Enovix Reports First Quarter 2026 Results

Enovix Begins Commercial Production of Silicon-Anode Smart Eyewear Battery 
Enovix Advances Toward Smartphone Qualification Completion

FREMONT, Calif., May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Enovix Corporation (Nasdaq: ENVX) (“Enovix”), a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries, including proprietary silicon-anode architectures, today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2026. The Company will host a live webcast at 5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT to discuss the results and provide a business update. To register for the webcast, please visit: https://enovix-q1-2026.open-exchange.net/.

Commercialization Progress
“Smartphones remain our priority as we advance toward completing qualification with our lead customer and prepare for commercial production for the most demanding market in consumer electronics,” said Dr. Raj Talluri, President and CEO of Enovix. “We aligned with our lead smartphone customer on a silicon-specific qualification framework — a significant step forward in completing this process. Our second smartphone OEM customer has also acknowledged that the legacy 0.7C cycle-life test is not appropriate for silicon batteries. We are discussing a replacement qualification framework expected to be consistent with the one adopted by our lead customer. We believe this addresses the primary structural barrier to qualification of our 100% silicon anode batteries and reinforces the broader applicability across the smartphone market. Based upon results to date, we continue to see encouraging performance trends across energy density, fast charge, and safety metrics, while cycle-life testing under these enhanced protocols remains ongoing. We recognize this qualification process has taken longer than we originally anticipated — these updated frameworks represent the clearest path to completing it. Beyond smartphones, our defense business continues to generate strong commercial momentum. In addition, our smart eyewear battery is entering early production.”

Cycle-life testing is now progressing under these updated evaluation frameworks, with results approaching performance thresholds. These frameworks extend testing duration while providing improved visibility into real-world performance across multiple operating conditions. Final qualification timing will depend on completion of testing and customer validation processes. These updated protocols increase testing rigor and duration rather than reduce qualification requirements. The Company is also continuously advancing its core battery platform, expected to deliver further cycle-life improvements and represent additional product qualification pathways. This supports our expectation for a targeted system-level deployment in the second half of 2026 with a lead smartphone OEM to confirm in-field performance ahead of broader commercial introduction. Simultaneously, we are in collaboration with our lead customer on the battery form factor for next year’s product launch.

Customer engagement continues to expand across AI-powered applications requiring high energy density in compact form factors. In smart eyewear, Enovix has begun initial shipments and expects to ramp manufacturing in the third quarter to support a leading smart eyewear reference platform. We expect to produce approximately 50,000 units in 2026 and increase into 2027 as downstream deployments expand. We believe this represents an important initial validation that our 100% silicon-anode architecture can be manufactured at commercial scale.

In parallel, Enovix sees growing demand across drone, defense, and industrial applications, securing new customer design wins during Q1 2026 in each of these markets with deployments expected in 2027. The Company’s global pipeline for products manufactured in Korea now exceeds $130 million, with the majority driven by rapidly expanding drone applications, where demand for high-performance battery solutions continues to outpace available supply and creates opportunity for an additional scaled, high-performance supplier. We believe Enovix is positioned to emerge as that differentiated supplier in this rapidly expanding market.

MX-1™ Drone Product Launch
To further support growth in these markets, Enovix is launching MX-1 — short for Mission Execution — a platform designed for applications requiring rugged design, rapid discharge, and high gravimetric energy density. MX-1 is the Company’s first silicon-enhanced product line, developed by its integrated R&D and operations teams, and manufactured in our South Korea factory. MX-1 builds on a proven graphite-anode architecture, already deployed with leading South Korean defense contractors. The first MX-1 platform product — MX1-B01 drone cell — with 360 Wh/kg energy density and extended cycle life, positioning Enovix competitively with leading high-performance battery suppliers. Looking ahead, our next generation product is targeted for 2027 with a goal of reaching 400 Wh/kg.

