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Atomera Q1 Earnings Call Highlights

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Atomera is prioritizing Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors for 2nm and beyond, reporting measured silicon where MST outperformed another industry approach for a critical source/drain liner and entering evaluations with two GAA customers; electrical results could take ~6 months and the company is aiming to convert engagements into JDAs in the near term. Management flagged a meaningful GaN breakthrough where MST dramatically reduces the parasitic sheet charge at the GaN-on-silicon interface, calling the preliminary data best-in-decades and expanding ecosystem work (200mm/300mm, Synopsys, universities, labs) to speed validation and commercialization. Q1 results show a GAAP net loss of $6.1M (non‑GAAP loss $4.9M) and only $11k of revenue, but Atomera strengthened its balance sheet to $41.1M in cash after a $25M registered direct offering and is holding 2026 non‑GAAP operating expense guidance near $18.5M. Interested in Atomera Incorporated? Here are five stocks we like better. Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM) executives said the company made progress across several customer engagements during its first-quarter 2026 earnings call, highlighting momentum in advanced logic, memory, RF, power devices, and gallium nitride (GaN) applications for its Mears Silicon Technology (MST). President and CEO Scott Bibaud said Atomera is prioritizing Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors as the semiconductor industry transitions to 2-nanometer nodes and beyond. He described dopant diffusion control as “critical” for performance and reliability in these architectures and said Atomera is seeking adoption at each of the four companies developing GAA transistors: TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Rapidus. → Roblox Stock Slides to New Low as Safety Changes Weigh on Outlook Bibaud said Atomera recently obtained measured silicon results showing MST performing significantly better than another approach used in the industry for a “critical source drain liner application” in small-geometry transistors. In the Q&A, he clarified that the measured results were generated “in conjunction with our strategic partner,” using Gate-All-Around structures the partner had available. He said those results have helped “open the doors” with target customers. Bibaud said Atomera is now actively conducting evaluations with two GAA customers using those customers’ own structures. He explained that while initial demonstrations can b...

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Atomera (ATOM) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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Image source: The Motley Fool. Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET President & Chief Executive Officer — Scott Bibaud Chief Financial Officer — Frank Laurencio Investor Relations — Mike Bishop Mike Bishop: Please stand by. We will begin in a moment. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Atomera Incorporated's first quarter 2026 update call. I would like to remind everyone that this call and webinar are being recorded and a replay will be available on Atomera Incorporated's IR website for one year. I am Mike Bishop with the company's investor relations. As in prior quarters, we are using Zoom and we will follow a similar presentation format with participants in a listen-only mode. We will open with prepared remarks from Scott Bibaud, Atomera Incorporated's President and CEO, and Frank Laurencio, Atomera Incorporated's CFO. Then we will open the call to questions. If you are joining by telephone, you may follow a slide presentation to accompany our remarks on the events and presentation section of our investor relations page on our website. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that during today's call, we will make forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, whether in prepared remarks or during the Q&A session, are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties are detailed in the Risk Factors section of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically in the company's annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on 02/24/2026. Except as otherwise required by federal securities laws, Atomera Incorporated disclaims any obligation to update or make revisions to such forward-looking statements contained herein or elsewhere to reflect changes in expectations with regards to those events, conditions, and circumstances. Also, please note that during this call, we will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures as defined by SEC Regulation G. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in today's press release, which is posted on our website. Now, with that, I would like to turn the call over to our President and CEO, Scott Bibaud. Go ahead, Scott. Scott Bibaud: Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon, everyone. This quarter, we made solid progress with multiple customers across our highest value markets while also expanding the breadth of a...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-06

Atomera Provides First Quarter 2026 Results

ACCESS Newswire

LOS GATOS, CA / ACCESS Newswire / May 5, 2026 / Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM), a semiconductor materials and technology licensing company, today provided a corporate update and announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. Recent Company Highlights Completed $25 Million registered direct offering of common stock MST in Gate-All-Around structures has moved into the evaluation phase for customers Expanded GaN offerings to RF applications demonstrating breakthrough improvements to enhance RF performance Management Commentary "We made excellent progress during the first quarter toward adoption of MST by GAA manufacturers, engaging with another of the four companies that manufacture those advanced transistors. At the same time, we expanded our offerings in GaN beyond power applications to RF where we believe we will substantially grow our TAM and deliver highly differentiated device performance on larger-diameter wafers," said Scott Bibaud, President and CEO of Atomera. "We are also very pleased to have closed on a $25 million equity raise which brought our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments to over $41 million. With this additional capital we are in a strong position to enable our customers to bring MST-enabled products to market." Financial Results The Company incurred a net loss of ($6.1) million, or ($0.17) per basic and diluted share in the first quarter of 2026, compared to a net loss of ($5.2) million, or ($0.14) per basic and diluted share, for the first quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP financial measure) in the first quarter of 2026 was a loss of ($4.9) million compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of ($4.4) million in the first quarter of 2025. The Company had $41.1 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of Mar. 31, 2026, compared to $19.2 million as of December 31, 2025. The total number of shares outstanding was 38.7 million as of Mar. 31, 2026. First Quarter 2026 Results Webinar Atomera will host a live video webinar today to discuss its financial results and recent progress. Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) Webcast: Accessible at https://ir.atomera.com Note about Non-GAAP Financial Measures In addition to the unaudited results presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, in this press release, Atomera presen...

TranscriptFY2026 Q12026-05-05

FY2026 Q1 earnings call transcript

Earnings source - 89 paragraphs
Mike Bishop

We will begin in a moment. I'd like to remind everyone that this call and webinar are being recorded, and a replay will be available on Atomera's IR website for one year. I'm Mike Bishop with the company's investor relations. As in prior quarters, we are using Zoom, and we will follow a similar presentation format with participants in a listen-only mode. We will open with prepared remarks from Scott Bibaud, Atomera's President and CEO, and Frank Laurencio, Atomera's CFO. We will open the call to questions. If you are joining by telephone, you may follow a slide presentation to accompany our remarks on the events and presentations section of our investor relations page on our website. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that during today's call, we will make forward-looking statements.

