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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
Form 10-Q
(Mark One)
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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2009
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For
the transition period from to
Commission file number: 001-33435
CAVIUM NETWORKS, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
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DELAWARE
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77-0558625 |
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(State or other jurisdiction
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
of incorporation or organization) |
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805 E. Middlefield Road |
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Mountain View, California
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94043 |
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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Registrants telephone number, including area code: (650) 623-7000
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for
such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been
subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its
corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted
pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period
that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).
Yes o No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of large
accelerated filer, accelerated filer and smaller reporting company in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act. (Check one):
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Large accelerated filer þ
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Accelerated filer o
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Non-accelerated filer o
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Smaller reporting company o |
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(Do not check if a smaller reporting company) |
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act). Yes o No þ
The number of shares of the Registrants Common Stock, $.001 par value, outstanding at October 30,
2009 was: 41,670,224
CAVIUM NETWORKS, INC.
QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item 1. |
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Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements |
CAVIUM
NETWORKS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
(unaudited)
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September 30, |
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December 31, |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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Assets |
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Current assets: |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
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$ |
70,693 |
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$ |
77,027 |
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Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $414 and $203, respectively |
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11,717 |
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14,054 |
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Inventories |
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18,313 |
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17,281 |
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Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
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2,941 |
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1,298 |
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Total current assets |
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103,664 |
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109,660 |
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Property and equipment, net |
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8,404 |
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11,115 |
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Intangible assets, net |
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13,120 |
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16,958 |
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Goodwill |
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13,027 |
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12,925 |
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Other assets |
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433 |
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506 |
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Total assets |
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138,648 |
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$ |
151,164 |
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Liabilities and Stockholders Equity |
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Current liabilities: |
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Accounts payable |
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$ |
7,102 |
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$ |
7,309 |
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Accrued expenses and other current liabilities |
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3,081 |
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7,697 |
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Deferred revenue |
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1,444 |
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1,700 |
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Capital lease and technology license obligations, current portion |
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2,886 |
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2,619 |
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Total current liabilities |
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14,513 |
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19,325 |
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Capital lease and technology license obligations, net of current portion |
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449 |
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2,116 |
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Other non-current liabilities |
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1,665 |
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1,162 |
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Total liabilities |
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16,627 |
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22,603 |
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Commitments and contingencies (Note 11) |
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Stockholders equity: |
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Preferred stock, par value $0.001: |
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10,000,000
shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008 |
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Common stock, par value $0.001: |
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200,000,000
shares authorized; 41,662,292 and 41,183,010 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively |
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42 |
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41 |
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Additional paid-in capital |
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196,069 |
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185,743 |
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Accumulated deficit |
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(74,090 |
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(57,223 |
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Total stockholders equity |
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122,021 |
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128,561 |
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Total liabilities and stockholders equity |
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$ |
138,648 |
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$ |
151,164 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CAVIUM NETWORKS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share data)
(unaudited)
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Three Months Ended |
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Nine Months Ended |
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September 30, |
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September 30, |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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2009 |
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Net revenue |
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25,894 |
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$ |
24,525 |
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$ |
69,080 |
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64,429 |
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Cost of revenue |
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12,567 |
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10,099 |
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35,520 |
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24,494 |
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Gross profit |
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13,327 |
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14,426 |
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33,560 |
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39,935 |
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Operating expenses: |
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Research and development |
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10,629 |
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6,593 |
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30,894 |
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18,874 |
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Sales, general and administrative |
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6,647 |
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5,944 |
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19,310 |
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15,953 |
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Total operating expenses |
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17,276 |
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12,537 |
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50,204 |
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34,827 |
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(Loss) income from operations |
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(3,949 |
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1,889 |
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(16,644 |
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5,108 |
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Other (expense) income, net: |
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Interest expense |
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(54 |
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(115 |
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(200 |
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(403 |
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Interest income and other |
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499 |
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228 |
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2,100 |
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Total other (expense) income, net |
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(50 |
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384 |
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28 |
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1,697 |
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(Loss) income before provision for income taxes |
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(3,999 |
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2,273 |
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(16,616 |
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6,805 |
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Provision for income taxes |
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167 |
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454 |
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251 |
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941 |
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Net (loss) income |
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$ |
(4,166 |
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$ |
1,819 |
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(16,867 |
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5,864 |
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Net (loss) income, per common share, basic |
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(0.10 |
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0.04 |
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(0.41 |
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0.15 |
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Shares used in computing basic net (loss) income
per common share |
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41,447 |
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40,578 |
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41,250 |
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40,283 |
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Net (loss) income, per common share, diluted |
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(0.10 |
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0.04 |
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(0.41 |
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0.14 |
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Shares used in computing diluted net (loss)
income per common share |
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41,447 |
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42,628 |
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41,250 |
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42,617 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CAVIUM
NETWORKS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
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Nine Months Ended |
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September 30, |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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Cash flows from operating activities |
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Net (loss) income |
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(16,867 |
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5,864 |
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Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash provided by operating activities |
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Stock-based compensation expense |
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8,482 |
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4,115 |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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10,352 |
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7,873 |
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Loss on disposal of fixed assets |
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55 |
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Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions: |
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Accounts receivable, net |
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2,337 |
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(3,338 |
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Inventories |
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(1,000 |
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(4,923 |
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Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
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(1,359 |
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(325 |
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Other assets |
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73 |
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(227 |
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Accounts payable |
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(118 |
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2,723 |
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Accrued expenses and other current and non-current liabilities |
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149 |
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689 |
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Deferred revenue |
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(256 |
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19 |
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Net cash provided by operating activities |
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1,848 |
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12,470 |
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Cash flows used in investing activities |
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Purchases of property and equipment |
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(2,518 |
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Proceeds from sales of property and equipment |
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43 |
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Purchases of IP licenses and intangible assets |
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(583 |
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Acquisition of businesses |
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(4,981 |
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(9,811 |
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Net cash used in investing activities |
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(8,039 |
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(16,209 |
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Cash flows used in financing activities |
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Proceeds from issuance of common stock upon exercise of options |
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1,821 |
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808 |
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Principal payment of capital lease and technology license obligations |
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(1,949 |
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(3,609 |
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Repurchases of shares of unvested common stock |
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(15 |
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(4 |
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Net cash used in financing activities |
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(143 |
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(2,805 |
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Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents |
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(6,334 |
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(6,544 |
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Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period |
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77,027 |
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98,462 |
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Cash and cash equivalents, end of period |
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$ |
70,693 |
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$ |
91,918 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CAVIUM
NETWORKS, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(unaudited)
1. Organization and Significant Accounting Policies
Organization
Cavium Networks, Inc., (the Company), was incorporated in the State of California on
November 21, 2000 and was reincorporated in the State of Delaware on February 6, 2007. The Company
designs, develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Cavium Networks,
Inc. and its wholly owned foreign subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions and
balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance
with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, and with
the instructions to Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, Form 10-Q and Article 10 of SEC
Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by
GAAP for complete financial statements. For further information, these financial statements should
be read in conjunction with the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K (File No. 001-33435) on file
with the SEC for the year ended December 31, 2008.
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contain all normal recurring
adjustments that, in the opinion of management, are necessary to present fairly the
Companys condensed consolidated financial position at September 30, 2009, and the condensed
consolidated results of its operations for the three months and nine months ended September 30,
2009 and 2008, and the condensed consolidated cash flows for the nine months ended September 30,
2009 and 2008. The results of operations for the three months and nine months ended September 30,
2009 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year.
The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2008 has been derived from the
audited consolidated financial statements at that date, but does not include all of the information
and footnotes required by GAAP.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to
make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in its condensed consolidated
financial statements and accompanying notes. Management bases its estimates on historical
experience and on various other assumptions it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances,
the results of which form the basis of making judgments about the carrying values of assets and
liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates. During the nine months ended
September 30, 2009, there were no significant changes to the
significant accounting policies, including basis for estimates discussed in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2008.
Concentration of Risk
A majority of the Companys products are currently manufactured, assembled and tested by
third-party contractors in Asia. There are no long-term agreements with any of these contractors. A
significant disruption in the operations of one or more of these contractors would impact the
production of the Companys products for a substantial period of time, which could have a material
adverse effect on the Companys business, financial condition and results of operations.
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a concentration of credit
risk consist of cash, cash equivalents and accounts receivable. The Company deposits cash and cash
equivalents with credit worthy financial institutions. The Company has not experienced any losses
on its deposits of cash and cash equivalents. Management believes that the cash and cash
equivalents are in quality money market funds, and, accordingly, minimal credit risk exists.
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The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers financial condition and,
generally, requires no collateral from its customers. The Company provides an allowance for
doubtful accounts receivable based upon the expected collectibility of accounts receivable.
Summarized below are individual customers whose revenues or accounts receivable balances were 10%
or higher of respective total consolidated amounts.
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For the three months ended |
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For the nine months ended |
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September 30, |
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2009 |
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2009 |
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Percentage of total net revenue |
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Customer A |
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Customer B |
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Represents less than 10% of the consolidated net revenue for the respective period end. |
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2009 |
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Percentage of gross accounts receivable |
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Customer B |
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Customer D |
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21 |
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Customer E |
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Represents less than 10% of the consolidated gross accounts receivable for the respective period end. |
Revenue Recognition
The Company derives its revenue primarily from sales of semiconductor products. The
Company recognizes revenue when all of the following criteria have been met: (i) persuasive
evidence of a binding arrangement exists, (ii) delivery has occurred, (iii) the price is deemed
fixed or determinable and free of contingencies and significant uncertainties, and (iv) collection
is probable. The price is considered fixed or determinable at the execution of an agreement, based
on specific products and quantities to be delivered at specified prices, which is often
memorialized with a customer purchase order. Agreements with non-distributor customers do not
include rights of return or acceptance provisions. The Company assesses the ability to collect from
the Companys customers based on a number of factors, including credit worthiness and any past
transaction history of the customer.
Shipping charges billed to customers are included in product revenue and the related
shipping costs are included in cost of revenue. The Company generally recognizes revenue at the
time of shipment to the Companys customers. Revenue consists primarily of sales of the Companys
products to networking original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, their contract manufacturers or
its distributors. Initial sales of the Companys products for a new design are usually made
directly to networking OEMs as they design and develop their product. Once their design enters
production, they often outsource their manufacturing to contract manufacturers that purchase the
Companys products directly from the Company or from the Companys distributors.
Revenue is recognized upon shipment for sales to distributors with limited rights of
returns and price protection if the Company concludes it can reasonably estimate the credits for
returns and price adjustments issuable. The Company records an estimated allowance, at the time of
shipment, based on the Companys historical patterns of returns and pricing credits of sales
recognized upon shipment. The credits issued to distributors or other customers were not material
in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008.
Revenue and costs relating to sales to distributors are deferred if the Company grants
more than limited rights of returns and price credits or if it cannot reasonably estimate the level
of returns and credits issuable. The Company has a distribution agreement with Avnet, Inc. to
distribute the Companys products primarily in the United States. Given the terms of the
distribution agreement, for sales to Avnet, revenue and costs are deferred until products are sold
by Avnet to its end customers. For the three months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, 4.5% and
3.7% of the Companys net revenues, respectively, and for the nine months ended September
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30, 2009 and 2008, 5.3% and 3.6% of the Companys net revenues, respectively, were from products
sold by Avnet, respectively. Revenue recognition depends on notification from the distributor that
product has been sold to Avnets end customers. Avnet reports to the Company, on at least a monthly
basis, the product resale price, quantity and end customer shipment information, as well as
inventory on hand. Reported distributor inventory on hand is reconciled monthly to the Companys
deferred revenue and cost balances. Deferred income on shipments to Avnet is included in deferred
revenue. Accounts receivable from Avnet is recognized and inventory is relieved when title to
inventories transfers, which typically takes place at the time of shipment, which is the point in
time at which the Company has a legal enforceable right to collection under normal payment terms.
The Company also derives a small portion of total revenue in the form of license and
maintenance fees through licensing its software products. Revenue from such arrangements is
recorded when revenue recognition criteria are met. Revenue from such arrangements totaled
$133,000 and $1.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and
$1.9 million and $1.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
If the arrangements contain support services, the value of such support services is recognized as
services revenue on a straight-line basis over the term of the related support period, which is
typically one year.
The Company also enters into development agreements with some of its customers.
Development revenue is recognized under the proportional performance method, with the associated
costs included in cost of revenue. The Company estimates the proportional performance of the
development contracts based on an analysis of progress toward completion. The Company periodically
evaluates the actual status of each project to ensure that the estimates to complete each contract
remain accurate. If the amount billed exceeds the amount of revenue recognized, the excess amount
is recorded as deferred revenue. Revenue recognized in any period is dependent on progress toward
completion of projects in progress. To the extent the Company is unable to estimate the
proportional performance then the revenue is recognized on a completed performance basis. Revenue
from such arrangements totaled $534,000 and $700,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2009
and 2008, respectively, and $1.8 million and $1.7 million for the nine months ended September 30,
2009 and 2008, respectively.
Total deferred revenue was $1.4 million and $1.7 million as of September 30, 2009 and as
of December 31, 2008, respectively, which includes deferred income on shipment to Avnet,
development revenue and deferred revenue associated with license and maintenance fees.
Warranty Accrual
The Companys products are subject to a one-year warranty period. The Company provides
for the estimated future costs of replacement upon shipment of the product as cost of revenue. The
warranty accrual is estimated based on historical claims compared to historical revenue. The
following table presents a reconciliation of the Companys product warranty liability, which is
included within accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets:
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Three Months Ended |
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Nine Months Ended |
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September 30, |
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|
September 30, |
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2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
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|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
Beginning balance |
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$ |
250 |
|
|
$ |
260 |
|
|
$ |
154 |
|
|
$ |
261 |
|
Accruals for warranties issued |
|
|
136 |
|
|
|
35 |
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|
488 |
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|
|
159 |
|
Settlements made |
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|
(78 |
) |
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|
(35 |
) |
|
|
(334 |
) |
|
|
(160 |
) |
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
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|
Ending balance |
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$ |
308 |
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|
$ |
260 |
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|
$ |
308 |
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|
$ |
260 |
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In August 2009,
the FASB issued Update No. 2009-05 or ASU 2009-05, which amends topic ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements
and Disclosures to provide additional authoritative guidance for the fair value measurement of liabilities.
The guidance is effective for the first reporting period (including interim periods) beginning after issuance.
The Company will apply
the guidance in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009. The adoption of the guidance is not expected to have any
significant impact on the Companys consolidated financial statements.
In September 2009,
the FASB issued Update No. 2009-13 or ASU 2009-13, which updates the guidance currently included under topic
ASC 605-25, Multiple Element Arrangements. ASU 2009-13 relates to the final consensus reached by FASB on a new
revenue recognition guidance regarding revenue arrangements with multiple deliverables. The new accounting
guidance addresses how to determine whether an arrangement involving multiple deliverables contains more
than one unit of accounting, and how the arrangement consideration should be allocated among the separate
units of accounting. The new accounting guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15,
2010 and may be applied retrospectively or prospectively for new or materially modified arrangements.
In addition, early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact, if any,
of the new accounting guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
In June 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) approved the FASB
Accounting Standards Codification (the Codification) as the single source of authoritative
nongovernmental GAAP. All existing accounting standard documents, such as FASB, American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, Emerging Issues Task Force and other related literature, excluding
guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will be superseded by the
Codification. All other non-grandfathered, non-SEC accounting literature not included in the
Codification will become nonauthoritative. The Codification does not change GAAP, but instead
introduces a new structure that will combine all authoritative standards into a comprehensive,
topically organized online database. The Codification will be effective for interim or annual
periods ending after September 15, 2009. The Company implemented the Codification during the
quarter ended September 30, 2009. As the Codification was not intended to change or alter existing
GAAP, the implementation of the Codification did not have any impact on the Companys consolidated
financial statements.
