10-Q 1 d10q.htm FOR THE PERIOD ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2005 For the Period Ended December 31, 2005
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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 December 31, 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.)

 

490 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 a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer  ¨   Accelerated filer  x   Non-accelerated filer  ¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.):    Yes  ¨    No  x

 

The number of shares of the registrant’s Common Stock outstanding as of January 31, 2006 was 22,782,667.

 



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California Micro Devices Corporation

Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended December 31, 2005

INDEX

 

         Page

    PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION     
Item 1.   Financial Statements (Unaudited)    3
    Condensed Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004    3
    Condensed Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2005    4
    Condensed Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended December 31, 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    29
Item 4.   Controls and Procedures    29
    PART II. OTHER INFORMATION     
Item 1.   Legal Proceedings    30
Item 2.   Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds    30
Item 3.   Defaults Upon Senior Securities    30
Item 4.   Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders    30
Item 5.   Other Information    30
Item 6.   Exhibits    30
    SIGNATURES    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
December 31,


   Nine Months Ended
December 31,


 
     2005

    2004

   2005

   2004

 

Net sales

   $ 19,617     $ 17,840    $ 52,846    $ 51,372  

Cost and expenses:

                              

Cost of sales

     12,363       11,342      33,493      31,455  

Research and development

     2,037       1,192      5,321      3,648  

Selling, general and administrative

     3,053       3,484      9,802      9,965  

Restructuring

     (1 )     1,055      59      1,055  
    


 

  

  


Total costs and expenses

     17,452       17,073      48,675      46,123  
    


 

  

  


Operating income

     2,165       767      4,171      5,249  

Other income (expense), net

     414       130      988      (61 )
    


 

  

  


Income before income taxes

     2,579       897      5,159      5,188  

Income taxes

     52       27      129      155  
    


 

  

  


Net income

     2,527       870      5,030      5,033  
    


 

  

  


Net income per share–basic

   $ 0.11     $ 0.04    $ 0.23    $ 0.24  
    


 

  

  


Weighted average common shares outstanding–basic

     22,359       21,492      21,904      21,241  
    


 

  

  


Net income per share–diluted

   $ 0.11     $ 0.04    $ 0.22    $ 0.22  
    


 

  

  


Weighted average common shares and share equivalents outstanding–diluted

     23,451       22,804      22,692      22,780  
    


 

  

  


 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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California Micro Devices Corporation

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share data)

 

     December 31,
2005


   

March 31,

2005


 
     (Unaudited)     (1)  

ASSETS

                

Current assets:

                

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 7,455     $ 13,830  

Short-term investments

     38,190       22,245  

Accounts receivable, net

     11,084       7,574  

Inventories

     7,125       6,532  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     656       1,286  
    


 


Total current assets

     64,510       51,467  

Property, plant and equipment, net

     4,173       6,038  

Other long-term assets

     55       172  
    


 


TOTAL ASSETS

   $ 68,738     $ 57,677  
    


 


LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

                

Current liabilities:

                

Accounts payable

   $ 6,173     $ 4,523  

Accrued liabilities

     3,124       3,762  

Deferred margin on shipments to distributors

     2,912       2,520  

Current maturities of long-term debt and capital lease obligations

     82       100  
    


 


Total current liabilities

     12,291       10,905  

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

     —         90  

Other long-term liabilities

     11       21  
    


 


Total liabilities

     12,302       11,016  
    


 


Commitments and contingencies

                

Shareholders’ equity:

                

Common stock - no par value; 50,000,000 shares authorized; shares issued and outstanding: 22,781,417 as of December 31, 2005 and 21,605,315 as of March 31, 2005

     110,248       105,494  

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

     (11 )     (2 )

Accumulated deficit

     (53,801 )     (58,831 )
    


 


Total shareholders’ equity

     56,436       46,661  
    


 


TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

   $ 68,738     $ 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)

 

     Nine Months Ended
December 31,


 
     2005

    2004

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

                

Net income

   $ 5,030     $ 5,033  

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

                

Increase in inventory reserves

     824       610  

Accretion of investment purchase discounts

     (609 )     (168 )

Depreciation

     878       1,183  

Amortization

     79       56  

Stock based compensation

     3       17  

(Gain) loss on sale of fixed assets

     (13 )     4  

Write down of fixed assets

     6       835  

Changes in assets and liabilities:

                

Accounts receivable

     (3,510 )     (3,756 )

Inventories

     (1,154 )     (2,422 )

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     630       206  

Other long-term assets

     109       —    

Accounts payable and other current liabilities

     792       (342 )

Deferred margin on shipments to distributors

     392       (371 )

Other long-term liabilities

     (10 )     (9 )
    


 


Net cash provided by operating activities

     3,447       876  
    


 


Cash flows from investing activities:

                

Purchases of short-term investments

     (130,390 )     (80,967 )

Sales and maturities of short-term investments

     115,045       55,700  

Proceeds from sale of fixed assets

     1,716       448  

Capital expenditures

     (793 )     (1,751 )
    


 


Net cash used in investing activities

     (14,422 )     (26,570 )
    


 


Cash flows from financing activities:

                

