Xperi Inc

Corporate Information

The principal executive offices of Xperi Inc. (“we”, “our”, the “Company” or “Xperi”) are located at 2190 Gold Street, San Jose, California 95002 USA. Our telephone number is +1 (408) 519-9100. We maintain a corporate website at xperi.com. The reference to our website address does not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained on this website. Xperi, the Xperi logo, TiVo, the TiVo logo, DTS, the DTS logo, Ergo, DTS HD, DTS Audio Processing, DTS:X Ultra, DTS Virtual:X, DTS Headphone:X, DTS Play-Fi, DTS:X, DTS AutoStage, and HD Radio are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xperi or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Overview

We are a leading consumer and entertainment technology company. We believe we create extraordinary experiences at home and on the go for millions of consumers around the world, enabling audiences to connect with content in a way that is more intelligent, immersive, and personal. Powering smart devices, connected cars, entertainment experiences and more, we bring together ecosystems designed to reach highly engaged consumers, allowing us and our ecosystem partners to uncover significant new business opportunities, now and in the future. Our technologies are integrated into consumer devices and a variety of media platforms worldwide, driving increased value for our partners, customers and consumers. We operate in one reportable business segment and group our business into four categories: Pay-TV, Consumer Electronics, Connected Car and Media Platform. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with operations around the world, we have approximately 2,100 employees and more than 35 years of operating experience.

In December 2023, we entered into a definitive agreement with Tobii AB (the “Purchaser”), an eye tracking and attention computing company, pursuant to which we agreed to sell to the Purchaser our AutoSense in-cabin safety business and related imaging solutions (the “Divestiture”). The Divestiture, which was completed in January 2024, is expected to further streamline our business and focus our investments on entertainment markets.

Market Opportunity

Consumer preferences and behavior around media consumption are undergoing a significant transformation, driven by new platforms for content delivery, greater availability of diverse content, and an increase in time spent consuming video content. Video content delivery is rapidly shifting from linear broadcast to over-the-top (“OTT”) platforms, impacting not just how users consume content, but also the ad-supported programming ecosystem. Our technologies sit at the forefront of this transformation, enhancing consumer experiences where consumers spend the most time – in their homes and in their cars. Our solutions not only enhance the user experience, but also enable partners across the entire ecosystem to participate in the continuously evolving content delivery value chain.

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Shift to OTT and Streaming: OTT has rapidly become a mainstream content delivery mechanism through a wide variety of providers such as Netflix, Disney+ and YouTube. OTT media now accounts for more than 50% of US weekly video viewing for adults ages 18 and older. The proliferation of OTT has created the need for a new generation of entertainment products that are centered on the OTT viewing experience. Consumers are increasingly looking for solutions that allow them to navigate across the fragmented and complex entertainment landscape of OTT content.

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OTT Advertising Monetization: The shift to OTT has not only impacted user needs for entertainment devices, but also disrupted the ad-based programming model that was centered on linear TV programming. While delivering ad-based programming to OTT audiences has presented new challenges, it has also created opportunities for advertisers to deliver customized, highly relevant, and targeted ad content to a rapidly growing audience. Since the majority of video advertising dollars are weighted toward linear TV, we believe the OTT advertising market is positioned for significant growth in the next 3 to 5 years as advertisers continue to follow the viewing audience as it shifts viewing habits from traditional television to streaming. At the same time, there is a new set of industry participants that are looking for ways to monetize the ad-based ecosystem, including consumer electronics manufacturers, Smart TV OEMs, automotive manufacturers, and video-over-broadband (“IPTV”) operators that have historically not participated in the OTT value chain. Thus, we believe there is a significant market opportunity for an independent media platform that enables participants to monetize their products through recurring revenue streams across the lifecycle of the device rather than just a one-time monetization opportunity at the point-of-sale.

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Marked Need for An Independent Media Platform: Nearly half of all Smart TVs each year are shipped into Western Europe and North America by leading electronics manufacturers who lack the scale required to support the technology, content, and monetization capabilities of a Smart TV OS and streaming media platform. The same situation is also true for automotive manufacturers. This creates a unique opportunity for an independent media platform that allows Smart TV OEMs to brand the experience to maintain the customer relationship, provide the necessary scale to secure top content streaming providers, and participate in the long-term monetization throughout the typical 5-year lifecycle of TV ownership.

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Increasing Consumption of Video Content: Average U.S. weekly video viewing of 42 hours remains relatively consistent from COVID-era highs, up from an average of 38 hours per week in 2015, driven by a number of factors, including increased availability of content catering to various consumer tastes and preferences, new platforms for consumption such as personal devices (e.g., mobiles and tablets), and disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic. Consumers are increasing their spend on entertainment devices that deliver superior experiences and simplify the consumption of content across multiple platforms and devices. Omdia S.A. estimates revenues from the shipment of these platforms and devices in North America alone (including TVs, Smartphones, Tablets and PCs, Streaming Media Players, connected Blu-Rays players, and Video Game consoles) will surpass $190 billion in 2023 and continue to grow by 3% year-over-year to 2025.

