Exhibit 99.1

QuickLogic Raises Approximately $3.2 Million with Strategic Investment

by Institutional Investors

San Jose, Calif. – September 20, 2022 - QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) (“QuickLogic” or the “Company”), a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and Endpoint AI solutions, today announced current institutional investors have purchased 487,279 registered shares, or about 3.9 percent of the shares outstanding as of September 14, 2022, raising gross proceeds of approximately $3.2 million at a price for each share of $6.57, in a registered direct offering. The offering was made without an underwriter or placement agent.   

“We are fortunate to have the continued financial support from long-time shareholders that understand the tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon our 30-years of expertise in delivering FPGA technology,” said Brian Faith president and CEO of QuickLogic.  “Their offer to invest in QuickLogic amidst challenging market conditions is invaluable and will enable us to execute on our nearly $100 million sales funnel as we drive the business to profitability.” 
 

A shelf registration statement was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and is effective. A prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus describing the terms of the registered direct offering will be filed with the SEC. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the shares to be issued in the registered direct offering may be obtained for free by visiting the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. 

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities in the offering, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. 

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic is a fabless semiconductor company that develops low power, multi-core semiconductor platforms and Intellectual Property (IP) for Artificial Intelligence (AI), voice and sensor processing. The solutions include an embedded FPGA IP (eFPGA) for hardware acceleration and pre-processing, and heterogeneous multi-core SoCs that integrate eFPGA with other processors and peripherals. The Analytics Toolkit from the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, SensiML Corporation, completes the end-to-end solution with accurate sensor algorithms using AI technology. The full range of platforms, software tools and eFPGA IP enables the practical and efficient adoption of AI, voice and sensor processing across the multitude of mobile, wearable, hearable, consumer, industrial, edge and endpoint IoT applications. For more information, visit www.quicklogic.com and https://www.quicklogic.com/blog/.

QuickLogic uses its website (www.quicklogic.com), the company blog (https://www.quicklogic.com/blog/), corporate Twitter account (@QuickLogic_Corp), Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/QuickLogic), and LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/13512/) as channels of distribution of information about its products, its planned financial and other announcements, its attendance at upcoming investor and industry conferences, and other matters. Such information may be deemed material information, and QuickLogic may use these channels to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Therefore, investors should monitor the Company’s website and its social media accounts in addition to following the Company’s press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, and webcasts.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, expectations regarding our future business, and actual results may differ due to a variety of factors including: delays in the market acceptance of the Company’s new products; the ability to convert design opportunities into customer revenue; our ability to replace revenue from end-of-life products; the level and timing of customer design activity; the market acceptance of our customers’ products; the risk that new orders may not result in future revenue; our ability to introduce and produce new products based on advanced wafer technology on a timely basis; our ability to adequately market the low power, competitive pricing and short time-to-market of our new products; intense competition by competitors; our ability to hire and retain qualified personnel; our ability to capitalize on synergies with our subsidiary SensiML Corporation; changes in product demand or supply; general economic conditions; political events, international trade disputes, natural disasters and other business interruptions that could disrupt supply or delivery of, or demand for, the Company’s products; the unpredictable and ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; and changes in tax rates and exposure to additional tax liabilities. These and other potential factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results contemplated or implied are described in more detail in the Company’s public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the risks discussed in the “Risk Factors” section in the Company’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and in the Company’s prior press releases, which are available on the Company's Investor Relations website at http://ir.quicklogic.com/, and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. In addition any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events.

QuickLogic and logo are registered trademarks of QuickLogic. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Company Contact

Elias Nader

Chief Financial Officer

(408) 990-4000

ir@quicklogic.com

IR Contact

Jim Fanucchi or Alison Ziegler
Darrow Associates, Inc.
ir@quicklogic.com

CODE: QUIK-E

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