because 2030 will still be too early for them? Alex, what do you think?
I think one of the hardest problems really, technology problems out there is full autonomy in urban areas. I think we will not see a really widespread adoption of this until 2030, just because you have such a long tail in terms of edge cases. At the moment, there's still for some people the belief that this is just around the corner. I don't think so. I think the problem is and like I said too hard for that. We will move towards that, right? We will see more and more commercial pilots of the robotaxi use case.
We will potentially see first routes in existing networks which will drive with sort of pilot robotaxis. It will increase the usage of it. It won't be mainstream. It won't be a real big commercial business or something like that.
Okay. Anything to add, Kobi?
I agree that robotaxi right now looks more like a hobby than a business. There is technology challenges there that we are far from solved. Even the processors, the central processors needs order of magnitude or even two orders of magnitude more performing, and more processing power in order to support what is really needed for a full autonomous driving at scale, at a price that is achievable. We will have this, maybe some micromobility, maybe something that drives at 20-30 kilometers per hour, very slowly in the city, like the delivery robots. Something like, you know, older people are using. Something like this for autonomous driving that will replace urban driving.
Excellent. Okay. What do you think will be the role of imaging radars in Arbe in achieving your predictions for 2030? Gonen.
Thank you. First and foremost, the radars need to can and will provide the required redundancy, to bring those features to a safety of a level customers can trust. I think radars today are far from it still, and there's need to be a leap. I think this is where Arbe places itself in getting the entire sensing suite to the level it can be available anywhere, every time of the day and on a safety level and not as an assist system. That's a huge step that without the radars I don't believe can happen.
Kobi?
I think the industry begins to understand that the focus in the last 10 years was how to pass the test. There was an NCAP test. There is a minimal requirements for this test. So the car manufacturers were focusing on how to pass the test. Now there is a major shift in the paradigm, and they understand that passing the test is not enough, and driving fully safe solution to the customer is the real goal.
If we are moving from to a full safe solution, I think that the only solution is by having a radar that can work in any weather, and any lighting condition up to a very long range in a safe way without false targets and without missing anything. This is our mission since we started.
Perfect. In other sectors, 2030 feels like nearly a decade from now. Why are we as investors are discussing 2030 now? I can say for me personally as an investor, on the one hand, we have seen a lot of activity in the automotive space with several companies going public. While Arbe has established a unique position within the market, mass adoption of autonomous driving is still, as we understand, very much ahead of us. It's exciting to see what is yet to come in the latter part of this decade. Now, it's my opinion that Arbe is becoming a public company is a stepping stone, and this is really only the beginning. Kobi, why do you feel we're talking about 2030 now? Can you also elaborate on what will happen over the next three years, for example?
Yeah. First of all, we are talking about 2030 because we believe that 2030 will be the year where level two plus will be a mass product. You won't get into a car that doesn't have real safety features, And a real highway autopilot and driving assist on a traffic jam and those kinds of solutions. Everything that we see today as, you know, a kind of a pilot version in the cars will be mainstream in 2030. It takes time. It takes time because the cycles of the automotive industry are long. They are selecting now radars for a year model 2025, some of them even for year model 2026.
You start ramping up on the high-end cars, and there is another three or four years until it's going to the mainstream. Basically, the decisions that they're taking today are really influencing 2030. It takes a technology to reach to the mainstream in automotive, since you know, you're thinking of an ID more than 10 years to get to the mainstream. We have a very bright future also next year and the year after. First of all, if we are talking about a year model 2025, it means that the radar should start shipping to the car manufacturer from the Tier 1 by the end of 2024.
Which means that the Tier 1 needs to get from us chips in early 2024. Even a car that will start production in September 2025, we will start to see the revenues in early 2024. Also, it's important to understand what is happening in the Chinese market. The Chinese market is running faster, and everything that in the West takes Five years, takes three years in China. Everything that takes three years, takes two years in China. From China, we expect revenues earlier. Also we are engaging in a lot of the activity around delivery robots and around the trucks. All of those things don't require this three-year cycle of designing a car. It's a new bot or a truck. Basically it's an aftermarket product.
This is why we believe that we will start ramping up our revenues dramatically in 2023 towards 2024 and reach breakeven around this time stage.