Technology Progress
Enovix produced its first AI-2 engineering samples this quarter, a next-generation smart eyewear battery expected to deliver more than 20% higher volumetric energy density than AI-1. AI-2 leverages the EX-3M technology node, which reduces separator and current collector thickness, improves packaging efficiency, and increases cathode voltage. Customer sampling is planned for later in the second quarter of 2026. The same EX-3M innovations are also expected to support a step-function in performance gains for Enovix’s future smartphone batteries.

Manufacturing Readiness Progress
Enovix continued to improve execution across Fab2 production zones. Zone 1 dicing — a key throughput driver — delivering step-level yield of approximately 80% in Q1, demonstrating continued progress in throughput and yield. To further improve throughput at the dicing stage, the Company is implementing a hybrid dicing configuration strategy combining laser and mechanical dicing. This approach allows Enovix to apply the most effective technique at each step and is expected to increase production rates and support early commercial demand as qualification progresses.

Leadership
As previously announced, Enovix recently appointed Steve Bakos as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales to help drive its next phase of commercial expansion. Bakos brings more than 35 years of global semiconductor sales leadership, most recently serving as Vice President of Corporate Account Sales at Infineon Technologies. Earlier in his career, he held senior sales, distribution and marketing leadership roles at Linear Technology, Intersil, and Exar. His appointment reflects expanding market opportunities and Enovix’s commitment to building the commercial infrastructure needed for scaled revenue growth.

First Quarter 2026 Financial Results
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• First quarter 2026 revenue of $7.6 million exceeded the high end of the Company’s guidance range and increased 49% year-over-year, primarily reflecting continued strength in defense and industrial shipments. Cells manufactured through Enovix’s South Korea operations continue deployment across defense applications, including aerial drones, subsea systems and munitions platforms, while next-generation silicon-anode developments position Enovix to support future higher-performance applications. Operational experience from these programs continues to inform manufacturing improvements as Enovix prepares for commercial-scale battery production. Revenue growth this quarter reflects increasing traction in markets capable of supporting broader scale over time.
• GAAP gross profit was $1.6 million and non-GAAP gross profit was $2.0 million in 1Q26. Non-GAAP gross margin improved to 26.3%, reflecting improved production volumes and continued progress in manufacturing execution, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of positive gross profit on both a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. This marks a continued progression toward economically scalable production.
• Net cash used in operating activities of $33.1 million in 1Q26, compared to an outflow of $16.9 million in 1Q25. Free cash flow was an outflow of $36.3 million in 1Q26, compared to an outflow of $23.2 million in 1Q25 primarily reflecting changes in working capital, the timing of capital expenditures, continued investment in manufacturing scale-up, and higher interest expense associated with the semi-annual interest payment of the Company’s convertible notes issued in the third quarter of 2025.
• Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaled approximately $582.7 million at quarter-end, providing liquidity to support qualification completion and commercialization scale-up. Enovix continues to prioritize disciplined capital allocation as it advances manufacturing scale-up and commercialization, while maintaining flexibility to pursue select strategic opportunities. No shares were repurchased during the quarter under the Company’s previously authorized share repurchase program. The Company continues evaluating disciplined capital deployment alternatives under its existing authorization.

Chairman’s First Quarter 2026 Summary

Every quarter just prior to the board meeting, I attend a six-hour meeting directly with Enovix “techies” to get updated on R&D and our new Malaysian factory, so that I can write a relevant report addressing investor feedback and concerns.

The Enovix battery is the single most difficult project I’ve ever worked on, beginning in 2012 when I joined Enovix as an investor and board member. In those private-company days, the “board meetings” were mostly used to review the latest experiments. The original Enovix founders recruited me to invest partly because my PhD thesis was about using hydrazine (literally rocket fuel), which etches silicon strictly along crystal planes, to create nearly perfect grooves in silicon wafers on which I made transistors and simple Integrated Circuit (IC) chips at the Stanford IC laboratory, a world-class center of excellence on “Moore’s Law.” Enovix had used the same technique to make lithium-ion batteries inside grooves in silicon wafers. I agreed to join Enovix with the logic of “how hard could it be to make a battery with five-micron geometries inside the grooves in a silicon wafer where I had already made sub-micron transistors?” The answer is 14 years hard and counting.

