The Company adopted the 2021 Incentive Award Plan (the 2021 Plan) effective October 26, 2021. The 2021 Plan provides for a variety of stock-based compensation awards, including stock options, SARs, restricted stock awards, RSUs, performance bonus awards, performance stock unit awards, dividend equivalents, or other stock or cash based awards.

Following the effectiveness of the 2021 Plan, the Company will not make any further grants under the Arteris, Inc. 2016 Incentive Plan (the 2016 Plan). However, the 2016 Plan will continue to govern the terms and conditions of the outstanding awards granted under this plan. Shares of common stock subject to awards granted under the 2016 Plan that are forfeited or lapse unexercised and withheld to cover taxes which following the effective date of the 2021 Plan are not issued under the 2016 Plan will be available for issuance under the 2021 Plan.

On November 13, 2025, the Company approved a PSU agreement for use in connection with the granting of PSUs under the 2021 Incentive Award Plan.

The Company adopted the 2022 Employment Inducement Incentive Plan (the 2022 Inducement Plan) effective November 3, 2022, pursuant to which it reserved 2,000,000 shares of its common stock. In February 2026, the 2022 Inducement Plan was amended and restated to increase the common stock available for issuance under the plan to 3,603,403 shares. The 2022 Inducement Plan provides for a variety of stock-based compensation awards, including stock options, SARs, restricted stock awards, restricted stock unit awards, performance bonus awards, performance stock unit awards, dividend equivalents, or other stock and cash-based awards. Awards under the 2022 Inducement Plan can only be made to newly hired employees.

The aggregate intrinsic value of the options exercised for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $0.9 million and $1.3 million, respectively. The total grant-date fair value of options vested was $0.2 million and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

As of March 31, 2026, there was $1.6 million of unamortized stock-based compensation cost related to unvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.4 years.

The following table summarizes the restricted and performance stock unit activities under the 2016 Plan, the 2021 Plan and the 2022 Inducement Plan:


	Restricted Stock Units
	Number of Shares	Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested—December 31, 2025	4,355,001	$	7.68
Granted	1,021,361	$	16.70
Vested	(507,802)	$	7.73
Canceled	(51,305)	$	9.24
Unvested—March 31, 2026	4,817,255	$	9.57

The Company granted 952,513 and 440,166 restricted stock units during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The total grant-date fair value of restricted stock units vested was $3.9 million and $3.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. As of March 31, 2026, there was $39.6 million of unamortized stock-based compensation cost related to unvested restricted stock units, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.9 years.

The Company granted 68,848 PSUs to its executive officers during the three months ended March 31, 2026. As of March 31, 2026, there was $1.3 million of unamortized stock-based compensation cost related to unvested performance stock units, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.9 years.

The PSUs are eligible to vest based on the relative performance of the Company’s common stock (Total Stockholder Return or TSR), compared to the performance of the RUSSELL 2000 Index (the Index), during the specified three-year performance period. The PSUs have a payout percentage in the range of 0% to 200% of the recipient’s target award, which is calculated based on the difference between the Company’s TSR and the Index TSR over the three-year performance period, subject to the recipient’s continuous employment with the Company through the third anniversary of the award’s grant date. The payout will be capped at 100% if the Company's TSR is negative.

The fair value of PSUs granted is estimated using the Monte Carlo simulation model, which uses (i) a risk-free interest rate based on the U.S. Treasury zero coupon issues for an equivalent expected term of PSUs; (ii) simulation term based on the performance period; (iii) historical volatilities of the Company’s common stock and that of the Index; (iv) correlation coefficients between the Company and the Index; and (v) an expected dividend yield of zero as the Company has never declared or paid any cash dividend and does not currently plan to pay a cash dividend in the foreseeable future.

Stock-based compensation expense is recorded on a departmental basis, based on the classification of the award holder. The following table presents the amount of stock-based compensation related to stock-based awards to employees on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations (in thousands):


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Cost of revenue	$	321	$	205
Research and development	2,256		1,973
Sales and marketing	1,383		969
General and administrative	1,551		1,166
Total stock-based compensation	$	5,511	$	4,313