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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 14, 2007

Registration No. 333-145351



UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

California   3577   94-2848099
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

1778 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035
(408) 262-9003
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)


Thinh Q. Tran
President and Chief Executive Officer
1778 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035
(408) 262-9003
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)


Copies to:

James J. Masetti, Esq.
Heidi E. Mayon, Esq.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
2475 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1115
(650) 233-4500
  William B. Brentani, Esq.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
2550 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1115
(650) 251-5000

         Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

        If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box.  o

        If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

        If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

        If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

         The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.




The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting any offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

Subject to Completion, dated September 14, 2007

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

4,000,000 Shares

GRAPHIC

Common Stock


        We are offering 4,000,000 shares of our common stock.

        Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "SIGM". On September 13, 2007, the closing sale price of our common stock was $44.02 per share.

         Investing in our common stock involves risks. See "Risk Factors" beginning on page 6.

 
  Per Share
  Total
Public offering price   $     $  
Underwriting discounts and commissions   $     $  
Proceeds to Sigma (before expenses)   $     $  

        We have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares from us on the same terms and conditions as set forth above if the underwriters sell more than 4,000,000 shares of common stock in this offering.

         Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities regulator has approved or disapproved of these securities nor determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

        The underwriters expect to deliver the shares on or about                        , 2007.


Deutsche Bank Securities   UBS Investment Bank

Robert W. Baird & Co.

A.G. Edwards

RBC Capital Markets

                 , 2007



TABLE OF CONTENTS

 
  Page
Prospectus Summary   1
Risk Factors   6
Forward-Looking Statements   21
Use of Proceeds   22
Market Price of Our Common Stock   23
Dividend Policy   23
Capitalization   24
Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Data   25
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations   26
Business   58
Management   68
Director and Executive Compensation   71
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions   83
Principal Shareholders   84
Description of Capital Stock   86
Underwriting   89
Legal Matters   92
Experts   92
Changes in Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm   94
Where You Can Find Additional Information   94
Index to Consolidated Financial Statements   F-1

        You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus or contained in any free writing prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with information different from that contained in this prospectus. We are offering to sell, and seeking offers to buy, shares of our common stock only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our common stock.

         Until and including            , 2007 (25 days after the commencement of this offering), all dealers that buy, sell or trade our common stock, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This delivery requirement is in addition to the obligation of dealers to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

         You should read the following summary together with the entire prospectus and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. You should carefully consider, among other things, the matters discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors."

Overview

        We are a leading fabless provider of highly integrated system-on-chip, or SoC, solutions that are used to deliver multimedia entertainment throughout the home. Our SoC solutions combine our semiconductors and software and are a critical component of multiple high-growth, consumer applications that process digital video and audio content, including internet protocol TV, or IPTV, high definition DVD players, high definition TVs, or HDTVs, and portable media players. Our semiconductors provide high definition digital video decoding for multiple compression standards, graphics acceleration, audio decoding, a central processing unit, or CPU, and display control. Our software provides control of media processing and system security management. Together, our semiconductors and software form a complete SoC solution that we believe provides our customers with a foundation to quickly develop feature-rich consumer entertainment products.

        We believe we are the leading provider of digital media processor SoCs for set-top boxes in the IPTV market and a leading provider of such SoCs in the high definition DVD player market, in terms of units shipped. For set-top boxes in the IPTV market, we are currently the only provider qualified to ship digital media processor SoCs based on the Microsoft IPTV platform. Our SoC solutions are used by leading IPTV set-top box providers, such as Cisco Systems/Scientific Atlanta, Motorola, Netgem and UTStarcom. IPTV set-top boxes incorporating our SoC solutions are deployed by telecommunications carriers globally, including carriers in Asia, Europe and North America, such as AT&T, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Freebox. We work closely with these carriers and set-top box providers, as well as with systems software providers, such as Microsoft, to design solutions that address the carriers' specific requirements regarding features and performance. Our products are also used by consumer electronics providers, such as D-Link, Netgear, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba, in applications such as high definition DVD players, HDTVs and portable media players.

        We have been providing video and audio solutions for over 15 years. We began volume shipments in January 2006 of our SMP8630 series, our fourth generation SoC solution serving the IPTV, high definition DVD player and HDTV markets. As a result of increased customer adoption of our products, our net revenues increased from $33.3 million in fiscal year 2006 to $91.2 million in fiscal year 2007, representing growth of over 170%. Our net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 were $78.6 million, compared to $34.9 million for the six months ended July 29, 2006.

Industry Background

        IPTV is emerging as an important multimedia application as it allows telecommunications carriers to deliver advanced video services to consumers using existing telecommunications infrastructure. According to Infonetics Research, Inc., the worldwide IPTV subscriber base is expected to grow from 8.9 million in 2006 to 63.8 million in 2010, representing a compound annual growth rate of 64%. High definition DVD players are also becoming increasingly popular among consumers. According to In-Stat, worldwide sales of high definition DVD players are expected to grow from 220,000 units in 2006 to 18.1 million units in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate of 142%. In addition, according to DisplaySearch's Q2 '07 Quarterly Worldwide FPD Forecast Report, worldwide sales of HDTVs are expected to grow from 68.2 million units in 2006 to 177.2 million units in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate of over 21%.

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Our Solutions

        We provide SoC solutions that consist of highly integrated semiconductors and a rich suite of software that enables real-time processing of digital video and audio content, which we refer to as real-time software. Our real-time software is readily customizable by our customers and is interoperable with multiple standard operating systems. We believe IPTV set-top box and high definition DVD player designers and manufacturers select our SoC solutions because of the compelling nature of their performance and ease of integration. Our highly integrated products have replaced a number of single function semiconductors with a multi-function SoC, which significantly improves performance and lowers power consumption and cost.

Our Strengths

        We believe we have the following strengths:


Our Strategy

        Our objective is to be the leading provider of digital media processor SoCs for multiple consumer applications. To achieve this objective, we intend to:

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Industry Data

        This prospectus contains statistical data that we obtained from industry publications and reports generated by DisplaySearch, Inc., or DisplaySearch, Infonetics Research, Inc., or Infonetics Research, and In-Stat. These industry publications generally indicate that they have obtained their information from sources believed to be reliable, but do not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of their information. Although we believe that the publications are reliable, we have not independently verified their data.


Company Information

        We were incorporated in California in January 1982. Our principal executive office is located at 1778 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, California 95035. Our telephone number is (408) 262-9003, and our Internet website address is www.sigmadesigns.com; however, the information in, or that can be accessed through, our website is not part of this prospectus.

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The Offering

Common stock offered by Sigma   4,000,000 shares

Common stock to be outstanding after this offering

 

28,086,653 shares

Use of proceeds

 

We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including undetermined amounts related to working capital and capital expenditures. We may also use a portion of our net proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary technologies, businesses or other assets. We have no current agreements or commitments with respect to any material acquisitions.

Nasdaq Global Market symbol

 

SIGM

        Unless otherwise stated, all information in this prospectus assumes:

        The number of shares of common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering:

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Summary Historical Consolidated Financial Data

         The following table presents our summary consolidated historical and as adjusted financial data as of and for the periods presented. You should read this data together with the information under the sections titled "Risk Factors," "Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Data," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our historical consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. Our fiscal year is the 52-week or 53-week period ending on the Saturday closest to January 31. The fiscal years ended January 29, 2005 and January 28, 2006 were 52-week periods. The fiscal year ended February 3, 2007 was a 53-week period. Unless the context indicates otherwise, whenever we refer in this prospectus to a particular fiscal year, we mean the fiscal year ending in a particular calendar year. Our fiscal quarters are comprised of 13 or 14 weeks and end on the last Saturday of the period. The second quarter of fiscal year 2008 ended on August 4, 2007 and the second quarter of fiscal year 2007 ended on July 29, 2006.

 
  Years Ended
  Six Months Ended
 
  January 29,
2005

  January 28,
2006

  February 3,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

 
   
   
   
  (unaudited)

 
  (in thousands, except per share data)

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:                              
Net revenues   $ 31,398   $ 33,320   $ 91,218   $ 34,935   $ 78,564
Cost of revenues     9,667     11,925     46,783     18,543     38,446
   
 
 
 
 
Gross profit     21,731     21,395     44,435     16,392     40,118
Operating expenses:                              
  Research and development     12,288     15,040     22,515     10,266     14,453
  Sales and marketing     5,268     6,056     7,841     3,485     4,924
  General and administrative     4,531     4,868     8,222     4,103     6,705
   
 
 
 
 
    Operating expenses     22,087     25,964     38,578     17,854     26,082
   
 
 
 
 
Income (loss) from operations     (356 )   (4,569 )   5,857     (1,462 )   14,036
Gain on sales of long-term investments         2,549            
Interest income and other income, net     294     529     815     355     720
   
 
 
 
 
Income (loss) before income taxes     (62 )   (1,491 )   6,672     (1,107 )   14,756
Provision for income taxes     63     70     428     33     799
   
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss)   $ (125 ) $ (1,561 ) $ 6,244   $ (1,140 ) $ 13,957
   
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss) per share:                              
  Basic   $ (0.01 ) $ (0.07 ) $ 0.28   $ (0.05 ) $ 0.60
  Diluted   $ (0.01 ) $ (0.07 ) $ 0.24   $ (0.05 ) $ 0.52
Shares used in computation:                              
  Basic     20,809     21,412     22,683     22,567     23,423
  Diluted     20,809     21,412     25,670     22,567     26,820
 
  As of August 4, 2007

 

 

Actual


 

As Adjusted

 
  (unaudited)

 
  (in thousands)

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:            
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 33,468   $ 199,204
Working capital     60,596     226,332
Total assets     96,021     261,757
Long-term debt, including current portion(1)     133     133
Total liabilities     21,785     21,785
Total shareholders' equity     74,236     239,972

(1)
On August 30, 2007, we repaid all of our outstanding long-term debt.

         The preceding table presents a summary of our balance sheet data as of August 4, 2007:

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RISK FACTORS

         You should carefully consider the risks described below before making a decision to buy our common stock. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. In that case, the trading price of our common stock could decline and you might lose all or part of your investment in our common stock. You should also refer to the other information set forth in this prospectus, including our consolidated financial statements and the related notes. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business operations.


Risks Related to Our Business and Our Industry

The review of our historical stock option granting practices and the restatement of our prior financial statements may result in additional litigation, regulatory proceedings and government enforcement actions, which could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

        Our historical stock option granting practices and the related restatement of our historical financial statements, which we completed in connection with the audit of our financial statements for fiscal year 2007, have exposed us to greater risks associated with litigation, regulatory proceedings and government enforcement actions. For more information regarding our current litigation and related inquiries, please see the section titled "Business—Legal Proceedings" as well as the other risk factors related to litigation set forth in this section. We have provided the results of our internal review and investigation of our stock option practices to the SEC, and in that regard we have responded to informal requests for documents and additional information. We intend to continue to cooperate with the SEC and any other governmental agency which may become involved in this matter. We cannot give any assurance regarding the outcomes from litigation, regulatory proceedings or government enforcement actions relating to our past stock option practices. The resolution of these matters will be time consuming, expensive, and may distract management from the conduct of our business. Furthermore, if we are subject to adverse findings in litigation, regulatory proceedings or government enforcement actions, we could be required to pay damages or penalties or have other remedies imposed, which could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

        In addition, the SEC may disagree with the manner in which we accounted for and reported, or not reported, the financial impact of determining the correct measurement dates for our stock option grants. Accordingly, there is a risk that we may have to further restate our prior financial statements, amend prior filings with the SEC, or take other actions not currently contemplated.

        As a result of our internal review of our historical stock option granting practices, we were unable to timely file our periodic reports with the SEC during fiscal year 2007. We were also subject to delisting proceedings in front of the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Staff. After we filed all of our outstanding periodic reports with the SEC in late April 2007, we received a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Staff letter stating that the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Staff determined that we had demonstrated compliance with all Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. Accordingly, our securities will continue to be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market. However, if the SEC disagrees with the manner in which we have accounted for and reported, or not reported, the financial impact of past stock option grants, there could be further delays in filing subsequent SEC reports or other actions that might result in the delisting of our common stock from the Nasdaq Global Market.

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If we are unable to successfully address the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting or otherwise maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, our ability to report our financial results on a timely and accurate basis may be adversely affected, which in turn could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

        We have had ongoing material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting since the fiscal period ended January 31, 2005, the first year in which we were required to evaluate our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In September 2006, we announced that our historical financial statements should no longer be relied upon as a result of our preliminary determination of an internal review relating to our practices in administering stock option grants. We had been unable to report in a timely manner our financial results for the last three quarterly periods of fiscal year 2007 as a result of a voluntary review of our stock option grant practices. We continue to have material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, which resulted in ineffective internal controls over financial reporting, as further described in "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Evaluation of Controls and Procedures." Specifically, our control environment did not sufficiently promote effective internal control over financial reporting throughout our organizational structure, and this material weakness was a contributing factor to all of our other material weaknesses. Our management concluded, and our independent registered public accounting firm agreed with our conclusions, that, as of February 3, 2007, we had inadequate company-level controls, inadequate controls over share-based compensation, inadequate financial statement preparation and review procedures, inadequate review procedures over account reconciliations, account and transaction analyses and journal entries, and inadequate controls over purchases and disbursements. We also carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. This evaluation was most recently performed as of August 4, 2007, the last day of our second fiscal quarter. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of August 4, 2007, because we had not completed the remediation of our material weaknesses discussed above.

        These deficiencies resulted in errors in our historical financial statements and in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected. In August 2007, we filed an amendment to our annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2007, in order to correct certain clerical errors in our financial statements and financial statement footnotes.

        Effective controls are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and effectively prevent fraud. If we cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, our operating results could be harmed and the market price of our common stock could decline. We have initiated corrective actions, which we believe will help remediate each of these material weaknesses. However, we likely will not have sufficient time to implement all of our remediation efforts before testing our internal control over financial reporting for the fiscal year 2008. We also cannot be certain that these measures will result in our ability to maintain adequate controls over our financial processes and reporting in the future. If these actions are not successful in addressing these material weaknesses or if we identify additional material weaknesses in the future, our ability to report our financial results on a timely and accurate basis may be adversely affected. In addition, if we cannot establish effective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures, investors may lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

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We are a party to lawsuits, which are costly to investigate and defend and, if determined adversely to us, could require us to pay damages, any or all of which could harm our business and financial condition.

        We and certain of our current and former officers and current and former members of our board of directors are subject to various lawsuits. For example, the SEC has inquired regarding our stock option pricing practices, and we have been served with lawsuits related to the alleged backdating of stock options and other related matters, a description of which can be found in the section titled "Business—Legal Proceedings." We cannot assure you that these or any actions that have been or may be brought against us will be resolved in our favor. Regardless of whether they are resolved in our favor, these lawsuits are, and any future lawsuits to which we may become a party will likely be, expensive and time consuming to investigate, defend and resolve. Such costs of investigation and defense, as well as any losses resulting from these claims, could significantly increase our expenses and adversely affect our profitability and cash flow.

We may not be able to effectively manage our growth or develop our financial and managerial control and reporting systems, and we may need to incur significant expenditures to address the additional operational and control requirements of our growth, either of which could harm our business and operating results.

        To continue to grow, we must continue to expand our operational, engineering, accounting and financial systems, procedures, controls and other internal management systems. This may require substantial managerial and financial resources, and our efforts in this regard may not be successful. Our current systems, procedures and controls may not be adequate to support our future operations. For example, we intend to implement a new enterprise resource management system in connection with our efforts to address the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. If we fail to adequately manage our growth, or to improve and develop our operational, financial and management information systems, or fail to effectively motivate or manage our new and future employees, the quality of our products and the management of our operations could suffer, which could adversely affect our operating results.

If the growth of demand in the consumer electronics market does not continue, our ability to increase our revenues could suffer.

        Our business is highly dependent on developing sectors of the consumer electronics market, including IPTV, high definition DVD and other media players and HDTVs. The consumer electronics market is highly competitive and is characterized by, among other things, frequent introductions of new products and short product life cycles. If our target markets do not grow as rapidly or to the extent we anticipate, our business could suffer. For example, there are two competing standards in the high definition DVD market, which are Blu-ray and HD-DVD. To date, all of our sales have been into the Blu-ray portion of this market. It is unclear which of these standards will prevail in the high definition DVD market. We expect the majority of our revenues for the foreseeable future to come from the sale of our SoC solutions for use in emerging consumer applications. Our ability to sustain and increase revenues is in large part dependent on the continued growth of these rapidly evolving market sectors, whose future is largely uncertain. Many factors could impede or interfere with the expansion of these consumer market sectors, including consumer demand in these sectors, general economic conditions, other competing consumer electronic products, delays in the deployment of telecommunications video services and insufficient interest in new technology innovations. In addition, if market acceptance of the consumer products that utilize our products does not occur as expected, our business could be harmed.

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If demand for our SoCs declines or does not grow, we will be unable to increase or sustain our net revenues.

        We currently expect our SoCs to account for the substantial majority of our net revenues for the foreseeable future. For the six months ended August 4, 2007 and fiscal year 2007, sales of our SoCs represented 96% and 95%, respectively, of our net revenues. Even if the sectors of one consumer electronics market that we target continue to expand, manufacturers of consumer products in these sectors may not choose to utilize our SoCs in their consumer products. The markets for our products are characterized by frequent introduction of new technologies, short product life cycles and significant price competition. If we or our customers are unable to manage product transitions in a timely and cost effective manner, our net revenue would suffer. In addition, frequent technological changes and introduction of next generation products may result in inventory obsolescence which would increase our cost of revenue and adversely affect our operating performance. If demand for our SoCs declines or fails to grow or we are unable to develop new products to meet our customers' demand, our net revenues could be harmed.

We depend on a limited number of customers, and any reduction, delay or cancellation of an order from these customers or the loss of any of these customers could cause our revenues to decline.

        Our dependence on a limited number of customers means that the loss of a major customer or any reduction in orders by a major customer could materially reduce our net revenues and adversely affect our results of operations. We expect that sales to relatively few customers will continue to account for a significant percentage of our net revenues for the foreseeable future. We have no firm, long-term volume commitments from any of our major customers and we generally enter into individual purchase orders with our customers. Customer purchase orders may be cancelled and order volume levels can be changed, cancelled or delayed with limited or no penalties. We have experienced fluctuations in order levels from period to period and expect that we will continue to experience such fluctuations and may experience cancellations in the future. We may not be able to replace the cancelled, delayed or reduced purchase orders with new orders. Any difficulty in the collection of receivables from key customers could also harm our business.

        For the six months ended August 4, 2007, Uniquest, Freebox, MTC Singapore, Macnica and Scientific Atlanta (now part of Cisco Systems) accounted for 17%, 14%, 13%, 12% and 11%, respectively, of our net revenues. For fiscal year 2007, Freebox and Uniquest accounted for 20% and 17%, respectively, of our net revenues.

If we fail to achieve initial design wins for our products, we may be unable to recoup our investments in our products and revenue could decline.

        We expend considerable resources in order to achieve design wins for our products, especially our new products and product enhancements, without any assurance that a customer will select our product. Once a customer designs a semiconductor into a product, it is likely to continue to use the same semiconductor or enhanced versions of that semiconductor from the same supplier across a number of similar and successor products for a lengthy period of time, due to the significant costs and risks associated with qualifying a new supplier and potentially redesigning the product to incorporate a different semiconductor. As a result, if we fail to achieve an initial design win in a customer's qualification process, we may lose the opportunity for significant sales to that customer for a number of its products and for a lengthy period of time, or we would only be able to sell our products to these customers as a second source, which usually means we would only able to sell a limited amount of product to them. Also, even if we achieve new design wins with customers, these manufacturers may not purchase our products in sufficient volumes to recoup our development costs, and they can choose at any time to stop using our products, for example if their own products are not commercially

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successful. This may cause us to be unable to recoup our investments in the development of our products and cause our revenues to decline.

Our industry is highly competitive and we may not be able to compete effectively, which would harm our market share and cause our revenues to decline.

        The markets in which we operate are extremely competitive and are characterized by rapid technological change, continuously evolving customer requirements and declining average selling prices. We may not be able to compete successfully against current or potential competitors. We compete with large semiconductor providers that have substantial experience and expertise in video, audio and multimedia technology and in selling to consumer equipment providers. Many of these companies have substantially greater engineering, marketing and financial resources than we have. As a result, our competitors may be able to respond better to new or emerging technologies or standards and to changes in customer requirements. Further, some of our competitors are in a better financial and marketing position from which to influence industry acceptance of a particular industry standard or competing technology than we are. Our competitors may also be able to devote greater resources to the development, promotion and sale of products, and may be able to deliver competitive products at a lower price. We also may face competition from newly established competitors, suppliers of products based on new or emerging technologies and customers who choose to develop their own SoCs. Lastly, some of our competitors operate their own fabrication facilities or may have stronger manufacturing partner relationships than we have. We expect our current customers, particularly in the IPTV and high definition DVD player markets, to seek a second supplier of SoCs for inclusion in their products, which will increase competition and could reduce our market share. If we do not compete successfully, our market share and net revenues could decline.

The average selling prices of semiconductor products have historically decreased rapidly and will likely do so in the future, which could harm our revenues and gross margins.

        The semiconductor industry, in general, and the consumer electronics markets that we target, specifically, are characterized by intense price competition, frequent introductions of new products and short product life cycles, which can result in rapid price erosion in average selling prices for semiconductor products. A decline in the average selling prices of our products could harm our revenues and gross margins. The willingness of customers to design our SoCs into their products depends to a significant extent upon our ability to sell our products at competitive prices. In the past, we have reduced our prices to meet customer requirements or to maintain a competitive advantage. Reductions in our average selling prices to one customer could impact our average selling prices to all customers. If we are unable to reduce our costs sufficiently to offset declines in product prices or are unable to introduce more advanced products with higher margins in a timely manner, we could experience declines in our net revenues and gross margins.

We have a history of fluctuating operating results, including a net loss in fiscal year 2006, and we may not be able to sustain or increase profitability in the future, which may cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

        We have a history of fluctuating operating results. We suffered a net loss of $1.6 million in fiscal year 2006 and became profitable again in fiscal year 2007 with net income of $6.2 million, due to a sharp increase in demand for our products. As of August 4, 2007, we had an accumulated deficit of $52.7 million. To sustain or increase profitability, we will need to successfully develop new products and product enhancements and sustain higher revenues while controlling our cost and expense levels. In recent years, we made significant investments in our product development efforts and have expended substantial funds to enhance our sales and marketing efforts and otherwise operate our business. However, we may not realize the benefits of these investments. Although we were profitable for the six

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months ended August 4, 2007 and for fiscal year 2007, we may not continue to be profitable. We may incur operating losses in future quarterly periods or fiscal years, which in turn could cause the price of our common stock to decline.

If we do not successfully anticipate market needs and develop products and product enhancements that meet those needs, or if those products do not gain market acceptance, we may not be able to compete effectively and our ability to generate revenues will suffer.

