ALAB

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How ALAB rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025

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Risk Factors Summary Risks Related to Our Business • We may not sustain our growth rate, and we may not be able to manage future growth effectively; • We have a limited history of generating net income, and if we are unable to achieve adequate revenue growth while our expenses increase, we may not maintain profitability in the future; • We have rapidly grown as a business in dynamic and rapidly evolving markets , and we may have difficulty accurately predicting our future revenue for the purpose of appropriately budgeting and adjusting our expenses; • We may be unsuccessful in anticipating and responding to new market trends and evolving industry standards, developing and selling new products, or penetrating new markets; • A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our end customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, demand from one or a few of our top end customers would adversely affect our operations and financial condition; • If we fail to achieve design wins for our products, we may lose the opportunity for sales to customers for a significant period of time and be unable to recoup our investments in our products; • We may experience difficulties demonstrating to customers the value of our new products or newer generations of our existing products; • The adoption, use, and commercialization of AI technology, and the continued rapid pace of developments in the AI field, are inherently uncertain.
If we are unsuccessful or delayed in qualifying any of our products with a customer, our business and operating results would suffer; • Pricing for the current generation of our existing products often decreases over time, which could negatively impact our revenue and gross margins; • We may pursue acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and dispositions, which could adversely affect our results of operations, and any acquisitions we do make could disrupt our business and harm our financial condition; • We generally do not maintain long-term supply contracts with our third-party manufacturing partners, and any disruption in our supply of products could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations; • The complexity of our products could result in unforeseen delays or expense or undetected defects, bugs, or security vulnerabilities, which could adversely affect the market acceptance of new products, damage our reputation with current or prospective customers, and materially and adversely affect our operating costs; • Adverse changes in the political, regulatory, and economic policies of governments in connection with trade with China and Chinese customers have reduced the demand for our products and damaged our business; • Our business would be adversely affected by the departure of existing members of our senior management team; • Cybersecurity risks, including cyber-attacks, cybersecurity incidents, data breaches, and system vulnerabilities could adversely affect our business and disrupt our operations; • We may be subject to warranty claims and product liability; • Litigation and other legal proceedings may adversely affect our business; • Our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected by worldwide economic conditions, as well as political and economic conditions in the countries in which we conduct business; • The occurrence of events for which we are self-insured, or which exceed our insurance limits, may adversely affect our profitability and liquidity; • Our global operations expose us to numerous legal and regulatory requirements and failure to comply with such requirements, including unexpected changes to such requirements, could adversely affect our results of operations; and • Changes in existing tax laws, tax rules, or tax practices may adversely affect our financial results.
Our revenue increased from $115.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 to $396.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 to $852.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 .
To manage our growth successfully and handle the responsibilities of being a public company, we believe we must effectively, among other things: • recruit, hire, onboard / integrate, train, and manage additional qualified personnel for our research and development activities; • continue to make significant investments in our new and existing products; • add additional sales personnel; and • continue implementing and improving our administrative, financial and operational systems, procedures, and controls.
We have a limited history of generating net income, and if we are unable to achieve adequate revenue growth while our expenses increase, we may not maintain profitability in the future.
We have a limited history of generating net income.
We recorded net income of $219.1 million and incurred net losses of $83.4 million and $26.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
As of December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we had retained earnings of $10.3 million and accumulated deficits of $208.8 million and $125.4 million, respectively.
Our historical losses and accumulated deficits were a result of the substantial investments we have made to grow our business.
We expect our costs will continue to increase over time and our losses may continue if such increases in costs are not more than fully offset by increases in our revenue.
We have rapidly grown as a business in dynamic and rapidly evolving markets, and we may have difficulty accurately predicting our future revenue for the purpose of appropriately budgeting and adjusting our expenses.
We have a rapidly growing business, a dynamic and rapidly evolving market in which we sell our products, our dependence on a limited number of customers, as well as numerous other factors beyond our control, could impede our ability to forecast quarterly and annual revenue accurately.
For example, CXL connectivity solutions and UALink TM are in the early stages of market adoption.
In 2025, one end customer represented more than 70% of our revenue; the top three end customers represented an aggregate of approximately 86% of our revenue.
The resources devoted to product development and sales and marketing may not generate material revenue for us, and we have needed in the past, and may need in the future, to write off excess and obsolete inventory if we have produced a product in excess of forecasted demand that does not materialize.
Additionally, we expect to see increasing government and supranational legislation and regulation related to AI use and ethics, which may also significantly increase the burden and cost of research, development, and compliance in this area.