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Growing Connectivity in Cars and the Future of Semi-Autonomous and Autonomous Vehicles: As the automobile dashboard interface becomes more integral to the in-car experience, purchasing a car for its infotainment capabilities starts to move up the list of purchase considerations for car buyers. A McKinsey survey reported that 37% of consumers state they are eager to switch to cars with increased connectivity and nearly half of the high-end auto consumers express an interest in exploring the digital capabilities of their new cars. Autonomous and semi-autonomous driving technologies have made significant progress over the last several years and passenger cars are increasingly being fitted with autonomous driving features. If autonomous driving technologies become mainstream, the automobile will become a more common place for media consumption. Over time, we believe consumers will place significant importance on the quality of media delivery and will expect the quality of delivery in the car to be comparable to that of their living room including access to OTT video and interactive gaming solutions.

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Increasing Use of “Smart” Devices: Consumers have long relied on smartphones enabled with virtual assistants, talk-to-text, and other intelligent features, and increasingly want other home devices (as well as their automobiles) to be enabled with similar smart capabilities. “Smart” devices have created attractive opportunities to deliver personalized content discovery and highly differentiated experiences in the car, on par with consumers’ home media devices.

Strategy

Our business focuses on creating extraordinary experiences at home and on the go for millions of consumers around the world, elevating content and how audiences connect with it, in a way that is more intelligent, immersive, and personal:

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Pay-TV: We transform the traditional television user experience from linear multichannel video programming distributors (“MVPD”) with cloud-based DVRs into an immersive, intuitive, and hyper-personalized experience. Our iconic user experience, with enhanced imagery and relevant, personalized recommendations, enables consumers to navigate to the entertainment they want to watch in an enjoyable and engaging experience.

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Consumer Electronics: We invent and deliver audio technologies to be deployed across ecosystems in support of consumers enjoying an extraordinary entertainment or gaming experience from the living room, desktop, or on the go. We continue to develop and evolve our DTS audio technologies, leveraging our content insight and AI capabilities, to deliver immersive audio with enhanced device playback solutions that solve end user issues such as ease of wireless set up, loudness and dialog clarity.

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Connected Car: We seek to transform the automotive experience with a content-oriented multimedia experience, driven by personalization to the connected car. Our solutions immerse drivers and passengers in more of their favorite audio and video content, and also enable high quality, subscription-free digital radio. With vehicle safety systems improving, consumer expectations around consuming content become more demanding. We are innovating to create the dashboard of the future, striving to accommodate more types of entertainment, from audio, video, gaming and more to create a compelling entertainment experience in the car.

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Media Platform: We are strongly positioned as an independent media platform that allows Smart TV OEMs to brand the experience to maintain the customer relationship, provide the necessary scale to secure top content streaming providers, and generate recurring revenues by participating in monetization throughout the lifecycle of TV ownership. Our platform creates high viewer engagement with an unbiased, content-first user experience where traditional linear TV and streaming services integrate into a personalized experience that makes it easy to find, watch and enjoy content across fragmented ecosystems. Our solutions allow advertisers and entertainment producers to connect with audiences they cannot as easily reach on other platforms. Our footprint includes millions of traditional linear TV households, where we deterministically capture viewership data throughout the home, as well as anyone streaming from our ad-supported content network. By creating an environment where users search less and watch more, we enable content producers to grow their audiences and consumer brands to increase exposure to their marketing campaigns over time.

Pay-TV

Our Pay-TV business delivers a range of User Experience (“UX”) solutions servicing Pay-TV operators on a worldwide basis with products that address the evolving user experience around TV content consumption, creating a truly unified media experience. We integrate virtual channels of internet-delivered video directly into the consumer’s primary video consumption platform to provide universal search, discovery, and consumption regardless of where the content originates. Our solutions make it easy for consumers to find, watch, and enjoy content. The following are some of the key solutions we license to operators.

Electronic Program Guides Electronic Program Guides is our interactive program guide offering that includes intuitive, easy-to-use TV listings navigation plus integrated video-on-demand (“VOD”) and digital video recorder (“DVR”) capabilities.

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allow service providers to customize certain elements of the interactive program guide for their customers and to upgrade the programming features and services they offer;

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provide content producers with a platform for monetizing their content;

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allow viewers to build their own entertainment bundle to truly personalize their experience with current and future program information; and

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are compatible with service providers’ linear, network DVR, Start-Over/Catch-Up subscription management, pay-per-view (“PPV”) and VOD services.

Our UX Solutions may include advertising and we typically share a portion of the advertising revenue with the service provider. Advertising revenue tied to our UX Solutions is included in the Media Platform category described below.

