CEVA, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2014 Financial Results

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 30, 2014 -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of DSP-based IP platforms for vision, audio, communications and connectivity, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014.

Total revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $14.1 million, an increase of 41% compared to $10.0 million for the third quarter of 2013. Licensing and related revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $8.7 million, an increase of 121% compared to $3.9 million reported for the third quarter of 2013. Royalty revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $5.4 million, a decrease of 11% compared to $6.1 million reported for the third quarter of 2013.

Gideon Wertheizer, Chief Executive Officer, stated: "Our third quarter results were driven by the strongest licensing quarter in the company's history. We continue to experience a healthy demand for our products from new customers targeting a broad range of end markets. We are encouraged by our customers' progress in LTE and low cost smartphone shipments, both of which delivered quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year unit growth."

U.S. GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2014 was $0.7 million, compared to a net loss of $0.3 million reported for the same period in 2013. U.S. GAAP diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2014 were $0.03 compared to diluted loss per share of $0.01 for the third quarter of 2013.

Non-GAAP net income and diluted net income per share for the third quarter of 2014 were $2.4 million and $0.12, respectively, representing an increase of 87% and 100%, respectively, over the $1.3 million and $0.06 reported for the third quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2014 exclude: (a) equity-based compensation expense, net of taxes, of $1.0 million, (b) the impact of the amortization of acquired intangibles of $0.3 million associated with the acquisition of RiveraWaves, (c) a loss of approximately $0.4 million from the sale of our minority equity holdings in Antcor, which was sold to u-blox during the quarter, (d) $0.1 million of costs associated with the RivieraWaves acquisition, and (e) income tax benefit related to RivieraWaves acquisition of approximately $0.1 million. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2013 excluded equity-based compensation expense, net of taxes, of $1.6 million.

During the third quarter of 2014, the Company concluded ten new license agreements. Four of the agreements were for CEVA DSP cores, platforms and software, and six were for CEVA connectivity IPs. Target applications for customer deployment are LTE-Advanced handsets, mobile infrastructure, vision for surveillance equipment and digital cameras, access points and wearables. Geographically, six of the agreements signed were in the APAC, including Japan, three were in the U.S. and one was in Europe.

Yaniv Arieli, Chief Financial Officer, stated, "We continued to demonstrate the strength of our licensing business during the third quarter, which further underpins our strategy to grow and diversify our future royalty streams across multiple new markets. Our overall financial position remains robust with our cash balances, marketable securities and bank deposits totaling $128 million at the end of the quarter, post-acquisition related payments, net of cash acquired, of approximately $12 million for RivieraWaves. In addition, we bought back approximately 300,000 shares of CEVA common stock during the quarter for an aggregate consideration of $4.4 million. From the recent July 2013 plan, we successfully repurchased two million shares of our common stock for an aggregate consideration of $30.6 million. We are pleased to announce that our Board of Directors approved a new repurchase plan for an additional one million shares."

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CEVA Conference Call
On October 30, 2014, CEVA management will conduct a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the company's operating performance for the quarter.

The conference call will be available via the following dial in numbers:

• U.S. Participants: Dial 1-866-364-3869 (Access Code: CEVA)
• International Participants: Dial +1-412-902-4215 (Access Code: CEVA)

The conference call will also be available live via the Internet at the following link: http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=100614. Please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.

For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available by dialing +1-877-344-7529 or +1-412-317-0088 (access code: 10053519) from one hour after the end of the call until 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on November 14, 2014. The replay will also be available at CEVA's web site www.ceva-dsp.com.

About CEVA, Inc.
CEVA is the world's leading licensor of DSP-based IP platforms for vision, audio, communications and connectivity. CEVA's IP portfolio includes comprehensive technologies for computer vision and computational photography, advanced audio and voice processing, wireless baseband (2G, 3G & 4G LTE/LTE-A), connectivity (Wi-Fi & Bluetooth) and serial storage (SATA & SAS). In 2013, CEVA's IP was shipped in more than one billion devices, including 40% of handsets shipped worldwide, powering smartphones from many of the world's leading OEMs such as Coolpad, HTC, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Nokia, Samsung, TCL, Xiaomi and ZTE. For more information, visit www.ceva-dsp.com. Follow CEVA on twitter at www.twitter.com/cevadsp.