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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

๐Ÿ“Š Presentation

Original Translation
Photronics, Inc. (PLAB) Q4 2025 Earnings Call December 10, 2025 8:30 AM EST

Company Participants

Ted Moreau - Vice President of Investor Relations
George Macricostas - CEO & Executive Chairman
Eric Rivera - CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer
KangJyh Lee - President of PDMC & Director
Christopher Progler - Executive VP of Strategic Planning & CTO

Conference Call Participants

Linda Umwali - D.A.
ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค(Photronics, Inc.) (PLAB) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ
2025๋…„ 12์›” 10์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 8์‹œ 30๋ถ„ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)

ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž

Ted Moreau - ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
George Macricostas - CEO ๊ฒธ ํšŒ์žฅ
Eric Rivera - CFO, ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ, ๊ธฐ์—… ํšŒ๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜์„ ํšŒ๊ณ„ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž
KangJyh Lee - PDMC ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ
Christopher Progler - ์ „๋žต ๊ธฐํš ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ „๋ฌด ๊ฒธ CTO

์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„์ž

Linda Umwali - D.A.
Davidson & Co., Research Division
Christian Schwab - Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division
Gowshihan Sriharan - Singular Research, LLC

Presentation

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Photronics Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that today's conference is being recorded. I will now hand the conference over to your speaker host, Ted Moreau, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Ted Moreau
Vice President of Investor Relations

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our review of Photronics Fiscal Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Results.
๋ฐ์ด๋น„์Šจ ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค์ฒœ ์Šˆ์™‘ - ํฌ๋ ˆ์ด๊ทธ-ํ• ๋Ÿผ ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๊ทธ๋ฃน LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๊ณ ์šฐ์‹œํ•œ ์Šค๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ž€ - ์‹ฑ๊ทค๋Ÿฌ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜, LLC

๋ฐœํ‘œ

์šด์˜์ž

์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ] ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์ž์ด์‹  ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ํ…Œ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋กœ ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ…Œ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋กœ
ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์šด์˜์ž๋‹˜. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์  ๊ฒ€ํ† ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joining me this morning are George Macricostas, Chairman and CEO; Eric Rivera, CFO; Frank Lee, Head of our Asia Operations; and Chris Progler, CTO. The press release we issued earlier this morning, together with the presentation material that accompanies our remarks, are available on the Investor Relations section of our website. This call will include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause Photronics results to differ materially from management's current expectations. We encourage you to review the notice regarding forward-looking statements contained in today's earnings release as well as our most recent SEC filings.์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ €์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ George Macricostas ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CEO, Eric Rivera CFO, Frank Lee ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Chris Progler CTO๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ผ์ฐ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ €ํฌ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„(IR) ์„น์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—๋Š” ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ์™€ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” Photronics์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๊ณผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ  ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ณต์ง€์‚ฌํ•ญ๊ณผ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ SEC ์ œ์ถœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During the quarter, we will be participating in the New York Summit next week and the Needham Growth Conference in January. I will now turn the call over to George. George Macricostas
CEO & Executive Chairman

Thank you, Ted, and good morning, everyone. We delivered strong financial results with sales of $216 million, exceeding expectations and increasing 3% sequentially. The major positive in the quarter was record high-end IC revenue led by the U.S. and Asia. Non-GAAP diluted EPS also surpassed guidance, coming at $0.60 per share. During the quarter, we recognized a tax allowance reversal, reflecting an improvement in our U.S. execution and outlook, which Eric will elaborate on.
์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ๋‰ด์š• ์„œ๋ฐ‹๊ณผ 1์›” ๋‹ˆ๋ค ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์กฐ์ง€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์กฐ์ง€ ๋งˆํฌ๋ฆฌ์ฝ”์Šคํƒ€์Šค
CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์˜์žฅ