The lithium atom is 0.15 nanometers in diameter, or 3,700 times smaller than a wavelength of green light. It is arguably the sharpest knife in the world, which easily slices between the layers of silicon atoms in a wafer, turning a once-sturdy crystal into “mush” after just 10 battery charge-discharge cycles. We never got the battery-in-silicon to work. When the founders of Enovix were down to their last $200,000 of venture money, they postulated that they could stack normal battery materials, the anode layer (silicon on copper foil) and cathode layer (cobalt oxide on aluminum foil) to create the same effective structure as they had on silicon wafers. I literally advised, “Do your last silicon wafer experiment and die like men,” but they were right and made the new structure work on the first try, convincing investors, including me, to continue to support them. Today, we routinely achieve a 500-cycle life, same as the 500-cycle standard in place for years, but not yet the 800-cycle level needed for today’s smart phones.

Last quarter I reported that we had passed 70 of the 75 battery specifications of our most demanding smart phone customer. Today the score card stands at 72 of 75, with two life cycle tests and one below-freezing power test in front of us. I also reported that of the manufacturing steps in our new automatic manufacturing line, all but one yielded above 80%. Today, all but two steps yield above 90% with the other two at approximately 80% and 88%. I now believe our new battery line is going to work with good yield, but I warn that, as in Moore’s Law for silicon, bringing on an all-new manufacturing line is a two-year journey that we are only halfway through. Today, despite making thousands of batteries, the line does not run fast enough due to the slow speed of laser cutting the hard cobalt oxide cathode. We have decided not to buy the additional (approximately $1 million each) lasers required to achieve 1,350 uph, based on economics. Meanwhile, we have been working for over a year on standard die cutting technology to replace laser cutting, and are now able to make thousands of batteries per quarter while we work on line speed.

My focus is now back on R&D – getting the battery cycle life up to 800 cycles. Meanwhile, we are sampling production-worthy batteries for smart eyewear, a market in which we continue to have a leading product that does meet the required specs. The good news is that our smart eyewear batteries use 12 times less raw material than a cellphone battery, and thus run faster with higher yield through our line. We have already shipped smart eyewear sample batteries to 15 customers and expect to ship 50,000 samples and prototypes in 2026.

After 14 years, it would be foolish to project quick success, but we are without a doubt moving consistently in the right direction.

About Enovix

Enovix develops and manufactures advanced lithium-ion batteries, including proprietary silicon-anode architectures for smartphones, smart eyewear, defense, industrial and emerging edge-AI applications. Its proprietary silicon-anode battery architecture enables higher energy density and performance in space-constrained devices while maintaining safety and reliability, supporting commercialization across consumer and industrial markets.

Enovix is headquartered in Silicon Valley with facilities in India, Korea and Malaysia, servicing customers globally. For more information visit https://enovix.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes the use of non-GAAP financial measures, which are intended to provide supplemental information regarding our performance. These non-GAAP measures include non-GAAP cost of revenue, non-GAAP gross profit (loss), non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP research and development expense, non-GAAP selling, general and administrative expense, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP income (loss) from operations, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net loss attributable to Enovix shareholders, non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share, free cash flow, and other non-GAAP measures that are included in this press release.

We use these non-GAAP measures to supplement our financial reporting and to evaluate ongoing operations and results, facilitate internal planning and forecasting, and assess performance against prior periods, industry peers, and the broader market. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and should not be considered as an alternative to GAAP results. Industry peers and other companies may calculate similar non-GAAP measures differently. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations, including but not limited to, that they exclude certain expenses that are required under GAAP, which adjustments reflect the exercise of judgment by management. We believe that these non-GAAP measures, when considered together with the GAAP results, provide investors with an additional understanding of our operating performance. Reconciliations of each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure can be found in the tables at the end of this press release.