Mike Bishop

These forward-looking statements, whether in prepared remarks or during the Q&A session, are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties are detailed in the Risk Factors section of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically in the company's annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 24th, 2026. Except as otherwise required by federal securities laws, Atomera disclaims any obligation to update or make revisions to such forward-looking statements contained herein or elsewhere to reflect changes in expectations with regards to those events, conditions, and circumstances. Please note that during this call, we will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures as defined by SEC Regulation G. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in today's press release, which is posted on our website.

Mike Bishop

With that, I'd like to turn the call over to our President and CEO, Scott Bibaud. Go ahead, Scott.

Scott Bibaud

Thanks, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone. This quarter, we made solid progress with multiple customers across our highest value markets, while also expanding the breadth of applications where MST can solve real current pain points for the semiconductor industry. We're seeing strong customer pull in advanced logic, memory, in wide bandgap materials like GaN and power, and in RF, areas that are being shaped by the rapid growth of AI infrastructure, which is driving the need for better power efficiency, signal integrity, and system performance. Today, I'll start with an update on Gate-All-Around, where we've been working closely with customers and our strategic partners to validate MST in these advanced geometries. I'll touch on our customer pipeline and close with updates on GaN, giving insights on some exciting new technical results that are shaping near-term opportunities.

Scott Bibaud

As we've said before, the move to Gate-All-Around at 2 nanometers and beyond is one of the most important architectural transitions in the industry, and it's also one of the most difficult manufacturing environments since fabs must build incredibly complicated structures at line widths of 5,000 times smaller than a human hair, where a small amount of atomic migration can cause big problems. Gate-All-Around transistors are the building blocks for AI infrastructure, and dopant diffusion control is critical to their effectiveness in terms of performance and reliability. The industry is demanding clear proof that any new material can be deposited precisely and that it delivers measurable benefits in advanced silicon devices. Today, there are 4 companies in the world developing Gate-All-Around transistors, TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Rapidus.

Scott Bibaud

We know that each of them can use the capabilities of MST, so it's our goal to achieve adoption at all four. Further, as these companies transition to the generation beyond Gate-All-Around, called CFET, our technology becomes even more essential, so working with us now is in their best interest long term. In our last earnings call, we had just received measured silicon results that prove MST is the best solution for a critical source drain liner application in these small geometry transistors. At this point, we're actively working on evaluations of our technology with two of our target Gate-All-Around customers, and discussions are underway with the others. It is typical that a customer asks to conduct multiple demonstrations before agreeing to accept a new technology for implementation in their fab's wafer flow.

Scott Bibaud

These demonstrations help to validate our claims while simultaneously addressing the detailed implementation and functionality questions these customers are focused on solving. We also expanded the scope of our work with our strategic development partner this quarter, which is important because it strengthens both our technical velocity and our credibility with the ecosystem. Their test and development infrastructure helps us generate the kind of data that advanced node customers insist on seeing before engaging, and their endorsement will certainly help us engage a broader set of teams within each target account. Each of the large memory manufacturers are facing similar challenges to the Gate-All-Around customers as they develop their next-generation transistors in DRAMs and High Bandwidth Memories. Our team is in discussions with them right now, and we are currently working on multiple solutions using MST to assist in this area.

Scott Bibaud

Right now, memory manufacturers would do almost anything to get greater fab capacity, and they have the resources to evaluate different methods of doing so. We hope to take advantage of that opportunity with solutions enabled by MST. The momentum we're seeing in the advanced node transistor space is a result of many years of work targeting current market trends. The macro challenges that AI success has put front and center, capacity and performance of CPUs, GPUs, logic and memory, the power demands of cloud providers, and the increased costs associated with these are all areas that Atomera can help solve. For that reason, we believe that MST is a fundamental tool for the future of AI. Our customer pipeline remains very active across multiple domains. For example, our work with our large IDM customer continues to go well, and we expect additional results from wafer runs soon.

Scott Bibaud

Our efforts with STMicroelectronics are bearing fruit. We are confident we will re-engage with them again in the near future, consistent with our view that MST can create value across multiple product lines, especially in a large diversified IDM or foundry. In RF SOI, we are seeing strong results confirming our extensive TCAD simulations. The technical results we've been focused on, including for both power switch and LNA, have been confirmed through customer silicon runs. The near-term question is less about performance and more about the most efficient path to commercialization, particularly in cases involving fabless licensees, where aligning the business structure with the manufacturing flow can be complex. In power devices, we're seeing excellent potential. New development work being done to target MST at both TrenchFET and HBT transistors, useful in high frequency, high speed, and high voltage applications.

Scott Bibaud

At the same time, wafers continue moving forward with our second JDA partner, and we'll keep pushing those efforts toward a production pathway. Turning to GaN, we made meaningful advancements this quarter, including a breakthrough that could give us a technical leadership in RF GaN on Silicon to augment the advantages previously outlined for power GaN on Silicon. To explain the innovation, I need to give a little background. GaN on Silicon is a much more economical growth method than alternatives built on exotic substrates like silicon carbide or sapphire. When GaN on Silicon is manufactured, due to the GaN stack growth process, gallium and aluminum ions gather at the silicon substrate interface, forming an unwanted sheet charge layer called a parasitic channel, which is well known to limit RF performance in GaN on Silicon applications.

Scott Bibaud

In fact, its elimination has been the subject of materials and growth studies for more than 20 years. In the past few weeks, we received preliminary performance data suggesting MST can dramatically reduce the parasitic channel. It does this by using MST's fundamental interface engineering to block the gallium and aluminum ions from getting into the silicon substrate. An industry veteran told us that in his 20 years, this is the best measured sheet charge data he has ever seen. We're continuing to validate this very promising discovery with our test and measurement partners. RF GaN-on-Silicon is a value in the wireless infrastructure, military, defense, and satellite markets. It's also being actively evaluated for high integrated RF front ends, such as those for 6G cellular. The market potential is large and growing fast.