Repayments of capital lease obligations

     (108 )     (16 )

Repayments of long-term debt

     —         (7,132 )

Net proceeds from issuance of common stock

     —         18,014  

Proceeds from exercise of common stock warrants

     837       1,109  

Proceeds from employee stock compensation plans

     3,871       996  
    


 


Net cash provided by financing activities

     4,600       12,971  
    


 


Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

     (6,375 )     (12,723 )

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

     13,830       20,325  
    


 


Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

   $ 7,455     $ 7,602  
    


 


 

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 December 31, 2005, and the results of operations for the three month and nine month periods ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, and cash flows for the nine month periods ended December 31, 2005 and 2004. Certain prior year inventory balances have been reclassified to conform to the presentation of the financial statements as of December 31, 2005, as described in note 5. Results for the three and nine month periods 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 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
December 31,


    Nine Months Ended
December 31,


 
     2005

    2004

    2005

    2004

 

Net income:

                                

As reported

   $ 2,527     $ 870     $ 5,030     $ 5,033  

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

     1       —         3       17  

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

     (832 )     (827 )     (1,992 )     (2,370 )
    


 


 


 


Pro forma net income

   $ 1,696     $ 43     $ 3,041     $ 2,680  
    


 


 


 


Basic net income per share:

                                

As reported

   $ 0.11     $ 0.04     $ 0.23     $ 0.24  

Pro forma

   $ 0.08     $ 0.00     $ 0.14     $ 0.13  

Diluted net income per share:

                                

As reported

   $ 0.11     $ 0.04     $ 0.22     $ 0.22  

Pro forma

   $ 0.07     $ 0.00     $ 0.13     $ 0.12  

 

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

 

     Three Months Ended
December 31,


    Nine Months Ended
December 31,


 
     2005

    2004

    2005

    2004

 

Employee Stock Options:

                        

Expected life in years

   4.43     4.07     4.10     4.02  

Volatility

   0.67     0.83     0.70     0.87  

Risk-free interest rate

   4.44 %   3.37 %   4.12 %   3.23 %

Employee Stock Purchase Plan:

                        

Expected life in years

   0.49     0.49     0.50     0.49  

Volatility

   0.71     0.57     0.58     0.62  

Risk-free interest rate

   4.33 %   2.18 %   3.74 %   1.86 %

 

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
December 31,


   Nine Months Ended
December 31,


     2005

   2004

   2005

   2004

Net income

   $ 2,527    $ 870    $ 5,030    $ 5,033

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

                           

Basic shares

     22,359      21,492      21,904      21,241
    

  

  

  

Effect of dilutive securities:

                           

Employee stock options

     1,050      1,180      727      1,357

Warrants

     42      132      61      182
    

  

  

  

Effect of dilutive securities

     1,092      1,312      788      1,539
    

  

  

  

Diluted shares

     23,451      22,804      22,692      22,780
    

  

  

  

Net income per share:

                           

Basic

   $ 0.11    $ 0.04    $ 0.23    $ 0.24
    

  

  

  

Diluted

   $ 0.11    $ 0.04    $ 0.22    $ 0.22
    

  

  

  

 

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Options to purchase 403,122 and 1,199,543 shares of common stock were outstanding during the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005, 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 December 31, 2005. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005, all outstanding warrants were included in the computation of diluted earning per share, because the exercise price of the warrants was less than the Average Trading Price of the common shares during the periods.

 

Options to purchase 464,439 and 462,360 shares of common stock were outstanding during the three and nine months ended December 31, 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 Trading Price of the common shares during each of the periods ended December 31, 2004. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004, all outstanding warrants were included in the computation of diluted earning per share, because the exercise price of the warrants was less than the Average Trading Price of the common shares during the periods.

 

5. Inventories

 

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

 

     December 31,
2005


   March 31,
2005*


Work in process

   $ 2,977    $ 3,147

Finished goods

     4,148      3,385
    

  

     $ 7,125    $ 6,532
    

  


* Inventory balances by stage at March 31, 2005 have been reclassified from the amounts shown in our financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2005 to conform to the current classification of semi-finished products as work in process as presented at December 31, 2005.

 

6. 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 and nine months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 was as follows (in thousands):

 

     Three Months Ended
December 31,


   Nine Months Ended
December 31,


     2005

   2004

   2005

    2004

Net income

   $ 2,527    $ 870    $ 5,030     $ 5,033

Unrealized gain (loss) on available for sale securities

     5      1      (9 )     —  
    

  

  


 

Comprehensive income

   $ 2,532    $ 871    $ 5,021     $ 5,033
    

  

  


 

 

7. Income Taxes

 

For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 we recorded income tax provisions of $52,000 and $129,000, respectively for federal and state income taxes. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004 we recorded income tax provisions of $27,000 and $155,000, respectively 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. In addition, 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.

 

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8. 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 provided a $15 million credit line, subject to financial and other covenants contained in the agreement. The agreement expired on September 28, 2005. On October 24, 2005, we entered into an amended loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank which extended the $15 million credit line for one year from the original September 28, 2005 termination date. There were $11,000 of associated fees for the one year facility. We granted the bank a continuing 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 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.