While Enovix provides second quarter 2026 guidance for non-GAAP loss from operations, non-GAAP net loss per share and capital expenditures, we are unable to provide without unreasonable effort a GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation of these projected non-GAAP measures, and we have not provided a quantitative reconciliation in reliance on the unreasonable efforts exception under Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K. Such reconciliation to the corresponding GAAP financial measure cannot be provided without unreasonable effort because of the inherent difficulty in accurately forecasting the occurrence and financial impact of the various adjustments that have not yet occurred, are out of our control, or cannot be reasonably predicted, including but not limited to change in fair value of common stock, stock-based compensation and related tax effects, legal costs related to shareholder lawsuit, gain on bargain purchase of assets, acquisition-related costs, and restructuring costs. As a result, we are unable to assess the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could have a material impact on our future GAAP financial results.

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Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: our future operating results, financial position, growth opportunities and guidance; expected performance, capabilities and advantages of our battery products, including projected improvements in energy density, cycle life, future product development and technology roadmap; the status, timing and scale of our launch of various customer programs in 2026 and beyond; our expectations regarding alignment and timing, results and impact of customer testing and qualification requirements; our ability to meet required performance thresholds and progress toward commercial deployment; our ability to build, scale and optimize manufacturing lines for our advanced silicon-anode lithium-ion batteries, including improvements in yield, throughput, dicing processes, performance, cost efficiency and overall production economics; our ability to execute on our commercialization strategy and transition to high-volume production, including the timing of sampling, product launches, production ramps and system-level deployment; estimates relating to total addressable markets, customer demand and the suitability of our batteries for next-generation applications, including smartphones, smart eyewear, IoT, defense and industrial markets; our ability to maintain technological and performance advantages over competing battery technologies and architectures; our expectations regarding our AI and MX platforms and the demand for greater energy density in our intended markets, the suitability of our batteries to address this demand, and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the foregoing; our ability to align with, retain and expand relationships with top-tier OEMs and other customers, grow our customer pipeline, convert commercial opportunities into revenue and achieve scaled revenue growth; the sufficiency of our capital resources and our expectations regarding the benefits and use of our current balances of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities; and our ability to raise additional capital through equity, debt or other financing arrangements to support operations, growth initiatives and capital expenditures.

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Net Loss Attributable to Enovix to Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation

“EBITDA” is defined as earnings (net loss) attributable to Enovix adjusted for interest income, interest expense, income tax benefit, depreciation, accretion and amortization expense. “Adjusted EBITDA” includes additional adjustments to EBITDA such as stock-based compensation expense, change in fair value of common stock warrants, inventory step-up, impairment of equipment, warrant issuance cost, certain legal costs related to our defense of an ongoing securities class action complaint that is outside the ordinary course of business and that we do not consider representative of our performance, and other special items as determined by management which it does not believe to be indicative of its underlying business trends.

These non-GAAP measures may differ from similarly titled measures used by other companies.

Below is a reconciliation of net loss attributable to Enovix on a GAAP basis to the non-GAAP EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA financial measures for the periods presented below (unaudited, in thousands):

Reconciliation of Operating Loss to Non-GAAP Operating Loss and Adjusted EBITDA

Additionally, below is a reconciliation of GAAP operating loss to non-GAAP operating loss and adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented (unaudited, in thousands).

These non-GAAP measures may differ from similarly titled measures used by other companies.

Free Cash Flow Reconciliation

We define “Free Cash Flow” as (i) net cash from operating activities less (ii) capital expenditures, net of proceeds from disposals of property and equipment, all of which are derived from our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow. The presentation of non-GAAP Free Cash Flow is not intended as an alternative measure of cash flows from operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP.

We believe Free Cash Flow is a useful measure for investors because it provides insight into the cash generated or used by our operations after funding capital expenditures, and it helps assess our ability to pursue strategic growth initiatives. We use Free Cash Flow internally to evaluate performance, support decision-making, and measure our progress toward profitability and cash flow breakeven.

This non-GAAP measure may differ from similarly titled measures used by other companies.

Below is a reconciliation of net cash used in operating activities to the Free Cash Flow financial measures for the periods presented below (unaudited, in thousands):

Other Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation
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These non-GAAP measures may differ from similarly titled measures used by other companies.