ONON Semiconductor Corporation
AI revenue and adoption · Q1 2026 earnings call
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ON Semiconductor's AI data center business was the standout growth driver in Q1 2026, growing more than 30% quarter-over-quarter and doubling year-over-year, significantly exceeding management's entering expectations of high-teens sequential growth. Management guided for full-year 2026 AI data center revenue to double versus 2025 (implying ~$500M), citing broad adoption across the full power tree with multiple XPU vendors and all leading hyperscalers. The company positioned itself as the only broad-based U.S. power semiconductor supplier covering the full AI data center power stack, from grid to processor, and highlighted recent acquisitions (Aurasemi, JFET SiC) and internal platforms (Treo, FlexPower partnership) as key enablers. AI also drove an 'AI halo effect' in adjacent industrial markets such as energy storage.
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“Last year, we talked about $250 million in AI revenue. We just mentioned that we will be doubling that this year.”
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24 AI mentions from this call.
Extracted verbatim from the ON Q1 2026 earnings call transcript. Speaker, section, and specificity tier surfaced for each mention.
- T5Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIAs architectures move towards higher-voltage distribution, how should we think about the biggest incremental content opportunities for ON Semiconductor Corporation?
“today, at the rack, you can think about a 120-kilowatt rack at roughly $9,500 of content. At the 800-volt or high-voltage rack, we are thinking about roughly $115,000 of content.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Customer demand signal
“We now expect to outpace the power semiconductor growth for this market in 2026, with more than 40% revenue growth year over year and a market share approaching 60%”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callSungrow ElectricEliteSiC, FS7 IGBTs - T5Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIon the AI data center, you mentioned that it grew 30% sequentially. How big is it for ON Semiconductor Corporation right now?
“Last year, we talked about $250 million in AI revenue. We just mentioned that we will be doubling that this year.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“Looking ahead, we now expect our AI data center revenue to double year over year in 2026.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T5Prepared remarks· CFO· Product-embedded AI
“We expect our 2026 AI data center revenue to double compared to full year 2025.”
— Thad Trent, ON earnings call - T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“Turning to AI data centers, our revenue grew more than 30% quarter over quarter, nearly double our expected growth rate entering the quarter, driven by broader adoption across the PowerTree with multiple XPU vendors and all the leading hyperscalers.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callPowerTree - T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“With FlexPower, for example, our partnership now spans more than 30 active programs across intermediate bus converters, power supplies, battery backup, supercapacitors, and next-generation 800-volt DC architectures.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callFlexFlexPower - T4Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIHow do you think those are really going to show through to investors, and when do those become the dominant driver of revenue that we can really see externally?
“If you think about the AI data center, you are already seeing it in 2026. If you recall, we entered the year thinking we were going to be in the high-teens sequential growth for AI data center. We ended up at 30%.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T4Prepared remarks· CFO· Product-embedded AI
“Our AI data center business is accelerating, with Q1 revenue growing more than 30% quarter over quarter and doubling year over year, reflecting platform ramps and expanding engagement across the PowerTree.”
— Thad Trent, ON earnings callPowerTree - T4Prepared remarks· CFO· Product-embedded AI
“For the first quarter, total revenue for the Other category was $299 million, an increase of 3% quarter over quarter due to AI data center strength.”
— Thad Trent, ON earnings call - T4Q&A· CFO· Product-embedded AICan you talk about how you see that progressing in June and into the back half?
“And our Other market, which includes our AI data center, will be up mid-teens quarter on quarter.”
— Thad Trent, ON earnings call - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIdo you think you have the scale and the internal resources to become an important player in that segment, or do you think you will need some inorganic resources?
