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Neonode supplies technology that helps products detect people, objects, touch and gestures. Equipment makers and automotive suppliers build the technology into their own products and typically pay Neonode a license fee for each unit shipped. Most revenue comes from licensing, chiefly tied to printers and automotive infotainment systems. Neonode also charges customers to develop applications and integrate its technology into their products.
The company is shifting its development focus to MultiSensing, software that uses machine learning to detect and track people and objects in camera footage, sold mainly to automotive customers. Its zForce technology enables optical touch, contactless touch and gesture sensing. Neonode no longer sells zForce to new customers but continues supporting existing users. It has also phased out its touch-sensor module product business.
Revenue depends heavily on a small group of customers, including Seiko Epson, Alps Alpine, Hewlett-Packard and an unnamed commercial-vehicle manufacturer; Seiko Epson is the largest. Licensing income depends on customers completing product development and shipping products, rather than simply choosing Neonode’s technology. Customers also need specialized chips supplied by Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics, which are difficult to replace once qualified for a product.
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Neonode’s results hinge on concentrated legacy licensing revenue from customers including Seiko Epson, Alps Alpine and Hewlett-Packard, and on winning automotive machine-perception programs against rivals including SmartEye and Seeing Machines.
Xperi competes with Neonode to sell automotive customers software that monitors drivers and vehicle cabins, so its wins in those programs matter more to Neonode holders than its TV business. Watch Xperi’s driver- and in-cabin-monitoring customer wins for signs of the competition facing Neonode’s MultiSensing software.
Texas Instruments both competes with Neonode’s optical gesture sensing through radar and ultrasonic chips and makes two specialized chips, called ASICs, that Neonode’s licensing customers buy and find hard to replace. Watch its ability to supply those chips: shortages could keep customers from building products using Neonode’s licensed technology and hurt Neonode’s licensing business.
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Texas Instruments competes with Neonode in sensing and makes specialized chips that Neonode's licensing customers rely on, so its report will show whether supply remains dependable.
Watch what Texas Instruments says about supply, capacity and delivery for the relevant chips. Reliable supply lets Neonode's customers keep making products that use its technology and generate per-unit license fees when shipped; constraints or delays could limit their production and put those fees at risk.
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Neonode earns license fees when customers ship products using its technology, and this report will show whether newer licensing is offsetting declines in printer and older car-touch royalties.
Separate license-fee revenue from engineering-services revenue, and watch whether automotive license fees recover. Rising license fees, especially in automotive, would show new customer products beginning to replace declining legacy shipments; further declines would show that newer licenses have not yet filled the gap. Neonode's 2025 net income included a patent-assignment gain, so it is not a measure of improved licensing operations.