        We may not be able to accurately anticipate future market needs or be able to develop new products or product enhancements to meet such needs or to meet them in a timely manner. We have, in the past, invested substantial resources in emerging technologies for use in products that did not achieve the market acceptance we had expected.

        Our ability to develop and deliver new products successfully will depend on various factors, including our ability to:

        If we fail to anticipate market requirements or to develop new products or product enhancements to meet those needs in a cost-effective and timely manner, it could substantially decrease market acceptance and sales of our present and future products and we may be unable to attract new customers or retain our existing customers, which would significantly harm our business and financial results.

        Even if we are able to anticipate, develop and commercially introduce new products and enhancements, our new products or enhancements may not achieve widespread market acceptance. Any failure of our products to achieve market acceptance could adversely affect our business and financial results.

Our ability to develop, market and sell products could be harmed if we are unable to retain or hire key personnel.

        Our future success depends upon our ability to recruit and retain the services of key executive, engineering, finance and accounting, sales, marketing and support personnel. The supply of highly qualified individuals, in particular engineers in very specialized technical areas, or sales people specializing in the semiconductor industry, is limited and competition for such individuals is intense. None of our officers or key employees is bound by an employment agreement for any specific term. The loss of the services of any of our key employees, the inability to attract or retain key personnel in the future or delays in hiring required personnel, particularly engineers and sales people, and the complexity and time involved in replacing or training new employees, could delay the development and introduction of new products, and negatively impact our ability to market, sell or support our products.

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Our sales cycle can be lengthy, which could result in uncertainty and delays in generating net revenues.

        Because our products are based on constantly evolving technologies, we have experienced a lengthy sales cycle for some of our SoCs, particularly those designed for set-top box applications in the IPTV market. After we have delivered a product to a customer, the customer will usually test and evaluate our product with its service provider customer prior to the customer completing the design of its own equipment that will incorporate our product. Our customers and the telecommunications carriers our customers serve may need three to more than six months to test, evaluate and adopt our product and an additional three to more than nine months to begin volume production of equipment that incorporates our product. Our complete sales cycle typically ranges from nine to 18 months, but could be longer. As a result, we may experience a significant delay between the time we increase expenditures for research and development, sales and marketing efforts and inventory and the time we generate net revenues, if any, from these expenditures. In addition, because we do not have long-term commitments from our customers, we must repeat our sales process on a continual basis even for current customers looking to purchase a new product. As a result, our business could be harmed if a customer reduces or delays its orders, chooses not to release products incorporating our SoCs or elects not to purchase a new product or product enhancements from us.

The timing of our customer orders and product shipments can adversely affect our operating results and stock price.

        Our quarterly revenues and operating results depend upon the volume and timing of customer orders received during a given quarter and the percentage of each order that we are able to ship and recognize as net revenues during each quarter. Customers may change their cycle of product orders from us, which would affect the timing of our product shipments. Any failure or delay in the closing of orders expected to occur within a quarterly period would adversely affect our operating results. Further, to the extent we receive orders late in any given quarter, we may be unable to ship products to fill those orders during the same quarter in which we received the corresponding order, which could have an adverse impact on our operating results for that quarter.

We rely on a limited number of independent third-party manufacturers for the fabrication, assembly and testing of our SoCs, and the failure of any of these third-party manufacturers to deliver products or otherwise perform as requested could damage our relationships with our customers, decrease our sales and limit our growth.

        We are a fabless semiconductor company, and thus we do not own or operate a fabrication or manufacturing facility. We depend on independent manufacturers, each of whom is a third-party manufacturer for numerous companies, to manufacture, assemble and test our products. We currently rely on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, or TSMC, to produce substantially all of our SoCs. We rely on Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., or ASE, to assemble, package and test substantially all of our products. Although we have contracts with both of these manufacturers, those contracts do not require them to manufacture our products or perform services on our behalf on a long-term basis, in any specific quantity or at any specific price. Neither TSMC nor ASE has provided contractual assurances to us that adequate capacity will be available for us to meet future demand for our products. These third-party manufacturers may allocate capacity to the production of other companies' products while reducing product deliveries or the provision of services to us on short notice, or they may increase the prices of the products and services they provide to us with little or no notice. In particular, other clients that are larger and better financed than we are or that have long-term agreements with TSMC or ASE may cause either or both of them to reallocate capacity to those clients, decreasing the capacity available to us.

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        If we fail to effectively manage our relationships with TSMC and ASE, if we are unable to secure sufficient capacity at our third-party manufacturers' facilities or if any of them should experience delays, disruptions or technical or quality control problems in our manufacturing operations, or if we had to change or add additional third-party manufacturers or contract manufacturing sites, our ability to ship products to our customers could be delayed, our relationships with our customers would suffer and our market share and operating results would suffer. If our third-party manufacturers' pricing for the products and services they provide increases and we are unable to pass along such increases to our customers, our operating results would be adversely affected. Also, the addition of manufacturing locations or additional third-party subcontractors would increase the complexity of our supply chain management. Moreover, all of our product manufacturing, assembly and packaging is performed in Asian countries and is therefore subject to risks associated with doing business in these countries, such as quarantines or closures of manufacturing facilities due to the outbreak of viruses, such as SARS, avian flu or any similar outbreaks. Each of these factors could harm our business and financial results.

In the event we seek or are required to use a new manufacturer to fabricate or to assemble and test all or a portion of our SoC products, we may not be able to bring new manufacturers on-line rapidly enough, which could damage our relationships with our customers, decrease our sales and limit our growth.

        As indicated above, we use a single wafer foundry to manufacture substantially all of our products and a single source to assemble and test substantially all of our products, which exposes us to a substantial risk of delay, increased costs and customer dissatisfaction in the event our third-party manufacturers are unable to provide us with our SoC requirements. Particularly during times when semiconductor capacity is limited, we may seek to, and in the event that our current foundry were to stop producing wafers for us altogether, we would be required to, qualify one or more additional wafer foundries to meet our requirements, which would be time consuming and costly. In order to bring these new foundries on-line, we and our customers would need to qualify their facilities, which process could take as long as several months. Once qualified, these new foundries would then require an additional number of months to actually begin producing SoCs to meet our needs, by which time our perceived need for additional capacity may have passed, or the opportunities we previously identified may have been lost to our competitors. Similarly, qualifying a new provider of assembly, packaging and testing services would be a lengthy and costly process and, in both cases, they could prove to be less reliable than our existing manufacturers, which could result in increased costs and expenses as well as delays in deliveries of our products to our customers.

If our third-party manufacturers do not achieve satisfactory yields or quality, our relationships with our customers and our reputation will be harmed, which in turn would harm our operating results and financial performance.

        The fabrication of semiconductors is a complex and technically demanding process. Minor deviations in the manufacturing process can cause substantial decreases in yields and, in some cases, cause production to be stopped or suspended. Although we work closely with our third-party manufacturers to minimize the likelihood of reduced manufacturing yields, their facilities have from time to time experienced lower than anticipated manufacturing yields that have resulted in our inability to meet our customer demand. It is not uncommon for yields in semiconductor fabrication facilities to decrease in times of high demand, in addition to reduced yields that may result from normal wafer lot loss due to workmanship or operational problems at these facilities. When these events occur, especially simultaneously, as happens from time to time, we may be unable to supply our customers' demand. Many of these problems are difficult to detect at an early stage of the manufacturing process and may be time consuming and expensive to correct. Poor yields from the wafer foundries or defects, integration issues or other performance problems in our products could cause us significant customer

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relations and business reputation problems, or force us to sell our products at lower gross margins and therefore harm our financial results.

We base orders for inventory on our forecasts of our customers' demand and if our forecasts are inaccurate, our financial condition and liquidity would suffer.

        We place orders with our suppliers based on our forecasts of our customers' demand. Our forecasts are based on multiple assumptions, each of which may introduce errors into our estimates. When the demand for our customers' products increases significantly, we may not be able to meet demand on a timely basis, and we may need to expend a significant amount of time working with our customers to allocate limited supply and maintain positive customer relations. If we underestimate customer demand, we may forego revenue opportunities, lose market share and damage our customer relationships. Conversely, if we overestimate customer demand, we may allocate resources to manufacturing products that we may not be able to sell when we expect to or at all. As a result, we would have excess or obsolete inventory, resulting in a decline in the value of our inventory, which would increase our cost of revenues and create a drain on our liquidity. Our failure to accurately manage inventory against demand would adversely affect our financial results.

To remain competitive, we need to continue to transition our SoCs to increasingly smaller sizes while maintaining or increasing functionality, and our failure to do so may harm our business.

        We periodically evaluate the benefits, on a product-by-product basis, of migrating to smaller chips, which are measured in microns and referred to as geometry processes. The smaller chip size reduces our production and packaging costs, which enables us to be competitive in our pricing. We also continually strive to increase the functionality of our SoCs, which is essential to competing effectively in our target markets. The transition to smaller geometries while maintaining or increasing functionality requires us to work with our contractor to modify the manufacturing processes for our products and to redesign some products. In the past, we have experienced some difficulties in shifting to smaller geometry process technologies or new manufacturing processes, which resulted in reduced manufacturing yields, delays in product deliveries and increased expenses. We may face similar difficulties, delays and expenses as we continue to transition our products to smaller geometry processes, all of which could harm our relationships with our customers, and our failure to do so would impact our ability to provide competitive prices to our customers, which would have a negative impact on our sales.

The complexity of our products could result in unforeseen delays or expenses and in undetected defects, which could damage our reputation with current or prospective customers, adversely affect the market acceptance of new products and result in warranty claims.

        Highly complex products, such as those that we offer, frequently contain defects, particularly when they are first introduced or as new versions are released. Our SoCs contain highly sophisticated silicon technology and complex software. In the past we have experienced, and may in the future experience, defects in our products, both with our SoCs and the related software products we offer. If any of our products contains defects or have reliability, quality or compatibility problems, our reputation may be damaged and our customers may be reluctant to buy our products, which could harm our ability to retain existing customers and attract new customers. In addition, these defects could interrupt or delay sales or shipment of our products to our customers. Manufacturing defects may not be detected by the testing process performed by our subcontractors. If defects are discovered after we have shipped our products, it could result in unanticipated costs, order cancellations or deferrals and product recalls, harm to our reputation and a decline in our net revenues, income from operations and gross margins.

        In addition, our agreements with some customers contain warranty provisions, which provide the customer with a right to damages if a defect is traced to our products or if we cannot correct errors in

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our product reported during the warranty period, and other limitations on our liability. However, our contractual limitations on our liability may be unenforceable in a particular jurisdiction. We do not have insurance coverage for any warranty or product liability claims, and a successful claim could require us to pay substantial damages. A successful warranty or product liability claim against us, or a requirement that we participate in a product recall, could have adverse effects on our business results.

We are subject to risks arising from our international operations.

        We derive a substantial portion of our net revenues from our customers outside of North America and we plan to continue expanding our business in international markets in the future. In the six months ended August 4, 2007 and in fiscal year 2007, we derived 94% and 89%, respectively, of our revenue from customers outside of North America. We also have significant operations overseas, including a research and development facility in France and a sales office and warehouse in Hong Kong. As a result of our international business, we are affected by economic, regulatory and political conditions in foreign countries, including the imposition of government controls, changes or limitations in trade protection laws, unfavorable changes in tax treaties or laws, difficulties in collecting receivables and enforcing contracts, natural disasters, labor unrest, earnings expatriation restrictions, misappropriation of intellectual property, changes in import/export regulations, tariffs and freight rates, economic instability, public health crises, acts of terrorism and continued unrest in many regions and other factors, which could have a material impact on our international revenues and operations. In particular, in some countries we may experience reduced intellectual property protection. Our results of operations could also be adversely affected by exchange rate fluctuations, which could increase the sales price in local currencies of our products in international markets. Overseas sales and purchases to date have been denominated in U.S. dollars. We do not currently engage in any hedging activities to reduce our exposure to exchange rate risks. Moreover, local laws and customs in many countries differ significantly from those in the United States. In many foreign countries, particularly in those with developing economies, it is common for others to engage in business practices that are prohibited by our internal policies and procedures or United States laws or regulations applicable to us. Violations of laws or key control policies by our employees, contractors or agents could result in financial reporting problems, fines, penalties, or prohibition on the importation or exportation of our products and could have a material adverse effect on our business results.

We may engage in investments in and acquisitions of other businesses and technologies, which could divert management's attention and prove difficult to integrate with our existing business and technology.

        We continue to consider investments in and acquisitions of other businesses, technologies or products, to improve our market position, broaden our technological capabilities and expand our product offerings. For example, we completed the acquisition of Blue7 Communications, or Blue7, in February 2006. However, we may not be able to acquire, or successfully identify, the companies, products or technologies that would enhance our business. Once we identify a strategic opportunity, the process to consummate a transaction could divert management's attention from the operation of our business causing our financial results to decline.

        If we are able to acquire companies, products or technologies, we could experience difficulties in integrating them. Integrating acquired businesses involves a number of risks, including:

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        If we are unable to successfully integrate the businesses we acquire, our operating results could be harmed.

Changes in our tax rates may harm our future results.

        Our future effective tax rates may be unfavorably affected by the absolute amount and future geographic distribution of our pre-tax income, our ability to take advantage of the available tax planning strategies and our ability to utilize our net operating loss carryforwards. At February 3, 2007, we had federal and state tax net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $56.3 million and $4.5 million, respectively. These net operating loss carryforwards may be used to offset future taxable income and thereby reduce our income taxes otherwise payable. In recent fiscal periods, we have succeeded in maintaining a low effective tax rate as a result of our net operating loss carryforwards. Our continued use of our net operating loss carryforwards, however, and credit carryforwards is limited by the annual limitations as described in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, and may be exhausted if our current financial performance continues, which would result in a significant increase in our effective tax rate. If we were to make a determination that it is more likely than not that we will be able to realize our deferred tax assets in the future in excess of the net recorded amount, we would be required to accelerate the entire remaining benefit of our net operating loss carryforwards in the period in which this determination is made. This, in turn, would accelerate the increase in our effective tax rate for periods following the period of such a determination and our operating results could be harmed as a result. Our plans for continued international expansion may further limit our ability to utilize our net operating loss carryforwards as our net income increases. In addition, we are subject to the examination of our income tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service and other tax authorities. For example, the French taxing authority is currently auditing the research and tax credits we claimed from fiscal year 2001 through fiscal year 2005 and the IRS has commenced an employee payroll tax audit for our fiscal years 2004 and 2005 and an income tax audit for our fiscal year 2005. The outcomes of these and any future tax examinations could harm our net income and financial condition.

Our ability to raise capital in the future may be limited and our failure to raise capital when needed could prevent us from executing our growth strategy.

        We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and long-term investments will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months. The timing and amount of our working capital and capital expenditure requirements may vary significantly depending on numerous factors, including:

If our capital resources are insufficient to satisfy our liquidity requirements, we may seek to sell additional equity securities or debt securities or obtain debt financing. The sale of additional equity securities or convertible debt securities would result in additional dilution to our shareholders. Additional debt would result in increased expenses and could result in covenants that would restrict our

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operations. We have not made arrangements to obtain additional financing and there is no assurance that financing, if required, will be available in amounts or on terms acceptable to us, if at all.

We may face intellectual property claims that could be costly to defend and result in our loss of significant rights.

        The semiconductor industry is characterized by frequent litigation regarding patent and intellectual property rights. We believe that it may be necessary, from time to time, to initiate litigation against one or more third parties to preserve our intellectual property rights. From time to time, we have received, and may receive in the future, notices that claim we have infringed upon, misappropriated or misused other parties' proprietary rights. Any of the foregoing events or claims could result in litigation. Any such litigation could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel. In the event of an adverse result in any such litigation, we could be required to pay substantial damages, cease the manufacture, use and sale of certain products or expend significant resources to develop non-infringing technology or to obtain licenses to the technology that is the subject of the litigation, and we may not be successful in such development or in obtaining such licenses on acceptable terms, if at all. In addition, patent disputes in the electronics industry have often been settled through cross-licensing arrangements. Because we do not yet have a large portfolio of issued patents, we may not be able to settle an alleged patent infringement claim through a cross- licensing arrangement.

We rely upon patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets to protect our proprietary rights and if these rights are not sufficiently protected, it could harm our ability to compete and to generate revenues.

        Our ability to compete may be affected by our ability to protect our proprietary information. As of August 31, 2007, we held 30 patents and these patents will expire within the next 5 to 16 years. These patents cover the technology underlying our products. We have filed certain patent applications and are in the process of preparing others. We cannot assure you that any additional patents for which we have applied will be issued or that any issued patents will provide meaningful protection of our product innovations. Like other semiconductor companies, we rely primarily on trade secrets and technological know-how in the conduct of our business. We use measures such as confidentiality agreements to protect our intellectual property. However, these methods of protecting our intellectual property may not be sufficient.

Our business may become subject to seasonality, which may cause our revenues to fluctuate.

        Our business may become subject to seasonality as a result of our target markets. We sell a significant number of our SoCs into the consumer electronics market. Our customers who manufacture products for the consumer market typically experience seasonality in the sales of their products, which in turn may affect the timing and volume of orders for our SoCs. Although we have not experienced seasonality to date in sales of our products, due to overall growth in demand for our SoCs, we may, in the future, experience lower sales in our second fiscal quarter and higher sales in our third fiscal quarter as a result of the seasonality of demand associated with the consumer electronics markets into which we sell our products. As a result, our operating results may vary significantly from quarter to quarter.

Due to the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry, our operating results may fluctuate significantly, which could adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

        The semiconductor industry is highly cyclical and subject to rapid change and evolving industry standards and, from time to time, has experienced significant downturns. These downturns are characterized by decreases in product demand, excess customer inventories and accelerated erosion of

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prices. These factors have caused and could cause substantial fluctuations in our net revenue and in our operating results. Any downturns in the semiconductor industry may be severe and prolonged, and any failure of this industry to fully recover from downturns could harm our business. The semiconductor industry also periodically experiences increased demand and production capacity constraints, which may affect our ability to ship products. Accordingly, our operating results have varied and may vary significantly as a result of the general conditions in the semiconductor industry, which could cause our stock price to decline.


Risks Related to the Offering and Our Common Stock

Our operating results are subject to significant fluctuations due to many factors and any of these factors could adversely affect our stock price.

        Our operating results have fluctuated in the past and may continue to fluctuate in the future due to a number of factors, including:

        In addition, the market prices of securities of semiconductor and other technology companies have been volatile. This volatility has significantly affected the market prices of securities of many technology companies for reasons frequently unrelated to the operating performance of the specific companies.

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Accordingly, you may not be able to resell your shares of common stock at or above the price you paid. In the past, we and other companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their securities have been, and in the future we may be, the subject of securities class action litigation.

Our stock price has demonstrated volatility, and continued volatility in the stock market may cause further fluctuations or decline in our stock price.

        The market for our common stock has been subject to significant volatility, which is expected to continue. For example, from January 1, 2007 through September 13, 2007, the closing sale price of our common stock on the Nasdaq Global Market ranged from a low of $20.20 on January 22, 2007 to a high of $44.02 on September 13, 2007. This volatility is often unrelated or disproportionate to our operating performance. These fluctuations, as well as general economic and market conditions, could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

Management has significant discretion over the use of our net proceeds from this offering and may apply such net proceeds in ways that do not increase our market value or improve our operating results.

        We intend to use our net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes and working capital. We may also use a portion of our net proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary technologies, businesses or other assets. We have not reserved or allocated our net proceeds for any specific purpose and we cannot state with certainty how our management will use our net proceeds. Accordingly, our management will have considerable discretion in applying our net proceeds, and you will not have the opportunity as part of your investment decision, to assess whether we are using our net proceeds appropriately. We may use our net proceeds for purposes that do not result in any increase in our results of operations or market value. Until the net proceeds we receive are used, they may be placed in investments that do not produce income or that lose value.

Class action litigation due to stock price volatility or other factors could cause us to incur substantial costs and divert our management's attention and resources.

        In the past, securities class action litigation often has been brought against a company following periods of volatility in the market price of its securities. Companies such as ours in the semiconductor industry and other technology industries are particularly vulnerable to this kind of litigation due to the high volatility of their stock prices. While we are not aware of any such contemplated class action litigation against us, we may in the future be the target of securities litigation. Any securities litigation could result in substantial costs and could divert the attention and resources of our management.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or if they issue an adverse opinion regarding our stock, our stock price and trading volume could decline.

        The trading market for our common stock is influenced by the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business. If one or more of the analysts who cover us issue an adverse opinion regarding our stock, our stock price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.

Provisions in our organizational documents, our rights agreement and California law could delay or prevent a change in control of our company that our shareholders may consider favorable.

        Our articles of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that could limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock. Our Board of Directors can

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authorize the issuance of preferred stock that can be created and issued by our Board of Directors without prior shareholder approval, commonly referred to as "blank check" preferred stock, with rights senior to those of our common stock. The rights of the holders of our common stock will be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that we may issue in the future. The issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change in control and could adversely affect the voting power of your shares. In addition, our Board of Directors has adopted a rights plan that provides each share of our common stock with an associated right to purchase from us one one-thousandth share of Series D participating preferred stock at a purchase price of $58.00 in cash, subject to adjustment in the manner set forth in the rights agreement. The rights have anti-takeover effects, in that they would cause substantial dilution to a person or group that attempts to acquire a significant interest in our company on terms not approved by our Board of Directors. In addition, provisions of California law could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our outstanding voting stock by discouraging a hostile bid, or delaying or deterring a merger, acquisition or tender offer in which our shareholders could receive a premium for their shares or a proxy contest for control of our company or other changes in our management. See the sections titled "Description of Capital Stock—Preferred Stock" and "Description of Capital Stock—Anti-Takeover Provisions."

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

        This prospectus contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements are contained principally in the sections entitled "Prospectus Summary," "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Business." These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

        In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "may," "might," "will," "objective," "intend," "should," "could," "can," "would," "expect," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "plan," or the negative of these terms, and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We discuss many of these risks in this prospectus in greater detail under the heading "Risk Factors." Also, these forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this prospectus. Unless required by U.S. federal securities laws, we do not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the statement is made.

        You should read this prospectus and the documents that we reference in this prospectus and have filed as exhibits to the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

        We expect that the net proceeds we will receive from the sale of the shares of common stock offered by us will be approximately $165.7 million, based on an assumed public offering price of $44.02 per share, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, our net proceeds will be approximately $25.0 million. A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed public offering price would increase (decrease) the net proceeds to us from this offering by $3.8 million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and no exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option, and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We intend to use our net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital and capital expenditures. We may also use a portion of our net proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary technologies, businesses or other assets. We have no current agreements or commitments with respect to any material acquisitions.

        We cannot currently estimate the amounts to be used for each purpose set forth above. Accordingly, our management will have significant flexibility in applying the net proceeds of this offering. Pending use of the net proceeds as described above, we intend to invest the net proceeds of this offering in short-term, interest-bearing, investment-grade securities.