ํ…Œ๋“œ, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ 2์–ต 1,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธ์ •์  ์š”์ธ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ง€์—ญ์ด ์ฃผ๋„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ IC ๋งค์ถœ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Non-GAAP ํฌ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฃผ๋‹น 0.60๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ธˆ ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ ํ™˜์ž…์„ ์ธ์‹ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์—… ์‹คํ–‰๊ณผ ์ „๋ง์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—๋ฆญ์ด ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As we look to 2026, we will continue to leverage our operational strengths and geographic footprint spanning 11 production facilities to continue to deliver high-quality photomasks. As previously communicated, we are currently executing strategic geographic expansions at existing facilities, reinforcing our position as a leading merchant provider of photomasks. These initiatives are expected to enhance the revenue contribution from these facilities, broadening and further diversifying our geographic revenue mix. Our investments are aligned with two industry trends. First, advanced node migration.2026๋…„์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 11๊ฐœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์‹œ์„ค์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์šด์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ํฌํ† ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์„ค์—์„œ ์ „๋žต์  ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ํ™•์žฅ์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์„ ๋„์ ์ธ ์ƒ์šฉ ํฌํ† ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš๋“ค์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ์„ค๋“ค์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ณ , ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ๋งค์ถœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋”์šฑ ๋‹ค๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์‚ฐ์—… ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ์ผ์น˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ณต์ • ์ „ํ™˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Progression to more advanced nodes requires more mask layers per IC device and finer resolution mask features, driving increased mask demand and higher mask set ASPs. Our investments will increase our exposure to higher-end nodes in the U.S. and in Korea. Second, regionalization. Semiconductor manufacturing continues to diversify globally, including meaningful reshoring of production in the U.S. We are a market leader in the U.S. and will pursue numerous higher-end opportunities through our U.S. investment plans. More specifically, a year ago, we announced our capacity expansion and capability extension at our Allen, Texas facility.์ฒจ๋‹จ ๋…ธ๋“œ๋กœ์˜ ์ง„์ „์€ IC ๋””๋ฐ”์ด์Šค๋‹น ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด์™€ ๋” ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œ ํ•ด์ƒ๋„์˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ํ”ผ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ˆ˜์š” ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์„ธํŠธ ASP ์ƒ์Šน์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋…ธ๋“œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ต์Šคํฌ์ €๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์ง€์—ญํ™”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ์ œ์กฐ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฆฌ์‡ผ์–ด๋ง์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ๋‹ค๋ณ€ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์„ ๋‘์ฃผ์ž์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํˆฌ์ž ๊ณ„ํš์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ, 1๋…„ ์ „ ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์ฃผ ์•จ๋Ÿฐ ์‹œ์„ค์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํ™•์žฅ ๋ฐ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We expect to begin tool installation in the coming months with customer qualifications in the spring time frame and initial revenue later in 2026. In Korea, our cleanroom expansion is underway with equipment installation beginning in 2026. Customer qualifications for 8-nanometer are expected through fiscal 2027, with revenue contribution beginning in 2028. Additional node migrations are expected as market demands develop. Together, these initiatives will diversify our geographic revenue mix and increase our exposure to leading-edge chip designs. During the quarter, we achieved several positive technical and commercial developments.์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์›” ๋‚ด์— ์žฅ๋น„ ์„ค์น˜๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ด„ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ธ์ฆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ 2026๋…„ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์— ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํด๋ฆฐ๋ฃธ ํ™•์žฅ์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์žฅ๋น„ ์„ค์น˜๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 8๋‚˜๋…ธ๋ฏธํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ธ์ฆ์€ 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, 2028๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋“œ ์ „ํ™˜์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์นฉ ์„ค๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ต์Šคํฌ์ €๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ , ์ƒ์—…์  ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
To highlight a few, one, we are recognizing more outsourced opportunities from captive mask makers, including leading-edge DRAM and logic nodes. Two, in advanced IC packaging, we saw increased demand for our larger-format masks that support AI-driven chip packaging applications. Three, we completed shipments of masks fabricated with our newest generation DRAM node mask process co-developed with a key memory customer. Four, demand tied to edge AI applications continues to rise across Asia, highlighting our exposure to this critical segment. And finally, our advanced multi-beam mask writer we installed in the U.S.๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ์ฒซ์งธ, ์„ ๋‹จ๊ณต์ • DRAM ๋ฐ ๋กœ์ง ๋…ธ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ž์ฒด ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ฒด๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ, ์ฒจ๋‹จ IC ํŒจํ‚ค์ง• ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์นฉ ํŒจํ‚ค์ง• ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ˜• ํฌ๋งท ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…‹์งธ, ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ณต๋™ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ์ตœ์‹  ์„ธ๋Œ€ DRAM ๋…ธ๋“œ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ๊ณต์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์ž‘๋œ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ถœํ•˜๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ท์งธ, ์—ฃ์ง€ AI ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด, ์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์„ค์น˜ํ•œ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ๋น” ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ๋ผ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
earlier in 2025 is now in full production, with over 20 customers qualified, including multiple EUV users. Our technology roadmap continues to advance through joint development with customers, collaborations with consortia such as [ IMEC ] and partnerships with critical suppliers. I will now review market conditions heading into fiscal 2026 before turning the call over to Eric. The high end of the market remains strong, supported by sustained investment in hyperscale data centers for AI rollouts. This momentum continues to drive demand for the highest-end photomasks.2025๋…„ ์ดˆ์— ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์™„์ „ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ EUV ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ 20๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ฆ์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ, IMEC๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ปจ์†Œ์‹œ์—„๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€์˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ Eric์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ „์— 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“œ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ AI ๋„์ž…์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•˜์ดํผ์Šค์ผ€์ผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์€ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ํฌํ† ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Many of our high-end customers are providing positive forecasts that reinforce favorable node migration trends and global manufacturing regionalization. While the high end of the market remains robust, the mainstream IC market remains soft, though appears to be stabilized. Returning to our quarterly results, IC revenue was $157 million. We achieved a quarterly record in high-end IC, representing 42% of IC revenue, thanks to a strong technology portfolio and exceptional execution. Demand in the U.S. has been particularly strong, validating our expansion initiatives designed to bring additional advanced production capacity to the market. As a reminder, we are the only U.S.๋งŽ์€ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ „๋ง์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋…ธ๋“œ ๋งˆ์ด๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ œ์กฐ์—…์˜ ์ง€์—ญํ™”๋ฅผ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ IC ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ถ€์ง„ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์„œ, IC ๋งค์ถœ์€ 1์–ต 5,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์™€ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ ๋•๋ถ„์— ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ IC ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” IC ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 42%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
headquartered company that can produce trusted masks, and our Boise facility is the only commercial high-end U.S. trusted mask facility. In flat panel display, revenue of $58 million declined sequentially, reflecting order timing. Demand softened later in the quarter and into the early days of Q1, but has since rebounded. FPD mask demand is expected to remain strong throughout Q1. Earlier in 2025, we shipped our first 2 G8.6 AMOLED orders and anticipate additional G8.6 demand in fiscal Q1 as adoption of this technology expands in consumer and enterprise high-performance display segments.๋ณธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘” ๊ธฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ณด์ด์‹œ ์‹œ์„ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ƒ์—…์šฉ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์‹œ์„ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‰ํŒ ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์ด 5,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๊ณผ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์— ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ดํ›„ ๋ฐ˜๋“ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. FPD ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ ์ดˆ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ 2์„ธ๋Œ€ G8.6 AMOLED ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์„ ์ถœํ•˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—…์šฉ ๊ณ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ฑ„ํƒ๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ G8.6 ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I will now turn the call over to Eric to review our fourth quarter results and provide first quarter guidance. Eric Rivera
CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer

Thank you, George. Good morning, everyone. Fourth quarter revenue exceeded expectations at $216 million, increasing 3% sequentially, though declining 3% year-over-year. IC revenue of $157 million declined 4% year-over-year. However, we experienced a meaningful mix shift towards high-end shipments, which reached record levels in both absolute dollars and as a percentage of total IC revenue at 42%.
์ด์ œ ์—๋ฆญ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ฒจ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—๋ฆญ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ๋ผ
CFO, ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ, ๊ธฐ์—… ์ปจํŠธ๋กค๋Ÿฌ ๊ฒธ ์ˆ˜์„ ํšŒ๊ณ„ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์กฐ์ง€. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 2์–ต 1,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„๋กœ๋Š” 3% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. IC ๋งค์ถœ์€ 1์–ต 5,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 4% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ํ˜• ์ œํ’ˆ ์ถœํ•˜๋กœ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๊ธˆ์•ก ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ณผ ์ „์ฒด IC ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋น„์ค‘ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ 42%๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
High-end IC strength reflects strong order patterns globally, including in the U.S., which now represent 20% of total revenue, where reshoring efforts continue to create a favorable demand environment. Meanwhile, our mainstream IC revenue declined 12% year-over-year due to several factors. The declines are broad-based geographically because of market conditions. However, the mainstream IC decline deepened by recent geopolitical impacts across mainstream customer segments, primarily in China. Additionally, we strategically redirected mainstream capacity, including capabilities obtained from end-of-life tool replacements towards higher-end opportunities. Turning to FPD.๊ณ ๊ธ‰ IC ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 20%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ์‡ผ์–ด๋ง(์ œ์กฐ์—… ๋ณธ๊ตญ ํšŒ๊ท€) ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์ง€์†๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์กฐ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œํŽธ, ๋ฒ”์šฉ IC ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 12% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ง€์—ญ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ์†Œ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฒ”์šฉ IC์˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฒ”์šฉ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ช… ์ข…๋ฃŒ ์žฅ๋น„ ๊ต์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•๋ณดํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฒ”์šฉ IC ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๊ธฐํšŒ ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. FPD๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Fiscal Q4 revenue of $58 million declined 1% year-over-year due to timing of order patterns. As we look to fiscal Q1, the temporary FPD slowdown that emerged later in Q4 persisted through much of November, but has since abated with recovering order levels. Gross margin improved to 35%, exceeding expectations, driven by a favorable product mix. Operating margin of 24% also exceeded our guidance range. Diluted GAAP EPS attributable to Photronics shareholders was $1.07 per share. We experienced a favorable $16.8 million benefit related to the reversal of historical U.S. tax loss valuation allowance. We had recorded this tax valuation allowance as the benefit was previously deemed unrealizable.4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 5,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ํŒจํ„ด์˜ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ FPD ๋‘”ํ™”๊ฐ€ 11์›” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ง€์†๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ดํ›„ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ํšŒ๋ณต๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์™„ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด 35%๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์–ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 24%๋กœ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Photronics ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ท€์† ํฌ์„ GAAP ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 1.07๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ธ๋ฌด์ƒ ๊ฒฐ์†๊ธˆ ํ‰๊ฐ€์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ ํ™˜์ž…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ 1,680๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์ „์— ์ด ํ˜œํƒ์ด ์‹คํ˜„ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จ๋˜์–ด ์ด ์„ธ๋ฌด ํ‰๊ฐ€์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ์„ ๊ณ„์ƒํ–ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Given the improved performance and outlook of our U.S. business, U.S. GAAP required a reversal of this tax loss allowance, resulting in the positive $16.8 million result to GAAP net income. Excluding foreign exchange impacts and a deferred tax valuation allowance reversal, non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.60 per share. Our earnings performance reflects a greater contribution from our U.S. operations. During the quarter, we generated $88 million in operating cash flow, equating to 41% of revenue. CapEx was $68 million, bringing full-year CapEx to $188 million. As discussed throughout the year, we have entered a period of elevated capital investments to drive future organic growth.๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์‹ค์  ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ์ „๋ง ํ–ฅ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํšŒ๊ณ„๊ธฐ์ค€(U.S. GAAP)์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ธ๋ฌด์ƒ ๊ฒฐ์†๊ธˆ ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ์„ ํ™˜์ž…ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” GAAP ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ˆœ์ด์ต์— 1,680๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ธ์ •์  ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธํ™˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์ด์—ฐ๋ฒ•์ธ์„ธ ํ‰๊ฐ€์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ ํ™˜์ž…์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๋น„-GAAP ๊ธฐ์ค€ ํฌ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์€ 0.60๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€์˜ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 8,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์˜์—…ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 41%์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ณธ์ ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)์€ 6,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ˆ„์  ์ž๋ณธ์ ์ง€์ถœ์€ 1์–ต 8,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋…ผ์˜๋œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ž๋ณธํˆฌ์ž ํ™•๋Œ€ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Exemplifying this commitment, our initiatives in the U.S. and Korea will further strengthen our ability to capitalize growth trends, including increased captive outsourcing, high-end node migrations and geographic supply chain diversity. For fiscal 2026, total CapEx include typical annual spending, incremental end-of-life tool upgrades and special project investments in the U.S. and Korea. Notably, end-of-life tool upgrades bring new capabilities, enhance production efficiency and allows us to target higher-value opportunities. We expect fiscal 2026 CapEx to total approximately $330 million.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๋‹น์‚ฌ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋Š” ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ณต์ • ์ „ํ™˜, ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋‹ค๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ์ด ์ž๋ณธ์ ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)์—๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ง€์ถœ, ์ฆ๋ถ„ ์ˆ˜๋ช…๋งŒ๋ฃŒ ์žฅ๋น„ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ์ˆ˜๋ช…๋งŒ๋ฃŒ ์žฅ๋น„ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒ์‚ฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ, ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ž๋ณธ์ ์ง€์ถœ์ด ์•ฝ 3์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋‹ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
All investments have been carefully vetted to meet our return thresholds and align with major industry demand drivers. Total cash and short-term investments increased $12 million sequentially to $588 million, which includes $422 million of cash held in our joint ventures. Our capital allocation strategy includes three priorities: reinvesting for organic growth, pursuing strategic opportunities and returning cash to shareholders. After spending $97 million in fiscal 2025, we will remain opportunistic in repurchasing the remaining $28 million under our stock authorization. Before providing guidance, I'd like to remind you that demand for our products is inherently variable.๋ชจ๋“  ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ  ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฐ์—… ์ˆ˜์š” ๋™์ธ๊ณผ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 5์–ต 8,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ•ฉ์ž‘ํˆฌ์ž์— ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ 4์–ต 2,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž๋ณธ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ „๋žต์€ ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์žฌํˆฌ์ž, ์ „๋žต์  ๊ธฐํšŒ ์ถ”๊ตฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์›์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— 9,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ถœํ•œ ํ›„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ์Šน์ธ ํ•œ๋„ ์ค‘ ๋‚จ์€ 2,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐํšŒ์ฃผ์˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผœ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Visibility is limited with typical backlog of only 1 to 3 weeks. Additionally, high-end mask sets carry significantly higher ASPs, meaning even a small number of orders can materially influence revenue and earnings. Demand is also affected by IC and display design activity and secondarily by wafer and panel capacity dynamics. Given current market conditions and the industry outlook George discussed, we expect fiscal Q1 revenue to be in the range of $217 million and $225 million. Based on those revenue expectations and our operating model, we estimate fiscal Q1 operating margin between 23% and 25% and non-GAAP diluted EPS between $0.51 and $0.59 per share.๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ 1~3์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฐฑ๋กœ๊ทธ๋งŒ ์žˆ์–ด ์ œํ•œ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์„ธํŠธ๋Š” ASP๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋†’๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์†Œ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ต์— ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” IC ๋ฐ ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด ์„ค๊ณ„ ํ™œ๋™์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ€์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์›จ์ดํผ ๋ฐ ํŒจ๋„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์—ญํ•™์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•œ ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „๋ง์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด 2์–ต 1,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2์–ต 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด 23%์—์„œ 25% ์‚ฌ์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  non-GAAP ํฌ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์ด ์ฃผ๋‹น 0.51๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 0.59๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I will now turn the call over to the operator for your questions.์ด์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ตํ™˜์›์—๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

