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Citi’s 2026 Global TMT Conference

Sep 8, 2026

Summary

A completed pivot to high-power, high-value markets has shifted revenue mix and positioned for growth in AI data centers and grid infrastructure. GaN and SiC technologies are central, with phased adoption of 800V architectures and a major acquisition expanding end-to-end power delivery. Consistent growth is expected as technology inflections drive content expansion.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Welcome to Citi's day one TMT Conference. My name is Kelsey, one of the analysts here at Citi covering U.S. semis. We are very pleased to have Chris Allexandre from Navitas Semiconductor here with us today. Chris, it's been roughly a year since you stepped in as CEO and launched the Navitas 2.0, shifting Navitas away from lower margin consumer markets to higher power, higher value applications. Perhaps we can start there. Tell us where are we in the transformation strategy?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Okay. Thank you for having me, and welcome, everybody. As you said, when I came on board a year ago, the prime goal was to transform and pivot the company from mobile, low, and consumer to high power. What I would say today is that pivot is pretty much done. Now the job is to basically, from there, scale the company to, of course, bigger, scaled, more valuable, and profitable company ultimately.

The change was first go-to-market. As we move from mobile, essentially focused on China, OEM, ODM-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Right

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

moving to the high power market, which are AI data center, grid infrastructure, high performance compute, and industrial electrification. We had to complete pivot the go-to-market. Focusing on the hyperscalers, the XPUs companies, the ODM, OEM, merchant power companies, as well as anybody in the ecosystem. That was a big change. The other change was capitalizing on the underlying technology of the company, i.e. GaN, because we were one of the leader or pioneer in GaN, as well as high voltage and ultra-high voltage SiC to basically use those technologies to drive the disruption that we're going to talk about in the-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

infrastructure. That was fundamentally more accelerating some of the investment that we already made, partly in getting GaN pivoted from mobile, as I said, to AI infrastructure as well as the ultra-high voltage SiC. The last thing was to kind of make sure the team is in place. So a lot of work was done into upgrading the application team and the leadership team.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

to build the culture. I said earlier that essentially today the pivot is done, and you can see that in the revenue. I am sure you are going to ask question about where are we in that transition, right?

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

At the end of the year, we started the journey where mobile was nearly almost the entire company.

up to 85% of the company. At the end of the year, mobile will be insignificant. Okay?

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

So basically essentially gone despite having grown double digit per quarter for the last few quarters. That is kind of where we are. Year one was transition the company, and now we can start to build from there.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay. So before we head into the details, perhaps can you give us a simple version of why is GaN and silicon carbide gaining traction today?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Okay.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Why now? Also, if there is a rule of thumb to think about which part of the power stack are we using GaN, which part of the power stack are we using silicon carbide, and how do you see both materials accelerating from here?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I assume you want answers without getting into a EE type of class.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah, no.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I get it.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Just simple framework.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Simpler framework.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

As I talked about, we moved to high power. The two main markets we are focusing on within the high power markets are the AI data center and the grid infrastructure. We call that AI infrastructure. The reason we call that AI infrastructure is you cannot transform data center without changing the grid, and data center is the reason why you need to transform the grid. That is number one. Two technologies that we have. One is SiC, and the other one is GaN. I will come to their why they are using some form of conversion, of power conversion. Think about power equals current multiplied by voltage. If you increase the power and you do not increase the power, if you increase the power, you do not increase the voltage, you are going to increase the current.

The loss, which basically makes the power inefficient, is proportional to the square of current. Think about let us take a 100 kW DC load. If you run it at 50 V, which is today most data centers are using 50 V, that gives you 2,000 A. If you move it to 800 V, you go down to 125 A .

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

By construction, the system is a lot more effective. That is why there is a move to 800 V. Like we have seen 12 V- 50 V back in the days of server. Now we are moving from 50 V to 800 V. That is the first thing to keep in mind. SiC is a very good technology if you are running at very high voltage in a consistent way, so where power gets sustained and where robustness makes a difference. Think about SiC as a very good technology for AC-DC conversion, where you are converting high voltage AC into DC. Very good for high power DC-DC conversion, as well as anything that goes into grid-tied application.