Excellent. Now we would like to start and kick off the questions and answers session. Thank you for all of our panelists, for the thought-provoking discussion. We're now ready to take questions from our audience.
Welcome to the Q&A session. We'll be starting with analyst question, and following that, we'll answer questions submitted by the audience. Our first question comes from Josh.
Hey, Kary. How are you doing? Can you hear me?
Yes.
Yes.
Perfect.
Okay, wonderful.
Good.
Thank you. You know, Kobi, you talked about a sort of a sharper revenue increase in 2023 ahead of the larger OEMs in North America and Europe in 2024, 2025. Anything you can share on the contribution of the ramp you would expect from customers like AutoX and BAIC versus, I guess, pre-production wins and other verticals that you haven't been able to name, basically? Thank you.
We cannot really disclose the actual revenues from AutoX in 2023 because this is basically saying how many cars they will have in the market in 2023. I think that overall, if we're looking on our 2023 revenues, there is a start of production that we believe gonna be for a Chinese OEM on the second half of 2023, that will basically be responsible for something like 30% of our revenues, $20-$20-something million.
The sector of robotaxi, not just AutoX, we believe will be responsible for around $15-$20 million more, and the rest gonna be in delivery robots and non-automotive applications. All in all, we are predicting around $70 million in 2023. Majority of it gonna be in basically chips that we're selling and not on NREs or those kinds of one-time payments.
You know, ball Kobi. Thank you. For my follow-up, yeah, the press release didn't mention the, you know, the longer term top three OEM that you'd pre-production win that you discussed before. Everything on track there, which I assume so, given you reiterated the $312 million target for 2025. Thank you, and congrats on all the progress, guys.
Yeah. I think we're in line with the plan, give or take a week here, a week there. Yes, we are engaged with the right Tier 1s for those projects. What is more important is that we increased our engagement with OEMs for another five companies during this quarter. Part of them even already installed our radar in their testing cars. Overall, I think this is why we feel comfortable with our $300 million in revenue. We increased the amount of engagement, and we feel comfortable with our target.
Got it. Thank you.
Thank you, Josh. Next, we have Suji.
Hey, Suji.
Hey, guys. Can you hear me?
Yes.
Yes.
Yep.
Excellent. It's working great. So, hi, Kobi, Karine, and Gonen. Thanks for the informative presentations today, certainly. Kobi and Karine, the $400,000-$1 million annual type of range you talked about, can you characterize that for us? Is that for a customer or a single model, or is that a platform number? Are some wins smaller and some potentially larger? Just give us some characterization of where that range kinda derives from.
Where's the volume coming from?
Yeah
I think all of the OEMs, maybe except of the new ones, have the same strategy of starting of production with the high-end models. Of course, it means that this is an OEM that should have enough premium cars to support it. Then the technology is going to the regular cars, to the regular SUVs. The start of production first year, is hundreds of thousands of units, then it goes to millions and millions when it's getting to the mass production.
Great. That's really helpful color, Kobi. Perhaps a question for Gonen. You know, this, we hear about this sort of camera, LiDAR, radar cost calculus of maybe $500 each bucket as kind of a rule of thumb. I'm just wondering how the OEMs think about the overall cost structure and balancing the cost between the radar footprint versus camera and LiDAR. Any insight you could provide there, if those numbers flex or whether 'cause we're hearing LiDAR is costing as much as $1,000. Any insight there would be helpful.
Yeah. Thank you. First, I think the major shift that happened, and you've seen the announcements on the software-defined vehicles, not just GM, for example. I think the idea is to look across the platform, across the entire enterprise. It's not just how much does it cost to put the sensors on a specific program, but if you're able to amortize the same technology, the same architecture across your entire portfolio. Usually, it makes more sense. It enables a higher cost on a specific platform. For the breakdown, I think the challenge is usually the processor, not the camera itself. LIDAR usually, at least on this stage, is mostly for the front-facing.
Everybody are targeting sub-$1,000, I guess. For radars, again, it's flexible because you need 360 coverage. Again, as we mentioned before, there's a trend to get safety as standard to the mass market. This allows more flexibility on the cost. Probably, I don't have the numbers, but probably about the same order of magnitude as LIDAR.
Okay. Thanks, everybody.
All of the radars together.
All the radars together.
All of the radars together.
Yeah
is the order of magnitude of one LIDAR. Right.