# Photronics (PLAB) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์š”์•ฝ

## ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ
- **4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ $216M** (์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ +3%, ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ -3%)๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ
- **Non-GAAP EPS $0.60**, ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ์ƒํšŒ. GAAP EPS๋Š” $1.07 (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ธ๊ธˆ ์†์‹ค ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ ํ™˜์ž… $16.8M ๋ฐ˜์˜)
- **์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  24%**, ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  35%๋กœ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ฐœ์„  ํšจ๊ณผ
- **์˜์—…ํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ $88M** (๋งค์ถœ์˜ 41%), ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ๋‹จ๊ธฐํˆฌ์ž $588M์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€

## ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„ ์‹ค์ 
- **IC ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋งค์ถœ $157M**: ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ IC๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ IC ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 42% ์ฐจ์ง€. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ˆ˜์š” ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐ•์„ธ (์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 20%)
- **๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ IC๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ -12%** ๊ฐ์†Œ (์ค‘๊ตญ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋ฐ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ๋กœ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์น˜)
- **FPD ๋ถ€๋ฌธ $58M**: 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ์ผ์‹œ์  ๋‘”ํ™” ํ›„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋“ค์–ด ํšŒ๋ณต์„ธ. G8.6 AMOLED ์ฒซ ์ถœํ•˜ ์™„๋ฃŒ

## ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต
- **2026๋…„ CapEx $330M ์˜ˆ์ƒ** (ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค Allen ์‹œ์„ค ํ™•์žฅ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ํด๋ฆฐ๋ฃธ ํ™•์žฅ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘)
- ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค: 2026๋…„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question coming from the line of Tom Diffely with D.A. Davidson.**Operator:** 200000

[์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ D.A. Davidson์˜ Tom Diffely ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Linda Umwali: D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division This is Linda on for Tom Diffely. My first question is on the market share. Now that your largest competitor just went public, what is your relative size and/or trends in share? Any color there will be very helpful.**Linda Umwali:** 200000

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ Tom Diffely๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•œ Linda์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ง‰ ์ƒ์žฅํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ท€์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒ๋Œ€์  ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋‚˜ ์ ์œ ์œจ ์ถ”์ด๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer Could you repeat the question, I'm sorry?**Eric Rivera:** ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
Linda Umwali: D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division Can you hear me now?**Linda Umwali:** ์ด์ œ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer Yes, we can, but we didn't hear the question clearly enough.**Eric Rivera:** ๋„ค, ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Linda Umwali: D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division Okay. Yes. So my first question was on market share. So with your largest competitor being public now, I was wondering how you're viewing your relative size and trends in the market share versus your competitor?**Linda Umwali:**

๋„ค, ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ ์ƒ์žฅ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ƒ๋Œ€์  ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ์ถ”์ด๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ์„  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ์ž…์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‹œ์žฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•ด ์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠนํžˆ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์—์„œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์™€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๋™๋ ฅ์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋ ฅ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ๊นŠ์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์€ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer So our market share -- thank you, Linda. This is Eric. So we see the market share being as we had perceived in the past, the fact that [ TECHSEM ] now is public helps us get a little bit more detail, but we see our market share being exactly what we thought before. NIC, they have a little bit more -- they have more market share than we do for sure. When you consider our FPD business that they don't participate in, we're about the same size when you combine them.**Eric Rivera:** ์ €ํฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—๋ฆญ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ธ์‹ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TECHSEM์ด ์ด์ œ ์ƒ์žฅ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ข€ ๋” ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ €ํฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์€ ์ด์ „์— ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์ผ์น˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. NIC์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ €ํฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” FPD ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด - ์ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ - ๋‘ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ฉ์ณ์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋น„์Šทํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Linda Umwali: D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division So same size on FPD and different elsewhere?**Linda Umwali:** D.A. Davidson & Co., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด FPD๋Š” ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์”€์ด์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer So [ TECHSEM ] doesn't participate in FPD, Photronics does. Tech is larger -- has a larger market share than Photronics does -- NIC. However, when you consider our FPD business, we're around the same size.**Eric Rivera:** ํ…Œํฌ์…ˆ์€ FPD ์‚ฌ์—…์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ…Œํฌ๋Š” ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์ด ๋” ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ FPD ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋Š” ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Linda Umwali: D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division Okay. Got it. And then looking at the overall competitive environment, what is your view on the overall health of the environment? Yes, any comment there would be helpful.**Linda Umwali:**