We will come to other applications that are kind of growing in the future, which is as you raise higher voltage, circuit protection and power protection becomes a big thing. We will talk about JFET, which is another technology. That is kind of the SiC. The GaN is very good in high power, high density type of application where you are switching the frequency at much higher. If you think about how you are moving this DC-DC conversion closer to the GPU or XPU or compute load, that is where GaN kind of gets its way.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

The best way to think about it is both of them operate in different parts of the conversion. There is a bit of a gray zone.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

If you think about some BBUs, some DCDCs would kind of use GaN and SiC as well. But directionally, both technologies are very complementary to enable the grid rack conversion about the 800 V which I mentioned earlier.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

As we think about the rollout of 800 V architecture and phases, is there a material that will see a greater adoption first because of the sidecar that we'll be implementing before we move on to the SST final state?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Go back to what I said earlier. If you're trying to make more efficient systems and to deliver more power, you have to increase the voltage. We see multiple drives, multiple inflection points, as we call them, up to the 800 V. The first one is actually very interesting, is pre-800 V. Most systems today run at 50 V, which means the busbar of your rack is actually 50 V, which has been around for quite some time. But as we deploy more data centers, as we deploy more powerful and high compute pulse data centers, you need more power. To deliver more power, you need to have higher density of power because the space available for the conversion is the same.

The first inflection is actually 50 V, I would say, classic systems moving to higher power, and that drives an acceleration of the SiC content. Essentially, when you go from a couple of kilowatts of AC-DCs to much higher power AC-DCs, you are replacing silicon by silicon carbide.

That drives the first inflection. But again, this is kind of pre-800 V. Now, you mentioned sidecar. This is not very creative name, but it means what it is. You are moving the AC/DC power shelves and the DC-DC power shelves from the top of the rack to a sidecar. Why do that? First of all, you make space in the rack. You keep the 50 V busbar, but you then introduce the 800 V. Think about this as introduction of the 800 V. While the first one, pre-800 V, is happening now-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

this one is happening in the first half next year.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

What is the benefit of that? As I said, if you move the 800 V as the output of your sidecar, you can raise the power one step more.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

We move from a few kilowatt to tens of kilowatts. Now we move it to 20 kW- 30+ kW type of kilowatt PSUs. Now you still need to convert this 800 V back to 50 V, and you are doing that in the DC-DC space outside of the compute tray. That is kind of the sidecar. The sidecar is very quick, not dirty, but a very quick way to implement 800 V, get some of the benefit without moving to the third inflection, which is where you move the DC-DC inside the compute tray. When you do that, you are actually essentially making the full rack 800 V native.

The busbar of the rack is 800 V. When you do this, you have to move the DC-DC into the compute tray.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

When you do that, this is where technology becomes essentially GaN. Inflection one, replace silicon with silicon carbide, get high content, things like that, raise the power level. Inflection two is you are getting one step further, 800 V output, still kind of classic DC-DC conversion that kind of step the GaN to the next level, and then the SiC to the next level, a bit of GaN. Third one is really acceleration of the GaN.

The fourth one, which is kind of far out, is if you think about it, the sidecar is kind of add-on to basically put something in between the grid and the data center.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

But ultimately, the plan is to improve the quality of the grid, or kind of modernize the grid as we talked about, which is the replacement of the transformers by something I'm sure you heard, which is a solid state transformer. At that point, you're delivering 800 V straight to data center. That's 2028 and beyond because you need to upgrade the grid, which is a bit

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

more challenging from availability standpoint and of course from a security standpoint. But think about those transition in four steps, which I think from an investor point of view, de-risk the transition. From an AI data center side, de-risk the transition, but also outline the importance of having both GaN and SiC because both technology, as we talked about, live in their own space with some overlap in the middle. But if you don't have both, you don't participate to the big conversation.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

And if you're an hyperscaler, the only thing you care is how do I move 35,000 V all the way down to sub 1 V in the most effective way, which is less conversion, higher power conversion, higher efficient conversion. This is where GaN and SiC have something in common.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Mm-hmm. How do you think about the growth rates of this material market, GaN, silicon carbide, or broadly, what is Navitas content per kilowatt or per megawatt? How do you think about that?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Everybody's asking what's the content of SiC and GaN and, depending on the stage-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

kind of very difficult to model.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

We've published models, give investors kind of a reference. The way I would talk about it is if you think the models are based on assumptions. You have to take an assumption of how many data centers we're going to deploy between now and 2030.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Could be 220 GW, could be 300 GW.

