Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-004906
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Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 system-on-a-chip, where our algorithms continually evaluate the certainty of object detection in order to direct system energy and focus.

We have made substantial progress in our collaboration efforts with Nvidia, demonstrating significant advances in the high-speed and long range detection performance of our lidar systems, which we believe puts us on track for future integration with their Hyperion platform.

In June, 2024, we launched Apollo, the first product in our 4Sight™ Flex family of next-generation lidar sensors. Apollo delivers best-in-class range and resolution in a compact, power-efficient, and cost-effective form factor, making it suitable for both automotive and non-automotive applications. Apollo supports integration behind the windshield, on the roof, or in the grille, enabling OEMs to implement critical safety features with minimal impact on vehicle design. This innovative sensor leverages AEye's 4Sight™ Intelligent Sensing Platform, offering a highly programmable and customizable lidar solution that can be reconfigured through software updates. With a horizontal field of view up to 120° and long-range detection capabilities of up to 1 km. Apollo, we believe, is positioned as a key player in advancing vehicle safety and autonomy, as well as smart infrastructure and logistics applications.

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4SightTM Intelligent Sensing Platform

4Sight™ is our proprietary intelligent sensing lidar platform. This intelligence is enabled by our patented bistatic architecture, which keeps the transmit and receive channels separate, allowing 4Sight™ to optimize for both. As each laser pulse is transmitted, the receiver is told where and when to look for its return. Ultimately, this establishes the 4Sight™ platform as active — allowing it to focus on what matters most in a vehicle’s surroundings.

The result mimics how the human visual cortex conceptually focuses on and evaluates the environment around the vehicle, driving conditions, and road hazards, enabling smarter, more accurate decision making — radically improving the probability of detection and the accuracy of classification. The sensor captures more intelligent information with less data, enabling faster, more accurate and more reliable perception.

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4SightTM for Automotive

Built on this 4Sight™ platform, the Apollo lidar is specifically designed to address system requirements for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles (AV) applications. It delivers best-in-class long-range and resolution in a small, power-efficient, low-cost form factor. Apollo’s design supports integration behind the windshield, on