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MARKET PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK

        The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices per share of our common stock as reported by the Nasdaq Global Market for the periods indicated:

Fiscal Year

  High
  Low
2006:            
First Quarter   $ 12.45   $ 7.49
Second Quarter     8.94     6.31
Third Quarter     12.50     7.70
Fourth Quarter     17.05     9.86

2007:

 

 

 

 

 

 
First Quarter   $ 16.88   $ 12.83
Second Quarter     14.85     7.99
Third Quarter     19.88     8.52
Fourth Quarter     29.12     18.60

2008:

 

 

 

 

 

 
First Quarter   $ 32.57   $ 23.12
Second Quarter     34.00     24.15
Third Quarter (through September 13, 2007)     45.59     29.30

        The closing sales price of our common stock on September 13, 2007 was $44.02 per share.


DIVIDEND POLICY

        We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our capital stock, and we do not currently intend to pay any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. We expect to retain future earnings, if any, to fund the development and growth of our business. Our Board of Directors will determine future dividends, if any. In addition, our line of credit prohibits us from paying dividends on our common stock, without first obtaining the consent of the lender.

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CAPITALIZATION

        The following table describes our cash and cash equivalents and capitalization as of August 4, 2007:

        A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed public offering price would increase (decrease) the net proceeds to us from this offering by $3.8 million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

        You should read this table together with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.

 
  As of August 4, 2007
 
 
  Actual
  As Adjusted
 
 
  (unaudited)

 
 
  (in thousands,
except share data)

 
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 33,468   $ 199,204  
   
 
 
Long-term debt, including current portion(1)   $ 133   $ 133  
Shareholders' equity:              
  Preferred Stock, no par value, 2,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued or outstanding, actual and as adjusted          
  Common stock, no par value; 35,000,000 shares authorized; 24,086,653 shares issued and outstanding, actual; 28,086,653 shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted     126,505     292,241  
  Accumulated other comprehensive income     398     398  
  Accumulated deficit     (52,667 )   (52,667 )
   
 
 
    Total shareholders' equity     74,236     239,972  
   
 
 
      Total capitalization   $ 74,369   $ 240,105  
   
 
 

(1)
On August 30, 2007, we repaid all of our outstanding long-term debt.

        The actual and as adjusted information set forth in the table:

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SELECTED HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

        The following selected consolidated financial data should be read together with the section titled "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our historical consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. The selected consolidated balance sheet data as of January 28, 2006 and February 3, 2007 and the selected consolidated statements of operations data for each of the fiscal years in the three-year period ended February 3, 2007 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements which are included elsewhere in this prospectus. The selected consolidated balance sheet data as of February 1, 2003, January 31, 2004 and January 29, 2005 and the selected consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended February 1, 2003 and January 31, 2004 have been derived from our unaudited consolidated financial statements not included in this prospectus, as adjusted for the impact of the restatement of our financial statements, that resulted from our internal stock option investigation described in Note 2 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The selected consolidated statements of operations data for the six months ended July 29, 2006 and August 4, 2007 and the selected consolidated balance sheet data as of August 4, 2007 have been derived from our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements that are included elsewhere in this prospectus. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial data have been prepared on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements contained in this prospectus and include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, that we consider necessary for a fair presentation of our financial position and operating results for the periods presented. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in the future, and results of interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year.

 
  Years Ended
  Years Ended
  Six Months Ended
 
  February 1,
2003

  January 31,
2004

  January 29,
2005

  January 28,
2006

  February 3,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

 
  (unaudited)

   
   
   
  (unaudited)

 
  (in thousands, except per share data)

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:                                          
Net revenues   $ 18,139   $ 30,559   $ 31,398   $ 33,320   $ 91,218   $ 34,935   $ 78,564
Cost of revenues     8,374     11,924     9,667     11,925     46,783     18,543     38,446
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gross profit     9,765     18,635     21,731     21,395     44,435     16,392     40,118
Operating expenses:                                          
  Research and development     8,942     11,089     12,288     15,040     22,515     10,266     14,453
  Sales and marketing     4,900     5,444     5,268     6,056     7,841     3,485     4,924
  General and administrative     3,172     2,943     4,531     4,868     8,222     4,103     6,705
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Operating expenses     17,014     19,476     22,087     25,964     38,578     17,854     26,082
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Income (loss) from operations     (7,249 )   (841 )   (356 )   (4,569 )   5,857     (1,462 )   14,036
Gain on sales of long-term investments                 2,549            
Interest income and other income (loss), net     (179 )   255     294     529     815     355     720
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Income (loss) before income taxes     (7,428 )   (586 )   (62 )   (1,491 )   6,672     (1,107 )   14,756
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes     (18 )   77     63     70     428     33     799
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss)     (7,410 )   (663 )   (125 )   (1,561 )   6,244   $ (1,140 ) $ 13,957
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss) per share:                                          
  Basic   $ (0.45 ) $ (0.03 ) $ (0.01 ) $ (0.07 ) $ 0.28   $ (0.05 ) $ 0.60
  Diluted   $ (0.45 ) $ (0.03 ) $ (0.01 ) $ (0.07 ) $ 0.24   $ (0.05 ) $ 0.52
Shares used in computation:                                          
  Basic     16,482     19,437     20,809     21,412     22,683     22,567     23,423
  Diluted     16,482     19,437     20,809     21,412     25,670     22,567     26,820
 
  As of
   
   
   
 
 
   
  As of
  As of
 
  February 1,
2003

  January 31,
2004

  January 29,
2005

  January 28,
2006

  February 3,
2007

  August 4,
2007

 
   
  (unaudited)

   
   
   
  (unaudited)

 
  (in thousands)

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:                                    
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 755   $ 18,962   $ 10,250   $ 16,827   $ 24,413   $ 33,468
Working capital     3,403     22,516     22,303     27,826     38,784     60,596
Total assets     22,081     30,703     35,553     40,357     76,084     96,021
Current portion of long-term debt(1)                 211     266     133
Long-term debt, net of current portion(1)                 233     15    
Total liabilities     16,671     5,536     7,772     9,680     23,112     21,785
Total shareholders' equity     5,410     25,167     27,781     30,677     52,972     74,236

(1)
On August 30, 2007, we repaid all of our outstanding long-term debt.

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MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

         The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read together with "Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Data" and our historical consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition to historical information, this discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including but not limited to, those set forth under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this prospectus.

Overview

        We are a leading fabless provider of highly integrated system-on-chip, or SoC, solutions that are used to deliver multimedia entertainment throughout the home. Our SoC solutions combine our semiconductors and software and are a critical component of multiple high-growth, consumer applications that process digital video and audio content, including IPTV, high definition DVD players, HDTVs, and portable media players. Our semiconductors provide high definition digital video decoding for multiple compression standards, graphics acceleration, audio decoding, a CPU and display control. Our software provides control of media processing and system security management. Together, our semiconductors and software form a complete SoC solution that we believe provides our customers with a foundation to quickly develop feature-rich consumer entertainment products. We believe we are the leading provider of digital media processor SoCs for set-top boxes in the IPTV market and a leading provider of such SoCs for the high definition DVD player market, in terms of units shipped.

        Our primary target markets are the IPTV, the high definition DVD and other media players and the HDTV markets. The IPTV market consists of consumer and commercial products that distribute and receive streaming video using internet protocol, or IP. The high definition DVD and other media players market consists primarily of set-top boxes and portable media products that perform playback of digital media stored on optical or hard disk formats. Our products support the two operating standards upon which high definition DVD players are based, Blu-ray and HD-DVD. The HDTV product market consists of digital television sets offering high definition capability. We also sell products into other markets such as the PC-based add-in market. Although we no longer specifically target them, we continue to derive revenues from sales of our products into these markets.

        Our primary product group consists of our SoC solutions. To a much lesser extent, we provide other products, such as customized development boards. For the six months ended August 4, 2007 and fiscal year 2007, we derived 96% and 95%, respectively, of our total net revenues from our SoC solutions. Our SoC solutions consist of highly integrated semiconductors and software that process digital video and audio content. Our net revenues from sales of our SoC solutions increased $58.8 million, or 208%, from fiscal year 2007 compared to fiscal year 2006. This increase in our SoCs sales in fiscal year 2007 was in part attributable to many of our customers commercially launching products incorporating our SoCs after successful initial trials. We began volume shipments in January 2006 of our SMP8630 series, which is our latest SoC solution for these markets. This product series represented 60% of our net revenues in fiscal year 2007 and 3% of our net revenues in fiscal year 2006. We believe our success with the SMP8630 series product demonstrates our success in the recently emerging IPTV and high definition DVD player markets. As a result of increased customer adoption, our net revenues increased from $33.3 million in fiscal year 2006 to $91.2 million in fiscal year 2007, representing growth of over 170%.

        We do not enter into long-term commitment contracts with our customers and receive substantially all of our net revenues based on purchase orders. We forecast demand for our products based not only on our assessment of the requirements of our direct customers, but also on the anticipated

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requirements of the telecommunications carriers that our customers serve. We work with both our direct customers and these carriers to address the market demands and the necessary specifications for our technologies. However, our failure to accurately forecast demand can lead to product shortages that can impede production by our customers and harm our relationship with these customers.

        Many of our target markets are characterized by intense price competition. In addition, the semiconductor industry is highly competitive and, as a result, we expect our average selling prices to decline over time. To date, we have not experienced significant competitive pricing pressures with respect to our SoC solutions in our primary target markets. However, on occasion, we have reduced our prices for individual customer volume orders as part of our strategy to obtain a competitive position in our target markets. The willingness of customers to design our SoCs into their products depends to a significant extent upon our ability to sell our products at competitive prices. If we are unable to reduce our costs sufficiently to offset any declines in product selling prices or are unable to introduce more advanced products with higher margins in a timely manner, we could see declines in our market share or gross margins. We expect our gross margins will vary from period to period due to changes in our average selling prices, volume order discounts, mix of product sales, our costs, the extent of development fees, changes in estimated useful lives of production testing equipment and provisions for inventory obsolescence.

        We expect our revenues from the IPTV, the high definition DVD and other media players and the HDTV markets to grow with increasing demand in these markets. Our revenues derived from the IPTV market may fluctuate in future periods, as these revenues are based on telecommunications service providers IPTV service deployments, the timing of which are uncertain. We expect our operating expenses will increase in absolute dollars as our revenues grow.

Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements

        We currently have ineffective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures. We have had ongoing material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting since the fiscal period ended January 31, 2005, the first year in which we were required to evaluate our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Our material weaknesses, most recently identified as of February 3, 2007, are discussed in more detail below. We have not completed the remediation of any of these material weaknesses. These weaknesses result in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected. Although we have initiated corrective actions that we believe will help remediate our material weaknesses, we likely will not have sufficient time to implement our remediation plans before testing our internal control over financial reporting for our current fiscal year that will end February 2, 2008.

        In April 2007, we restated our consolidated balance sheet as of January 28, 2006 and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of fiscal years 2005 and 2006 as a result of an internal stock option investigation commenced by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, or Audit Committee, and other errors identified as a result of the audit of the fiscal year 2007, and the re-audit of the fiscal years 2005 and 2006. This restatement is more fully described in Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements," to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The restatement of financial information for our fiscal years 2003 and 2004 and our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended April 29, 2006 are included in this prospectus under the section titled "Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Data." The restatement of our consolidated financial statements was completed in April 2007.

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Background/Stock Option Investigation

        We previously disclosed, on July 26, 2006, that the Audit Committee of our Board had commenced an internal investigation, assisted by outside legal counsel and accounting experts, of our practices related to historical stock option grants. During the investigation, the Audit Committee reviewed stock option grants to officers, directors and employees from 1997 to 2006, or the Review Period, encompassing approximately 1,000 grants on 41 different grant dates. On September 21, 2006, we announced that certain of the actual measurement dates for prior option grants may differ from the recorded measurement dates.

        The Audit Committee concluded its investigation in April 2007. Its investigation found that nearly all of the stock option grants for new hires, as well as for promotion and retention, were approved by the use of unanimous written consents, or UWCs, of our Board, rather than at a Board meeting. Our Audit Committee found that the company's process resulted in grant dates on the UWCs being routinely established before the receipt of fully-signed UWCs authorizing such grants. Our Audit Committee also found that due to these and other deficiencies in the administration of our stock option plans, a number of options grants between 1997 and 2006 were misdated.

        Our Audit Committee has concluded that the stock option grant process, including the UWC process described above, reflected management's lack of appreciation of the legal and accounting standards of the stock option grant process and the erroneous belief that dates other than the stated grant date were, at best, administrative in nature and not governing. Based on the quarterly low price points of the option grants, and absent any objective documentation to the contrary, our Audit Committee has also speculated that the ultimate selection of the grant dates stated on the UWCs may have benefited from limited hindsight, but it did not find any conclusive evidence to this effect. The Audit Committee did not find any evidence of intent to deceive or to destroy or alter documents or to obstruct or impede the investigation in any way.

        As a result of the review, our Audit Committee recommended the prompt hiring of a chief financial officer with extensive public company experience and knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles knowledge. We hired a new chief financial officer in February 2007. We hired our current chief financial officer, Thomas E. Gay III, on May 21, 2007. Our Audit Committee also recommended the following changes to the process by which we grant stock options, which we have commenced implementing:

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        Related to the special investigation and financial statement restatements, we incurred approximately $3.2 million in costs for legal fees, external audit firm fees and external consulting fees.

Accounting Considerations—Share-Based Compensation

        We originally accounted for all employee, officer and director stock option grants as fixed grants under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees (APB 25), using a measurement date of the recorded grant date. We issued all grants with an exercise price equal to the fair market value of our common stock on the recorded grant date, and therefore originally recorded no share-based compensation expense.

        As a result of the findings of the investigation conducted by our Audit Committee and our own further review of our stock option granting practices, we determined that, although fixed accounting under APB 25 was appropriate, the measurement dates for certain stock option grants differed from the recorded grant dates for such grants. In some instances, we were only able to locate sufficient evidence to identify the measurement date described in APB 25, the first date on which both the number of shares that an individual employee was entitled to receive and the exercise price were known, within a range of possible dates. As a result, we developed a methodology to establish the revised measurement date as our estimate of the first date on which both the number of shares that an individual employee was entitled to receive and the exercise price were known with finality. Using the methodology described below, we concluded that it was appropriate to revise the measurement dates for these grants based upon our findings, and we refer to these revised measurement dates as the Deemed Measurement Dates.

        We calculated share-based compensation expense under APB 25 based upon the intrinsic value as of the Deemed Measurement Dates of stock option awards determined to be "fixed" under APB 25 and the vesting provisions of the underlying options. We calculated the intrinsic value on the Deemed Measurement Date as the closing price of our common stock on such date as reported on the Nasdaq National Market, now the Nasdaq Global Market, less the exercise price per share of common stock as stated in the underlying stock option agreement, multiplied by the number of shares subject to such stock option award. We recognized these amounts as compensation expense over the vesting period of the underlying options, which was generally five years.

        The methodology developed by one of our advisors and used by us, with such advisor's assistance, to determine the Deemed Measurement Dates associated with prior stock option grants was as follows:

         New Hire Non-Officer Employee Stock Options Effective January 2006 —Effective January 2006, we amended our practice of granting options to new hire non-officer employees to grant all such options at the end of the quarter in which the employee was hired. Accordingly, we determined the Deemed Measurement Date for each of these grants to be the last business day of the quarter of the employee's quarter of hire, because it was determined to be the first date when the number of shares and the price of each grant were known with finality.

         All Other Stock Options —We determined the Deemed Measurement Dates for all stock option grants other than those described above to be either the Approval Date or the Communication Date for the stock option grant. The Approval Date was used in each case that it was reliably determined,

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and the Communication Date was used in those cases where the Approval Date could not be determined or was determined to be unreliable.

        The "Approval Date" for the stock option was the date set forth in executed minutes or a fully-executed consent of the board of directors or stock option committee, provided that (a) documentary evidence existed that the allocation of shares had been finalized on such date, and (b) the Communication Date for the stock option was within 30 days of the Approval Date.

        The "Communication Date" for the stock option was the date we determined the key terms of the option (both the number of shares and the exercise price) to be initially communicated to the optionee. In the absence of specific documentary evidence of initial communication, we generally determined the Communication Date to be the earliest of: (a) the date the employee record was added to the stock option database application, or the Record Add Date; (b) the optionee manual signature date on the stock option agreement, or the Stock Option Agreement Date; and (c) for officers and directors, the date that a Form 3 or 4 was filed with the SEC with respect to the grant, or the Form 3 or 4 Date. However, if we determined that the earliest date was the Record Add Date, and if the Stock Option Agreement Date was more than 30 days after the Record Add Date, then we determined the Communication Date to be the earlier of the Stock Option Agreement Date or the Form 3 or 4 Date.

        When applying this methodology to groups of grants, we generally determined the Communication Date for the group to be the latest Record Add Date, the earliest Stock Option Agreement Date, as we determined that, under our stock option grant process, the terms of stock options were generally communicated concurrently to each member of the group. We excluded a limited number of options, or Outliers, from the determination of the latest Record Add Date and the earliest Stock Option Agreement Date for a group of grants when, based upon available evidence, we considered the Outlier dates as not reliable as to the date that the terms of the stock option grants were communicated to the group.

        We determined that variable accounting under APB 25, which is required in situations when the terms of option grants are modified subsequent to the date that all granting actions are complete, was not applicable for any of the grants during the Review Period.

        The methodology described above, and the determination of which stock option grants should be considered Outliers, as described above, involves judgment. We believe that the judgments applied are consistent with the provisions of the appropriate accounting pronouncements and the letter from the Office of the Chief Accountant of the SEC to the Financial Executives International and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants dated September 19, 2006.

        As stated above, using this methodology, we recorded an aggregate charge for stock compensation related adjustments of $16.2 million relating to the Review Period. If we had consistently used the Record Add Date as the Deemed Measurement Date for all grants in which the recorded grant date could not be relied upon (and excluded Outliers, consistent with the application of our methodology), the aggregate pre-tax share-based compensation charges relating to the Review Period would have been approximately $16.8 million. Alternatively, if we would have used the highest or lowest trading prices of our common stock between the last date of documentary approval evidence, which was otherwise deemed unreliable, generally because the date of all approvals could not be verified before the Deemed Measurement Date and the measurement date, since a measurement date could have occurred on any date between those two dates, the aggregate pre-tax share-based compensation charges relating to the same periods would have been $15.4 million if we had used the lowest price and $17.5 million if we had used the highest price.

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Restatement Adjustments

        Our restated consolidated financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this prospectus, incorporate share-based compensation expense and related payroll taxes, penalties and interest expenses. The restatement adjustments resulted in a $16.4 million increase in our accumulated deficit as of April 29, 2006. This amount included a reduction of our consolidated net income of approximately $2.0 million and $3.4 million for the fiscal years 2005 and 2006, respectively, and $0.8 million for the quarter ended April 29, 2006. The total restatement impact for periods through January 31, 2004 of $10.2 million was reflected as a prior period adjustment to accumulated deficit as of that date.

        The restatement adjustments reduced our originally reported diluted earnings per share by $0.09 and $0.15 for fiscal years 2005 and 2006, respectively.

        The table below presents the impact of the individual restatement adjustments, which are explained in further detail following the table:

 
  Three
Months
Ended
April 29,
2006

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
  Fiscal Year
  Fiscal Year
 
  2006
  2005
  2004
  2003
  2002
  2001
  2000
  1999
  1998
 
  (unaudited)

  (audited)

  (unaudited)

 
  (in thousands)

Share-based compensation expense   $ 1,095   $ 1,582   $ 1,476   $ 1,553   $ 1,343   $ 1,156   $ 1,315   $ 1,532   $ 1,137   $ 997
Accelerated vesting and extended exercisability     55             76     8                     33
Payroll taxes, interest and penalties     372     1,403     227     700     155     15     227     523     22     38
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total share-based expenses     1,522     2,985     1,703     2,329     1,506     1,171     1,542     2,055     1,159     1,068
Less: Compensation expense previously recorded     (795 )                                  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net adjustment to net income (loss) due to share-based compensation     727     2,985     1,703     2,329     1,506     1,171     1,542     2,055     1,159     1,068
Add: Other accounting adjustments     67     460     262     (123 )   (153 )   (161 )   (242 )   66        
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total adjustments to net income (loss)   $ 794   $ 3,445   $ 1,965   $ 2,206   $ 1,353   $ 1,010   $ 1,300   $ 2,121   $ 1,159   $ 1,068
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         Share-Based Compensation —These adjustments result from our determination that the initially recorded measurement dates of option grants during the Review Period could not be relied upon, based upon the Audit Committee's investigation and our subsequent reviews and analyses. For substantially all such option grants, there was correspondence or other evidence that indicated that not all required corporate approvals had been obtained as of the initially recorded measurement date. We adopted a methodology to remeasure these option grants to a revised measurement date, as described below, and accounted for these grants as fixed awards under Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB) No. 25 Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees , or APB 25.

         Accelerated vesting and extended exercisability —These adjustments were made as a result of the acceleration of stock option vesting upon termination and the extension of the exercisability of certain options held by a few employees.

         Payroll taxes, interest and penalties —In connection with the share-based compensation adjustments, we determined that certain options previously classified as Incentive Stock Options, or ISOs, under the Internal Revenue Code, were determined to have been granted with an exercise price below the fair market value of our stock on the revised measurement date. Under Code tax regulations, ISOs may not be granted with an exercise price less than the fair market value on the date of grant, and therefore these grants might not qualify for ISO tax treatment. We refer to these stock options as the Affected ISOs. The potential disqualification of ISO status exposes us to additional payroll-related withholding

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taxes on the exercise of options granted to U.S. employees, and penalties and interest for failing to properly withhold taxes on exercise of those options. As of August 4, 2007, we have recorded a net liability of approximately $3.9 million in connection with the potential disqualification of ISO tax treatment for option awards. In May 2007, the IRS began an employment tax audit for our fiscal year 2004 and 2005. We have also requested that fiscal year 2006 be included in this audit cycle. In August 2007, the IRS began an income tax audit for our fiscal year 2005. The focus of the IRS employment tax audit relates to tax issues connected to our granting stock options with exercise prices per share that were less than the fair market value per share of the common stock underlying the option on the option's measurement date for financial reporting purposes. The IRS has not yet proposed any tax deficiency, interest or penalty amounts in respect of this audit. We recorded the payroll tax, interest and penalty expenses in the periods in which the underlying stock options were exercised. Then, in subsequent periods in which the liabilities were legally extinguished due to expiration of the statutes of limitations, the expenses were reversed, and recognized as a reduction in the related functional expense category in our consolidated statements of operations.

        Because virtually all holders of options issued by us were not involved in or aware of the incorrect pricing of the Affected ISOs, we took certain actions and are considering possible additional actions to address the impact of certain adverse tax consequences on such holder, including those consequences arising from Code Section 409A that may result from the exercise price of stock options being less than the fair market value of our common stock on the Deemed Measurement Date. Code Section 409A, and, as applicable, similar tax laws in California and other states, imposes penalty taxes on our employees holding stock options granted with an exercise price lower than the fair market value on the date of grant that vest after December 31, 2004, which we refer to as the 409A Affected Options. The IRS has issued transition rules under Code Section 409A that allows for a correction, or cure, for 409A Affected Options. In December 2006, we entered into agreements with each of our executive officers to amend the 409A Affected Options held by such persons to limit the period of exercisability to a defined calendar year. Accordingly, our executive officers must exercise 409A Affected Options within specified timeframes or the portion of these options not exercised within such timeframes expire.