It's getting closer to 300 GW.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Okay? By the day. It's kind of a window, which is a range which is reasonable.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

That is the assumption you're using, 200 GW- 300 GW.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Yeah.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Then you have to factor how many of those will be 800 V.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yep.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

How many of those will be 800 V SiC, how many of them will be 800 V native, and of course, this depends on timeline. When you start a data center, you kind of stick to an architecture. You do not change it halfway through.

Data centers that are deployed in a year from now might actually well use SiC. Actually, some of them will move to native. You have to make some assumption there. But high level, what we have modeled is if you think about inside data center, the GaN gets you to $15,000 per megawatt.

That is replacing silicon. That is the content which is today in silicon, moving to GaN. When you look at SiC, there are two portions. One is the inside data center, the AC-DC conversion, what I talked about, which is about $10,000 per megawatt, which includes both the SiC for AC-DC conversion as well as the JFET, which I mentioned earlier, for the power protection. Then you have another $10,000 maybe up to $15,000 in the long run, for the grid modernization. That SiC is at much higher power. That is kind of 2,000 V, 3,000 V level. That gives you a sense total, it is $25,000-ish, which is still a small portion of the total power that is being consumed per megawatt in data center.

But as you guys understood from the discussion we had earlier about the 800 V transition, this is basically gradually a replacement of silicon.

Silicon will continue to exist for a long time.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Okay? For multiple reasons. Okay? Because not everything switch on day one. Nothing is actually a digital switch. Control and many technologies need silicon. But when it comes to this power conversion, what you are going to see is gradually a replacement of silicon on the first stage and the second stage with GaN and SiC. We will talk about the third stage, which is as you get closer to the GPU or the XPU.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay. You had talked about it is going to be a gradual replacement. What is the key metric that a customer looks at to drive that decision to do that switch?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

First of all, it is the need that drives the transition.

Customers don't decide if they're going to use 800 V or not. It depends on the level of power density you're trying to achieve, and the level of the rack level.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

We always refer to what is driving all this is the raise of the power density of the rack. If you want to do a high-power rack, you have no choice to move there.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I think what people, customers are looking for is, number one, do you know what you're doing? That's a good place to start from, right? We didn't start GaN and SiC yesterday.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Actually, Navitas started as a GaN company, pioneered GaN with another company that got acquired by a very big German company, kind of pioneered GaN into the first market that got GaN to mainstream. We shipped 350 million units of GaN. Different market, but the underlying need is the same. It was when the chargers were moving from 20 W, 30 W, 40 W-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

200 W. Okay? You had to move from silicon to GaN, right? So that's number one. Do you know what you're doing? Okay. Are you planning to start, or do you have years behind you? Number two is, are you ready?

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I think particularly in the AI data center, but the grid as well, because the grid used to be slow, it's not that slow anymore. Customers expect technology to be ready, pretty to use, so you can ramp. The third one, which I mentioned earlier, is the fact that because you can't ignore, you can't look at each conversion independently. I think both the old high voltage SiC, the high voltage SiC and the GaN, makes a difference.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

We compete with different people.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

on the SiC side.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

and on the GaN side.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

The SiC competition is traditionally the SiC vendors that were focusing on EV that are pivoting to data center.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

In reality, this is not the same because the voltage are different. EV is lower voltage. It's high voltage, but lower voltage, where data center is 1.2 kV and above.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

The grid is more than that. The aspect of how reliable the technology is is also different. We compete with different set of people. On the GaN side, we also compete with different set of people. But people who are doing both is actually a very small pool.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Which I think is also very important and probably underappreciated for those that don't meet customers like I do every day.

I'm talking about the merchant powers, okay? The big, the Deltas, the Flex.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

The Lite- On, the Vertiv-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

The Eaton. Those guys do care. Of course the hyperscalers, right? But those guys do care if you have both technologies.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Right. Maybe you can elaborate on that. Do you work directly with the customers, the hyperscalers, or do you work more with the Flex, Deltas, Lite-Ons of the world?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

All of the above. If you think about hyperscalers, there are different type of hyperscalers. Okay? Let's make a difference between the Microsoft of this world, the Metas of this world, the Amazons of this world,

and the Google of this world, which are more vertically integrated.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Amazon is kind of in between. NVIDIA is a GPU company, but it's actually more than a GPU company. Okay?