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In May 2009, the FASB issued topic Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) ASC 855-10
(formerly Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 165, Subsequent Events), which
establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the
balance sheet date, but before the financial statements are issued or available to be issued
(subsequent events). ASC 855-10 requires disclosure of the date through which the entity has
evaluated subsequent events and the basis for that date. For public entities, this is the date the
financial statements are issued. ASC 855-10 does not apply to subsequent events or transactions
that are within the scope of other GAAP and will not result in significant changes in the
subsequent events reported by the Company. ASC 855-10 is effective for interim or annual periods
ending after June 15, 2009. The Company implemented ASC 855-10 during the quarter ended June 30,
2009. The Company evaluated for subsequent events through
November 3, 2009, the issuance date of
the Companys financial statements. No recognized or non-recognized subsequent events were noted.
In April 2009, the FASB issued topic ASC 825-10-65 (formerly FSP FAS 107-1 and APB28-1,
Interim Disclosures about Financial Instruments), which requires disclosures about fair value of
financial instruments in interim periods of publicly traded companies that were previously only
required to be disclosed in annual financial statements. The provisions of ASC 825-10-65 are
effective for the interim reporting period ending after June 15, 2009. The Company implemented ASC
825-10-65 during the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The adoption of ASC 825-10-65 did not have any
impact on the Companys consolidated financial statements.
2. Net Income (Loss) Per Common Share
The Company calculates basic net income (loss) per common share by dividing net income
(loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the reporting period
(excluding shares subject to repurchase). Diluted net income (loss) per common share is computed by
dividing net income (loss) by the weighted-average number of common and potentially dilutive common
equivalent shares outstanding during the reporting period. Potentially dilutive securities are
composed of incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options, restricted stock
units, and common stock subject to repurchase.
The following table sets forth the computation of income (loss) per share:
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|
Three Months Ended |
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|
Nine Months Ended |
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September 30 |
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|
September 30 |
|
(in thousands, except per share data) |
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
Net income (loss) |
|
$ |
(4,166 |
) |
|
$ |
1,819 |
|
|
$ |
(16,867 |
) |
|
$ |
5,864 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average common shares
outstanding basic |
|
|
41,447 |
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|
|
40,578 |
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|
|
41,250 |
|
|
|
40,283 |
|
Dilutive effect of employee stock plans |
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|
|
|
|
|
2,050 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,334 |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average common shares
outstanding diluted |
|
|
41,447 |
|
|
|
42,628 |
|
|
|
41,250 |
|
|
|
42,617 |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic net income (loss) per share |
|
$ |
(0.10 |
) |
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
$ |
(0.41 |
) |
|
$ |
0.15 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted net income (loss) per share |
|
$ |
(0.10 |
) |
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
$ |
(0.41 |
) |
|
$ |
0.14 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
The Company excluded outstanding options and restricted stock units of 8.0 million for the
three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively, and 793,000 and 566,000 for
the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2008, respectively, from the computation of
diluted net income (loss) per common share, because including them would have had an anti-dilutive
effect.
3. Fair Value
At September 30, 2009, all of the Companys investments were classified as cash
equivalents and are comprised of highly liquid investments in money market instruments. In
accordance with the guidance provided under fair value measurements and disclosures, the Company
determined the fair value hierarchy of its financial assets (cash equivalents) in the money market
fund as Level 1 input (Level 1 inputs are Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or
liabilities), which approximated $62.1 million and $63.6 million
as of September 30, 2009 and as of December 31, 2008,
respectively.
4. Balance Sheet Components
Inventories
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (determined using the first-in, first-out method),
or market value (estimated net realizable value) and are comprised of the following:
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As of |
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|
As of |
|
|
|
September 30, 2009 |
|
|
December 31, 2008 |
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|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Work-in-process |
|
$ |
13,770 |
|
|
$ |
14,411 |
|
Finished goods |
|
|
4,543 |
|
|
|
2,870 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
18,313 |
|
|
$ |
17,281 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property and equipment, net, consist of the following:
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|
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As of |
|
|
As of |
|
|
|
September 30, 2009 |
|
|
December 31, 2008 |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Mask costs and test equipment |
|
$ |
12,280 |
|
|
$ |
11,016 |
|
Software, computer and other equipment |
|
|
16,894 |
|
|
|
15,402 |
|
Furniture, office equipment and leasehold improvements |
|
|
466 |
|
|
|
121 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29,640 |
|
|
|
26,539 |
|
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization |
|
|
(21,236 |
) |
|
|
(15,424 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
8,404 |
|
|
$ |
11,115 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization expense was $1.8 million and $2.2 million for the three
months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and $6.0 million and $6.2 million for the
nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
The Company has capitalized mask costs of none and $1.0 million during the three months ended
September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and $680,000 and $3.3 million during the nine months
ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Capital leases, which are time-based subscription design tools, are included in property
and equipment, and on a gross basis they were $9.7 million and $8.9 million at September 30, 2009
and December 31, 2008, respectively. Amortization expense related to assets recorded under capital
leases was $815,000 and $700,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008,
respectively, and $2.3 million and $2.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 and
2008, respectively.
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consist of the following:
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|
|
|
|
|
As of |
|
|
As of |
|
|
|
September 30, 2009 |
|
|
December 31, 2008 |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Accrued compensation and related benefits |
|
$ |
993 |
|
|
$ |
1,191 |
|
Acquisition related payables |
|
|
31 |
|
|
|
4,489 |
|
Restructuring related payables |
|
|
263 |
|
|
|
389 |
|
Accrued warranty |
|
|
308 |
|
|
|
154 |
|
Professional fees |
|
|
402 |
|
|
|
835 |
|
Income tax payable |
|
|
441 |
|
|
|
54 |
|
Other |
|
|
643 |
|
|
|
585 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
3,081 |
|
|
$ |
7,697 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Other non-current liabilities consist of the following:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As of |
|
|
As of |
|
|
|
September 30, 2009 |
|
|
December 31, 2008 |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Accrued rent |
|
$ |
775 |
|
|
$ |
187 |
|
Acquisition related payables |
|
|
|
|
|
|
220 |
|
Restructuring related payables |
|
|
132 |
|
|
|
464 |
|
Income tax payable |
|
|
758 |
|
|
|
291 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
1,665 |
|
|
$ |
1,162 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5. Business Combinations
Parallogic Corporation
On May 20, 2008, the Company acquired certain assets of Parallogic Corporation (Parallogic),
a privately held company. The aggregate purchase price consisted of cash consideration of
approximately $1.3 million, including direct acquisition costs of approximately $61,000. The
Company paid $826,000 in cash at the time of close of the acquisition. The remaining two subsequent
payments of $220,000 each were due at the completion of certain milestones or the 18
th and 36 th month anniversaries of the acquisition date, whichever
comes first. In January and September 2009, the Company paid the first and second installment of
$220,000 each due to Parallogics achievement of the milestones as defined in the merger agreement.
Identifiable intangible assets of approximately $450,000 consist of intellectual property
related to the developed technology as well as incremental value associated with existing customer
relationships. The developed technology acquired from Parallogic is multi-core software focused on
gigabit packet processing and security applications.
The total purchase price was allocated to tangible and identifiable intangible assets based on
their estimated fair value as of May 20, 2008. The excess of the purchase price over the tangible
and identifiable intangible assets was recorded as goodwill. The purchase price allocation was as
follows (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
Net tangible assets |
|
$ |
|
|
Identifiable intangible assets: |
|
|
|
|
Customer relationships |
|
|
76 |
|
Developed technology |
|
|
374 |
|
Goodwill |
|
|
816 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total purchase price |
|
$ |
1,266 |
|
|
|
|
|
The fair value assigned to developed technology and customer relationships was based upon
future discounted cash flows related to the projected income streams
of these assets using a discount rate
of 20% and 15%, respectively. Factors considered in estimating the discounted cash flows to be
derived from developed technology and customer relationships include risk related to the
characteristics and applications of the technology, existing and future markets and an assessment
of the age of the technology within its life span. The Company is amortizing the purchased
intangible assets to cost of revenue on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful life of
one to five years.
The results of operations from Parallogic have been included in the Companys consolidated
statements of operations only since the date of acquisition. Pro forma results of operations for
the acquisition have not been presented as the effect has not been significant.
Of the total purchase price, approximately $816,000 was allocated to goodwill, which
represents the excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the underlying net
tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired. The goodwill was attributed to the premium
paid for the opportunity to expand and better serve the addressable market and achieve greater
long-term growth opportunities. All of the $816,000 allocated to goodwill is expected to be
deductible for tax purposes. With this acquisition the Company believes it is better positioned to
deliver professional services for customers to help reduce the time-to-market for design wins and
provide high-performance tuning. The goodwill will not be amortized, but instead will be tested for
impairment at least annually and more frequently if certain indicators are present.
Star Semiconductor Corporation
On August 1, 2008, the Company acquired substantially all of the intangible assets and
inventory and certain other tangible assets of Star Semiconductor Corporation (Star), a
Taiwan-based design house in Hsinchu that builds highly integrated ARM-based
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system-on-a-chip, or SOC, processors for the broadband, connected home and small office/home office
market segments. The Company paid approximately $9.6 million in cash, including acquisition related
expenses of approximately $808,000. Included in the purchase price was $1.0 million that was placed
in escrow for 60 days after the close in order to indemnify the Company for certain matters,
including breaches of representations and warranties and covenants made by Star. Subsequent to 60
days after the close of the acquisition, the escrow was closed. The acquisition provided the
Company with a highly experienced stand-alone SOC processor team based in Taiwan. The results of
operations from Star have been included in the Companys consolidated statements of operations only
since the date of acquisition.
The acquisition was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting, and, accordingly,
the total estimated purchase price was allocated to the tangible and identifiable intangible assets
and liabilities assumed based on their relative fair values. The excess of the purchase price over
the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets was recorded as goodwill. The recorded goodwill
will not be amortized, but instead will be tested for impairment at least annually and more
frequently if certain indicators are present. All of the $3.3 million allocated to goodwill is
expected to be deductible for state income tax purposes but not for federal tax purposes. The
purchase price allocation was finalized in the third quarter of 2009. The total purchase price was
as follows:
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|
|
|
|
Amount |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Total purchase price of the acquisition of Star is as follows: |
|
|
|
|
Cash consideration |
|
$ |
8,790 |
|
Acquisition related expenses (1) |
|
|
808 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total purchase price |
|
$ |
9,598 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
|
Acquisition related expenses include legal and accounting fees and other external costs directly related to the acquisition. |
The purchase price allocation was as follows (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
Net tangible assets |
|
$ |
973 |
|
Identifiable intangible assets |
|
|
5,295 |
|
Goodwill |
|
|
3,330 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total purchase price |
|
$ |
9,598 |
|
|
|
|
|
The following table represents details of the purchased intangible assets as part of the
acquisition (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Estimated useful |
|
|
|
|
Intangible Assets |
|
life (in years) |
|
|
Amount |
|
Existing technology product |
|
|
4.0 |
|
|
$ |
3,849 |
|
Core technology product |
|
|
4.0 |
|
|
|
467 |
|
Existing technology license |
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
507 |
|
Customer contracts and relationships |
|
|
7.0 |
|
|
|
307 |
|
Trade name |
|
|
2.0 |
|
|
|
82 |
|
Order backlog |
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
83 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
5,295 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The fair value of the existing technology product, existing technology license
and the customer contracts and relationships was determined based on an income approach using the
discounted cash flow method. The discount rate of 18.0% used to value the existing technology -
product and discount rate of 20.0% used to value the customer contracts and relationships was
estimated using a discount rate based on implied rate of return of the transaction, adjusted for
the specific risk profile of each asset. The discount rate of 4.5% used to value the existing
technology license was based on a short-term risk free interest rate. The remaining useful life
was estimated based on historical product development cycles, the projected rate of technology
attrition, and the patterns of projected economic benefit of the assets.
The fair value of core technology and trade name was determined using a variation of income
approach known as the profit allocation method. The estimated savings in profit were determined
using a 3.0% profit allocation rate and a discount rate of 18.0%. The estimated useful life was
determined based on the future economic benefit expected to be received from the assets.
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The fair value of order backlog was determined using a cost approach where the fair value was based
on estimated sales and marketing expenses expected to be incurred to regenerate the order backlog.
The estimated useful life was determined based on the future economic benefit expected to be
received from the asset.
W&W Communications, Inc.
On December 23, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of W&W Communications, Inc.
(W&W). Total merger consideration was approximately $8.3 million, which consisted of cash
consideration of approximately $3.9 million, 338,245 unregistered common shares of the Company
valued at approximately $3.1 million (the fair value of Caviums stock of $9.16 per share was
derived using an average closing price of the Companys shares of common stock on the announcement
date and for the two days prior to, and two days subsequent to the public announcement of the
acquisition on November 20, 2008) and direct acquisition costs of approximately $1.3 million.
Additionally, in order to effect the acquisition of W&W, the Company assumed and immediately
paid-off W&Ws notes payable of approximately $8.9 million. As the notes payable were immediately
paid-off, the $8.9 million has been presented as a cash outflow and included in Acquisition of
businesses, net of cash acquired within the cash flows used in investing activities section of the
consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2008. The acquisition allowed
the Company to strategically acquire W&Ws developed technology and its design team for the
emerging consumer market for high definition encoding semiconductors. In connection with the
acquisition, the Company recorded approximately $880,000 of restructuring costs related to the
contractual operating lease obligations of a W&W facility in accordance with the guidance provided
under business combinations. The costs associated with the obligation were recognized as a
liability assumed in the purchase business combination and included in the purchase price
allocation. The results of operations from W&W have been included in the Companys consolidated
statements of operations only since the date of acquisition.
The acquisition was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting, and accordingly,
the total estimated purchase price was allocated to the tangible and identifiable intangible assets
and liabilities assumed based on their relative fair values. The excess of the purchase price over
the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets was recorded as goodwill. The recorded goodwill
will not be amortized, but instead will be tested for impairment at least annually and more
frequently if certain indicators are present. None of the $8.9 million allocated to goodwill is
expected to be deductible for federal or state income tax purposes. While the Company has accrued
all acquisition costs that it is aware of, any adjustments to these costs will be adjusted to
goodwill. The purchase price allocation will be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2009. The total
purchase price was as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amount |
|
|
|
(in
thousands) |
|
Total purchase price of the acquisition of W&W is as follows: |
|
|
|
|
Cash consideration (1) |
|
$ |
3,891 |
|
Value of common stock issued |
|
|
3,098 |
|
Acquisition related expenses (2) |
|
|
1,262 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total purchase price |
|
$ |
8,251 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
|
As of September 30, 2009, of the the total cash consideration of $3.9 million,
$0.1 million was paid in fiscal 2008 and $3.8 million was paid during the nine months
ended September 30, 2009. |
|
(2) |
|
As of September 30, 2009, acquisition related expenses of $1.3 million include legal
and accounting fees and other external costs directly related to the acquisition, of which
$0.5 million was paid in fiscal 2008 and the remaining $0.8 million was paid during the
nine months ended September 30, 2009. |
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The purchase price allocation was as follows (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As
adjusted |
|
Cash and cash equivalents |
|
$ |
283 |
|
Inventories, net |
|
|
829 |
|
Other assets |
|
|
230 |
|
Goodwill |
|
|
8,881 |
|
In-process research and development |
|
|
1,319 |
|
Other intangibles, net |
|
|
10,114 |
|
Accounts payable |
|
|
(1,357 |
) |
Accrued expenses |
|
|
(2,438 |
) |
Accrued restructuring |
|
|
(750 |
) |
Notes payable |
|
|
(8,860 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Total purchase price |
|
$ |
8,251 |
|
|
|
|
|
The fair value of intangible assets of $10.1 million has been allocated to the following
identifiable intangible asset categories:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Estimated useful life |
|
|
|
|
Intangible Assets |
|
(in years) |
|
|
Amount |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Existing technology |
|
|
1-5 |
|
|
$ |
7,768 |
|
Core technology |
|
|
5.0 |
|
|
|
1,306 |
|
Customer contracts and relationships |
|
|
6.0 |
|
|
|
583 |
|
Order backlog |
|
|
0.6 |
|
|
|
457 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
10,114 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Of the $11.4 million of acquired intangible assets, $1.3 million was assigned to
in-process research and development or IPR&D. The acquired IPR&D was expensed immediately as it
relates to the acquisition of an in-process technology project which had not reached technological
feasibility at the time of acquisition, and had no future alternative use. The fair value of the
IPR&D was determined based on an income approach using the discounted cash flow method. A discount
rate of 24% used to value the project was based on the implied rate of return of the transaction,
adjusted to reflect additional risks inherent in the acquired project. As of September 30, 2009,
the Company estimates that an additional investment of approximately $800,000 will be required to
complete the project. The Company expects to complete the project by the end of 2009 and to benefit
from the IPR&D project beginning in 2010.