Scott Bibaud

We are actively engaging on both 200 millimeter and 300 millimeter wafer sizes in GaN, depending on our customer's requests. That matters because the wafer size for GaN-on-Silicon is one of its key advantages leading directly to a customer's path to high volume production, low cost structure, and a set of fabs that can support ramp, including opening doors for new applications with conventional silicon fabrication methods and devices. We are seeing expanded interest in partnerships across the ecosystem, including engagements involving Incize, Synopsys, Texas State University, Sandia, and others. Those kinds of parallel paths, commercial customers plus research and ecosystem partners, can compress development cycles and accelerate the time from promising materials data to something customers can qualify and deploy. Work here is aimed at generating data that is both technically rigorous and directly translatable to customer device requirements.

Scott Bibaud

Finally, a quick note on our announcement last week about expanding our collaboration with Synopsys. We've worked with Synopsys for years to enable accurate modeling of MST inside the Sentaurus TCAD environment through our MSTcad tool set. This expanded collaboration extends that relationship into GaN workflows for both high-value RF and power devices. Practically, this means we're working closely with Synopsys to provide feedback on their GaN models, and we'll be jointly developing marketing materials so customers and partners can evaluate the physical and electrical effects of MST and GaN more quickly and with higher confidence. To summarize, we're making progress where it matters, expanding and deepening Gate-All-Around engagements, broadening GaN from power into RF with concrete technical innovations, and continuing to advance multiple customer programs across our pipeline.

Scott Bibaud

We remain focused on converting technical validation into commercial structures that can drive repeatable revenue and are confident in our ability to do so. This is indeed an exciting time for Atomera. With that, I'll turn the call over to Frank, our CFO, to review our financials.

Frank Laurencio

Thank you, Scott. At the close of the market today, we issued a press release announcing our results for the first quarter of 2026, and this slide shows our summary financials. Our GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2026 was $6.1 million, or $0.17 per share, compared to a net loss of $5.2 million, which was also $0.17 a share in Q1 of 2025. On a non-GAAP basis, net loss last quarter was $4.9 million or $0.14 a share. Our Q1 2025 net loss was $4.4 million or $0.15 a share. GAAP operating expenses were $6.2 million in Q1 of 2026, which was an increase of 742,000 from $5.5 million of GAAP operating expense in Q1 2025.

Frank Laurencio

Stock compensation expense, which is excluded from non-GAAP results, increased by $397,000, primarily due to new hires and our adoption in Q1 2025 of Performance Stock Units or PSUs for executives. PSUs vest over 3 years, whereas the time-based options and RSUs that we had previously granted to executives vested over 4 years. Although the vesting period is shorter, PSUs vest only if our stock performs well relative to the Russell 2000. The first tranche of PSUs issued in Q1 2025 lapsed without vesting because we did not hit the required stock price performance threshold. With the exception of stock compensation expense, the drivers of GAAP and non-GAAP expenses are substantially the same. I will drill down into other factors that impacted our expenses by focusing on non-GAAP numbers.

Frank Laurencio

Please refer to the slide presentation for a reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results. Non-GAAP operating expenses in the first quarter were $4.8 million, a year-over-year increase of $348,000 from $4.4 million in Q1 2025. Sales and marketing expense increased by $203,000, reflecting our two executive hires since October. R&D expenses increased by $127,000 from $2.8 million in Q1 of last year to $2.9 million in the first quarter of this year, primarily due to higher spending on outsourced engineering to support the wafer runs for our Gate-All-Around engagements, our IDM customer, and our JDA customer, which drives spending on metrology. G&A expenses were basically flat from the first quarter of last year.

Frank Laurencio

Turning to sequential quarterly results, first quarter 2026 non-GAAP net loss was $4.9 million or $0.14 a share, compared to net loss of $3.3 million or $0.10 a share in Q4 of 2025. Operating expenses were $4.8 million in Q1, which is a $1.6 million increase from $3.2 million in Q4. Let me offer some color on the magnitude of this sequential increase. As I explained on our last quarterly call, our compensation committee elected not to pay the full 2025 executive bonus, withholding approximately $669,000, which normally would have been paid out in January. The committee provided the executive team the opportunity to earn back the withheld amount in 2026 upon achievement of commercial objectives.

Frank Laurencio

This led to us reversing accrued bonus expense in the fourth quarter, which skews the comparison of expenses between Q1 and Q4. Our balance of cash equivalents, and short-term investments on March 31, 2026 was $41.1 million, compared to $19.2 million on December 31, 2025. We used $4.6 million of cash in operating activities during Q1, compared to $3.2 million in Q4 and $4.8 million in Q1 of last year. As is typical for us, cash use in the first quarter of every year is higher than other quarters due to payments for items that are expensed over the year.

Frank Laurencio

In February of this year, we closed on a $25 million registered direct stock offering, selling 5 million shares of common stock at $5 per share, netting us proceeds of $23.6 million after fees and expenses. Prior to this offering, we had also raised $3.2 million in Q1 by selling approximately 1.3 million shares under our ATM at an average price of $2.47. Currently, we have 38.7 million shares outstanding. With the proceeds of our equity offering, we feel that our current cash balance puts us in a strong position to execute on the opportunities ahead of us, but we will continue to be disciplined about controlling our costs.

Frank Laurencio

On our last call, I said that we expected our 2026 annual non-GAAP OpEx to be approximately $18.5 million. We are holding to that number. To reiterate, the reason why the expense increase appears as large as it does over $15.9 million of OpEx in 2025 is the bonus deferral, which essentially shifted expenses out of Q4 and moved them into 2026. Organic increases in spending mainly relate to the hiring of our VP of Sales in Q4 last year and our VP of Marketing in Q1. Revenue in Q1 was $11,000 and consisted of fees for wafer deliveries to the large IDM that Scott talked about.