        Further, on May 15, 2007, we filed a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO with the SEC and commenced an offer, which we refer to as the Offer, to amend certain options granted under our Amended and Restated 1994 Stock Plan or our 2001 Employee Stock Option Plan that had original exercise prices per share that were less than the fair market value per share of the common stock underlying the option on the option's measurement date, for financial reporting purposes, and were unvested as of December 31, 2004. Under the terms of the Offer, individuals eligible to participate in the Offer must have been: (a) a non-executive employee of the company or one of its subsidiaries as of the date on which the Offer commenced and on June 13, 2007, the date on which the Offer expired; (b) subject to federal income tax in the United States; and (c) holding Section 409A Affected Options grants that were unvested as of December 31, 2004. Our executive officers and directors were not eligible to participate in the Offer. Options that were eligible for amendment under the Offer are referred to below as Eligible Options.

        The terms of the Offer provided that employees could elect to have Eligible Options amended to increase their exercise price per share to be equal to the fair market value used for financial reporting purposes and to receive a cash payment with respect to such amended options equal to the difference between the amended exercise price and the original exercise price of each Eligible Option, less applicable withholding taxes. The cash payments will be made on the first payroll date following January 1, 2008, regardless of whether the holder of the amended Eligible Option remains employed with us on the actual cash payment date.

        We received election forms from eligible employees agreeing to amend and increase to fair value the exercise price with respect to approximately 1.2 million shares underlying Eligible Options. Under the terms of the Offer, we will make cash payments in January 2008 totaling approximately $2.4 million

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to the individuals who have amended their Eligible Options, which amount was fully accrued in the second quarter of our 2008 fiscal year.

        For those employees who exercised a 409A Affected Option during 2006, we participated in the IRS and California Franchise Tax Board, or FTB, settlement programs they have developed to allow employers to pay certain taxes on behalf of employees to settle potential tax liabilities resulting from the exercise of these 409A Affected Options during 2006. In connection with our participation in these programs, we paid an aggregate of approximately $0.3 million to the IRS and FTB. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 we also approved bonuses of an aggregate of approximately $0.2 million payable to these affected employees to compensate them for additional income tax imposed on them as a result of the payments we made on their behalf to the IRS and FTB.

         Income tax benefit (provision) —Because of the potential impact of the measurement date changes on the qualified status of Affected ISOs, we have determined that all Affected ISOs might not be qualified as ISOs under IRS regulations, and therefore should be accounted for as if they were Nonstatutory Stock Options under the IRC, or NSOs, for income tax accounting purposes. However, we recorded no income tax benefit associated with share-based compensation and related charges because of valuation allowances provided against the resulting deferred tax assets, as we believe that sufficient doubt exists that we will be able to realize the value of those assets.

Other Accounting Adjustments

        In addition to the share-based compensation adjustments described above, we also made certain other adjustments to our previously-reported net income (loss):

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        In addition to the above adjustments, reclassifications have been made to prior year balances to conform to the current year presentation.

Related Proceedings

        Several derivative actions related to the stock option grants were filed against certain of our current and former directors and officers. These cases are discussed under the section titled "Business—Legal Proceedings."

        As we disclosed on July 26, 2006, the SEC commenced an informal inquiry into our stock option grant practices. We are cooperating with the SEC and intend to continue to do so.

The Nasdaq Global Market

        As a result of our internal review of our historical stock option granting practices, we were unable to timely file our periodic reports with the SEC during fiscal year 2007. We were also subject to delisting proceedings in front of the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Staff. After we filed all of our outstanding periodic reports with the SEC in late April 2007, we received a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Staff letter stating that the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Staff determined that we had demonstrated compliance with all Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. Accordingly, our securities will continue to be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market. However, if the SEC disagrees with the manner in which we have accounted for and reported, or not reported, the financial impact of past stock option grants, there could be further delays in filing subsequent SEC reports or other actions that might result in the delisting of our common stock from the Nasdaq Global Market.

Evaluation of Controls and Procedures

        As discussed above, during 2006, a review related to our historical stock option granting practices was conducted by our Audit Committee. As a result of the review, we reached a conclusion that incorrect measurement dates were used for financial accounting purposes for certain stock option grants made in prior periods. Therefore, we have recorded additional non-cash share-based compensation expense and related tax effects with regard to past stock option grants, substantially all of which relate to options granted between February 1, 1997 and July 29, 2006. As a result, we announced in September 2006 that previously issued financial statements could no longer be relied upon. We restated previously filed annual financial statements and our quarterly financial statements of fiscal year 2007.

        In connection with the filing of our Form 10-Q for the three months ended August 4, 2007, we carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based upon that evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of August 4, 2007 because we have not completed the remediation of the material weaknesses discussed below. Our management concluded, and our independent registered public accounting firm,

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Armanino McKenna LLP rendered an opinion concurring with managements' conclusion, that we did not maintain effective controls as of February 3, 2007 because of the following:

        Company-level controls.     We did not maintain effective company-level controls as defined in the Internal Control—Integrated Framework published by COSO. These deficiencies related to each of the five components of internal control as defined by COSO, which are control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication, and monitoring. These deficiencies resulted in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected. Specifically,

        Controls over share-based compensation.     We had inadequate administration, supervision, and review controls over the approval and recording of share-based compensation.

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        Our restated annual and interim financial statements correct the errors related to accounting for share-based compensation.

        Financial statement preparation and review procedures.     We had inadequate policies, procedures and personnel to ensure that accurate, reliable interim and annual consolidated financial statements were prepared and reviewed on a timely basis. Specifically, we had insufficient: (a) levels of supporting documentation; (b) review and supervision within the accounting and finance departments; (c) preparation and review of footnote disclosures accompanying our financial statements; and (d) technical accounting resources. These deficiencies resulted in errors in the financial statements and more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected.

        Inadequate reviews of account reconciliations, analyses and journal entries.     We had inadequate review procedures over account reconciliations, account and transaction analyses, and journal entries. Specifically, deficiencies were noted in the following areas: (a) management review of supporting documentation, calculations and assumptions used to prepare the financial statements, including spreadsheets and account analyses; and (b) management review of journal entries recorded during the financial statement preparation process. These deficiencies resulted in an understatement of warranty accrual and inventory reserves, misclassification errors between research and development expenses and cost of goods sold, and other errors in prior financial statements. These deficiencies resulted in a more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected.

        Inadequate controls over purchases and disbursements.     We had inadequate controls over the segregation of duties and authorization of purchases, and the disbursement of funds. These weaknesses increased the likelihood that misappropriation of assets and unauthorized purchases and disbursements could occur and not be detected in a timely manner. These deficiencies resulted in errors in the financial statements and in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected. Specifically, we had

        We also carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. This evaluation was most recently performed as of August 4, 2007, the last day of our second fiscal quarter. Based upon that evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of August 4, 2007, because we had not completed the remediation of our material weaknesses discussed above.

        As of the date of this prospectus, we have not completed the remediation and testing of any of these material weaknesses.

        We are addressing the outstanding material weaknesses described above, as well as our control environment. We hired a new chief financial officer in the second quarter of fiscal year 2008. We also expect to undertake the following remediation efforts:

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        These specific actions are part of an overall program that we are currently developing in an effort to remediate the material weaknesses described above. We likely will not have sufficient time to implement our remediation plan before testing our internal control over financial reporting for our current fiscal year that will end February 2, 2008.

        In August 2007, we filed an amendment to our annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2007, in order to correct certain clerical errors in our financial statements and financial statement footnotes.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

        Management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues generated and expenses incurred during the reporting period. On an on-going basis, management evaluates its estimates and judgments, including, but not limited to, those related to:

        Management bases its estimates and judgments on historical experience and on various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

         Revenue recognition —We derive revenues primarily from three principal sources: product sales; product development contracts; and service contracts. We generally recognize revenues for product sales and service contracts in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin, or SAB, No. 104, "Revenue Recognition," under which revenue is recognized when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or service has been rendered, the fee is fixed and determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.

        Revenues from product sales to our customers are generally recognized upon shipment, as our shipping terms are FOB shipping point, except that revenues are deferred when management cannot reasonably estimate the amount of returns or where collectibility is not assured. In those situations,

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revenue is recognized when collection subsequently becomes probable and returns are estimable, which generally occurs upon resale by our customers. Allowances for sales returns and warranty costs are recorded at the time that revenues are recognized.

        Product development agreements typically require that we provide customized software to support customer-specific designs, accordingly this revenue is accounted for under the AICPA Statement of Position, or SOP, 97-2. We offer post-contract customer support, or PCS, on a contractual basis for additional fees, which is typically a one year term. In instances where software is bundled with the PCS, vendor specific objective evidence does not exist to allocate the total fee to each element of the arrangement that has not been delivered and, therefore, revenue and related costs are deferred until all elements, except PCS are delivered. The total fee is then recognized ratably over the PCS term (typically one year) after the software is delivered. We classify development costs related to product development agreements as cost of revenues. Product development revenues were approximately $0.6 million, $1.2 million and $1.0 million, for fiscal years 2007, 2006, and 2005, respectively.

        Revenues from service contracts consist of fees for providing engineering support services, and are recognized ratably over the contract term. Expenses related to support service revenues are included in cost of sales. Support service revenues were $0.3 million, $0.2 million and $0.3 million for fiscal years 2007, 2006, and 2005 respectively.

         Accounts receivable —During industry downturns, certain of our customers may have difficulty with their cash flows. Certain customers, typically those with whom we have long-term relationships, may delay their payments by 40 to 60 days beyond the original terms. We review the ability of our customers to pay the account receivable they incur with us. We defer recognition of revenue and the related receivable when we cannot reasonably estimate whether collectibility is reasonably assured at the time products and services are delivered to our customer. We provide an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of our customers to make required payments. These estimated allowances are periodically reviewed, analyzing the customer's payment history and information regarding credit worthiness. In establishing our sales return allowance, we must make estimates of potential future product returns related to current period product revenue, including analyzing historical returns, current economic trends, and changes in customer demand and acceptance of our products. In fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, we recorded a provision for bad debt allowance and sales returns in the total amount of $30,000, $31,000 and $0.6 million, respectively. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, resulting in an impairment of their ability to make payments, or future product returns increased, additional allowances may be required.

         Inventories —We monitor our inventory levels in light of product development changes and market expectations. We may be required to take additional charges for quantities in excess of demand, cost in excess of market value and product age. Our analysis may take into consideration historical usage, expected demand, anticipated sales price, new product development schedules, the effect new products might have on the sales of existing products, product age, customer design activity, customer concentration and other factors. These forecasts require us to estimate our ability to see demand for current and future products and compare those estimates with our current inventory levels and inventory purchase commitments. Our forecasts for our inventory may differ from actual inventory use.

         Share-based compensation —Effective January 29, 2006, the start of our fiscal year 2007, we adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), or SFAS 123(R), using the modified prospective method and, therefore, have not revised prior periods' results for the adoption of this accounting statement. SFAS 123(R) requires all share-based payments to be measured based on the award's fair value on the date of grant, and is recognized as expense ratably over the requisite service period. We currently use the Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of our share-based payments. The Black-Scholes option pricing model is based on a number of assumptions, including expected volatility, expected forfeiture rates, expected life, risk-free interest rate and expected

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dividends. If the assumptions change, share-based compensation may differ significantly from what we have recorded in the past.

        For fiscal years 2006 and prior, share-based compensation was determined under Accounting Principles Board Opinion, or APB, No. 25 Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees , or APB 25, whereby the difference between the value on the recorded grant date and on the respective measurement date, including payroll taxes, interest and penalties, is recorded. In connection with our restatement of the fiscal year 2006 and prior consolidated financial statements, we have applied judgment in choosing whether to revise measurement dates for prior option grants. Information regarding the restatement, including ranges of possible additional share-based compensation expense if other measurement dates had been selected for certain grants, is set forth in Note 2 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

         Goodwill and purchased intangible assets— We record goodwill as the difference, if any, between the aggregate consideration paid for an acquisition and the fair value of the estimated net tangible and intangible assets acquired. The amounts and useful lives assigned to intangible assets acquired, other than goodwill, impact the amount and timing of future amortization.

        In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, or SFAS 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets," we review goodwill for impairment annually, or more frequently, when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. The provisions of SFAS 142 require that a two-step test be performed to assess goodwill for impairment. First, the estimated fair value of each reporting unit is compared to its carrying value. If the fair value exceeds the carrying value, goodwill is not impaired and no further testing is performed. The second step is performed if the carrying value exceeds the fair value. The fair value of a reporting unit is allocated to all the assets and liabilities of the reporting unit as if the reporting unit had been acquired in a business combination at the date of the impairment test. The fair value of tangible net assets and both recognized and unrecognized intangible assets is deducted from the fair value of the reporting unit to determine the implied fair value of reporting unit goodwill. The implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill must be compared to the carrying value of the goodwill. If the carrying value of a reporting unit's goodwill exceeds its implied fair value, an impairment loss equal to the difference will be recorded. The estimates we have used for evaluating Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets are consistent with the plans and estimates that we use to manage our business. It is possible, however, that the plans and estimates used may be incorrect. If our actual results, or the plans and estimates used in future impairment analyses, are lower than the original estimates used, we could incur impairment charges.

        SFAS 142 also requires that intangible assets with definite lives be amortized over their estimated useful life and periodically reviewed for impairment in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 144, or SFAS 144, "Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets."

        We are currently amortizing acquired intangible assets with definite lives. Acquired developed technology is amortized over seven years and noncompete agreements are amortized over the contractual period (currently three years). The amortization expense for acquired developed technology is classified as cost of sales and the amortization expense for other acquired intangible assets is classified as research and development expense in our consolidated statements of operations.

         Deferred tax assets —We record a valuation allowance to reduce our deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. We assess on a quarterly basis whether it is more likely than not that we will be able to realize our deferred tax assets in the future in excess of the net recorded amount. In the event we were to determine that we would be able to realize deferred tax assets in the future in excess of the net recorded amount, an adjustment to the deferred tax asset would provide an income tax benefit that would increase income in the period such determination was

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made. Currently, we record a full valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets due to the high uncertainty of our ability to realize these assets.

         Litigation and settlement costs —From time to time, we are involved in disputes, litigation and other legal proceedings. We defend these matters aggressively. However, there are many uncertainties associated with any litigation, and we cannot assure you that these actions or other third party claims against us will be resolved without costly litigation and/or substantial settlement charges. If any of these events were to happen, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected. We record a charge equal to at least the minimum estimated liability for litigation costs or loss contingency only when both of the following conditions are met: (i) information available prior to issuance of the financial statements indicates that it is probable that an asset had been impaired or a liability had been incurred at the date of the financial statements and (ii) the range of loss can be reasonably estimated. However, the actual liability in any such litigation may be materially different from our estimates, which could result in the need to record additional expenses.

         Income taxes —As part of the process of preparing our consolidated financial statements, we are required to estimate our income taxes in each of the tax jurisdictions in which we operate. This process involves using an asset and liability approach whereby deferred tax assets and liabilities are recorded for differences in the financial reporting bases and tax bases of our assets and liabilities. Significant management judgment is required in determining our provision for income taxes, deferred tax assets and liabilities. In addition, we evaluate on a quarterly basis our deferred tax assets to ascertain whether it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized.

        On July 13, 2006, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 48, "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—An Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109," or FIN 48. FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in any entity's financial statements in accordance with FASB Statement No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" and prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attributes for financial statement disclosure of tax positions taken or expected to be taken on a tax return. Under FIN 48, the impact of an uncertain income tax position on the income tax return must be recognized as the largest amount that is more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon audit by the relevant taxing authority. An uncertain income tax position will not be recognized if it has less than a 50% likelihood of being sustained. Additionally, FIN 48 provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006.

        We adopted the provisions of FIN 48 on February 4, 2007, the beginning of our fiscal year 2008. The total amount of unrecognized tax benefits as of the date of adoption was $2.4 million. As a result of the implementation of FIN 48, we recognized no increase in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits, which was accounted for during previous reporting periods.

        Included in the balance of unrecognized tax benefits at February 4, 2007, are $374,000 of tax benefits that, if recognized, would reduce our effective tax rate, and $2.0 million of unrecognized benefits that would increase our deferred tax assets. During the six months ended August 4, 2007, there were no material changes to these amounts.

        We have adopted the accounting policy that interest recognized in accordance with Paragraph 15 of FIN 48 and penalty recognized in accordance with Paragraph 16 of FIN 48 are classified as part of our income taxes. The aggregate amount of interest and penalty recognized in the statement of operations and statement of financial position was $36,000 as of February 3, 2007. During the six months ended August 4, 2007, there were no material changes to these amounts.

        Our operations are subject to income and transaction taxes in the United States and in multiple foreign jurisdictions. Significant estimates and judgments are required in determining our worldwide

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provision for income taxes. Some of these estimates are based on interpretations of existing tax laws or regulations. The ultimate amount of tax liability may be uncertain as a result.

        Tax authorities may challenge the allocation of profits between our subsidiaries and may challenge certain tax benefits claimed on our tax returns, and we may not prevail in any such challenge. If we were not to prevail, we could be subject to higher tax rates or lose certain tax benefits that could result in a higher tax rate.

        We are subject to taxation in the United States and various states and foreign jurisdictions. The French taxing authority is currently auditing the research and development tax credit that we claimed from fiscal year 2001 through the 2005 fiscal year. In addition, the IRS has commenced an employee payroll tax audit for our fiscal years 2004 and 2005 and an income tax audit for our fiscal year 2005. There are no other ongoing income tax examinations by taxing authorities at this time. Our tax filings for the tax years from 1990 to 2006 remain open in various taxing jurisdictions.

Results of Operations

        The following table is derived from our selected consolidated financial data and sets forth our historical operating results as a percentage of net revenues for the periods indicated:

 
  Year Ended
  Six Months Ended
 
 
  January 29,
2005

  January 28,
2006

  February 3,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

 
 
   
   
   
  (unaudited)

 
Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:                      
Net revenues   100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 %
Cost of revenues   31   36   51   53   49  
   
 
 
 
 
 
Gross profit   69   64   49   47   51  
Operating expenses:                      
  Research and development   39   45   25   29   18  
  Sales and marketing   17   18   9   10   6  
  General and administrative   14   15   9   12   9  
   
 
 
 
 
 
    Operating expenses   70   78   42   51   33  
Gains on sales of long-term investments     8        
Interest income and other income, net   1   2   1   1   1  
   
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for income taxes           1  
   
 
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss)     (5 )% 7 % (3 )% 18 %
   
 
 
 
 
 

Comparison of Six Months Ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006

Net Revenues

        Net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 increased $43.6 million, or 125%, as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. The increase in net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 was primarily attributable to increased sales into the IPTV market and the high definition DVD and other media players market.

Net revenues by target market

        We sell our products into three primary markets, which are the IPTV market, the high definition DVD and other media players market and the HDTV market. We also sell our products, to a lesser extent, into several other markets, such as the PC-based add-in market, which we refer to collectively as our other market. The following table sets forth our net revenues by market and the percentage of

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total net revenues represented by our product sales to each market for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006:

 
  Six months ended
 
 
  July 29,
2006

  % of net
revenues

  August 4,
2007

  % of net
revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
IPTV   $ 21,823   62 % $ 56,309   72 %
High definition DVD and other media players     10,913   31 %   18,095   23 %
HDTV     620   2 %   2,810   4 %
Other     1,579   5 %   1,350   2 %
   
 
 
 
 
  Total net revenues   $ 34,935   100 % $ 78,564   100 %
   
 
 
 
 

        IPTV.     The increase of $34.5 million, or 158%, in net revenues from sales into the IPTV market for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year was in part attributable to our customers in the IPTV market commercially launching their products incorporating our SoCs, primarily our SMP8630 SoC series. Our net revenues from the IPTV market as a percentage of our total net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year increased 10% primarily due to expansion of the IPTV market and increased sales to existing clients as well as sales to new clients.

        High definition DVD and other media players.     The increase of $7.2 million, or 66%, in net revenues from the high definition DVD and other media players market for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year was primarily attributable to increased sales volume of our customers' products incorporating our SoCs, including an increase in Blu-ray and digital media adapter applications. Although our net revenues in absolute dollars from sales into the high definition DVD and other media players market increased, our net revenues from sales into this market as a percentage of our total net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year decreased 8% primarily as a result of a disproportionate increase in the sales of our SoCs into the IPTV market during this six-month period.

        HDTV.     We experienced an increase in demand for our HDTV applications in the six months ended August 4, 2007, compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year, which resulted in an increase in net revenues from sales into the HDTV market of $2.2 million for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. Our net revenues from sales into the HDTV market as a percentage of our total net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year increased 2% as a result of a disproportionate increase in the sales of our SoCs into this market compared to the increase in sales of our SoCs into the IPTV market.

        Other.     Our other markets consists of PC add-ins and other ancillary markets. The decrease of $0.2 million, or 15%, in the net revenues from sales to our other markets for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year was primarily due to a decrease in unit sales of PC add-in board products in the first six months of fiscal year 2008. We expect our revenues from sales to these other markets to continue to decline due to generally declining demand in these markets.

Net revenues by product group

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product groups and the percentage of total net revenues represented by each product group, for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006:

 
  Six months ended
 
 
  July 29,
2006

  % of net
revenues

  August 4,
2007

  % of net
revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
SoCs   $ 32,643   93 % $ 75,746   96 %
Other     2,292   7 %   2,818   4 %
   
 
 
 
 
  Total net revenues   $ 34,935   100 % $ 78,564   100 %
   
 
 
 
 

        SoCs.     Our SoCs are targeted toward manufacturers and large volume designer and manufacturer customers building products for the IPTV, high definition DVD and other media players and HDTV consumer electronic markets. The increase of $43.1 million, or 132%, in net revenues from SoCs for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year was due primarily to an increase of $41.0 million for the six months ended August 4, 2007 in sales of our SoCs into newer generation IPTV products and high definition DVD players.

        Other.     We derive revenues from other products and services, including engineer support services for both hardware and software, engineering development for customization of SoCs and other accessories. The increase of $0.5 million for the six months ended August 4, 2007, was due primarily to an increase in sales of our engineering development kits related to our SoCs and an increase in support services as a result of our increased SoC sales, partially offset by a decrease in sales of our board products as a result of decreased demand.