TiVo IPTV The TiVo IPTV Service is our most advanced platform, offering a fully integrated, cloud-based solution that powers the TiVo client software which operates on set-top-boxes in consumer homes, as well as applications that operate on third-party software platforms such as iOS and Android that power tablets, smartphones, Smart TVs, streaming devices such as Apple TV and Android TV, and traditional IPTV set-top boxes. Our IPTV solution supports multiple services and applications, such as TV programming, broadband OTT video content, digital music, photos and other media experiences. Our latest generation UX, includes a new look and feel, and our latest IPTV platform integrates all of our most advanced technologies and solutions, including advanced cross-platform conversational voice search, personalized recommendations, predictions and insights, rich video metadata, robust data collection and new back-office capabilities.

TV as a Service IPTV We offer a Managed IPTV Service that is a customizable, cloud-enabled, end-to-end streaming video solution that enables operators to quickly launch a branded, fully compliant, full-featured Pay-TV service that leverages tablets, smartphones, Smart TVs, streaming devices such as Apple TV and Android TV, and traditional IPTV set-top-boxes.

Our Managed IPTV Service enables broadband service providers, wireless network providers and cable operators to offer TV-as-a-service without having to invest extensively in video head-end infrastructure or end-user set-top-boxes. Our TV as a Service IPTV solution includes a full cable programming lineup with local channels, DVR, recommendations, Dynamic Ad Insertion and more, all with the same ease as signing up for and using top streaming services.

Video Metadata Our metadata products are a critical component of delivering an interactive entertainment experience. We offer one of the industry’s most comprehensive metadata libraries, covering television, sports, movies, digital-first, celebrities, books, and video games. Our focus on quality, robustness and consistent international depth has made us a recognized leader in entertainment metadata services worldwide.

Customers typically pay us a monthly or quarterly licensing fee for the rights to use our metadata, receive regular updates, and integrate metadata into their own service.

Personalized Content Discovery, Natural Language Voice and Insights Personalized Content Discovery with conversation services provides our customers with a way to enable their customers (the device user) to quickly find, discover and access content across linear television, VOD, DVR, and OTT sources. The ongoing investment in our Personalized Content Discovery platform enables us to provide some of the most advanced capabilities in media personalization, prediction, and voice search. The advanced algorithms of our technology understand the nature and relationship of content information and the context surrounding a user’s behavior to deliver an advanced personalized content discovery experience. Our natural language voice solution, when combined with our advanced search and recommendations technology, enables a conversational interaction between a viewer and their content experience. Engagement behaviors are then analyzed and optimized, thereby providing our customers with the insight required to continuously engage and improve the consumer experience, with the ultimate goal of increasing viewership and reducing churn.

Legacy TiVo DVR Subscriptions We offer direct-to-consumer retail TiVo DVR subscriptions in North America. The TiVo Service Platform includes a modular front-end that allows the basic platform to be used by hardware manufacturers to build set-top-boxes that support digital and analog broadcast, cable, internet TV, OTT and VOD services. Consumers purchase TiVo DVRs and companion TiVo Mini whole-home devices for a user experience upgrade to the set-top-box experience provided by a standard cable service, and typically pay us a per-subscriber or per-device fee for TiVo DVR subscriptions.

UX Business Operations and Technical Support Our UX Business has technical support and certification operations to support our products:

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we provide training, technical support and integration services to Pay-TV service providers who license our products;

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we operate the internet-based services required for our service offerings including data delivery, search, recommendation, advertising, device management and media recognition;

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we provide broadcast delivery of television programming data and advertising to UXs on TVs and set-top-boxes in major European markets, in Japan, and in North America; we also deliver similar programming and advertising data via the internet;

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we support our customers with porting and engineering services to ensure our interactive program guides and DVRs operate properly; and

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we provide customer care for UX and DVR customers to resolve data, advertising, and consumer functional issues.

Our Consumer Electronics business provides technology solutions delivered to our customers to enhance their entertainment experience in the home and on-the-go. Below are some of the key solutions we license:

Home and Mobile Audio Solutions Our solutions consist of premier audio technology for high-definition entertainment experiences. Our DTS codec is designed to enable recording, delivery and playback of immersive high-definition audio and is incorporated by customers around the world into an array of consumer electronics devices. We provide products and services to entertainment ecosystem partners such as motion picture studios, game developers and other content creators to facilitate the inclusion of compelling, realistic DTS-encoded audio within their content. The incorporation of our solutions into consumer end devices allows consumers to experience immersive and compelling audio wherever they choose to enjoy it. Home and mobile devices that incorporate DTS audio codec technology include TVs, PCs, smartphones, tablets, set top boxes, video game consoles, Blu-ray Disc players, audio/video receivers, soundbars, wireless speakers, home theater systems, and USB microphones and headphones (gaming and non-gaming varieties). We also offer DTS post-processing audio solutions designed to enhance the entertainment experience for users of consumer electronics devices, particularly those subject to the physical limitations of smaller speakers, such as TVs, laptop computers, soundbars and mobile devices.

Pursuant to a consumer electronics device certification and licensing program operated by IMAX Corporation and DTS, Inc., since 2017, we have been offering consumers worldwide the ability to experience an IMAX Enhanced immersive movie experience with IMAX Enhanced content from leading studios such as Disney and Sony Pictures. In addition, our DTS Play-Fi technology leverages our audio technology expertise to enable a variety of high-quality audio playback options across wireless speakers, set-top-boxes, TVs, and mobile devices.

