Ambarella sees Q3 revenue $50M +/- 4%, consensus $67.6M

Sees Q3 gross margin 62%-64%. Sees Q3 operating expenses $46M-$49M. “The near-term environment is very challenging, as customers are now more aggressively reducing their inventory, and we are now seeing some pockets of weak end-market demand, which further complicates our customers’ efforts to reduce their inventory. We anticipate our customers’ inventory levels will normalize by the end of the year and set us up for a return to growth in the next fiscal year,” said Fermi Wang, president and CEO. “Our mid to long-term outlook for our AI inference processor business remains positive. Our R&D is focused on technology and products targeting more sophisticated AI inference workloads, and we are well established having shipped more than 17 million AI inference processors cumulatively.”