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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001040161-23-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PXLW"
cik: "0001040161"
company_name: "PIXELWORKS, INC"
filed_at: "2023-09-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T19:53:15.751144+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pixelworks appoints Grant Thornton as new auditor after Armanino resignation

## Summary
- Audit Committee approved Grant Thornton as independent auditor for FY2023 effective Sept 11, 2023.
- Predecessor auditor Armanino resigned due to its decision to cease public company audit services.
- No consultations with Grant Thornton on accounting principles or disagreements with Armanino reported.
- Armanino agreed with Company's disclosures in a letter to SEC attached as Exhibit 16.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001040161-23-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PXLW
- cik: 0001040161
- company_name: PIXELWORKS, INC
- filed_at: 2023-09-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040161/000104016123000041/0001040161-23-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040161/000104016123000041/pxlw-20230911.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001040161-23-000041.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  PIXELWORKS, INC engaged Grant Thornton LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Grant Thornton LLP
  source text: On September 11, 2023, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Pixelworks, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP (“Grant Thornton”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040161/000104016123000041/0001040161-23-000041-index.htm

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