Our immersive audio solutions, such as DTS-HD and DTS:X, empower content creators to deliver more compelling content and are supported by major Hollywood studios, many cinema operators in the United States and Asia, and leading streaming service providers in the United States, Europe and Asia. We have licensed our audio technologies and related trademarks to substantially all the major consumer electronics product manufacturers worldwide. These customers include Denso, Harman, Hisense, HP, LG, Logitech, Microsoft, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, TCL and others.

Typically, our audio technologies are delivered as software code on integrated circuit (“IC”) chips. We license a defined and limited set of rights to incorporate our technology onto IC chips, and the IC manufacturers deliver these chips to our customers, the consumer electronics product manufacturers. We also license our decoder and post processing as a Software Development Kit (“SDK”). Our decoder software is integrated in mobile and tablet applications to support entertainment enjoyment on the go.

We have devoted significant time and resources to develop a broad range of solutions with key partners including Amlogic, Analog Devices, Cadence, Cirrus Logic, MediaTek, NXP, Qualcomm, Realtek, Synaptics, Texas Instruments, and others.

Perceive

In the machine learning area, our Perceive subsidiary delivers silicon and software solutions for edge inference. Perceive’s Ergo family of chips, IP and associated software deliver breakthrough innovation – the ability to run advanced AI models at the edge, delivering accuracy and high performance at ultra-low power, enabling a wide range of applications such as object detection, audio/video event detection and media processing. These solutions enable efficient AI inference at the edge, reducing or eliminating the need to send data to the cloud, and thus reducing latency, operating costs, power, and heat, as well as complying with increasing privacy and safety concerns of regulators. Perceive is currently extending its technology to enable inference using Large Language Models (LLMs) in edge devices.

We group our Connected Car business into two main categories based on the products delivered to our customers: HD Radio and DTS AutoStage.

HD Radio HD Radio is the only digital terrestrial broadcast system approved by the FCC for AM/FM radio in the United States, offering additional channels, crystal-clear sound and advanced data services with no subscription fees. HD Radio enables a high-quality in-vehicle radio experience with innovative features and digital capabilities such as real time traffic and weather updates.

HD Radio is supported by more than 2,700 radio stations offering over 4,600 digital audio broadcasts, including 97 of the 100 largest stations in the United States, and is incorporated into vehicles from Acura, Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Tesla, and Toyota, among many others.

DTS AutoStage DTS AutoStage is a comprehensive automotive infotainment offering, integrating our DTS premium audio solution, TiVo video platform, leading metadata capabilities, and legendary search and discovery algorithms to provide a vastly improved in-cabin entertainment experience. DTS AutoStage is a global system that enables car makers to use a single platform to deliver an enhanced infotainment experience for connected cars. Daimler launched the first series of automobiles featuring the DTS AutoStage platform in September 2020, followed by numerous vehicle brands thereafter.

In 2023, Xperi and BMW Group announced the deployment of the DTS AutoStage video service Powered by TiVo, across various models in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and South Korea. This video service brings an award-winning, content-first experience to the connected car, delivering free premium content across live TV, news, sports, movies and more. BMW launched the first series of automobiles featuring AutoStage video service in fall of 2023, and plans to integrate this service into additional makes and models in 2024.

Media Platform provides the services and technology required to enable consumers to find, watch, and enjoy their favorite media entertainment on connected devices, while at the same time, providing us the ability to monetize this engagement with certain content. We license proprietary technology and services in an independent media platform that connects advertisers and entertainment producers to audiences they cannot as easily reach on other platforms.

Media Platform includes our Vewd middleware solutions, TiVo OS, TiVo Stream 4K, connected TVs and connected cars that leverage the TiVo OS, and the associated monetization of these endpoints.

Platform – TiVo OS

TiVo OS drives industry-leading consumer engagement by delivering rich metadata, personalization, natural language understanding and voice control, and content integration services. TiVo OS provides industry-leading content recommendations based on AI-defined insights encouraging consumers to continually discover their next new favorite program or show. TiVo OS brings services from long-time partners such as Disney, Hulu, and YouTube TV, among others, and seamlessly integrates local TV, free ad-supported TV (“FAST”), and the most popular services for Ad-supported Video on Demand (“AVOD”), Subscription Video on Demand (“SVOD”), and virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (“vMVPD”) services. As the TiVo OS footprint increases, the inventory of FAST and AVOD services, such as our own TiVo+ network, also increases to provide a robust opportunity to monetize this unique, connected TV advertisement inventory.

Devices – TiVo Stream 4K

TiVo Stream 4K is a best-in-class streaming media player that currently leverages components of TiVo OS with market-leading networking, video and sound technologies to provide a powerful hardware platform on which TiVo OS can operate to upgrade any screen with an HDMI connection to a smart, connected device. TiVo Stream 4K is sold via online and traditional retail channels as well as through broadband partners seeking to provide a vMVPD service and streaming media player bundled offerings to their customers.

