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Valens Semiconductor to Announce Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results on August 6, 2025
HOD HASHARON, Israel, July 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a leader in high-performance connectivity, today announced that it will release its second quarter 2025 financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. Gideon Ben Zvi, Chief Executive Officer, and Guy Nathanzon, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) to discuss the company's second quarter 2025 financial results and business outlook. To access this call, please dial: U.S: +1 (888) 281-1167 UK: 0 (808) 101-2717 Israel: 03 918 0610 Other: +972 3 918 0610 A live webcast of the conference call will be available via the investor relations section of Valens Semiconductor's website at Valens - Financials - Quarterly Results. The live webcast can also be accessed by clicking here. A replay of the conference call will be available on Valens Semiconductor's website shortly after the call concludes. About Valens Semiconductor Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN) is a leader in high-performance connectivity, enabling customers to transform the digital experiences of people worldwide. Valens' chipsets are integrated into countless devices from leading customers, powering state-of-the-art audio-video installations, next-generation videoconferencing, and enabling the evolution of ADAS and autonomous driving. Pushing the boundaries of connectivity, Valens sets the standard everywhere it operates, and its technology forms the basis for the leading industry standards such as HDBaseT® and MIPI A-PHY. For more information, visit Investor Contacts:Michal Ben AriInvestor Relations ManagerValens Semiconductor Miri SegalMS-IR IR for Valensmsegal@ Media Contact:Yoni DayanHead of CommunicationsValens Semiconductor Logo - View original content: SOURCE Valens Semiconductor
Los Angeles Times
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Ritchie Valens died too young. His legacy will live on forever
This essay is adapted from Merrick Morton's 'La Bamba: A Visual History,' published by Hat & Beard Press. 'Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!' read the handbill. The Silhouettes featured Ritchie Valens — 'the fabulous Lil' Richi and his Crying Guitar!!' — at a 1958 appearance at the San Fernando American Legion Hall in Southern California. He was 16 years old. The Silhouettes was Ritchie's first band, and they launched him into history. But a silhouette itself is an interesting thing: You can see the general shape of something while you hardly know the figure casting the shadow. Valens' musical story begins with the Silhouettes, and we have been filling in his story, and projecting ourselves onto it, ever since he left. A founding father of rock 'n' roll, he would lose his life barely a year later, when the plane carrying members of the Winter Dance Party Tour — Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Valens — crashed on Feb. 3, 1959, in an Iowa snowstorm. A Chicano icon. A stranger. Ritchie was a kid playing his guitar to make money for his family and one song he played was a version of 'Malagueña.' The number was rooted in centuries-old Spanish flamenco music that had spread in all directions, becoming a classical music melody and a Hollywood soundtrack go-to by the 1950s. In his hands, it became a catapult for guitar hero god shots. 'Malagueña' communicated experience and rico suave flair to his audience. Meanwhile, his mom was selling homemade tamales at his shows in the American Legion Hall. This guileless 17-year-old, Chicano kid from Pacoima found a way to introduce himself to America by taking something familiar and making it feel like nothing you had heard before. From the beginning, Ritchie heard the possibilities in turning a familiar sound forward. He saw, even as the teenager he will forever be to us, how in reinventing a song, you could reinvent yourself. Listen to 'Donna,' the heartfelt love ballad that felt familiar to Chicano ears, listeners who for years had tuned in to Black vocal groups. In the process, he cleared the way for so much great Chicano soul to come in the next two decades. Most of all, of course, listen to 'La Bamba.' A centuries-old song from Veracruz, Mexico; the tune has African, Spanish, Indigenous and Caribbean DNA. In the movie, he encounters the song for the first time when his brother Bob takes him to a Tijuana brothel, but however he first heard it, Valens viewed it as a prism, a way of flooding all that was in front of him with his voice and guitar. The music he made came from Mexico, and it came from Los Angeles, where 1940s Spanish-language swing tunes, Black doo-wop sounds and hillbilly guitar-plucking were mashed together in a molcajete y tejolote. Most of all, it came from the radio, which lined up sounds that were not like the ones that came right before and blasted them out on AM stations from corner to corner across the Southland. Radio devoured difference and transformed it, and if Ritchie is now regarded as a pioneer of Chicano music, he was in his own, brief time, a product of AM democracy, a silhouette with a spotlight shining on him. Danny Valdez knew all the songs. In the early 1970s, the artist and activist had released 'Mestizo,' billed as the first Chicano protest album put out by a major label. The singer-songwriter and his buddy Taylor Hackford would drink beer, belt out Ritchie Valens songs and make big plans. They talked about someday shooting a movie together, with Valdez playing Ritchie and Hackford directing. 'Neither of us had a pot to piss in,' said Hackford, 'so we never made that movie.' But years later, after Hackford had a hit with 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' Valdez called him and raised the idea once more. There were many steps to getting 'La Bamba' on the screen, but it began with an understanding that it would be about the music. That meant they had to make the music feel alive — namely the handful of recordings produced by Bob Keane that Ritchie left behind. The owner of Del-Fi Records, Keane was a guiding figure in the singer's life, recording his songs, urging him to mask his ethnicity by changing his name from Richard Steven Valenzuela and giving him career advice. Keane booked Gold Star Studios, cheap at $15 an hour, and brought in great session musicians as Ritchie's backing band, including future Wrecking Crew members Earl Palmer and Carol Kaye. But the recordings he made were not state of the art, even in their own time. 