For example, the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (“EU AI Act”), entered into force in August 2024 and, with some exceptions, becomes effective 24 months thereafter.
As enacted, the EU AI Act imposes significant obligations on providers and deployers of high risk AI systems and general purpose AI models and encourages providers and deployers to account for EU ethical principles when developing and using AI technology.
The scope of requirements depends on judicial interpretations and forthcoming legislative amendments, and non-compliance can lead to significant fines.
In addition, we may become subject to similar or additional legislation or requirements in the United States or other jurisdictions, as well as evolving regulatory guidance and enforcement under existing laws.
The AI regulatory environment is increasingly complex and uncertain.
For example, in the United States, states have advanced, and in some cases passed, laws focusing on AI, while the federal government has pursued a deregulatory agenda.
Significant resources will be required to design, develop, test and maintain our products to help ensure that AI is implemented and deployed in accordance with applicable law and regulation and in a manner intended to comply with applicable laws and regulations and mitigate foreseeable risks.
Our customers may also become subject to such existing or upcoming AI laws and regulations, which could cause a delay or impediment to the commercialization of AI technology and could lead to a decrease in demand for our customers’ AI systems, and may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
In addition, uncertainty regarding the direction of AI regulation may affect customers’ adoption of AI, which could adversely affect our business.
Our third-party manufacturing partners and distributors, and the majority of our revenue, are concentrated primarily in Singapore, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and other countries, areas that are or may be subject to geopolitical uncertainty, trade disputes and restrictions, environmental disasters, and other risks.
Additionally, trade tensions between the United States and China may lead to restrictions on our ability to use our third-party manufacturing partners or distributors located in China may impose restrictions such that our use of such manufacturing partners or distributors may no longer be practical or on terms favorable to us.
In order to remain competitive, we have made, and expect to continue to make, significant investments in research and development and often well ahead of the anticipated product revenue.
For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, research and developments expenses were $304.0 million and $200.8 million, respectively.
In addition, for customers that we issue warrants, we recognize the related grant date fair value of the warrants as a reduction of revenue for each sales transaction in proportion to total expected cumulative sales volume resulting in achievement of the vesting conditions, which reduces the reported gross profit and gross margin in the periods the related revenue is recognized.
The timing and magnitude of these charges may vary and could cause fluctuations in our reported gross margins and results of operations.
We may pursue acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and dispositions, which could adversely affect our results of operations, and any acquisitions we do make could disrupt our business and harm our financial condition.
Our growth strategy includes acquiring businesses and/or assets that offer complementary products, services, and technologies, enhance our market coverage or technological capabilities or enable us to increase the number of engineering employees.
We have in the past, and may in the future choose to acquire or make investments in companies, businesses and/or assets that are complementary to our business, including for the purpose of expanding our new product design capacity, introducing new design, market, or application skills, enhancing, and expanding our existing product lines or grow the number of engineers.
We cannot forecast the number, timing or size of future investments or acquisitions, or the effect that any such investments or acquisitions might have on our operating or financial results.
Any investments, joint ventures or acquisitions we may undertake and their integration involve risks and uncertainties, such as: • unexpected delays, challenges and related expenses, and disruption of our business; • diversion of management’s attention from daily operations and the pursuit of other opportunities; • incurring significant restructuring charges and amortization expense, assuming liabilities (some of which may be unexpected) and ongoing or new lawsuits, potential impairment of acquired goodwill, acquired in-process research and development charges and other intangible assets, amortization expense, and increasing our expenses and working capital requirements; • the potential for deficiencies in internal controls at the acquired business, or other security vulnerabilities or issues, as well as implementing our own management information systems, operating systems, and internal controls for the acquired operations; • our due diligence process may fail to identify significant issues with the acquired business’ products, financial disclosures, accounting practices, legal, tax, and other contingencies, intellectual property rights, compliance with local laws and regulations (and interpretations thereof) in the United States, and multiple international jurisdictions; • additional acquisition-related debt and contingent liabilities, which could increase our leverage and potentially negatively affect our credit ratings resulting in more restrictive borrowing terms or increased borrowing costs thereby limiting our ability to borrow; • the use of a significant portion of our available cash; • dilution of stock ownership of existing stockholders; • difficulties integrating the acquired assets, business or company and in managing and retaining acquired employees, third-party manufacturing partners, and customers; and • inaccuracies in our original estimates and assumptions used to assess a transaction, which may result in us not realizing the expected financial or strategic benefits of any such transaction.