Devices – TiVo OS for TV

TiVo OS for TV is a Linux-based Smart TV operating system that leverages TiVo OS technologies, features, and capabilities. The TiVo OS platform for Smart TVs launched in 2023 with our first Smart TV OEM partner Vestel. Since announcing Vestel as our initial TiVo OS partner, we have announced additional design wins with Sharp, Konka, and Skyworth, and have a total of five Smart TV OEMs under contract. TiVo OS for TVs is licensed as a software-as-a-service to Smart TV OEMs and will include the right to monetize all or part of the end-user content engagement over the life of the device. For Tier 2 and Tier 3 Smart TV OEMs, TiVo OS provides an opportunity to participate in the fast-growing connected TV monetization value chain with scale and cross-platform end-user insight not available to OEMs on a standalone basis.

Devices – TiVo OS for Car

TiVo OS for Car is a modified version of the Linux-based TiVo Smart TV operating system designed specifically for the automotive space. This solution is an optional feature available through our DTS AutoStage offering, known as DTS AutoStage with Video, Powered by TiVo. Our first design win was announced in 2022 with BMW and went into production in the fall of 2023, providing a living room-like experience through the display screen in the dashboard of the vehicle. With the successful launch of DTS AutoStage with Video in BMW cars, we have won an additional design with another European automotive OEM and are actively pursuing additional opportunities.

Monetization - TiVo OS

TiVo OS is primarily monetized through video or display advertisement impressions; subscription VOD, Pay-TV service bounties, and revenue shares; TV viewership data licensing; off-platform connected TV ads; and other opportunities on device clients that connect to and leverage TiVo OS.

As the footprint of devices using TiVo OS grows, we expect to monetize the devices through the following vehicles:

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Ad Supported Content: The sale of ad inventory on services, including our own TiVo+ and certain third-party AVOD services.

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SVOD and MVPD Services: Revenue shared by SVOD and virtual MVPD services on new user subscriptions activated or re-activated through our OS platform.

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Home Screen Ad Placements: Ad placements on the TiVo OS platform’s home screen by streaming services, studios, and other consumer brands.

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Data Licensing: Revenue from advertisers, advertising agencies, and networks to license data generated from TiVo platforms to inform their ad buying decisions.

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Off-Platform Ads: Household identifications taken from the TiVo OS platform and used to target other media sources.

Monetization – TV Viewership Data

We offer TV viewership data with program airing data for millions of households. Broadcasters, MVPDs, content producers, advertising agencies and advertisers use our TV viewership data, alone or in combination with third-party data sources utilizing industry-leading data safe havens, to target promotions and advertising directly, or through third-party viewer segments, to monetize their subscriber customer base.

Monetization – Advertising Solutions

We provide advertisers with nationwide or regionally-targeted advertising on our various owned or operated devices. Advertisers place ads in a variety of display formats in both traditional linear television and digital advertising for internet delivered content, seamlessly incorporated into the user interface. Using our Personalized Content Discovery platform, we also target content promotions as “paid search” by directly including the sponsored content in user interface’s recommended content carousel. We work with service providers bundling their non-TiVo advertising inventory with our native inventory, thereby giving us a more significant national footprint.

Growth Factors

There are several facets of our product growth strategy. These growth drivers include: the delivery and monetization of the TiVo OS into Smart TVs, infotainment (AutoStage) solutions into the connected car market, increased adoption of our IPTV solutions in the Pay-TV market, and unit growth in consumer electronics from DTS audio solutions. We have a long track record of developing premium solutions for the marketplace that provide an extraordinary experience for end users.

Competition

Pay-TV

There are a number of companies that produce and market advanced media solutions such as UXs, interactive program guides, DVRs, search, recommendation, natural language voice, metadata, and advanced data and analytics in the various formats which compete, or we believe will compete, with our products and services over time. Principal competitive factors include brand recognition and awareness, product and service functionality, innovation, ease of use, personalization, content access and availability, mobility and pricing. While we are competitive across this range of factors, we believe our primary competitive differentiation includes our ability to integrate all our products to create unique value for our customers.

Our platform faces competition from companies such as Synamedia, MediaKind, Kudelski, Enghouse Systems Limited, and from solutions developed by multiple system operators such as Comcast and Liberty Global plc, which have created competing products that provide user interface software for use on set-top-boxes, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. Such companies may offer more economically attractive agreements to service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers by bundling multiple products together. We face competition for our Pay-TV product offerings from customers who choose to build their own interactive program guide and DVR solutions. We believe that we provide a strong alternative to “do-it-yourself” solutions, as we have innovative, high-quality products ready to be implemented, with local and network DVR, integrated data distribution infrastructure and content, as well as third-party services (such as VOD services). We differentiate our products by continuing to integrate our broad portfolio of products into a suite of solutions and services for our customers. We believe our solutions accelerate our customers’ time to market, are superior to “do-it-yourself” solutions, and can be deployed at a lower cost than internally built products.

