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How AEIS rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025

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As a supplier to the global semiconductor equipment, data center computing, industrial, medical, telecommunication, and networking industries, we are subject to business fluctuations, the timing, length, and volatility of which can be difficult to predict.
For example, infrastructure investments in artificial intelligence (“AI”) have increased substantially, which is driving significant demand increases in the Data Center Computing market.
We accelerated investments to increase capacity and make upgrades to support higher demand and new product requirements in the market, but if we are unable to timely or efficiently scale to meet growing demand or if we have not accurately assessed the magnitude or sustainability of such demand, our results of operations could be adversely impacted.
The markets we serve are constantly changing in terms of advancement in applications, core technology, and competitive pressures driven by continuing technology migration and changing customer demand.
Our competitors may also be more successful in implementing an AI strategy and develop more successful products with the aid of AI technology.
In the last few years, we have made significant investments to launch new technology platforms and products into the Semiconductor and Industrial and Medical markets and upgrade our capabilities in the Data Center Computing market.
If existing or new customers do not choose our designs, we are unable to maintain single source status, or we cannot agree to pricing, volumes, and other key commercial terms with these customers, our market share may decline, potential revenues related to the lifespan of our products may not be realized, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely impacted.
Finally, if shortages of critical components or supply constraints were to reoccur, we could again experience the longer lead times in procuring materials and subcomponents and, in some cases, meaningfully higher costs for the subcomponents that we faced in the wake of the pandemic.
Our revenues, earnings, and cash flow may be adversely impacted if these conditions reoccur. We are exposed to risks associated with worldwide financial markets and the global economy.
We must scale our manufacturing capacity and secure sufficient critical components to meet customer demand.
Most facilities are under operating leases, and interruptions in operations could be caused by early termination of existing leases by landlords or failure by landlords to renew existing leases upon expiration, including the possibility that suitable operating locations may not be available in proximity to existing facilities, which could result in labor or supply chain risks, including risks related to our ability to secure critical components to meet customer demand.
Additionally, we are executing a restructuring plan to optimize and consolidate our manufacturing operations and improve operating efficiencies, which we expect to be substantially complete during 2027.
We continue to expand output in and evaluate our existing manufacturing facilities, and we may decide to conduct additional optimization and consolidation initiatives.
We also recently constructed a new factory in Thailand in connection with our consolidation plans.
These plans and any future initiatives, however, may or may not be ultimately successful in achieving our intended results.
If the actual costs and charges are greater than anticipated, the actual cost savings or operating efficiencies are lower than anticipated, market conditions deviate from our expectations, we encounter delays or other challenges, or we experience a loss of continuity or inefficiency during transitional periods, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.
Our customers continually exert pressure on us to reduce our prices and extend payment terms and we have been and may be required to enter into long-term pricing agreements, extended payment terms, exclusivity arrangements, and other less favorable contract terms.
We continue to execute our pricing strategies and practices; however, we have in the past had to implement price increases and surcharges to reflect higher supply chain costs and any future price increases outside of our normal pricing strategy could make our products less competitive in the market over time and could have an adverse effect on our results of operations.
Consistent with prior years, a limited number of customers accounted for a significant portion of our business, revenue and accounts receivable in 2025.
The mix of products sold to our customers, particularly our large customers, may also impact our financial performance.
For example, our Data Center Computing market generally has lower margins than our other markets.
As Data Center Computing grows to comprise a larger proportion of our revenue, gross margin has been and could continue to be negatively impacted.
We and our third party providers have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, cybersecurity events from external actors and confidential information theft from internal actors, some of which could be devastating.
In 2025, we shifted our deployment strategy for the new ERP system to a more staggered approach and delayed widespread implementation to better align with our business needs and risk tolerance.
Delays, unexpected challenges, or a failure to achieve our implementation goals may lead to cost overrun, diversion of management attention and resources, or otherwise adversely impact our operations.
If we are unable to attract, retain, and motivate qualified employees and leaders as required, we may be unable to fully capitalize on current and new market opportunities, which could adversely impact our business and results of operations.
Our success in hiring and retaining employees depends on a variety of factors, including market competitive compensation and benefits programs, global economic or political and industry conditions, our organizational structure, our reputation, culture and working environment, competition for talent and the availability of qualified employees, the readiness for and availability of career development opportunities, and our ability to offer a challenging, safe, and rewarding work environment.
We have experienced, and may continue to experience, increasing costs to attract and retain qualified talent, driven by macroeconomic conditions and a highly competitive labor market.
In addition, the loss or retirement of key employees presents challenges to the extent the departing employee had valuable institutional knowledge or experience.
This requires us to identify and train existing or new employees to perform necessary functions, therefore causing unforeseen delays, which could result in unexpected costs, reduced productivity, or an impact to internal processes and controls.