์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋– ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ๋„ค, ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KangJyh Lee: President of PDMC & Director Yes. We are seeing a lot of low migration and -- especially in the States. In the past, we have our major operation facilities in Asia. But right now, with the inshoring of semiconductor industry in the United States, our Boise side, which has the high-end capability, we are the only high-end merchant [ mask ] supplier in the country. And with all the growing high-end demand in the country, we believe we are on the right track to capture more high-end shares. So this also answers your first question that our market share with the growing U.S. demand, especially in the high-end and trusted product, we believe our market share will continue to increase.**KangJyh Lee:** ๋„ค, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งŽ์€ ๋กœ์ปฌ ๋งˆ์ด๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜(local migration)์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์‹œ์„ค์ด ์•„์‹œ์•„์— ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ์‚ฐ์—…์˜ ๋ฆฌ์‡ผ์–ด๋ง(reshoring)์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด, ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์ €ํฌ ๋ณด์ด์‹œ(Boise) ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์œ ์ผํ•œ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์ƒ์šฉ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ(mask) ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋ฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ˆ˜์š” ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ํŠนํžˆ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ๋ฐ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š” ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ €ํฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
George Macricostas: CEO & Executive Chairman And it will be supported by our investments in our Allen facility as well, which is supporting the reshoring efforts as well.**George Macricostas:** ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Š” Allen ์‹œ์„ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ๋„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹œ์„ค ์—ญ์‹œ ๋ฆฌ์‡ผ์–ด๋ง(reshoring) ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Linda Umwali: D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division That makes sense. And then I also wanted to touch on the mainstream business. You said that there is a continued softness there, but you're seeing it stabilizing. Just curious if you're seeing any kind of -- basically what you're seeing on the supply and demand side of things and how that has impacted margins and maybe how that is impacting your capital spend for next year?**Linda Umwali:** ๋„ค, ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”. ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋ถ€์ง„์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งˆ์ง„์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋…„ ์ž๋ณธ ์ง€์ถœ์—๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
KangJyh Lee: President of PDMC & Director Our mainstream market, we are referring to mainly our mainstream business in China. As most people are aware that in China, due to the geopolitical issue, they do have some met in China policy. So there are quite a few new local [ mask ] house in China. However, Photronics as a market and technology leader in China, we try to differentiate ourselves from our local competitors. We are focusing more on our anchor key customers. We build relationship with this key customer with better product quality, support and so on. And also, we utilize our capacity better mainly for a more higher-value product mix. So I think there are some competition in the mainstream, especially the low end of the mainstream. But with our capability and also with our tour capacity and so on, we are moving ourselves to higher-value product mix.**KangJyh Lee:** ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์ฃผ๋ ฅ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์ด์Šˆ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ž๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋‚ด ํ˜„์ง€ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋งŽ์ด ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์„ ๋„ ๊ธฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ˜„์ง€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋”์šฑ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋“ค ์ฃผ์š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ๋Š” ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ์ง€์› ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ณ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋” ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฃผ๋ ฅ ์‹œ์žฅ, ํŠนํžˆ ์ฃผ๋ ฅ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋กœ์šฐ์—”๋“œ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question coming from the line of Christian Schwab with Craig-Hallum.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Craig-Hallum์˜ Christian Schwab๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christian Schwab: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division Fantastic quarter. So just a follow-up on the mainstream, is it fair to say that the new market entrants in China on the, I guess, higher -- the less complicated nodes is where you're seeing, I would assume, increased pricing competition? And so as we think about that business and your shift to higher mix, should we think about that business potentially being under any gross margin pressure? Or should we assume we're going to focus where quality and support and better products stand out and the growth rate there could be a little muted? I guess I'm trying to kind of put all the pieces of the puzzle together.**Christian Schwab:** ์ •๋ง ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ž…์ž๋“ค์ด ๋œ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ณต์ • ๋…ธ๋“œ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋งž์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ท€์‚ฌ์˜ ํ•˜์ด๋ฏน์Šค ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ์ง€์›, ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋ ฅ์ด ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์˜์—ญ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ๋‹ค์†Œ ์™„๋งŒํ•ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
KangJyh Lee: President of PDMC & Director Okay. As I reported, in China, right now, there are very strong demand for our high-end product, especially in the 22- and 28-nanometer technology. So for this technology, there are many, many layers in one set of device. So our capacity in our China facility, we are using most of the capacities for the high end, not necessarily for the critical layers, but also for the semi and noncritical layers. So critical and those noncritical semi-critical layers, actually, they have a much better ASP than the so-called typical mainstream. So in summary, our capacity need to be optimized. And so higher value for higher gross margin and profit margin is our -- the way we are doing business and the way we are working on the market.**KangJyh Lee:** ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์ œํ’ˆ, ํŠนํžˆ 22๋‚˜๋…ธ์™€ 28๋‚˜๋…ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ•œ ์„ธํŠธ์˜ ๋””๋ฐ”์ด์Šค์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณต์žฅ์˜ ์บํŒŒ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์„ธ๋ฏธ ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ(semi-critical)๊ณผ ๋…ผํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ(non-critical) ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด์—๋„ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด์™€ ์„ธ๋ฏธ ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ, ๋…ผํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ์ œํ’ˆ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋†’์€ ํ‰๊ท ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(ASP)์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์š”์•ฝํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์บํŒŒ๋Š” ์ตœ์ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋” ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ๊ณผ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด์ž ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christian Schwab: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division Great. That's clear. And as G8 adoption in flat panel display eventually begins to broaden out into more mainstream applications, your ASPs there are -- I believe they are, anyway, materially higher, given the layer count. When would you expect that to begin to be a meaningful percentage of that business? Is that something that happens in '26 -- fiscal year '26? Or is that something that's in '27 and beyond?**Christian Schwab:** ๋„ค, ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. G8 ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ํ‰ํŒ ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์ง€๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ASP๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋†’์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งค์ถœ์—์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น„์ค‘์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ํ™•์‚ฐ์€ ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„์—๋„ ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋„๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋„๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์€ 26๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ์–‘์‚ฐ ์ค€๋น„ ์ผ์ •์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ด ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Progler: Executive VP of Strategic Planning & CTO Yes. This is Chris. Yes, so the G8.6 is at the early stage of production ramp. There's only a few fabs that are running that, but we're seeing additional fabs come online actually in multiple regions for G8.6 display. The application space is just as you said, it's larger format OLED displays and IT, automotive, medical applications. So the application space is fairly broad. So we do expect that to be a strong opportunity for us because we have a leadership position there. As far as when it will have material impact on revenues and things like that, we don't really want to talk about that here. But I think 2026, you'll see gradual increases in the component of our display revenue driven by G8.6. I think that's all we probably would say at the moment.**Christopher Progler:** ๋„ค, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. G8.6์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์–‘์‚ฐ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์˜ ํŒน๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค‘์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ G8.6 ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์šฉ ํŒน๋“ค์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋™๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‘์šฉ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ˜• OLED ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์™€ IT, ์ž๋™์ฐจ, ์˜๋ฃŒ ๋ถ„์•ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‘์šฉ ๋ถ„์•ผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜์ฃ . ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์„ ๋„์  ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์— ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์‹œ์  ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, 2026๋…„์—๋Š” G8.6์ด ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด ๋งค์ถœ์—์„œ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์ค‘์ด ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ด ์ •๋„์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christian Schwab: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division Okay. That's great. And then as we're adding new capacity and geographical expansion and replacing end-of-life tools, I know that brings new capabilities and probably a different pricing structure, is there any puts or takes to gross margin over a multiyear basis, given those significant investments that we should be thinking about?**Christian Schwab:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์—ญ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ๋‹คํ•œ ์žฅ๋น„๋“ค์„ ๊ต์ฒดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ๋‹ค๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์  ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€์ •์  ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer Christian, Eric here. So as we invest in our tools, we do so understanding the market and where we see growth being. And basically, we do expect to have increased revenue and as a result, contributions to gross margin. Our CapEx also includes purchases of end-of-life tools, which provide also increased capabilities. So we do expect to see increased revenue, increased depreciation as well associated with it. We expect our gross margins to continue at the same rate and perhaps grow as we make these investments.**Eric Rivera:** ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฅ๋น„์— ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต(gross margin)์—๋„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์ž๋ณธ์ ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ๋‹คํ•œ ์žฅ๋น„ ๊ต์ฒด๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ๋„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ฐ๊ฐ€์ƒ๊ฐ๋น„๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ฐœ์„ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
George Macricostas: CEO & Executive Chairman This is George. It's no different than the past. I mean we've always had end-of-life tools in the past and replacing them, et cetera, I mean the new tools have better throughput, better capabilities, et cetera. So it should not be anything material changes as far as the depreciation that is associated with the new tools.**George Macricostas:**