They are doing racks. When you do racks, you kind of almost do data centers.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I put those last two into the same camp. When you talk about silicon to GaN,

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

silicon to SiC, moving from 5 kW PSUs to 30 kW PSU, 50 kW PSUs with liquid cooling,

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

high integration of the DC-DC close to the compute load, they are involved.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay. The Google and NVIDIA side. Okay.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

It doesn't mean that they will do the design by themself.

The answer might be different on the NVIDIA side than Google. But they might spec the design

and get it done by the Deltas, the Flex and so on.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

You have to basically work with those guys, and the architects, and the people are thinking about power to enable the full power of the GPU or the XPU. I say XPU because we talk about GPU all the time, but it is actually more an XPU play.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Then you have to work with the Deltas, the Flex, which are basically the buying customers.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Those guys are the buying customers, so they are basically accountable to the hyperscaler.

To deliver quality on time, passing qualification and so forth. We work with those guys. It is not like we convince one, and we implement the others. You have to convince both, which is very similar to the high-end computing.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

market. Right? Then you have to work with architects. Okay? There are system integrators and people that kind of look at this at the high level.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

What is interesting is, in all my career in semiconductor,

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

the hyperscalers are taking a bigger seat in driving this transformation. The question we should ask ourself is, would 800 V have happened if NVIDIA didn't drive the transformation? The answer is yes, but way later

than it's happening now. Would the grid transformation or modernization would have happened if the AI guys, i.e., NVIDIA, Google, or Microsoft, they said, "Listen, we have to change the grid"? It would've happened, but a lot later. I find it interesting that the hyperscalers, XPU vendors are taking a bigger influence on the overall stage one, which is super high voltage.

down to 800 V, 800 V to 506 and 62 GPU. Because if this doesn't get fixed, they can't get the full benefit of the AI workload they are trying to run. Let's remember that when we started this, the number one bottleneck was how fast and how powerful can you make a GPU and XPU. Then it moved to memory. How can you basically make the data float between the two as seamless as possible.

The next bottlenecks are power and copper to-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

fiber. What I call the power wall is today what's limiting the full capability of the XPUs. Many XPU company underclocking their processor-

because they can't get enough power delivered to the processor. The 800 V is solving part of the problem, but we'll talk about the last centimeters.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

That is why we acquired a company, or we announced the acquisition

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

of a company just a few weeks ago. Because if you fix all this and you do a great 800 V,

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

you still need to get more amps delivered to those thousands of amps

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

processors and XPUs.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Exactly.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Good segue.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Good segue. Exactly. Talk about Claros.

Claros brings about vertical power delivery. You are essentially going to be competing with some of the incumbents right now, and also offering a kind of end-to-end across the entire power tree. Talk about that rationale for that deal. You highlighted some of that. It is going to expand the SAM for Navitas, so perhaps you can elaborate on that.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Yeah. First of all, I would remind everybody that we announced the acquisition, and we have not closed yet. Everything I am going to say is based on what we have said so far and what Claros themself has talked about. The target for the close is around the beginning of Q4. October timeframe. What is the rationale for GaN and high voltage, ultra-high voltage SiC company to acquire a VPD IVR company? Go back to what I said. You cannot just look at the first stage and the second stage independently. First stage is 35,000 V to 800 V. Second stage is 800 V to 6 V, or 50 V. Whatever. You cannot look at that independently. What is the next? Let us assume we are 800 V implementation. What is the bottleneck today is the first stage.

You do not deliver enough power, which is very current to those processors, right? This has to be fixed. You mentioned the incumbent. There is no better way to get into a market than when there is a disruption. GaN and SiC company are competing with silicon company because there is a disruption, which is 800 V. Otherwise, it stays in the same.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

group of people. It is the same on the first stage. Again, just to zoom out a little bit. We use two words here, VPD and IVR.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Let me specify them because there is a lot of confusion. The first one is structurally how you deliver power. Today you deliver power to the processor on the lateral way, laterally. On the PCB, you have a lot of MOSFETs.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

silicon with caps, inductors, and a lot of passives to deliver thousands of amps to those processes. Vertical power delivery is basically doing that vertically, on top, on the back. You can do that with MOSFETs. The first implementation of VPDs are actually taking those discrete MOSFET capacitors inductors, putting that in a big module, you put that on the back of the PCB, and that's a vertical power delivery.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Right.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

That doesn't fundamentally solve the problem. It helps, but it doesn't solve the problem. The IVR is a new concept where you integrate everything on a piece of silicon. Think about control, think about FETs.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Think about drive, capacitors, inductors.