The fair value of the existing technology and customer contracts and relationships was
determined based on an income approach using the discounted cash flow method. A discount rate of
18% was used to value the existing technology and a discount rate of 20% was used to value the
customer contracts and relationships and was estimated using a discount rate based on implied rate
of return of the transaction, adjusted for the specific risk profile of each asset. The remaining
useful life of existing technology was estimated based on historical product development cycles,
the projected rate of technology attrition, and the patterns of project economic benefit of the
assets. The remaining useful life of customer contracts and relationships was estimated based on
customer attrition, new customer acquisition and future economic benefit of the asset.
The fair value of core technology was determined using a variation of income approach known as
the profit allocation method. The estimated savings in profit were determined using a 5% profit
allocation rate and a discount rate of 20%. The estimated useful life was determined based on the
future economic benefit expected to be received from the asset.
The fair value of order backlog was determined using a cost approach where the fair value was
based on estimated sales and marketing expenses expected that would have to be incurred to
regenerate the order backlog. The estimated useful life was determined based on the future economic
benefit expected to be received from the asset.
Pro forma financial information (unaudited)
The unaudited pro forma financial information in the table below summarizes the combined
results of operations of the Company, Star and W&W, on a pro forma basis, as though the companies
had been combined as of the beginning of the period presented. The pro forma financial information
is presented for informational purposes only and is not indicative of the results of operations
that would have been achieved if the acquisitions had taken place at the beginning of each of the
periods presented. The pro forma financial information for all periods presented includes the
purchase accounting adjustments on historical Star and W&W inventory,
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adjustments to depreciation on acquired property and equipment, amortization charges from
acquired intangible assets and related tax effects.
The unaudited pro forma financial information for the three months and nine months ended
September 30, 2008 combines the historical results for the Company and W&W for the three months and
nine months ended September 30, 2008 and Star for the one month and seven months ended July 31,
2008. The following table summarizes the pro forma financial information (in thousands, except per
share amounts):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
September 30, |
|
September 30, |
|
|
2008 |
|
2008 |
Net revenue |
|
$ |
25,848 |
|
|
$ |
68,560 |
|
Net loss |
|
$ |
(2,749 |
) |
|
$ |
(4,595 |
) |
Net loss per common share, basic |
|
$ |
(0.07 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.11 |
) |
Net loss per common share, diluted |
|
$ |
(0.07 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.11 |
) |
6. Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net
Goodwill
The increase in goodwill of $102,000 during the nine months ended September 30, 2009 was
primarily the result of adjustments to acquisition related expenses and restructuring accrual
related adjustments for the acquisitions completed in 2008. (See Note 5 and Note 7)
Intangible assets, net consisted of the following:
Intangible Assets, net (in thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As of |
|
|
As of |
|
|
|
September 30, 2009 |
|
|
December 31, 2008 |
|
Existing and core technology product |
|
$ |
17,614 |
|
|
$ |
17,614 |
|
Technology license |
|
|
10,100 |
|
|
|
9,536 |
|
Customer contracts and relationships |
|
|
966 |
|
|
|
966 |
|
Trade name |
|
|
82 |
|
|
|
82 |
|
Order backlog |
|
|
540 |
|
|
|
540 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29,302 |
|
|
|
28,738 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less: accumulated amortization |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Existing and core technology product |
|
|
(7,410 |
) |
|
|
(4,398 |
) |
Technology license |
|
|
(7,982 |
) |
|
|
(6,787 |
) |
Customer contracts and relationships |
|
|
(202 |
) |
|
|
(65 |
) |
Trade name |
|
|
(48 |
) |
|
|
(17 |
) |
Order backlog |
|
|
(540 |
) |
|
|
(513 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
13,120 |
|
|
$ |
16,958 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amortization expense was $1.5 million and $1.0 million for the three months ended September
30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and $4.4 million and $1.6 million for the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The weighted-average remaining estimated lives for
intangible assets are approximately 3.0 years for existing and core technology-product and
1.6 years for technology license. The weighted average remaining estimated life of intangible
assets in total is approximately 2.2 years. Future amortization expense is estimated to be $1.4
million for 2009, $4.4 million for 2010, $3.2 million for 2011, $2.6 million for 2012 and $1.6
million thereafter.
7. Restructuring Accrual
In connection with the acquisition of W&W, the Company recorded restructuring liabilities of
approximately $880,000. During the quarter ended September 30, 2009, the Company made certain
changes in estimates of approximately $190,000 to its restructuring
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accrual as a result of completion of a sub-lease agreement. Of the $395,000 net balance as of
September 30, 2009, $263,000 was recorded as restructuring related payables in accrued expenses and
other current liabilities and the remaining $132,000 was recorded in other non-current liabilities.
The liabilities are related to an operating lease commitment for one W&W facility, which the
Company no longer occupies. The Company expects the obligation to be settled by the end of January
2011 with payments of approximately $106,000 in 2009, $442,000 in 2010 and $37,000 in 2011. The
Company expects sub-lease income of approximately $32,000 in 2009 and $158,000 in 2010.
In connection with a workforce reduction action in the three months ended June 30, 2009, the
Company incurred approximately $316,000 in expenses primarily related to severance and related
costs. These charges were recorded as operating expenses and the Company fully paid the amount by
the end of June, 2009.
A summary of the accrued restructuring liabilities, net of related activities, during the nine
months ended September 30, 2009 is as follows (in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Severance and other |
|
Excess Facility |
|
|
|
|
Benefits |
|
related costs |
|
Total |
Accrued restructuring January 1, 2009 |
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
853 |
|
|
$ |
853 |
|
Additions |
|
|
316 |
|
|
|
27 |
|
|
|
343 |
|
Cash payments and other non-cash adjustments |
|
|
(316 |
) |
|
|
(485 |
) |
|
|
(801 |
) |
|
|
|
Accrued restructuring, net September 30, 2009 |
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
395 |
|
|
$ |
395 |
|
Less: current portion |
|
|
|
|
|
|
263 |
|
|
|
263 |
|
|
|
|
Long-term portion |
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
132 |
|
|
$ |
132 |
|
|
|
|
8. Stockholders Equity
Common and Preferred Stock
As of September 30, 2009, the Company is authorized to issue 200,000,000 shares of $0.001
par value common stock and 10,000,000 shares of $0.001 par value preferred stock. The Company has
the authority to issue preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences,
privileges and restrictions thereof, including dividend rights, dividend rates, conversion rights,
voting rights, terms of redemption and liquidation preferences. As of September 30, 2009 and
December 31, 2008, no shares of preferred stock were outstanding.
Equity Incentive Plans
The description of the key features of the Companys 2007 Equity Incentive Plan and 2001 Stock
Incentive Plan, may be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto
included in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
The following table summarizes the details related to activity of early-exercise
unvested shares of common stock granted under the 2001 Stock Incentive Plan:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number of |
|
|
|
|
Unvested |
|
Weighted-Average |
|
|
Shares |
|
Exercise/Purchase |
|
|
Outstanding |
|
Price |
Balance as of December 31, 2008 |
|
|
145,564 |
|
|
$ |
3.50 |
|
Issued |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vested |
|
|
(30,404 |
) |
|
|
2.12 |
|
Cancelled and forfeited |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of March 31, 2009 |
|
|
115,160 |
|
|
$ |
3.86 |
|
Issued |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vested |
|
|
(31,965 |
) |
|
|
2.81 |
|
Repurchased |
|
|
(2,502 |
) |
|
|
5.99 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of June 30, 2009 |
|
|
80,693 |
|
|
$ |
4.22 |
|
Issued |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vested |
|
|
(21,740 |
) |
|
|
3.65 |
|
Repurchased |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of September 30, 2009 |
|
|
58,953 |
|
|
$ |
4.42 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The following table summarizes the details related to stock options granted and outstanding
under the 2007 Equity Incentive Plan and 2001 Stock Incentive Plan:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average |
|
|
Number of |
|
Exercise |
|
|
Shares |
|
Price |
|
|
Outstanding |
|
per Share |
Balance at December 31, 2008 |
|
|
5,397,454 |
|
|
$ |
8.78 |
|
Options granted |
|
|
2,535,906 |
|
|
|
9.90 |
|
Options exercised |
|
|
(26,611 |
) |
|
|
2.12 |
|
Options cancelled and forfeited |
|
|
(75,879 |
) |
|
|
14.77 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of March 31, 2009 |
|
|
7,830,870 |
|
|
$ |
9.11 |
|
Options granted |
|
|
83,000 |
|
|
|
13.13 |
|
Options exercised |
|
|
(97,120 |
) |
|
|
3.80 |
|
Options cancelled and forfeited |
|
|
(159,197 |
) |
|
|
14.95 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of June 30, 2009 |
|
|
7,657,553 |
|
|
$ |
9.10 |
|
Options granted |
|
|
132,500 |
|
|
|
19.01 |
|
Options exercised |
|
|
(255,614 |
) |
|
|
5.44 |
|
Options cancelled and forfeited |
|
|
(35,405 |
) |
|
|
20.31 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of September 30, 2009 |
|
|
7,499,034 |
|
|
$ |
9.35 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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The following table summarizes the details related to restricted stock units granted and
outstanding under the 2007 Equity Incentive Plan:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-Average |
|
|
Number of |
|
Grant Date Fair |
|
|
Shares |
|
Value Per Share |
Balance as of December 31, 2008 |
|
|
280,933 |
|
|
$ |
17.16 |
|
Granted |
|
|
278,549 |
|
|
|
8.88 |
|
Issued and released |
|
|
(38,247 |
) |
|
|
15.80 |
|
Cancelled and forfeited |
|
|
(9,080 |
) |
|
|
15.40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of March 31, 2009 |
|
|
512,155 |
|
|
$ |
12.79 |
|
Granted |
|
|
9,000 |
|
|
|
12.56 |
|
Issued and released |
|
|
(31,902 |
) |
|
|
13.68 |
|
Cancelled and forfeited |
|
|
(11,086 |
) |
|
|
14.84 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of June 30, 2009 |
|
|
478,167 |
|
|
$ |
12.68 |
|
Granted |
|
|
27,000 |
|
|
|
19.01 |
|
Issued and released |
|
|
(32,290 |
) |
|
|
13.67 |
|
Cancelled and forfeited |
|
|
(3,420 |
) |
|
|
16.68 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of September 30, 2009 |
|
|
469,457 |
|
|
$ |
12.95 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For restricted stock units, or RSUs, stock-based compensation expense is calculated
based on the market price of the Companys common stock on the date of grant, multiplied by the
number of RSUs granted. The grant date fair value of RSUs, less estimated forfeitures, is recorded
on a straight-line basis, over the vesting period.
As of September 30, 2009, there was $5.3 million of unrecognized compensation costs related to
RSUs granted under the Companys 2007 Equity Incentive Plan. The unrecognized compensation cost is
expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.9 years.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company recognizes stock-based compensation for options and RSUs granted to employees
in accordance with the guidance provided under stock-based compensation. The following table
presents the detail of stock-based compensation expense amounts included in the consolidated
statement of operations for each of the periods presented:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Cost of revenue |
|
$ |
95 |
|
|
$ |
20 |
|
|
|
262 |
|
|
$ |
103 |
|
Research and development |
|
|
1,423 |
|
|
|
805 |
|
|
|
4,036 |
|
|
|
1,792 |
|
Sales, general and administrative |
|
|
1,470 |
|
|
|
1,012 |
|
|
|
4,184 |
|
|
|
2,220 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
2,988 |
|
|
$ |
1,837 |
|
|
$ |
8,482 |
|
|
$ |
4,115 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
There
were no tax benefits realized as a result of employee stock option
exercises and vesting of equity stock units for the three and nine
months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008.
The total stock-based compensation cost capitalized as part of inventory as of September
30, 2009 and 2008 was $207,000 and $164,000, respectively.
The fair value of each employee option grant for the three months and nine months ended
September 30, 2009 and 2008 was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option
pricing model with the following assumptions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
Risk-free interest rate
|
|
|
1.96 |
% |
|
|
2.70 |
% |
|
1.52% to 2.19%
|
|
2.33% to 3.32% |
Expected life
|
|
4.53 - 4.75 years
|
|
4.53 - 4.75 years
|
|
4.53 - 4.75 years
|
|
4.53 - 4.75 years |
Dividend yield
|
|
None
|
|
None
|
|
None
|
|
None |
Volatility
|
|
62.4% to 62.7%
|
|
|
58.5 |
% |
|
62.4% to 63.7%
|
|
55.4% to 58.5% |
18
The estimated weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted were $9.84 and $8.36
for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and $5.34 and $7.89 for the
nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
As of September 30, 2009, there was $22.8 million of unrecognized compensation costs related
to stock options granted under the Companys 2007 and 2001 Stock Incentive Plans. The unrecognized
compensation cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.72 years.
9. Income Taxes
For the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, the provision for
income taxes was based on the estimated annual effective tax rate. The Company updates its estimate
of its annual effective tax rate at the end of each quarterly period. The estimate takes into
account estimations of annual pre-tax income, the geographic mix of pre-tax income and
interpretations of tax laws and the possible outcomes of current and future audits.
The following table presents the provision for income taxes and the effective tax rates
for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
September 30, |
|
September 30, |
|
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
(Loss) income before provision for income taxes |
|
$ |
(3,999 |
) |
|
$ |
2,273 |
|
|
$ |
(16,616 |
) |
|
$ |
6,805 |
|
Provision for income taxes |
|
$ |
167 |
|
|
$ |
454 |
|
|
$ |
251 |
|
|
$ |
941 |
|
Effective tax rate |
|
|
-4.2 |
% |
|
|
20.0 |
% |
|
|
-1.5 |
% |
|
|
13.8 |
% |
The provision for income taxes was $167,000 and $251,000 for the three and nine
months ended September 30, 2009, respectively. The income tax expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 was primarily related to federal alternative minimum taxes, international taxes and state income taxes.
The provision for income taxes was $454,000 and $941,000 for the three and nine months
ended September 30, 2008, respectively. The income tax expense for the three and nine months ended
September 30, 2008 was primarily related to the federal alternative minimum tax on profits in the
United States adjusted by certain non-deductible items, international taxes and state income taxes.
The Company continues to maintain a full valuation allowance on its U.S. net deferred tax
assets until sufficient positive evidence exists, including history of taxable income, to support
reversal of the valuation allowance. If in the future, the Company determines that these deferred
tax assets are more likely than not to be realized, a release of all or part of the related
valuation allowance could result in an income tax benefit in the period such determination is made.
As of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, the Company had unrecognized tax benefits of
$4.7 million and $4.0 million, respectively, of which $4.0 million is netted against deferred tax
assets and is fully offset by a valuation allowance. If recognized, $0.7 million would impact the
provision for income taxes. The Company does not expect any material changes to the estimated
amount of liability associated with its uncertain tax positions within the next 12 months.
The Companys major tax jurisdictions are the United States federal government and the
State of California. The Company is required to estimate its income taxes in each of the
jurisdictions in which it has a subsidiary or branch operation. Accordingly, the Company files
income tax returns in the United States federal jurisdiction, the State of California and various
state and foreign tax jurisdictions. The United States federal corporation income tax returns
beginning with the 2000 tax year remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service, or
IRS. The California corporation income tax returns beginning with the 2000 tax year remain subject
to examination by the California Franchise Tax Board. There are no on-going income tax audits in
the major tax jurisdictions.