์ €๋Š” ์กฐ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ” ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ๋‹คํ•œ ์žฅ๋น„๋“ค์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•ด์™”๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊ต์ฒดํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์žฅ๋น„๋“ค์€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰(throughput)๊ณผ ๋” ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ƒˆ ์žฅ๋น„์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ€์ƒ๊ฐ๋น„์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Christian Schwab: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division Great. Fantastic. And then have you guys -- my last question here, sorry for asking so many. As we ramp up the Allen, Texas facility, can you give us an idea of like revenue potential? I don't need to know exactly where you could give capacity, I can figure it out. But what should we assume the revenue capabilities of additional U.S. capacity over a multiyear time frame could add to the company? Is that fair?**Christian Schwab:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ์š”, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ์•จ๋Ÿฐ ์‹œ์„ค์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋งค์ถœ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ์–ด๋„ ๋˜๊ณ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ๋งŒ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์…”๋„ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ์ด ์ •๋„ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer I understand the question, Christian. So let me address the question into what I can -- I don't want to go to a level of granularity where we're disclosing how much revenue we're going to have by site. So what I can say is that as a result of these investments, we're going to go into the sort of the mid-range nodes or the higher end of the mainstream, depending on how we define that, right? And we're going to have more capabilities that is going to have incremental revenue and profitability to Photronics in the U.S. We expect gross margins to improve. We expect revenue to start on these investments towards the second half of the fiscal year '26. And we expect those to continue on to '27 when we're fully ramped.**Eric Rivera:** ์งˆ๋ฌธ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Christian. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ๋ณ„ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€, ์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ค‘๊ธ‰ ๋…ธ๋“œ(mid-range nodes) ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ์˜ ์ƒ์œ„ ์˜์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์ž…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ •์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„์ด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด Photronics์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๊ฐ€๋™๋˜๋Š” 2027๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Progler: Executive VP of Strategic Planning & CTO And one other point, Christian, we might make this kind of a knock-on effect to this Allen project in that it will free up more capacity in our Boise site, which is our most leading-edge facility because some of those midrange masks we run there. So as Allen ramps, its revenue, of course, will go up, but the Boise will have more capacity to deploy for higher-end applications. So it's really a combination net benefit of both sites as far as the opportunity.**Christopher Progler:** ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, Christian, Allen ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰ ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ Boise ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋” ํ™•๋ณด๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Boise๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์‹œ์„ค์ธ๋ฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ค‘๊ธ‰ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. Allen์ด ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ ๊ฐ€๋™๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ , Boise๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ˆœ์ด์ต์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋กœ, ๊ธฐํšŒ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christian Schwab: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division Great. Great. No other -- well, let me sneak one more question in. Given the significant reshoring activities that are potentially going to be going on, on a multiyear basis here in the United States, there are certain manufacturers who are going to be adding additional capacity, who source photomasks from outside of the United States, which in some applications, it may seem to me that they might be cost prohibitive to get all the way over here. Do you have any idea or aspirations that you're willing to share with us what you think the opportunity for captive guys going to the merchant market over a multiyear time frame? Or is that -- am I just saying the obvious because we're adding capacity everywhere? But if there's any clarity on the movement from captive to merchant that you're anticipating other than just semiconductor unit growth, any clarity there would be helpful, I think.**Christian Schwab:** ๋„ค, ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์—†๊ณ ์š”, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋ฆฌ์‡ผ์–ด๋ง(reshoring) ํ™œ๋™์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์™ธ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํฌํ† ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ • ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํฌํ† ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊นŒ์ง€ ์šด์†กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋น„์šฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ž์ฒด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ƒ์šฉ ์‹œ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์ถœํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋‚˜ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋‹น์—ฐํ•œ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”. ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ๋‹จ์œ„ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์™ธ์— ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์—์„œ ๋จธ์ฒœํŠธ๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜(captive to merchant transition)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
George Macricostas: CEO & Executive Chairman So to be clear, is your question, do we expect the captives to be entering the merchant market effectively competing with us? Or did I misunderstand that?**George Macricostas:** 200000

๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์ด ๋จธ์ฒœํŠธ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ•ด์„œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋А๋ƒ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋ชป ์ดํ•ดํ•œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?
Christian Schwab: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division No, I'm saying giving up -- giving market share, looking to merchant market suppliers versus doing it internally. Do you think that, that is a trend that could come to the marketplace, in particular in the U.S. geography?**Christian Schwab:**

์•„๋‹ˆ, ์ œ ๋ง์€ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ถ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ๊ฐ€๋งน์  ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ, ํŠนํžˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

George Macricostas: CEO & Executive Chairman I was going to say, I mean, unless it's a capability issue that they can't get it here, I mean, typically, the cycle time is a big issue. They would want to have a more locally sourced -- for cycle time reasons, a more locally sourced mask shop. So I think we have the local advantage. I think the issue could be if there was one, would be under capabilities. But I'll let some of the other folks on the team here chime in.**George Macricostas:** ์ œ ๋ง์€, ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋ฉด, ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ดํด ํƒ€์ž„(cycle time)์ด ํฐ ์ด์Šˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์‚ฌ์ดํด ํƒ€์ž„ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋” ํ˜„์ง€ํ™”๋œ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ƒต(mask shop)์„ ์›ํ•˜์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์ง€ ์ด์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ถ€์กฑ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ํŒ€์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ณด์ถฉ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Progler: Executive VP of Strategic Planning & CTO And I think we can broadly answer the question that we've seen over the last year, maybe a little longer, the tendency of the captives overall as a group to look at more outsourcing opportunities. And that's not just in the U.S., that's in other regions as well. So generally, we're seeing an increase in interest and desire for the captives to outsource. This could be less critical layers of very advanced sets. It could be memory products that historically were done internally. But let's say, broadly, there's more outsourcing opportunity particularly related to Photronics, we're well positioned in regions that have some of the largest captives and also some of the largest fabs. So we do expect to capitalize on that increased outsourcing trend of captives. I think beyond that, we won't be more specific at this time, but we do see it as an opportunity.**Christopher Progler:** ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„, ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๊ธด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ(captive) ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ ์ค‘ ๋œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๋˜ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์ œํ’ˆ์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํŠนํžˆ ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํŒน(fab)๋“ค์ด ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ(captive)์˜ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ํ˜„ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christian Schwab: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division That was extremely helpful -- go ahead, I'm sorry.**Christian Schwab:** ์ •๋ง ๋„์›€์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer I'll just add something quickly that, I guess, stating the obvious, right, the regionalization trends, essentially, there will be more fabs making more wafers, they'll need more photomasks. So the trend -- the regionalization trend is only positive for merchant photomask manufacturers like Photronics.**Eric Rivera:** ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ง๋ถ™์ด์ž๋ฉด, ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€์—ญํ™”(regionalization) ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํŒน(fab)๋“ค์ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์›จ์ดํผ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํฌํ† ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ง€์—ญํ™” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋Š” ํฌํ† ๋กœ๋‹‰์Šค์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ƒ์šฉ(merchant) ํฌํ† ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋งŒ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question coming from the line of Gowshi Sriharan with Singular Research.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Singular Research์˜ Gowshi Sriharan๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Singular Research, LLC: Just on that -- I'm glad you brought up that outsourcing issue. How do you guys think about the outsourcing increase in sales? How are you thinking about pricing and margins on those [ lasers ] relative to traditional mainstream IC?**Singular Research, LLC:** ํ•ด๋‹น ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์ด์Šˆ๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฃผ๋ ฅ IC ์ œํ’ˆ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer Well, high end has higher ASPs. Higher ASPs are good. They generally have a higher margin with them. So any outsourcing that comes out of the captives would generally be on the high-end areas.**Eric Rivera:** 96

๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(ASP)์ด ๋” ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋†’์€ ASP๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด์ฃ . ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ž์ฒด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์‹œ์„ค์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์ œํ’ˆ ์˜์—ญ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
George Macricostas: CEO & Executive Chairman And generally speaking, the captives, when they're outsourcing, at least my experience is, they pay. I mean I don't want to say a huge premium, but they're definitely not bottom fishing for what the merchants can give them. Typically, it's -- they're outsourcing and they need it and they're paying a fair price. So I don't see them being overly cost conscious, if I'm making sense.**George Macricostas:** ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ(captive) ๋ณดํ—˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š”, ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์ƒ์—…๋ณดํ—˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์ตœ์ €๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ†ต์€ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์„œ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์ ์ •ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ์ด๋“ค์ด ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์šฉ์— ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Singular Research, LLC: Got you. The third question was, you talked a few quarters about how the customers were in holding patents because of tariffs, geopolitics. Setting aside Q1, are you seeing any change in the mix of conversation you're having more long-term planning discussions that would tell you about the sentiment that is quietly improving under the surface?**Singular Research, LLC:**

์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ด€์„ธ์™€ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์ด์Šˆ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์— ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณ„ํš ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋งŽ์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋“ ์ง€, ํ‘œ๋ฉด ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?