“We have all the power technologies from the wall to the core, both inside the data center, which is the revenue that we report, but also outside the data center, which we report under industrial. From a technology perspective, I feel very good. We have done some inorganic acquisitions in 2025 that are playing to our advantage. We talked about the Aurasemi acquisition, and we did the JFET silicon carbide acquisition.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callAurasemiTreo - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“As the only broad-based U.S. power semiconductor supplier, ON Semiconductor Corporation continues to build a leading position in AI data centers across the full set of power capabilities required to modernize the power tree, including high-voltage conversion, intelligent power stages, protection and control, and system-level integration from the grid to the processor.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callPowerTree - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIWhen we think about the doubling this year, can you help us understand how much of that is from GaN, how much from silicon carbide, and are we at the point where we can expect any contribution from Treo in the data center?
“We are not breaking it down to that level by product family, but I will tell you it is everywhere from low voltage all the way through high voltage. That includes mixed-signal analog on the GPU or XPU side—low voltage but high power—along with silicon carbide and silicon carbide JFET, and of course our medium- and high-voltage silicon anywhere in between.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callFlexFlexPower - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AII think in the press release, you talked about some AI wins, both with chip guys as well as hyperscalers. I was wondering if perhaps you could elaborate a little bit more there.
“The reference is across the XPU—whether it is GPU or CPU—the power delivery right at the GPU or XPU, in whatever form that is required, whether it is an SPS or anything else. Then if you keep going outside from that point, you go to the rest of the rack where you have the medium- and high-voltage discrete FETs and integrated analog mixed signal.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callFlexFlexPower - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIwith VCORE, there is a sizable market opportunity, especially on the CPU side where we see new server CPU SKUs. Is the team seeing strong interest for your new multiphase controller and regulator products?
“One hundred percent. We are fully focused on it. We have a dedicated team covering that not just from a go-to-market perspective, but from a product perspective as well. There is complete focus on it. It is a very large opportunity, and it is the same focus that we have across the company across the whole power tree.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callAurasemiTreo - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“Our Treo-based driver ICs and inductive position sensing combined with our gallium nitride products deliver high power density, efficiency, and ease of use in humanoid applications, AI data centers, and automotive.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callTreo - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“We delivered revenue of $1.51 billion and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.64, both above the midpoint of guidance, driven by growth in AI data center.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T3Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AITwo of those acquisitions—VCORE controllers and vertical GaN from NextGen—were targeted to have products into the market in the first half of this year for VCORE and sampling of your vertical GaN products. Is the team executing to this?
“The vertical GaN is more on the high voltage. We are sampling vertical GaN and we are on track to continue to do that, with revenue starting in '27.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callNextGen - T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“power management for AI client platforms; and inductive position sensing for humanoids and advanced automation use cases.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings callTreo - T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Customer demand signal
“The AI halo effect continues to drive incremental demand in adjacent infrastructure markets, particularly energy storage systems, as rising energy costs and declining battery prices accelerate project economics.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
“accelerating AI data center growth, and sustained gross margin expansion demonstrate that the structural changes we made over the past several years are now translating into tangible financial results.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T2Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AIare you seeing any kind of lead time extensions or hotspots?
“The strength is not yet shown in automotive, but it will come, and it will come with even stronger allocation in the automotive market given that AI data center has been showing a ton of strength.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call - T2Q&A· CEO· Customer demand signalAre we starting to see that already in the industrial sector but not yet in automotive?
“In AI data center, there is no inventory; it is all going to end build-out.”
— Hassane El-Khoury, ON earnings call
What management wouldn’t quantify.
Analyst questions where management declined to share a specific number. The pattern of refusals is often as informative as the disclosures.
- Management declined to break down AI data center revenue by product family (GaN vs. SiC vs. silicon vs. mixed-signal) despite a direct analyst question from TD Cowen.
- No disclosure of AI data center gross margin relative to corporate average, though Treo (which serves AI data centers) was cited at 60-70% gross margin.
- No disclosure of specific hyperscaler customer names or XPU vendor names beyond FlexPower/Flex.
- No quarterly dollar figure given for AI data center revenue in Q1 2026; only the $250M 2025 baseline and 'doubling' 2026 target were disclosed, requiring analyst inference of ~$500M for 2026.
- No breakdown of AI data center revenue between 'inside the data center' (reported under Other) and 'outside the data center' (reported under industrial/energy storage).
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