10. Segment Information
In accordance with the guidance provided under segment reporting, operating segments are
defined as components of an enterprise for which separate financial information is available and
evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision-maker, or decision-making group, in deciding
how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The Company is organized as, and operates
in, one
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reportable segment: the development and sale of semiconductor processor solutions for
next-generation intelligent networking equipment. The chief operating decision-maker is the Chief
Executive Officer. The Companys Chief Executive Officer reviews financial information presented on
a consolidated basis, accompanied by information about revenue by customer and geographic region,
for purposes of evaluating financial performance and allocating resources. The Company and its
Chief Executive Officer evaluate performance based primarily on revenue to the customers and in the
geographic locations in which the Company operates. Revenue is attributed by geographic location
based on the ship-to location of customers. The Companys assets are primarily located in the
United States of America and not allocated to any specific region. Therefore, geographic
information is presented only for total revenue. Substantially all of the Companys long-lived
assets are located in the United States of America.
The following table is based on the geographic location of the OEMs or the distributors
who purchased the Companys products. The geographic locations of the Companys distributors may be
different from the geographic locations of the ultimate end users. Revenues by geography for the
periods indicated were as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three months ended |
|
|
Nine months ended |
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
United States |
|
$ |
9,002 |
|
|
$ |
12,252 |
|
|
$ |
27,198 |
|
|
$ |
32,803 |
|
Hong Kong |
|
|
5,115 |
|
|
|
1,095 |
|
|
|
13,960 |
|
|
|
1,966 |
|
Taiwan |
|
|
4,407 |
|
|
|
3,786 |
|
|
|
9,526 |
|
|
|
9,419 |
|
Japan |
|
|
3,241 |
|
|
|
3,675 |
|
|
|
8,262 |
|
|
|
8,515 |
|
Other countries |
|
|
4,129 |
|
|
|
3,717 |
|
|
|
10,134 |
|
|
|
11,726 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
25,894 |
|
|
$ |
24,525 |
|
|
$ |
69,080 |
|
|
$ |
64,429 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11. Commitments and Contingencies
The Company is not currently a party to any legal proceedings that management believes
would have a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position, results of operations
or cash flows of the Company.
The Company leases its facilities under non-cancelable operating leases, which contain renewal
options and escalation clauses, and expire on varying dates ending in April 2013. The Company also
acquires certain assets under capital leases.
Minimum commitments under non-cancelable capital and operating lease agreements, excluding
accrued restructuring liability (See Note 7) as of September 30, 2009 were as follows:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital lease |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
and technology |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
license |
|
|
Operating |
|
|
|
|
|
|
obligations |
|
|
leases |
|
|
Total |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
2009 |
|
$ |
806 |
|
|
|
313 |
|
|
$ |
1,119 |
|
2010 |
|
|
2,403 |
|
|
|
1,913 |
|
|
|
4,316 |
|
2011 |
|
|
236 |
|
|
|
1,658 |
|
|
|
1,894 |
|
2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,044 |
|
|
|
1,044 |
|
2013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
281 |
|
|
|
281 |
|
thereafter |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
3,445 |
|
|
$ |
5,209 |
|
|
$ |
8,654 |
|
Less: Interest component |
|
|
(110 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Present value of minimum lease payment |
|
|
3,335 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less: current portion |
|
|
(2,886 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term portion of obligations |
|
$ |
449 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rent expense incurred under operating leases was $481,000 and $542,000 for the three months
ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and $1.5 million and $1.2 million for the nine
months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
The capital lease and technology license obligations include future cash payments payable
primarily for license agreements with outside vendors. The significant obligations which have
outstanding payments as of September 30, 2009 are summarized as follows:
|
|
|
The license agreement, which was entered into in October 2007, with Synopsys is for
certain design tools totaling $7.0 million, with 12 installment payments. The term of
the license is three years which will expire in October 2010. The present value of the
installment payments has been capitalized and is amortized over three years, and
included within capital lease and technology license obligations on the consolidated
balance sheets. As of September 30, 2009, $4.6 million of the total $7.0 million due
under the licenses agreement was paid. |
|
|
|
A second license agreement with Synopsys, which was entered into in October 2008, is
for certain design tools totaling $575,000. The term of the license is three years which
will expire in October 2011. As of September 30, 2009, $192,000 of the total $575,000
due under the licenses agreement was paid. |
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Item 2. |
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Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Condensed
Financial Statements and the related notes that appear elsewhere in this document.
The information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements
within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (Securities Act), and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), which are subject
to the safe harbor created by those sections. Forward-looking statements are based on our
managements beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. In
some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as may, will, should,
could, would, estimate, project, predict, potential, continue, strategy,
believe, anticipate, plan, expect, intend and similar expression intended to identify
forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors, which may cause our actual results, performance, time frames or achievements to be
materially different from any future results, performance, time frames or achievements expressed or
implied by the forward-looking statements. We discuss many of these risks, uncertainties and other
factors in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q in greater detail under the heading Risk Factors.
Given these risks, uncertainties and other factors, you should not place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements. Also, these forward-looking statements represent our estimates and
assumptions only as of the date of this filing. You should read this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different
from what we expect. We hereby qualify our forward-looking statements by these cautionary
statements. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking
statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those
anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the
future.
Octoen®, Octoen Plus ®, Octoen II®, Nitrox® and Pure VuTM are
trademarks and registered trademarks of Cavium Networks, Inc.
Overview
We are a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for networking, communications, storage, wireless, video and security applications. We
market and sell our products to providers of networking equipment that sell their products into the
enterprise network, data center, broadband and consumer, and access and service provider markets.
Our products are used in a broad array of networking equipment, including routers, switches,
content-aware switches, unified threat management, or UTM and other security appliances,
application-aware gateways, voice/video/data, or triple-play, gateways, wireless local area
network, or WLAN and third-generation, or 3G access and aggregation devices, storage networking
equipment, servers and intelligent network interface cards. We focus our resources on the design,
sales and marketing of our products, and outsource the manufacturing of our products.
From our incorporation in 2000 through 2003, we were primarily engaged in the
design and development of our first processor family, NITROX, which we began shipping commercially
in 2003. In 2004, we introduced and commenced commercial shipments of NITROX Soho. In 2006, we
commenced our first commercial shipments of our OCTEON family of multi-core MIPS64®
processors. We introduced a number of new products within all three of these product families in
2006. In 2007, we introduced our new line of OCTEON based storage services processors designed to
address the specific needs in the storage market, as well as other new products in the OCTEON and
NITROX families. In 2008, we expanded our OCTEON and NITROX product families with new products
including wireless services processors to address the needs for wireless infrastructure equipment.
In 2009, we announced the next generation OCTEON II Internet Application Processor (IAP) family
multi-core MIPS64® processors, with one to 32 cores to address next generation
networking applications support converged voice, video, data mobile
traffic and services. We expect
to begin shipments of OCTEON II processors towards the end of 2009. In the third quarter of 2009,
we expanded our NITROX product family offering to include the NITROX DPI processor, which
facilitates several significant enhancements and increased performance.
We acquired W&W Communications, Inc. (W&W) in the fourth quarter of 2008. This acquisition
launched us into the high growth video processor market with a broad product line called
PureVutm. The PureVutm family of
video processors and modules incorporate proprietary and patent pending video technology that
produces perceptual lossless video quality and delivers practically zero latency with extremely low
power and cost. Through the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Star Semiconductor
Corporation (Star) in the third quarter of 2008, we also added the Star ARM-based processors to
our portfolio to address connected home and office applications. For a complete discussion on our
2008 acquisitions, see Note 5 Business Combinations in Item 1, of this Quarterly Report, which is
incorporated herein by reference.
Since inception, we have invested heavily in new product development and we achieved our
first quarter of profitability during the quarter ended September 30, 2007. Our net revenue has
grown from $19.4 million in 2005 to $34.2 million in 2006, $54.2 million
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in 2007, $86.6 million in 2008 and $69.1 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2009,
driven primarily by demand in the enterprise network and data center markets, and more recently in
2008 and 2009 by increased demand in the broadband and consumer markets. We expect sales of our
products for use in the enterprise network and data center markets to continue to represent a
substantial portion of our revenue in the foreseeable future.
We primarily sell our products to OEMs, either directly or through their contract
manufacturers. Contract manufacturers purchase our products only when an OEM incorporates our
product into the OEMs product, not as commercial off-the-shelf products. Our customers products
are complex and require significant time to define, design and ramp to volume production.
Accordingly, our sales cycle is long. This cycle begins with our technical marketing, sales and
field application engineers engaging with our customers system designers and management, which is
typically a multi-month process. If we are successful, a customer will decide to incorporate our
product in its product, which we refer to as a design win. Because the sales cycles for our
products are long, we incur expenses to develop and sell our products, regardless of whether we
achieve the design win and well in advance of generating revenue, if any, from those expenditures.
We do not have long-term purchase commitments from any of our customers, as sales of our products
are generally made under individual purchase orders. However, once one of our products is
incorporated into a customers design, it is likely to remain designed in for the life cycle of the
product. We believe this to be the case because a redesign would generally be time consuming and
expensive. We have experienced revenue growth due to an increase in the number of our products, an
expansion of our customer base, an increase in the number of average design wins within any one
customer and an increase in the average revenue per design win.
Key Business Metrics
Design Wins. We closely monitor design wins by customer and end market on a periodic
basis. We consider design wins to be a key ingredient in our future success, although the revenue
generated by each design can vary significantly. Our long-term sales expectations are based on
internal forecasts from specific customer design wins based upon the expected time to market for
end customer products deploying our products and associated revenue potential.
Pricing and Margins. Pricing and margins depend on the features of the products we
provide to our customers. In general, products with more complex configurations and higher
performance tend to be priced higher and have higher gross margins. These configurations tend to be
used in high performance applications that are focused on the enterprise network, data center, and
access and service provider markets. We tend to experience price decreases over the life cycle of
our products, which can vary by market and application. In general, we experience less pricing
volatility with customers that sell to the enterprise and data center markets.
Sales Volume. A typical design win can generate a wide range of sales volumes for our
products, depending on the end market demand for our customers products. This can depend on
several factors, including the reputation, market penetration, the size of the end market that the
product addresses, and the marketing and sales effectiveness of our customer. In general, our
customers with greater market penetration and better branding tend to develop products that
generate larger volumes over the product life cycle. In addition, some markets generate large
volumes if the end market product is adopted by the mass market.
Customer Product Life Cycle. We typically commence commercial shipments from nine months
to three years following the design win. Once our product is in production, revenue from a
particular customer may continue for several years. We estimate our customers product life cycles
based on the customer, type of product and end market. In general, products that go into the
enterprise network and data center take longer to reach volume production but tend to have longer
lives. Products for other markets, such as broadband and consumer, tend to ramp relatively quickly,
but generally have shorter life cycles. We estimate these life cycles based on our managements
experience with providers of networking equipment and the semiconductor market as a whole.
Results of Operations
Three and Nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008
Net Revenue. Our net revenue consists primarily of sales of our semiconductor products to
providers of networking equipment and their contract manufacturers and distributors. Initial sales
of our products for a new design are usually made directly to providers of networking equipment as
they design and develop their product. Once their design enters production, they often outsource
their manufacturing to contract manufacturers that purchase our products directly from us or from
our distributors. We price our products based on market and competitive conditions and periodically
reduce the price of our products, as market and competitive conditions change, and as manufacturing
costs are reduced. We do not experience different margins on direct sales to providers of
networking equipment and indirect sales through contract manufacturers because in all cases we
negotiate product pricing directly with the providers of networking equipment. To date, all of our
revenue is denominated in U.S. dollars.
We also derive revenue in the form of license and maintenance fees through licensing our
software products which help our customers build products around our systems-on-a-chip, or SoCs in
a more time and cost efficient manner. Revenue from such
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arrangements totaled $133,000 and $1.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and
2008, respectively, and $1.9 million and $1.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009
and 2008, respectively.
Our customers representing greater than 10% of net revenue for each of the periods were:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the three months |
|
For the nine months |
|
|
ended September 30, |
|
ended September 30, |
|
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
Percentage of total net revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cisco
|
|
|
26 |
% |
|
|
24 |
% |
|
|
22 |
% |
|
|
29 |
% |
Actiontec
|
|
|
11 |
% |
|
|
* |
|
|
|
13 |
% |
|
|
* |
|
Sumitomo
|
|
|
10 |
% |
|
|
13 |
% |
|
|
10 |
% |
|
|
11 |
% |
* Represents less than 10% of the consolidated net revenue for the respective period end.
Our distributors other than Avnet are used primarily to support international sale
logistics in Asia, including importation and credit management. Total net revenue through
distributors was $10.6 million and $9.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and
2008, or 40.9% and 38.9% of net revenue, respectively, and $25.8 million and $22.8 million for the
nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, or 37.3% and 35.4% of net revenue, respectively.
While we have purchase agreements with our distributors, the distributors do not have long-term
contracts with any of the equipment providers. Our distributor agreements, except as noted below
for Avnet, limit the distributors ability to return product up to a portion of purchases in the
preceding quarter. Given our experience, along with our distributors limited contractual return
rights, we believe we can reasonably estimate expected returns from our distributors. Accordingly,
we recognize sales through distributors at the time of shipment, reduced by our estimate of
expected returns.
Revenue and costs relating to sales to distributors are deferred if we grant more than limited
rights of returns and price credits or if we cannot reasonably estimate the level of returns and
credits issuable. Our distribution agreement with Avnet, Inc. is to distribute our products
primarily in the United States. Given the terms of the distribution agreement, for sales to Avnet,
revenue and costs are being deferred until products are sold by Avnet to their end customers. For
the three months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, 4.5% and 3.7%, respectively, and for the nine
months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, 5.3% and 3.6%, respectively, of our net revenues were
from products sold by Avnet. Revenue recognition depends on notification from Avnet that product
has been sold to Avnets end customers.
The following table is based on the geographic location of the original equipment
manufacturers or the distributors who purchased our products. The geographic locations of our
distributors may be different from the geographic locations of the ultimate end customers. Revenues
by geography for the periods indicated were:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three months ended |
|
|
Nine months ended |
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
United States |
|
$ |
9,002 |
|
|
$ |
12,252 |
|
|
$ |
27,198 |
|
|
$ |
32,803 |
|
Hong Kong |
|
|
5,115 |
|
|
|
1,095 |
|
|
|
13,960 |
|
|
|
1,966 |
|
Taiwan |
|
|
4,407 |
|
|
|
3,786 |
|
|
|
9,526 |
|
|
|
9,419 |
|
Japan |
|
|
3,241 |
|
|
|
3,675 |
|
|
|
8,262 |
|
|
|
8,515 |
|
Other countries |
|
|
4,129 |
|
|
|
3,717 |
|
|
|
10,134 |
|
|
|
11,726 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
25,894 |
|
|
$ |
24,525 |
|
|
$ |
69,080 |
|
|
$ |
64,429 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months and Nine Months ended September 30, 2009 Compared to the Three Months and Nine
Months ended September 30, 2008: Net Revenue. Our net revenue was $25.9 million in the three
months ended September 30, 2009, as compared to $24.5 million in the three months ended September
30, 2008, an increase of $1.4 million, or 5.6%. Our net revenue was $69.1 million in the nine
months ended September 30, 2009, as compared to $64.4 million in the nine months ended September
30, 2008, an increase of $4.7 million, or 7.2%. The increase in net revenue in the three months and
nine months ended September 30, 2009 was mainly attributable
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to the increase in sales of $3.8 million and $13.2 million, respectively, in broadband and consumer
markets due to increase in demand for our products from our existing and new customers combined
with revenue generated from acquisitions completed in 2008. The net revenue growth in the three
months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 was partially offset by sales declines of $1.0
million and $8.3 million, respectively, in the data center and access and service provider and
enterprise network markets, as a result of the 2009 global economic downturn. Our net revenue from
distributors in the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 increased by 2.0 and 1.9
percentage points, respectively, due to increased sales by most of our major distributors.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin. We outsource wafer fabrication, assembly and test functions of
our products. A significant portion of our cost of revenue consists of payments for the purchase of
wafers and for assembly and test services, amortization of acquired intangibles and amortization
related to capitalized mask costs. To a lesser extent, cost of revenue includes expenses relating
to our internal operations that manage our contractors, stock-based compensation, the cost of
shipping and logistics, royalties, inventory provisions for estimated excess and obsolete
inventories, warranty costs and changes in product cost due to changes in sort, assembly and test
yields. In general, our cost of revenue associated with a particular product declines over time as
a result of yield improvements, primarily associated with design and test enhancements.