 

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 have made the first two of three annual lease payments of $82,000 in October 2004 and October 2005, respectively. The amount capitalized is $246,000. The outstanding capital lease obligation as of December 31, 2005 was $82,000, and prepaid interest was $7,000. Interest expense on the lease during the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 were $2,000 and $8,000, respectively.

 

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

 

     December 31,
2005


    March 31,
2005


 

Capitalized cost

   $ 246     $ 356  

Accumulated amortization

     (103 )     (94 )
    


 


Net book value

   $ 143     $ 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.

 

9. 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 other income (expense). Net 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):

 

     December 31,
2005


   March 31,
2005


U.S. Agency notes

   $ 1,701    $ 9,735

Corporate bonds, commercial paper and asset-backed securities

     33,992      12,510

Certificates of deposit

     2,497      —  
    

  

     $ 38,190    $ 22,245
    

  

 

During the three month and nine months ended December 31, 2005, a net unrealized holding gain of $5,000 and a net unrealized holding loss of $9,000 were included in accumulated other comprehensive income, respectively.

 

10. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

On June 1, 2005 the FASB issued SFAS 154, “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections,” which replaces APB 20, “Accounting Changes,” and SFAS 3, “Reporting Accounting Changes in Interim Financial Statements.” SFAS 154 applies to all voluntary changes in accounting principle, and changes the requirements for accounting for and reporting of a change in accounting principle. SFAS 154 is effective for accounting changes and corrections of errors made in fiscal years beginning after

 

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December 15, 2005. Earlier application is permitted for accounting changes and corrections of errors made in fiscal years beginning after June 1, 2005. We do not expect our adoption of this new standard to have a material impact 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) 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 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, including the estimated forfeiture rates, will have on our financial statements.

 

11. Significant Customers

 

A significant portion of our revenue is derived from a relatively small number of customers. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005, one customer accounted for 44% and 41% of our net revenue, respectively. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004, two customers each represented more than 10% of our net revenue for a combined total of 42% and 37% of our net revenue, respectively. In addition, one distributor accounted for approximately 12% and 13% of our net revenue, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005, and two distributors each represented more than 10% of our net revenue for a combined total of 30% and 26% of our net revenue, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004.

 

12. Stock Issuances

 

On September 19, 2005, an investor in one of our prior private placements exercised warrants for 29,412 shares at an exercise price of $4.36 per share resulting in total proceeds of approximately $128,000. During the three months ended December 31, 2005, the remaining 115,080 outstanding warrants that had been granted to investors in prior private placements at an exercise price of $4.36 per share were exercised resulting in total proceeds of approximately $502,000. In addition, the remaining 118,296 outstanding warrants that had been granted to placement agents in prior private placements at exercise prices ranging from $3.00 to $4.36 per share were exercised during this period. 59,046 of these warrants were exercised for cash resulting in total proceeds of approximately $207,000 while 59,250 of these warrants were exercised for 32,132 shares of common stock and no cash proceeds. These warrant exercises were effected 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 investors. As of December 31, 2005, no warrants were outstanding.

 

Also during the three month and nine months ended December 31, 2005, we issued the following shares of common stock under our employee stock option and employee stock purchase plans:

 

     Three Months Ended
December 31, 2005


   Nine Months Ended
December 31, 2005


Shares issued

     814,898      940,432

Total proceeds, in thousands

   $ 3,418    $ 3,871

 

13. 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 was 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.

 

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Employee terminations are as follows:

 

     Adjusted
Plan


   Less: Employees
Terminated as of
December 31, 2005


   Employees to Be
Terminated After
December 31, 2005


Employees affected by the shutdown

   54    53    1
    
  
  

 

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 and other associated activities are as follows (in thousands):

 

     Total
Expected
Restructuring
Cost


   Restructuring
Expense
During the
Quarter Ended
December 31,
2005


    Restructuring
Expense as of
December 31,
2005


   Accrued
Restructuring
liability as of
September 30,
2005


  

Less:

Costs
Incurred
during the
quarter
ended
December 31,
2005


    Accrued
Restructuring
Liability as of
December 31,
2005


Employee severance

   $ 393      (12 )   $ 393    $ 51    $ (29 )   $ 22

Write-down of fixed assets

     449      —         449      —        —         —  

Other exit costs

     543      11       543      16      (15 )     1
    

  


 

  

  


 

Total restructuring expense

   $ 1,385    $ (1 )   $ 1,385    $ 67    $ (44 )   $ 23
    

  


 

  

  


 

 

As of December 31, 2005, the real estate and manufacturing equipment identified under the plan had been sold and the remaining activity is the termination of one employee.

 

14. 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 now expect our environmental compliance costs to be minimal.

 

Guarantees

 

We enter into certain types of contracts from time to time that require us to indemnify parties against third party claims. These contracts primarily relate to (1) certain agreements with our directors and officers under which we may be required to indemnify them for liabilities arising out of their efforts on behalf of the company; and (2) agreements under which we have agreed to indemnify our contract manufacturers and customers for claims arising from intellectual property infringement. The conditions of these obligations vary and generally a maximum obligation is not explicitly stated. Because the obligated amounts under these types of agreements often are not explicitly stated, the overall maximum amount of the obligations cannot be reasonably estimated. We have not recorded any associated obligations at December 31, 2005 or March 31, 2005. We carry coverage under certain insurance policies to protect ourselves in the case of any unexpected liability; however, this coverage may not be sufficient.