The challenge here is not about how you take all those discrete things into a package. This becomes how you integrate into a monolithic piece of silicon.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

That's where you basically get to the next level when it comes to how you deliver power. You can do an IVR in a chip,

which will become a vertical power delivery. You put that on the back of the PCB, and you deliver power, and you can do that in a kind of IVR way, where you put that in the PCB or even in the substrate of the XPU. The reason why I say that is there's a confusion that people think IVR is a play where you integrate the power inside the PCB and inside the substrate of the XPU. You can use IVR in a vertical power delivery way, and actually all the IVR companies are doing chips

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

with no chip package. If you look at Claros, what they talked about, which is they have a three to one, which is 3.3 V entry, sub 1 V output, 40 A, no caps, no inductors, nothing outside, everything integrated. The reason why they have something great is their concept is it's a mesh, or they call that an IVR array, where you can put many of them together, and they can control through current sense the delivery of the current from each of those chips.

What this means is if you need 2,000 A, you put 50 of them. If you need 4,000 A, you put 100 of them. Of course, there is a limit on how many of those chips you can put together because you inject latency and other things, right? Their vision is, let's be as scalable as possible to deliver to various XPUs, power architecture that can basically fit their need.

So going back to your point, how does it compete

with the incumbents? Well, the incumbents are the silicon before 800 V.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

And that's going to continue for a while. I want to be clear, I'm not saying that silicon will be replaced. We talked about $20,000 $25,000 maybe $30,000 per megawatt. The total power content is probably 100 MW, 250 MW. It's going to take time, but this disruption will force the replacement of MOSFET. And the IVR, and that's why you saw ADI acquiring Empower.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

And what is interesting is that disruption came from mostly startups.

That saw they were not in the tunnel effect that most companies have, which is, I have MOSFET, so let me optimize my MOSFET.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

You have to change the game. Those companies, all of them started basically with the idea of how do we basically not get from a few hundred amps to more, how do we get to thousands of amps?

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

That's kind of where the IVR technology came into play.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Is there a way to think about the content as we shift from lateral to the VPD to IVR? It seems that there's a lot more engineering work that's involved, and eventually even the use of GaN as well.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

So it's difficult to talk about content, but what I would tell you when you refer to the SiC increase. So based on 220 GW deployment, we said the SAM for GaN SiC, removing EV, removing China.

Talking here about the U.S., not competing with China for China. And the grid is about $3.5 billion in 2030.

Our large competitors like Infineon and others can actually refer to a bigger SAM. But for me, $3.5 billion feels fairly big already. Then you add $1 billion for the JFET, which I referred to, which is a SiC technology targeted at more power and circuit protection. So if you use ORing circuit breakers, onsemi, Infineon

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

kind of in the JFET. So that's added another billion. So that's $3.5 billion-$ 4.5 billion. The IVR/VPD, which is the last step, the last centimeters to the XPU, is basically adding as much as that.

It is doubling the SAM. Because as you get closer to the GPU or the XPU, you have more content.

For us, the key point is we do believe, I do believe that, as I said, if you do one stage only, you are not going to sit at the big table.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Because the architects are looking at how do we basically enable 35,000 V to 1 V. And if you only participate in the first two ones, it is pretty decent. $4.5 billion is-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

A lot of the SAM is in the last one, and it is also touching the XPU. And since I said the XPU guys or the high-power guys are driving-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

You definitely want to be there.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

ADI is not a MOSFET company.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

They acquired Empower. We're not a MOSFET company.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I think, strategically, I think you're going to see all the power companies have to somehow get into high power. That's why you hear everybody talking about, I'm going to have GaN and-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

working on GaN. I think it's going to be very difficult to do it without IVR in the midterm.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay. I know I have a couple of minutes left. I'm going to open it up to the floor. Does anyone else have any questions? If not, I can continue. Yeah. On the IVR, perhaps could you talk about when do you see that broad deployment or that inflection?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

As I said, the first inflection is in a VPD way.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

So like a chip or an array of chip-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

on the backside of the PCB, for instance.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

That is happening now is-

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

That is actually starting to happen.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Okay? The big modules are happening now, but I would say the tiny IVR chips-

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Empower and others, Claros, this is happening in 2028.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I refer to what we said at the announcement of the acquisition. It doesn't change our organic plan, 2026, 2027, which is really driven by SiC and GaN inflection that we talk about. It starts to kick in in 2028. I think the Claros CEO talked about his leading customer, which is an XPU customer,

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

ramping in 2028. Our job post-integration will be, of course, to execute on that.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Right.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Add more. I think you have to think about this being a 2028, 2029 acceleration.

more than changing any of the short-term, midterm

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

2026, 2027, and beginning of 2028 plan.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Okay. Could you briefly, quickly talk about your foundry strategy?

