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Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in those forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include those identified below and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors.” A discussion regarding our financial condition and our results of operations for the fiscal year ended May 2, 2026 compared to the fiscal year ended May 3, 2025 is presented below.
A discussion regarding our results of operations for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2025 compared to the fiscal year ended April 27, 2024 can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2025 , filed with the SEC on July 2, 2025. Overview At Credo, our mission is to transform connectivity at scale through fast, reliable and energy-efficient system solutions. The Company’s highspeed copper and optical interconnect products deliver industry-leading power and performance at up to 1.6T to meet the ever-expanding data infrastructure demands of AI. The Company’s product portfolio includes ZeroFlap (ZF) Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and ZF optical transceivers, OmniConnect memory solutions and a suite of retimers and Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) for optical and copper Ethernet and PCIe, all leveraging the PILOT diagnostic and analytics software platform.
Our innovations enable our customers to connect the systems that connect the world. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet, PCIe and emerging UALink, ESUN and SUE applications, ranging in speeds from 32G (or Gigabits per second per lane) to 200G. Our products are based on our own optimized Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and DSP technologies. Our product families include integrated circuits (ICs), Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has bred a new generation of data centers over the past 5 years that depend much more heavily on high speed, reliable communications for Front End, Scale Out, Scale Up and emerging Scale In Networks.
Our proprietary SerDes and DSP technologies enable us to achieve similar performance to leading competitors’ products but at a lower cost and more highly available legacy node (n-1 advantage). Beyond power and performance, Credo continues to innovate to address customers’ system level requirements. We partnered with Oracle to develop our ZeroFlap Optics that helps address the reliability issues known as Link Flap which plague commodity options in AI data centers enabling faster AI cluster turn on and time to first revenue. The multibillion-dollar data infrastructure market that we serve is driven largely by hyperscale data centers (hyperscalers) and emerging NeoClouds building AI/Machine Learning (ML) Infrastructure as well as general compute and data centers.
The demands for increased bandwidth, better reliability and improved power efficiency have grown as AI model sizes have increased from billions to trillions of parameters and the workload has expanded from training to inference. 61 We design, market and sell both product, software and IP solutions. We help define industry conventions and standards within the markets we target by collaborating with technology leaders and standards bodies. We contract with a variety of manufacturing partners to build our products based on our proprietary SerDes and DSP technologies. We develop standard solutions we can sell broadly to our end markets and also develop tailored solutions designed to address specific customer needs. Once developed, these tailored solutions can generally be broadly leveraged across our portfolio and we are able to sell the part or license the IP to the broader market.
During fiscal 2026 and 2025, we generated $1.3 billion and $436.8 million in total revenue, respectively. Geographically, 58% and 15% of our total revenue in fiscal 2026 and 2025 was generated from customers in North America, and 42% and 85% of our total revenue in fiscal 2026 and 2025 was generated from customers in the rest of the world, primarily in Asia. During fiscal 2026 and 2025, we generated $472.3 million and $52.2 million of net income, respectively. We derive the substantial majority of our revenue from a limited number of customers. […]