 

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.

 

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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 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 expense; (2) our expectation that our average unit sales price for like products will decline approximately 15% per year; (3) our expectation that our gross margin will continue to improve over the next several quarters toward our target range of 39% to 41%; (4) our expectation that the sale of previously reserved inventories will continue at minimal levels in future quarters; (5) our expectations about our fiscal 2006 income tax rate; (6) our expectation that our future environmental compliance costs will be minimal; (7) our plan to adopt SFAS 123R on April 1, 2006; (8) our plan when determining our unaudited financial results during fiscal 2006 to continue to utilize supplemental procedures to verify the effectiveness of our three-way match of the goods received to our suppliers’ invoices and our purchase orders until we have obtained sufficient evidence of its operating effectiveness; and (9) 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 fully implement and verify the three-way match, for example due to issues of vendor incompatibility; 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 semiconductor device. 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 circuit 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. 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 approximately 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 approximately 229 million units in the quarter ended December 31, 2005.

 

End customers for our semiconductor products are original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). We sell to some of these end customers through original design manufacturers (ODMs) and contract electronics manufacturers (CEMs). We use a direct sales force, manufacturers’ representatives and distributors to sell our products.

 

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

 

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Results of Operations

 

Net sales

 

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

 

    

Three Months Ended

December 31,


   

Nine Months Ended

December 31,


 
     2005

    2004

   % Change

    2005

    2004

   % Change

 
     (Unaudited)  

Mobile handset

   $ 15.2     $ 11.5    32 %   $ 40.7     $ 29.6    38 %

Personal computer and digital consumer

     4.4 **     3.9    13 %     12.1 **     11.2    8 %
    


 

  

 


 

  

Total core market

     19.6       15.4    27 %     52.8       40.8    29 %
    


 

  

 


 

  

Medical and other products*

     —         2.4    —         —         10.6    —    
    


 

  

 


 

  

Total

   $ 19.6     $ 17.8    10 %   $ 52.8     $ 51.4    3 %
    


 

  

 


 

  


* Other products included lighting, communications, legacy and mature products.
** Includes $0.2 million of ESD diode products which during 2004 would have been classified as other products.

 

Our growth in sales from products for the mobile handset market was primarily the result of increased penetration (as measured by the average number of our parts per handset shipped), and secondarily the result of market growth. Sales from products for the personal computer and digital consumer market were up by 13% and 8%, respectively for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 compared to the same periods ended December 31, 2004. The increase was primarily driven by increased sales of our low capacitance ESD products. The absence of product sales in non-core markets was the result of our discontinuing those products during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005. As a result our sales in these markets declined from $2.4 million and $10.6 million for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004 to zero. The increased sales in products for our core markets exceeded the sales we lost due to exiting our non-core markets for the three month and nine months ended December 31, 2005.

 

Our overall average unit price declined to $0.08 from $0.12 and our average unit price for products for core markets declined to $0.08 from $0.10 during the three months ended December 31, 2005 compared to the three months ended December 31, 2004. The difference between the overall average unit price and the average unit price for products for our core markets in the December 31, 2004 period reflected the impact of the higher priced products for our non-core markets which we no longer sell. The average unit price for products for our core markets declined by 17% during the year over year period. Of this decline, 16% represented the weighted average price decline on a constant mix of products that were sold in both periods and the remaining 1% of the decline was due to changes in product mix. In the future we expect our average unit selling price for like products to decline at a rate of approximately 15% per annum.

 

Units shipped during the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 increased to approximately 229 million units and approximately 589 million units from approximately 147 million and 356 million units in the three and nine months ended December 31, 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 and nine months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 (in thousands):

 

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     Three Months Ended December 31,

    Nine Months Ended December 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2005

    2004

 
     Amount

    % of
Net
Sales


    Amount

   % of
Net
Sales


    Amount

   % of
Net
Sales


    Amount

    % of
Net
Sales


 

Net sales

   $ 19,617     100 %   $ 17,840    100 %   $ 52,846    100 %   $ 51,372     100 %

Cost of sales

     12,363     63 %     11,342    64 %     33,493    63 %     31,455     61 %
    


 

 

  

 

  

 


 

Gross margin

     7,254     37 %     6,498    36 %     19,353    37 %     19,917     39 %

Research and development

     2,037     10 %     1,192    7 %     5,321    10 %     3,648     7 %

Selling, general and administrative

     3,053     16 %     3,484    20 %     9,802    19 %     9,965     19 %

Restructuring

     (1 )   0 %     1,055    6 %     59    0 %     1,055     2 %

Other income (expense), net

     414     2 %     130    1 %     988    2 %     (61 )   0 %
    


 

 

  

 

  

 


 

Income before income taxes

     2,579     13 %     897    5 %     5,159    10 %     5,188     10 %

Income taxes

     52     0 %     27    0 %     129    0 %     155     0 %
    


 

