Business Description

Overview We are a fabless semiconductor company focused on the development and sale of: i) millimeter wavelength wireless technology, or mmWave, semiconductor devices and antenna modules based on our proprietary semiconductor devices and ii) performance of non-recurring engineering, or NRE, services and licensing of intellectual property, or IP. Our primary focus is the development of mmWave technology for wireless communications. mmWave is generally described as the frequency band from 24 Gigahertz, or GHz, to 300 GHz. Our mmWave products, which primarily operate in the spectrum from 24 GHz to 71 GHz, enable a range of applications including: multi-gigabit point-to-point, or PtP, wireless links with a range of up to 25 kilometers and operating in the 60 GHz frequency band; multi-gigabit point-to-multi-point, or PtMP, links in the 60 GHz frequency band used to provide fixed wireless access, or FWA, services; FWA in the 5G operating bands from 24 GHz to 43 GHz to provide multi-gigabit capability and low latency connections; military communications; and consumer applications, such as high performance wireless video streaming and untethered augmented reality and virtual reality. We also had a line of memory-denominated integrated circuits, or ICs, for high-speed cloud networking, communications, security appliance, video, monitor and test, data center and computing markets that delivered time-to-market, performance, power, area and economic benefits for system original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs. As discussed below, we initiated an end-of-life of these products in 2023, and substantially fulfilled all outstanding EOL orders of our memory IC products as of March 31, 2025. Business Combination We were formerly known as MoSys, Inc., or MoSys. On September 14, 2021, we and our subsidiaries, 2864552 Ontario Inc. and 2864555 Ontario Inc., entered into an Arrangement Agreement, or the Arrangement Agreement, with Peraso Technologies Inc., or Peraso Tech, a privately-held corporation existing under the laws of the province of Ontario, to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Peraso Tech, or the Peraso Shares, including those Peraso Shares to be issued in connection with the conversion or exchange of secured convertible debentures and common share purchase warrants of Peraso Tech, as applicable, by way of a statutory plan of arrangement, or the Arrangement, under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario). On December 17, 2021, following the satisfaction of the closing conditions set forth in the Arrangement Agreement, the Arrangement was completed, and we changed our name from MoSys to “Peraso Inc.” and began trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market, or the Nasdaq, under the symbol “PRSO.” Certain previous shareholders of Peraso Tech elected to convert their Peraso Tech common stock into exchangeable shares in 2864555 Ontario Inc., one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries. These exchangeable shares, which can be converted into our common stock at the option of the holder, are similar in substance to our common stock . Industry Trends and Market Opportunities mmWave Historically, virtually all wireless communications have utilized the frequency spectrum below 6 GHz. Primary examples include cell phone communications, WiFi, Bluetooth, Internet of Things, and more recently, broadband internet access or FWA. In parallel, a broad array of applications continues to push the boundaries of available wireless network capacity. These include video streaming services, such as those offered by Netflix, Apple and Amazon, user-generated video content, such as TikTok and Instagram Reels, and broadly, personal video content generated by personal mobile devices. While the sub-6 GHz band has traditionally been sufficient for these services, with growing demand, the mmWave spectrum is an additional source of wireless capacity. Wireless spectrum is an extremely valuable commodity and is highly regulated by federal governments around the world. Spectrum is broadly segmented into either licensed frequencies or unlicensed frequencies, although most frequencies are licensed. The mmWave frequencies between 24 GHz and 100 GHz include both licensed and unlicensed spectrum. In the case of mmWave, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, has included the spectrum from 24 GHz to 43 GHz in its 5G specification.…