Company: AOSL
Filing Date: 2025-08-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-041297
Chunk: 86

Company: ALPHA & OMEGA SEMICONDUCTOR Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-08-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 86
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 and imposition of retaliatory tariffs and other countermeasures (like government investigations, sanctions, etc.) by China, as well as the U.S. government’s efforts to restrict transfer and sharing of technologies, including semiconductor technologies, between the two countries.  In addition, the U.S. government may enact new and more restrictive export control regulations that may reduce our ability to ship and sell products to certain customers in China and Asia and increase our cost to implement additional measures to comply with such new regulations.  In addition, disagreements between the United States and China with respect to their political, military or economic policies toward Taiwan may contribute to further controversies.  These controversies and trade frictions could have a material adverse effect on our business by, among other things, making it more difficult for us to coordinate our operations between the United States and China, causing a reduction in the demand for our products by customers in the United States or China, and reducing our profitability due to increasing cost of compliance.

Our revenue may fluctuate significantly from period to period due to ordering patterns from our distributors and seasonality.

Demand for our products from our end customers fluctuates depending on their sales outlooks and market and economic conditions.  Accordingly, our distributors place purchase orders with us based on their forecasts of end customer demand.  Because these forecasts may not be accurate, channel inventory held at our distributors may fluctuate significantly due to the difference between the forecasts and actual demand.  As a result, distributors adjust their purchase orders placed with us in response to changing channel inventory levels, as well as their assessment of the latest market demand trends.  A significant decrease in our distributors’ channel inventory in one period may lead to a significant rebuilding of channel inventory in subsequent periods, or vice versa, which may cause our quarterly revenue and operating results to fluctuate significantly.

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In addition, because our power semiconductors are used in consumer electronics products, our revenue is subject to seasonality.  Our sales seasonality is affected by a number of factors, including global and regional economic conditions as well as the PC market conditions, revenue generated from new products, changes in distributor ordering patterns in response to channel inventory adjustments and end customer demand for our products and fluctuations in consumer purchase patterns prior to major holiday seasons.  In recent year, broad fluctuations in the semiconductor markets and the global economic conditions, in particular the decline of the PC market conditions, have had a more significant impact on our results of operations, than seasonality, and have made it difficult to assess the impact of seasonal factors on