Business Description

Overview Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver semiconductor-based connectivity solutions that are purpose-built to unleash the full potential of cloud and AI infrastructure. Building on years of experience with a singular focus on addressing connectivity challenges in data-centric systems, we have developed and deployed our leading Intelligent Connectivity Platform built from the ground up for cloud and AI infrastructure. Our Intelligent Connectivity Platform comprises of semiconductor-based, high-speed, mixed-signal connectivity products that integrate a matrix of microcontrollers and sensors, and COSMOS, our software suite, which is embedded in our connectivity products and integrated into our customers’ systems. Our Intelligent Connectivity Platform provides our customers with the ability to deploy and operate high-performance cloud and AI infrastructure at scale, addressing an increasingly diverse set of requirements. We provide our connectivity products in various form factors including Integrated Circuits (“ICs”), boards, and modules. Our patented software-defined platform approach delivers critical connectivity performance, enables flexibility and customization, and supports observability and predictive analytics. This approach aims to efficiently address the data, network, and memory bottlenecks, scalability, and other unique infrastructure requirements of our hyperscaler and system OEM customers. Based on trusted relationships with the leading hyperscalers and collaboration with data center infrastructure suppliers, our platform is designed to meet our customers’ unique cloud scale requirements. Our COSMOS software suite is foundational to our Intelligent Connectivity Platform and is designed to enable our customers to seamlessly configure, manage, monitor, optimize, troubleshoot, and customize functions in our IC, board, and module products. Today, our connectivity solutions are at the heart of major AI platforms deployed worldwide featuring both commercially available Graphic Processing Units (“GPUs”) and proprietary AI accelerators. We offer our customers four product families across multiple form factors including ICs, boards, and modules, shipping millions of devices across leading hyperscalers. Our products, which include Aries PCIe®/CXL® Smart DSP Retimers, Aries PCIe®/CXL® Smart Cable Modules™, Taurus Ethernet Smart Cable Modules™, Leo CXL Memory Connectivity Controllers, and Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches are built upon industry standard connectivity protocols such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (“PCIe”), Ethernet, and Compute Express Link (“CXL”) to address the growing demand for purpose-built connectivity solutions that solve critical data, network, and memory bottlenecks inherent in cloud and AI infrastructure. Industry Overview Astera Labs is a global semiconductor company that provides hardware and software solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure applications to solve data, memory, and networking bottlenecks. We believe we are well-positioned to benefit from the AI and cloud infrastructures positive trends by addressing the industry’s next generation of connectivity challenges driven by increasing speed requirements and system complexity. Several of these trends and challenges include the rapid global adoption of cloud computing, which has led to increasing demand for compute-intensive AI workloads that are truly optimized only when deployed at cloud scale; increasing use of AI and increasingly larger and more complex AI workloads, and the need for purpose-built connectivity solutions that connect GPUs and other AI accelerators with each other directly or between servers to unleash AI accelerators’ full potential at cloud scale and solve critical data, network, and memory bottlenecks. Our Products and Solutions In recent years, we have successfully introduced four revenue-generating product families across multiple form factors including ICs, boards, and modules that are built upon our software-defined IC architecture. Additionally, we have developed a software suite that is embedded in our connectivity products and integrated into our customers’ systems. Aries PCIe®/CXL® Smart DSP Retimers and Aries PCIe®/CXL® Smart Cable Modules™. Our Aries products, which include our COSMOS software suite, are essential to enable higher PCIe/CXL data bandwidth and lower latency interconnectivity between various heterogeneous compute processors, storage, and network controllers.…