Frank Laurencio

We have $96,000 of deferred revenue on our balance sheet. Approximately $46,000 of revenue that we expected to recognize in Q1 pushed out to Q2 because wafer shipments that we anticipating making last quarter pushed out to early this quarter. Accordingly, we expect Q2 revenue to be in the range of $50,000-$100,000. With that, I will turn the call back over to Scott for a few summary remarks before we open the call up to questions. Scott?

Scott Bibaud

Thanks, Frank. Before I take questions, I wanna thank our employees, our customers, and our shareholders for their continued support. We're excited about the progress we're making, and we remain focused on translating our growing body of simulation and customer silicon evidence into commercial agreements that can drive long-term repeatable revenue and a strong, sustainable business. Mike, we will now take questions.

Mike Bishop

Thank you, Scott. If you wish to ask a question, please click the Q&A button at the bottom of the Zoom window, then feel free to type in a question. I will do my best to aggregate the incoming queries and relay them to management. Alternatively, you can click the raise hand button, and we may call on you to ask your question live. Right now, looks like Richard's ready to ask a first question. Richard, please go ahead.

Richard Shannon

Hi, Mike. Thanks, thanks, Scott and Frank. Mike, can you hear me? Just wanna make sure the audio's okay.

Mike Bishop

Yeah, yeah, we can hear you, Richard, thanks.

Richard Shannon

All right, great. Scott, the Gate-All-Around stuff here, you made some very interesting comments. I wanna touch on a few of these things here. You mentioned that you now have measured silicon results here, and your customers have said that they're better than the other solutions that they have here. Just wanna make sure that that's what you said, and then I'll have a couple follow-ups on that topic.

Scott Bibaud

yeah, you may be Are you talking about GaN or Gate-All-Around?

Richard Shannon

Gate-All-Around.

Scott Bibaud

On Gate-All-Around, we do have measured silicon results, and we evaluated our results against another method that people in the industry are using to accomplish the same type of thing we're doing, and our results are a significant improvement. Yes, we have definitely had that, and we're showing that to customers.

Richard Shannon

Okay.

Scott Bibaud

What more can I say?

Richard Shannon

Yeah, to follow up on this, the measures I assume that the measured results or wafers run at one of these four targeted customers. Is that correct?

Scott Bibaud

Um, in that-

Richard Shannon

Is this independent?

Scott Bibaud

The measured results are something that we did in conjunction with our strategic partner, where they had Gate-All-Around structures. We used those devices to grow MST on those Gate-All-Around structures in the wafer. We were able to conduct this testing.

Richard Shannon

Okay. All right.

Scott Bibaud

Now that's if you think about how we approach customers, we go out and we show customers our simulation data, which we can do without a strategic partner, but then having silicon-tested data is a massive improvement over that. That's been able to really open the doors for us to get into the customers. The next step from there is the customer will typically say, "Okay, we can see you did that on your strategic partner's structure. Now we want you to do it on our structure," 'cause our structure is different. Everybody's is different.

Scott Bibaud

When I mentioned that we have work underway with two of the target customers there doing demonstrations, that's the step we're at, where we're trying to do implement our technology on their structures and show them that.

Richard Shannon

Okay.

Scott Bibaud

We believe that the step after that, Richard, will be that they'll have to install MST in their fabs to do any further testing because these structures are so small and hard to manufacture that it's difficult to do a lot more work by having us run demonstrations in our fab.

Richard Shannon

Okay. To that point, do you have a commitment to attempt to do this on your customer structures, or is this the discussions to get that agreed to?

Scott Bibaud

We're working on it with 2 of them, actually, I don't know what you mean by commitment, but I guess they're sending us wafers and we're putting our stuff on it.

Richard Shannon

Okay.

Scott Bibaud

Yeah, that's pretty committed.

Richard Shannon

Okay. Okay. That sounds pretty good. What's the timeframe for this work to get done? I assume, given what I've heard for the many years that I followed you guys, that the analysis of these can often take a while, and these are more complex than most. I would assume that analysis takes a while. What's kind of the turnaround time between getting that done, analyzing, and getting to that next step? What do you foresee that taking?

Scott Bibaud

Yeah. It's gonna take several months, just us doing the work. We have to really do a lot of development work to just figure out how to grow things effectively in these tiny devices that they're sending us. Normally when someone sends us wafers, within 3 weeks to 1 month, we can turn those around and send them back. In this case, my guess is it might take us longer than that, 2 to 3 months. When we send them back, they have to put them in their fab and run them for several months. It could be in the order of 6 months before we start to see results coming out of this.

Richard Shannon

Okay

Scott Bibaud

I mentioned a few times on the call in both structural analysis, which is where they are looking at what we did for deposition in those structures and making sure that what we did was appropriate. They can do that pretty quickly 'cause you're taking TEM images like electron microscope images and looking at what we did. Those results will come quickly, but the electrical results will be the result of running the wafers through the whole line.

Richard Shannon

Got it. Okay. You're expecting or expecting to run wafers with wafers from two different GAA customers then over the next few months?

Scott Bibaud

Yes.

Richard Shannon

Okay. Going back to my first question here and understanding the results you measured with the runs you did with your, you know, equipment partner, I want to get a sense of whether the customers agree that the comparisons you've done with an, I think an industry standard approach to dope and diffusion, they actually agree with that as well, that that is much better than what they've been, what they can get internally or is this just what your equipment partner has concluded for you?

Scott Bibaud

I think there's no doubt that the customers that we've been able to engage with and get down to lots of details on it, they have been impressed enough that they want to move forward with these further demonstrations. Yeah, they definitely saw the benefit of using MST to conduct, to block the dope and diffusion in the areas that we're talking about, and how it works better than what they're currently implementing.

Richard Shannon

Okay. Okay, fair enough. Some really interesting stuff going on there. Thanks for all that detail, Scott. Maybe a couple other quick questions. On the DRAM side, it sounds like we've made some progress here, but if I'm to compare that with the progress on the logic side to the memory side, it sounds like the logic is reasonably farther ahead than memory. Is that a fair comparison?

