10-Q 1 d10q.htm FORM 10-Q Form 10-Q
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United States

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 10-Q

 


 

(Mark One)

x Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

For the Period Ended June 30, 2005

 

or

 

¨ Transition Report Pursuant to Section 10 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

For The Transition Period from              to             

 

Commission File Number 0-15449

 


 

CALIFORNIA MICRO DEVICES CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

California   94-2672609

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

430 N. McCarthy Boulevard #100 Milpitas, California   95035
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

 

(408) 263-3214

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not applicable

(Former name, former address, and former fiscal year if changed since last report)

 


 

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  x    No  ¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  x    No  ¨

 

Applicable Only to Corporate Issuers

 

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date:

 

The number of shares of the registrant’s Common Stock outstanding as of July 29, 2005 was 21,704,755.

 

Total pages: 90

 



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California Micro Devices Corporation

Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2005

INDEX

 

          Page

    

PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

   3

Item 1.

  

Financial Statements (Unaudited)

   3
    

Condensed Statements of Operations for the three months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004

   3
    

Condensed Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2005 and March 31, 2005

   4
    

Condensed Statements of Cash Flows for the three months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004

   5
    

Notes to Condensed Financial Statements

   6

Item 2.

  

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

   11

Item 3.

  

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

   30

Item 4.

  

Controls and Procedures

   30
    

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

   31

Item 1.

  

Legal Proceedings

   31

Item 2.

  

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

   31

Item 3.

  

Defaults Upon Senior Securities

   31

Item 4.

  

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

   31

Item 5.

  

Other Information

   31

Item 6.

  

Exhibits

   31

SIGNATURE

   32

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements (Unaudited)

 

California Micro Devices Corporation

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,


 
     2005

   2004

 

Net sales

   $ 14,687    $ 16,472  

Cost and expenses:

               

Cost of sales

     9,620      9,934  

Research and development

     1,434      1,206  

Selling, general and administrative

     3,342      3,225  

Restructuring

     57      —    
    

  


Total costs and expenses

     14,453      14,365  
    

  


Operating income

     234      2,107  

Other income (expense), net

     248      (115 )
    

  


Income before income taxes

     482      1,992  

Income taxes

     14      60  
    

  


Net income

   $ 468    $ 1,932  
    

  


Net income per share–basic

   $ 0.02    $ 0.09  
    

  


Weighted average common shares outstanding–basic

     21,645      20,772  
    

  


Net income per share–diluted

   $ 0.02    $ 0.09  
    

  


Weighted average common shares and share equivalents outstanding–diluted

     22,020      22,720  
    

  


 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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California Micro Devices Corporation

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share data)

(Unaudited)

 

     June 30,
2005


    March 31,
2005


 
           (1)  

ASSETS

                

Current assets:

                

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 7,868     $ 13,830  

Short-term investments

     30,582       22,245  

Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts of $74 and $74, respectively

     9,561       7,574  

Inventories

     5,782       6,532  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     917       1,286  
    


 


Total current assets

     54,710       51,467  

Property, plant and equipment, net

     4,213       6,038  

Other long-term assets

     185       172  
    


 


TOTAL ASSETS

   $ 59,108     $ 57,677  
    


 


LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

                

Current liabilities:

                

Accounts payable

   $ 6,877     $ 4,523  

Accrued liabilities

     1,865       3,762  

Deferred margin on shipments to distributors

     2,840       2,520  

Current maturities of long-term debt and capital lease obligations

     82       100  
    


 


Total current liabilities

     11,664       10,905  

Long-term debt and capital lease obligations, less current maturities

     82       90  

Other long-term liabilities

     17       21  
    


 


Total liabilities

     11,763       11,016  
    


 


Commitments and contingencies

                

Shareholders’ equity:

                

Common stock - no par value; 50,000,000 shares authorized as of June 30, 2005 and March 31, 2005; shares issued and outstanding: 21,669,692 as of June 30, 2005 and 21,605,315 as of March 31, 2005

     105,713       105,494  

Accumulated other comprehensive (loss)

     (4 )     (2 )

Accumulated deficit

     (58,364 )     (58,831 )
    


 


Total shareholders’ equity

     47,345       46,661  
    


 


TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

   $ 59,108     $ 57,677  
    


 



(1) Derived from audited financial statements

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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California Micro Devices Corporation

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,


 
     2005

    2004

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

                

Net income

   $ 468     $ 1,932  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

                

Non cash restructuring charges

     5       —    

Increase in inventory reserves

     111       230  

Accretion of investment purchase discounts

     (224 )     —    

Depreciation

     293       385  

Amortization

     28       51  

Stock based compensation

     1       17  

Gain on sale of fixed assets

     (13 )     16  

Loss on the abandonment of fixed assets

     —         9  

Changes in assets and liabilities:

                

Accounts receivable

     (1,987 )     (2,707 )

Inventories

     638       (590 )

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     369       41  

Other long-term assets

     (16 )     1  

Accounts payable and other current liabilities

     452       17  

Deferred margin on shipments to distributors

     320       317  

Other long-term liabilities

     (4 )     (3 )
    


 


Net cash provided by operating activities

     441       284  
    


 


Cash flows from investing activities:

                

Purchases of short-term investments

     (51,590 )     (17,326 )

Sales and maturities of short-term investments

     43,475       —    

Proceeds from sale of fixed assets

     1,716       8  

Capital expenditures

     (196 )     (521 )
    


 


Net cash used in investing activities

     (6,595 )     (17,839 )
    


 


Cash flows from financing activities:

                

Repayments of capital lease obligations

     (26 )     (5 )

Repayments of long-term debt

     —         (6,992 )

Net proceeds from issuance of common stock

     —         18,014  

Proceeds from exercise of common stock warrants

     —         1,092  

Proceeds from employee stock compensation plans

     218       615  
    


 


Net cash provided by financing activities

     192       12,724  
    


 


Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

     (5,962 )     (5,399 )

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

     13,830       20,325  
    


 


Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

   $ 7,868     $ 14,926  
    


 


 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements (Unaudited)

 

California Micro Devices Corporation

NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

 

1. Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. The condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements included with our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements contain all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring adjustments) necessary to present fairly the financial position of California Micro Devices Corporation (the “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) as of June 30, 2005, and the results of operations for the three month period ended June 30, 2005. Results for the three month period are not necessarily indicative of fiscal year results.

 

2. Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Our estimates are based on historical experience, input from sources outside of the Company, and other relevant facts and circumstances. Actual results could differ from these estimates, and such differences could be material.

 

3. Stock Based Compensation

 

As allowed under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (“SFAS 123”), “Accounting for Stock Based Compensation,” we account for our employee stock plans in accordance with the provisions of Accounting Principles Board’s Opinion No. 25 (“APB 25”), “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees” and have adopted the disclosure only provisions of SFAS 123. Stock based awards to non-employees are accounted for in accordance with SFAS 123 and EITF 96-18 “Accounting for Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with Selling, Goods or Services.” Fair value for these awards is calculated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which requires that we estimate the volatility of our stock, an appropriate risk-free interest rate, estimated time until exercise of the option, and our expected dividend yield. The Black-Scholes model was developed for use in estimating the fair value of traded options that do not have specific vesting schedules and are ordinarily transferable. The calculation of fair value is highly sensitive to the expected life of the stock based award and the volatility of our stock, both of which we estimate based primarily on historical experience. As a result, the pro forma disclosures are not necessarily indicative of pro forma effects on reported financial results for future years.

 

We generally recognize no compensation expense with respect to employee stock grants as the exercise price is at the market price of our common stock at the date of grant. Had we recognized compensation for the grant date fair value of employee stock grants in accordance with SFAS 123, our net income and net income per share would have been revised to the pro forma amounts shown below (in thousands, except per share data) For pro forma purposes, the estimated fair value of our stock based grants is amortized over the options’ vesting period for stock options granted under our stock option plans, and the purchase period for stock purchases under our stock purchase plan.

 

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     Three Months Ended
June 30,


 
     2005

    2004

 

Net income:

                

As reported

   $ 468     $ 1,932  

Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported results

     1       17  

Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value method for all awards, net of related tax effects

     (633 )     (682 )
    


 


Pro forma net income (loss)

   $ (164 )   $ 1,267  
    


 


Basic net income (loss) per share:

                

As reported

   $ 0.02     $ 0.09  

Pro forma

   $ (0.01 )   $ 0.06  

Diluted net income (loss) per share:

                

As reported

   $ 0.02     $ 0.09  

Pro forma

   $ (0.01 )   $ 0.06  

 

The fair value of our stock based grants was estimated assuming no expected dividends and the following weighted average assumptions:

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,


 
     2005

    2004

 

Employee Stock Options:

            

Expected life in years

   4.07     4.07  

Volatility

   0.73     0.87  

Risk-free interest rate

   3.80 %   3.17 %

Employee Stock Purchase Plan:

            

Expected life in years

   0.50     0.49  

Volatility

   0.51     0.67  

Risk-free interest rate

   3.01 %   1.51 %

 

4. Net Income Per Share

 

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted income per share (in thousands, except per share data):

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,


     2005

   2004

Net income

   $ 468    $ 1,932

Weighted average common share outstanding used in calculation of net income per share:

             

Basic shares

     21,645      20,772
    

  

Effect of dilutive securities:

             

Employee stock options

     339      1,648

Warrants

     36      300
    

  

Effect of dilutive securities

     375      1,948
    

  

Diluted share

     22,020      22,720
    

  

Net income per share:

             

Basic

   $ 0.02    $ 0.09
    

  

Diluted

   $ 0.02    $ 0.09
    

  

 

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Options to purchase 2,542,211and 168,033 shares of common stock were outstanding during the three month periods ended June 30, 2005 and June 30, 2004, respectively, but were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share because the exercise price of the stock options was greater than the average closing share trading price reported by Nasdaq (“Average Trading Price”) of the common shares during each of the periods ended June 30.