We use third-party foundries and assembly and test contractors, which are primarily located in
Asia, to manufacture, assemble and test our semiconductor products. We purchase processed wafers on
a per wafer basis from our fabrication suppliers, which are currently TSMC, UMC and Fujitsu. We
also outsource the sort, assembly, final testing and other processing of our product to third-party
contractors, primarily ASE and ISE. We negotiate wafer fabrication on a purchase order basis and do
not have long-term agreements with any of our third-party contractors. A significant disruption in
the operations of one or more of these contractors would impact the production of our products
which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of
operations.
Our net revenue, cost of revenue, gross profit and gross margin for the three months and
nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008 were:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the three months ended |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the nine months ended |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
change |
|
|
% change |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
change |
|
|
% change |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue |
|
$ |
25,894 |
|
|
$ |
24,525 |
|
|
$ |
1,369 |
|
|
|
5.6 |
% |
|
$ |
69,080 |
|
|
$ |
64,429 |
|
|
$ |
4,651 |
|
|
|
7.2 |
% |
Cost of revenue |
|
|
12,567 |
|
|
|
10,099 |
|
|
|
2,468 |
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|
|
24.4 |
% |
|
|
35,520 |
|
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|
24,494 |
|
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|
11,026 |
|
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|
45.0 |
% |
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Gross Profit |
|
$ |
13,327 |
|
|
$ |
14,426 |
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|
$ |
(1,099 |
) |
|
|
-7.6 |
% |
|
$ |
33,560 |
|
|
$ |
39,935 |
|
|
$ |
(6,375 |
) |
|
|
-16.0 |
% |
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Gross Margin |
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|
51.5 |
% |
|
|
58.8 |
% |
|
|
-7.3 |
% |
|
|
-12.3 |
% |
|
|
48.6 |
% |
|
|
62.0 |
% |
|
|
-13.4 |
% |
|
|
-21.6 |
% |
Our gross margin has been and will continue to be affected by a variety of factors,
including average sales prices of our products, the product mix, amortization of acquired
intangibles, the cost of fabrication masks that are capitalized and amortized, the timing of cost
reductions for fabricated wafers and assembly and test service costs, inventory valuation charges
and the timing and changes in sort, assembly and test yields. Overall product margin is impacted by
the mix between higher performance, higher margin products and lower performance, lower margin
products. In addition, we typically experience lower yields and higher associated costs on new
products, which improve as production volumes increase.
Three Months and Nine Months ended September 30, 2009 Compared to the Three Months and
Nine Months ended September 30, 2008: Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin. Gross margin declined from
58.8% in the three months ended September 30, 2008 to 51.5% in the three months ended September
30, 2009, a decline of 7.3 percentage points. Gross margin declined from 62.0% in the nine months
ended September 30, 2008 to 48.6% in the nine months ended September 30, 2009, a decline of 13.4
percentage points. The decline in gross margin in the three months and nine months ended September
30, 2009 compared to the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2008 was primarily due to
a shift in product sales mix towards increased sales of lower performance, lower margin products
particularly in the broadband and consumer markets. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2009 higher amortization
costs of acquired intangible assets and amortization of fair value adjustments of acquired
inventory of approximately $2.3 million resulting from the acquisitions completed in 2008 contributed to the gross margin decline.
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Research and Development Expenses
Research and development expenses primarily include personnel costs, engineering design
development software and hardware tools, allocated facilities expenses and depreciation of
equipment used in research and development, and stock-based compensation.
Total research and development expenses for the three months and nine months ended September
30, 2009 and 2008 were:
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For the three months ended |
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For the nine months ended |
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September 30, |
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September 30, |
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2009 |
|
2008 |
|
change |
|
% change |
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
change |
|
% change |
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|
|
|
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(in thousands) |
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|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Research and development
expenses |
|
$ |
10,629 |
|
|
$ |
6,593 |
|
|
$ |
4,036 |
|
|
|
61.2 |
% |
|
$ |
30,894 |
|
|
$ |
18,874 |
|
|
$ |
12,020 |
|
|
|
63.7 |
% |
Percent of total net
revenue |
|
|
41.0 |
% |
|
|
26.9 |
% |
|
|
14.1 |
% |
|
|
52.2 |
% |
|
|
44.7 |
% |
|
|
29.3 |
% |
|
|
15.4 |
% |
|
|
52.5 |
% |
Three Months and Nine Months ended September 30, 2009 Compared to the Three Months and Nine Months
ended September 30, 2008: Research and development expenses increased by $4.0 million and $12.0
million, or 61.2% and 63.7%, to $10.6 million and $30.9 million in the three months and nine months
ended September 30, 2009, respectively, from $6.6 million and $18.9 million in the three months
and nine months ended September 30, 2008. Of the $4.0 million and $12.0 million increase in the
three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009, salaries and benefits accounted for
$2.1 million and $6.7 million, respectively, and stock-based compensation expense accounted for
$0.7 million and $2.2 million, respectively, in each case due to increased headcount mainly
resulting from the acquisitions completed in 2008. Consulting services, amortization of intangible
assets and other miscellaneous expenses accounted for $1.1 million and $2.7 million of the increase
in the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively. In addition, workforce
reduction related charges of $0.2 million contributed to the overall increase in the nine months
ended September 30, 2009. Research and development headcount increased to 232 at the end of
September 2009 from 155 at the end of September 2008.
Sales, General and Administrative Expenses
Sales, general and administrative expenses primarily include personnel costs, accounting
and legal fees, information systems, sales commissions, trade shows, marketing programs,
depreciation, allocated facilities expenses and stock-based compensation. Total sales, general and
administrative costs for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008 were:
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|
For the three months ended |
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|
For the nine months ended |
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|
September 30, |
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|
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|
September 30, |
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|
|
|
|
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
change |
|
% change |
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
change |
|
% change |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sales, general and
administrative |
|
$ |
6,647 |
|
|
$ |
5,944 |
|
|
$ |
703 |
|
|
|
11.8 |
% |
|
$ |
19,310 |
|
|
$ |
15,953 |
|
|
$ |
3,357 |
|
|
|
21.0 |
% |
Percent of total net
revenue |
|
|
25.7 |
% |
|
|
24.2 |
% |
|
|
1.5 |
% |
|
|
6.2 |
% |
|
|
28.0 |
% |
|
|
24.8 |
% |
|
|
3.2 |
% |
|
|
12.7 |
% |
Three Months and Nine Months ended September 30, 2009 Compared to the Three Months
and Nine Months ended September 30, 2008: Sales, general and administrative expenses increased
$0.7 million and $3.4 million, or 11.8% and 21.0% to $6.6 million and $19.3 million in the three
months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 from $5.9 million and $16.0 million in the three
months and nine months ended September 30, 2008. Of the $0.7 million and $3.4 million increase in
the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009, stock-based compensation expense
accounted for $0.5 million and $2.0 million, respectively, and salaries, benefits and commissions
accounted for $0.1 million and $1.0 million, respectively, in each case due to increased headcount
and higher commissions related to increases in sales. Other miscellaneous expenses accounted for
$0.1 million and $0.4 million of the increase in the three months and nine months ended September
30, 2009. Sales, general and administrative headcount increased to 83 at the end of September 2009
from 71 at the end of September 2008.
Other Income, Net. Other income, net, primarily includes interest income on cash and cash
equivalents and, to a lesser extent, includes the interest expense component associated with the
installment payment of capitalized licenses.
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For the three months ended |
|
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|
|
For the nine months ended |
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
September 30, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
change |
|
|
%
change |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
change |
|
|
%
change |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Interest income and other |
|
$ |
4 |
|
|
$ |
499 |
|
|
$ |
(495 |
) |
|
|
-99.2 |
% |
|
$ |
228 |
|
|
$ |
2,100 |
|
|
$ |
(1,872 |
) |
|
|
-89.1 |
% |
Interest expense |
|
|
(54 |
) |
|
|
(115 |
) |
|
|
61 |
|
|
|
-53.0 |
% |
|
|
(200 |
) |
|
|
(403 |
) |
|
|
203 |
|
|
|
-50.4 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total other income, net |
|
$ |
(50 |
) |
|
$ |
384 |
|
|
$ |
(434 |
) |
|
|
-113.0 |
% |
|
$ |
28 |
|
|
$ |
1,697 |
|
|
$ |
(1,669 |
) |
|
|
-98.4 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
Three Months and Nine Months ended September 30, 2009 Compared to the Three Months
and Nine Months ended September 30, 2008: Other income, net decreased in the three months and nine
months ended September 30, 2009 primarily as the result of decreased interest income resulting from
lower average cash and cash equivalents balances combined with significantly lower short-term U.S.
interest rates in the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the three
months and nine months ended September 30, 2008.
Provision for Income Taxes. For the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008
the provision for income taxes was based on our estimated annual effective tax rate in compliance
with the guidance provided under income taxes. We update our estimate of our annual effective tax
rate at the end of each quarterly period. Our estimate takes into account estimations of annual
pre-tax income, the geographic mix of pre-tax income and our interpretations of tax laws and the
possible outcomes of current and future audits.
The following table presents the provision for income taxes and the effective tax rates for
the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008:
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|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Nine Months Ended |
|
|
September 30, |
|
September 30, |
|
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
(Loss) income before provision for income taxes |
|
$ |
(3,999 |
) |
|
$ |
2,273 |
|
|
$ |
(16,616 |
) |
|
$ |
6,805 |
|
Provision for income taxes |
|
$ |
167 |
|
|
$ |
454 |
|
|
$ |
251 |
|
|
$ |
941 |
|
Effective tax rate |
|
|
-4.2 |
% |
|
|
20.0 |
% |
|
|
-1.5 |
% |
|
|
13.8 |
% |
The provision for income taxes was $167,000 and $251,000 for the three and nine months ended
September 30, 2009, respectively. The income tax expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 was primarily related to federal alternative minimum taxes, international taxes and state income taxes.
The provision for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2008 was primarily related
to the federal alternative minimum tax on profits in the United States adjusted by certain
non-deductible items, international taxes and state income taxes.
We continue to maintain a full valuation allowance on our U.S. net deferred tax assets until
sufficient positive evidence exists, including history of taxable income, to support reversal of
the valuation allowance. If in the future, we determine that these deferred tax assets are more
likely than not to be realized, a release of all or part of the related valuation allowance could
result in an income tax benefit in the period such determination is made.
As of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, we had unrecognized tax benefits of $4.7
million and $4.0 million, respectively, of which $4.0 million is netted against deferred tax assets
and is fully offset by a valuation allowance. If recognized, $0.7 million would impact the
provision for income taxes. We do not expect any material changes to the estimated amount of
liability associated with its uncertain tax positions within the next 12 months.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We believe that we will have adequate liquidity over the next 12 months to operate our business and
to meet our cash requirements. Our primary sources of cash subsequent to our initial public
offering in 2007 have been cash generated from our operations, cash collections from customers and
to a lesser extent, cash received from the exercise of employee stock options.
Cash equivalents consist primarily of an investment in a money market fund. As of September 30,
2009, we have not experienced any impairment charges due to such concentration of credit risk. We
believe that our $70.7 million of cash and cash equivalents at
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September 30, 2009 and expected cash
flows from operations, if any, will be sufficient to fund our projected operating requirements for
at least 12 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including our rate
of revenue growth, the expansion of our engineering, sales and marketing activities, the timing and
extent of our expansion into new territories, the timing of introductions of new products and
enhancements to existing products and the continuing market acceptance of our products. Although we
currently are not a party to any agreement with respect to potential material investments in, or
acquisitions of, complementary businesses, services or technologies, we may enter into these types
of arrangements in the future, which could also require us to seek additional equity or debt
financing. Additional funds may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all.
Following is a summary of our working capital and cash and cash equivalents as of
September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008:
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|
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|
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|
|
As of |
|
|
September 30, |
|
December 31, |
|
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
|
(in thousands) |
Working capital |
|
$ |
89,151 |
|
|
$ |
90,335 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents |
|
$ |
70,693 |
|
|
$ |
77,027 |
|
Following is a summary of our cash flows from operating activities, investing activities
and financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|
|
2009 |
|
2008 |
|
|
(in thousands) |
Net cash provided by operating activities |
|
$ |
1,848 |
|
|
$ |
12,470 |
|
Net cash used in investing activities |
|
$ |
(8,039 |
) |
|
$ |
(16,209 |
) |
Net cash used in financing activities |
|
$ |
(143 |
) |
|
$ |
(2,805 |
) |
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Net cash from operating activities decreased by $10.6 million in the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2008. The decrease in our cash
flows from operations was primarily due to our net loss of $16.9 million in the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 compared to net income of $5.9 million in the nine months ended September 30,
2008, which was offset in part by non-cash expenses that were $6.9 million higher in the nine
months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2008. The increase
in non-cash expenses was mainly attributable to the higher stock-based compensation due to
increased headcount as a result of our acquisitions completed in 2008 and higher amortization
expenses resulting from the intangibles acquired in connection with the acquisitions completed in
2008. In addition, changes in assets and liabilities, net increased by $5.2 million in the nine
months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the changes in assets and liabilities in the nine
months ended September 30, 2008. The changes in accounts receivable in the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2008 was mainly related to more
linear shipments in the three months ended September 30, 2009.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities decreased by $8.2 million in the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2008. The decrease was mainly
due to higher overall cash payments made in 2008 compared to 2009 for the acquisitions completed in
2008. In addition, lower cash used for purchases of property and equipment in 2009 compared to 2008
contributed to the overall decrease.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities decreased by $2.7 million in the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2008. The decline was mainly due
to lower principal payments of capital lease and technology license obligations. The decline was
offset in part by higher proceeds from exercises of stock options in 2009 compared to 2008.
Indemnities
In the ordinary course of business, we have entered into agreements with customers that
include indemnity provisions. Based on historical experience and information known as of September
30, 2009, we believe our exposure related to the indemnities at September 30, 2009 is not material.
We also enter into indemnification agreements with our officers and directors and our certificate
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of incorporation and bylaws include similar indemnification obligations to our officers and
directors. It is not possible to determine the amount of our liability related to these
indemnification agreements and obligations to our officers and directors due to the limited history
of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular
agreement.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
During the periods presented, we did not have, nor do we currently have, any
relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often
referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which would have been established
for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or
limited purposes.
Contractual Obligations
The following table describes our commitments to settle contractual obligations in cash
as of September 30, 2009:
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|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Payments Due By Period |
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|
|
Less Than 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More Than |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year |
|
|
1 to 2 Years |
|
|
3 to 5 Years |
|
|
5 Years |
|
|
Total |
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Operating lease obligations |
|
$ |
313 |
|
|
$ |
3,571 |
|
|
$ |
1,325 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
5,209 |
|
Capital lease obligations |
|
|
806 |
|
|
|
2,639 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,445 |
|
Purchase obligations |
|
|
1,393 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,393 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
2,512 |
|
|
$ |
6,210 |
|
|
$ |
1,325 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
10,047 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As
of September 30, 2009, we had $4.7 million of total gross unrecognized tax benefits and
related interest. The timing of any payments which could result from these unrecognized tax
benefits will depend upon a number of factors. Accordingly, the timing of payment cannot be
estimated. We do not expect a significant tax payment related to these obligations to occur within
the next 12 months.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The preparation of our financial statements and accompanying disclosures in conformity
with GAAP requires estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets,
liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities in
the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. The SEC has defined a companys
critical accounting policies as policies that are most important to the portrayal of a companys
financial condition and results of operations, and which require a company to make its most
difficult and subjective judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates of matters that
are inherently uncertain. Based on this definition, we have identified our most critical accounting
policies and estimates to be as follows: (1) revenue recognition; (2) product warranty accrual; (3)
stock-based compensation; (4) inventory valuation; (5) accounting for income tax; (6) mask costs;
(7) business combinations and (8) goodwill and purchased intangible assets. Although we believe
that our estimates, assumptions and judgments are reasonable, they are based upon information not
presently available. Actual results may differ significantly from these estimates if the
assumptions, judgments and conditions upon which they are based turn out to be inaccurate.