Scott Bibaud

Yes, that's true. We are talking with the memory manufacturers and they, one thing, memory is quite a different architecture than logic that they're using Gate-All-Around. In memory, they're having the same type of dope and diffusion problems with their newer architectures as the Gate-All-Around folks are, and our technology's directly applicable to that. We have a lot of interest in, from the DRAM guys about that. We're also talking to them about some other solutions that may be able to help them in different ways. It's lots of different vectors of how we're engaged with DRAM guys. I should say with the memory guys, because it's also on High Bandwidth Memory, not just DRAM. We're further ahead with the Gate-All-Around customers than we are with them.

Richard Shannon

Okay. All right. Fair enough. Maybe a question on the GaN side here. I think before you, my recollection is you're talking more about applications of GaN into the power space, but more recently it's been in RF here.

Scott Bibaud

Yeah.

Richard Shannon

How would you characterize kind of the, which one is kind of the leader in terms of getting to the next step here and, you know, getting, you know, installation licenses? I know that's not the right term, but it's kind of what I think of it. You know, installation licenses or using the wafers with that already built in there.

Scott Bibaud

Yeah

Richard Shannon

Which one's kind of in the lead here, if either one is notably better?

Scott Bibaud

Okay. It's kind of interesting where you're right saying that we initially targeted the power market for our GaN-on-Silicon work. The power market is actually much larger than the GaN on RF market today. That's one of the reasons why we targeted it first. For the power market, our big value that we've been talking about is to improve crystal quality and therefore to allow people to manufacture on larger wafers because there'd be less bow and warp as they were growing the GaN and fewer defects, and therefore.

Scott Bibaud

would have a lot of inherent value. The only challenge with that is to validate all that work, you actually have to build wafers and build electrical devices and do a lot of testing, so that takes some time. Everybody's GaN growth properties are different, so there's some tuning that has to happen. That takes time. The new things I just mentioned, GaN on RF, we got some test data and we just spoke about it at a big compound semiconductor conference last week, and there is huge amount of interest in it in the industry.

Scott Bibaud

Just looking at this early data that we got, now it has to be validated and so forth, but just looking at that data could be enough for someone to adopt us because it's such a big breakthrough and such a area where the industry needs solutions. In RF, they don't actually have to do the full electrical testing before they can decide to move forward on something. It could be that we're moving, although we're earlier into the GaN-on-Silicon for RF market, that one could move faster.

Richard Shannon

Okay. All right. Fair enough. One last question from me. Maybe going back to STMicro here, I'm not sure if this is the who you're now referring to, the IDM customer or not here, so maybe correct me if I'm misassuming that here. Maybe just kind of indicate where we're sitting here with those guys, and obviously with putting a pause on the power stuff that you're hoping to move forward with that you talked about late last year. How about in the other applications with them? Are they still moving as full force as you had expected and had been seeing since the cessation of the power work with them?

Scott Bibaud

Yeah, just to clarify, when I talk about the IDM, it's not STMicro.

Richard Shannon

Okay.

Scott Bibaud

STMicro is another IDM, and we think we have a lot of different areas where we can engage with STMicro, but that's a separate engagement. Yeah, we've been talking with multiple business units over there and been doing some work, some evaluation work, and we have recently got some results that lead us to believe that we're going to start re-engaging with them on developing a product. We aren't at the point where we can talk about that yet. ST hasn't specifically given us any okay to talk about it.

Scott Bibaud

Yeah, we've been saying since we had to give that unfortunate news about the BCD program at ST that we were working with other groups and that our relationship with the company was great, and the thing is, they really know and understand MST technology and have seen it, and they believe in it. This is kind of vindication of those comments that we've been making. Now, I haven't been able to announce a new deal with them yet, but we hope to be able to do that in the future.

Richard Shannon

Okay. Excellent. I will jump out of line, guys. Thank you very much.

Scott Bibaud

Thanks.

Mike Bishop

Okay. Thanks, Richard. There are a few questions that have been asked in the Q&A line, and I'll just bring them up one by one. The first kind of question's about the Gate-All-Around, and it's that given the evaluation periods that we've seen in other areas of Atomera, are there specific milestones that need to be hit to convert these Gate-All-Around customers into JDA? What's a realistic timeframe for such a conversion?

Scott Bibaud

Yeah. At a high level, I'll put a little bit more structure on what I showed, I talked about Richard before. It's typical that customers will wanna see kind of four different levels. They wanna see TCAD results that show that you have the potential to deliver performance, and they have to understand all the TCAD background and believe in it. They'll move ahead and say, "We wanna see that captured on silicon." We've done those two steps in Gate-All-Around. The next step, they'd say, "Okay, we wanna see that captured in silicon, but on our silicon, on our structure. We're gonna send you guys wafers.

Scott Bibaud

We want you to deposit it on our structure and send it back to us, and we'll evaluate it. They know they're not gonna get the most perfect performance out of that because, you know, there's work we have to do together in tuning them up and getting everything to work fully integrated. They're just trying to do a proof of concept on their platform, right? That's the stage we're at right now with 2 of the customers. Beyond that, the stage after that would be where they install and do the actual implementation on their device, tuning it all appropriately. Yeah, it's a fair question to say when should we expect to see a JDA.

Scott Bibaud

Sometime in this period of us doing the evaluation on their devices, and when we get to the point we'll install there, 'cause that would involve a license, then we should be having a JDA in place. These companies do not move fast when you're talking about kind of legal agreements. We're working hard to make those happen, and we hope to be able to announce them at some point in the near future.

Mike Bishop

Okay. Thank you. Frank, the question regarding the equity raise.

Mike Bishop

The investor asks, he is curious about the background and reason for the third-party private placement, and, given the stock price rise, was that, you know, could we have had better timing?

Frank Laurencio

Right. Yeah, thanks for that. You know, one of the comments I've made in talking about the capital that we raised in Q1 was some funding that we got via the ATM, and if you look at that, the average price on that was $2.47, which is roughly about where we were trading about a week and a half or two before we did the equity raise. The $5 price that we executed on there, you know, given what we had seen so far, not only in Q1, but really looking back over the last couple of years, it made us look at this as a very good opportunity because sure, the stock had run up to $7, and now in the last couple of weeks it's run up again.

