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• Elliptic labs: During the holiday, ELABS announced the signing of another enterprise license contract with a third PC/Laptop customer. From beforehand, we know that the company has agreement with Lenovo, another top three OEM (HP or Dell) and this one was for one of the top five, which means either #4 (Apple) or #5 (Asus). Hence, our preliminary speculation goes to this being Asus. ELABS will provide human presence detection on future PC and laptop models the OEM (Asus we speculate) is launching to the market. This is very important for three main reasons, including 1) verticalization of existing technology/software platform as the company deliver to the smartphone market, 2) significantly higher price point despite lower PC/laptop volumes compared to the smartphone market and 3) another revenue stream with close to 100% gross margin contribution and hence, highly accretive with regards to operations scalability.
Moreover, earlier this morning, ELABS announced that they have signed a software license contract with a new top 5 smartphone OEM customer. From beforehand, they have Xiaomi, Smartisan, Oneplus, Redmi, Black Shark, Honor and Techno, meaning this contract is for either Samsung, Apple, OPPO or Vivo. We do not know for how many models the contract include, but the agreement cover the software-based Proximity Sensor (replace a hardware sensor and detects, with the use of AI, when a user holds their phone up to their ear during a call, allowing the smartphone to turn off its display and disable its screens touch functionality) – similar to the offering they already deliver to its other smartphone customers. Meaning, as mentioned above 1) another customer with close to 100% gross margin, 2) potential volume without the need for corresponding opex increase (EBIT margin accretive) and 3) continuation of the models added to the smartphone Vertical (the total smartphone models launched as of 3Q22 reporting was 70)
We currently have a Buy recommendation and operate with a NOK22 target price