 

  

 

  

 


 

Net income

   $ 2,527     13 %   $ 870    5 %   $ 5,030    10 %   $ 5,033     10 %
    


 

 

  

 

  

 


 

 

Cost of Sales

 

Cost of sales increased by $1.0 million for the three months ended December 31, 2005 compared to the three months ended December 31, 2004 due to the following reasons:

 

Cost of Sales Increase (Decrease), in thousands       

Volume of products for core markets

   $ 4,646  

End of sales of products for non-core markets

     (1,022 )

Net reserve changes for products for core markets

     543  

Cost reductions of products for core markets and other

     (3,146 )
    


     $ 1,021  
    


 

Cost of sales increased by $2.0 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2005 compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2004 due to the following reasons:

 

Cost of Sales Increase (Decrease), in thousands       

Volume of products for core markets

   $ 11,830  

End of sales of products for non-core market

     (4,794 )

Net reserve changes for products for core markets

     877  

Cost reductions of products for core markets and other

     (5,875 )
    


     $ 2,038  
    


 

The cost of sales increase from volume of products for our core markets was primarily driven by a 32% and a 38% increase in sales of our products used in mobile handsets for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005, respectively. There was a decrease in cost of sales related to the end of our product sales for non-core markets for both the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 as we exited those markets and eliminated our sales.

 

The increase in net inventory reserve expense was due to an increase in demand reserves and end of life inventory reserves on older core products.

 

The cost reductions of products for our core markets were the result of process cost reductions and lower subcontractor costs (both by sourcing with lower cost subcontractors and by cost reductions at existing subcontractors) for both the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004.

 

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Gross Margin

 

Gross margin increased by $756,000 for the three months ended December 31, 2005 compared to the three months ended December 31, 2004 due to the following reasons:

 

Gross Margin Increase (Decrease), in thousands       

Volume of products for core markets

   $ 3,089  

Cost reductions of products for core markets

     3,146  

Net reserve changes for products for core markets

     (543 )

Price change of products for core markets

     (3,536 )

End of sales for products for non core markets

     (1,400 )
    


     $ 756  
    


 

Gross margin as a percentage of net sales increased to 37% for the three months ended December 31, 2005, compared to 36% for the three months ended December 31, 2004. Our long range gross margin target 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 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.

 

Gross margin decreased by $564,000 for the nine months ended December 31, 2005 compared to the nine month period ended December 31, 2004 due to the following reasons:

 

Gross Margin Increase (Decrease), in thousands       

Volume of products for core markets

   $ 9,054  

Cost reductions of products for core markets

     5,876  

Net reserve changes for products for core markets

     (877 )

Price change of products for core markets

     (9,016 )

End of sales for products for non-core markets

     (5,601 )
    


     $ (564 )
    


 

As we exited the products for our non-core markets we were able to achieve improved margin on these products by optimizing prices and eliminating costs faster than the decline in sales. The gross margin gains from our increased sales in the core markets have not completely offset the gross margin reduction from the non-core markets for the first nine months of fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005.

 

Research and Development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of compensation and related costs for employees, prototypes, masks and other expenses for the development of new products, process technology and packages. The increases in research and development expenses for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005, compared to the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004 were due to the following reasons:

 

Expense increases compared to prior period (in thousands):

 

   Three Months Ended
December 31, 2005


  Nine Months Ended
December 31, 2005


Outside services

   $ 365   $ 650

Prototypes

     155     307

Process engineering

     106     251

Other expenses

     106     148

Salaries and benefits

     60     193

Employee related

     53     124
    

 

     $ 845   $ 1,673
    

 

 

The increase in outside services was due primarily to outsourced design services for new products. The increase in prototype expenses was due primarily to higher wafer and assembly expenses incurred. The increase in process engineering expense was due to requirements from new R&D projects. The increase in salaries and benefits was the result of higher salary expenses in the three and nine months and additional expenses associated with changes in the executive management of design during the nine months. The increase in employee related expenses was due to higher expenditures for recruiting and relocation. We expect research and development expenses to represent 9% to 10% of sales in the future. 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, legal, accounting, other professional fees and information technology

 

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expenses. The decreases in selling, general, and administrative expenses for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 compared to three and nine months ended December 31, 2004 were due to the following reasons:

 

Expense increases (decreases) compared to prior period (in thousands):

 

   Three Months Ended
December 31, 2005


    Nine Months Ended
December 31, 2005


 

Outside services

   $ (321 )   $ (332 )

Legal

     (254 )     (492 )

Other expenses

     10       228  

Information technology

     15       198  

Employee related

     119       235  
    


 


     $ (431 )   $ (163 )
    


 


 

The decrease in outside services was due to decreased professional fees related to Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act compliance efforts which are being performed utilizing mostly internal resources during fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2005. Decrease in legal fees was due to lower litigation and settlement costs in the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 compared to the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004. The increase in information technology expense was due to nine months of Oracle ERP related expenses in the nine months ended December 31, 2005 compared to only three months of Oracle ERP expenses during the nine months ended December 31, 2004 as our implementation of the Oracle ERP system was in October 2004. The increase in employee related expenses was primarily due to an increase in recruiting and travel expenses.