Frank Laurencio

You know, given, the past trading levels that we had and again, a lot of geopolitical uncertainty in the middle of February, you know, which we've kind of seen play out since then. Of course, you can't know how the equity market's gonna perform, but on balance it seemed like a very good opportunity for us to execute on that and then frankly be able to work, you know, toward commercial outcomes and not worry about the day-to-day movements in the stock price to have to use the ATM to keep our balance sheet strong. We've now strengthened the balance sheet. It's always kind of easier in with the benefit of hindsight to second-guess the price, but I think it was a very good decision to execute then.

Mike Bishop

Okay. Thank you, Frank. Question on the tool partner. How has your relationship evolved with your, you know, with your tool partner, the strategic partner? Are they giving you more engineering personnel, and how has that relationship changed over time?

Scott Bibaud

Yeah, that's a good question. We have been, you know, we try to be good partners with each of the big tool vendors. There's three main tool vendors that the industry uses for EPI tools, we typically want to be kind of a arms dealer, work with whatever tool our customers want to work with. We have good relationships with all of them. The tool vendor that we have the strategic partnership with, we've been working with for more than a decade and had a good relationship with. Now that we've entered into the strategic partnership, the level of co-development work that we're doing is at a whole new level. We have weekly meetings with their engineering team where we are working on developing the test data that we need for marketing to customers.

Scott Bibaud

As customers ask us questions and wanna get more demos, then we dig in and do work on that together. Yeah, on a engineering cooperation level, it's at a whole new level. The second area is on the marketing and sales to customers, and that's something that we've never really done with them in the past. That's where we would be, you know, developing the right materials for us to both go into target customers and talk about MST technology and what a good solution that is. Now, one thing I've calculated a number of times is that if we are successful licensing our technology to customers, in many cases the tool vendor is gonna make more money from us winning designs there than we will. There's obvious advantages for them making us successful.

Scott Bibaud

They're not doing this out of the goodness of their heart. The good news is, I think they've recognized that in the last year since we started this, and we're really seeing the benefit as we're engaging with customers.

Mike Bishop

Okay. This is a follow-up kind of to the when would we be able to gauge Gate-All-Around custom engagement. An investor asked, commented that the last call sounded like 2026 we would see several deals being made. Is it safe to say that now that sounds unlikely, or is there still hope for inking an agreement this year?

Scott Bibaud

We're only in the fifth month of the year, and I'm hopeful every month that we're gonna be inking deals. Definitely would say there's definitely a very strong chance.

Mike Bishop

You know, if you look at all the areas in which you know, are working, which of the segments do you think is closest to producing a royalty-bearing license?

Scott Bibaud

I spoke a call or two ago about wafer-based products, and I think that, you know, the development effort in a wafer-based product is relatively easier. Some of the areas where we're offering wafer-based solutions are in gallium nitride and in RFSOI. There's, you know, we have wafer-based solutions that we're offering in the memory space. I think one of those could be the fastest. We also have been working on power and on RFSOI with customers for a very long time, so those could also be a quick time to market. It's, you know, very hard to call with so many moving pieces.

Mike Bishop

All right. With that, Scott, I'll turn the call to you for closing comments here.

Scott Bibaud

Oh, okay. Well, I wanna just thank you all for joining us to hear the progress being made within Atomera. I hope you're feeling the excitement that we are. Please continue to look for our news, articles, and blog posts which are available along with investor alerts on our website, atomera.com. Should you have additional questions, please contact Mike Bishop, who'll be happy to follow up. Thanks again for your support, and we look forward to our next update call.

Mike Bishop

Thank you. This concludes the call.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-22

Atomera to Announce First Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Host Webinar on Tuesday, May 5, 2026

ACCESS Newswire

LOS GATOS, CA / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM), a semiconductor materials and technology licensing company, announced today that it plans to release its first quarter 2026 financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. The company will host a live video Zoom webinar at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, to discuss the results. The live webinar can be accessed through Atomera's investor relations website at https://ir.atomera.com. A replay of the webcast will be available for 12 months. To pre-register for the webinar, use the following link. https://atomera.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yoDfPBJrReqQACqvq4AUHw About Atomera Atomera Incorporated is a semiconductor materials and technology licensing company focused on deploying its proprietary, silicon-proven technology into the semiconductor industry. Atomera has developed Mears Silicon Technology™ (MST®), which increases performance and power efficiency in semiconductor transistors. MST can be implemented using equipment already deployed in semiconductor manufacturing facilities and is complementary to other nano-scaling technologies already in the semiconductor industry roadmap. More information can be found at www.atomera.com Investor Contact: Bishop IR Mike Bishop (415) 894-9633 [email protected] SOURCE: Atomera, Inc View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-20

Atomera (ATOM) Releases Corporate Update and Announces Financial Results

Insider Monkey

Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM) is one of the Best Semiconductor Stocks Under $10 to Buy According to Analysts. The company released a corporate update and announced financial results for Q4 and FY 2025. Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM)’s revenue for FY 2025 and FY 2024 was ~$65,000 and $135,000, respectively. Its revenue in 2025 and 2024 was from MSTcad licensing and related consulting services revenue, and engineering services revenue, because of the delivery of MST wafers. Spanning from bleeding-edge transistors to allowing new materials to run next-generation data centers, the company continues to provide innovations having huge demand. Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM) reported $19.2 million in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments as of December 31, 2025. This compares to $26.8 million as of December 31, 2024. Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM) reported a loss from operations of $21.1 million in FY 2025 compared to $19.3 million amidst higher R&D and general and administrative expenses. Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM) is a semiconductor materials and technology licensing company. It focuses on deploying proprietary, silicon-proven technology in the semiconductor industry. While we acknowledge the potential of ATOM as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 10 Best FMCG Stocks to Invest In According to Analysts and 11 Best Long-Term Tech Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. Disclosure: None. Follow Insider Monkey on Google News.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-15

A Look At Atomera (ATOM) Valuation After Recent Earnings And Sharper Short Term Share Price Moves

Simply Wall St.