Management believes that there have been no significant changes during the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 to the items that we disclosed as our critical accounting policies and estimates
in Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 filed on March 2, 2009.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Please refer to the recent accounting pronouncements listed in the footnote 1 of the
financial statements.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk
During the nine months ended September 30, 2009, there were no material changes to our
quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk related to our investment activities as
disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 as filed with the
SEC on March 2, 2009.
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer evaluated with the
participation of our management, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) as of
September 30, 2009. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial
Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that
information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time
periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated
to management as appropriate to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our
Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of any changes
in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and
15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during our most recently completed third quarter
ending on September 30, 2009. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief
Financial Officer concluded that there has not been any change in our internal control over
financial reporting during that quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may become involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary
course of our business. We are not presently a party to any legal proceedings the outcome of which,
if determined adversely against us, would individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse
effect on our business, operating results, financial condition or cash flows.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
The following risks and uncertainties may have a material adverse effect on our business,
financial condition or results of operations. Investors should carefully consider the risks
described below before making an investment decision. The risks described below are not the only
ones we face. Additional risks not presently known to us or that we currently believe are
immaterial may also significantly impair our business operations. Our business could be harmed by
any of these risks. The trading price of our common stock could decline due to any of these risks,
and investors may lose all or part of their investment.
We have marked with an asterisk(*) those risks described below that reflect substantive
changes from the risks described under Item 1A. Risk Factors included in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 2, 2009.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
We had a limited history of profitability, and we may not achieve or sustain profitability in
the future, on a quarterly or annual basis.*
We were established in 2000. Our first quarter of profitability since then was the
quarter ended September 30, 2007 and we remained profitable until the quarter ended December 31,
2008. We experienced a net loss of $16.9 million and net income of $5.9 million for the nine months
ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively. As of September 30, 2009, our accumulated deficit
was $74.1 million. We expect to make significant expenditures related to the development of our
products and expansion of our
business, including research and development and sales and administrative expenses. As a
public company, we also incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses. Additionally, we
may encounter unforeseen difficulties, complications, product delays and other unknown factors that
require additional expenditures. As a result of these increased expenditures, we may have to
generate and sustain substantially increased revenue to achieve profitability. Our revenue growth
trends in prior periods may not be sustainable. Accordingly, we may not be able to achieve or
maintain profitability and we may continue to incur losses in the future.
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We face intense competition and expect competition to increase in the future, which could
reduce our revenue and customer base.
The market for our products is highly competitive and we expect competition to intensify
in the future. This competition could make it more difficult for us to sell our products, and
result in increased pricing pressure, reduced profit margins, increased sales and marketing
expenses and failure to increase, or the loss of, market share or expected market share, any of
which would likely seriously harm our business, operating results and financial condition. For
instance, semiconductor products have a history of declining prices as the cost of production is
reduced. However, if market prices decrease faster than product costs, gross and operating margins
can be adversely affected. Currently, we face competition from a number of established companies,
including Broadcom Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Intel Corporation, Marvell
Technology Group Ltd., PMC-Sierra, Inc. and others. We also face competition from a number of
private or smaller companies, including RMI Corporation and to a lesser extent, Hifn, Inc. and
others. In addition, in the video capture, process and display market segments we consider our
competition to be companies that provide video encode and decode solutions, including Texas
Instruments, digital signal processors and SOCs for H.264 encoding and Amimon for wireless
replacement of HDMI cables and wireless video displays.
A few of our current competitors operate their own fabrication facilities and have, and
some of our potential competitors could have, longer operating histories, greater name recognition,
larger customer bases and significantly greater financial, technical, sales, marketing and other
resources than we have. Potential customers may prefer to purchase from their existing suppliers
rather than a new supplier regardless of product performance or features.
We expect increased competition from other established and emerging companies both
domestically and internationally. Our current and potential competitors may also establish
cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties. If so, new competitors or
alliances that include our competitors may emerge that could acquire significant market share. We
expect these trends to continue as companies attempt to strengthen or maintain their market
positions in an evolving industry. In the future, further development by our competitors could
cause our products to become obsolete. We expect continued competition from incumbents as well as
from new entrants into the markets we serve. Our ability to compete depends on a number of factors,
including:
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our products performance and cost effectiveness relative to that of our competitors products; |
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our ability to deliver products in large volume on a timely basis at a competitive price; |
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our success in utilizing new and proprietary technologies to offer products and features
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our ability to recruit design and application engineers and sales and marketing personnel; and |
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our ability to protect our intellectual property. |
In addition, we cannot assure you that existing customers or potential customers will not
develop their own products, purchase competitive products or acquire companies that use alternative
methods to enable networking, communication or security applications to facilitate network-aware
processing in their systems. Any of these competitive threats, alone or in combination with others,
could seriously harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our customers may cancel their orders, change production quantities or delay production, and if we
fail to forecast demand for our products accurately, we may incur product shortages, delays in
product shipments or excess or insufficient product inventory.
We generally do not obtain firm, long-term purchase commitments from our customers.
Because production lead times often exceed the amount of time required to fulfill orders, we often
must build in advance of orders, relying on an imperfect demand forecast to project volumes and
product mix. Our demand forecast accuracy can be adversely affected by a number of factors,
including inaccurate forecasting by our customers, changes in market conditions, adverse changes in
our product order mix and demand for our customers products. Even after an order is received, our
customers may cancel these orders or request a decrease in production quantities. Any such
cancellation or decrease subjects us to a number of risks, most notably that our projected sales
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not materialize on schedule or at all, leading to unanticipated revenue shortfalls and excess
or obsolete inventory which we may be unable to sell to other customers. Alternatively, if we are
unable to project customer requirements accurately, we may not build enough products, which could
lead to delays in product shipments and lost sales opportunities in the near term, as well as force
our customers to identify alternative sources, which could affect our ongoing relationships with
these customers. We have in the past had customers dramatically increase their requested production
quantities with little or no advance notice. If we do not timely fulfill customer demands, our
customers may cancel their orders and we may be subject to customer claims for cost of replacement.
Either underestimating or overestimating demand would lead to insufficient, excess or obsolete
inventory, which could harm our operating results, cash flow and financial condition, as well as
our relationships with our customers.
Adverse changes in general economic or political conditions in any of the major countries in
which we do business could adversely affect our operating results.
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As our business has grown to both customers located in the United States as well as
customers located outside of the United States, we have become increasingly subject to the risks
arising from adverse changes in both the domestic and global economic and political conditions. For
example, the direction and relative strength of the U.S. and international economies remains
uncertain due to softness in the housing markets, difficulties in the financial services sector and
credit markets and continuing geopolitical uncertainties. If economic growth in the United States
and other countries economies continues to slow, the demand for our customers products could
decline, which would then decrease demand for our products. Furthermore, if economic conditions in
the countries into which our customers sell their products continue to deteriorate, some of our
customers may decide to postpone or delay certain development programs, which would then delay
their need to purchase our products. This could result in a reduction in sales of our products or
in a reduction in the growth of our product sales. Any of these events would likely harm investors
view of our business, and our results of operations and financial condition.
We receive a substantial portion of our revenues from a limited number of customers, and the
loss of, or a significant reduction in, orders from one or a few of our major customers would
adversely affect our operations and financial condition.*
We receive a substantial portion of our revenues from a limited number of customers. We
received an aggregate of approximately 57.9% and 57.3% of our net revenues from our top five
customers for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively. We anticipate that
we will continue to be dependent on a limited number of customers for a significant portion of our
revenues in the immediate future and in some cases the portion of our revenues attributable to
certain customers may increase in the future. However, we may not be able to maintain or increase
sales to certain of our top customers for a variety of reasons, including the following:
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our agreements with our customers do not require them to purchase a minimum quantity of
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some of our customers can stop incorporating our products
into their own products with limited notice to us and
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many of our customers have pre-existing or concurrent
relationships with our current or potential competitors
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In the past, we have relied in significant part on our strategic relationships with
customers that are technology leaders in our target markets. We intend to continue expanding such
relationships and forming new strategic relationships but we cannot assure you that we will be able
to do so. These relationships often require us to develop new products that may involve significant
technological challenges. Our customers frequently place considerable pressure on us to meet their
tight development schedules. Accordingly, we may have to devote a substantial amount of our
resources to our strategic relationships, which could detract from or delay our completion of other
important development projects. Delays in development could impair our relationships with our other
strategic customers and negatively impact sales of the products under development. Moreover, it is
possible that our customers may develop their own product or adopt a competitors solution for
products that they currently buy from us. If that happens, our sales would decline and our
business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
In addition, our relationships with some customers may also deter other potential
customers who compete with these customers from buying our products. To attract new customers or
retain existing customers, we may offer certain customers favorable prices on our products. In that
event, our average selling prices and gross margins would decline. The loss of a key customer, a
reduction in sales to any key customer or our inability to attract new significant customers could
seriously impact our revenue and materially and adversely affect our results of operations.
We expect our operating results to fluctuate.
We expect our revenues and expense levels to vary in the future, making it difficult to
predict our future operating results. In particular, we experience variability in demand for our
products as our customers manage their product introduction dates and their inventories. Given the
current global economic uncertainty, the demand for our products may be more varied and difficult
to ascertain in a timely and efficient manner.
Additional factors that could cause our results to fluctuate include, among other things:
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our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and
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fluctuations in demand, sales cycles, product mix and prices for our products; |
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the timing of our product introductions, and the variability in lead time between the time when a customer begins to
design in one of our products and the time when the customers end system goes into production and they begin
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the forecasting, scheduling, rescheduling or cancellation of orders by our customers; |
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our ability to successfully define, design and release new products in a timely manner that meet our customers needs; |
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changes in manufacturing costs, including wafer, test and assembly costs, mask costs, manufacturing yields and
product quality and reliability; |
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the timing and availability of adequate manufacturing capacity from our manufacturing suppliers; |
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the timing of announcements by our competitors or us; |
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future accounting pronouncements and changes in accounting policies; |
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volatility in our stock price, which may lead to higher stock compensation expenses; |
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general economic and political conditions in the countries where we operate or our products are sold or used; costs
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Unfavorable changes in any of the above factors, most of which are beyond our control,
could significantly harm our business and results of operations.
We may not sustain our growth rate, and we may not be able to manage any future growth
effectively.*
We have experienced significant growth in a short period of time. Our revenues increased
from approximately $7.4 million in 2004 to approximately $19.4 million in 2005, $34.2 million in
2006, $54.2 million in 2007 and $86.6 million in 2008. We have not achieved a similar growth rate
in 2009 through September 30, and we may not achieve similar growth rates in future periods. You
should not rely on our operating results for any prior quarterly or annual periods as an indication
of our future operating performance. If we are unable to maintain adequate revenue growth, our
financial results could suffer and our stock price could decline.
To manage our growth successfully and to continue handling the responsibilities of being
a public company, we believe we must effectively, among other things:
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recruit, hire, train and manage additional qualified engineers for our research and
development activities, especially in the positions of design engineering, product and test
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expand our administrative, financial and operational systems, procedures and controls; and |
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engineering by adapting and expanding our systems and tool capabilities, and properly
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If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, we may not be able to take advantage
of market opportunities or develop new products and we may fail to satisfy customer requirements,
maintain product quality, execute our business plan or respond to competitive pressures.
The average selling prices of products in our markets have historically decreased over time
and will likely do so in the future, which could harm our revenues and gross profits.
Average selling prices of semiconductor products in the markets we serve have
historically decreased over time. Our gross profits and financial results will suffer if we are
unable to offset any reductions in our average selling prices by reducing our costs, developing new
or enhanced products on a timely basis with higher selling prices or gross profits, or increasing
our sales volumes. Additionally, because we do not operate our own manufacturing, assembly or
testing facilities, we may not be able to reduce our costs as rapidly as companies that operate
their own facilities, and our costs may even increase, which could also reduce our margins. We have
reduced the prices of our products in anticipation of future competitive pricing pressures, new
product introductions by us or our competitors and other factors. We expect that we will have to do
so again in the future.
We may be unsuccessful in developing and selling new products or in penetrating new markets.
We operate in a dynamic environment characterized by rapidly changing technologies and
industry standards and technological obsolescence. Our competitiveness and future success depend on
our ability to design, develop, manufacture, assemble, test, market and support new products and
enhancements on a timely and cost effective basis. A fundamental shift in technologies in any of
our product markets could harm our competitive position within these markets. Our failure to
anticipate these shifts, to develop new
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technologies or to react to changes in existing
technologies could materially delay our development of new products, which could result in product
obsolescence, decreased revenues and a loss of design wins to our competitors. The success of a new
product depends on accurate forecasts of long-term market demand and future technological
developments, as well as on a variety of specific implementation factors, including:
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If we fail to introduce new products that meet the demand of our customers or penetrate
new markets that we target our resources on, our revenues will likely decrease over time and our
financial condition could suffer. Additionally, if we concentrate resources on a new market that
does not prove profitable or sustainable, our financial condition could decline.
Fluctuations in the mix of products sold may adversely affect our financial results.*
Because of the wide price differences among our processors, the mix and types of
performance capabilities of processors sold affect the average selling price of our products and
have a substantial impact on our revenue. Generally, sales of higher performance products have
higher gross margins than sales of lower performance products. We currently offer both higher and
lower performance products in our NITROX, OCTEON, ECONA ARM and PureVu Video product families.
During 2008 and in the six months ended June 30, 2009, we experienced a sales mix shift towards
increased sales of lower performance, lower margin products, which negatively affected our overall
gross margins. In the three months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the six months ended June
30, 2009, the product mix moved towards higher performance and higher margin products. If this
shift moves back to lower performance, lower margin products, our overall gross margins will be
negatively affected. Fluctuations in the mix and types of our products may also affect the extent
to which we are able to recover our fixed costs and investments that are associated with a
particular product, and as a result can negatively impact our financial results.
The semiconductor and communications industries have historically experienced significant
fluctuations with prolonged downturns, which could impact our operating results, financial
condition and cash flows.*
The semiconductor industry has historically exhibited cyclical behavior, which at various
times has included significant downturns in customer demand. We began to see such a downturn in the
fourth quarter of 2008 and expect this downturn to continue through 2009. Because a significant
portion of our expenses is fixed in the near term or is incurred in advance of anticipated sales,
we may not be able to decrease our expenses rapidly enough to offset any unanticipated shortfall in
revenues. If this situation were to
occur, it could adversely affect our operating results, cash flow and financial condition.
Furthermore, the semiconductor industry has periodically experienced periods of increased demand
and production constraints. If this happens in the future, we may not be able to produce sufficient
quantities of our products to meet the increased demand. We may also have difficulty in obtaining
sufficient wafer, assembly and test resources from our subcontract manufacturers. Any factor
adversely affecting the semiconductor industry in general, or the particular segments of the
industry that our products target, may adversely affect our ability to generate revenue and could
negatively impact our operating results.
The communications industry has, in the past, experienced pronounced downturns, and these
cycles may continue in the future. To respond to a downturn, many networking equipment providers
may slow their research and development activities, cancel or delay new product development, reduce
their inventories and take a cautious approach to acquiring our products, which would have a
significant negative impact on our business. If this situation were to occur, it could adversely
affect our operating results, cash flow and financial condition. In the future, any of these trends
may also cause our operating results to fluctuate significantly from year to year, which may
increase the volatility of the price of our stock.
Our products must meet exact specifications, and defects and failures may occur, which may
cause customers to return or stop buying our products.
Our customers generally establish demanding specifications for quality, performance and
reliability that our products must meet. However, our products are highly complex and may contain
defects and failures when they are first introduced or as new versions are released. If defects and
failures occur in our products during the design phase or after, we could experience lost revenues,
increased costs, including warranty expense and costs associated with customer support, delays in
or cancellations or rescheduling of orders or shipments, product returns or discounts, diversion of
management resources or damage to our reputation and brand equity, and in some cases consequential
damages, any of which would harm our operating results. In addition, delays in our ability to fill
product orders as a result of quality control issues may negatively impact our relationship with
our customers. We cannot assure you that we will have sufficient resources, including any available
insurance, to satisfy any asserted claims.