If we fail to have succession plans in place for key roles, we may not be able to maintain continuity and our business could be adversely affected.
Certain of our manufacturing and other operations are in locations subject to natural disasters that could disrupt operations, such as severe weather and geological events, including earthquakes or tsunamis.
A natural disaster, fire, explosion, pandemic, or other event that results in a prolonged disruption to our operations or the operations of our customers or suppliers, may materially adversely affect our business, workforce, supply chain, results of operations, financial condition, or cash flows. Our long-term success and results of operations depend on our ability to successfully identify, close, integrate, and realize the anticipated benefits from our acquisitions, strategic investments or divestitures.
As part of our business strategy, we have and will likely continue to acquire companies or businesses and make investments or divestitures to further our business.
Risks associated with these transactions are many, including the following which could adversely affect our financial results: ● the inability to source or complete transactions timely or at all; ● any obligation to pay a termination fee or undergo litigation resulting from failed deals; ● the failure to perform adequate due diligence on target companies; ● the failure to realize expected revenues, gross and operating margins, net income, and other returns from acquired businesses; ● the inability to successfully integrate product and/or service offerings to realize anticipated benefits from business combinations; ● the inability to integrate acquired business into our existing ERP and other global information technology systems to realize productivity improvement and cost efficiencies; ● we have incurred and will incur additional depreciation and amortization expense over the useful lives of certain assets acquired in connection with business combination and, to the extent that the value of goodwill or intangible assets acquired in connection with a business combination becomes impaired, we may incur additional material charges related to impairment of those assets; ● deterioration in our effective tax rate; ● a failure to retain and motivate key employees of acquired businesses; ● our ability to maintain appropriate business processes, procedures, and internal controls at the acquired business; ● litigation or claims associated with a proposed or completed transaction; and ● unknown, underestimated, undisclosed or undetected commitments or liabilities or non-compliance by acquired business with laws, regulations, or policies.
Our products may suffer from defects or errors leading to increased costs, damages, warranty claims, claims outside of warranty or product liability claims.
Our products could also be, and have in the past been, counterfeited, misbranded or sold without authorization on the “gray market.” To the extent our products are defective or fail, we might be required to repair, redesign, replace, or recall those products, pay damages (including liquidated damages) in connection with claims outside of warranty and/or product liability claims, or fulfill warranty claims, and we could suffer significant expenses as well as harm to our reputation.
Furthermore, some of our products are used in medical device applications where malfunction of the device could result in serious injury or in critical infrastructure where malfunction could result in significant damages.
There is no certainty that these contracts can be performed profitably, and our business could be adversely affected by higher than anticipated product failure rates, loss of critical service technician skills, an inability to obtain service parts, customer demands and disputes, and the cost of repair parts, among other factors. International Operations Risks We are subject to risks inherent in international operations.
We have employees in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and North America.

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As a supplier to the global semiconductor equipment, industrial, medical, data center computing, telecommunication, and networking industries, we are subject to business fluctuations, the timing, length, and volatility of which can be difficult to predict.
For example, the semiconductor industry appears to be recovering from a cyclical downturn, and the Industrial and Medical market and Telecom and Networking market are rebalancing elevated inventory levels, which have adversely impacted demand for our products.
If the semiconductor industry’s recovery does not continue as anticipated, if the length, severity, and/or volatility of the lower demand environments in the Industrial and Medical market and Telecom and Networking market exceeds our expectations, if we fail to achieve further growth in our other markets, our results of operations could be adversely impacted.
Driven by continuing technology migration and changing customer demand, the markets we serve are constantly changing in terms of advancement in applications, core technology, and competitive pressures.
For example, in the last few years, we have made significant investments to launch new technology platforms and products into the semiconductor and industrial and medical markets.
If existing or new customers do not choose our designs or we cannot agree to pricing, volumes, and other key commercial terms with these customers, our market share may decline, potential revenues related to the lifespan of our products may not be realized, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely impacted.
These situations may lead to customers cancelling orders prior to shipment causing a decrease in revenue, which may have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
In recent years, there was a shortage of critical components caused by a variety of factors, including increased demand for electronic components used in a wide variety of industries, the pandemic-driven rise in consumer demand for technology goods, logistics-related disruptions in shipping, capacity limitations at some suppliers, and labor shortages.
These supply constraints led to longer lead times in procuring materials and subcomponents and, in some cases, meaningfully higher costs for the subcomponents.
Our revenues, earnings, and cash flow may be adversely impacted if these conditions reoccur.
We are exposed to risks associated with worldwide financial markets and the global economy.
Our customers continually exert pressure on us to reduce our prices and extend payment terms and we have been and may be required to enter into long term reduced pricing agreements, extended payment terms, exclusivity arrangements, and other unfavorable contract terms.
Conversely, in 2022, we not only increased prices but also implemented surcharges across many of our products to reflect our higher supply chain costs.