Track your investments for FREE with Simply Wall St, the portfolio command center trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Atomera (ATOM) is back on investors’ radar after its fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings report, which detailed low sales levels alongside continued net losses and modestly narrower per share losses. The company reported fourth quarter sales of US$0.05 million with a net loss of US$4.43 million, while full year sales reached US$0.065 million against a net loss of US$20.17 million, giving investors updated visibility on Atomera’s current scale. See our latest analysis for Atomera. The earnings release and recent bylaw changes have coincided with sharp short term share price momentum, with a 1 day share price return of 64.02% and a 90 day share price return of 86.67%, even though the 1 year total shareholder return is a 35.84% loss. This suggests sentiment has recently improved after a weaker longer term experience. If Atomera’s swings have caught your eye, this could be a moment to see what else is moving in the sector and review 34 AI infrastructure stocks as a potential source of ideas. So with Atomera still reporting minimal sales and continued losses yet trading 27.6% below the latest analyst price target, is this recent surge an early entry point, or is the market already pricing in future growth? With Atomera’s most followed narrative pointing to a fair value of $5.00 against a last close of $3.92, the valuation story hinges on what might happen to future revenue, margins and earnings if its technology gains wider adoption. Read the complete narrative. Curious how that potential royalty stream, future revenue ramp and margin shift are stitched together into one valuation story? The narrative leans on aggressive growth, a sharp profitability swing and a future earnings multiple that is usually reserved for market favorites, all discounted back using a specific hurdle rate. The detail sits in how those pieces are sequenced and sized. Result: Fair Value of $5 (UNDERVALUED) Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts. However, this hinges on long sales cycles and a small set of key programs. As a result, cancelled integrations or delayed production licenses could quickly puncture that upbeat story. Find out about the key risks to this Atomera narrative. If you set the $5.00 fai...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-14

Atomera Inc (ATOM) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: Strategic Advances Amid Financial Challenges

GuruFocus.com

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Revenue: $65,000 in 2025, consisting of NRE fees for wafer deliveries and MST CAD licensing. GAAP Net Loss: $20.2 million or $0.65 per share for 2025, compared to $18.4 million or $0.68 per share in 2024. Non-GAAP Net Loss: $16.1 million or $0.52 per share for 2025, compared to $15.4 million or $0.57 per share in 2024. GAAP Operating Expenses: $20.9 million in 2025, up from $19.3 million in 2024. Non-GAAP Operating Expenses: $15.9 million in 2025, an increase from $15.4 million in 2024. R&D Expenses: Increased by $794,000 to $10.2 million in 2025. G&A Expenses: Decreased by $272,000 to $4.8 million in 2025. Sales and Marketing Expense: Decreased by $94,000. Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-term Investments: $19.2 million as of December 31, 2025. Cash Used in Operating Activities: $14.9 million in 2025, with $3.2 million used in Q4. Shares Outstanding: 32.4 million as of December 31, 2025. Q1 2026 Revenue Guidance: Expected to be in the range of $50,000 to $100,000. 2026 Non-GAAP Operating Expense Guidance: Approximately $18.5 million. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 7 Warning Signs with ATOM. Is ATOM fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: February 12, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Atomera Inc (NASDAQ:ATOM) made significant progress in advancing its Gate-All-Around transistor technology, which is crucial for AI GPUs, CPUs, and network components. The company has established a strategic partnership with a large equipment OEM to address manufacturing challenges at 2-nanometer and below. Atomera's MST technology has shown promising results in diffusion blocking, which is critical for maintaining performance and yield in semiconductor manufacturing. The company is actively engaging in new customer opportunities in nontraditional areas, including government-funded collaborative developments. Atomera is making strides in the DRAM and RF-SOI markets, with potential high-revenue solutions and strong customer engagement. Atomera Inc (NASDAQ:ATOM) reported a GAAP net loss of $20.2 million for 2025, an increase from the previous year's loss of $18.4 million. The company's revenue for 2025 was only $65,000, indicating limited commercial traction so far. Operating expenses increased by $1.5 million in 2025, driven by h...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-13

Atomera Provides Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 Results

ACCESS Newswire

LOS GATOS, CA / ACCESS Newswire / February 12, 2026 / Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM), a semiconductor materials and technology licensing company, today provided a corporate update and announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. Recent Company Highlights Achieved technical breakthrough demonstrating manufacturability of MST on Gate-All-Around structures First commercial customer running wafers on GaN with MST GaN-on-Silicon concept paper advances to proposal phase in Power America funding program Management Commentary "The results we are seeing with MST for GAA transistors are inspiring and together with our OEM partner we are presenting groundbreaking results to some of the most demanding customers in the industry. We also have a top 20 semiconductor company running wafers on GaN, demonstrating industry pull for the innovative work that, up to now, we have done in university and government labs," said Scott Bibaud, President and CEO. "From bleeding edge transistors to enabling new materials to run next generation data centers, Atomera is providing innovations that are in high demand for today's markets." Financial Results The Company incurred a net loss of ($4.4) million, or ($0.14) per basic and diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2025, compared to a net loss of ($5.6) million, or ($0.17) per basic and diluted share, for the third quarter of 2025, and a net loss of ($4.7) million, or ($0.16) per basic and diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2024. Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP financial measure) in the fourth quarter of 2025 was a loss of ($3.3) million compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of ($4.4) million in the third quarter of 2025 and ($3.9) million in the fourth quarter of 2024. For fiscal year 2025, revenue was $65,000, compared with $135,000 in fiscal 2024. Net loss was ($20.2) million, or ($0.65) per basic and diluted share for fiscal 2025, compared to ($18.4) million, or ($0.68) per basic and diluted share in fiscal 2024. Adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2025 was a loss of ($16.1) million compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of ($15.4) million in fiscal 2024. The Company had $19.2 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of December 31, 2025, compared to $26.8 million as of December 31, 2024. The total number of shares outstanding was 32.4 million as of December 31, 2025. Four...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-13