 

5. Inventories

 

The components of inventory consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     June 30,
2005


   March 31,
2005


Work in process

   $ 2,103    $ 2,182

Finished goods

     3,679      4,350
    

  

     $ 5,782    $ 6,532
    

  

 

7. Comprehensive Income

 

Comprehensive income is principally comprised of net income and unrealized gains or losses on our available for sale securities. Comprehensive income for the three month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2004 was as follows (in thousands):

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,


 
     2005

    2004

 

Net income

   $ 468     $ 1,932  

Unrealized gains on available for sale securities

     (2 )     (1 )
    


 


Comprehensive income

   $ 466     $ 1,931  
    


 


 

8. Income Taxes

 

For the three month period ended June 30, 2005 we recorded income tax provisions of $14,000 for federal and state income taxes. Our effective tax rate benefited from our ability to utilize loss carry forwards and other credits; however, the benefit was limited by alternative minimum tax provisions.

 

We have provided a valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets due to the uncertainties surrounding our ability to generate sufficient taxable income in future periods to realize the tax benefits of our loss carry forwards. Although we had experienced quarterly taxable income beginning with the second quarter of fiscal 2004, we experienced a loss in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 and we have a prior history of losses, and the industry in which we operate is highly cyclical, so there are uncertainties as to our future profitability. If we continue to produce taxable income in future periods, we may reverse a portion of our valuation allowance. This may produce income rather than expense from income taxes on our financial statements in the period in which we reverse a portion of our valuation allowance. We will continue to evaluate our ability to realize the net deferred tax assets.

 

9. Long Term Debt

 

On September 30, 2004, we entered into an amended loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank. Under this one year agreement, for which there were $55,000 of commitment and related fees, the bank has provided a $15 million credit line, subject to financial and other covenants contained in the agreement. We granted the bank a security interest in all of our assets other than our intellectual property. The agreement prohibits our paying cash dividends. Borrowings under this agreement bear interest at the current prime rate, and interest is payable monthly. The agreement will expire on September 28, 2005, at which time any amounts borrowed must be paid in full. The bank may withdraw the commitment if we fail to comply with the covenants, if there is a material adverse change in our business, operations or condition, if we become insolvent or if other specified events or conditions occur. At June 30, 2005, the full amount of the credit line was available.

 

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In September 2004 we entered into a three year software lease with Synopsys at an interest rate of 5%. We accounted for the agreement as a capital lease. Under the agreement, we made the first of three annual lease payments of $82,000 in October 2004. The amount capitalized is $246,000. The outstanding capital lease obligation as of June 30, 2005 was approximately $164,000, and prepaid interest was $2,398. Interest expense on the lease during the three months ended June 30, 2005 was $2,398.

 

Total fixed assets purchased under capital leases and the associated accumulated amortization was as follows (in thousands):

 

     June 30,
2005


    March 31,
2005


 

Capitalized cost

   $ 294     $ 356  

Accumulated amortization

     (83 )     (94 )
    


 


Net book value

   $ 211     $ 262  
    


 


 

Amortization expense for fixed assets purchased under capital leases is included in the line item titled “amortization” on our condensed statements of cash flows.

 

10. Short Term Investments

 

Cash and cash equivalents represent cash and money market funds.

 

Short term investments represent investments in debt securities with remaining maturities less than one year. We invest our excess cash in high quality financial instruments. We have classified our marketable securities as available for sale securities. Our available for sale securities have contractual maturities of 365 days or less and are carried at fair value, with unrealized gains and losses reported in a separate component of shareholders’ equity. Realized gains and losses and declines in value judged to be other than temporary, if any, on available for sale securities are included in interest income. Interest on securities classified as available for sale is also included in other (income) expense, net. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific identification method.

 

Short term investments were as follows (in thousands):

 

     June 30,
2005


   March
31, 2005


Commercial paper

   $ 19,555    $ 12,510

U.S. Agency notes

     10,033      9,735

Asset backed - fixed

     994      —  
    

  

     $ 30,582    $ 22,245
    

  

 

During the three month periods ended June 30, 2005 and March 31, 2005, a net unrealized holding loss of $4,000 and $2,000, respectively, were included in accumulated other comprehensive income.

 

11. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In November 2004, the FASB issued Statement No. 151, “Inventory Costs, an amendment of ARB No. 43, Chapter 4”. Statement 151 clarifies abnormal amounts of idle facility expense, freight, handling costs, and wasted material be accounted for as current period expense. Statement 151 is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005. Our adoption of SFAS 151 on April 1, 2005 did not have a material effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” (“SFAS 123(R)”). SFAS 123(R) replaces SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” (“SFAS 123”), and supersedes APB Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees”. The new standard requires companies to recognize compensation cost relating to share based payment transactions in their financial statements. That cost is to be measured based on the fair value of the equity or liability instruments issued. SFAS 123(R) also includes some changes regarding the timing of expense recognition and the treatment of forfeitures. SFAS 123(R) indicates that it is effective for reporting periods beginning after June 15, 2005. In March 2005, the SEC released Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107, “Share-Based Payment” (“SAB 107”), which provides interpretive guidance related to the interaction between SFAS 123(R) and certain SEC rules and regulations. It also provides the SEC staff’s views regarding valuation of share based payment arrangements. In April 2005, the SEC amended the

 

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compliance dates for SFAS 123(R), to allow companies to implement the standard at the beginning of their next fiscal year, instead of the next reporting period beginning after June 15, 2005. We plan to adopt SFAS 123R effective April 1, 2006 as permitted by the SEC. We are currently evaluating the impact SFAS 123(R) and SAB 107 will have on our financial statements, although our pro forma disclosure is a good indicator of potential effect.

 

12. Significant Customers

 

During the three months ended June 30, 2005, we had two original equipment manufacturers, Motorola and LG Electronics that comprised 35% and 10% of our net sales, and two distributors, RDL Electronics and Teco Enterprises that comprised 17% and 10% of our net sales.

 

During the three months ended June 30, 2004, we had two original equipment manufacturers, Guidant and Motorola, that comprised 20% and 14% of our net sales, and one distributor, Epco, that comprised 15% of our net sales.

 

13. Stock Issuances

 

On May 3, 2004, we closed our public offering of 1,300,000 shares of common stock at a price of $15.00 per share with net proceeds of $18.0 million, after deducting the underwriting discount of $1.1 million and offering expenses of $368,000.

 

On May 24, 2004 and June 7, 2004, some of the investors in prior private placements and one of our placement agents exercised some of the warrants they had been granted in such private placements or had purchased from investors in such private placements. In total, such investors and placement agent exercised warrants for 36,663 shares at an exercise price of $3.00 per share resulting in total proceeds of approximately $110,000 and exercised warrants for 225,179 shares with an exercise price of $4.36 per share resulting in total proceeds of approximately $982,000, respectively. These warrant exercises were affected without registration under the Federal Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in reliance upon the exemption provided by Section 4(2) of such Act and Rule 506 promulgated under such Section as the holders were accredited institutional investors.

 

Also during the three month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2004 we issued the following shares of common stock under our employee stock option and employee stock purchase plans:

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,


     2005

   2004

Shares issued

     64,377      96,881

Total proceeds, in thousands

   $ 218    $ 615

 

14. Restructuring

 

On October 19, 2004, our board of directors approved a plan to close our manufacturing operation in Tempe, Arizona and other associated activities. The action was the result of our strategic plan to focus our product development and sales and marketing efforts on selected markets, actively manage our product life cycles and outsource our manufacturing operations. The Tempe wafer fabrication facility is the final internal manufacturing operation to be closed. The plan identified employees to be terminated, impaired assets consisting of real estate and manufacturing equipment, and other shutdown costs. On March 31, 2005 our board of directors approved the termination of additional employees as a modification to the original plan.

 

Employee terminations are as follows:

 

     Adjusted
Plan


  

Less: Employees

Terminated as of
June 30, 2005


  

Employees to Be

Terminated After

June 30, 2005


Employees affected by the shutdown

   54    52    2

 

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The restructuring costs are shown in the statement of operations in the line item titled “Restructuring”. A summary of the costs to close the Tempe facility are as follows (in thousands):

 

     Total Expected
Restructuring
Cost


  

Restructuring

Expense

During the

Quarter

Ended

June 30, 2005


    Restructuring
Expense as of
June 30, 2005


   Accrued Restructuring Liability During
the June 30, 2005


          Expense
Accrued


   Less:  Costs
Incurred


    Accrued
Restructuring
Liability at
June 30, 2005


Employee severance

   $ 404    $ (6 )   $ 404    $ 125    $ (58 )   $ 67

Write-down of fixed assets

     446      (13 )     446      —        —         —  

Other exit costs

     531      76       531      36      (10 )   $ 26
    

  


 

  

  


 

Total restructuring expense

   $ 1,381    $ 57     $ 1,381    $ 161    $ (68 )   $ 93
    

  


 

  

  


 

 

In June 2005, we completed the sale of our Tempe facility to Microchip. The details of the sale were as follows (in thousands):

 

Sales price

   $ 1,900  

Less selling costs

     (184 )
    


Net proceeds

     1,716  

Net book value

     (1,703 )
    


Gain on sale

   $ 13  
    


 

15. Contingencies

 

Environmental

 

We have been subject to a variety of federal, state and local regulations in connection with the discharge and storage of certain chemicals used in our manufacturing processes, which are now fully outsourced to independent contract manufacturers. We have obtained all necessary permits for such discharges and storage, and we believe that we have been in substantial compliance with the applicable environmental regulations. Industrial waste generated at our facilities was either processed prior to discharge or stored in double-lined barrels until removed by an independent contractor. With the completion of our Milpitas site remediation and the closure of our Tempe facility during fiscal 2005, we expect our environmental compliance costs to be minimal in the future.

 

In June 2005 we sold our Tempe land and building to Microchip Technology. Under the agreement, we retain liability for any environmental issues which may have arisen prior to the transaction closing date.

 

ITEM 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

In this discussion, “CMD,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to California Micro Devices Corporation. All trademarks appearing in this discussion are the property of their respective owners. This discussion should be read in conjunction with the other financial information and financial statements and related notes contained elsewhere in this report.

