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Question: Craig Irwin - Roth Capital Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Hi, good evening and thank you for taking my questions. First, I should say congratulations on the really good execution bringing down costs,
tightening everything up in this environment that we're all operating through. So great execution there.
Question: Craig Irwin - Roth Capital Partners, LLC - Analyst
: My question is this and it's a little bit high level, but you're renaming your segments, right? And that speaks for a refreshed and renewed strategic
focus. Can you maybe call out some of the applications or opportunities where you think Amtech can participate in sort of AI and data center
growth and electricity demand growth over the next several years? What do you see as relatively fresh products that you have to offer into this
market? And how do you expect this to take shape as far as visibility for the investment community?
Question: Craig Irwin - Roth Capital Partners, LLC - Analyst
: It goes a long way to answering the question actually starts to step into the secondary I really wanted to ask about. So many of us following Amtech
for the last number of years have been quite excited about the participation in the silicon carbide industry, the emerging power semiconductor
technology. It can be transformational to our economy, not just electric vehicles, but in industrial equipment, military equipment, all sorts of things.
And it appeared that Amtech was particularly well positioned on the consumable side to serve a niche in sort of consumables for wafer production.
Can you maybe share with us, your growth in the consumables business? Did you see absolute growth in cassettes and other materials supplied
into the silicon carbon industry? That industry is going through a cyclical readjustment as you pointed out. It seems there is absolute growth going
on. Are you seeing more growth in things like cassettes for 8-inch wafers and 6-inch wafers? Can you just talk about where the green shoots are in
that industry?
Question: Craig Irwin - Roth Capital Partners, LLC - Analyst
: Understood. Well, thank you for taking my questions. I'll go ahead and hop back in the queue.
Question: Mark Miller - The Benchmark Company, LLC - Analyst
: I'd like to add my congratulations to the management, the cost management and the expectations for more cost reductions next year. I was just
thinking there, I'm just trying to understand your cash went down $2 million last quarter. What is your outlook for cash flow generation over the
next six months?
Question: Mark Miller - The Benchmark Company, LLC - Analyst
: Okay. So there's no more covenants or anything you have to worry about because you paid off your term loan and revolver?
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Question: Mark Miller - The Benchmark Company, LLC - Analyst
: And your mergers ticked up. You were saying there was mix, I'm just wondering margin outlook ticked up. It's the highest of the year for the fourth
quarter. I'm just wondering what you're thinking about in terms of margin outlook?
Question: Mark Miller - The Benchmark Company, LLC - Analyst
: Okay. R&D kicked up last quarter. Do you expect that to come back down to third quarter for in terms of average for 2025?
Question: Mark Miller - The Benchmark Company, LLC - Analyst
: Can you tell me relate what that is, please?
Question: Mark Miller - The Benchmark Company, LLC - Analyst
: Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you.
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