ADEA · CIK 0001803696
What Adeia Inc. told the SEC could break it.
2 self-disclosed vulnerabilities, pulled from its own filings — each in the company’s words, with the source. This is the risk register almost nobody reads.
A limited set so far — we surface every cited disclosure we’ve extracted for ADEA. More may follow as additional filings are processed.
In its own words
What could break it.
Customer concentration
- Top licensee = 20% of revenue, second = 16%, five customers = 55.7% of revenue; one customer = 63% of accounts receivablehigh
Adeia's IP-licensing revenue is concentrated in a small number of licensees. For 2025, one customer (Customer A) represented 20% of total revenue and another (Customer B) 16%, and five customers together represented 55.7% of aggregate revenue; at December 31, 2025 a single customer accounted for 63% of aggregate accounts receivable. Some of these agreements do not require any minimum license fees, and licenses come up for renewal, so non-renewal or renegotiation by one large licensee would materially reduce revenue. A high customer/licensee concentration (the specific named licensees — Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix, Sony, etc. — are captured as license edges).
“For the year ended December 31, 2025, five customers represented 55.7% of aggregate revenue.”
SEC filing →As of 2026
Regulatory & policy
- U.S.–China trade conflict, tariffs and national-security export/sanctions policy — already impacting revenue and could limit existing or potential licensees from doing business with Adeiamedium
As a semiconductor and media IP licensor whose licensees include large Asian chipmakers and foundries, Adeia is exposed to U.S.–China trade and national-security policy. It states its business has been impacted by increased and ongoing trade conflicts and the imposition of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs between the U.S. and China, and that further deterioration of U.S.–China trade relations, economic sanctions, and national-security protection policies could limit or prevent existing or potential customers from doing business with it. Because licensing revenue depends on counterparties being legally able to transact with a U.S. licensor, export-control/sanctions escalation directly threatens its addressable licensee base. A specific, already-materialized trade-policy exposure.
“our business has been impacted due to increased and ongoing trade conflicts and the imposition of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs between the United States and China.”
The hidden graph
Who it depends on, and who depends on it.
Relationships surfaced from filings — including ones disclosed by the other side, which is how the non-obvious ones come to light.
Its customers
United Microelectronics Corporation
“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →SK hynix Inc.
“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →Kioxia
“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →“our customers include Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony, ST Microelectronics, and UMC.”
Cited →
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