 

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 was 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 was the final internal manufacturing operation to be closed. Restructuring expense was $59,000 and $1.1 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

 

Other income (expense). The increase in other income is due to interest income for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 of approximately $436,000 and $1.1 million, respectively. Interest expense and amortization of debt issuance costs for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005 decreased by approximately $15,000 and $161,000, respectively, compared to the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004. The increase in interest income resulted from our having more cash as a result of our May 2004 public offering, positive cash flow from operations, the sale of Tempe related assets, issuance of common stock under our employee stock option and employee stock purchase plans and the exercise of warrants. The decrease in interest expense and amortization of debt issuance costs resulted from paying off our long-term debt in May 2004 using a portion of the net proceeds from our May 2004 public offering.

 

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 2.5% of profit before taxes.

 

Net Income. For the reasons explained above, we realized net income of approximately $2.5 million and $5.0 million for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2005, respectively, compared to net income of $870,000 and $5.0 million, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2004.

 

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.

 

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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 products to distributors, we defer the 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 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 affected.

 

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.

 

Stock-based compensation

 

We account for stock-based awards to employees using the intrinsic value method in accordance with Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and its related interpretations. Accordingly, we do not record an expense for stock options granted with exercise prices greater than or equal to the fair value of the underlying common stock at the option grant date. Stock-based compensation related to non-employees is based on the fair value of the related stock or options in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123, Accounting for Stock Based Compensation. Expense associated with stock-based compensation is amortized on an accelerated basis under FASB Interpretation (FIN) No. 28, Accounting for Stock Appreciation Rights and Other Variable Stock Option or Award Plans, over the vesting period of each individual award.

 

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment (SFAS 123R). We will be required to measure the cost of employee services received in exchange for awards of equity instruments based on the grant-date fair value of the award rather than apply the intrinsic value measurement provisions of APB 25. We will recognize costs determined under SFAS 123R over the period during which an employee provides services in exchange for the award, known as the “requisite service period,” which is usually the vesting period. We have not yet fully quantified the effects of the adoption of SFAS 123R, but expect that the new standard will result in significant stock-based compensation expense.

 

The actual effects of adopting SFAS 123R will depend on numerous factors and assumptions including the valuation model we choose to value stock-based awards, the rate of forfeiture we assume, the method by which we recognize the fair value of awards over the requisite service period, and the transition method we choose for adopting SFAS 123R.

 

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SFAS 123R is effective for the first annual reporting period beginning after June 15, 2005 and will be adopted by us on April 1, 2006.

 

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. As of December 31, 2005, there were no accruals for settlement offers.

 

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 December 31, 2005 were $45.6 million compared to $36.1 million as of March 31, 2005, an increase of $9.5 million. Our cash and cash equivalents decreased $6.4 million during the nine month period ended December 31, 2005. Our operating activities provided $3.4 million of cash and our financing activities provided $4.6 million of cash while our investing activities used $14.4 million of cash which primarily reflects the move of assets to short-term investments.

 

Operating activities provided $3.4 million of cash for the nine months ended December 31, 2005, due primarily to net income of $5.0 million and non-cash charges that included depreciation and amortization of $957,000 and increases to inventory reserves of $824,000, which were reduced by an increase in accounts receivable of $3.5 million.

 

Accounts receivable increased to $11.1 million at December 31, 2005 compared to $7.6 million at March 31, 2005, primarily due to the higher level of sales. Receivables days of sales outstanding were 51 and 47 days as of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2005, respectively. Net inventory increased by approximately $600,000 to $7.1 million as of December 31, 2005, compared to $6.5 million as of March 31, 2005. Inventory turns were 7.1 and 5.7 as of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2005, respectively.

 

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities totaled $9.3 million at December 31, 2005 compared to $8.3 million at March 31, 2005.

 

Investing activities during the nine months ended December 31, 2005 used $14.4 million of cash, primarily for the purchase 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 nine months ended December 31, 2005 was $4.6 million and was primarily the result of $4.7 million of net proceeds from the issuance of common stock and the exercise of common stock warrants, offset by repayment of capital lease obligations of $108,000.

 

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 provided a $15 million credit line, subject to financial and other covenants contained in the agreement. The agreement expired on September 28, 2005. On October 24, 2005, we entered into an amended loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank which extended the $15 million credit line for one year from the original September 28, 2005 termination date. There were $11,000 of associated fees for the one year facility. We granted the bank a continuing 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 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.

 

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The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2005:

 

     Payments due by period (in thousands)

    

3 months

Fiscal 2006


   2-3 years

   4-5 years

   More than
5 years


   TOTAL

Capital lease obligations

   $ —      $ 82    $ —      $ —      $ 82

Operating lease obligations

     69      527      559      193      1,348

Purchase obligations

     1,019      133      —        —        1,152
    

  

  

  

  

TOTAL

   $ 1,088    $ 742    $ 559    $ 193    $ 2,582
    

  

  

  

  

 

We 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. Should we desire to expand our level of operations more quickly, either through increased internal development or through the acquisition of product lines from other entities, we may need to raise additional funds through public or private equity or debt financing. 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 a cumulative loss of $36.4 million more than doubling our accumulated deficit from $31.3 million to $67.7 million. Although we have been profitable for the past three quarters, many factors affect our ability to sustain profitability including the health of the mobile handset, 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 continue to grow our business in our core markets and to reduce our product costs rapidly enough to maintain our gross margin. The semiconductor industry has historically been cyclical, and we may be subject to such cyclicality, which could lead to our incurring losses again.

