Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Vitesse 10Q

PHY IP business: "In 2008, we began to leverage our substantial intellectual property portfolio into licensing opportunities with third parties. We offer a variety of intellectual property "cores" and design services in deep submicron, 130 nm and 65 nm, process technologies. To date, our primary focus has been our Gigabit Ethernet Cu PHY and switch technologies as well as high-speed PHYs and signal integrity "cores". We anticipate being able to exploit our many years of technology development by providing this technology to systems suppliers and other semiconductor suppliers in the form of intellectual property via licensing arrangements. We believe we are in a unique position to supply such intellectual property to other Integrated Circuit ("IC") vendors as we are either the technology or low-power leader for such intellectual property, or such intellectual property is only available from IC vendors that are competing in the same markets as the companies looking for such intellectual property. As a smaller, more focused and specialized IC vendor, we are less likely to compete with those companies..........Licensing revenues were $5.0 million in the first quarter of 2009. We did not recognize any licensing revenues in the same period of 2008. On December 28, 2007, the Company entered into an arrangement to license intellectual property to a third-party. Specific deliverables to the licensee were defined in the agreement and required acceptance from the licensee. Under the agreement, Vitesse received $15.0 million in license fees for the rights to certain products and technology. Of the fees, $10.0 million was recognized upon delivery and acceptance of the licensed technology in the fourth quarter of 2008. The remaining $5.0 million was recognized upon the one-year anniversary of the agreement in the first quarter of 2009. No royalties were received or recognized in the first quarter of 2009."

Update on Legal Proceedings:
"On August 11, 2008, the Court granted final approval of settlements in the federal and state derivative actions filed on behalf of Vitesse against certain current or former directors and officers of Vitesse, and nominally against Vitesse alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, waste of corporate assets, unjust enrichment, constructive trust, rescission, accounting manipulations, and violations of California Corporations Code §§25402 and 25403. As part of the settlement of the federal and state derivative actions, the Company adopted certain Corporate Governance measures. Three former executives of Vitesse, Messrs. Tomasetta, Hovanec, and Mody, released the Company from all rights to future indemnification and costs of defense in the related SEC and Department of Justice investigations. Vitesse retains the right to continue its state court action against KPMG, LLP, its former independent registered public accounting firm. On January 14, 2009, Vitesse contributed 4,700,000 shares of Vitesse common stock, with a fair market value of $4.2 million to cover the attorneys' fees and expenses of the derivative plaintiffs' counsel. The Court entered final judgment implementing all of the above referenced terms and the case is concluded in all respects.
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Wafer fabrication, assembly and test: ".....we use third-parties (including TSMC, IBM, Chartered Amkor, ASAT, and ASE) for wafer fabrication and assembly services."