In video metadata, we compete with other providers of entertainment-related content metadata such as Gracenote (a subsidiary of Nielsen Holdings plc) and Ericsson Group’s Red Bee Media, as well as a number of local metadata providers. While we do not believe our competitors’ metadata sets offer the same comprehensive breadth of focus on media exploration, discovery, and management in as many regions of the world as we do, we do believe they present competition to our metadata business for each of their areas of focus.

Our audio licensing products face competition from other third-party providers of similar solutions as well as internal engineering and design groups among industry IC providers and consumer electronics manufacturers.

Our primary competitor is Dolby Laboratories, which develops and markets, among other things, high-definition audio products and services. Dolby’s long-standing market position, brand, business relationships, resources and inclusion in various industry standards provide it with a strong competitive position.

In addition to Dolby, we compete in specific product markets with companies such as Fraunhofer IIS and various other consumer electronics product manufacturers. Many of these competitors have a wide variety of strengths that afford them competitive advantages, such as longer operating histories, greater resources, greater name recognition, or the ability to offer their technologies for a lower price or for free. We have historically competed effectively against these companies due in part to our brand, complemented by marketing efforts, being perceived as a premium offering that contains superior proprietary technology, as well as the quality of our customer service and our inclusion in industry standards and our industry relationships.

Our HD Radio and DTS AutoStage solutions face competition from streaming and subscription-based digital service providers such as Sirius/XM, Pandora, Gracenote, and other digital audio, video and data service providers.

TiVo OS. We compete for Smart TV platform adoption with companies such as Roku, Alphabet, Inc’s Google TV and Amazon FireTV. We believe the overall OTT streaming market growth, our independent position, our differentiated end-user solution, and our more inclusive business model of sharing economics with Smart TV OEMs represents an opportunity where we can establish a strong position.

We work closely with content owners, advertisers, and ad agencies, where we monetize the viewing of ad-supported content across our TiVo OS platform. In doing so, we are competing with the same platforms and TV OEMs that operate their own TV operating systems such as Samsung, Vizio and LG.

TiVo Stream 4K. We compete against products with on-demand OTT streaming capabilities offered by internet CE manufacturers. For example, many CE manufacturers have television or internet-enabled streaming devices for accessing video over the internet such as Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Google Chromecast and Roku. TVs with integrated streaming capabilities from manufacturers such as Samsung, Vizio and LG also represent competition to the TiVo Stream 4K.

TV Audience Data. We collect and analyze audience research data in an area where companies such as comScore, Inc. and Nielsen Holdings plc and other online data analytics companies compete for research spend from advertisers, advertising agencies and television networks. Other large companies are also focusing resources in this area including Comcast, Meta Platforms Inc. (Facebook) and Alphabet, Inc.’s Google business. Many of our existing customers are investing in platforms to enable their businesses with these capabilities. In this fast-expanding connected TV advertising market, we believe our cross-platform data insight from Pay-TV, IPTV, Automotive and TiVo OS households will allow us to create and promote a unique and compelling offering for advertisers.

Over time, we expect to see new competitors and other competing technologies emerge.

Intellectual Property Portfolio

We operate in an industry in which innovation, investment in new ideas and protection of our intellectual property rights are critical for success. We protect our innovations and inventions through a variety of means, including, but not limited to, applying for patent, copyright, and trademark protection domestically and internationally, and protecting our trade secrets. As of December 31, 2023, we held approximately 749 United States issued patents and 156 patent applications, as well as approximately 1,024 foreign issued patents and 210 patent applications. The last of the issued patents to expire is in 2042.

Research & Development

As demonstrated by our portfolio of industry-recognized, widely-deployed advanced technologies, we have a long track record of innovating in the fields of audio, and video discovery. We believe that ongoing investment in R&D is required for us to remain competitive in the markets we serve.

We have world-class talent and strong research and development capabilities in various locations throughout the world. Starting with core research, machine learning and advanced algorithm development, we continue to focus on next generation technology solutions. Our ongoing investment in R&D, supported by a strong industry network of partners, enables us to deliver differentiated, cost-effective solutions that enhance the end-user experience for an increasing universe of addressable markets.

Legislative and Regulatory Actions

General Government Regulation

We are subject to or affected by foreign and domestic general business regulations and laws, as well as regulations and laws specific to the internet and online services, including laws and regulations related to data privacy and security, consumer protection, data localization, encryption, telecommunications, payment processing, taxation, trade, intellectual property, competition, electronic contracts, advertising, content restrictions, protection of children, and accessibility, among others. Laws relating to many of these areas are being debated and considered for adoption by many countries throughout the world. Each jurisdiction may enact different standards, which could impact our ability to deliver or monetize data, services or other solutions.