Net revenues by geographic region

        The following table sets forth our net revenues by geographic region, and the percentage of total net revenues represented by each geographic region for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006:

 
  Six months ended
 
 
  July 29,
2006

  % of net
revenues

  August 4,
2007

  % of net
revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
Asia   $ 17,083   49 % $ 48,209   61 %
Europe     11,728   34 %   25,197   32 %
North America     6,065   17 %   5,075   6 %
Other regions     59       83    
   
 
 
 
 
  Total net revenues   $ 34,935   100 % $ 78,564   100 %
   
 
 
 
 

        Asia.     Our net revenues from Asia increased $31.1 million, or 182%, in the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. Our net revenues in Asia represented 61% of our total net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to 49% in the corresponding period from the prior fiscal year. The significant increase in net revenues from Asia in both absolute dollars and as a percentage of our total net revenues was due primarily to our customers' successful initial product trials and commercial launches of their products incorporating our SoCs. Also, companies who incorporate our products in their finished goods and are located in other regions continued to move their production orders to large designers and manufacturers located in the Asia region, which has led to a further shifting of our revenues from other regions into the Asia region, as many of our direct customers are large designers and manufacturers located in Asia. We also continued to experience large volume orders from two distributors located in Asia.

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        Our net revenues from the Asia region for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 as a percentage of our total net revenues were as follows:

 
  Six months ended
 
 
  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

 
China   7 % 7 %
Hong Kong   5 % 2 %
Japan   10 % 14 %
Korea   16 % 17 %
Singapore   3 % 13 %
Taiwan   7 % 8 %
Other   *   *  

*
Less than 1% of our total net revenues.

        Europe.     Our net revenues from Europe increased $13.5 million, or 115%, for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. This increase in our net revenues from Europe was primarily attributable to major deployments by our European customers using our IPTV SoCs in their finished goods. Our revenues from Europe in any given period fluctuate depending on whether our customers place their orders locally or through overseas manufacturers who incorporate our products into their final products.

        North America.     Our net revenues from North America decreased $1.0 million, or 16%, for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. The decrease was primarily attributable to companies located in North America who incorporate our products in their finished goods continuing to move their production orders to large designers and manufacturers located in the Asia region, which has led to a further shifting of our revenues from North America into the Asia region, partially offset by volume orders received from a new customer and existing customers located in North America for our SoC solutions for the IPTV market. Our revenues from North America in any given period fluctuate depending on whether our customers place their orders locally or through overseas manufacturers who incorporate our products into their final products.

        For the six months ended August 4, 2007, our net revenues generated outside North America were 94% of our total net revenues as compared to 83% for the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year.

Major Customers

        Major customers that accounted for over 10% of our total net revenues in the periods presented below are as follows:

 
  Six months ended
 
Customers

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

 
Uniquest   24 % 17 %
Freebox   15 % 14 %
MTC Singapore   *   13 %
Macnica, Inc.   *   12 %
Scientific Atlanta (now part of Cisco Systems)   *   11 %

*
Revenue from customer was less than 10% of our total net revenues.

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Gross Profit and Gross Margin

        Our gross profit for the six months ended August 4, 2007 was $40.1 million, representing a gross margin of 51%, as compared to $16.4 million, representing a gross margin of 47%, for the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. The increase in gross profit and gross margin during the six months ended August 4, 2007 was primarily related to the increased sales volume of our SoCs and reduction of our production costs due to the volume purchasing discount we received from our manufacturer.

Operating Expenses

        The following table sets forth our operating expenses and the related percentage of total net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006:

 
  Six months ended
 
 
  July 29,
2006

  % of net
revenues

  August 4,
2007

  % of net
revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
Research and development expenses   $ 10,266   29 % $ 14,453   18 %
Sales and marketing expenses     3,485   10 %   4,924   6 %
General and administrative expenses     4,103   12 %   6,705   9 %
   
 
 
 
 
  Total operating expenses   $ 17,854       $ 26,082      
   
     
     

        Research and development expenses.     Research and development expenses increased by $4.2 million, or 41%, for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. This increase resulted primarily from $1.5 million in compensation expense associated with research and development personnel as a result of the employee stock option tender offer we conducted in the three months ended August 4, 2007, an increase of $0.2 million in share-based compensation expense and an increase of $1.4 million in wages and compensation associated with research and development personnel and an increase of $0.5 million in software licensing fees. Share-based compensation expense attributed to our research and development personnel for the six months ended August 4, 2007 was $1.6 million compared to $1.3 million for the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year.

        Sales and marketing expenses.     Sales and marketing expenses increased by $1.4 million, or 41%, for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. This increase resulted primarily from $0.4 million in compensation expenses associated with sales and marketing personnel as a result of the employee stock option tender offer we conducted in the three months ended August 4, 2007, an increase of $0.2 million in insurance costs, an increase of $0.1 million in share-based compensation expense and an increase of $0.5 million in wages and compensation associated with our sales and marketing personnel. Share-based compensation expense attributed to our sales and marketing personnel for the six months ended August 4, 2007 was $0.5 million compared to $0.4 million for the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year.

        General and administrative expenses.     General and administrative expenses increased by $2.6 million, or 63%, for the six months ended August 4, 2007 as compared with the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year. This increase was due primarily to $0.3 million in compensation expenses associated with our general and administrative personnel as a result of the employee stock option tender offer we conducted in the three months ended August 4, 2007, an increase of $0.2 million in share-based compensation, $0.5 million increase in wages and compensation associated with our general and administrative personnel, and $1.4 million in outside professional services, mostly related to the review of our historical stock option granting practices and the re-audits of our fiscal years 2006 and 2005 financial statements. Share-based compensation expense attributed to our general and

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administrative personnel for the six months ended August 4, 2007 was $0.8 million compared to $0.6 million for the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year.

        Share-based compensation expense.     The following table presents the total share-based compensation expense that is included in each line item in the consolidated condensed statements of operations for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006:

 
  Six Months Ended
 
  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

 
  (dollars in thousands)

Cost of revenues   $ 175   $ 189
Research and development expenses     1,190     1,552
Sales and marketing expenses     392     488
General and administrative expenses     603     810
   
 
  Total share-based compensation   $ 2,360   $ 3,039
   
 

        Accounting for employee stock options grants will continue to have an adverse impact on our results of operations. Future share-based compensation expense and unearned share-based compensation will increase to the extent that we grant additional equity awards to employees or assume unvested equity awards in connection with acquisitions.

Interest Income and Other Income, Net

        Our other income primarily consisted of interest income from short-term investments offset by interest expense for a bank loan. For the six months ended August 4, 2007, we recovered $31,000 from a long-term investment, which was fully written off in fiscal year 2007.

Provision for Income Tax

        Our provision for income taxes consisted primarily of federal alternative minimum income taxes, state income taxes and foreign income taxes on our foreign subsidiaries. Income tax provision for the six months ended August 4, 2007 was $799,000 and was comprised of alternative minimum tax, state income tax and foreign income tax. Income tax provision for the six months ended July 29, 2006 was $33,000, and was comprised of state income tax and foreign income tax. The increase in the income tax provision for the six months ended August 4, 2007 is primarily attributable to the increase in our pre-tax income.

Comparison of Fiscal Years 2007, 2006 and 2005

Net Revenues

        Our net revenues increased $57.9 million, or 174%, in fiscal year 2007 compared to fiscal year 2006. This increase in revenues was primarily attributable to increased sales into the IPTV, high definition DVD and other media players and HDTV markets. Our net revenues increased $1.9 million, or 6%, in fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2005. This increase in revenues was due to increasing demand for our products, which increased unit volume was partially offset by lower average selling prices.

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Net revenues by target markets

        The following table sets forth our net revenues by market and the percentage of total net revenues represented by our product sales to each market segment for the periods indicated:

 
  Fiscal Year
 
 
  2005
  % of Net
Revenues

  2006
  % of Net
Revenues

  2007
  % of Net
Revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
IPTV   $ 18,024   57 % $ 19,170   58 % $ 61,501   67 %
High definition DVD and other media players     10,379   33     11,227   34     24,698   27  
HDTV     362   1     797   2     1,657   2  
Other     2,633   8     2,126   6     3,362   4  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Total net revenues   $ 31,398   100 % $ 33,320   100 % $ 91,218   100 %
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

        IPTV.     For fiscal year 2007, revenues from sales of our SoC solutions to the IPTV market increased $42.3 million, or 221%, from fiscal year 2006 and increased $1.1 million, or 6%, for fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2005. The increase in revenues in the IPTV market for fiscal year 2007 as compared to fiscal year 2006 was in part attributable to our customers commercially launching their products incorporating our SoCs, primarily our SMP8630 series. The increase in revenues in the IPTV market for fiscal year 2006 as compared to fiscal year 2005 was mainly attributable to increased unit sales of our SoC solutions into IPTV set-top box markets, partially offset by lower average selling prices. Our net revenues from the IPTV market as a percentage of our total net revenues for fiscal year 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior fiscal year increased 9% primarily due to expansion of the IPTV market and increased sales to existing clients as well sales to new clients.

        High definition DVD and other media players.     For fiscal year 2007, revenues from sales of our products to the high definition DVD and other media players market increased $13.5 million, or 120%, from fiscal year 2006 and increased $0.8 million, or 8%, for fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2005. The increase in revenues from sales of our products into this market in fiscal year 2007 as compared to fiscal year 2006 was primarily attributable to increased sales of our customers' products, including an increase in Blu-ray and digital media adapter applications. The increase in revenues from sales of our products into this market in fiscal year 2006 as compared to fiscal year 2005 was attributable to the increased unit sales of our SoC solutions for portable media players partially offset by lower average selling prices. Although our net revenues in absolute dollars from sales into the high definition DVD and other media players market increased, our net revenues from sales into this market as a percentage of our total net revenues for fiscal year 2007 compared to fiscal year 2006 decreased 7%, primarily due to the increase in the sales of our products into the IPTV market.

        HDTV.     We began shipment of HDTV applications during the second quarter of fiscal year 2004 and experienced an increase in demand for these products through fiscal year 2007. Our sales in the HDTV market remained relatively flat due to the disproportionate increase in the sales of our products into the IPTV market.

        Other.     The increase in net revenues from sales into our other markets in fiscal year 2007, as compared to fiscal year 2006, was primarily due to an increase in nonrecurring engineering revenues. The decrease in revenues from sales of our products to our other markets in fiscal year 2006, as compared to fiscal year 2005, was due to the decreased engineering development revenues, support services and shipments of other accessories.

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Net revenues by product group

        The following table sets forth our net revenues in each of our major product group and the percentage of total net revenues represented by each product group, for the periods indicated:

 
  Fiscal Year
 
 
  2005
  % of Net
Revenues

  2006
  % of Net
Revenues

  2007
  % of Net
Revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
SoCs   $ 26,341   84 % $ 28,198   85 % $ 86,984   95 %
Other     5,057   16     5,122   15     4,234   5  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Total net revenues   $ 31,398   100 % $ 33,320   100 % $ 91,218   100 %
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

        SoCs.     The increase of $58.8 million, or 208%, in net revenues from SoCs in fiscal year 2007 as compared to fiscal year 2006 was due primarily to a $65.2 million increase in sales into the newer generation of IPTV, high definition DVD players, HDTV, and portable media player products, offset by a $7.5 million decrease in sales of our legacy products. The increase of $1.9 million, or 7%, in net revenues from SoCs in fiscal year 2006 as compared to fiscal year 2005 was due primarily to increased unit sales of our SoCs into the IPTV market and high definition DVD and other media players market, offset by the lower average selling price given to large original equipment manufacturers for volume orders.

        Other.     The decrease of $0.9 million, or 17%, in net revenues from other products in fiscal year 2007 as compared to fiscal year 2006 was primarily attributable to decreased demand in for our board products. Our revenues from other products remained relatively flat in fiscal year 2006 as compared to fiscal year 2005. We anticipate our revenues from board products will be relatively flat or decrease in future periods due to our strategic decision to focus on our SoC solutions.

Net revenues by geographic region

        The following table sets forth our net revenues by geographic region, and the percentage of total net revenues represented by each geographic region, for each of the last three fiscal years:

 
  Fiscal Year
 
 
  2005
  % of Net
Revenues

  2006
  % of Net
Revenues

  2007
  % of Net
Revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
Asia   $ 20,532   65 % $ 27,293   82 % $ 48,386   53 %
North America     4,401   14     3,944   12     9,607   11  
Europe     6,462   21     2,081   6     33,109   36  
Other regions     3       2       116    
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Total net revenues   $ 31,398   100 % $ 33,320   100 % $ 91,218   100 %
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

        Asia.     Our net revenues from Asia increased $21.1 million, or 77%, in fiscal year 2007, as compared to fiscal year 2006. The increase in net revenues from the Asia region in fiscal year 2007 was due primarily to completion of our customers' initial product trials and successful launches of end products that contain our SoCs. In fiscal year 2006, our revenues from Asia increased $6.8 million, or 33%, as compared to fiscal year 2005. We have experienced a shift by many of our North American and European customers to production by Asian contract manufacturers. This caused the increase in revenues from Asia in fiscal year 2006. Our sales to Asia grew in absolute dollars, but decreased as a percentage of net revenue due to the rapid expansion of our sales in other geographic regions.

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        In fiscal years 2005 to 2007, our net revenues from the Asia region as a percentage of our total net revenues were as follows:

 
  Fiscal Year

 
 
  2005
  2006
  2007
 
China   21 % 21 % 11 %
Hong Kong   3 % 10 % 4 %
Japan   6 % 9 % 8 %
Korea   16 % 26 % 17 %
Singapore   *   1 % 8 %
Taiwan   17 % 14 % 5 %
Other   1 % 1 % *  

*
Less than 1% of our total net revenues.

        North America.     Our net revenues from North America increased $5.7 million, or 144%, for fiscal year 2007 as compared to fiscal year 2006. The increase was largely due to our customers' initial trials and successful launches. North American revenues decreased $0.5 million, or 10%, for fiscal year 2006 as compared to fiscal year 2005. The decrease was largely due to the decreased unit sales of our other products, which was partially offset by the increased unit sales of our SoCs. This was due primarily to customers increasingly incorporating our SoCs into their final products. In addition, there was a shift of SoC orders from our customers in the North American region to our customers in the Asia region.

        Europe.     Our net revenues from Europe for fiscal year 2007 increased $31.0 million, or 1,491%, as compared to fiscal year 2006. The increase in revenues from Europe was primarily attributable to major deployments by our European customers using our SoCs in IPTV set-top boxes in their finished products. Our net revenues from Europe for fiscal year 2006 decreased $4.4 million, or 68%, as compared to fiscal year 2005. The decrease in revenues from Europe was primarily attributable to decreases in unit sales of our SoCs. This was due primarily to customers increasingly incorporating our SoCs into their final products, which were manufactured in the Asia countries. As a result, there was a shift of SoC orders from our customers in the Europe region to our customers in the Asia region. Future revenues from Europe will ultimately depend on our customers' order point and delivery point.

        For fiscal year 2007, sales in France represented 29% of our net revenues. No other European country accounted for more than 10% of our net revenues in fiscal year 2007. For fiscal year 2006, we did not have sales in excess of 10% of net revenues from a single European country. For fiscal year 2005, sales in Denmark were 15% of our net revenues. No other European country accounted for more than 10% of our net revenues in fiscal year 2005.

        In fiscal year 2007, our revenues generated outside of North America were 89% of our total net revenues as compared to approximately 88% in fiscal year 2006 and 86% in fiscal year 2005. We expect that sales outside of North America will continue to account for a significant portion of our net revenues.

Major customers

        Major customers that accounted for over 10% of our total net revenues in the periods presented below were as follows:

 
  Fiscal Year
 
Customers

 
  2005
  2006
  2007
 
Freebox     *   20 %
Uniquest   15 % 26 % 17 %
Kiss Technology (now part of Cisco Systems)†   14 % *   *  

             
      Cisco Systems, a North American company, acquired our customer Kiss Technologies, formerly a European company, in fiscal year 2006.
      *
      Revenue from customer was less than 10% of our total net revenues.

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Gross Profit and Gross Margin

        Our gross profit was $44.4 million, $21.4 million and $21.7 million in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The significant increased gross profit in fiscal year 2007 was due primarily to increased sales of our SoCs used in the IPTV and high definition and other media player markets. Our gross profit in fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2005 was relatively flat. Provision for excess and obsolete inventory included in cost of revenues was $1.2 million, $29,000 and $0.2 million in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The increase in provisions for excess and obsolete inventory from fiscal year 2006 to 2007 was primarily due to a $1.0 million write-down of our finished goods.

        Our gross profit as a percentage of net revenues, or gross margin, was 49% in fiscal year 2007, 64% in fiscal year 2006 and 69% in fiscal year 2005. The decrease in gross margin in fiscal year 2007 from fiscal year 2006 was primarily related to the introduction of our SoCs for the IPTV market at lower average selling prices due to individual customer volume pricing, while incurring early volume production ramp costs. This volume pricing was established as part of our strategy to obtain a leading share of the expanding IPTV market. The decrease in gross margin was also due in part to anticipated lower gross margins on sales in the high-volume IPTV market versus those of our other products, which are higher gross margin products that serve lower-volume niche markets.

        The decrease in gross margin in fiscal year 2006 from fiscal year 2005 was due primarily to lower average selling prices provided to designers and manufacturers for volume orders, and an increase in share-based compensation expense and related payroll taxes, interest and penalties of $0.3 million due to the change in measurement dates of some of our option grants in fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2005 and the related restatement of our financial statements. In addition, the costs related to service revenues and certain small development contracts were included in sales and marketing expenses and research and development expenses, while our expense for inventory obsolescence increased cost of revenues by $1.2 million, $29,000 and $0.2 million in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. In addition, cost of revenues in fiscal year 2006 included $0.1 million of accelerated depreciation expense due to reduction of the estimated useful live for certain testing equipment.

Operating Expenses

        The following table sets forth our operating expenses and the related percentage of total net revenues for the fiscal years 2005, 2006 and 2007:

 
  Fiscal Year
 
 
  2005
  % of Net
Revenues

  2006
  % of Net
Revenues

  2007
  % of Net
Revenues

 
 
  (dollars in thousands)

 
Research and development expenses   $ 12,288   39 % $ 15,040   45 % $ 22,515   25 %
Sales and marketing expenses     5,268   17     6,056   18     7,841   9  
General and administrative expenses     4,531   14     4,868   15     8,222   9  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Total operating expenses   $ 22,087   70 % $ 25,964   78 % $ 38,578   42 %
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

        Research and development expenses.     Research and development expenses increased by approximately $7.5 million, or 50%, in fiscal year 2007 compared to fiscal year 2006. The increase in fiscal year 2007 is primarily attributable to the addition of 31 research and development personnel, including 17 research and development personnel added through the acquisition of Blue7, partially offset by a reduction in project-related costs of $1.1 million. Research and development expenses increased by approximately $2.8 million, or 22%, in fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2005. The increase in fiscal year 2006 was primarily attributable to an increase in salary and wages of an aggregate of $1.0 million associated with the additions of engineering staff at our headquarters, Hong Kong office and development center in France, an increase of $1.0 million in various license fees, an

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increase of $0.3 million in depreciation expense. We incurred $3.0 million, $1.0 million and $0.7 million in share-based compensation expense attributable to our research and development personnel in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The stock-based compensation expense for each fiscal year presented includes payroll taxes and penalties associated with the adjustments to certain measurement dates for option grants.

        Sales and marketing expenses.     Sales and marketing expenses increased by $1.8 million, or 29%, in fiscal year 2007 as compared to fiscal year 2006. This increase in fiscal year 2007 was due primarily to an increase of $0.7 million in commission expense and an increase of $0.5 million in share-based compensation attributable to our sales and marketing personnel, partially offset by a decrease in the number of sales and marketing personnel. Sales and marketing expenses increased by $0.8 million, or 15%, in fiscal year 2006 as compared to fiscal year 2005. This increase in fiscal year 2006 was due primarily to an increase in sales and marketing personnel. We incurred $1.1 million, $1.0 million and $0.5 million in share-based compensation expense attributable to our sales and marketing personnel in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The share-based compensation expense for each fiscal year presented includes payroll taxes and penalties associated with the adjustments to certain measurement dates for option grants.

        General and administrative expenses.     General and administrative expenses in fiscal year 2007 increased $3.4 million, or 69%, as compared to fiscal year 2006. The increase in fiscal year 2007 was due primarily to an increase of $2.0 million in outside professional services, mostly related to the review of our historical stock option granting practices and the re-audits of our financial statements for fiscal years 2006 and 2005, an increase in $0.5 million in salaries and wages associated with general and administrative personnel and an increase of $0.8 million in share-based compensation attributable to our general and administrative personnel. General and administrative expenses in fiscal year 2006 increased $0.3 million, or 7%, as compared to fiscal year 2005. The increase in fiscal year 2006 was due primarily to an increase of $0.7 million in outside professional services. We incurred $1.3 million, $0.5 million and $0.4 million in share-based compensation expense attributable to our general and administrative personnel in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The share-based compensation expense for each fiscal year presented includes payroll taxes and penalties associated with the adjustments to certain measurement dates for option grants.

        Share-based compensation expenses.     The following table presents the total share-based compensation expense, excluding payroll taxes, interest and penalties associated with the adjustments to measurement dates for option grants, that is included in each line item in the consolidated statements of operations:

 
  Fiscal Year
 
  2005
  2006
  2007(1)
 
  (in thousands)

Cost of revenues   $ 101   $ 84   $ 380
Research and development expenses     595     650     2,815
Sales and marketing expenses     344     353     825
General and administrative expenses     436     495     1,246
   
 
 
  Total share-based compensation   $ 1,476   $ 1,582   $ 5,266
   
 
 

                 
      (1)
      The amounts included in fiscal year 2007 reflect the adoption of SFAS 123(R). In accordance with the modified prospective transition method, our consolidated statements of operations for fiscal year 2006 and 2005 have not been restated to reflect, and do not include, the impact of SFAS 123(R).

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        The adoption of SFAS 123(R) will continue to have an adverse impact on our results of operations. The amount of unearned share-based compensation currently estimated to be expensed in the period from and including fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year 2012 related to unvested share-based payment awards, as at February 3, 2007, is $12.3 million. The weighted average period over which the unearned share-based compensation is expected to be recognized is approximately 2.70 years.

Amortization of Intangible Assets

        The amortization expense of $0.7 million for acquired developed technology for fiscal year 2007 is classified as cost of sales. The amortization expense of $0.5 million for other purchased intangible assets for fiscal year 2007 is classified as research and development expense in our consolidated statements of income. At February 3, 2007, the unamortized balance of $5.5 million from purchased intangible assets in connection with the acquisition of Blue7 will be amortized to future periods based on their respective remaining estimated useful lives. If we acquire additional purchased intangible assets in the future, our cost of revenue or other operating expenses will increase by the amortization of those assets.

Gains on Sales of Long-Term Investment

        We recognized no gain on sales of long-term investments in fiscal year 2007, $2.6 million on sales of long-term investments in fiscal year 2006 and recorded no investment gain in fiscal year 2005. During fiscal year 2006, we sold our investment in Series B Preferred Stock of a local MPEG-4 system provider for approximately $1.1 million. We had no carrying amount in this investment at the date of sale, as it had been fully written off in fiscal year 2003. The entire sales proceeds of approximately $1.1 million were recognized as a gain on sale of investment during the year. In addition, we sold another investment in a customer with a carrying cost of approximately $2.0 million for $3.5 million and recognized a gain of $1.5 million. We do not expect that we will sell any of our remaining investments in the near future.