In addition, current and future changes to the U.S. and foreign regulatory approval process and requirements related to investments or acquisitions may cause approvals to take longer than anticipated, not be forthcoming or contain burdensome conditions, which may prevent the transaction or jeopardize, delay or reduce the anticipated benefits of the transaction, and impede the execution of our business strategy.
From time to time, we may also seek to divest or wind down assets or portions of our business, either acquired or otherwise, any of which could materially affect our cash flows and results of operations.
Such dispositions involve risks and uncertainties, including our ability to sell such assets or businesses on terms acceptable to us, or at all, disruption to other parts of our business, potential loss of employees or customers, or exposure to unanticipated liabilities or ongoing obligations to us following any such dispositions.
If we overestimate end customer demand, or end customer demand is otherwise impacted by other factors impacting our assumptions, we might produce significant excess inventory and consequently inventory write-off, which would reduce our gross margin and adversely affect our financial results.

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Risk Factors Summary Risks Related to Our Business • We may not sustain our growth rate, and we may not be able to manage future growth effectively; • We have a history of generating net losses, and if we are unable to achieve adequate revenue growth while our expenses increase, we may not maintain profitability in the future; • We have a limited operating history, and we may have difficulty accurately predicting our future revenue for the purpose of appropriately budgeting and adjusting our expenses; • We may be unsuccessful in anticipating and responding to new market trends and evolving industry standards, developing and selling new products, or penetrating new markets; • A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our end customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, demand from one or a few of our top end customers would adversely affect our operations and financial condition; • If we fail to achieve design wins for our products, we may lose the opportunity for sales to customers for a significant period of time and be unable to recoup our investments in our products; • We may experience difficulties demonstrating to customers the value of our new products or newer generations of our existing products; • The adoption, use, and commercialization of AI technology, and the continued rapid pace of developments in the AI field, are inherently uncertain.
If we are unsuccessful or delayed in qualifying any of our products with a customer, our business and operating results would suffer; • Pricing for the current generation of our existing products often decreases over time, which could negatively impact our revenue and gross margins; • We generally do not maintain long-term supply contracts with our third-party manufacturing partners, and any disruption in our supply of products could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations; • The complexity of our products could result in unforeseen delays or expense or undetected defects, bugs, or security vulnerabilities, which could adversely affect the market acceptance of new products, damage our reputation with current or prospective customers, and materially and adversely affect our operating costs; • Adverse changes in the political, regulatory, and economic policies of governments in connection with trade with China and Chinese customers have reduced the demand for our products and damaged our business; • Our business would be adversely affected by the departure of existing members of our senior management team. • Cybersecurity risks, including cyber-attacks, data breaches, and system vulnerabilities could adversely affect our business and disrupt our operations; • We may be subject to warranty claims and product liability; • Litigation and other legal proceedings may adversely affect our business; • The occurrence of events for which we are self-insured, or which exceed our insurance limits, may adversely affect our profitability and liquidity; • We may pursue acquisitions, joint ventures, and dispositions, which could adversely affect our results of operations, and any acquisitions we do make could disrupt our business and harm our financial condition; • Our global operations expose us to numerous legal and regulatory requirements and failure to comply with such requirements, including unexpected changes to such requirements, could adversely affect our results of operations; and • Changes in existing tax laws, tax rules, or tax practices may adversely affect our financial results.
Our revenue increased from $115.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 to $396.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 .
To manage our growth successfully and handle the responsibilities of being a public company, we believe we must effectively, among other things: • recruit, hire, train, and manage additional qualified personnel for our research and development activities; • continue to make significant investments in our new and existing products; • add additional sales personnel; and • implement and improve our administrative, financial and operational systems, procedures, and controls.
We have a history of generating net losses, and if we are unable to achieve adequate revenue growth while our expenses increase, we may not maintain profitability in the future.
We have a history of generating net losses.
We incurred net losses of $83.4 million and $26.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, we had an accumulated deficit of $208.8 million and $125.4 million , respectively.
These losses and our accumulated deficit are a result of the substantial investments we have made to grow our business.
We expect our costs will increase over time and our losses may continue if such increases in costs are not more than fully offset by increases in our revenue.
We have a limited operating history, and we may have difficulty accurately predicting our future revenue for the purpose of appropriately budgeting and adjusting our expenses.
Our limited operating experience, a dynamic and rapidly evolving market in which we sell our products, our dependence on a limited number of customers, as well as numerous other factors beyond our control, could impede our ability to forecast quarterly and annual revenue accurately.
For example, CXL connectivity solutions are in the early stages of market adoption.