 

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 December 31, 2005, one customer in the mobile handset market represented 44% of our net sales. There can be no assurance that this customer will purchase our products in the future in the quantities we have forecasted, or at all.

 

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During the quarter ended December 31, 2005, one distributor represented 12% of our net sales. If we were to lose that customer as a distributor, we might not be able to obtain another distributor to represent us or a new distributor might not have 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 leading us to reduce our investment in research and development and marketing.

 

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.

 

More than three quarters of our revenues in the first nine months of fiscal 2006 were from sales to the mobile handset market. If sales of mobile handsets decline, and in particular if sales by our mobile handset customers decline, our future revenues could stop growing and might decline. This might cause us to choose to cut our spending on research and development and marketing to reduce our loss or to avoid operating at a loss which could further adversely affect our future prospects.

 

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. Among our competitive advantages for our ASIP products has been our rapid adoption of chip scale packaging (CSP) with respect to which our early entry and high volume has allowed us to gain advantage over competitors. Certain customers have indicated a preference for the use of plastic packages rather than CSP. Should this preference become widespread, then packaging could cease to give us competitive advantage and could even become an area in which we are somewhat competitively disadvantaged, since some of our competitors have high volume internal packaging operations, unless we are able to match their capabilities and cost structure using merchant suppliers.

 

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. Ceramic devices are built using high volume multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) technology so our revenues would suffer if their features and performance meet the requirements of our customers and we are unable to reduce the cost of our ASIP products sufficiently to be competitive. 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.

 

We determined that we had material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2005, one of which was still continuing as of December 31, 2005. 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.

 

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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.

 

As of March 31, 2005, management identified, and the auditors attested to, material weaknesses in the Company’s internal control 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. Management believed it had subsequently remediated these material weaknesses; however, while reviewing our third quarter financial results, our independent accountants identified some quarter-end vendor invoices which had not been accrued for in the proper quarter, which in turn led us to discover further such mis-timed invoice accruals. We believe these mis-timed accruals, which evidenced a continuing material weakness in this control, resulted not from a problem with the fundamental design of the control process but rather the operation of the control process, as Company personnel were not following the prescribed procedures for the accrual of services performed but not invoiced or for the analysis and encoding of invoices, and the management review in both instances was inadequate. We are in the process of replacing and training the clerical personnel who perform much of this work and providing additional training to the other personnel involved, and management intends to review their work more carefully in the future. We have also enhanced our review of open purchase orders. Should we discover that we have a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting during our required assessment as of March 31, 2006, or at another time in the future, especially considering that we have had material weaknesses in the past which we incorrectly believed had been remediated, investors could lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which could have an adverse effect on our stock price.

 

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; one of which we have learned was continuing as of December 31, 2005. One common link in our two restatements and our continuing material weakness involves difficulties with our inventory costing system and operating expense determinations due to accounts payable issues at the end of a fiscal period. In light of this material weakness in accounts payable cut-off, we reviewed the cut-off results as of December 31, 2005, and, since our March 31, 2005, cut-off results were reviewed in detail as part of our audit, we believe that the three and nine-month results are correct. However, it is possible that upon additional review, we may determine that the allocation of expenses for each of the first, second and/or third quarters may require adjustment. If we should have to make such an adjustment, it could have an adverse effect on our stock price, potentially cause us to incur additional expense, and potentially limit our access to financial markets.

 

We have been susceptible to difficulties as many of our record keeping processes had been manual or had involved software that had not been upgraded for a significant period of time. As a result we implemented Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) software as part of our financial processes. In addition, we have experienced a relatively high personnel turnover in our finance department, including replacing our controller, which contributed to our difficulties. We had thought that we had remediated our accounts payable cut-off material weakness by implementing a three-way match via Oracle during fiscal 2006; however, during the process of reviewing our third quarter financial results, our independent accountants identified some quarter-end vendor invoices which had not been accrued for in the proper quarter, which in turn led us to discover further such mis-timed invoice accruals which comprise a continuing material weakness in this control. We believe our current issues result not from a problem with the fundamental design of the control process but rather the operation of the control process, as Company personnel were not following the prescribed procedures for the accrual of services performed but not invoiced and for the analysis and encoding of invoices, and management review in both instances was inadequate. We are in the process of replacing and training the clerical personnel who perform much of this work and providing additional training to the other personnel involved, and management intends to review their work more carefully in the future. We have also enhanced our review of open purchase orders. While we expect that the design and operation of our new Oracle ERP system combined with our new clerical personnel, enhanced training, and management oversight, 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 could limit our access to financial markets.

 

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

 

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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.