 

Forward Looking Statements

 

This discussion and report contain forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward looking statements are not historical facts and are based on current expectations, estimates, and projections about our industry; our beliefs and assumptions; and our goals and objectives. Words such

 

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as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” and “estimates,” and variations of these words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements. Examples of the kinds of forward looking statements in this report include statements regarding the following :

 

( (1) our expectation as to future levels of research and development expenses; (2) our expectation that the sale of previously reserved inventories will decline in future quarters; (3) our expectations about our fiscal 2006 income tax rate; (4) the financial statement and cash flow implications of our recent closure of our Tempe facility; (5) our expectation that our future environmental compliance costs will be minimal; (6) our target gross margin and our expectation of when we will reach such target gross margin; (7) our expectation that we will be implementing Oracle through September 30, 2005, when we expect the three-way match to be functional; and (8) our anticipation that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short term investments will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs over the next 12 months. These statements are only predictions, are not guarantees of future performance, and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control, are difficult to predict, and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in the forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our expectation that customers will not change their minds and order end of life products remaining in our inventory but which we have already written off; whether we will decide to invest more or less in research and development due to market conditions, technology discoveries, or other circumstances; whether our product mix changes, our unit volume decreases materially, we experience price erosion due to competitive pressures, or our contract manufacturers and assemblers raise their prices to us or we experience lower yields from them or we are unable to realize expected cost savings in certain manufacturing and assembly processes; whether there will be any changes in tax accounting rules; whether it takes us longer than expected to implement the three way match, for example due to issues of vendor incompatibility; and whether we encounter any unexpected environmental clean-up issues with our Tempe facility; whether we discover any further contamination at our Topaz Avenue Milpitas facility; and whether we will have large unanticipated cash requirements, as well as other risk factors detailed in this report, especially under the caption “Risk Factors and Other Factors That Could Affect Future Results” at the end of this discussion in this under Item 2. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

 

Overview

 

We design and sell application specific analog semiconductor products for high volume applications in the mobile handset, personal computer and digital consumer electronics markets, which we describe as our core markets. We are a leading supplier of application specific integrated passive (ASIP) devices for mobile handsets that provide electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and of ASIP devices for personal computers, personal computer peripherals and digital consumer electronics that provide low capacitance ESD protection. Both types of ASIP devices are used primarily to protect various interfaces, both external and internal, used in our customers’ products. Our ASIP devices, built using our proprietary silicon manufacturing process technology, provide the function of multiple passive components in a single chip solution. They occupy significantly less space, cost our customers less, taking into account the total cost of implementation, and offer increased performance and reliability compared to traditional solutions based on discrete passive components. Some of our ASIP devices also integrate active analog elements to provide additional functionality.

 

We also offer selected active analog devices that complement our ASIP devices. They include integrated LED drivers and interface circuits for mobile handsets and power management devices for digital consumer electronics products. Our active analog device solutions use industry standard manufacturing processes for cost effectiveness.

 

Within the past four years, we have streamlined our operations and become completely fabless using independent providers of wafer fabrication services. We have focused our marketing and sales on strategic customers in our three core markets. As a part of this process, we have reduced the number of our actively marketed products from approximately 5,000 to less than 200 while at the same time increasing our unit volume shipments from less than 25 million units in the quarter ended March 31, 2001 to 160 million units in the quarter ended June 30, 2005.

 

End customers for our semiconductor products are original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) including Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Kyocera Wireless Corp., LG Electronics, Motorola, Inc., Pantech Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Sony Corporation. We sell to some of these end customers through original design manufacturers (ODMs), including Arima Computer Corporation, BenQ Corporation, Compal Electronics, Inc. and Quanta Computer, Inc., and contract electronics manufacturers (CEMs), including Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) and Solectron Corporation. We use a direct sales force, manufacturers’ representatives and a network of distributors to sell our products.

 

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We operate in one operating segment and most of our physical assets are located outside the United States. Our assets located outside the United States are comprised primarily of product inventories and manufacturing equipment consigned to our contract manufacturers, assemblers and test houses.

 

Results of Operations

 

Net sales

 

Net sales by market were as follows (in millions):

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,


     2005

   2004

     (Unaudited)

Mobile Handsets

   $ 10.9    $ 8.7

Personal Computer and Digital Consumer

     3.8      3.7

Medical

     —        3.2

Other products*

     —        0.9
    

  

     $ 14.7    $ 16.5
    

  


* Other products included lighting, communications, legacy and mature products.

 

Net sales for the three month period ended June 30, 2005 were $14.7 million, a decrease of $1.8 million or 11% from the $16.5 million of net sales for the three month period ended June 30, 2004. The increase in net sales to our core markets partially offset the absence of revenue in our non-core markets as this is the first quarter all of our revenue came from our core business. Our average unit price decreased by 39% during the three month period ended June 30, 2005 compared to the three month period ended June 30, 2004. This decrease was due to three factors: (a) the faster growth in sales of our mobile handset products, which sell at lower prices than our personal computer and digital consumer products; (b) reductions in average selling prices of individual products, and (c) the absence of sales from medical and other products which sold at relatively high prices. At this time we are experiencing an average unit selling price decline at a rate of approximately 15% per annum.

 

Our growth in mobile handset sales was primarily the result of increased penetration (as measured by the average number of our parts per handset shipped worldwide), and secondarily the result of market growth. Sales from personal computer and digital consumer sales remained relatively flat. The absence of medical sales was the result of our discontinuing these products during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 and the absence of other sales was the result of our end of life programs for our legacy products.

 

Units shipped during the three month period ended June 30, 2005 increased to approximately 160 million units from approximately 108 million units in the three month period ended June 30, 2004.

 

Comparison of Cost of Sales, Gross Margin and Expenses

 

The table below shows our net sales, cost of sales, gross margin and expenses, both in dollars and as a percentage of net sales, for the three month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2004 (in thousands):

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,

 
     2005

    2004

 
     Amount

   % of
Net
Sales


    Amount

    % of
Net
Sales


 

Net sales

   $ 14,687    100 %   $ 16,472     100 %

Cost of sales

     9,620    66 %     9,934     60 %
    

  

 


 

Gross Margin

     5,067    34 %     6,538     40 %

Research and development

     1,434    10 %     1,206     7 %

Selling, general and administrative

     3,342    23 %     3,225     20 %

Restructuring

     57    0 %     —       0 %

Other income (expense), net

     248    2 %     (115 )   (1 )%
    

  

 


 

Income before income taxes

     482    3 %     1,992     12 %

Income taxes

     14    0 %     60     0 %
    

  

 


 

Net income

   $ 468    3 %   $ 1,932     12 %
    

  

 


 

 

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Cost of Sales

 

Cost of Sales Increase (Decrease), in thousands

        

Volume of core products

   $ 2,592  

End of non-core product sales

     (1,801 )

Cost reductions of core products

     (1,039 )

Net reserve changes

     (66 )
    


     $ (314 )
    


 

The cost of sales increase from volume of core products was primarily driven by a 25% increase in our product sales for mobile handsets. There was a decrease in cost of sales related to the end of our non-core product sales.

 

Cost reductions of core products were primarily the result of process cost reductions, lower subcontractor costs and product redesigns.

 

The change in net inventory reserves was due to a decline in the sales of previously reserved inventories. A benefit of approximately $18,000 related to the sale of previously reserved inventory was recognized in the three month period ended June 30, 2005 compared to $200,000 for the three month period ended June 30, 2004. Most of the products for which we had established inventory reserves were sold to customers with erratic and unpredictable demand. As a result, in previous quarters we experienced sales of some products that were previously reserved and the requirement to further write down certain other products for which orders did not occur as we had expected. We expect the sale of previously reserved inventories to decline in future quarters.

 

Gross Margin

 

Gross margin decreased by $1.5 million to $5.1 million during the three month period ended June 30, 2005 compared to $6.5 million for the three month period ended June 30, 2004, which represented a 22% decrease. Gross margin as a percentage of net sales decreased to 34.5% for the three month period ended June 30, 2005, compared to 39.7% for the three month period ended June 30, 2004.

 

The decrease in gross margin was as follows:

 

Gross Margin Increase (Decrease), in thousands

        

Volume of core products

   $ 2,259  

Cost reductions of core products

     1,039  

Net reserve changes

     66  

Price change of core products

     (2,573 )

End of non-core product sales

     (2,262 )
    


     $ (1,471 )
    


 

The gross margin improved from additional volume of core product sales primarily for mobile handsets by approximately $2.3 million and cost reductions of core products of approximately $1.0 million which were offset by ($2.6) million of average price reductions of core products and the end of our non-core product revenue which impacted gross margin by ($2.3) million. Our target gross margin is 39% to 41%. We expect, based on our assumptions for the size and timing of unit sales, unit pricing and cost reductions, that our gross margin will improve over the next several quarters toward this target. However, if our assumptions were to be incorrect, our gross margin could fail to improve to our target range or could decline.

 

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technology and packages. The changes in research and development expenses for the three month period ended June 30, 2005 compared to the same period in 2004 were as follows:

 

    

Three Months Ended
June 30, 2005
Compared To

Three Months Ended

June 30, 2004


 

Expense increase (decrease) compared to prior period (in thousands):

        

Prototype costs

   $ 150  

Depreciation and amortization

     61  

Other expenses

     30  

Salaries and benefits

     29  

Bonus expense

     (42 )
    


     $ 228  
    


 

The increases in salaries and benefits and prototype costs were the result of an increase in our new product development effort. The increase in depreciation and amortization is due primarily to purchases of design software and test equipment. The decrease in bonus expense relates to the relative change in company performance compared to the target in each year’s plan. In the future, we expect to incur increased research and development expenses representing 8% to 10% of sales. However, if our sales were to decline in future periods, research and development could represent more than 10% of sales.