Although these price changes were generally accepted by our customers, we did experience some loss of business.
We continue to execute our pricing strategies and practices; however, any future price increases could make our products less competitive in the market over time and could have an adverse effect on our results of operations.
Consistent with prior years, a limited number of customers accounted for a significant portion of our business, revenue and accounts receivable.
We and our third party providers have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, cybersecurity events or confidential information theft incidents, some of which could be devastating.
Any delays, challenges, or failure to achieve our implementation goals may adversely impact our operations.
We may not be successful in retaining our employees or attracting and retaining additional skilled personnel as required.
If we are unable to attract, retain, and motivate qualified employees and leaders, we may be unable to fully capitalize on current and new market opportunities, which could adversely impact our business and results of operations.
Our success in hiring and retaining employees depends on a variety of factors, including the attractiveness of our compensation and benefit programs, global economic or political and industry conditions, our organizational structure, our reputation, culture and working environment, competition for talent and the availability of qualified employees, the readiness for and availability of career development opportunities, and our ability to offer a challenging and rewarding work environment.
We have experienced, and may continue to experience, increasing costs to attract and retain needed talent, driven by macroeconomic conditions and a highly competitive labor market.
In addition, the loss or retirement of key employees presents particular challenges to the extent the departing employee had particularly valuable knowledge or experiences.
This requires us to identify and train existing or new employees to perform necessary functions, which we may be unable to do, or which could result in unexpected costs, reduced productivity, or difficulties with respect to internal processes and controls.
If we fail to have succession plans in place or our succession plans do not operate effectively, we may not be able to maintain continuity and our business could be adversely affected.
We are consolidating our manufacturing footprint, which brings risks.
Most facilities are under operating leases, and interruptions in operations could be caused by early termination of existing leases by landlords or failure by landlords to renew existing leases upon expiration, including the possibility that suitable operating locations may not be available in proximity to existing facilities, which could result in labor or supply chain risks.
Additionally, we are currently restructuring to optimize and consolidate our manufacturing operations and improve operating efficiencies, and we continue to evaluate our manufacturing facilities and may decide to conduct additional optimization and consolidation initiatives.
These plans and any future initiatives may or may not be successful in achieving our intended results.
If the expected costs and charges are greater than anticipated, the estimated cost savings are lower than anticipated, or we experience a loss of continuity or inefficiency during transitional periods, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.
Certain of our manufacturing and other operations are in locations subject to natural disasters, such as severe weather and geological events, including earthquakes or tsunamis, which could disrupt operations.
A natural disaster, fire, explosion, pandemic, or other event that results in a prolonged disruption to our operations or the operations of our customers or suppliers, may materially adversely affect our business, workforce, supply chain, results of operations, financial condition, or cash flows.
Our long-term success and results of operations depend on our ability to successfully identify, close, integrate, and realize the anticipated benefits from our acquisitions and strategic investments.
As part of our business strategy, we have and will likely continue to acquire companies or businesses and make investments to further our business.
Risks associated with these transactions are many, including the following which could adversely affect our financial results: ● the inability to source or complete transactions timely or at all; ● any obligation to pay a termination fee or undergo litigation resulting from failed deals; ● the failure to perform adequate due diligence on target companies; ● the failure to realize expected revenues, gross and operating margins, net income, and other returns from acquired businesses; ● the inability to successfully integrate product and/or service offerings to realize anticipated benefits from business combinations; ● the inability to integrate acquired business into our existing enterprise resource planning and other global information technology systems to realize productivity improvement and cost efficiencies; ● we have incurred and will incur additional depreciation and amortization expense over the useful lives of certain assets acquired in connection with business combination and, to the extent that the value of goodwill or intangible assets acquired in connection with a business combination becomes impaired, we may incur additional material charges related to impairment of those assets; ● deterioration in our effective tax rate; ● a failure to retain and motivate key employees of acquired businesses; ● our ability to maintain appropriate business processes, procedures, and internal controls at the acquired business; ● litigation or claims associated with a proposed or completed transaction; and ● unknown, underestimated, undisclosed or undetected commitments or liabilities or non-compliance by acquired business with laws, regulations, or policies.
Our products may suffer from defects or errors leading to increased costs, damages, or warranty claims.
To the extent our products are defective or fail, we might be required to repair, redesign, replace, or recall those products, pay damages (including liquidated damages), or fulfill warranty claims, and we could suffer significant expenses as well as harm to our reputation.
Furthermore, some of our products are used in medical device applications where malfunction of the device could result in serious injury.
There is no certainty that these contracts can be performed profitably, and our business could be adversely affected by higher than anticipated product failure rates, loss of critical service technician skills, an inability to obtain service parts, customer demands and disputes, and the cost of repair parts, among other factors.
International Operations Risks We are subject to risks inherent in international operations.

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