Cirrus Logic (CRUS) 1 Nov 222023 Q2 Earnings call transcript

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Cirrus Logic Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Results Q&A session. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After a brief statement, we will open up the call for questions from analysts. Instructions for queuing up will be provided at that time.

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Thanks, Venk. [Operator take Instructions] to ready Operator, are questions. we

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the Congrats afternoon. so much Thanks taking for good the excellent results. Hey, on questions.

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we will the end turn call I now that, With the for Q&A final to John his remarks. session. back will

Thank you, Chelsea.

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