 

Selling, General and Administrative. Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation and related costs for employees, sales commissions, marketing expenses, and legal, accounting and other professional fees. The increases in selling, general, and administrative expenses for the three month period ended June 30, 2005 compared to the same period in 2004 were due to the following:

 

    

Three Months Ended
June 30, 2005

Compared To

Three Months Ended

June 30, 2004


 

Expense increase (decrease) compared to prior period (in thousands):

        

Oracle ERP system

   $ 138  

Salaries and benefits

     74  

Outside services

     34  

Bonus

     (50 )

Sales commissions and travel

     (30 )

Product samples to customers

     (27 )

Other expenses

     (22 )
    


     $ 117  
    


 

The increase in the Oracle ERP system is primarily due to the ongoing costs of operating the system. The increase in salaries and benefits was due to our hiring additional staff. The increase in outside services was due an increase in audit fees and professional fees related to our compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. The decrease in bonus expense relates to the relative change in company performance compared to the performance target in each year’s plan. The decrease in sales commissions relates to decreased sales.

 

Restructuring. On October 19, 2004 our board of directors approved a plan to close our manufacturing operation in Tempe, Arizona and other associated activities. The plan identified employees to be terminated, impaired assets and other shutdown costs. The shutdown is a consequence of our 2002 strategic plan to focus our product development and sales and marketing efforts on selected markets, actively manage our product life cycles and outsource our manufacturing operations. The Tempe wafer fabrication facility is the final internal manufacturing operation to be closed.

 

During the three months ended June 30, 2005 we completed the sale of our Tempe facility for net proceeds of $1.7 million. Restructuring charges for the three months ended June 30, 2005 were approximately $57,000 and we have an accrual of $93,000 to cover some minor remaining items.

 

Other income (expense). For the three month period ended June 30, 2005 we recorded other income of $248,000 compared to other expense of $115,000 for the three month period ended June 30, 3004 due to an increase in interest

 

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income of approximately $219,000 and decreases in interest expense and amortization of debt issuance costs of approximately $44,000 and $110,000, respectively. The increase in interest income resulted from our having more cash invested following our May 2004 public offering and cash flow from operations during fiscal 2005. The decrease in interest expense and amortization of debt issuance costs resulted from our paying off our long-term debt during May 2004, using a portion of the net proceeds from our May 2004 public offering.

 

Income Taxes. For the three month period ended June 30, 2005 we recorded income tax provisions of $14,000 for federal and state income taxes. Our effective tax rate benefited from our ability to utilize loss carry forwards and other credits; however, the benefit was limited by alternative minimum tax provisions. For fiscal 2006 we currently expect our effective income tax rate to be 3% of profit before taxes. For the three month period ended June 30, 2004 there was a $60,000 income tax provision.

 

Net Income. For the reasons explained above, we realized net income of approximately $468,000 and $1.9 million for the three month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported in our financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience and the known facts and circumstances that we believe are relevant. Actual results may differ materially from our estimates. Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 of Notes to Financial Statements of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005. The significant accounting policies that we believe are critical, either because they relate to financial line items that are key indicators of our financial performance (e.g., revenue) or because their application requires significant management judgment, are described in the following paragraphs.

 

Revenue recognition

 

Our revenue recognition policy is described in Note 2 of Notes to Financial Statements of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005. We recognize revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery or customer acceptance, where applicable, has occurred, the fee is fixed or determinable, and collection is reasonably assured.

 

Revenue from product sales to end user customers, or to distributors that do not receive price concessions and do not have return rights, is recognized upon shipment and transfer of risk of loss, if we believe collection is reasonably assured and all other revenue recognition criteria are met. We assess the probability of collection based on a number of factors, including past transaction history and the customer’s creditworthiness. If we determine that collection of a receivable is not probable, we defer recognition of revenue until the collection becomes probable, which is generally upon receipt of cash. Reserves for sales returns and allowances from end user customers are estimated based on historical experience and management judgment, and are provided for at the time of shipment. At the end of each reporting period, the sufficiency of the reserve for sales returns and allowances is also assessed based on a comparison to authorized returns for which a credit memo has not been issued.

 

Revenue from sales of our standard products to distributors whose terms provide for price concessions or for product return rights is recognized when the distributor sells the product to an end customer. For our end of life products, if we believe that collection is probable, we recognize revenue upon shipment to the distributor, because our contractual arrangements provide for no right of return or price concessions for those products.

 

When we sell our standard products to distributors, we defer our gross selling price of the product shipped and its related cost and reflect such net amounts on our balance sheet as a current liability entitled “deferred margin on shipments to distributors”.

 

Inventory and related reserves

 

Our inventory and related reserves policy is described in Note 2 of Notes to Financial Statements of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005. Forecasting customer demand is the factor in our inventory and related reserves policy that involves significant judgments and estimates. We establish a reserve for estimated excess and obsolete inventory based on a comparison of quantity and cost of inventory on hand to management’s forecast of customer demand for the next twelve months. In forecasting customer demand, we make estimates as to, among other things, the timing of sales, the mix of products sold to customers, the timing of design wins and related volume purchases by new and existing customers, and the timing of existing customers’ transition to new products. Because a significant portion of our sales are through distributors and the customer demand

 

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forecast process may not include all parts, historical trends may also be used in estimating the excess and obsolete inventory reserves. We review our reserve for excess and obsolete inventory on a quarterly basis considering the known facts. Once a reserve is established, it is maintained until the product to which it relates is sold or otherwise disposed of. To the extent that our forecast of customer demand materially differs from actual demand, our estimates used in determining cost of sales and gross margin could be impacted.

 

Impairment of long lived assets

 

Long lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events indicate that their carrying value may not be recoverable. An impairment loss is recognized if the sum of the expected undiscounted cash flows from the use of the asset is less than the carrying value of the asset. The amount of impairment loss is measured as the difference between the carrying value of the assets and their estimated fair value.

 

Deferred taxes

 

We have provided a valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets, given the uncertainty as to their realization. In future years, these benefits are available to reduce or eliminate taxes on future taxable income. Current federal and state tax laws include provisions that could limit the annual use of our net operating loss carryforwards in the event of certain defined changes in stock ownership. Our issuances of common and preferred stock could result in such a change. Accordingly, the annual use of our net operating loss carryforwards may be limited by these provisions, and this limitation may result in the loss of carryforward benefits to the extent the above-limited portion expires before it can be used. We have not yet determined the extent of the limitation, if any.

 

Litigation

 

We are a party to lawsuits, claims, investigations, and proceedings, including commercial and employment matters, which are being handled and defended in the ordinary course of business. We review the current status of any pending or threatened proceedings with our outside counsel on a regular basis and, considering all the known relevant facts and circumstances, we recognize any loss that we consider probable and estimable as of the balance sheet date. For these purposes, we consider settlement offers we may make to be indicative of such a loss under certain circumstances.

 

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During fiscal year 2004 and prior fiscal years, we had two pending cases in which significant damages were sought for which it was difficult to determine the probability of loss and to estimate the resulting damages. As a result, no accrual was made until we made settlement offers, at which time the amount we offered was accrued. When these cases were settled during the first quarter of fiscal 2005, the settlement had no income statement impact as the settlement amount had been fully accrued during prior periods. As of June 30, 2005, there were no accruals for settlements.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

We have historically financed our operations through a combination of debt and equity financing and cash generated from operations.

 

Total cash, cash equivalents and short term investments as of June 30, 2005 were $38.5 million compared to $36.1 million as of March 31, 2005.

 

Operating activities provided $441,000 of cash for the three month period ended June 30, 2005, due primarily to net income of $468,000 and non-cash charges that included depreciation and amortization of $321,000, increases to inventory reserves of $111,000 which were reduced by an increase in accounts receivable of $2.0 million and a reduction in accounts payable and other current liabilities of $452,000.

 

Accounts receivable increased to $9.6 million at June 30, 2005 compared to $7.6 million at March 31, 2005, primarily as a result of having made a higher percentage of our shipments late in the three month period ended June 30, 2005 compared to the three month period ended March 31, 2005. Receivables days sales outstanding were 59 and 47 days as of June 30, 2005 and March 31, 2005, respectively. Net inventory decreased by approximately $750,000 to $5.8 million as of June 30, 2005, as compared to $6.5 million as of March 31, 2005.

 

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities totaled $8.7 million at June 30, 2005 compared to $8.3 million at March 31, 2005.

 

Investing activities during the three months ended June 30, 2005 used $6.6 million of cash, primarily as the result of purchases of short term investments including the investment of the $1.7 million of net proceeds from the sale of our Tempe facility.

 

Net cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended June 30, 2005 was $192,000 and was primarily the result of $218,000 of net proceeds from the issuance of common stock, offset by repayments of capital lease obligations of $26,000.

 

On September 30, 2004, we entered into an amended loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank. Under this one year agreement, for which there were $55,000 of commitment and related fees, the bank has provided a $15 million credit line, subject to financial and other covenants contained in the agreement. We granted the bank a security interest in all of our assets other than our intellectual property. The agreement prohibits our paying cash dividends. Borrowings under this agreement bear interest at the current prime rate, and interest is payable monthly. The agreement will expire on September 28, 2005, at which time any amounts borrowed must be paid in full. The bank may withdraw the commitment if we fail to comply with the covenants, if there is a material adverse change in our business, operations or condition, if we become insolvent or if other specified events or conditions occur. At June 30, 2005, the full amount of the credit line was available.

 

The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2005:

 

     Payments due by period (in thousands)

     1 year

   2-3 years

   4-5 years

   More than
5 years


   TOTAL

Capital lease obligations

   $ 82    $ 82    $ —      $ —      $ 164

Operating lease obligations

     227      536      559      194      1,516

Purchase obligations

     1,007      132      —        —        1,139
    

  

  

  

  

TOTAL

   $ 1,316    $ 750    $ 559    $ 194    $ 2,819
    

  

  

  

  

 

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We currently anticipate that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short term investments will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for the next twelve months. We may need to raise additional funds through public or private equity or debt financing in order to expand our operations to the level we desire. The funds may not be available to us, or if available, we may not be able to obtain them on terms favorable to us.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We do not have off balance sheet arrangements that have, or are reasonably likely to have, a current or future effect upon our financial condition, revenues, expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are material to our investors, other than operating leases and purchase obligations shown above.

 

Impact of Inflation and Changing Prices

 

Although we cannot accurately determine the precise effect of inflation on our operations, we do not believe inflation has had a material effect on net sales or income.