Interest Income and Other Income, Net

        Other income and expense mainly consisted of interest income from short-term investments, interest expenses from our lines of credit and term loan, losses on the disposal of fixed assets and gain or loss on sales of short-term investments. The increase of $0.3 million, or 54%, in fiscal year 2007 as compared to fiscal year 2006 was due primarily to an increase in interest income as a result of an increase in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $6.9 million. The increase of $0.2 million, or 80%, in fiscal year 2006 as compared to fiscal year 2005 was due primarily to an increase in interest income as a result of an increase in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $7.6 million.

Provision for Income Tax

        Our provision for income taxes increased to $0.4 million in fiscal year 2007 from $70,000 in fiscal year 2006. The fiscal year 2007 effective tax rate was approximately 6% and differs from the federal statutory rate of 35% primarily due to the use of net operating loss carryforwards.

        Our provision for income taxes increased to $70,000 in fiscal year 2006 from $63,000 in fiscal year 2005.

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Selected Quarterly Financial Information

        The following table sets forth our unaudited quarterly consolidated statements of operations for each of the ten quarters in the period ended August 4, 2007. You should read the following table together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes contained elsewhere in this prospectus. We have prepared the unaudited information on the same basis as our audited consolidated financial statements. This table includes all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, that we consider necessary for a fair presentation of our financial position and operating results for the quarters presented. Operating results for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of results for any future period.

 
  Three Months Ended
 
  April 30,
2005

  July 30,
2005

  Oct. 29,
2005

  Jan. 28,
2006

  April 29,
2006

  July 29,
2006

  Oct. 28,
2006

  Feb. 3,
2007

  May 5,
2007

  Aug. 4,
2007

 
  (unaudited)

 
  (in thousands, except per share data)

Net revenues   $ 6,375   $ 7,961   $ 8,497   $ 10,487   $ 14,799   $ 20,136   $ 25,055   $ 31,228   $ 36,016   $ 42,548
Cost of revenues     2,387     2,449     2,698     4,391     7,369     11,174     13,017     15,223     18,206     20,240
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gross profit     3,988     5,512     5,799     6,096     7,430     8,962     12,038     16,005     17,810     22,308
Operating expenses:                                                            
    Research and development     3,827     3,625     3,866     3,722     5,227     5,039     5,581     6,668     6,089     8,364
    Sales and marketing     1,487     1,327     1,367     1,875     1,779     1,706     1,921     2,435     2,232     2,692
    General and administrative     1,596     907     1,001     1,364     1,954     2,149     1,839     2,280     4,249     2,456
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      Operating expenses     6,910     5,859     6,234     6,961     8,960     8,894     9,341     11,383     12,570     13,512
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Income (loss) from operations     (2,922 )   (347 )   (435 )   (865 )   (1,530 )   68     2,697     4,622     5,240     8,796
Gains (loss) on sales of long-term investment     1,083         1,497     (31 )                      
Interest income and other income, net     83     94     103     249     176     179     149     311     320     400
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Income (loss) before income taxes     (1,756 )   (253 )   1,165     (647 )   (1,354 )   247     2,846     4,933     5,560     9,196
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes     3     1     (2 )   68     2     31     104     291     191     608
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Net income (loss)

 

$

(1,759

)

$

(254

)

$

1,167

 

$

(715

)

$

(1,356

)

$

216

 

$

2,742

 

$

4,642

 

$

5,369

 

$

8,588
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss) per share:                                                            
  Basic   $ (0.08 ) $ (0.01 ) $ 0.05   $ (0.03 ) $ (0.06 ) $ 0.01   $ 0.12   $ 0.20   $ 0.23   $ 0.36
  Diluted   $ (0.08 ) $ (0.01 ) $ 0.05   $ (0.03 ) $ (0.06 ) $ 0.01   $ 0.11   $ 0.17   $ 0.20   $ 0.32
Shares used in computation:                                                            
  Basic     21,188     21,286     21,447     21,727     22,423     22,710     22,794     22,805     22,979     23,867
  Diluted     21,188     21,286     24,401     21,727     22,423     25,214     25,572     26,582     26,825     26,814

        Our quarterly revenues and operating results are difficult to predict, and have in the past fluctuated, and may in the future fluctuate, from quarter to quarter. We base our planned operating expenses in part on our expectations of future revenues, and our expenses are relatively fixed in the short term. If revenues for a particular quarter are lower than we expect, we may be unable to proportionately reduce our operating expenses for that quarter, which would harm our operating results for that quarter. We believe that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results should not be relied upon as an indication of our future performance. In future periods, the market price of our common stock could decline if our revenues and results of operations are below the expectations of analysts and investors. For additional discussion of factors that may cause our revenues and operating results to fluctuate, please see those discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in this prospectus.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

        As of August 4, 2007, our principal sources of liquidity consisted of cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $43.1 million, which represents an increase of $9.9 million from $33.2 million at February 3, 2007. As of February 3, 2007, we had cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $33.2 million, an increase of $6.9 million from approximately $26.4 million at

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January 28, 2006. We had cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $18.8 million at January 29, 2005.

        The increase in cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments for the six months ended August 4, 2007 was the result of net cash generated from our operating activities of $6.1 million and the exercise of employee stock options and stock purchase rights resulting in net cash proceeds of $4.2 million, partially offset by approximately $0.4 million of capital expenditures.

        The increase in these amounts in fiscal year 2007 was primarily attributable to net cash provided by operating activities of $8.5 million, net proceeds from the sale of common stock under our option plans and employee stock purchase plan of $1.2 million, offset by purchase of equipment of $3.0 million.

        The increase in fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2005 resulted primarily from the sales of long-term investments for aggregate proceeds of $4.6 million, net borrowings of $0.4 million under our loan agreement to finance research and development equipment, net cash provided by operating activities of $1.2 million and the exercise of stock options and purchases of common stock by employees resulting in cash proceeds of $2.9 million, which was partially offset by capital equipment expenditures of $0.7 million and short-term loans of $0.9 million to Blue7 in which we had an investment of $1.0 million. We acquired Blue7 on February 16, 2006.

Cash flows from our operating activities

        Net cash provided by operating activities was $6.1 million for the six months ended August 4, 2007. The cash provided by our operating activities in the six months ended August 4, 2007 was primarily due to net income of $14.0 million, non-cash expenses of $1.6 million of depreciation and amortization and $2.4 million of compensation expenses related to the tender offer of our common stock we conducted in the three months ended August 4, 2007, partially offset by increases in accounts receivable of $10.0 million and inventory of $1.1 million and a decrease in accounts payable of $4.0 million. We incurred non-cash expenses of $3.1 million for share-based compensation expense in the six months ended August 4, 2007. The increases in accounts receivable and inventory in the six months ended August 4, 2007 were associated with the increase in our net revenues during the period as a result of increased sales into the IPTV, high definition DVD and other media players and HDTV markets.

        Net cash provided by operating activities was $8.5 million for fiscal year 2007 compared with $1.2 million in fiscal year 2006 and $1.8 million in fiscal year 2005. Net cash provided by operating activities increased by $7.3 million in fiscal year 2007 from fiscal year 2006 primarily due to our net income of $6.2 million, an increase in accrued liabilities of $3.5 million and accounts payable of $9.5 million, partially offset by increases in inventory of $13.4 million and accounts receivable of $6.3 million. The increases in inventory, accounts receivable and accounts payable in fiscal year 2007 were associated with the increase in our net revenues during the period as a result of increased sales into the IPTV, high definition DVD and other media players, and HDTV markets. We incurred non-cash expenses of $5.3 million for share-based compensation expenses in fiscal year 2007. Cash flows from our operating activities will continue to fluctuate based upon our ability to grow revenue while managing the timing of payments to us from customers and to vendors from us, the timing of inventory purchases and subsequent manufacture and sale of our products.

Cash flows from our investing activities

        Net cash used in our investing activities was $1.2 million for the six months ended August 4, 2007, primarily due to our purchase of short-term investments of $43.5 million and capital equipment of $0.4 million, offset by the sales and maturities of our short-term investments of $42.6 million.

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        Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $2.0 million for fiscal year 2007 compared with net cash provided by investing activities of $2.2 million for fiscal year 2006 and net cash used in investing activities of $11.7 million for 2005. The cash used in fiscal year 2007 primarily consisted of $3.0 million used to purchase equipment, partially offset by $0.8 million net proceeds from net maturities of short-term investments. The $2.2 million of cash provided by our investing activities in fiscal year 2006 was generated from $4.6 million of proceeds from sales of long-term investments, partially offset by $0.7 million of capital expenditures, a $0.9 million promissory note and $1.0 million net purchases of short-term investments. The $11.7 million of cash used in fiscal year 2005 was primarily $1.2 million for capital expenditures, $8.6 million net purchases of short-term investments and $2.0 million purchases of long-term investments.

        On February 16, 2006, we successfully acquired Blue7, which was a privately-held California corporation. We purchased Blue7's shares for total consideration of approximately $11.9 million. Blue7 focuses on the development of advanced wireless technologies and Ultra-Wideband, or UWB, semiconductor products.

Cash flows from our financing activities

        Net cash provided by financing activities was $4.1 million in the six months ended August 4, 2007, which primarily consisted of $4.2 million of proceeds from the exercise of employee stock options and stock purchase rights, partially offset by the repayment of our outstanding term loan of $0.1 million.

        Net cash provided by financing activities was $1.0 million in fiscal year 2007 versus $3.3 million in fiscal year 2006 and $1.1 million in fiscal year 2005. The financing activities consisted of bank borrowings, sales of company stock through our stock option plans and employee stock purchase plan. As of August 4, 2007, the outstanding balance of our bank term loan was $0.1 million, which we subsequently repaid on August 30, 2007. The proceeds from the exercise of options and purchases of common stock by employees were $1.2 million, $2.9 million and $1.3 million in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

        To date, our primary sources of funds have been proceeds from common stock issuances and borrowings under bank lines of credit. In certain periods, cash generated from operations has also been a source of funds. While we generated cash from operations in the six months ended August 4, 2007 and for the fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, it is possible that our operations will consume cash in future periods. Based on our currently anticipated cash needs, we believe that our current reserve of cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our primary uses of cash, which include our anticipated working capital requirements, obligations, capital expenditures, strategic investments, and other cash needs for at least the next twelve months. In addition, we believe that we will be able to comply with or make modifications to the current covenants under our existing asset-based banking agreements, and to renew those lines of credit upon their expiration, in order to maintain the availability of funds under these agreements. However, it is possible that we may need to raise additional funds to finance our activities during or beyond the next 12 months, and our future capital requirements may vary significantly from those currently planned.

Tax penalty

        In August 2007, the IRS notified us that we owed a $97,000 penalty for failure to make a timely deposit of employment taxes in April 2007. The penalty involves one particular payment made in connection with certain stock option exercises in April 2007. We are disputing this penalty. The IRS has suspended the penalty matter pending further discussion with us.

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Line of credit and term loan

        On August 12, 2005, we entered into a Loan and Security Agreement, or the Loan Agreement, with United Commercial Bank, or the Bank. The Loan Agreement provided for a maximum borrowing amount of $15.5 million across three credit facilities consisting of two 2-year Lines of Credit and a 30-month Term Loan of $0.5 million.

        On August 30, 2007, we paid off the remaining $0.1 million outstanding under the Term Loan and terminated the Loan Agreement. We will not be required to make any further payments under the Term Loan or Lines of Credit.

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

        We do not have guaranteed price or quantity commitments from any of our suppliers. We generally maintain products for sale through distributors based on forecasts rather than firm purchase orders. Additionally, we generally manufacture products for sale to our customers and acquire the necessary materials to manufacture those products, only after receiving purchase orders from such customers. Purchase orders with delivery dates longer than 12 weeks from the date of the order are typically cancelable until four weeks prior to the scheduled delivery date without substantial penalty to our customers. For our larger volume designer and manufacturer customers, purchase orders for our products are generally non-cancelable between four and 12 weeks of scheduled delivery dates, and within four weeks of scheduled delivery dates are also generally non-reschedulable.

        The following table sets forth the amounts of payments due under specified contractual obligations as of February 3, 2007.

 
  Payments Due by Period
Contractual Obligations:

  1 year
or less

  1 - 3
years

  3 - 5
years

  5 years
or more

  Total
 
  (in thousands)

Operating leases   $ 730   $ 1,231   $ 1,370   $ 448   $ 3,779
Term loan     226     15             241
Non-cancelable purchase orders     4,615                 4,615
   
 
 
 
 
  Total   $ 5,571   $ 1,246   $ 1,370   $ 448   $ 8,635
   
 
 
 
 

        On April 10, 2006, we entered into a sublease agreement to rent approximately 2,500 square feet of a facility from a start-up company founded by a member of our board of directors. This was a month-to-month operating lease with base rent of $4,000 plus proportionate share of operating costs, which commenced on April 1, 2006. This sublease expired in September 2007.

        On February 22, 2007, we entered into a new lease agreement for a new approximately 66,000 square foot facility in Milpitas, California. We relocated our headquarters to this facility in September 2007. The new lease commenced on June 30, 2007 and expires in September 2012. We pay a monthly base rent plus common area maintenance and building operating expenses over the term of the lease. The monthly base rent will increase over the life of the lease from approximately $42,000 to $55,000, with free base rent for the initial three months.

        As of August 4, 2007 our non-cancelable purchase orders were $12.9 million, an increase of $8.3 million from February 3, 2007.

Off-balance Sheet Transactions

        As of August 4, 2007, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements.

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

        In September 2006, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements , or SFAS 157. SFAS 157 establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. The changes to current practice resulting from the application of SFAS 157 relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value, and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS 157 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and we are required to adopt it beginning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009. We are currently in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have on our consolidated financial position and results of operation.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

        The following discussion about our market risk disclosures involves forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. We face exposure to market risk from adverse movements in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, which could affect our operations and financial condition. We do not use derivative financial instruments for speculative purposes.

        Interest Rate Sensitivity.     As of August 4, 2007 and February 3, 2007, we held $43.1 million and $33.2 million, respectively, of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments. Our short-term investments generally consist of U.S. government and corporate debt securities with an average original maturity of less than one year. If short-term interest rates were to decrease 10%, the decreased interest income associated with these items would not have a material impact on our net income (loss) and cash flows.

        In addition, we had borrowings outstanding of $0.1 million and $0.2 million as of August 4, 2007 and February 3, 2007, respectively, under a term loan agreement for financing equipment for research and development, and no borrowings outstanding under our two variable interest rate bank lines of credit. If short-term interest rates were to increase 10%, the increased interest expense associated with these arrangements would not have a material impact on our net income (loss) and cash flows.

        Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Sensitivity.     The Hong Kong dollar and the Euro are the functional currencies of our subsidiaries in Hong Kong and France, respectively. We do not currently enter into foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge certain balance sheet exposures and inter-company balances against future movements in foreign exchange rates. However, we do maintain cash balances denominated in the Hong Kong dollar and Euros. If foreign exchange rates were to weaken against the U.S. dollar immediately and uniformly by 10% from the exchange rate at August 4, 2007 or February 3, 2007, the fair value of these foreign currency amounts would decline by an immaterial amount.

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BUSINESS

Overview

        We are a leading fabless provider of highly integrated SoC solutions that are used to deliver multimedia entertainment throughout the home. Our SoC solutions combine our semiconductors and software and are a critical component of multiple high-growth, consumer applications that process digital video and audio content, including IPTV, high definition DVD players, HDTVs and portable media players. Our semiconductors provide high definition digital video decoding for multiple compression standards, graphics acceleration, audio decoding, a CPU and display control. Our software provides control of media processing and system security management. Together, our semiconductors and software form a complete SoC solution that we believe provides our customers with a foundation to quickly develop feature-rich consumer entertainment products.

        We believe we are the leading provider of digital media processor SoCs for set-top boxes in the IPTV market and a leading provider of such SoCs in the high definition DVD player market, in terms of units shipped. For set-top boxes in the IPTV market, we are currently the only provider qualified to ship digital media processor SoCs based on the Microsoft IPTV platform. Our SoC solutions are used by leading IPTV set-top box providers, such as Cisco Systems/Scientific Atlanta, Motorola, Netgem and UTStarcom. IPTV set-top boxes incorporating our SoC solutions are deployed by telecommunications carriers globally, including carriers in Asia, Europe and North America, such as AT&T, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Freebox. We work closely with these carriers and set-top box providers, as well as with systems software providers, such as Microsoft, to design solutions that address the carriers' specific requirements regarding features and performance. Our products are also used by consumer electronics providers, such as D-Link, Netgear, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba, in applications such as high definition DVD players, HDTVs and portable media players.

        We have been providing video and audio solutions for over 15 years. We began volume shipments in January 2006 of our SMP8630 series, our fourth generation SoC solution serving the IPTV, high definition DVD player and HDTV markets. As a result of increased customer adoption of our products, our net revenues increased from $33.3 million in fiscal year 2006 to $91.2 million in fiscal year 2007, representing growth of over 170%. Our net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 were $78.6 million compared to $34.9 million for the six months ended July 29, 2006.

Industry Background

        The growth of the Internet, proliferation of rich multimedia content, advances in communications infrastructure, digital video and audio compression technologies and improvements in television displays have resulted in significant demand for the applications that we primarily target, which are IPTV, high definition DVD players and HDTVs.

        The IPTV market consists of consumer and commercial products that distribute and receive streaming video using IP. IPTV is emerging as an important consumer multimedia application as it allows telecommunications carriers to deliver advanced video services to consumers using existing telecommunications infrastructure. These carriers are actively pursuing the deployment of IPTV because it enables them to offer attractive video, voice and data, or triple play, services and increase their revenues per subscriber. According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide IPTV subscriber base is expected to grow from 8.9 million in 2006 to 63.8 million in 2010, representing a compound annual growth rate of 64%. The key challenges faced in delivering high-quality video content to end users across existing copper-based telecommunications infrastructure are limited bandwidth and security of the content. These challenges are addressed by advanced video compression technologies and security technologies that providers of IPTV set-top boxes are increasingly incorporating in their devices. Currently, IPTV set-top boxes use one of two platforms based on software developed by either Microsoft or various Linux providers, each of which offers certain advantages and disadvantages.

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        High definition DVD players are becoming increasingly popular among consumers. This is driven primarily by the superior video and audio quality they provide relative to standard definition DVD players, the increasing availability of high definition prerecorded content, the proliferation of HDTVs enabling display of this content and the steadily declining prices of the high definition DVD players and the HDTVs themselves. According to In-Stat, worldwide sales of high definition DVD players are expected to grow from 220,000 units in 2006 to 18.1 million units in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate of 142%. These devices are currently based on two standards, Blu-ray and HD-DVD, and consumer electronics providers have largely chosen to support one or the other of these two platforms.

        The proliferation of HDTVs is being driven by consumer demand for higher quality video, increasing availability of higher definition content, improved television displays, declining prices and various mandates to shift from analog to digital broadcast worldwide. According to DisplaySearch's Q2'07 Quarterly Worldwide FPD Forecast Report, worldwide sales of HDTVs are expected to grow from 68.2 million units in 2006 to 177.2 million units in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate of over 21%.

        The consumer multimedia entertainment applications that we target increasingly require video and audio data to be processed, transmitted, stored and displayed in an efficient and secure manner, while simultaneously maintaining high resolution, multi-channel video and audio and providing the end-user a variety of interactive options. In order to provide this increased functionality in a cost-effective manner, manufacturers of consumer electronics demand semiconductors that integrate more features on a single chip, as well as reduce their costs, time-to-market and power consumption. We believe the challenge to manufacturers of digital media processor SoCs is to balance the integration of more functionality with lower costs and shorter development cycles.

Our Solutions

        We provide SoC solutions that consist of highly integrated semiconductors and a rich suite of software that enables real-time processing of digital video and audio content, which we refer to as real-time software. Our real-time software is readily customizable by our customers and is interoperable with multiple standard operating systems. As a result, we believe our SoC solutions enable consumer multimedia devices to be quickly brought to market. We believe IPTV set-top box and high definition DVD player designers and manufacturers select our SoC solutions because of the compelling nature of their performance and ease of integration. Our highly integrated products have replaced a number of single function semiconductors with a multi-function SoC, which significantly improves performance and lowers power consumption and cost.

        We believe our SoCs have been able to deliver industry-leading performance in video decoding, graphics acceleration and audio decoding, which allows our customers to offer consumers a high-quality viewing experience. We surround this media processing functionality with a robust security management solution, an on-chip CPU, a high-speed memory interface, and complementary system peripherals. This SoC architecture with memory components establishes a complete hardware development platform for our target applications. We also add a suite of real-time software that reduces the complexity of our SoC architecture and enables our customers to quickly design consumer multimedia devices. Our software includes an industry standard operating system, embedded software tools and development kits that enable our customers to easily port their software to run on our processors.

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Our Strengths

        We have internally developed the core technologies, expertise and capabilities necessary to provide a complete digital media processing SoC solution. We believe we have the following strengths:

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Our Strategy

        Our objective is to be the leading provider of digital media processing SoCs for multiple consumer applications. To achieve this objective, we expect to continue to pursue the following strategies:

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Our Products

        We offer semiconductors along with real-time software that together enable digital media processing solutions for consumer entertainment products. We believe our line of digital media processor SoCs features industry leading performance and video/audio quality. We complement our semiconductors with a suite of real-time software that enables synchronous processing of video, audio and graphics streams for a wide range of applications. Our software is currently available under Microsoft WinCE and Linux operating systems with support for applications such as IP video streaming, video-on-demand, DVD navigation, personal-video-recording, multi-window video, and terrestrial broadcast reception. In addition, we provide reference platforms designed around our silicon and software as a convenient basis for customer development.