The privacy regulatory landscape has been changing rapidly, and we may become subject to new privacy or cybersecurity laws and regulations in the U.S. and internationally. Such laws and regulations could affect our ability to process personal data (in particular, our ability to use certain data or personal information for purposes such as monetization, risk or fraud avoidance, and targeted marketing or advertising, or otherwise to provide data about the end-users and/or customers and their behavior), our ability to control our costs by using certain vendors or service providers, or our ability to offer certain services in certain jurisdictions, which in turn could negatively affect our financial condition and business operations, and subject us to fines, penalties, or other liability. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires covered businesses to provide disclosures to California consumers and allows for a cause of action for data breaches. The CCPA also provides a consumer with the right to (i) opt out of certain sales of personal information, (ii) know the personal information that the business maintains about the consumer, and (iii) request deletion of personal information. It is unclear how the CCPA will be interpreted, but as currently written, it will likely impact our business activities and exemplifies the vulnerability of our business not only to cyber threats but also the evolving regulatory environment related to personal data. The CCPA’s privacy measures were amended and strengthened by the California Privacy Rights Act, or CPRA, which became effective on January 1, 2023, with enforcement commencing on July 1, 2023. The CPRA bolstered the consumer rights granted under CCPA and took the right to opt out of certain sales of personal information further to include the right to opt out of the sharing of personal information.

We are also subject to international laws (including but not limited to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation) associated with data protection, privacy, and other aspects of our business in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere in the world, and the interpretation and application of data protection laws remains uncertain.

Our operations in China may also be subject to privacy regulations. China passed the Personal Information Protection Law effective November 1, 2021, which creates a comprehensive set of data privacy and security obligations that not only apply to the processing of personal information within China, but also to the processing outside of China if such processing is for purposes of providing products and services to, or analyzing and evaluating the behavior of, individuals located in China. The law imposes significant fines of up to RMB 50 million (approx. $7.7 million) or 5% of annual revenue for violations of the law. Chinese data protection laws are still evolving and may impose additional restrictions on companies doing business in China. Our efforts to comply with these laws and regulations may result in increased costs of doing business.

The legal and regulatory landscape surrounding AI technologies is rapidly evolving and uncertain, including in the areas of intellectual property, cybersecurity, and privacy and data protection. There is uncertainty around the validity and enforceability of intellectual property rights related to the use, development, and deployment of AI technologies. Compliance with new or changing laws, regulations or industry standards relating to AI may impose significant operational costs and may limit our ability to develop, deploy or use AI technologies. There is no assurance that we will be able to appropriately respond to this evolving landscape, which may result in legal liability, regulatory action, or brand and reputational harm.

In the United States, service providers have been subject to claims of defamation, libel, invasion of privacy and other data protection claims, torts, unlawful activity, copyright or trademark infringement, or other theories based on the nature and content of the materials searched and the ads posted or the content generated by users. In addition, several other federal laws could have an impact on our business. For example, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 has provisions that limit, but do not eliminate, our liability for hosting or linking to third-party websites that include materials that infringe copyrights or other rights, so long as we comply with the statutory requirements of this act. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act restricts the ability of service providers to collect information from minors and the Protection of Children from Sexual

Predators Act of 1998 requires service providers to report evidence of violations of federal child pornography laws under certain circumstances.

We are subject to a number of foreign and domestic laws and regulations that affect companies that import or export software and technology, such as the U.S. export control regulations as administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Compatibility Between Cable Systems and CE Equipment

Beginning in 2003, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted regulations implementing an agreement between cable television system operators and CE manufacturers to facilitate the retail availability of so-called “plug and play” devices that use unidirectional CableCARDs, including digital televisions and other digital devices that enable subscribers to access cable television programming without the need for a set-top-box (STB) (but without the ability for consumers to use interactive content). In September 2020, the FCC eliminated rules requiring cable providers to support CableCARD. While the cable industry has continued to provide CableCARDs for third-party devices like ours, we cannot predict the ultimate impact of any new technical equipment regulations on our business and operations. Current FCC regulations no longer prohibit multi-channel video service providers from deploying navigation devices with combined security and non-security functions, and further developments with respect to these issues could impact the availability and/or demand for “plug and play” devices, particularly bi-directional devices and STBs, all of which could affect demand for UXs incorporated in STBs or CE devices. If the cable industry decided to cease providing CableCARD support for TiVo retail customers, recurring monthly retail service fees would be affected as customers would likely cancel the TiVo service on their devices.

Human Capital Resources

The opportunities for our success and growth depend in large part on our ability to attract, develop, and retain a talented and engaged workforce. In particular, we are competing for technical talent and we need to offer not only robust and attractive compensation packages but also provide broad opportunities for our employees to make an impact, grow, and develop. As of December 31, 2023, we had a global talent base consisting of approximately 2,100 full-time employees.

To enable our talent to actively contribute to – and have a positive impact on – the overall business and culture, we have developed a set of programs and initiatives that include competitive compensation and benefits offerings, skills and management development, diversity and inclusion initiatives, goal and performance management, and succession planning. In support of these efforts, our Board of Directors monitors these programs and initiatives and provides guidance and feedback as appropriate. Our goal is to provide a work environment that empowers our teams and enables them to enjoy a healthy and productive work-life balance for themselves, their families, and their community.