Understood. Great. Thank you, everybody.
Thank you, Suji. Now next is Gary.
Hey, Gary. How are you?
Hey, how are you? Can you hear me okay?
Yes.
Yes.
Thanks for allowing me to ask a question. To try to figure out what the attach rate of your technology to some of your automotive OEM customers' products, how should we think about the use cases or how they're gonna market this specific technology? Will it be a default safety feature that is spread across all of their various models? Or is this sort of an OEM add-on, kinda like the Tesla Autopilot, and requires, you know, sort of a $15,000 upgrade?
You take it?
Yeah. I'd say that, you know, the first description is more accurate. I think it's more like, especially on the OEM side, a set of features. Some of them are very complex, like, you know, GM announced the Ultra Cruise or the Super Cruise before. But it's gonna be features you can, I wouldn't say upgrade, but purchase on a common platform. And of course, and again, as I mentioned before, the idea is to get to, you know, common platforms you can upgrade and, you know, improve your vehicle, you know, during its life cycle.
Great. Appreciate the color. My final question, I just wanted to ask about any sort of, I guess, volatility in R&D expense, given maybe the tape-out of some specific products. How should we think about, you know, the trajectory of R&D for the balance of the year? That's it for me. Thank you.
The projection, we expect to increase our R&D expenses, of course. The mix will probably change because now we are in production, and we are investing in that. Then our labor cost will be more investing in that part in the coming years. We assume that on a percentage basis, it will not change so dramatically out of revenue, but it will increase year-over-year.
Thank you.
Thank you. Hi, we have Matthew from Maxim Group. Hi, Matthew.
Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. Maybe firstly, it wouldn't be a 2022 call if someone didn't ask about the supply chain. You are talking about, you know, starting to come towards material revenue. You know, what are you seeing, and how do you feel about your ability to source, to get towards the production levels you need?
I think the fact that we choose GlobalFoundries as our partner and 22 nanometer as our process and being the first company to go to production in this process in automotive, And the support that we are getting from GlobalFoundries is really helping us to have the supply. We have the supply for this year. We have the supply to 2023. Of course, we now need to work on 2024, 2025. As time goes by, we all understand that the shortage of semiconductors is here to stay, and it's here to stay at least until 2025, maybe even 2026. We are working to make sure that our customers will be able to get their chips.
GlobalFoundries are aware exactly to our projections. They have our projections until 2025, and we are working together to make sure that our customers will get it. For 2022, 2023, we don't see any problem. For 2024, we are now beginning to secure it. We have two years. It's enough, and we feel comfortable with the supply chain problem.
Thanks. Then maybe if we could touch on just where competition have gone in the last, you know, let's say two or three quarters as you've become, you know, a little more public in your mission and, you know, you're clearly gaining some traction in the automotive market. Are you hearing more noise? Is there more inertia coming behind sort of competitors that are looking to rival you in imaging radar? Or, you know, how far ahead do you think you are today?
I think that the fact that by the end of the day, it's a semiconductor issue is really helping us. It takes the large companies five to seven years to produce new chips. For example, NXP that were, I think, the pioneers in radar, they are just going to production by the end of this year with a processor that is order of magnitude lower than the performance that we have today and that we are going to production. They are neck and neck with us in terms of production time, but their processor is gonna be more expensive and 10% of the performance of our processor.
What we see in the last two quarters is Intel Mobileye aggressively trying to get into the imaging radar market. They are working, but again, they will have a product in 2025, even with this aggressive approach. We believe that this product won't be in the level of our product today. We're already in the stages of advanced R&D for our 2025 product that will be much more advanced.
Thank you. Now we'll turn the call to Jamie. Jamie Perez.
Good day, everybody. Thanks for taking my question. On the press release, you noted a few executive board members. Are you adding any more members to the executive staff that you're looking to add? Basically, I'm asking, what's your sort of A team for the system, I mean, for your company? Do you wanna you know?
It's too much work.
Are you-
Jamie, it's a little bit hard to hear you. Can you repeat the question?
Yeah. Yeah, sure. Sorry about that. We have a little problem over here. You added a few board members. Any more board members with expertise in the markets you wanna have? Are you gonna build out your management team even further? I just wanted to see if you have any color. I'm just imagining, you know, what would be your dream or your dream team at Arbe?