 

RISK FACTORS AND OTHER FACTORS THAT COULD AFFECT FUTURE RESULTS

 

Our operating results may fluctuate significantly because of a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control and are difficult to predict. These fluctuations may cause our stock price to decline.

 

Our operating results may fluctuate significantly for a variety of reasons, including some of those described in the risk factors below, many of which are difficult to control or predict. While we believe that quarter to quarter and year to year comparisons of our revenue and operating results are not necessarily meaningful or accurate indicators of future performance, our stock price historically has been susceptible to large swings in response to short term fluctuations in our operating results. Should our future operating results fall below our guidance or the expectations of securities analysts or investors, the likelihood of which is increased by the fluctuations in our operating results, the market price of our common stock may decline.

 

We incurred quarterly losses for ten consecutive quarters beginning with the quarter ended March 31, 2001 and ending with the quarter ended June 30, 2003, and in the quarter ended March 31, 2005, and we may be unable to sustain profitability.

 

After seven quarters of profitability, we incurred a loss of $1.0 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2005. Prior to achieving profitability in the second quarter of fiscal 2004, we had been unprofitable for ten consecutive quarters, incurring an average loss of $3.8 million per quarter and doubling our accumulated deficit from $31.3 million to $67.7 million. Although we returned to profitability in the current quarter, many factors affect our ability to sustain profitability including the health of the Mobile, Personal Computer and Digital Consumer markets on which we focus, continued demand for our products from our key customers, availability of capacity from our manufacturing subcontractors, ability to reduce manufacturing costs faster than price decreases thereby attaining a healthy gross margin, continued product innovation and design wins, and our continued ability to manage our operating expenses. In order to sustain profitability in the long term, we will need to grow our business in our core markets and reduce our products costs enough to significantly increase our gross margin. Finally, the semiconductor industry has historically been cyclical, and we may be subject to such cyclicality, which could lead to our incurring losses again.

 

Our revenues could fall or fail to grow leading us to reduce our investment in research and development and marketing.

 

We have restructured our company to better focus our product line and outsource our manufacturing, to increase our revenues in key markets and reduce our fixed costs. We recently stopped production of our Medical products and ceased their sale in March 2005 which means we need to replace their $8.5 million of revenue during fiscal 2005 to achieve the same revenue in fiscal 2006. During the first quarter of fiscal 2006, our core business revenues grew $2.3 million compared to those in the first quarter of fiscal 2005, which was $0.9 million short of replacing the Medical revenues during that quarter but more than one quarter of the $8.5 million of Medical product revenues in fiscal 2005. If we are unable to replace revenues from our Medical business with revenues from our core business, then we might choose to cut our spending on research and development and marketing to reduce our loss or to avoid operating at a loss.

 

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We currently rely heavily upon a few customers for a large percentage of our net sales. Our revenue would suffer materially were we to lose any one of these customers.

 

Our sales strategy has been to focus on customers with large market shares in their respective markets. As a result, we have several large customers. During the quarter ended June 30, 2005, Motorola and LG Electronics, both customers in the mobile handset market represented 45% of our net sales. There can be no assurance that Motorola and/or LG Electronics will purchase our products in the future in the quantities we have forecasted, or at all.

 

During the quarter ended June 30, 2005, two of our distributors, RDL Electronics and Teco Enterprises represented 27% of our net sales. If we were to lose RDL or Teco as a distributor, we might not be able to obtain another distributor to represent us or a new distributor might not have the sufficiently strong relationships with the current end customers to maintain our current level of net sales. Additionally, the time and resources involved with the changeover and training could have an adverse impact on our business in the short term.

 

We currently rely heavily upon a few core markets for the bulk of our sales. If we are unable to further penetrate the mobile handset, personal computer and digital consumer electronics markets, our revenues could stop growing and might decline.

 

Most of our revenues in recent periods have been derived from sales to manufacturers of mobile handsets, personal computers and peripherals, and digital consumer electronics. In order for us to be successful, we must continue to penetrate the mobile handset, personal computer and digital consumer electronics markets, both by obtaining more business from our current customers and by obtaining new customers. Due to our narrow market focus, we are susceptible to materially lower revenues due to material adverse changes to one of these markets. For example, should growth not occur in the markets we have penetrated, our future revenues could be adversely impacted.

 

The fastest growing market for our products has been the mobile handset market. A slowdown in the adoption of ASIPs by mobile handset manufacturers would reduce our future growth in that market.

 

Much of our revenue growth over the past two years has been in the mobile handset market where more complex mobile handsets have meant increased adoption of and demand for ASIP devices. Should the rate of ASIP adoption decelerate in the mobile handset market, our planned rate of increase in penetration of that market would also decrease, thereby reducing our future growth in that market.

 

The markets in which we participate are intensely competitive and our products are not sold pursuant to long term contracts, enabling our customers to replace us with our competitors if they choose.

 

Our core markets are intensely competitive. Our ability to compete successfully in our core markets depends upon our being able to offer attractive, high quality products to our customers that are properly priced and dependably supplied. Our customer relationships do not generally involve long term binding commitments making it easier for customers to change suppliers and making us more vulnerable to competitors. Our customer relationships instead depend upon our past performance for the customer, their perception of our ability to meet their future need, including price and delivery and the timely development of new devices, the lead time to qualify a new supplier for a particular product, and interpersonal relationships and trust.

 

Because we operate in different semiconductor product markets, we generally encounter different competitors in our various market areas. Competitors with respect to our integrated passive products include ON Semiconductor, Philips Electronics, Semtech and STMicroelectronics. Our integrated passive products also compete with ceramic devices from competitors such as Innochips Technology, Murata and TDK, and discrete passives from competitors such as Murata, Samsung and Vishay. For our other semiconductor products, our competitors include Fairchild Semiconductor, Linear Technology, Maxim Integrated Products, Micrel, National Semiconductor, ON Semiconductor, RichTek, Semtech, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments. Many of our competitors are larger than we are, have substantially greater financial, technical, marketing, distribution and other resources than we do and have their own facilities for the production of semiconductor components.

 

Deficiencies in our internal controls could cause us to have material errors in our financial statements, which could require us to restate them. Such restatement could have adverse consequences on our stock price, potentially limiting our access to financial markets.

 

In March, 2003 and in December, 2004, we discovered deficiencies in certain of our internal control processes which caused us to have material errors in our historic financial statements, which in turn required us to restate them. In addition, during our internal control assessment as of March 31, 2005, we determined that we had two material weaknesses in our internal controls; however, we know of no need to restate our prior financial statements due to these material weaknesses as of March 31, 2005. We have been susceptible to difficulties as many of our recordkeeping processes were manual until recently or involved software that had not been upgraded for a significant period of time and for which we had no adequate backup if the software had failed. In October 2004 we

 

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began to implement Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) software as part of our financial processes. During our implementation period, which we expect will continue through September 30, 2005, and possibly beyond, we are also at a higher risk while we evaluate the configuration of the software, the processes implemented and the training of our personnel in the new software. In addition, until eighteen months ago we experienced high turnover in our finance department, due in part to the relocation of several functions from Tempe to Milpitas and the employees performing those functions being unwilling to relocate. During fiscal 2004, we recruited an almost entirely new finance department and we recently replaced our controller.

 

While preparing our financial statements for the 2003 fiscal year, we had a combination of reportable conditions that, taken together, we and our independent auditor determined constituted a material weakness in our internal controls. The material weakness included issues with our inventory costing systems and procedures, accounts payable cutoff, information systems user administration and finance organization. We have instituted additional processes and procedures to mitigate the conditions identified and to provide reasonable assurance that our internal control objectives are met. We have instituted backup procedures for our manual processes as we automate them, although some key controls remain manual and are consequently inefficient. Although we have devoted substantial effort and resources to improving our internal controls, at the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2005, as a result of implementing our ERP software, we identified certain costs from vendors that had been recognized in the incorrect quarter. Accordingly, we restated our financial results for the six prior quarters to correct these timing inaccuracies. The largest change to our reported net income in any one quarter was $63,000.

 

We have remediated one and are in the process of remediating the second of the two material weaknesses we determined we had during our internal control assessment as of March 31, 2005, the continuing material weakness being the previously noted material weakness in our inventory costing systems. We are completing the implementation of Oracle ERP software which will assist in the appropriate recording of future vendor expenses through a three way match to replace the manual checks and balances we are still using at present. While we expect that the design and operation of our new Oracle ERP system and the other remediation steps we are taking will help us improve our internal control over our business and financial processes, there can be no assurance that we will nonetheless not have an error in our financial statements. Such an error, if material, could require their restatement, having adverse effects on our stock price, potentially causing additional expense and limiting our access to financial markets.

 

We determined that we had material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2005, one of which we are still in the process of remediating. As a result, we had to implement supplemental compensating procedures to determine that our financial statements are reliable. These material weaknesses, and any future adjustment to our financial statements which may result from them, could result in a loss of investor confidence in our financial reports and have an adverse effect on our stock price.

 

Pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, beginning with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005, and annually thereafter, we are required to furnish a report by our management on our internal control over financial reporting. Such report will contain, among other matters, a statement as to whether or not our internal control over financial reporting is effective. This assessment must include disclosure of any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting identified by management. Such report must also contain a statement that our auditors have issued an attestation report on management’s assessment of such internal controls.

 

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) provides a framework for us to assess and improve our internal control systems. Auditing Standard No. 2 provides the professional standards and related performance guidance for auditors to attest to, and report on, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting under Section 404. Management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting requires management to make subjective judgments and, particularly because Section 404 and Auditing Standard No. 2 are newly effective, some of the judgments will be in areas that may be open to interpretation and therefore the report will be uniquely difficult to prepare.

 

We have performed the system and process documentation and evaluation needed to comply with Section 404, which is both costly and challenging. Management has identified material weaknesses in its internal control processes over financial reporting, in the operating effectiveness within a portion of the revenue cycle and in the controls over the proper recognition of subcontractor invoices related to inventory and accounts payable (see Part I, Item 4 for more details). Our having material weaknesses in our internal controls could cause investors to lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which could have an adverse effect on our stock price. Until remediated, such material weaknesses could potentially result in our financial statements being inaccurate which could require their restatement which likewise could cause a loss of investor confidence and decline in our stock price.