        The following table summarizes the key performance features of, and target applications for, selected SoCs in our suite of products:

Product Series

  Key Performance Features
  Target Applications

SMP8630
  
High definition, fully integrated, secure digital media processor SoC—our leading product for IPTV and high definition DVD player markets
  •  High-definition multi-stream video decoding of MPEG-4.10 (H.264), VC-1 (SMPTE 421M), WMV9, MPEG-4.2 and MPEG-2
  
•  Secure media processing with a wide variety of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Conditional Access (CA)
  
•  Programmable audio decoding with support for all audio formats
  
•  High performance 2D graphics acceleration with alpha blending and scaling
  
•  Display output control including de-interlacing, HDMI and NTSC/PAL
  
•  Integrated high performance CPU and system connectivity interfaces (Ethernet, USB, IDE, IR, IIC)
  •  IPTV
  
•  High definition DVD players/recorders
  
•  HDTV



EM8620L
  
High definition digital media processor SoC—our mid-range product for multi-format applications

 

•  High-definition decoding (720p) of MPEG-4.10 (H.264), SMPTE 421M (VC-1), WMV9, MPEG-4.2 and MPEG-2
 
•  Selected DRM decryption support
 
•  Programmable audio decoding with support for all formats
  
•  2D graphics acceleration with alpha-blending and scaling
  
•  Display output control including de-interlacing and NTSC/PAL
  
•  Integrated CPU, Ethernet, and IDE

 

•  Digital media adapters
 
•  IPTV
  
•  HDTV

 

 

 

 

 

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Product Series

  Key Performance Features
  Target Applications


EM8510
  
Standard definition digital media processor SoC—our entry-level product for portable and cost-sensitive products

 

•  Standard definition decoding of MPEG-4.2, MPEG-2 and DVD
 
•  Integrated CPU and programmable I/O
  
•  Programmable audio decoding

 

•  Portable media players
  
•  Digital media adapters


Windeo®
 
UWB dual chip solution—for high bandwidth cable replacement applications, currently in customer sampling phase
  •  Based on the WiMedia® Alliance Multi-band OFDM (MBOA) PHY v1.1 and MAC v1.0 Specifications and is comprised of two devices: Windeo® RF IC (B7CW101) and Windeo® Baseband IC (B7CW201)
  
•  Enables adding high-speed wireless access to the next generation of consumer electronics products
  •  IPTV
 
•  High definition DVD players/recorders
 
•  HDTV
  
•  Digital media adapters
  
•  PCs and peripherals

        Our SoCs accounted for 96%, 95%, 85% and 84% of our net revenues for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

        Complementing our semiconductors, the following software elements perform the essential control and processing functions that are common to most consumer entertainment devices:


        These software elements, used with our hardware reference design boards, are packaged into the following application specific development kits for each of our target markets:

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        As legacy products, we also offer a series of PC-based solutions, under the NetStream and REALmagic Xcard brand names, that are sold into the commercial streaming and PC add-in markets, respectively.

Customers

        We sell our products principally to designers and manufacturers and, to a lesser extent, to distributors who, in turn, sell to manufacturers. Typically, when we sell to distributors, they have already received an order for our products directly from a manufacturer. Our sales to our customers are typically accomplished on a purchase order basis.

        For the six months ended August 4, 2007, Uniquest, a distributor customer, Freebox, MTC Singapore, Macnica and Scientific Atlanta (now part of Cisco Systems) accounted for 17%, 14%, 13%, 12% and 11%, respectively, of our net revenues. In fiscal year 2007, Freebox accounted for 20% of our net revenues and Uniquest accounted for 17% of our net revenues. Our distributor customers, such as Uniquest, in turn sell our products to multiple designers and manufacturers that produce our target applications.

        Substantially all of our product shipments are to customers outside of North America. In fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, shipments to international customers outside of North America accounted for 89%, 88% and 86% of our net revenues, respectively. Revenues from our customers in Asia accounted for 53%, 82% and 65% of our net revenues in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. For the six months ended August 4, 2007, 94% of our net revenues were from shipments to our customers outside of North America, 61% of which were to our customers located in Asia.

Sales and Marketing

        We sell our products worldwide through multiple channels, including our direct sales force, manufacturer representatives and independent distributors strategically located in many countries around the world. We have sales representatives in the United States, Belgium, China, Japan and Taiwan. In Korea, we sell our products primarily through Uniquest, our distributor.

        Our sales cycle typically ranges from nine months to 18 months, but may last longer, and depends on a number of factors, including the technical capabilities of the customer, the customer's need for customization of our SoCs and the customer's evaluation and qualification process. We generally plan the fabrication of our products based on customer forecasts.

        For our larger volume designer and manufacturer customers, purchase orders for our products are generally non-cancelable between four and 12 weeks of scheduled delivery dates, and within four weeks of scheduled delivery dates are also generally non-reschedulable.

Research and Development

        We focus our development efforts primarily on three areas: video/audio decoder technologies, secure media processing and fully integrated SoC solutions. To achieve and maintain technology leadership, we intend to continue to make advancements in the areas of video and audio compression and decompression, as well wireless connectivity. We expect these advancements will include maintaining compatibility with emerging standards and multiple platforms, and making improvements to the current architecture.

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        We have invested, and expect that we will continue to invest, substantial resources to research and development of future generations of MPEG and other multimedia technologies. For the six months ended August 4, 2007, our research and development expenses were $14.5 million. During fiscal years 2007, 2006, and 2005, our research and development expenses were $22.5 million, $15.0 million, and $12.3 million, respectively.

        We have assembled a large team of experienced engineers and technologists. As of August 4, 2007, we had 126 research and development employees. These personnel conduct all of our product development along with the assistance of a number of independent contractors and consultants.

Competition

        The market for digital media processors is highly competitive and is characterized by rapid technological change, evolving standards and decreasing prices. We believe that the principal factors on which we compete include time-to-market for new product introductions, product performance, industry standards compatibility, software functionality, price, and marketing and distribution resources.

        We believe our competitors include AMD (ATI Technologies), Analog Devices, Broadcom, Conexant Systems, Genesis Microchip, Mediatek, NXP Semiconductors, Pixelworks, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments and Tzero. Many of these companies have higher profiles, larger financial resources, and greater marketing resources than we do and may develop a competitive product that may inhibit the wide acceptance of our products. We believe that other manufacturers are developing products that will compete directly with our products in the near future.

Intellectual Property

        Our success and future revenue growth depend, in part, on our ability to protect our intellectual property. We rely primarily on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as agreements with customers, suppliers and employees, to protect our proprietary technologies and processes.

        As of August 4, 2007, we held 30 issued patents and we had 18 patent applications pending for our technology. The termination dates of these patents range from five to 16 years. We cannot assure you that more patents will be issued or that such patents, even if issued, or our existing patents will provide adequate protection for our competitive position. Although we intend to protect our rights vigorously, we cannot assure you that these measures will be successful.

Manufacturing

        We are a fabless semiconductor company and we do not own or operate a fabrication, packaging or testing facility. We depend on third-party vendors to manufacture, package and test our products. By outsourcing manufacturing, we are able to avoid the cost associated with owning and operating our own manufacturing facility. This allows us to focus our efforts on the design and marketing of our products.

Semiconductor fabrication

        We rely on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, to fulfill substantially all of our manufacturing needs, including SoC manufacturing. We believe that our fabless manufacturing approach provides us with the benefits of superior manufacturing capability as well as flexibility to move the manufacturing, assembly and testing of our products to those vendors that offer the best capability at an attractive price. Nevertheless, because we do not have a formal, long-term pricing agreement with our third-party manufacturers, our costs and services are subject to sudden price fluctuations based on the cyclical demand for semiconductors.

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Assembly and test

        Once our products have been manufactured, we have them packaged and tested. Our products are shipped from TSMC and our other third-party manufacturers to third-party sort, assembly and test facilities where they are assembled into finished semiconductors and tested. We outsource all packaging and testing of our products to third-party assembly and test facilities, primarily Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., or ASE, in Taiwan. Our products are designed to use low-cost, standard packages and to be tested with widely available test equipment.

Quality assurance

        We are committed to maintaining the highest level of quality in our products. We have designed and implemented a quality management system that provides the framework for continual improvement of products, processes and customer service. We also rely on in-depth simulation studies, testing and practical application testing to validate and verify our semiconductors. To ensure consistent product quality, reliability and yield, together with our manufacturing logistics partners we closely monitor the production cycle by reviewing manufacturing process data from each wafer foundry and assembly subcontractor. Both TSMC and ASE have been awarded ISO 9000 certificates.

Backlog

        The amount of backlog at any date depends upon various factors, including the timing of the receipt of orders, fluctuations in orders of existing product lines, and the introduction of any new lines. Accordingly, we believe that the amount of our backlog at any date is not a useful measure of our future sales.

Employees

        As of August 4, 2007, we had 186 full-time employees worldwide, including 126 in research and development, 30 in sales and marketing, 11 in operations, and 19 in finance and administration.

        Our future success will depend, in part, on our ability to continue to attract, retain and motivate highly qualified technical, marketing, engineering and management personnel, who are in great demand. Our employees are not represented by any collective bargaining unit, and we have never experienced a work stoppage. We believe that our employee relations are satisfactory.

Properties

        We currently lease an approximately 66,000 square foot facility in Milpitas, California that is used as our headquarters. The lease on this facility will expire in September 2012. We also lease facilities for a sales office and warehouse in Hong Kong and a research and development office near Paris, France. We believe our existing facilities are both suitable and adequate for our near-term needs.

Legal Proceedings

        Certain of our current and former directors and officers have been named as defendants in several shareholder derivative actions filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which have been consolidated under the caption In re Sigma Designs, Inc. Derivative Litigation (the "Federal Action") and in a substantially similar shareholder derivative action filed in the Superior Court for Santa Clara County, California captioned Korsinsky v. Tran, et al. (the "State Action").

        Plaintiffs in the Federal and State Actions allege that the individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties to us in connection with the alleged backdating of stock option grants during the period from 1994 through 2005 and that certain defendants were unjustly enriched. Plaintiffs in the Federal

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Action assert derivative claims against the individual defendants based on alleged violations of Sections 10(b), 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rules 10b-5 and 14a-9 promulgated thereunder. They also allege that the individual defendants aided and abetted one another's alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and violated California Corporations Code section 25402 and bring claims for an accounting and rescission. In the State Action, plaintiffs also allege that the individual defendants wasted corporate assets. Both Actions seek to recover unspecified money damages, disgorgement of profits and benefits and equitable relief. The Federal Action also seeks treble damages, rescission of certain defendants' option contracts, imposition of a constructive trust over executory option contracts and attorney's fees. We are named as a nominal defendant in both the Federal and State Actions; thus, no recovery against us is sought.

        We have filed a motion to dismiss the Federal Action on the ground that the plaintiffs had not made a pre-litigation demand on our Board of Directors and had not demonstrated that such a demand would have been futile. The defendant directors and officers joined in that motion, and filed a motion to dismiss the Federal Action for failure to state a claim against each of them. Pursuant to a joint stipulation, plaintiffs filed an Amended Consolidated Shareholder Derivative Complaint on August 13, 2007. Defendants have until September 19, 2007 to respond to the Complaint. A hearing on the Motion to Dismiss the Amended Consolidated Shareholder Derivative Complaint is currently scheduled for November 30, 2007. We have also filed a motion to dismiss or stay the State Action in favor of the earlier filed Federal Action. The defendant directors and officers joined in that motion. Pursuant to a joint stipulation, the court ordered that the State Action be stayed in favor of the earlier-filed Federal Action.

        On July 5, 2007, a Verified Petition for Writ of Mandate to Compel Inspection of Books, Records and Documents was filed in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, captioned Levine v. Sigma Designs, Inc. We filed a Demurrer to the Petition as well as an Answer on August 13, 2007. A hearing on the Demurrer is currently scheduled for September 21, 2007.

        We previously disclosed that the SEC has initiated an informal inquiry into our stock option granting practices. The SEC has requested that we voluntarily produce documents relating to, among other things, our stock option practices. We are cooperating with the SEC.

        In May 2007, the IRS began an employment tax audit for our fiscal year 2004 and 2005. We have also requested that fiscal year 2006 be included in this audit cycle. In August 2007, the IRS began an income tax audit for our fiscal year 2005. The focus of the IRS employment tax audit relates to tax issues connected to our granting stock options with exercise prices per share that were less than the fair market value per share of the common stock underlying the option on the option's measurement date for financial reporting purposes. The IRS has not yet proposed any tax deficiency, interest or penalty amounts in respect of these audits.

        In August 2007, the IRS notified us that we owed a $97,000 penalty for failure to make a timely deposit of employment taxes in April 2007. The penalty involves one particular payment made in connection with certain stock option exercises in April 2007. We are disputing this penalty. The IRS has suspended the penalty matter pending further discussion with us.

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MANAGEMENT

Executive Officers and Directors

        Our executive officers and directors, and their ages and positions as of September 13, 2007, are set forth below:

Name

  Age
  Position
Thinh Q. Tran   54   Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Thomas E. Gay III   58   Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Silvio Perich   59   Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Kit Tsui   58   Vice President of Planning and Administration
Jacques Martinella   52   Vice President, Engineering
Kenneth Lowe   51   Vice President, Strategic Marketing
William J. Almon(1)(2)(3)   74   Director
Julien Nguyen(1)(2)(3)   50   Director
Lung C. Tsai(1)(2)(3)   59   Director

(1)
Member of the Audit Committee.
(2)
Member of the Compensation Committee.
(3)
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

         Mr. Tran , one of our founders, has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as Chairman of our Board of Directors since February 1982. Prior to joining us, Mr. Tran was employed by Amdahl Corporation and Trilogy Systems Corporation, both of which were involved in the IBM-compatible mainframe computer market.

         Mr. Gay has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since June 1, 2007. From May 1998 to May 2007, Mr. Gay served as the Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc., a memory and analog/mixed-signal semiconductor company. Prior to joining Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc., Mr. Gay held positions at Wireless Access, Inc., a communications device manufacturing company, where he was Controller and Sanmina Corporation, a contract manufacturer, where he was the Corporate Controller.

         Mr. Perich has served as our Director, Sales since September 1985, when he joined us. In September 1992, Mr. Perich became our Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales. Mr. Perich was a co-founder of Costar Incorporated, a manufacturers' representative organization for high technology products, where he served as partner from October 1979 to September 1985. From September 1972 until September 1979, Mr. Perich served in several sales management roles at Siliconix Inc, a specialty semiconductor manufacturer.

         Ms. Tsui has served as our Vice President of Planning and Administration since February 2007. From January 2001 to February 2007, Ms. Tsui served as our Chief Financial Officer. Prior to January 2001, Ms. Tsui served as our Director of Finance from February 1990 to December 1996 when she was appointed acting Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Ms. Tsui was appointed as our Chief Accounting Officer in January 2000.

         Mr. Martinella has served as our Director, VLSI Engineering since May 1994, when he joined us. In December 1995, Mr. Martinella became our Vice President, Engineering. From June 1990 to April 1994, Mr. Martinella served in engineering and management positions at Weitek, a microchip manufacturer. In addition, Mr. Martinella was an engineer at National Semiconductor, a semiconductor manufacturer, from June 1982 to June 1990.

         Mr. Lowe has served as our Vice President, Marketing since May 2000, when he joined us. In December 2000, Mr. Lowe became our Vice President, Strategic Marketing. Prior to joining us, Mr. Lowe served as the Director of Multimedia Marketing for Cadence Design Systems, a design

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automation software company. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Lowe served as the Vice President of Marketing for Chrontel, Inc., a digital video semiconductor company. Prior to 1996, Mr. Lowe held various marketing management positions at Sierra Semiconductor, Dataquest, Personal CAD Systems, Performix and Gould-Biomation. In the late 1980's, Mr. Lowe served as our Product Marketing Director.

         Mr. Almon has served as one of our directors since April 1994. Mr. Almon served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Grandis, Inc., a solid-state memory company, from May 2002 until his resignation on June 2, 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Almon was Managing Director of Netfish Technology from 1999 to May 2001 when it was acquired by Iona Technologies PLC. He was Chairman of the Board of Internet Image, an internet software company, from January 1999 to December 1999, when it merged with Intraware Inc. in October 1999. In May 1994, Mr. Almon founded and served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of StorMedia, Inc., a manufacturer of thin film disks. From December 1989 until February 1993, Mr. Almon served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Conner Peripherals, Inc., a manufacturer of computer disk drives and storage management devices. Prior to 1987, Mr. Almon spent 30 years with IBM Corporation, holding executive positions in both software and hardware management.

         Mr. Nguyen has served as one of our directors since May 2000. Since March 2005, Mr. Nguyen has served as the Managing Partner of Concept Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. In May 2001, Mr. Nguyen founded Applied Materials Ventures, a corporate venture fund, and served as its Managing Partner until March 2005. In January 1999, Mr. Nguyen co-founded Ezlogin, a developer of personalization infrastructure tools for internet sites and wireless carriers and served as its Chairman from January 1999 to June 2000. From June 1996 to September 1998, Mr. Nguyen founded Novita Communications and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Novita, a Java-based communications software company, was acquired by PlanetWeb in 1998. From February 1995 to October 1996, Mr. Nguyen served as our Co-Chairman and Chief Technical Officer. From August 1993 until January 1995, he served as our Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technical Officer. From May 1992 until October 1993, Mr. Nguyen was President and Chief Executive of E-Motions, which was acquired by Sigma in 1993. Prior to founding E-Motions, Mr. Nguyen worked at Radius Inc. as Director of Product Development.

         Mr. Tsai has served as one of our directors since June 2003. He is one of the co-founders of MechanicNet Group, Inc., a software company serving the automotive aftermarket industry, and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1999. Prior to MechanicNet Group, Inc., Mr. Tsai co-founded Internet Image, a Java solutions company for online software deployment and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1993 until its acquisition by Intraware, Inc. in 1999. Previously, Mr. Tsai co-founded and served as vice president of Operations and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Destiny Technology Corp., a laser printer controller firmware development company from 1987 to 1993. Prior to Destiny Technology Corp, Mr. Tsai served as Vice President of System Development for Mellon Bank and Bank of America.

        There are no family relationships among any of our directors and executive officers.

Board of Directors

        Our board of directors currently consists of five members. Each of Messrs. Almon, Nguyen and Tsai is an independent director as defined by The Nasdaq Stock Market listing standards set forth in Rule 4200(a)(15) adopted by the National Association of Securities Dealers.

        Our directors are elected annually to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders, until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal. With limited exceptions, our board of directors is required to have a majority of independent directors at all times. The authorized number of directors may be changed by resolution of the board. Vacancies on the board can be filled by resolution of the board of directors.

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Committees of the Board of Directors

        The Board of Directors has appointed a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, an Audit Committee and a Compensation Committee. The Board has determined that each director who serves on these committees is "independent," as that term is defined by applicable listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market and SEC rules.

        Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.     The current members of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee are Messrs. Almon, Nguyen and Tsai. We believe that the composition of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee meets the criteria for independence under, and the functioning of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee complies with the applicable requirements of, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, The Nasdaq Stock Market and SEC rules and regulations. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for overseeing matters of corporate governance and for the development of general criteria regarding the qualifications and selection of members of the Board of Directors and recommending candidates for election to the Board of Directors.

        Audit Committee.     The Audit Committee currently consists of Messrs. Almon, Nguyen and Tsai, each of whom is a non-management member of our board of directors. Mr. Almon is our audit committee financial expert as currently defined under SEC rules and is independent as defined in Item 7(d)(3)(iv) of Schedule 14A under the Exchange Act. The Audit Committee's primary functions, among others, are to approve the selection, compensation, evaluation and replacement of, and oversee the work of, our independent registered public accounting firm, pre-approve all fees and terms of audit and non-audit engagement of such auditors, including the audit engagement letter, and review our accounting policies and its systems of internal accounting controls. We believe that the composition of our Audit Committee meets the criteria for independence under, and the functioning of our Audit Committee complies with the applicable requirements of, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the current rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market and SEC rules and regulations.

        Compensation Committee.     The current members of our Compensation Committee are Messrs. Almon, Nguyen and Tsai, each of whom is a non-management member of our board of directors. We believe that the composition of our Compensation Committee meets the criteria for independence under, and the functioning of our Compensation Committee complies with the applicable requirements of, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the current rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market and SEC rules and regulations. The Compensation Committee's primary functions, among others, are to review and make recommendations to the Board of Directors concerning our executive compensation policy, including establishing salaries, incentives and other forms of compensation for our executive officers. Additional information concerning the compensation committee's processes and procedures for the consideration and determination of executive compensation is set forth under the section titled, "Director and Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis".

Code of Ethics

        We have adopted a Code of Business Ethics and Conduct, which is applicable to our directors, officers and employees. We will disclose any amendment to the code or waiver of a provision of the code applicable to an officer or director, including the name of the officer to whom the waiver was granted, on our website.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

        No member of our Compensation Committee was at any time during fiscal year 2007 one of our officers or employees. None of our executive officers serves as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving as a member of our Board or Compensation Committee.

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DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

Company Philosophy on Compensation

        The Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors is responsible for providing oversight and determining our executive compensation programs. To that end, our Compensation Committee reviews corporate performance relevant to the compensation of our executive officers and works with management to establish our executive compensation programs. The general philosophy of our executive compensation program is to attract and retain seasoned and talented executives and align compensation with our business performance. In addition, we strive to provide compensation that is competitive with the semiconductor companies with whom we compete for executive talent.

Establishing Compensation

        Our Compensation Committee typically reviews our executive officers' compensation on an annual basis. Our Compensation Committee determines the appropriate levels of compensation based primarily on:

To assist in the process of establishing executive compensation, our Compensation Committee reviews publicly available compensation information from a group of peer companies consisting of certain fabless semiconductor companies located in the Silicon Valley. Our Compensation Committee determines compensation for our Chief Executive Officer. With respect to our other executive officers, our Compensation Committee reviews and approves compensation that is recommended by our Chief Executive Officer.

Compensation Components

        Our executive compensation program generally consists of three primary components: base salary, cash incentive bonus and long-term equity incentive compensation. These primary compensation components are described in more detail below. Executive officers are also eligible to participate in all of our respective local employee benefits plans, such as medical insurance, life and disability insurance and our 401(k) Savings/Retirement Plan, in each case on the same basis as other employees.

        We view the three primary components of executive compensation as related, but we do not believe that compensation should be derived entirely from one component, or that significant compensation from one component should necessarily reduce compensation from other components. Our Compensation Committee has not adopted a formal or informal policy for allocating compensation between long-term and current compensation or between cash and non-cash compensation.

        Base salary.     We establish base salaries for our executives based on the scope of their responsibilities and experience, and take into account competitive market compensation paid by companies in our peer group commensurate for similar responsibilities and positions. We believe that executive base salaries should be targeted to be within the range of salaries for similar positions at comparable companies, which is in line with our compensation philosophy, in order to best attract, retain and motivate our executives. In reviewing compensation of our peer companies, our Compensation Committee takes into account the annual revenues and market size of these companies and other relevant factors it deems appropriate. Our Compensation Committee attempts to establish compensation, particularly base salary, in the same comparable range that our revenues and market size

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fall when compared to these peer companies. In some cases, our executive compensation may fall outside of this range due to certain circumstances, such as a strong retention need or an extraordinary performance.

        We typically review base salaries annually, and adjust base salaries from time to time to ensure that our compensation programs remain competitive with market levels. In fiscal year 2007, our Compensation Committee reviewed the base salaries of our executive officers, other than our Chief Executive Officer, by analyzing information from our peer companies and made adjustments at that time. The Compensation Committee did not review our Chief Executive Officer's base salary during fiscal year 2007. In early fiscal year 2008, our Compensation Committee reviewed the base salary of our Chief Executive Officer. After taking into account information from our peer companies and the significant increase in shareholder value during fiscal year 2007, our Compensation Committee increased the annual base salary of our Chief Executive Officer to $420,000 effective as of the start of fiscal year 2008. In May 2007, we hired a new Chief Financial Officer and agreed to pay him an annual base salary of $250,000.