'They weren't high-quality,' said Hackford, comparing them to the early Ray Charles sessions for the Swing Time label. 'I had a commercial idea in mind, of music selling the film, of people walking out of the theater singing 'La Bamba' who had never heard of it before,' he said. That meant he needed contemporary musicians who understood the records and could re-record Ritchie's songs and reach an audience that was listening to Michael Jackson, Madonna and George Michael. Ritchie's family, including his mother, Connie, and his siblings, had already heard that Los Lobos were playing 'Come On, Let's Go' live in East L.A. When the band played a concert in Santa Cruz, where the Valenzuela family was living by the 1980s, a friendship grew. 'Danny and I knew Los Lobos in the '70s when they were just starting out,' says writer and director Luis Valdez, 'when they were literally just another band from East L.A. We were very fortunate that they were at that point in their career where they could take on this project. Without Los Lobos, we wouldn't have Ritchie. David Hidalgo's voice is incredible. I don't think we could have found other musicians to cover him. They come from East L.A., they're all Chicanos. They were paying an homage. We happened to be in the airport together when they got the news that 'La Bamba' had become number one in the national charts.' 'They called themselves the spiritual inheritors of Ritchie Valens,' says Hackford. 'And they went in and re-recorded Ritchie's songs plus several that he had played in concert but never recorded.' Now Hackford had his own album of old tunes that turned in a forward direction. Next, Hackford made sure there were roles for modern performers to play the classic rockers from the Winter Dance Party Tour. He cast contemporary performers who could re-record their material too: Marshall Crenshaw as Buddy Holly, Brian Setzer as Eddie Cochran and Howard Huntsberry as Jackie Wilson. Then there's the surprise of the first song heard in the film — a rumbling version of Bo Diddley's 'Who Do You Love?' that had Carlos Santana, hired as a soundtrack composer, playing with Los Lobos, and Bo himself offering a fresh vocal over everything. 'We were so happy to have the touch of Carlos Santana as part of Ritchie's story,' said Luis Valdez. 'It's his guitar that underscores a lot of the scenes and he had a theme for each of the players. We screened the whole movie for him first and he was very moved by it and ready to go right away once he saw it without his contribution. He was alone on the soundstage at Paramount, where we recorded his soundtrack, doing his magic with his guitar. He became a great friend as a result of that. It's incredible what an artist can do.' The original soundtrack recording topped the Billboard pop charts and went double platinum. Hackford loved pop music; his first feature film, 'The Idolmaker' (1980), was a rock musical. Releasing hit music became a key promotional element of the package. In advance of 1982's 'An Officer and a Gentleman' came 'Up Where We Belong' by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. It went to No. 1 a week after the opening. For 1984's 'Against All Odds,' he selected Phil Collins to sing the title cut, a song released three weeks before opening; the song soon went No. 1. 1985's 'White Nights' had two No. 1 songs, Lionel Ritchie's 'Say You Say Me' and Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin's duet 'Separate Lives.' One looming problem for 'La Bamba' was that the 1987 moviegoing public was not familiar with the name Ritchie Valens. Hackford had ideas for that as well. He set out to introduce him to contemporary audiences — convincing the studio to fund a unique teaser trailer to run weeks before the official movie trailer went into theaters. The producer assembled a parade of familiar faces to reintroduce Valens. The short film included Canadian hitmaker Bryan Adams and Little Richard talking about the icon. There was also the vision of Bob Dylan in a top-down convertible riding along the Pacific Coast Highway. The 17-year-old Dylan was present at a Valens concert in Duluth, Minn., just days before the plane crashed; he popped up talking about what Valens' music meant to him. 'You bet it made a difference,' said Hackford. After the 'La Bamba' soundtrack became a hit (there was also a Volume Two), Los Lobos made the most of their elevated success. They had experienced head-turning celebrity with 'La Bamba,' and they followed it up with 'La Pistola y El Corazón,' a gritty selection of mariachi and Tejano songs played on acoustic traditional instruments. They had banked cultural capital and directed their large new audience to this music that many had never heard before. 'La Pistola y El Corazón' won a Grammy in 1989 for Mexican-American performance. The 'La Bamba' soundtrack helped set a precedent for the crossover global success of Latin music, which has become a major force in mainstream pop culture. From Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez to Shakira, Bad Bunny, Peso Pluma, Becky G, Anitta, J Balvin, Karol G and Maluma, among others who are dominating the charts, racking up billions of streams, headlining massive tours and festivals. Does Hackford think 'La Bamba' helped set the table for subsequent Latino pop star success? 'I think the one who set the table was Ritchie Valens. He recorded a song in Spanish, a rock 'n' roll version of a folk song, and he made it a huge hit. 'I challenge you, any party you go to — wedding reception, bar mitzvah, whatever it is — when 'La Bamba' comes on, the tables clear and everybody gets up to dance. That's Ritchie Valens; he deserves that credit. We came afterwards.' RJ Smith is a Los Angeles-based author. He has written for Blender, the Village Voice, Spin, GQ and the New York Times Magazine. His books include 'The Great Black Way,' 'The One: The Life and Music of James Brown' and 'Chuck Berry: An American Life.'