 

During the quarter ended December 31, 2005, international sales accounted for 95% of our net sales. International sales include sales to U.S. based customers if the product was delivered outside the United States.

 

International sales subject us to the following risks:

 

    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.

 

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 December 31, 2005, 30% 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, and some of them 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.

 

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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, 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. Some of our products are sole sourced at one of our foundry partners in China or Japan. CSP ball drop is a key step in the chip scale packaging used for the bulk of our mobile handset products. Currently, there are only a limited number of suppliers of this service 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 we continue to seek 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.

 

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.

 

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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.

 

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.

 

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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. During fiscal 2006, we hired new vice presidents of engineering and sales and a material portion of our future success will depend upon their performance.

 

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, 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

 

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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 to 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.

 

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

 

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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 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;

 

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    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.

 

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.

 

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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, 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 December 31, 2005 we held $38.2 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 value 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 debt obligations and their fair value as of December 31, 2005. The fair value of our debt is based on the estimated market rate of interest for similar debt instruments with the same remaining maturities.

 

     Periods of Maturity

          

At December 31, 2005


   Fiscal
2006


   Fiscal
2007


    Thereafter

   Total

    Fair Value as of
December 31,
2005


     (in thousands)

Liabilities:

                                  

Long-term debt obligations

   $ —      $ 82     —      $ 82     $ 82

Weighted average interest rate

     —        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 December 31, 2005, and have determined, as a result of the material weakness in our internal control described below, that they were not fully effective.

 

(b) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

We had identified our lack of an effective three-way matching process as a material weakness in our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2005. During the six months ended September 30, 2005, we had previously substantially completed the implementation of a three-way matching process via our Oracle enterprise resource planning software (“Oracle”) to match the goods received to our suppliers’ invoices and our purchase orders. However, we still needed to implement software in Oracle to automate the entry of data from our suppliers into Oracle to improve process efficiency.

 

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During the quarter ended December 31, 2005, we made the following changes to processes which are part of our internal control over financial reporting: we implemented software in Oracle to automate the entry of data from our suppliers into Oracle to improve process efficiency. We believed that by substantially implementing the three-way match process in Oracle during the first nine-months of fiscal 2006, we had substantially remediated that material weakness. But, since the three-way matching process in Oracle has not been in operation for a sufficient period of time to enable us to obtain sufficient evidence of its operating effectiveness, and the remediation of the associated material weakness, we were still utilizing supplemental procedures to verify the effectiveness of this process and we plan to do so during the balance of fiscal 2006 until we have tested and obtained sufficient evidence of its operating effectiveness. However, during the process of reviewing our third quarter financial results, our independent accountants identified some quarter-end vendor invoices which had not been accrued for in the proper quarter, which in turn led us to discover further such mis-timed invoice accruals. These mis-timed accruals were primarily for services performed but not invoiced by our vendors that we classify as research and development expenses and their overall effect was not material to our financial condition and results for the first three quarters of fiscal 2006. We believe these mis-timed accruals, which evidenced a continuing material weakness in this control, resulted not from a problem with the fundamental design of the control process but rather in the operation of the control process. Company personnel were not following the prescribed procedures for the accrual of services performed but not invoiced, or for the analysis and encoding of invoices, and the management review in both instances was inadequate. We are in the process of replacing and training the clerical personnel who perform much of this work and providing additional training to the other personnel involved, and management intends to review their work more carefully in the future. We have also enhanced our review of open purchase orders. As a result, despite the continued material weakness in our control process during the third quarter, we expect that with these additional changes we will have remediated this control process by the end of the fourth quarter. However, we must implement these changes and complete our assessment of their operating effectiveness prior to March 31, 2006 in order to not have a material weakness in our assessment of our internal controls as of that date.

 

There were no significant changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our third 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 third 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

 

During the three months ended December 31, 2005, the remaining 115,080 outstanding warrants that had been granted to investors in prior private placements at an exercise price of $4.36 per share were exercised resulting in total proceeds of approximately $502,000. In addition, the remaining 118,296 outstanding warrants that had been granted to placement agents in prior private placements at exercise prices ranging from $3.00 to $4.36 per share were exercised during this period. 59,046 of these warrants were exercised for cash resulting in total proceeds of approximately $207,000 while 59,250 of these warrants were exercised for 32,132 shares of common stock and no cash proceeds. These warrant exercises were effected 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 investors.

 

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:

 

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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

The following documents are hereby incorporated by reference as Exhibits to this report:

3(i)

   Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended; Exhibit 4.1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on March 17, 2004.

3(ii)

   By-laws, as amended; Exhibit 3(ii) to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2002, filed on August 14, 2002.

 

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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: February 9, 2006

  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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Exhibit
Number


 

Description


3(i)   Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended; Exhibit 4.1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on March 17, 2004, is hereby incorporated by reference.
3(ii)   By-laws, as amended; Exhibit 3(ii) to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2002, filed on August 14, 2002, is hereby incorporated by reference.
31.1   Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive Officer is filed herewith.
31.2   Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Financial Officer is filed herewith.
32.1   Section 1350 Certification of Principal Executive Officer is filed herewith.
32.2   Section 1350 Certification of Principal Financial Officer is filed herewith.

 

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