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NOTE 11 - RESTRUCTURING AND IMPAIRMENTS Restructuring and impairments in Calendar 2000 include gains in the first quarter resulting from additional funds received in connection with the sale of the Company's former Mountain View, California facility ($3.5 million) and the adjustment of restructuring reserves upon final execution of several prior year actions ($2.1 million). In the first quarter of Fiscal 1999, in connection with management's plan to reduce costs and improve operating efficiencies, the Company recorded a pre-tax restructuring charge of approximately $4.5 million. The restructuring charge consisted of $0.8 million related to non-cash asset impairments and $3.7 million of employee separation costs. The asset impairments relate to idle production equipment in the Company's former Mountain View, California and West Jordan, Utah facilities. As of December 31, 2000 these assets have been disposed of. The charge for employee separation arrangements provided for severance and other benefits associated with the approximately 600 salaried, hourly and temporary employees severed as a result of this action. The affected employees, who worked in production, engineering, sales and marketing and administration, were located in the United States and Cebu, the Philippines. In the third quarter of Fiscal 1999, the Company recorded a pre-tax restructuring charge of approximately $2.7 million related to the transfer of all assembly and test work performed at its former Mountain View, California facility to its Penang, Malaysia facility. The charge consisted of $1.9 million of non-cash asset impairments and $0.8 million for severance and other benefits for 54 production employees terminated as a result of the transfer. The asset impairments consisted of production equipment that were idled as a result of this action. At December 31, 2000, these assets had all been disposed of. In connection with the sale of its former Mountain View, California facility on April 2, 1999, the Company announced the transfer of all wafer production to its South Portland, Maine facility. In the fourth quarter of Fiscal 1999, the Company recorded a pre-tax restructuring charge of approximately $10.0 million, which consisted of $2.6 million of non-cash asset impairments, $4.0 million for severance and employee benefits, $1.9 million for a loss on sale of the facility and $1.5 million for other exit costs. This action resulted in the termination of approximately 170 salaried, hourly and temporary employees, all of whom worked for the Company's Analog and Mixed Signal Division in Mountain View or San Diego, California in the areas of production, engineering, selling and marketing and administration. Other exit costs include $1.0 million paid under a non-cancelable operating lease after operations ceased as well as other incremental costs associated with the facility closure. The non-cash asset impairments primarily consisted of production equipment that were not transferred to South Portland, Maine. At December 31, 2000 these assets had all been disposed of. During the fourth quarter of Fiscal 1999, the Company also recorded a pre-tax charge of $4.1 million related to the restructuring of its memory product lines, whereby the Company streamlined its operations to focus solely on its most profitable products. The charge included $3.9 million for non-cash asset impairments and $0.2 million for employee separation costs all of which were paid by May 30, 1999. The non-cash impairments consisted of production equipment and other equipment in West Jordan, Utah, and Sunnyvale, California, that became idle as a result of the plan. The assets were disposed of during the first half of 2000. The Memory Division product line restructuring plan also included the write-off of inventories ($9.9 million) as well as provisions for additional distribution sales allowances required as a result of this action ($5.5 million). These costs have been excluded from the restructuring charge and have been recorded as a reduction against net sales in the case of the distribution sales allowances and as a charge to cost of sales for the inventory write-offs. All amounts have been expended with respect to the Company's restructuring actions. |
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