Yahoo
10-03-2025
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Valens Semiconductor to Showcase High-Performance Connectivity Innovations for AI Applications at Embedded World 2025
HOD HASHARON, Israel, March 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a leader in high-performance connectivity, today announced that it will display its innovative connectivity technology required for various AI applications at Embedded World 2025. Valens will display demonstrations in collaboration with a variety of companies, all offering the machine vision market cutting-edge solutions based on Valens' standard-compliant chipsets. These companies include Leopard Imaging, Acroname, Airy3D, Cherry Embedded Solutions, D3 Embedded, Fabrimex, Framos, Intel, RGo Robotics, and Teledyne e2v. Two innovative connectivity standards, MIPI A-PHY and HDBaseT USB3, will take center stage at the Valens booth. MIPI A-PHY provides native extension of the widely-used CSI-2 interface, offering robotics developers the ability to separate processing from the perception sensors, which provides unprecedented design flexibility, cost-efficiency, and performance. HDBaseT USB3 provides the extension of USB 3.2, allowing leading camera vendors to extend their USB 3.2 product lines for applications requiring long link distances. Demonstrations at Valens' booth will include: The Ultimate Connectivity Infrastructure for NVIDIA – AI platforms, including AMR, robotic arms, and more. EMC Technology Shootout – Valens chipsets withstand 20 times more noise in a live side-by-side EMC shootout against a competing legacy solution. Simplest Wiring Infrastructure – Native CSI-2 extension based on the MIPI A-PHY standard, enabling high-speed, long-reach sensor connectivity over the most challenging connectors and cables. Solving USB Challenges for Embedded Systems – Extension and test automation for the USB 3 protocol. Valens will have two speaking opportunities at the show: How Can Connectivity Innovations Transform the Industrial Market? March 11, 11:00-11:30AM CET Session 1.1 IOT & Connectivity Addressing the Challenges in the Medical Industry's Transition to Disposable Endoscopes March 11, 3:00 – 3:30PM CET Session 6.1 Embedded Vision "Valens' entry into machine vision is already shaking up the market, with two standard-compliant chipsets that offer transformative connectivity," said Moti Strobach, VP Business Development at Valens Semiconductor. "Our chipsets extend two of the most commonly used interfaces in the industry, allowing our customers and partners to reach new and exciting applications. We're proud to showcase our technology at Embedded 2025, and we welcome you to visit us at our booth." Date: Mar. 11-13 Booth: Hall 2, 454 Schedule a demo tour with our experts and discover Valens' high-performance sensor connectivity. About Valens Semiconductor Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN) is a leader in high-performance connectivity, enabling customers to transform the digital experiences of people worldwide. Valens' chipsets are integrated into countless devices from leading customers, powering state-of-the-art audio-video installations, next-generation videoconferencing, and enabling the evolution of ADAS and autonomous driving. Pushing the boundaries of connectivity, Valens sets the standard everywhere it operates, and its technology forms the basis for the leading industry standards such as HDBaseT® and MIPI A-PHY. For more information, visit Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "intend," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "target" or other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our anticipated future results, including financial results, our five-year plan, currency exchange rates, and contract wins, and future economic and market conditions. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release, and on the current expectations of Valens Semiconductor's ("Valens") management and are not predictions of actual performance. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as and must not be relied on by any investor as a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of Valens Semiconductor. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the cyclicality of the semiconductor industry; the effect of inflation and a rising interest rate environment on our customers and industry; the ability of our customers to absorb inventory; competition in the semiconductor industry, and the failure to introduce new technologies and products in a timely manner to compete successfully against competitors; if Valens fails to adjust its supply chain volume due to changing market conditions or fails to estimate its customers' demand; disruptions in relationships with any one of Valens' key customers; any difficulty selling Valens' products if customers do not design its products into their product offerings; Valens' dependence on winning selection processes; even if Valens succeeds in winning selection processes for its products, Valens may not generate timely or sufficient net sales or margins from those wins; sustained yield problems or other delays or quality events in the manufacturing process of products; our ability to effectively manage, invest in, grow, and retain our sales force, research and development capabilities, marketing team and other key personnel; our ability to timely adjust product prices to customers following price increase by the supply chain; our ability to adjust our inventory level due to reduction in demand due to inventory buffers accrued by customers; our expectations regarding the outcome of any future litigation in which we are named as a party; our ability