I think, so as you mentioned, we added to our board members two automotive executives. They are helping us with the strategy and with focusing the company on where the opportunities are, and also helping us to approach the OEMs in a high level, not on the level of the radar, but on the level of the decision makers. Gonen that recently joined us brings a lot of experience in taking radar into production. I think this is exactly what we need at this stage, someone from the industry understand radar, understand where are the challenges, what is, what should be the next generation, where we should lead the company.
We feel comfortable that with the aid of Gonen, our management team can really deliver our targets for the next decade.
Thank you, Kobi. The first question is: How has the automotive imaging radar market evolved over the past quarter?
I think we've definitely seen the market shift towards imaging radar. Last year it was nice to have for a high level of autonomy. Every car manufacturer almost has a program of adopting imaging radar for its front-facing radar, and this is why we see many RFPs, RFQs in the market. We are engaged with the leading Tier 1s for that and with very good partners for radar. They are submitting RFPs, RFQs proposals based on our chipset. I think what we see now is only starting. We mentioned earlier that every RFP, RFQ is something like 400,000 to 1 million units per year. This is per car manufacturer.
If you're trying to look on the entire market, we are talking about tens of millions of radar chipset from Arbe as a potential market for the next three to five years.
Great. Next question comes from David Green. Please comment on Innoviz $4 billion deal. Doesn't LIDAR have disadvantages in comparison to imaging radar? Can it affect Arbe?
First of all, we are really excited to hear our Israeli friends from Innoviz, winning such an amazing deal. I think it's a great sign of excellence for the Israeli auto tech industry, and we are really proud to be in the same industry with Innoviz. Basically, every car manufacturer that choose a front-facing LIDAR choose also at least a front-facing radar and, but on top of it, between four to five , even sometimes six, other radar to get the full 360 coverage. You can be sure that every car company that has one LIDAR will have also a very strong imaging radar. You don't choose the LIDAR like this without also adding a radar.
LiDAR has a lot of advantages, especially on the azimuth resolution, but a lot of disadvantages in weather, lighting condition, and long range. It's a complementary product, and we feel comfortable with that. I think even the great supporters of vision-only approach in the past, like Mobileye, understand today that, in order to have the functionality of level two plus, level three, you need also imaging radar and sometimes even a LiDAR.
Next question: Will radar and LIDAR compete against Tesla version of vision only? Who will capture greater market share?
Yeah, I can comment to this. I think vision only can get you that far. I'm not sure it will be the same market. As we said, the leap to get from comfort and assist to, you know, limited availability to a safer driving function across the board will include vision and radars. I don't think that will be a competition eventually. It's different grades of performance and safety.
Yeah, I agree. I think Tesla will find a way to bring in imaging radar in the future.
At some point.
At least at some point, at least if they want to achieve also safety and not just a nice-to-have feature.
Thank you. Another question. Could you give some color on the customer engagement stage timeframe potential orders?
As I mentioned earlier, the potential order of each one of our OEM clients is between 500,000-1,000,000 units per year, which represent something like $50-$100 million opportunity in revenues for Arbe. We have today two large OEMs that we are in a pre-production stage with them. We have. You've seen the video of Hyundai. Together with Hyundai Mobis, their Tier 1. We finished POC and basically, as you can understand from the movie, this is waiting for final decision on adopting the technology.
Also worth mentioning, BAIC Group, one of our shareholders and one of the largest car manufacturers in China that stated that they will use our radar for Level Two plus, Level Three. We are in around 20 different stages of engagements, RFP, RFQ, or early volume with other clients. We also announced that we won AutoX, the largest robotaxi player in China and one of the leading players in the States.
Thank you, Kobi. Now we are turning to our last question for today's call. We will be answering the rest of your question via email if you choose to do so. Last question comes from Scott: It looks like you have enough cash to execute plan. Does this exclude acquisition? The cash raised in the business combination is enough to get us through our break-even point, which is expected one year after our full production, end of 2023, beginning of early 2024. Again, as we previously stated about acquisitions, we currently do not plan anything, but if an interesting opportunity will raise itself, we will of course consider.
Thank you everyone again for being with us today. We look forward to continuing to update you on Arbe's progress in the upcoming months. Until then, you are invited to reach out to the team with any questions or comments. Thank you, and goodbye for now.