PIXELWORKS INC

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders

Pixelworks, Inc.

Opinion on the financial statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Pixelworks, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the two years ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for opinion

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical audit matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Net Realizable Value of Inventories - the Determination of Obsolete or Excess Inventories

As described further in Notes 2 and 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company writes down any obsolete, unmarketable, or otherwise impaired inventory to net realizable value. The determination of obsolete or excess inventory requires management to estimate the future demand for the Company’s products. The estimate of future demand is compared to inventory levels to determine the amount, if any, of obsolete or excess inventory. We identified the net realizable value of inventories as a critical audit matter.

The principal considerations for our determination that the net realizable value of inventories is a critical audit matter are that significant judgement by management is needed when determining obsolete or excess inventories, including developing an estimate of future demand. The estimate of future demand requires management to make subjective and complex assumptions related to market conditions, business strategies, and technology trends. Given this, significant auditor judgment and effort in performing procedures and evaluating management’s significant assumptions are required for this estimate.

Our audit procedures related to the net realizable value of inventories included the following, among others:

•We obtained management’s analysis for estimated excess or obsolete inventories. We evaluated the appropriateness of management’s approach and tested the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data.

•We evaluated the reasonableness of management’s significant assumptions related to future demand and market conditions considering current and past results, industry reports, and inquiries with management and employees outside of the accounting function.

•We assessed management’s ability to forecast by comparing the actual results with the respective forecast for the same period.

/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2023.

San Francisco, California

March 13, 2025