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We may have difficulty selling our products if our customers do not design our products into their
systems, and the nature of the design process requires us to incur expenses prior to recognizing
revenues associated with those expenses which may adversely affect our financial results.
One of our primary focuses is on winning competitive bid selection processes, known as
design wins, to develop products for use in our customers products. We devote significant time
and resources in working with our customers system designers to understand their future needs and
to provide products that we believe will meet those needs and these bid selection processes can be
lengthy. If a customers system designer initially chooses a competitors product, it becomes
significantly more difficult for us to sell our products for use in that system because changing
suppliers can involve significant cost, time, effort and risk for our customers. Thus, our failure
to win a competitive bid can result in our foregoing revenues from a given customers product line
for the life of that product. In addition, design opportunities may be infrequent or may be
delayed. Our ability to compete in the future will depend, in large part, on our ability to design
products to ensure compliance with our customers and potential customers specifications. We
expect to invest significant time and resources and to incur significant expenses to design our
products to ensure compliance with relevant specifications.
We often incur significant expenditures in the development of a new product without any
assurance that our customers system designers will select our product for use in their
applications. We often are required to anticipate which product designs will generate demand in
advance of our customers expressly indicating a need for that particular design. Even if our
customers system designers select our products, a substantial period of time will elapse before we
generate revenues related to the significant expenses we have incurred.
The reasons for this delay generally include the following elements of our product sales
and development cycle timeline and related influences:
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it can take from nine months to three years from the time
our products are selected to commence commercial
shipments; and our customers may experience changed market
conditions or product development issues. The resources
devoted to product development and sales and marketing may
not generate material revenue for us, and from time to
time, we may need to write off excess and obsolete
inventory if we have produced product in anticipation of
expected demand. We may spend resources on the development
of products that our customers may not adopt. If we incur
significant expenses and investments in inventory in the
future that we are not able to recover, and we are not
able to compensate for those expenses, our operating
results could be adversely affected. In addition, if we
sell our products at reduced prices in anticipation of
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Additionally, even if system designers use our products in their systems, we cannot
assure you that these systems will be commercially successful or that we will receive significant
revenue from the sales of processors for those systems. As a result, we may be unable to accurately
forecast the volume and timing of our orders and revenues associated with any new product
introductions.
If customers do not believe our products solve a critical need, our revenues will decline.
Our products are used in networking and security equipment including routers, switches,
UTM appliances, intelligent switches, application-aware gateways, triple-play gateways, WLAN and 3G
access and aggregation devices, storage networking equipment, servers, intelligent network
interface cards, IP surveillance systems, wireless HDMI cable replacement systems, video
conferencing systems and connected home and office equipment.
In order to meet our growth and strategic objectives, providers of networking equipment
must continue to incorporate our products into their systems and the demands for their systems must
grow as well. Our future depends in large part on factors outside our control, and the sale of
next-generation networks may not meet our revenue growth and strategic objectives.
In the event we terminate one of our distributor arrangements, it could lead to a loss of revenues
and possible product returns.
A portion of our sales is made through third-party distribution agreements. Termination
of a distributor relationship, either by us or by the distributor, could result in a temporary or
permanent loss of revenues, until a replacement distributor can be established to service the
affected end-user customers. We may not be successful in finding suitable alternative distributors
on satisfactory terms or at all and this could adversely affect our ability to sell in certain
locations or to certain end-user customers. Additionally, if we terminate our relationship with a
distributor, we may be obligated to repurchase unsold products. We record a reserve for estimated
returns and price credits. If actual returns and credits exceed our estimates, our operating
results could be harmed. Our arrangements with our distributors typically also include price
protection provisions if we reduce our list prices.
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We rely on our ecosystem partners to enhance our product offerings and our inability to
continue to develop or maintain such relationships in the future would harm our ability to remain
competitive.
We have developed relationships with third parties, which we refer to as ecosystem
partners, which provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services
designed for specific uses with our SoCs. We believe that these relationships enhance our
customers ability to get their products to market quickly. If we are unable to continue to develop
or maintain these relationships, we might not be able to enhance our customers ability to
commercialize their products in a timely fashion and our ability to remain competitive would be
harmed.
The loss of any of our key personnel could seriously harm our business, and our failure to
attract or retain specialized technical, management or sales and marketing talent could impair our
ability to grow our business.
We believe our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to attract,
retain and motivate highly skilled managerial, engineering, sales and marketing personnel. The loss
of any key employees or the inability to attract, retain or motivate qualified personnel, including
engineers and sales and marketing personnel, could delay the development and introduction of and
harm our ability to sell our products. We believe that our future success is highly dependent on
the contributions of Syed Ali, our co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, and others.
None of our employees have fixed-term employment contracts; they are all at-will employees. The
loss of the services of Mr. Ali, other executive officers or certain other key personnel could
materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. For
instance, if any of these individuals were to leave our company unexpectedly, we could face
substantial difficulty in hiring qualified successors and could experience a loss in productivity
during the search for and while any such successor is integrated into our business and operations.
There is currently a shortage of qualified technical personnel with significant
experience in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of integrated circuits.
In particular, there is a shortage of engineers who are familiar with the intricacies of the design
and manufacture of networking processors, and competition for these engineers is intense. Our key
technical personnel represent a significant asset and serve as the source of our technological and
product innovations. We may not be successful in attracting, retaining and motivating sufficient
numbers of technical personnel to support our anticipated growth.
To date, we have relied primarily on our direct marketing and sales force to drive new
customer design wins and to sell our products. Because we are looking to expand our customer base
and grow our sales to existing customers, we will need to hire
additional qualified sales personnel in the near term and beyond if we are to achieve revenue
growth. The competition for qualified marketing and sales personnel in our industry, and
particularly in Silicon Valley, is very intense. If we are unable to hire, train, deploy and manage
qualified sales personnel in a timely manner, our ability to grow our business will be impaired. In
addition, if we are unable to retain our existing sales personnel, our ability to maintain or grow
our current level of revenues will be adversely affected. Further, if we are unable to integrate
and retain personnel acquired through our various acquisitions, we may not be able to fully
capitalize on such acquisitions.
Stock options and restricted stock units generally comprise a significant portion of our
compensation packages for all employees. The FASB requirement to expense the fair value of stock
options awarded to employees beginning in the first quarter of our fiscal 2006 has increased our
operating expenses and may cause us to reevaluate our compensation structure for our employees. Our
inability to attract, retain and motivate additional key employees could have an adverse effect on
our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, we rely on stock-based awards as one means for recruiting, motivating and
retaining highly skilled talent. If the value of such stock awards does not appreciate as measured
by the performance of the price of our common stock or if our share-based compensation otherwise
ceases to be viewed as a valuable benefit, our ability to attract, retain, and motivate employees
could be weakened, which could harm our results of operations. The decline in the trading price of
our common stock has resulted in the exercise price of a portion of our outstanding options to
exceed the current trading price of our common stock, thus lessening the effectiveness of these
stock-based awards. Consequently, we may not continue to successfully attract and retain key
personnel which would harm our business.
We have a limited operating history, and we may have difficulty accurately predicting our
future revenues for the purpose of appropriately budgeting and adjusting our expenses.*
We were established in 2000. Our first quarter of profitability since then was the
quarter ended September 30, 2007 and we remained profitable until the quarter ended December 31,
2008. We experienced net loss of $16.9 million and net income of $5.9 million for the nine months
ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Since we had only five quarters of operating
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profitability, we do not have an extended history from which to predict and manage profitability.
Our limited operating experience, a dynamic and rapidly evolving market in which we sell our
products, our dependence on a limited number of customers, as well as numerous other factors beyond
our control, including general market conditions, impede our ability to forecast quarterly and
annual revenues accurately. As a result, we could experience budgeting and cash flow management
problems, unexpected fluctuations in our results of operations and other difficulties, any of which
could make it difficult for us to attain and maintain profitability and could increase the
volatility of the market price of our common stock.
Some of our operations and a significant portion of our customers and contract manufacturers
are located outside of the United States, which subjects us to additional risks, including
increased complexity and costs of managing international operations and geopolitical instability.
We have international sales offices and research and development facilities and we
conduct, and expect to continue to conduct, a significant amount of our business with companies
that are located outside the United States, particularly in Asia and Europe. Even customers of ours
that are based in the United States often use contract manufacturers based in Asia to manufacture
their systems, and it is the contract manufacturers that purchase products directly from us. As a
result of our international focus, we face numerous challenges, including:
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longer and more difficult collection of receivables; |
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difficulties in enforcing contracts generally; |
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geopolitical and economic instability and military conflicts; |
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limited protection of our intellectual property and other assets; |
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compliance with local laws and regulations and unanticipated changes in local laws and
regulations, including tax laws and regulations; |
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trade and foreign exchange restrictions and higher tariffs; |
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travel restrictions; |
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timing and availability of import and export licenses and other governmental approvals,
permits and licenses, including export classification requirements; |
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transportation delays and limited local infrastructure and disruptions, such as large
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We outsource our wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, warehousing and shipping operations to
third parties, and rely on these parties to produce and deliver our products according to requested
demands in specification, quantity, cost and time.
We rely on third parties for substantially all of our manufacturing operations, including
wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, warehousing and shipping. We depend on these parties to
supply us with material of a requested quantity in a timely manner that meets our standards for
yield, cost and manufacturing quality. We do not have any long-term supply agreements with our
manufacturing suppliers. Any problems with our manufacturing supply chain could adversely impact
our ability to ship our products to our customers on time and in the quantity required, which in
turn could cause an unanticipated decline in our sales and possibly damage our customer
relationships.
The fabrication of integrated circuits is a complex and technically demanding process.
Our foundries could, from time to time, experience manufacturing defects and reduced manufacturing
yields. Changes in manufacturing processes or the inadvertent use of defective or contaminated
materials by our foundries could result in lower than anticipated manufacturing yields or
unacceptable performance. Many of these problems are difficult to detect at an early stage of the
manufacturing process and may be time consuming
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and expensive to correct. Poor yields from our
foundries, or defects, integration issues or other performance problems in our products could cause
us significant customer relations and business reputation problems, harm our financial results and
result in financial or other damages to our customers. Our customers could also seek damages from
us for their losses. A product liability claim brought against us, even if unsuccessful, would
likely be time consuming and costly to defend.
Our products are manufactured at a limited number of locations. If we experience
manufacturing problems at a particular location, we would be required to transfer manufacturing to
a backup location or supplier. Converting or transferring manufacturing from a primary location or
supplier to a backup fabrication facility could be expensive and could take one to two quarters.
During such a transition, we would be required to meet customer demand from our then-existing
inventory, as well as any partially finished goods that can be modified to the required product
specifications. We do not seek to maintain sufficient inventory to address a lengthy transition
period because we believe it is uneconomical to keep more than minimal inventory on hand. As a
result, we may not be able to meet customer needs during such a transition, which could delay
shipments, cause a production delay or stoppage for our customers, result in a decline in our sales
and damage our customer relationships. In addition, we have no long-term supply contracts with the
foundries that we work with. Availability of foundry capacity has in the recent past been reduced
due to strong demand. The ability of each foundry to provide us with semiconductor devices is
limited by its available capacity and existing obligations. Foundry capacity may not be available
when we need it or at reasonable prices which could cause us to be unable to meet customer needs,
delay shipments, because a production delay or stoppage for our customers, result in a decline in
our sales and harm our financial results.
In addition, a significant portion of our sales are to customers that practice
just-in-time order management from their suppliers, which gives us a very limited amount of time in
which to process and complete these orders. As a result, delays in our production or shipping by
the parties to whom we outsource these functions could reduce our sales, damage our customer
relationships and damage our reputation in the marketplace, any of which could harm our business,
results of operations and financial condition.
Any increase in the manufacturing cost of our products could reduce our gross margins and operating
profit.
The semiconductor business exhibits ongoing competitive pricing pressure from customers
and competitors. Accordingly, any increase in the cost of our products, whether by adverse purchase
price variances or adverse manufacturing cost variances, will reduce our gross margins and
operating profit. We do not have any long-term supply agreements with our manufacturing suppliers
and we typically negotiate pricing on a purchase order by purchase order basis. Consequently, we
may not be able to obtain price reductions or anticipate or prevent future price increases from our
suppliers.
Some of our competitors may be better financed than we are, may have long-term agreements
with our main foundries and may induce our foundries to reallocate capacity to those customers.
This reallocation could impair our ability to secure the supply of components that we need.
Although we use several independent foundries to manufacture substantially all of our semiconductor
products, most of our components are not manufactured at more than one foundry at any given time,
and our products typically are designed to be manufactured in a specific process at only one of
these foundries. Accordingly, if one of our foundries is unable to provide us with components as
needed, we could experience significant delays in securing sufficient supplies of those components.
We cannot assure you that any of our existing or new foundries will be able to produce integrated
circuits with acceptable manufacturing yields, or that our foundries will be able to deliver enough
semiconductor devices to us on a timely basis, or at reasonable prices. These and other related
factors could impair our ability to meet our customers needs and have a material and adverse
effect on our operating results.
In order to secure sufficient foundry capacity when demand is high and mitigate the risks
described in the foregoing paragraph, we may enter into various arrangements with suppliers that
could be costly and harm our operating results, such as nonrefundable deposits with or loans to
foundries in exchange for capacity commitments and contracts that commit us to purchase specified
quantities of integrated circuits over extended periods. We may not be able to make any such
arrangement in a timely fashion or at all, and any arrangements may be costly, reduce our financial
flexibility, and not be on terms favorable to us. Moreover, if we are able to secure foundry
capacity, we may be obligated to use all of that capacity or incur penalties. These penalties may
be expensive and could harm our financial results.
If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to
accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud.
Effective internal controls are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports
and effectively prevent fraud. Any inability to provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud
could harm our business. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires management and our auditors to
evaluate and assess the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. These
Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements may be modified, supplemented or amended from time to time.
Implementing these changes may take a significant amount of time and may require specific
compliance training of our personnel. In the future, we may discover areas of our internal controls
that need improvement. If our auditors or we discover a material weakness, the disclosure of that
fact, even if quickly
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remedied, could reduce the markets confidence in our financial statements
and harm our stock price. We may not be able to effectively and timely implement necessary control
changes and employee training to ensure continued compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other
regulatory and reporting requirements. Our rapid growth in recent periods and our possible future
expansion through acquisitions, present challenges to maintain the internal control and disclosure
control standards applicable to public companies. If we fail to maintain effective internal
controls, we could be subject to regulatory scrutiny and sanctions and investors could lose
confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports.
We rely on third-party technologies for the development of our products and our inability to
use such technologies in the future would harm our ability to remain competitive.
We rely on third parties for technologies that are integrated into our products, such as
wafer fabrication and assembly and test technologies used by our contract manufacturers, as well as
licensed MIPS and ARM architecture technologies. If we are unable to continue to use or license
these technologies on reasonable terms, or if these technologies fail to operate properly, we may
not be able to secure alternatives in a timely manner and our ability to remain competitive would
be harmed. In addition, if we are unable to successfully license technology from third parties to
develop future products, we may not be able to develop such products in a timely manner or at all.
Our failure to protect our intellectual property rights adequately could impair our ability to
compete effectively or to defend ourselves from litigation, which could harm our business,
financial condition and results of operations. *
We rely primarily on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as
confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and other methods, to protect our proprietary
technologies and know-how. We have been issued 18 patents in the United States and three patents in
foreign countries and have an additional 27 patent applications pending in the United States and 27
patent applications
pending in foreign countries. Even if the pending patent applications are granted, the rights
granted to us may not be meaningful or provide us with any commercial advantage. For example, these
patents could be opposed, contested, circumvented or designed around by our competitors or be
declared invalid or unenforceable in judicial or administrative proceedings. The failure of our
patents to adequately protect our technology might make it easier for our competitors to offer
similar products or technologies. Our foreign patent protection is generally not as comprehensive
as our U.S. patent protection and may not protect our intellectual property in some countries where
our products are sold or may be sold in the future. Many U.S.-based companies have encountered
substantial intellectual property infringement in
foreign countries, including countries where we sell products. Even if foreign patents are granted,
effective enforcement in foreign countries may not be available.
Monitoring unauthorized use of our intellectual property is difficult and costly.
