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GSI Technology supplies high-speed static random-access memory, or SRAM, for networking, telecommunications, test equipment, and military and aerospace systems. Equipment makers typically decide which chips to use, while distributors and contract manufacturers place most purchases. Avnet Logistics accounts for most revenue as the largest distributor; KYEC is the largest end-user customer. SRAM sales also fund the company’s development of a different kind of computing chip.
The memory business depends on customers continuing to use separate SRAM chips. Networking and telecommunications demand is declining as newer chips incorporate more memory internally. GSI also depends on TSMC, which makes all its SRAM and computing-chip wafers, without a long-term supply contract.
Its Gemini chip family performs parallel searches directly within memory rather than moving data to a separate processor, an approach called associative processing. GSI sells these chips and boards, but the business has not yet generated material revenue. Sales remain mainly in research and academic markets, with broader commercialization still at the proof-of-concept stage. Export controls and sanctions restrict where and to whom GSI can sell without authorization; government rights over technology developed with public funding may also limit its commercial use.
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As GSI commercializes its APU technology, its results hinge on specialty SRAM demand from customers including KYEC, sole-source wafer manufacturing at TSMC, and competition from Infineon, Integrated Silicon Solution and Renesas.
Cadence buys GSI’s SRAM memory for hardware it sells to chip designers to design and verify chips, accounting for approximately 12% of GSI’s fiscal 2026 net revenue. Demand for that hardware matters to GSI: sales to Cadence rose from $1.6 million in fiscal 2025 to $3.1 million in fiscal 2026.
Nokia’s shift toward internally developed memory in network equipment reduces its need for GSI’s SRAM; its purchases fell from approximately 21% of GSI’s net revenue in fiscal 2024 to 6% in fiscal 2026, partly reflecting that change. Watch memory choices in Nokia’s next-generation equipment sold to telecom providers, enterprises, and AI and cloud customers—not just its equipment sales.
NVIDIA competes for AI and search customers with GPU computing platforms, while GSI offers processors that search data directly inside memory, called APUs; GSI’s APU revenue remains immaterial. NVIDIA’s CUDA software ecosystem makes switching harder for customers, an obstacle to GSI moving beyond research and academic sales.
General Dynamics provides aerospace and defense demand for GSI’s SRAM, purchasing more than $500,000 directly or indirectly in GSI’s fiscal 2026 for its aircraft, ships, combat systems and technology business. Its SRAM purchases are worth watching as GSI says military, defense and aerospace applications increasingly drive demand growth for external high-speed SRAM.
IBM’s computing infrastructure business brings SRAM sales to GSI, with direct or indirect purchases exceeding $500,000 in GSI’s fiscal 2026. IBM sells businesses software, consulting and critical computing infrastructure; the disclosed GSI tie is memory purchases for that infrastructure business, not APU adoption.
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GSI Technology depends on very fast SRAM sales, and its report will show whether prices, shipments and product mix can keep revenue growing without squeezing gross margin.
Read SRAM revenue alongside gross margin. Revenue growth with a steady or higher margin means pricing, shipment volume or a richer mix of higher-margin products is outweighing manufacturing costs; growth with a falling margin means the added sales are less profitable to serve. APU revenue is still immaterial, so sales that remain mainly in research and academic markets would not yet show a scalable second business.
Nokia Corporation earningsNOK
Nokia’s report will show whether its network-equipment business is still shifting to in-house memory, a change that has reduced its purchases of GSI Technology’s SRAM.
Look beyond Nokia’s equipment sales to the memory chosen for next-generation network gear. If equipment sales grow while in-house memory keeps replacing bought-in SRAM, Nokia’s growth may not lift GSI Technology’s sales; continued demand for external memory would make the customer connection more durable.