 

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Our competitors have in the past and may in the future reverse engineer our most successful products and become second sources for our customers, which could decrease our revenues and gross margins.

 

Our most successful products are not covered by patents and have in the past and may in the future be reverse engineered. Thus, our competitors can become second sources of these products for our customers or our customers’ competitors, which could decrease our unit sales or our ability to increase unit sales and also could lead to price competition. This price competition could result in lower prices for our products, which would also result in lower revenues and gross margins. Certain of our competitors have announced products that are pin compatible with some of our most successful products, especially in the mobile handset market, where many of our largest revenue generating products have been second sourced. To the extent that the revenue secured by these competitors exceeds the expansion in market size resulting from the availability of second sources, this decreases the revenue potential for our products. Furthermore, should a second source vendor attempt to increase its market share by dramatic or predatory price cuts for large revenue products, our revenues and margins could decline materially.

 

In the future our revenues will become increasingly subject to macroeconomic cycles and more likely to decline if there is an economic downturn.

 

As ASIP penetration increases, our revenues will become increasingly susceptible to macroeconomic cycles because our revenue growth may become more dependent on growth in the overall market rather than primarily on increased penetration, as has been the case in the past.

 

Our reliance on foreign customers could cause fluctuations in our operating results.

 

International sales for the past few years have accounted for approximately two-thirds of our total net sales. In October 2004, we decided to cease selling our products for the medical device market during the March 2005 quarter. Accordingly, we expect that an even higher proportion of our sales will come from our international customers as this business was U.S. based. For example, during the quarter ended June 30, 2005, international sales accounted for 93% of our total net sales. International sales include sales to U.S. based customers if the product is delivered outside the United States.

 

If international sales account for an increasing portion of our revenues, this would subject us to the following risks to an even greater extent than we currently are:

 

    changes in regulatory requirements;

 

    tariffs and other barriers;

 

    timing and availability of export licenses;

 

    political and economic instability;

 

    the impact of regional and global illnesses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome infections (SARS);

 

    difficulties in accounts receivable collections;

 

    difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations;

 

    difficulties in managing distributors;

 

    difficulties in obtaining foreign governmental approvals, if those approvals should become required for any of our products;

 

    limited intellectual property protection;

 

    foreign currency exchange fluctuations;

 

    the burden of complying with and the risk of violating a wide variety of complex foreign laws and treaties; and

 

    potentially adverse tax consequences.

 

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In addition, because sales of our products have been denominated in United States dollars, increases in the value of the U.S. dollar could increase the relative price of our products so that they become more expensive to customers in the local currency of a particular country. Furthermore, because some of our customer purchase orders and agreements are influenced, if not governed, by foreign laws, we may be limited in our ability to enforce our rights under these agreements and to collect damages, if awarded.

 

If our distributors experience financial difficulty and become unable to pay us or choose not to promote our products, our business could be harmed.

 

During the quarter ended June 30, 2005, 40% of our sales were through distributors, primarily in Asia. Our distributors could reduce or discontinue sales of our products or sell our competitors’ products. They may not devote the resources necessary to sell our products in the volumes and within the time frames that we expect. In addition, we are dependent on their continued financial viability, some of which are small companies with limited working capital. If our distributors experience financial difficulties and become unable to pay our invoices, or otherwise become unable or unwilling to promote and sell our products, our business could be harmed.

 

Our dependence on a limited number of foundry partners and CSP ball drop, assembly and test subcontractors exposes us to a risk of manufacturing disruption or uncontrolled price changes.

 

Given the current size of our business, we believe it is impractical for us to use more than a limited number of foundry partners and CSP ball drop, assembly and test subcontractors as it would lead to significant increases in our costs. Currently, we have three foundry partners and rely on several CSP ball drop, assembly and test subcontractors. Many of our products are sole sourced at one of our foundry partners near Shanghai, China or in Japan. CSP ball drop is a key step in the chip scale packaging used for the bulk of our products for mobile handsets. There are only a limited number of suppliers of this service at this time and we currently use three of them. Furthermore, due to volume and pricing considerations, we use only a small number of other assembly and test subcontractors. If the operations of one or more of our partners or subcontractors should be disrupted, or if they should choose not to devote capacity to our products in a timely manner, our business could be adversely impacted as we might be unable to manufacture some of our products on a timely basis. In addition, the cyclicality of the semiconductor industry has periodically resulted in shortages of wafer fabrication, assembly and test capacity and other disruption of supply. We may not be able to find sufficient capacity at a reasonable price or at all if such disruptions occur. As a result, we face significant risks, including:

 

    reduced control over delivery schedules and quality;

 

    longer lead times;

 

    the impact of regional and global illnesses such as SARS;

 

    the potential lack of adequate capacity during periods when industry demand exceeds available capacity;

 

    difficulties finding and integrating new subcontractors;

 

    limited warranties on products supplied to us;

 

    potential increases in prices due to capacity shortages, currency exchange fluctuations and other factors; and

 

    potential misappropriation of our intellectual property.

 

We have outsourced our wafer fabrication, and assembly and test operations and may encounter difficulties in expanding our capacity.

 

We have adopted a fabless manufacturing model that involves the use of foundry partners and assembly and test subcontractors to provide our production capacity. We chose this model in order to reduce our overall manufacturing costs and thereby increase our gross margin, reduce the impact of fixed costs when volume is low, provide us with upside capacity in case of short term demand increases and provide us with access to newer process technology, production facilities and equipment. During the past three years we have outsourced our wafer manufacturing and assembly and test operations overseas in Asia and now we are seeking additional foundry and assembly and test capacity to provide for growth. If we experience delays in securing additional or replacement capacity at the time we need it, we may not have sufficient product to fully meet the demand of our customers.

 

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Our reliance upon foreign suppliers exposes us to risks associated with international operations.

 

We use foundry partners and assembly and test subcontractors in Asia, primarily in China, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan for our products. Our dependence on these foundries and subcontractors involves the following substantial risks:

 

    political and economic instability;

 

    changes in our cost structure due to changes in local currency values relative to the U.S. dollar;

 

    potential difficulty in enforcing agreements and recovering damages for their breach;

 

    inability to obtain and retain manufacturing capacity and priority for our business, especially during industry-wide times of capacity shortages;

 

    exposure to greater risk of misappropriation of intellectual property;

 

    disruption to air transportation from Asia; and

 

    changes in tax laws, tariffs and freight rates.

 

These risks may lead to delayed product delivery or increased costs, which would harm our profitability, financial results and customer relationships. In addition, we maintain significant inventory at our foreign subcontractors that could be at risk.

 

We also drop ship product from some of these foreign subcontractors directly to customers. This increases our exposure to disruptions in operations that are not under our direct control and may require us to enhance our computer and information systems to coordinate this remote activity.

 

Our markets are subject to rapid technological change. Therefore, our success depends on our ability to develop and introduce new products.

 

    The markets for our products are characterized by:

 

    rapidly changing technologies;

 

    changing customer needs;

 

    evolving industry standards;

 

    frequent new product introductions and enhancements;

 

    increased integration with other functions; and

 

    rapid product obsolescence.

 

Our competitors or customers may offer new products based on new technologies, industry standards or end user or customer requirements, including products that have the potential to replace or provide lower cost or higher performance alternatives to our products. The introduction of new products by our competitors or customers could render our existing and future products obsolete or unmarketable. In addition, our competitors and customers may introduce products that eliminate the need for our products. Our customers are constantly developing new products that are more complex and miniature, increasing the pressure on us to develop products to address the increasingly complex requirements of our customers’ products in environments in which power usage, lack of interference with neighboring devices and miniaturization are increasingly important.

 

To develop new products for our core markets, we must develop, gain access to, and use new technologies in a cost effective and timely manner, and continue to expand our technical and design expertise. In addition, we must have our products designed into our customers’ future products and maintain close working relationships with key customers in order to develop new products that meet their changing needs.

 

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We may not be able to identify new product opportunities, to develop or use new technologies successfully, to develop and bring to market new products, or to respond effectively to new technological changes or product announcements by our competitors. There can be no assurance even if we are able to do so that our customers will design our products into their products or that our customers’ products will achieve market acceptance. Our pursuit of necessary technological advances may require substantial time and expense and involve engineering risk. Failure in any of these areas could harm our operating results.

 

It is possible that a significant portion our research and development expenditures will not yield products with meaningful future revenue.

 

We are attempting to develop one or more new mixed signal integrated circuit products, which have a higher development cost than our ASIP device products. This limits how many of such products we can undertake at any one time increasing our risk that such efforts will not result in a working product for which there is a substantial demand at a price which will yield good margins. We are engaging third parties to assist us with these developments and have also added personnel with new skills to our engineering group. These third parties and new personnel may not be successful. These new product developments involve technology in which we have less expertise which also increases the risk of failure. On the other hand, we believe that the potential payoff from these products makes it reasonable for us to take such risks.

 

We may be unable to reduce the costs associated with our products quickly enough for us to meet our margin targets.

 

In the mobile handset market our competitors have been second sourcing many of our products and as a result this market has become more price competitive. We are also beginning to see the same trend develop in our low capacitance ESD devices for digital consumer electronics, personal computers and peripherals. We need to be able to reduce the costs associated with our products in order to achieve our target gross margins. We may attempt to achieve cost reductions, for example by obtaining reduced prices from our manufacturing subcontractors, using larger sized wafers, adopting simplified processes, and redesigning parts to require fewer pins or to make them smaller. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in achieving cost reductions through any of these methods, in which case we will experience lower margins.

 

Our future success depends in part on the continued service of our key engineering and management personnel and our ability to identify, hire and retain additional personnel.

 

There is intense competition for qualified personnel in the semiconductor industry, in particular for the highly skilled design, applications and test engineers involved in the development of new analog integrated circuits. Competition is especially intense in the San Francisco Bay area, where our corporate headquarters and engineering group is located. We may not be able to continue to attract and retain engineers or other qualified personnel necessary for the development of our business or to replace engineers or other qualified personnel who may leave our employ in the future. This is especially true for analog chip designers since competition is fierce for experienced engineers in this discipline. Growth is expected to place increased demands on our resources and will likely require the addition of management and engineering personnel, and the development of additional expertise by existing management personnel. The loss of services and/or changes in our management team, in particular our CEO, or our key engineers, or the failure to recruit or retain other key technical and management personnel, could cause additional expense, potentially reduce the efficiency of our operations and could harm our business.