Although we are not aware of any unauthorized use of our intellectual property in the past, it is
possible that unauthorized use of our intellectual property may have occurred or may occur without
our knowledge. We cannot assure you that the steps we have taken will prevent unauthorized use of
our intellectual property.
Our failure to effectively protect our intellectual property could reduce the value of
our technology in licensing arrangements or in cross-licensing negotiations, and could harm our
business, results of operations and financial condition. We may in the future need to initiate
infringement claims or litigation. Litigation, whether we are a plaintiff or a defendant, can be
expensive, time consuming and may divert the efforts of our technical staff and managerial
personnel, which could harm our business, whether or not such litigation results in a determination
favorable to us.
Some of the software used with our products, as well as that of some of our customers,
may be derived from so called open source software that is generally made available to the public
by its authors and/or other third parties. Such open source software is often made available to us
under licenses, such as the GNU General Public License, which impose certain obligations on us in
the event we were to make available derivative works of the open source software. These obligations
may require us to make source code for the derivative works available to the public, and/or license
such derivative works under a particular type of license, rather than the forms of license
customarily used to protect our intellectual property. In addition, there is little or no legal
precedent for interpreting the terms of certain of these open source licenses, including the
determination of which works are subject to the terms of such licenses. While we believe we have
complied with our obligations under the various applicable licenses for open source software, in
the event the copyright holder of any open source software were to successfully establish in court
that we had not complied with the terms of a license for a particular work, we could be required to
release the source code of that work to the public and/or stop distribution of that work.
Assertions by third parties of infringement by us of their intellectual property rights could
result in significant costs and cause our operating results to suffer.
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The semiconductor industry is characterized by vigorous protection and pursuit of
intellectual property rights and positions, which has resulted in protracted and expensive
litigation for many companies. We expect that in the future we may receive communications from
various industry participants alleging our infringement of their patents, trade secrets or other
intellectual property rights. Any lawsuits resulting from such allegations could subject us to
significant liability for damages and invalidate our proprietary rights. Any potential intellectual
property litigation also could force us to do one or more of the following:
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successful protection and assertion of our intellectual property against others; incur significant legal
expenses; |
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Any significant impairment of our intellectual property rights from any litigation we
face could harm our business and our ability to compete.
Our customers could also become the target of litigation relating to the patent and other
intellectual property rights of others. This could trigger technical support and indemnification
obligations in some of our licenses or customer agreements. These
obligations could result in substantial expenses, including the payment by us of costs and
damages relating to claims of intellectual property infringement. In addition to the time and
expense required for us to provide support or indemnification to our customers, any such litigation
could disrupt the businesses of our customers, which in turn could hurt our relationships with our
customers and cause the sale of our products to decrease. We cannot assure you that claims for
indemnification will not be made or that if made, such claims would not have a material adverse
effect on our business, operating results or financial conditions.
Our third-party contractors are concentrated primarily in Taiwan and Japan, an area subject to
earthquake and other risks. Any disruption to the operations of these contractors could cause
significant delays in the production or shipment of our products.
Substantially all of our products are manufactured by third-party contractors located in
Taiwan and to a lesser extent manufactured by a third party contractor located in Japan. The risk
of an earthquake in Taiwan, Japan and elsewhere in the Pacific Rim region is significant due to the
proximity of major earthquake fault lines to the facilities of our foundries and assembly and test
subcontractors. For example, several major earthquakes have occurred in Taiwan and Japan since our
incorporation in 2000. Although our third-party contractors did not suffer any significant damage
as a result of these most recent earthquakes, the occurrence of additional earthquakes or other
natural disasters could result in the disruption of our foundry or assembly and test capacity. Any
disruption resulting from such events could cause significant delays in the production or shipment
of our products until we are able to shift our manufacturing, assembling or testing from the
affected contractor to another third-party vendor. We may not be able to obtain alternate capacity
on favorable terms, if at all.
We may experience difficulties in transitioning to new wafer fabrication process technologies
or in achieving higher levels of design integration, which may result in reduced manufacturing
yields, delays in product deliveries and increased expenses.
In order to remain competitive, we expect to continue to transition our semiconductor
products to increasingly smaller line width geometries. This transition requires us to modify our
designs to work with the manufacturing processes of our foundries. We periodically evaluate the
benefits, on a product-by-product basis, of migrating to new process technologies to reduce cost
and improve performance. We may face difficulties, delays and expenses as we continue to transition
our products to new processes. We are dependent on our relationships with our foundry contractors
to transition to new processes successfully. We cannot assure you that the foundries that we use
will be able to effectively manage the transition or that we will be able to maintain our existing
foundry relationships or develop new ones. If any of our foundry contractors or we experience
significant delays in this transition or fail to efficiently implement this transition, we could
experience reduced manufacturing yields, delays in product deliveries and increased expenses, all
of which could harm our relationships with our customers and our results of operations. As new
processes become more prevalent, we expect to continue to integrate greater levels of
functionality, as well as customer and third-party intellectual property, into our products.
However, we may not be able to achieve higher levels of design integration or deliver new
integrated products on a timely basis.
Our acquisition strategy may result in unanticipated accounting charges or otherwise adversely
affect our results of operations, and result in difficulties in assimilating and integrating the
operations, personnel, technologies and products of acquired companies or businesses, or be
dilutive to existing shareholders.
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In May 2008, we acquired certain assets of Parallogic, in August 2008 we acquired
substantially all of the assets of Star, in December 2008, we acquired W&W and we may in the future
acquire companies or assets of companies that we believe to be complementary to our business,
including for the purpose of expanding our new product design capacity, introducing new design,
market or application skills or enhancing and expanding our existing product lines. In connection
with any such future acquisitions, we may need to use a significant portion of our available cash,
issue additional equity securities that would dilute current stockholders percentage ownership and
incur substantial debt or contingent liabilities. Such actions could adversely impact our operating
results and the market price of our common stock. In addition, difficulties may occur in
assimilating and integrating the operations, personnel, technologies, and products of acquired
companies or businesses. In addition, key personnel of an acquired company may decide not to work
for us. Moreover, to the extent we acquire a company with existing products; those products may
have lower gross margins than our customary products, which could adversely affect our gross margin
and operating results. If an acquired company also has inventory that we assume, we will be
required to write up the carrying value of that inventory to fair value.
When that inventory is sold, the gross margins for those products are reduced and our
gross margins for that period are negatively affected. Furthermore, the purchase price of any
acquired businesses may exceed the current fair values of the net tangible assets of such acquired
businesses. As a result, we would be required to record material amounts of goodwill, and acquired
in-process research and development charges and other intangible assets, which could result in
significant impairment and acquired in-process research and development charges and amortization
expense in future periods. These charges, in addition to the results of operations of such acquired
businesses and potential restructuring costs associated with an acquisition, could have a material
adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We cannot forecast
the number, timing or size of future acquisitions, or the effect that any such acquisitions might
have on our operating or financial results.
Our investment portfolio may become impaired by further deterioration of the capital markets.*
Our cash equivalents at September 30, 2009 consisted primarily of money market
instruments, which are invested primarily in United States treasury securities, bonds of government
agencies, and corporate bonds. We follow an established investment policy and set of guidelines to
monitor, manage and limit our exposure to interest rate and credit risk. The policy sets forth
credit quality standards and limits our exposure to any one issuer, as well as our maximum exposure
to various asset classes.
As a result of current adverse financial market conditions, investments in some financial
instruments, such as structured investment vehicles, sub-prime mortgage-backed securities and
collateralized debt obligations, may pose risks arising from liquidity and credit concerns. As of
September 30, 2009, we had no direct holdings in these categories of investments and our indirect
exposure to these financial instruments through our holdings in money market instruments was
immaterial. As of September 30, 2009, we had no impairment charge associated with our cash
equivalents relating to such adverse financial market conditions. Although we believe our current
investment portfolio has very little risk of impairment, we cannot predict future market conditions
or market liquidity and can provide no assurance that our investment portfolio will remain
unimpaired.
We may need to raise additional capital, which might not be available or which, if available,
may be on terms that are not favorable to use.
We believe our existing cash balances and cash expected to be generated from our
operations will be sufficient to meet our working capital, capital expenditures and other needs for
at least the next 12 months. In the future, we may need to raise additional funds, and we cannot be
certain that we will be able to obtain additional financing on favorable terms, if at all. If we
issue equity securities to raise additional funds, the ownership percentage of our stockholders
would be reduced, and the new equity securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior
to those of existing holders of our common stock. If we borrow money, we may incur significant
interest charges, which could harm our profitability. Holders of debt would also have rights,
preferences or privileges senior to those of existing holders of our common stock. If we cannot
raise needed funds on acceptable terms, we may not be able to develop or enhance our products, take
advantage of future opportunities or respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated
requirements, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our future effective tax rates could be affected by the allocation of our income among
different geographic regions, which could affect our future operating results, financial condition
and cash flows.
We are in the process of expanding our international operations and staff to better
support our expansion into international markets. This expansion includes the implementation of an
international structure that includes, among other things, a research and development cost-sharing
arrangement, certain licenses and other contractual arrangements between us and our wholly-owned
domestic and foreign subsidiaries. As a result of these changes, we anticipate that our
consolidated pre-tax income will be subject to foreign tax at relatively lower tax rates when
compared to the United States federal statutory tax rate and, as a consequence, our effective
income tax rate is expected to be lower than the United States federal statutory rate. Our future
effective income tax rates could be adversely affected if tax authorities challenge our
international tax structure or if the relative mix of United States and international income
changes for any reason. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that our income tax rate will be
less than the United States federal statutory rate.
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Risks Related to our Common Stock
The market price of our common stock may be volatile, which could cause the value of your
investment to decline. *
The trading prices of the securities of technology companies have been highly volatile.
Further, our common stock has a limited trading history. Since our initial public offering in May
2007 through September 30, 2009, our stock price has fluctuated from a low of $7.61 to a high of
$35.60. We cannot predict the extent to which the trading market will continue to develop or how
liquid the market may become. The trading price of our common stock is therefore likely to be
highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in price in response to various factors,
some of which are beyond our control. These factors include:
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announcements by us or our competitors of design wins, acquisitions, new products, significant contracts, commercial
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changes in earnings estimates or recommendations by securities analysts. |
Furthermore, the stock market in general, and the market for semiconductor and other
technology companies in particular, have experienced price and volume fluctuations that have often
been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. These broad
market and industry factors may seriously harm the market price of our common stock, regardless of
our actual operating performance. These trading price fluctuations may also make it more difficult
for us to use our common stock as a means to make acquisitions or to use options to purchase our
common stock to attract and retain employees. In addition, in the past, following periods of
volatility in the overall market and the market price of a companys securities, securities class
action litigation has often been instituted against these companies. This litigation, if instituted
against us, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our managements attention and
resources.
A limited number of stockholders may have the ability to influence the outcome of director
elections and other matters requiring stockholder approval.*
Our directors, executive officers and principal stockholders and their affiliates
beneficially owned approximately 45.7% of our outstanding common stock as of September 30, 2009.
These stockholders, if they acted together, could exert substantial influence over matters
requiring approval by our stockholders, including electing directors, adopting new compensation
plans and approving mergers, acquisitions or other business combination transactions. This
concentration of ownership may discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company,
which could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their stock as part
of a sale of our company and might reduce our stock price. These actions may be taken even if they
are opposed by our other stockholders.
Delaware law and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain
provisions that could delay or discourage takeover attempts that stockholders may consider
favorable.
Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws may have
the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. These
provisions include the following:
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the right of the board of directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the
expansion of the board of directors or due to the resignation or departure of an existing board
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the prohibition of cumulative voting in the election of directors, which would otherwise allow
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the requirement for the advance notice of nominations for election to the board of directors or
for proposing matters that can be acted upon at a stockholders meeting; |
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the ability of our board of directors to alter our bylaws without obtaining stockholder approval; |
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the ability of the board of directors to issue, without stockholder approval, up to
10,000,000 shares of preferred stock with terms set by the board of directors, which rights
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the elimination of the rights of stockholders to call a special meeting of stockholders and to
take action by written consent in lieu of a meeting; |
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the required approval of at least 662/3% of the shares entitled to vote at an
election of directors to adopt, amend or repeal our bylaws or repeal the provisions of our
amended and restated certificate of incorporation regarding the election and removal of
directors and the inability of stockholders to take action by written consent in lieu of a
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the required approval of at least a majority of the shares entitled to vote at an election of
directors to remove directors without cause. |
In addition, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by the provisions
of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. These provisions may prohibit large
stockholders, particularly those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from merging
or combining with us. These provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and
bylaws and under Delaware law could discourage potential takeover attempts, could reduce the price
that investors are willing to pay for shares of our common stock in the future and could
potentially result in the market price being lower than they would without these provisions.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities
None.
Use of Proceeds from Sale of Registered Securities
Our initial public offering of common stock was effected through a Registration Statement
on Form S-1 (File No. 333-140660), that was declared effective by the SEC on May 1, 2007. As of
September 30, 2009, $62.5 million of the approximately $94.7 million in net proceeds received by us
in the offering, after deducting approximately $7.3 million in underwriting discounts, commissions,
and $2.8 million in other offering costs, were invested in various interest-bearing instruments,
and $32.2 million of the net proceeds had been used for acquisitions, general corporate purposes,
including the repayment of the outstanding balances under the term loan with Silicon Valley Bank,
general and administrative and manufacturing expenses.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
None
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
None
Item 5. Other Information
None
Item 6. Exhibits
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Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (1) |
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Specimen of Common Stock Certificate (3) |
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Letter Agreement, dated July 15, 2009, between the Company and Sanjay Mehrotra (4) |
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 of Syed B. Ali, President and Chief
Executive Officer |
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 of Arthur D. Chadwick, Chief
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 of Syed B. Ali, President and Chief
Executive Officer and Arthur D. Chadwick, Chief Financial Officer |
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Filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrants Annual Report on Form 10-K (No.
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Filed as Exhibit 3.5 to the Registrants registration statement on Form S-1
(No. 333-140660), filed with the SEC on February 13, 2007, as amended, and
incorporated herein by reference. |
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Filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrants registration statement on Form S-1
(No. 333-140660), filed with the SEC on February 13, 2007, as amended, and
incorporated herein by reference. |
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(No. 001-33435), filed with the SEC on July 24, 2009, and incorporated herein by
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This certification accompanies the Form 10-Q to which it relates, is not deemed
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not to be incorporated
by reference into any filing of the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (whether made
before or after the date of the Form 10-Q), irrespective of any general
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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CAVIUM NETWORKS, INC.
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/s/ ARTHUR D. CHADWICK
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Arthur D. Chadwick |
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Chief Financial Officer and Vice
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Number |
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Description |
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3.1
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Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (1) |
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3.2
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Amended and Restated Bylaws (2) |
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4.1
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Reference is made to Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2 |
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4.2
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Specimen of Common Stock Certificate (3) |
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10.1
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Letter Agreement, dated July 15, 2009, between the Company and Sanjay Mehrotra (4) |
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31.1
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 of Syed B. Ali, President and Chief
Executive Officer |
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31.2
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 of Arthur D. Chadwick, Chief
Financial Officer |
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32.1*
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 of Syed B. Ali, President and Chief
Executive Officer and Arthur D. Chadwick, Chief Financial Officer |
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(1) |
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Filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrants Annual Report on Form 10-K (No.
001-33435), filed with the SEC on March 2, 2009, and incorporated herein by
reference. |
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(2) |
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Filed as Exhibit 3.5 to the Registrants registration statement on Form S-1
(No. 333-140660), filed with the SEC on February 13, 2007, as amended, and
incorporated herein by reference. |
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(3) |
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Filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrants registration statement on Form S-1
(No. 333-140660), filed with the SEC on February 13, 2007, as amended, and
incorporated herein by reference. |
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(4) |
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Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrants current report on Form 8-K
(No. 001-33435), filed with the SEC on July 24, 2009, and incorporated herein by
reference. |
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* |
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This certification accompanies the Form 10-Q to which it relates, is not deemed
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not to be incorporated
by reference into any filing of the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (whether made
before or after the date of the Form 10-Q), irrespective of any general
incorporation language contained in such filing. |
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