Eric Rivera: CFO, VP, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer Okay. So overall, with respect to -- with respect to the export restrictions, I think that's what you're referring to or the tariffs, I guess that tariffs are both of them. So we're seeing a little bit more easing of that. I think, as you said, customers are -- have understood the landscape and as a result, are able to plan better and as such order. Now that is true for most areas. Perhaps in China, maybe it still remains the same, the issues that you just described. But for the rest of the world, I think customers have a good plan of where they're going to do their orders. And as a result, we can -- we're there to benefit from that. to?**Eric Rivera:** ์ˆ˜์ถœ ๊ทœ์ œ๋‚˜ ๊ด€์„ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ์š”, ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ•ด๋‹น๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์™„ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ด์ œ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋„ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋•๋ถ„์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋„ ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Progler: Executive VP of Strategic Planning & CTO I guess we can also say the 2 projects we've announced, the one in the U.S. and the one in Korea, were based on longer term -- both short- and longer-term conversations with customers on their future demands and the opportunities. So those projects came out of, I would say, a more robust longer-term opportunity dialogue with key customers. So we are seeing an increase in that, and we're acting on it appropriately by making the right investments in these projects.**Christopher Progler:** ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ, ์ฆ‰ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ˆ˜์š”์™€ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ฌ๋„ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ ๋…ผ์˜์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด์— ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•ด๋‹น ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค์— ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Singular Research, LLC: And the high-end IC grew nicely in Q4. How concentrated is that growth towards a handful of programs or customers? And what would you see in the pipeline that gives you confidence that this becomes a broader, more diversified high-end run rate for the rest of fiscal '26?**Singular Research, LLC:** Q4์— ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ IC๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์†Œ์ˆ˜์˜ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”๋œ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ๋Ÿฐ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ(run rate)๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์—์„œ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
Christopher Progler: Executive VP of Strategic Planning & CTO This is Chris. I can make a few comments. I think the high-end growth were basically from our existing core customer base. There are a few new customers, mostly our core customer base that expanded production and capacity as well. So that was memory customers, foundry/logic probably being the strongest and recovery in Asia. So it's broad-based. It's a broad product mix coming out of foundry and memory, and it's our existing -- mostly our existing customer base, but more robust order patterns that match up to their improving demand cycles as well. So we think it's sustainable. It's consistent with the market generally improving, and we're well positioned with some of the stronger IC players. So we do think it's sustainable.**Christopher Progler:** ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์กด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ์บํŒŒ(capacity)๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์กด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ/๋กœ์ง ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํšŒ๋ณต์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ์ˆ˜์š” ์‚ฌ์ดํด ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ๋” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฐœ์„  ํ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” IC ์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ์ข‹์€ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
George Macricostas: CEO & Executive Chairman And if anything, we see more opportunities there in the high end for sure.**George Macricostas:** ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Singular Research, LLC: Got you. And I'll just make this my last question. On Korea, specifically with the capability extension and an increased exposure to the leading-edge chips, how does the commercial model in Korea compared to U.S.? Are the customers inclined to sign longer-term agreements? Or is it a more transactional kind of quarter-to-quarter work?**Singular Research, LLC:** ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ์š”, ํŠนํžˆ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™•์žฅ๊ณผ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์นฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ต์Šคํฌ์ € ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ƒ์—… ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ์ฒด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์ข€ ๋” ๋‹จ๋ฐœ์„ฑ ์—…๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
KangJyh Lee: President of PDMC & Director We don't want to be very specific on this one. But as Chris just mentioned, our customer, especially the advanced logic foundry customer, they continue their outsourcing policy, not necessarily for the mature node, but going to high end and more higher end. So I think even there are no long-term agreement, but the trend and -- is continuing. So we do have a lot of conversation and communication with the customer about their roadmap and their outsourcing demand. And that's one of the reasons we are doing the Korea site capacity and capability expansion.**KangJyh Lee:** ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ, Chris๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๋กœ์ง ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์„ฑ์ˆ™ ๋…ธ๋“œ(mature node)์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํ•˜์ด์—”๋“œ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”์„ธ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต๊ณผ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์ˆ˜์š”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋Œ€ํ™”์™€ ์†Œํ†ต์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And I'm showing there are no further questions in the queue. I will now turn the call back over to Ted for any closing comments.**Operator:** ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์ค‘์ธ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ์œ„ํ•ด Ted์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Ted Moreau: Vice President of Investor Relations Well, thank you for joining us today. We really appreciate your interest in Photronics. Look forward to catching up with everyone throughout the quarter. Have a great day.**Ted Moreau:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Photronics์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์— ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋ณด๋‚ด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect.**Operator:** ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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# Photronics ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ ์š”์•ฝ

## ์ฃผ์š” ๋‚ด์šฉ

โ€ข **์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๊ตฌ๋„**: ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ(NIC/TECHSEM) ๋Œ€๋น„ IC ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์ ์œ ์œจ์ด ๋‚ฎ์œผ๋‚˜, FPD ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๋ฉด ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ๋ฆฌ์‡ผ์–ด๋ง ์ˆ˜ํ˜œ๋กœ Boise ์‹œ์„ค์ด ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ merchant ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋กœ์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ „๋ง

โ€ข **์ค‘๊ตญ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋žต**: ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์ด์Šˆ๋กœ ํ˜„์ง€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, 22/28nm ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ฐœ์„  ์ค‘. ์ €๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์œ ์ง€

โ€ข **์„ค๋น„ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋žต**: Allen(ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค) ์‹œ์„ค ํ™•์žฅ์œผ๋กœ FY26 ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ ์˜ˆ์ƒ. ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ์„ค๋„ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๋กœ์ง/ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ํ™•๋Œ€์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ค‘. G8.6 ๋””์Šคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋Š” 2026๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ ์ง„์  ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ ์ „๋ง

โ€ข **์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ**: ์บกํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์ถ”์„ธ ํ™•์ธ. ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด ๋ฐ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์™ธ์ฃผ ํ™•