 

Due to the volatility of demand for our products, our inventory may from time to time be in excess of our needs, which could cause write downs of our inventory or of inventory held by our distributors.

 

Generally our products are sold pursuant to short term releases of customer purchase orders and some orders must be filled on an expedited basis. Our backlog is subject to revisions and cancellations and anticipated demand is constantly changing. Because of the short life cycles involved with our customers’ products, the order pattern from individual customers can be erratic, with inventory accumulation and liquidation during phases of the life cycle for our customers’ products. We face the risk of inventory write-offs if we manufacture products in advance of orders. However, if we do not make products in advance of orders, we may be unable to fulfill some or all of the demand to the detriment of our customer relationships because we have insufficient inventory on hand and at our distributors to fill unexpected orders and because the time required to make the product may be longer than the time that certain customers will wait for the product.

 

We typically plan our production and our inventory levels, and the inventory levels of our distributors, based on internal forecasts of customer demand, which are highly unpredictable and can fluctuate substantially. Therefore, we often order materials and at least partially fabricate product in anticipation of customer requirements. Furthermore,

 

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due to long manufacturing lead times, in order to respond in a timely manner to customer demand, we may also make products or have products made in advance of orders to keep in our inventory, and we may encourage our distributors to order and stock products in advance of orders that are subject to their right to return them to us.

 

In the last few years, there has been a trend toward vendor managed inventory among some large customers. In such situations, we do not recognize revenue until the customer withdraws inventory from stock or otherwise becomes obligated to retain our product. This imposes the burden upon us of carrying additional inventory that is stored on or near our customers’ premises and is subject in many instances to return to our premises if not used by the customer.

 

We value our inventories on a part by part basis to appropriately consider excess inventory levels and obsolete inventory primarily based on backlog and forecasted customer demand, and to consider reductions in sales price. For the reasons described above, we may end up carrying more inventory than we need in order to meet our customers’ orders, in which case we may incur charges when we write down the excess inventory to its net realizable value, if any, should our customers for whatever reason not order the product in our inventory.

 

Our design wins may not result in customer products utilizing our devices and our backlog may not result in future shipments of our devices. During a typical quarter, a substantial portion of our shipments are not in our backlog at the start of the quarter, which limits our ability to forecast in the near term.

 

We count as a design win each decision by one of our customers to use one of our parts in one of their products that, based on their projected usage, will generate more than $100,000 of sales annually for us when their product is in production. Not all of the design wins that we recognize will result in revenue as a customer may cancel an end product for a variety of reasons or subsequently decide not to use our part in it. Even if the customer’s end product does go into production with our part, it may not result in annual product sales of $100,000 by us and the customer’s product may have a shorter life than expected. In addition, the length of time from design win to production will vary based on the customer’s development schedule. Finally, the revenue from design wins varies significantly. Consequently, the number of design wins we obtain is not a quantitative indicator of our future sales.

 

Due to possible customer changes in delivery schedules and cancellations of orders, our backlog at any particular point in time is not necessarily indicative of actual sales for any succeeding period. A reduction of backlog during any particular period, or the failure of our backlog to result in future shipments, could harm our business. Much of our revenue is based upon orders placed with us that have short lead time until delivery or sales by our distributors to their customers (in most cases, we do not recognize revenue on sales to our distributors until the distributor sells the product to its customers). As a result, our ability to forecast our future shipments and our ability to increase manufacturing capacity quickly may limit our ability to fulfill customer orders with short lead times.

 

The majority of our operating expenses cannot be reduced quickly in response to revenue shortfalls without impairing our ability to effectively conduct business.

 

The majority of our operating expenses are labor related and therefore cannot be reduced quickly without impairing our ability to effectively conduct business. Much of the remainder of our operating costs such as rent is relatively fixed. Therefore, we have limited ability to reduce expenses quickly in response to any revenue shortfalls. Consequently, our operating results will be harmed if our revenues do not meet our projections. We may experience revenue shortfalls for the following and other reasons:

 

    significant pricing pressures that occur because of competition or customer demands;

 

    sudden shortages of raw materials or fabrication, test or assembly capacity constraints that lead our suppliers to allocate available supplies or capacity to other customers and, in turn, harm our ability to meet our sales obligations; and

 

    rescheduling or cancellation of customer orders due a softening of the demand for our customers’ products, replacement of our parts by our competitors’ or other reasons.

 

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights adequately.

 

Our ability to compete is affected by our ability to protect our intellectual property rights. We rely on a combination of patents, trademarks, copyrights, mask work registrations, trade secrets, confidentiality procedures and nondisclosure and licensing arrangements to protect our intellectual property rights. Despite these efforts, the steps we take to protect our proprietary information may not be adequate to prevent misappropriation of our technology, and our competitors may independently develop technology that is substantially similar or superior to our technology.

 

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To the limited extent that we are able to seek patent protection for our products or processes, our pending patent applications or any future applications may not be approved. Any issued patents may not provide us with competitive advantages and may be challenged by third parties. If challenged, our patents may be found to be invalid or unenforceable, and the patents of others may have an adverse effect on our ability to do business. Furthermore, others may independently develop similar products or processes, duplicate our products or processes, or design around any patents that may be issued to us.

 

We could be harmed by litigation involving patents and other intellectual property rights.

 

As a general matter, the semiconductor and related industries are characterized by substantial litigation regarding patent and other intellectual property rights. We may be accused of infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties. Furthermore, we may have certain indemnification obligations to customers with respect to the infringement of third party intellectual property rights by our products. Infringement claims by third parties or claims for indemnification by customers or end users of our products resulting from infringement claims may be asserted in the future and such assertions, if proven to be true, may harm our business.

 

Any litigation relating to the intellectual property rights of third parties, whether or not determined in our favor or settled by us, would at a minimum be costly and could divert the efforts and attention of our management and technical personnel. In the event of any adverse ruling in any such litigation, we could be required to pay substantial damages, cease the manufacturing, use and sale of infringing products, discontinue the use of certain processes or obtain a license under the intellectual property rights of the third party claiming infringement. A license might not be available on reasonable terms, or at all.

 

By supplying parts used in medical devices that help sustain human life, we are vulnerable to product liability claims.

 

We have in the past supplied products predominantly to Guidant and to a much lesser extent to Medtronic for use in implantable defibrillators and pacemakers, which help sustain human life. While we are no longer selling products into the Medical market, large numbers of our products are or will be used in implanted medical devices, which could fail and expose us to claims. Should our products cause failure in the implanted devices, we may be sued and ultimately have liability, although under federal law Guidant and Medtronic would be required to defend and take responsibility in such instances until their liability was established, in which case we could be liable for that part of those damages caused by our willful misconduct or, in the case of Medtronic only, our negligence.

 

Our failure to comply with environmental regulations could result in substantial liability to us.

 

We are subject to a variety of federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations relating to the protection of health and the environment. These include laws, rules and regulations governing the use, storage, discharge, release, treatment and disposal of hazardous chemicals during and after manufacturing, research and development and sales demonstrations, as well as the maintenance of healthy and environmentally sound conditions within our facilities. If we fail to comply with applicable requirements, we could be subject to substantial liability for cleanup efforts, property damage, personal injury and fines or suspension or cessation of our operations. In these regards, during the closure of our Milpitas facility in fiscal 2003, residual contaminants from our operations were detected in concrete and soil samples which were remediated under a work plan approved the State Department of Toxic Substances Control (“DTSC”). The DTSC informed us in a letter dated February 3, 2005, that they had determined that the site does not pose significant threat to public health and the environment. However, if other contaminants should later be found at the site, the DTSC or owner could attempt to hold us responsible. Similarly, our Tempe facility, which we closed in December 2004, is located in an area of documented regional groundwater contamination. While we have no reason to believe that our operations at the facility have contributed to this regional contamination, we can give no assurance that this is the case. In connection with our closure of this facility, we have conducted environmental studies at the site that did not identify any issues but should contaminants be found at the site at a later date a government agency or the new owner could attempt to hold us responsible. Under the agreement, we retain liability for any environmental issues that arise due to the condition of the property at the time of closing.

 

Earthquakes, other natural disasters and shortages may damage our business.

 

Our California facilities and some of our suppliers are located near major earthquake faults that have experienced earthquakes in the past. In the event of a major earthquake or other natural disaster near our headquarters, our operations could be harmed. Similarly, a major earthquake or other natural disaster near one or more of our major suppliers, like the ones that occurred in Taiwan in September 1999 and in Japan in October 2004, could disrupt the operations of those suppliers, limit the supply of our products and harm our business. The October 2004 earthquake in Japan temporarily shut down operations at one of the wafer fabrication facilities at which our

 

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products were being produced and it has not yet resumed production. However, we currently expect to be able to support our product shipments from our three other production fabrication facilities while the affected facility is out of operation. Power shortages have occurred in California in the past. We cannot assure that if power interruptions or shortages occur in the future, they will not adversely affect our business.

 

Future terrorist activity, or threat of such activity, could adversely impact our business.

 

The September 11, 2001 attack may have adversely affected the demand for our customers’ products, which in turn reduced their demand for our products. In addition, terrorist activity interfered with communications and transportation networks, which adversely affected us. Future terrorist activity could similarly adversely impact our business.

 

Implementation of the new FASB rules for the accounting of employee equity and the issuance of new laws or other accounting regulations, or reinterpretation of existing laws or regulations, could materially impact our business or stated results.

 

From time to time, the government, courts and financial accounting boards issue new laws or accounting regulations, or modify or reinterpret existing ones. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) recently announced new regulations for the accounting for share based payments which have been deferred until our fiscal year 2007. These regulations will cause us to recognize an expense associated with our employee stock options which will decrease our earnings. As a result, we will either have lower earnings or we will not use options as widely for our employees, which could impact our ability to hire and retain key employees. There may be other future changes in laws, interpretations or regulations that would affect our financial results or the way in which we present them. Additionally, changes in the laws or regulations could have adverse effects on hiring and many other aspects of our business that would affect our ability to compete, both nationally and internationally.