Because I know you guys are fabless. How do you compete with some of the IDMs, the incumbents in the space?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I think there is a bit of a belief out there that the only way to compete is to be an IDM. I won't give a name, but I would take the fastest-growing semiconductor power company today is a fabless company.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Okay? I never heard Michael talking about owning his own fab.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

That's already a proof point that you can be, right? By the way, I know other companies, without naming them, that had their own fab, and that they are in the world of hurt right now, okay, with underutilization and so forth, right?

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Being a SiC company. You have to be careful with this vision, that dogma, which is you have to be an IDM to be successful. What you want is, first of all, SiC and GaN and IVR have different needs, okay? We work with Global. We used to work with TSMC. We're now moving to Global on the GaN side. We work with X-FAB on the SiC side, and Claros is working on the 14 nm with Samsung. Those are different needs, okay? You can't put all that into a single wafer fab. Number two, there is a way where if you own your moat and your process. What I mean by that is you use the baseline of your foundry partner.

but you have some moat, which are additional differentiation at the device level, at the process level, at the application level. You have to invest capital into securing capacity, expanding capacity. Then you can actually have what the customer needs. The customer needs guarantee of supply. You can expand. You control your yield, your quality. You can do that without owning the fab. I am not saying that owning a fab is not good.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I am just saying that when you are moving fast, merging with new technologies, financially, it is actually not a very good model. What matters the most is basically have this fine line about investment, owning moats, controlling your destiny, and investing in partnership with your foundry. By the way, I know IDMs that are moving fab-lite.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Okay? Without naming one large European, U.S. company in the control automotive, they are moving fab-lite. They talked about how efficient this model is. Of course, we compete with heavy IDM.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Customers are asking us, "Hey, how do you ensure it is reliable? How do you ensure you have enough supply? Do you control your destiny?" This is where this foundry plus model that I talked about is key, right?

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Thank you. I know we are running out of time. Perhaps one last message for investors. What about Navitas' story is currently underappreciated by investors?

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

I think I would repeat myself a little bit, but I will leave you with two things. Number one is we have transformed, we started to transform this company about a year ago. The revenue is more or less where it was a year and a half ago, but the makeup is completely different. Investors look at the quality of the revenue but have not yet fully understood this transformation that we have done. Moving from mobile being 85% of the company,

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Yeah

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

to mobile being insignificant. We say at the end of the year, mobile will be insignificant. Let us say low single digit, and AI infrastructure will be more than 1/3 . That is a big pivot when it comes to what makes the revenue. We talked about the fact that we have backlog well into 2027. This was not the case 18 months ago when you are focusing on mobile. That is underappreciated, but I would say give us two, three more quarters of double-digit consistent growth, and I think this goes away. I would say this is by construction. The number one thing that gets completely underappreciated, Toni and I get questioned every time we meet investors, less and less, but still, is people think it is a digital switch. Okay, when is 800 V NVIDIA GaN happening? What day? What time? What month?

We spend a lot of time talking about inflection. Infineon does, too. We talk about a tough time explaining the different, or inflection one is happening, will continue. We are going to ship silicon carbide into AC/DCs for a long time. SiC is happening next year. This will continue for a long time. Then native 800 V is going to happen next year, early 2028, and this will continue for a while. That fragmentation and succeeding opportunities is what is totally underappreciated. Which I think will drive consistent growth. We have not even talked about the grid, which I think is another kick in 2028 and beyond. That is the one thing which I would leave all of you with, is do not think about this. This is not winning the iPhone. Okay?

This is server, and this is AI. I think there are multiple technology disruptions and change that will drive content expansion.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Got it. Thank you.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

We have to win every step of the way.

Kelsey Chia
Analyst, Citi

Of course. Thank you. Thank you very much, Chris.

Chris Allexandre
President and CEO, Navitas Semiconductor

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.