to adequately protect and defend our intellectual property and other proprietary rights; our ability to successfully integrate or otherwise achieve anticipated benefits from acquired businesses; the market price and trading volume of the Valens ordinary shares may be volatile and could decline significantly; global political and economic uncertainty, including with respect to China-Taiwan relations; political, economic, governmental and tax consequences associated with our incorporation and location in Israel; and those factors discussed in Valens' Form 20-F filed with the SEC on February 26, 2025 under the heading "Risk Factors," and other documents of Valens filed, or to be filed, with the SEC. If any of these risks materialize or our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that Valens does not presently know or that Valens currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect Valens' expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this press release. Valens anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause Valens' assessments to change. However, while Valens may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Valens specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Valens' assessment as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements. Press ContactsYoni DayanHead of CommunicationsValens Semiconductor Investor ContactsMichal Ben AriInvestor Relations ManagerValens Semiconductor Logo - View original content: SOURCE Valens Semiconductor Sign in to access your portfolio
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03-03-2025
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Valens Semiconductor to Participate at the 37th Annual ROTH Conference on March 17-18
HOD HASHARON, Israel, March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a leader in high-performance connectivity, announced today its participation at the 37th Annual ROTH Conference on March 17-18, 2025, in Dana Point, CA. Guy Nathanzon, Chief Financial Officer, will be available for one-on-one investor meetings on both days. To schedule a meeting, please contact your Roth representative. About the 37th Annual ROTH Conference This year's event will consist of 1-on-1 / small group meetings, analyst-selected fireside chats, industry keynotes and panels with executive management attending from approximately 450 private and public companies in a variety of growth sectors including: Business Services, Consumer, Healthcare, Industrial Growth, Insurance, Resources, Sustainability and Technology, Media & Entertainment. About Valens Semiconductor Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN) is a leader in high-performance connectivity, enabling customers to transform the digital experiences of people worldwide. Valens' chipsets are integrated into countless devices from leading customers, powering state-of-the-art audio-video installations, next-generation videoconferencing, and enabling the evolution of ADAS and autonomous driving. Pushing the boundaries of connectivity, Valens sets the standard everywhere it operates, and its technology forms the basis for the leading industry standards such as HDBaseT® and MIPI A-PHY. For more information, visit Investor Contacts: Michal Ben AriInvestor Relations ManagerValens Miri SegalMS-IRmsegal@ Logo - View original content: SOURCE Valens Semiconductor Sign in to access your portfolio
Gulf Today
02-03-2025
- General
- Gulf Today
VIDEO: FedEx cargo plane makes emergency landing after bird strike and engine fire
A FedEx cargo plane made an emergency landing at a busy New Jersey airport on Saturday after a bird strike caused an engine fire that could be seen in the morning sky. The plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport during the emergency, said Lenis Valens, a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. There were no reported injuries, and fire on the cargo plane was contained to the engine, Valens said. Audio recorded by LiveATC captured a person calmly saying the aircraft needed to "shut down for a possible bird strike" immediately. "We need to return to the airport." Moments later, another person is heard saying: "We believe we saw their engine fall off the right wing." The audio indicates the strike happened when the plane was several hundred feet off the ground. The emergency landing caused air traffic to be briefly halted as a precaution, and operations resumed shortly after, Valen said. The emergency landing happened just after 8 a.m. A spokesperson for FedEx said the plane was headed for Indianapolis. "Our crew declared an emergency and returned safely to Newark. We are thankful for the quick actions of our crew and first responders," said the spokesperson, Austin Kemker. The Federal Aviation Administration said it will investigate the incident. FAA said in a statement that the "strike damaged one of the Boeing 767's engines." Bird strikes are aviation hazards that sometimes cause major disruptions. Birds were blamed for bringing down a jetliner that "Sully" Sullenberger landed on the Hudson River in 2009. The FAA has said bird strikes are increasing, with more than 19,000 wildlife strikes at 713 U.S. airports in 2023. Only rarely do they cause so much damage that jetliners are forced to make emergency landings. The emergency landing comes at a time of heightened awareness of flight problems. In the past month, there have been four major aviation disasters in North America. They include the Feb. 6 crash of a commuter plane in Alaska that killed all 10 people on board and the Jan. 26 midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight at National Airport that killed all 67 aboard the two aircraft.