Our incentives are based on merit and we have a strong pay-for-performance culture. We benchmark our total rewards to ensure our compensation and benefit programs remain competitive with industry peers. Our compensation framework for employees reflects a combination of fixed and variable pay including base salary, bonuses, performance awards, and stock-based compensation. We offer employees benefits that vary by country and are designed to meet or exceed local laws and are competitive in the marketplace.

We invest in the career growth of our employees by providing a wide range of development opportunities, including face-to-face, virtual, social, and self-directed learning, mentoring, coaching, and external development. Annual assessments are performed to identify talent needs based on department goals and to evaluate how each function is positioned from a talent perspective. We believe in the principles of a learning organization and strive to provide continuous educational opportunities for our employees. We invest in a global online learning platform where more than 250 courses and programs are offered in a wide range of skill areas, providing development opportunities for employees to become more knowledgeable and effective in their roles. We also provide technical training through an online platform, offering more than 10,000 technical learning programs. We offer customized leadership and management development programs for our management teams.

We leverage our manager ecosystem, coupled with industry-standard performance management tools, to align corporate goals with employee objectives. Employees are encouraged to create and align individual, functional, and team-based goals, track performance against goals, write self-evaluations, and solicit feedback.

We have demonstrated support and commitment to developing a culture of non-discrimination and embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our workforce. We have numerous employee resource groups (“ERGs”), employee-led, voluntary communities for groups that share similar backgrounds or identities. ERGs develop programming throughout the year supporting culture and belonging, encourage diversity, and empower employees to achieve their personal and career goals. Our current employee resource groups represent the LGBTQ+ community (PRIDE at Xperi), the Black community (Mahogany at

Xperi, or MaX), women (Women in Tech, or WiT), the Asian and Pacific Islander community (API @ Xperi), the early professionals community (Early Professionals @ Xperi), and veterans (Veterans at Xperi, or VaX). We also have formed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion council comprised of all levels of employees and senior executives. The purpose of the council is, among other things, to identify and address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion through multiple and unique perspectives from a diverse group of our employees. In June 2020, we joined the business coalition in support of the Equality Act, a measure that supports federal legislation that would provide the same basic protections to LGBTQ+ people as are provided to other protected groups under federal law. The Board of Directors believes that board diversity is important to serving the long-term interests of stockholders and takes diversity into consideration when identifying potential director candidates.

We measure employee experience by collecting insight and understanding of engagement and satisfaction. We use an employee engagement survey, executive roundtables, and employee focus groups to solicit input. Task forces are regularly created to identify and address gaps, resulting in changes to policies and practices and benefits offerings.

Environmental, Social & Governance

Xperi will publish its latest Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) report in the first half of 2024. Our report will be available on the Xperi website.

Using insights from the development of our inaugural materiality assessment, we created our ESG program around three key focus areas: Culture and Belonging, Resilience, and Community Impact. As part of our Resilience pillar, we aim to be positive stewards of the environment. Climate change is one of the defining challenges facing our society today, and we are committed to doing our part to address this challenge head on. In 2023, we conducted our second greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory of our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions to understand our environmental impact. This will inform our goal-setting in the future as we work to address our carbon footprint. We have taken additional steps to reduce our impact through actions such as increasing energy efficiency within our office buildings, reducing the square footage of our office portfolio, and migrating the majority of on-premise IT assets towards more energy efficient solutions.

Spin-Off Transaction

On October 1, 2022 (the “Distribution Date” or the “Separation Date”), the spin-off (the “Spin-Off” or the “Separation”) of the product business of Adeia Inc. (formerly known as Xperi Holding Corporation) (“Adeia” or the “Former Parent”) into Xperi Inc. (“Xperi”), was completed. The Spin-Off was achieved through our Former Parent's distribution (the “Distribution”) of 100% of the shares of Xperi’s common stock to holders of our Former Parent’s common stock as of the close of business on the record date of September 21, 2022 (the “Record Date”). Each Adeia stockholder of record received four shares of Xperi common stock for every ten shares of Adeia common stock held on the Record Date. Following the Spin-Off, we became an independent, publicly traded company with our common stock listed under the symbol “XPER” on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), and our Former Parent retains no ownership interest in Xperi.

In connection with the Spin-Off, we entered into a Separation and Distribution Agreement and several other agreements with our Former Parent to effect the Spin-Off and provide a framework for our relationship with our Former Parent after the Spin-Off. In addition to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the other principal agreements entered into with our Former Parent include a Tax Matters Agreement, a Transition Services Agreement, an Employee Matters Agreement, a Cross Business License Agreement, and a Data Sharing Agreement.

Available Information

Our internet address is xperi.com, where we make available, free of charge, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. Our SEC reports can be accessed through the investor relations section of our website. The information found on our website and in our ESG report is not incorporated into this or any other report we file with or furnish to the SEC.