In 2024, no end customer represented more than 40% of our revenue; the top three end customers represented an aggregate of approximately 80% of our revenue.
The resources devoted to product development and sales and marketing may not generate material revenue for us, and we have needed in the past, and may need in the future, to write off excess and obsolete inventory if we have produced a product in excess of forecasted demand which does not materialize.
Additionally, we expect to see increasing government and supranational regulation related to artificial intelligence use and ethics, which may also significantly increase the burden and cost of research, development, and compliance in this area.
For example, the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, or the EU AI Act, — the world’s first comprehensive AI law — entered into force in June 2024 and, with some exceptions, become effective 24 months thereafter.
This legislation imposes significant obligations on providers and deployers of high risk artificial intelligence systems, and encourages providers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems to account for EU ethical principles in their development and use of these systems.
Significant resources will be required to design, develop, test and maintain our products to help ensure that artificial intelligence is implemented and deployed in accordance with applicable law and regulation and in a socially responsible manner and to minimize any real or perceived unintended harmful impacts.
Our customers may also become subject to such upcoming AI regulations, which could cause a delay or impediment to the commercialization of AI technology and could lead to a decrease in demand for our customers’ AI systems, and may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Our third-party manufacturing partners and distributors, and the majority of our revenue, are concentrated primarily in Taiwan, China, and South Korea, areas that are or may be subject to geopolitical uncertainty, trade disputes and restrictions, environmental disasters, and other risks.
Additionally, trade tensions between the United States and China may lead to restrictions on our ability to use our third-party manufacturing partners or distributors located in China or may impose restrictions such that our use of such manufacturing partners or distributors may no longer be practical or on terms favorable to us.
In order to remain competitive, we have made, and expect to continue to make, significant investments in research and development.
For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, research and developments expenses were $200.8 million and $73.4 million, respectively.
If we overestimate end customer demand, or end customer demand is otherwise impacted by other factors impacting our assumptions, we might produce significant excess inventory, which would reduce our gross margin and adversely affect our financial results.
Furthermore, if any of these problems are not discovered until after we have commenced commercial production or deployment of a new product, we may be required to incur additional development costs, as well as costs to repair or replace our products, and expense previously capitalized production mask costs, all of which could materially adversely affect our reputation, business, results of operations, and/or financial condition.
We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting and may identify additional material weaknesses in the future or fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting.
If our remediation of the material weaknesses is not effective, or we fail to develop and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable laws and regulations could be impaired, which could harm our business and negatively impact the value of our common stock.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting.
We did not adequately design and maintain an effective risk assessment process at a sufficient precision level to identify risks of material misstatement in our consolidated financial statements.
Specifically, the implementation of controls was not sufficient to respond to risks of material misstatement to financial reporting, including a lack of effectively designed controls over segregation of duties, particularly over the preparation and review of journal entries and account reconciliations.
This material weakness could result in a misstatement of substantially all of the financial statement accounts and disclosures that would result in a material misstatement to our annual or interim consolidated financial statements that would not be prevented or detected.
We did not design and maintain effective information technology (“ IT”) general controls for information systems that are relevant to the preparation of its financial statements.
Specifically, we did not design and maintain: (i) program change management controls to ensure that program and data changes are identified, tested, authorized, and implemented appropriately; (ii) user access controls to ensure appropriate segregation of duties and to adequately restrict user and privileged access to appropriate personnel; (iii) computer operations controls to ensure that processing and transfer of data, and data backups and recovery are monitored; and (iv) program development controls to ensure that new software development is tested, authorized, and implemented appropriately.
These IT deficiencies did not result in a material misstatement to our consolidated financial statements, however, the deficiencies, when aggregated, could impact maintaining effective segregation of duties, as well as the effectiveness of IT-dependent controls (such as automated controls that address the risk of material misstatement to one or more assertions, along with the IT controls and underlying data that support the effectiveness of system-generated data and reports) that could result in misstatements potentially impacting all financial statement accounts and disclosures that would not be prevented or detected.
Accordingly, we have determined these deficiencies in the aggregate constitute a material weakness.
We began taking steps to remediate these material weaknesses through the implementation of business process and IT general controls in 2024.
We have reviewed and are continuing to review business processes and IT processes and design and implement internal controls consistent with the principles of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) framework to address the risks of material misstatement.
Such activities include designing and implementing new business processes, enhancing information and communication processes, assessing risk, improvements to control documentation, enhancements to segregation of duties and access rights, and deployment of new IT systems and system functionalities as necessary.

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