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DATA I/O CORPORATION FORM 10-K For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 INDEX PART I 3 Item 1.
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
Major Impacts on 2025 The year ended December 31, 2025 was defined by the Company s strategic transformation, directed by President and CEO William Wentworth, who assumed the role in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The Company s strategic plan was designed around six priorities: modernizing our go-to-market strategy, investing in our core technology platform, strengthening customer relationships, optimizing business operations and IT infrastructure, improving operational processes, and deploying artificial intelligence across the organization.
As we enter 2026, management believes the transformation is approximately one year ahead of the original execution timeline projected by management and that the Company believes it is well positioned to return to revenue growth and a path to positive operating cash flow.
A central element of the strategy was the rapid refresh of the Company s core technology platform, initiated and completed through the course of 2025.
The Company launched the next-generation LumenX2 programming platform and LumenX2-M4 manual programmer at the productronica 2025 tradeshow in Munich, Germany in November 2025.
The LumenX2 platform, with higher pin counts and increased power, significantly expands the breadth of device technologies supported on the LumenX architecture, including microcontrollers, eMMC, UFS, SPI NOR flash, Secure Elements, and other device types.
The LumenX2-M4 features VerifyBoost technology delivering verify speeds of up to 750 megabytes per second.
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Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure 48 Item 9A.
Most electronic products today incorporate a number of programmable semiconductor devices that contain data, operating instructions and security credentials essential for the proper operation of the product and more and more products require security deployment.
IoT is a broad term that addresses the interconnectivity of devices and other electronic or smart products.
Our largest customers are heavy users of programmable semiconductor devices and include original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) and tier 1 suppliers in automotive electronics, industrial electronics, consumer electronics and IoT markets as well as their programming center partners and electronic manufacturing service ( EMS ) contract manufacturers.
Major Impacts on 2024 Due to economic and automotive electronics uncertainties and slower customer capacity expansion, shipments of the Company s automated systems in the Americas and Europe were lower which was partially offset by revenue growth in Asia.
COVID-19 impacts in past years were no longer an operational challenge with personnel staffing, inventory levels, supply chain and operational activities returning to normal levels.
However, late in 2024 with the new incoming United States Administration, geo-political, economic and trade uncertainties have increased.
The resulting future impact on the Company s markets, customers, supply chain and operations are uncertain.
We will leverage the experience gained from the impacts of COVID-19, along with the expertise of our leadership and operational teams, to effectively navigate and mitigate these potential challenges.
After a period of stability which lasted over a decade, a key organizational leadership transition occurred in the fourth quarter of 2024 with the planned retirement of Anthony Ambrose and the appointment of a new CEO and President, William Wentworth.