 

Our stock price may continue to be volatile, and our trading volume may continue to be relatively low and limit liquidity and market efficiency. Should significant shareholders desire to sell their shares within a short period of time, our stock price could decline.

 

The market price of our common stock has fluctuated significantly. In the future, the market price of our common stock could be subject to significant fluctuations due to general market conditions and in response to quarter to quarter variations in:

 

    our anticipated or actual operating results;

 

    announcements or introductions of new products by us or our competitors;

 

    technological innovations or setbacks by us or our competitors;

 

    conditions in the semiconductor and passive components markets;

 

    the commencement of litigation;

 

    changes in estimates of our performance by securities analysts;

 

    announcements of merger or acquisition transactions; and

 

    general economic and market conditions.

 

In addition, the stock market in recent years has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market prices of many high technology companies, particularly semiconductor companies, that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of the companies. These fluctuations, as well as general economic and market conditions, may harm the market price of our common stock. Furthermore, our trading volume is often small, meaning that a few trades have disproportionate influence on our stock price. In addition, someone seeking to liquidate a sizable position in our stock may have difficulty doing so except over an extended period or privately at a discount. Thus, if a shareholder were to sell or attempt to sell a large number of its shares within a short period of time, this sale or attempt could cause our stock price to decline. Our stock is followed by a relatively small number of analysts and any changes in their rating of our stock could cause significant swings in its market price.

 

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Our shareholder rights plan, together with the anti-takeover provisions of our certificate of incorporation and of the California General Corporation Law, may delay, defer or prevent a change of control.

 

Our board of directors adopted a shareholder rights plan in autumn 2001 to encourage third parties interested in acquiring us to work with and obtain the support of our board of directors. The effect of the rights plan is that any person who does not obtain the support of our board of directors for its proposed acquisition of us would suffer immediate dilution upon achieving ownership of more than 15% of our stock. Under the rights plan, we have issued rights to purchase shares of our preferred stock that are redeemable by us prior to a triggering event for a nominal amount at any time and that accompany each of our outstanding common shares. These rights are triggered if a third party acquires more than 15% of our stock without board of director approval. If triggered, these rights entitle our shareholders, other than the third party causing the rights to be triggered, to purchase shares of the company’s preferred stock at what is expected to be a relatively low price. In addition, these rights may be exchanged for common stock under certain circumstances if permitted by the board of directors.

 

In addition, our board of directors has the authority to issue up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock and to determine the price, rights, preferences and privileges and restrictions, including voting rights of those shares without any further vote or action by our shareholders. The rights of the holders of common stock will be subject to, and may be harmed by, the rights of the holders of any shares of preferred stock that may be issued in the future, including the preferred shares covered by the shareholder rights plan. The issuance of preferred stock may delay, defer or prevent a change in control. The terms of the preferred stock that might be issued could potentially make more difficult or expensive our consummation of any merger, reorganization, sale of substantially all of our assets, liquidation or other extraordinary corporate transaction. California Corporation law requires an affirmative vote of all classes of stock voting independently in order to approve a change in control. In addition, the issuance of preferred stock could have a dilutive effect on our shareholders.

 

Further, our shareholders must give written notice delivered to our executive offices no less than 120 days before the one year anniversary of the date our proxy statement was released to shareholders in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting to nominate a candidate for director or present a proposal to our shareholders at a meeting. These notice requirements could inhibit a takeover by delaying shareholder action. The California Corporation law also restricts business combinations with some shareholders once the shareholder acquires 15% or more of our common stock.

 

We will incur increased costs as a result of recently enacted and proposed changes in laws and regulations relating to corporate governance matters and public disclosure.

 

Recently enacted and proposed changes in the laws and regulations affecting public companies, including the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, rules adopted or proposed by the SEC and by the NASDAQ National Market and new accounting pronouncements will result in increased costs to us as we evaluate the implications of these laws, regulations and standards and respond to their requirements. To maintain high standards of corporate governance and public disclosure, we intend to invest substantial resources to comply with evolving standards. This investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from strategic revenue generating and cost management activities. For example, we spent approximately an incremental $800,000 on internal control documentation, testing, and auditing to complete our first annual review to comply with section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In addition, these new laws and regulations could make it more difficult or more costly for us to obtain certain types of insurance, including director and officer liability insurance, and we may be forced to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. The impact of these events could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors, on our board committees or as executive officers. We are taking steps to comply with the recently enacted laws and regulations in accordance with the deadlines by which compliance is required, but cannot predict or estimate the amount or timing of additional costs that we may incur to respond to their requirements.

 

Acquisitions and strategic alliances may harm our operating results or cause us to incur debt or assume contingent liabilities.

 

We may in the future acquire and form strategic alliances relating to other businesses, products and technologies. Successful acquisitions and alliances in the semiconductor industry are difficult to accomplish because they require, among other things, efficient integration and alignment of product offerings and manufacturing operations and coordination of sales and marketing and research and development efforts. We have no recent experience in making such acquisitions or alliances. The difficulties of integration and alignment may be increased by the necessity of coordinating geographically separated organizations, the complexity of the technologies being integrated and aligned and the necessity of integrating personnel with disparate business backgrounds and combining different corporate cultures. The integration and alignment of operations following an acquisition or alliance requires the dedication of management resources that may distract attention from the day to day business,

 

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and may disrupt key research and development, marketing or sales efforts. We may also incur debt or assume contingent liabilities in connection with acquisitions and alliances, which could harm our operating results. Without strategic acquisitions and alliances we may have difficulty meeting future customer product and service requirements.

 

A decline in our stock price could result in securities class action litigation against us which could divert management attention and harm our business.

 

In the past, securities class action litigation has often been brought against public companies after periods of volatility in the market price of their securities. Due in part to our historical stock price volatility, we could in the future be a target of such litigation. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention and resources, which could harm our ability to execute our business plan.

 

ITEM 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

 

As of June 30, 2005 we held $30.6 million of investments in short term, liquid debt securities. Due to the short duration and investment grade credit ratings of these instruments, we do not believe that there is a material exposure to interest rate risk in our investment portfolio. We do not own derivative financial instruments.

 

We have evaluated the estimated fair value of our financial instruments. The amounts reported as cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximate fair value due to their short term maturities. Historically, the fair values of short term investments are estimated based on quoted market prices.

 

The table below presents principal amounts and related weighted average interest rates by year of maturity for our long term debt obligations and their fair value as of June 30, 2005. The fair value of our long term debt is based on the estimated market rate of interest for similar debt instruments with the same remaining maturities.

 

At June 30, 2005


   Periods of Maturity

     2006

    2007

    Thereafter

   Total

    Fair Value
as of
June 30, 2005


     (in thousands)

Liabilities:

                           

Long-term debt obligations

   $82     $82     $0    $164     $164

Weighted average interest rate

   5 %   5 %        5 %    

 

ITEM 4. Controls and Procedures

 

(a) Disclosure Controls and Procedures.

 

The Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have evaluated the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) as of June 30, 2005, and, as a result of one of the two remaining material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting described in Item 9A of Part II of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, filed with the SEC on June 14, 2005, have determined that they were not fully effective.

 

(b) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

During the quarter ended June 30, 2005, we made the following changes to the following processes which are part of our internal control over financial reporting:

 

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a. Revenue Recognition Process

 

i. We have instituted the following process to verify revenue cut-off: shipments are verified to be delivered to the customers’ carrier, shipments are verified to be within the customers’ requested shipping window, vendor managed inventory is verified to our cut off timing, and credit memos, returns and potential returns are analyzed.

 

ii. We have instituted additional controls to restrict who may authorize specific types of credit memos.

 

All of these internal controls have been implemented. Although we believe these controls will be effective in addressing the deficiencies related to revenue recognition, the new procedures and processes have not been in operation for a sufficient period of time to enable us to obtain sufficient evidence about their operating effectiveness. As a result, when determining our unaudited financial results during fiscal 2006 we may institute supplemental procedures to verify the effectiveness of these controls.

 

b. Matching Goods Received to Manufacturers’ Invoices Process.

 

We continued the process of implementing a three-way match via our Oracle enterprise resource planning software (“Oracle”) to match the goods received to our manufacturers’ invoices. This requires not just effort on our part but also effort on the part of our suppliers, primarily suppliers of our wafers and performing CSP and other back end assembly, and testing. While no assurance can be given, we expect this three-way match to be implemented in Oracle by September 30, 2005. In the interim, and possibly as a back-up until our fiscal 2006 audit, we will continue to use various manual checks and balances, including manual data entry of data from our suppliers and spreadsheets which are not part of Oracle. As our goal is to integrate Oracle into our internal control system, we consider these to be compensating procedures and not part of our internal controls which resulted in this internal control being deficient until Oracle is fully operational and demonstrated to be operating effectively. We were able to use these and other compensating procedures to obtain reasonable assurance that our financial statements were free of material misstatement.

 

There were no other significant changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our first quarter of fiscal 2006 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, such control except to the extent that the foregoing were significant changes instituted during our first quarter of fiscal 2006, which materially affect such control.

 

PART II.

 

ITEM 1. Legal Proceedings

 

None

 

ITEM 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

 

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

 

The following documents are filed as Exhibits to this report:

 

10.21   Purchase Agreement between Registrant and Microchip Technology Incorporated dated May 20, 2005, as amended effective June 15, 2005
31.1   Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive Officer
31.2   Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Financial Officer
32.1   Section 1350 Certification of Principal Executive Officer
32.2   Section 1350 Certification of Principal Financial Officer

 

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SIGNATURE

 

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.

 

   

CALIFORNIA MICRO DEVICES CORPORATION

(Registrant)

Date: August 9, 2005   By:  

/S/ ROBERT V. DICKINSON


       

Robert V. Dickinson, President and Chief Executive

Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

       

/S/ R. GREGORY MILLER


        R. Gregory Miller
       

Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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