Atomera Incorporated Q4 2025 Earnings Call Summary

Moby

Achieved definitive silicon results proving MST can be effectively deposited into 2-nanometer Gate-All-Around (GAA) structures using standard equipment. Validated that MST provides superior diffusion blocking for phosphorus atoms compared to current industry methods like silicon arsenic. Shifted strategy toward a partnership with a large equipment OEM to leverage their influence in delivering material solutions to top-tier customers. Prioritized wafer-based solutions in DRAM and RF-SOI markets to bypass complex integration engineering and accelerate time to revenue. Expanded into the power segment by identifying a 40% performance improvement potential for TrenchFET devices used in AI data centers. Commenced first commercial GaN-on-silicon wafer runs, utilizing customer-led manufacturing to potentially outpace internal development timelines. Secured first government-funded collaborative development project with Power America to advance wide-bandgap GaN materials. Anticipates implementing MST technology with leading GAA industry players over the next few quarters following recent technical breakthroughs. Expects 2026 non-GAAP operating expenses of approximately $18.5 million, driven by the potential payout of deferred 2025 executive bonuses. Projects Q1 2026 revenue between $50,000 and $100,000, primarily from MST wafer shipments to customers. Atomera aims to convert recent technical breakthroughs and validation into formal licensing agreements and commercial announcements later this year. Assumes a 6 to 9-month waiting period for customers to complete processing and testing of currently shipped MST-enhanced wafers. Withheld $669,000 in executive bonuses for 2025 due to a lack of sufficient commercial progress, despite meeting technical milestones. Transitioned executive equity compensation to Performance Stock Units (PSUs) that vest based on stock performance relative to the Russell 2000 Index. Raised $7.6 million in 2025 via an ATM facility, followed by an additional $3.2 million in net proceeds after year-end. Increased R&D spending by $794,000 primarily due to higher costs for outsourced engineering following the transition from TSI Semiconductor. Our analysts just identified a stock with the potential to be the next Nvidia. Tell us how you invest and we'll show you why it's our #1 pick. Tap here. Management expressed high confidence because they proved MS...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-13

Atomera (ATOM) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Motley Fool

Image source: The Motley Fool. Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET Chief Executive Officer — Scott Bibaud Chief Financial Officer — Francis Laurencio Investor Relations — Mike Bishop Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] Scott Bibaud: Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon to everyone. In Atomera fourth quarter, we made great progress moving existing customers forward in our targeted segment, achieving very strong technical advantages, commencing new customer engagements in nontraditional areas and made our first foray into the world of government-funded collaborative developments, all positioning us strongly for commercial execution in 2026. Today, I will give you an update on all of our activities as we set the table for our business prospects in the new year. Technology news recently has been dominated by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and the associated semiconductor challenges that AI entails from the allocation of limited GBU supply, the enormous stresses put on our energy infrastructure and the associated surge in memory prices. Atomera's technology is positioned to assist with each of these industry issues as we deliver materials, which help to relieve each pain point. So let me start off with our recent exciting progress on Gate-All-Around transistor technology, which is the foundational architecture used in AI GPUs, CPUs and bleeding edge network components. The challenges with manufacturing these next-generation transistor devices at 2-nanometer and below are widespread and a concerted effort by the full ecosystem of industry players is required to manufacture them at scale with economically viable throughput and yield. This has been the focus of our recently announced strategic partnership with a large equipment OEM. Target customers or TSMC, Samsung and Intel, who are in production and [indiscernible], a new Japanese manufacturer, which is deep in development. Atomera's MST technology delivers some very compelling solutions in this space, in particular, for diffusion blocking. These tiny Gate-All-Around on transistors require extremely high phosphorotoping levels constrained to a very small area in the source and drain of the nanosheet. Under the intense semiconductor manufacturing environment, it's difficult to keep these [ dopant atoms ] in their proper positions and just a small amount of migration into the c...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-13

Atomera Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

MarketBeat

MST shows definitive proof for Gate-All-Around (GAA): Atomera reported successful deposition into nanosheet structures and superior diffusion-blocking at ~2nm versus silicon-arsenic, and has a strategic partnership with a large equipment OEM while targeting major foundries (TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Rapidus) with potential commercial deals in 2026. Broad application progress across multiple markets: Atomera is advancing wafer-based MST efforts in DRAM (promising preliminary wafer results that could lead to a JDA and production license), RF SOI, power (trench FET simulations suggesting >40% performance gains), and GaN, where its first commercial customer has begun running MST GaN-on-silicon wafers. Weak near-term financials and limited cash runway: 2025 revenue was only $65,000 with a GAAP net loss of $20.2M and cash down to $19.2M after ATM sales (≈$7.6M in 2025 and an additional ~$3.2M post-year-end); Q1 revenue is expected at $50k–$100k and 2026 non-GAAP operating expense is targeted at about $18.5M. Interested in Atomera Incorporated? Here are five stocks we like better. Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM) used its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 update call to outline recent technical progress across several semiconductor markets, with management repeatedly framing 2025 as a setup year for commercial execution and potential deal announcements later in 2026. CEO Scott Bibaud spent much of his prepared remarks and Q&A emphasizing progress in Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor technology, which he described as foundational for AI-related chips such as GPUs, CPUs, and advanced networking components. Atomera recently announced a strategic partnership with a “large equipment OEM,” and Bibaud said the target customers for GAA adoption include TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Japan’s Rapidus. → Once Upon A Farm: Buy the $1B Growth Story? Bibaud said Atomera’s MST technology is positioned as a diffusion-blocking solution for high phosphorus doping levels in GAA source and drain regions. He said a key manufacturing challenge is preventing phosphorus dopants from migrating into the channel, which can significantly impact performance, efficiency, and yield. According to Bibaud, Atomera’s target customers wanted two proof points for manufacturability at around 2 nanometers: That MST can be deposited effectively into nanosheet structures. That MST’s diffusion-blocking characteristics o...

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