        Cash incentive bonuses.     Our Compensation Committee has historically awarded cash bonuses in recognition of strong company performance or significant individual contributions. In recent fiscal years, however, our Compensation Committee has elected not to make any cash bonus awards to our executive officers in light of our corporate performance during these periods. Our Compensation Committee awarded our Chief Executive Officer a bonus of $35,000 in February 2007. We believe cash bonuses can be an important element of compensation that allows us to reward strong corporate performance and individual contributions. We also believe that cash bonuses can serve as a strong retention tool and incentive for our officers to contribute to overall shareholder value growth. For example, in connection with the hiring of a new Chief Financial Officer in May 2007, we awarded him a sign-on bonus of $25,000 that he must repay if he were to voluntarily leave within the first twelve months of his employment. We will, therefore, continue to consider paying cash bonuses to our executive officers in the future.

        Long-term equity incentive compensation.     We believe the use of share-based awards for our executive officers is a strong compensation tool that encourages officers to act in a manner that leads to long-term company success. We believe this type of compensation aligns our executive officers' performance with the interests of our long-term investors by rewarding our officers through equity appreciation. The stock-based incentive program for the entire Company, including executive officers, currently consists of stock option grants and the employee stock purchase program, but we may introduce different types of equity awards or instruments to remain competitive in the compensation we pay our employees.

        In fiscal year 2007, we granted stock option awards to each of our executive officers as a form of long-term incentive awards. These stock options vest in accordance with our standard schedule, which provides for vesting over five years at the rate of twenty percent (20%) of the shares on the date that is one year after the vesting commencement date specified in the grants and 1/60th of the shares each month thereafter. We hired our Chief Financial Officer in May 2007 and agreed to grant him an option to purchase 120,000 shares of common stock, which option vests in accordance with our standard schedule.

        In addition to granting equity-based options to our executives as part of a long-term incentive plan, we also intend to utilize option grants to non-officer employees, including new hires, and in recognition of individual achievements and contributions to corporate or business unit performance or in circumstances where we face a critical retention need.

        In 2007, our Compensation Committee established procedures relating to the granting and administration of stock option awards to record and account for stock options and equity awards wherein the exercise price is based on the closing price of our common stock on the Nasdaq Global

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Market on the date of approval. For example, stock option grants for newly-hired employees (other than executive officers) are approved on the last business day of each fiscal quarter in which they were hired. With respect to option grants to existing executive officers, our Compensation Committee has determined to grant options to these officers only at a Compensation Committee meeting, with the exercise price of the stock option equal to the closing price of our common stock on the Nasdaq Global Market on the date that is the later of the date of the meeting or the employment start date in the case of a new executive hire. We eliminated the ability of the Company to grant options using unanimous written consents. We intend to grant options in accordance with the foregoing procedures without regard to the timing of the release of material non-public information, such as a positive or negative earnings announcement.

        In December 2007, we entered into amendments to option agreements with our executive officers, which may have been subject to section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by reason of having been granted at an exercise price below the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant for tax purposes. These were options that vested after 2004, which had not yet been exercised or terminated. In order to comply with Section 409A, these options were amended to provide for a fixed exercise schedule. As a result, our executive officers are required to exercise a specified number of shares underlying these options within specified time periods ranging from the current fiscal year to March 15, 2011. If an executive officer elects not to exercise the required portion of these options within the specified time period, the unexercised portion of the option will be terminated. Executive officers may also participate in our 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Our Employee Stock Purchase Plan is a broad-based stock purchase plan that enables all eligible employees to purchase shares of our common stock at a discounted price in order to share in the future success of the Company. The plan qualifies under section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code and is therefore required to be made available to all employees, including executive officers, serving the requisite numbers of hours. The plan permits employees to acquire shares of our common stock through periodic payroll deductions of up to 10% of total compensation. The price at which all employees may purchase common stock is 85% of the lesser of the fair market value of our common stock at the beginning or end of each 6-month purchase period.

Other supplemental benefits

        In addition to the compensation opportunities we describe above, we also provide our named executive officers and other employee benefits, such as medical insurance, life and disability insurance and our 401(k) Savings/Retirement Plan, in each case on the same basis as other employees.

Defined Pension Plan

        None of our named executive officers participate in or have account balances in qualified or non-qualified defined benefit plans sponsored by us. We do not offer such qualified or non-qualified defined benefit plans to our executives because we believe that such defined benefit plans are not typical for similar companies in both our industry and geographic region. Our Compensation Committee may elect to adopt qualified or non-qualified defined benefit plans if our Compensation Committee determines that doing so is in our best interests.

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation

        None of our named executive officers participate in or have account balances in non-qualified defined contribution plans or other deferred compensation plans maintained by us. To date, we have not had a significant reason to offer such non-qualified defined contribution plans or other deferred compensation plans. Our Compensation Committee may elect to provide our officers and other employees with non-qualified defined contribution or deferred compensation benefits if the Compensation Committee determines that doing so is in our best interests.

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Section 162(m) Treatment Regarding Performance-Based Equity Awards

        Under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, a public company is generally denied deductions for compensation paid to the chief executive officer and the next four most highly compensated executive officers to the extent the compensation for any such individual exceeds one million dollars for the taxable year. Our Compensation Committee intends to preserve the deductibility of compensation payable to our executives, although deductibility will be only one of the many factors considered in determining appropriate levels or modes of compensation.

Indemnification of Officers and Directors

        Our Articles of Incorporation and our Bylaws provide for indemnification of our directors, officers, employees and other agents to the extent and under the circumstances permitted by the California Corporations Code. Section 317 of the California Corporations Code provides for the indemnification of officers, directors and other corporate agents in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons under certain circumstances for liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Fiscal Year 2007 Director Compensation

        In fiscal year 2007, each member of our Board of Directors, including directors who are our employees, received an annual retainer fee of $10,000. Pursuant to our 2003 Director Stock Option Plan, in fiscal year 2007, each of our non-employee directors, Messrs. Almon, Nguyen and Tsai, were automatically granted options to purchase 5,000 shares at an exercise price of $12.54 per share, the closing price per share of the common stock as quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market on the date of grant. Under the terms of our 2003 Director Stock Option Plan, each non-employee director is automatically granted an option to purchase 5,000 shares of our Common Stock on June 1 of each year. To be eligible for this grant, a non-employee director must have served on our Board of Directors for at least six months and be a member of our Board of Directors at the time of grant. The term of these option grants is 10 years. The exercise price per share shall be 100% of the fair market value per share on the date of grant of the option. The option becomes fully exercisable upon the first anniversary from its date of grant.

        We also reimburse our directors for any business trip undertaken by any such directors upon our request.

        The following chart shows the compensation paid to each non-employee director for their service in fiscal year 2007:

Director

  Fees Earned
or Paid in
Cash ($)(1)

  Option Awards
($)(2)(3)(4)

  Total ($)
William J. Almon   $ 10,000   $ 12,382   $ 22,382
Julien Nguyen   $ 10,000   $ 33,031   $ 43,031
Lung C. Tsai   $ 10,000   $ 26,132   $ 36,132

(1)
The amounts listed under "Fees Earned or Paid in Cash" are based on actual payments made to our non-employee directors, which consist of the standard board retainer fee of $10,000 per year.
(2)
Amounts in this column represent the compensation cost of stock option awards recognized during fiscal year 2007 for all stock option awards granted in fiscal year 2007 and in prior fiscal years. Stock option awards have been calculated in accordance with SFAS No. 123R using the Black-Scholes option pricing model which utilizes certain assumptions outlined in the footnotes to the Company's audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

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(3)
The following table provides the number of shares of common stock subject to outstanding options held at February 3, 2007 for each director, as applicable:

 
  Name

  Number of Shares
Underlying Unexercised Options

    William Almon   10,625
    Julien Ngyuen   24,520
    Lung C. Tsai   20,000
(4)
The grant date fair value of each director's option awards granted during fiscal year 2007, computed in accordance with SFAS 123R, was $25,273.

        In fiscal year 2008, each member of our Board of Directors will receive a quarterly retainer fee of $5,000.

Fiscal Year 2007 Summary Compensation Table

        The following table sets forth information regarding compensation earned during fiscal year 2007 by our Chief Executive Officer, our former Chief Financial Officer and our other executive officers as of February 3, 2007, who we refer to collectively as our "named executive officers." On February 5, 2007, we appointed Mark R. Kent to serve as our Chief Financial Officer, and Kit Tsui was appointed Vice President of Planning and Administration. We appointed Thomas Gay III to serve as our Chief Financial Officer effective June 1, 2007.

Name and Principal Position

  Fiscal
Year

  Salary
($)

  Bonus
($)

  Option
Awards
($)(1)

  All Other
Compensation ($)

  Total ($)
Thinh Q. Tran
President and Chief Executive Officer
  2007   $ 350,000   $ 35,000   $ 709,639   $ 10,000 (2) $ 1,104,639
Kit Tsui
Former Chief Financial Officer, Current Vice President of Planning and Administration
  2007   $ 179,773       $ 132,116       $ 311,889
Silvio Perich
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
  2007   $ 178,448       $ 129,188   $ 188,641 (3) $ 496,277
Jacques Martinella
Vice President, Engineering
  2007   $ 223,549       $ 148,048       $ 371,597
Kenneth Lowe
Vice President, Strategic Marketing
  2007   $ 177,844       $ 126,176       $ 304,020

(1)
The amounts included in the "Option Awards" column represent the compensation cost recognized by us in fiscal year 2007 related to stock option awards in fiscal year 2007 and prior fiscal years, as required under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R. We estimate the fair value of stock options granted using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. This pricing model requires a number of complex assumptions including volatility, expected term, risk-free interest rate, and expected dividends. We based its expected volatility on a weighted average calculation combining both historical volatility of our stock price and implied volatility from traded options on our stock. The expected term represents the period that our stock options are expected to be outstanding and was determined based on historical experience of similar stock options considering the contractual terms of the stock options, vesting schedules and expectations of future employee behavior. The average assumptions used to calculate the fair value of stock options granted in fiscal year 2007 were volatility of 69.98%, risk-free rate of 4.77%, expected dividend of zero, expected forfeiture rate of 3.93% and expected life of 5.9 years.
(2)
Annual retainer paid for services on our Board of Directors.
(3)
Compensation earned as a result of sales commissions.

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Fiscal Year 2007 Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table

        The following table shows information regarding stock option awards we granted to the named executive officers during the year ended February 3, 2007. The options granted to our named executive officers in fiscal year 2007 were granted under our 2001 Stock Plan.

Name

  Effective Grant
Date

  All Other Option
Awards: Number of
Securities
Underlying Options
(#)

  Exercise or Base
Price of Option
Awards
($/Sh)(1)

  Grant Date Fair
Value of Stock
Option Awards(2)

Thinh Q. Tran
President and Chief Executive Officer
  8/25/2006   120,000   $ 11.06   $ 875,520
Kit Tsui
Former Chief Financial Officer, Current Vice President of Planning and Administration
  8/25/2006   30,000   $ 11.06   $ 218,880
Silvio Perich
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
  8/25/2006   25,000   $ 11.06   $ 182,400
Jacques Martinella
Vice President, Engineering
  8/25/2006   30,000   $ 11.06   $ 218,880
Kenneth Lowe
Vice President, Strategic Marketing
  8/25/2006   25,000   $ 11.06   $ 182,400

(1)
Exercisable as to 20% of the shares on the first anniversary of the grant date, with the remaining shares vesting ratably each month thereafter over the following four years. The option has a term of 10 years, subject to earlier termination in certain events relating to termination of employment.
(2)
The value of the option awards is based on the fair value as of the grant date of the award calculated in accordance with SFAS 123R. Regardless of the value on the grant date, the actual value will depend on the market value of our common stock on a date in the future when a stock option is exercised.

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Outstanding Equity Awards At Fiscal Year-End 2007

        The following table sets forth information regarding the outstanding equity awards held by our named executive officers as of February 3, 2007:

Name

  Number of
Securities Underlying
Unexercised Options
(#)
Exercisable

  Number of Securities
Underlying
Unexercised Options
(#)
Unexercisable

  Option Exercise
Price
($)

  Option Expiration
Date(6)

Thinh Q. Tran
President and Chief
Executive Officer
  340,000
200,000
50,000
70,001
99,084
93,999
72,500
37,500
 



20,916(1
26,001(2
77,500(3
112,500(4
120,000(5




)
)
)
)
)
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
2.31
2.91
3.50
1.25
1.69
3.40
5.43
9.89
11.06
  4/22/07
3/17/08
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
8/25/16
Kit Tsui
Former Chief Financial
Officer
  60,000
15,000
15,000
6,000
20,000
15,000
30,000
25,500
19,583
12,083
6,249
 







4,500(1
5,417(2
12,917(3
18,751(4
30,000(5








)
)
)
)
)
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
2.31
2.56
2.91
1.00
5.75
3.50
1.25
1.69
3.40
5.43
9.89
11.06
  4/22/07
5/1/07
3/17/08
10/8/08
11/1/09
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)
(18)
8/25/16
Silvio Perich
Senior Vice President,
Worldwide Sales
  65,000
25,000
25,000
30,000
25,500
19,583
12,083
6,249
 



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5,417(2
12,917(3
18,751(4
25,000(5




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$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
2.31
2.91
3.50
1.25
1.69
3.40
5.43
9.89
11.06
  4/22/07
3/17/08
(19)
(20)
(21)
(22)
(23)
(24)
8/25/16
                   

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Jacques Martinella
Vice President,
Engineering
  63,382
30,000
334
20,000
25,000
10,000
13,500
19,583
14,500
7,499
 





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5,417(2
15,500(3
22,501(4
30,000(5






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$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
2.31
2.91
1.00
5.75
3.50
1.25
1.69
3.40
5.43
9.89
11.06
  4/22/07
3/17/08
10/8/08
11/1/09
(25)
(26)
(27)
(28)
(29)
(30)
8/25/16
Kenneth Lowe
Vice President,
Strategic Marketing
  80,000
14,000
17,000
19,583
12,083
6,249
 

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18,751(4
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3.50
1.25
1.69
3.40
5.43
9.89
11.06
  (31)
(32)
(33)
(34)
(35)
(36)
8/25/16

(1)
Exercisable as to 20% of the shares on the first anniversary of 10/18/02, with the remaining shares vesting ratably each month thereafter over the following four years.
(2)
Exercisable as to 20% of the shares on the first anniversary of 2/20/03, with the remaining shares vesting ratably each month thereafter over the following four years.
(3)
Exercisable as to 20% of the shares on the first anniversary of 8/9/04, with the remaining shares vesting ratably each month thereafter over the following four years.
(4)
Exercisable as to 20% of the shares on the first anniversary of 10/28/05, with the remaining shares vesting ratably each month thereafter over the following four years.
(5)
Exercisable as to 20% of the shares on the first anniversary of 8/25/06, with the remaining shares vesting ratably each month thereafter over the following four years.
(6)
Except as otherwise noted, the options have a term of 10 years, subject to earlier termination in certain events relating to termination of employment.
(7)
45,833 shares underlying this option expire on 5/31/10. 4,167 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(8)
31,667 shares underlying this option expire on 11/7/11. 38,334 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(9)
40,986 shares underlying this option expire on 10/18/12. 55,774 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 23,240 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08.
(10)
44,000 shares underlying this option expire on 2/20/13. 48,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 24,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 4,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09.
(11)
70,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 30,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 30,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 20,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10.
(12)
35,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 30,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 30,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 30,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10. 25,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/11.

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(13)
13,750 shares underlying this option expire on 5/31/10. 1,250 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(14)
18,500 shares underlying this option expire on 11/7/11. 11,500 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(15)
13,000 shares underlying this option expire on 10/18/12. 12,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08.
(16)
9,166 shares underlying this option expire on 2/20/13. 10,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 834 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09.
(17)
11,666 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 3,334 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10.
(18)
5,833 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10. 4,167 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/11.
(19)
22,916 shares underlying this option expire on 5/31/10. 2,084 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(20)
18,500 shares underlying this option expire on 11/7/11. 11,500 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(21)
13,000 shares underlying this option expire on 10/18/12. 12,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08.
(22)
9,166 shares underlying this option expire on 2/20/13. 10,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 834 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09.
(23)
11,666 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 3,334 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10.
(24)
5,833 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10. 4,167 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/11.
(25)
22,916 shares underlying this option expire on 5/31/10. 2,084 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(26)
10,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(27)
1,000 shares underlying this option expire on 10/18/12. 12,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/2008.
(28)
9,166 shares underlying this option expire on 2/20/13. 10,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 834 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09.
(29)
14,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 6,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 6,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 4,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10.
(30)
7,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 6,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 6,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 6,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/11.
(31)
73,333 shares underlying this option expire on 5/31/10. 6,667 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(32)
6,333 shares underlying this option expire on 11/7/11. 7,667 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07.
(33)
8,666 shares underlying this option expire on 10/18/12. 8,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 3,334 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08.

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(34)
9,166 shares underlying this option expire on 2/20/13. 10,000 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 834 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09.
(35)
11,666 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 3,334 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10.
(36)
5,833 shares underlying this option expire on 12/31/07. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/08. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/09. 5,000 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/10. 4,167 shares underlying this option expire on 3/15/11.

Fiscal Year 2007 Option Exercises

        The following table sets forth the number of shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of options by our named executive officers during fiscal year 2007 and the aggregate dollar amount realized by our named executive officers upon exercise of the option:

 
  Option Awards
Name

  Number of Shares
Acquired on Exercise
(#)

  Value Realized on
Exercise ($)(1)

Thinh Q. Tran
President and Chief Executive Officer
  80,000   $ 840,000
Kit Tsui
Former Chief Financial Officer
     
Silvio Perich
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
  50,000   $ 604,500
Jacques Martinella
Vice President, Engineering
  7,000   $ 88,970
Kenneth Lowe
Vice President, Strategic Marketing
     

(1)
The aggregate dollar value realized upon the exercise of an option represents the difference between the market price of the underlying shares on the date of exercise as measured by the closing price on the Nasdaq Global Market and the exercise price of the option, multiplied by the number of shares exercised.

Equity Benefits Plans

2003 Director Stock Option Plan

        The key features of our 2003 Director Stock Option Plan are summarized below. The following summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the plan, which is incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

        Eligibility.     Our 2003 Director Stock Option Plan provides for the automatic grant of nonstatutory options to our non-employee Directors. Upon election or appointment to our Board of Directors, each non-employee Director is granted an option to purchase 20,000 shares of our common stock that vests and becomes exercisable as to 25% of the grant on each anniversary of the date of grant.

        In addition, each non-employee Director is granted an additional option to purchase 5,000 shares of our common stock on June 1 st of each year, provided that such Director has served on our Board of Directors for at least six months prior to the date and remains a member of our Board of Directors on that date. Each of these grants vest and become exercisable on the first anniversary of the date of grant.

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        Shares Available.     The number of shares reserved for issuance under this plan increases annually on the first day of our fiscal year by a number of shares equal to the lesser of (i) 500,000 shares, (ii) 2% of the outstanding shares on such date, or (iii) a lesser amount determined by our Board of Directors

        Term of Option; Option Agreement.     Options granted under the 2003 Director Plan have a term of 10 years, unless otherwise provided in the option agreement. Each option is evidenced by a stock option agreement between us and the Director to whom such option is granted.

2001 Employee Stock Option Plan

        The key features of our 2001 Employee Stock Option Plan are summarized below. The following summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the plan, which is incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

        Eligibility.     Nonstatutory stock options and stock purchase rights may be granted under the 2001 Option Plan to our employees, directors and consultants and those of our parent or subsidiaries. Incentive stock options may be granted only to employees.

        Shares Available.     The number of shares reserved for issuance under this plan increases annually on the first day of our fiscal year by a number of shares equal to the lesser of (i) 1,000,000 shares, (ii) 4% of the outstanding shares on such date or (iii) a lesser amount determined by our Board of Directors.

        Terms and Conditions of Options.     Each option is evidenced by a stock option agreement between us and the optionee, and is subject to the following terms and conditions:

             Exercise Price.     The exercise price of an incentive stock option may not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the common stock on the date such option is granted. However, the exercise price of an incentive stock option granted to a 10% shareholder may not be less than 110% of the fair market value on the date such option is granted.

             Exercise of Option.     The plan administrator determines when options become exercisable, and may in its discretion, accelerate the vesting of any outstanding option.

             Term of Option.     The term of an incentive stock option may be no more than 10 years from the date of grant. However, an incentive stock option granted to a 10% shareholder, may not have a term exceeding five years from the date of grant.

2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

        The key features of the 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan are summarized below. The following summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the plan, which is incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

        Eligibility.     Each of our employees (including officers), whose customary employment with us is at least 20 hours per week and more than five months in any calendar year, is eligible to participate in the 2001 Purchase Plan. No employee may purchase shares pursuant to the 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (i) if immediately after the grant, such employee would own 5% of either our voting power or value of the stock, or (ii) to the extent that his or her rights to purchase stock under all of our employee stock purchase plans accrue at a rate which exceeds $25,000 worth of stock (determined at the fair market value of the shares at the time such option is granted) for each calendar year.

        Shares Available.     The number of shares reserved for issuance under this plan increases annually on the first day of our fiscal year by a number of shares equal to the lesser of (i) 500,000 shares,

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(ii) 2% of the outstanding shares on such date, or (iii) a lesser amount determined by our Board of Directors.

        Offering Period.     The 2001 Purchase Plan is implemented by offering periods lasting approximately six months in duration with a new offering period commencing on January 1 st and July 1 st of each year. To participate in this plan, each eligible employee must authorize payroll deductions pursuant to the plan. Such payroll deductions may not exceed 10% of a participant's daily compensation.

        Purchase Price.     The purchase price per share at which shares will be sold in an offering under the 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan is the lower of (i) 85% of the fair market value of a share of common stock on the first day of an offering period or (ii) 85% of the fair market value of a share of common stock on the last day of each offering period. The fair market value of our common stock on a given date is generally the closing sale price of our common stock as reported on the Nasdaq Global Market for such date.

         Withdrawal . A participant may terminate his or her participation in the 2001 Purchase Plan at any time by giving us a written notice of withdrawal. In such event, the payroll deductions credited to the participant's account will be returned, without interest, to such participant. Payroll deductions will not resume unless a new subscription agreement is delivered in connection with a subsequent offering period.

        All of our equity incentive plans are administered by our Board of Directors or a committee appointed by our Board of Directors, typically the compensation committee.

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

        It is our policy that all employees, officers and directors must avoid any activity that is or has the appearance of conflicting with our interests. This policy is included in our Code of Business Ethics and Conduct. We conduct a review of all related party transactions for potential conflict of interest situations on an ongoing basis. Our Audit Committee must approve any waiver of the Code of Ethics for Senior Executives, including related party transactions. All waivers to the Code of Business Ethics and Conduct must be approved by our Board or a committee of our Board responsible for corporate governance.

        On April 10, 2006, we entered into a sublease agreement to rent approximately 2,500 square feet of a facility from Grandis, Inc., a start-up company founded by Mr. William J. Almon, a member of our board of directors. Mr. Almon resigned from Grandis effective June 2, 2006. This is a month-to-month operating lease with base rent of $4,000 plus proportionate share of operating costs commencing April 1, 2006. This sublease expired in September 2007.

        On February 16, 2006, we acquired Blue7, which was a privately-held California corporation. We purchased Blue7's shares for total consideration of approximately $11.9 million. Blue7 focuses on the development of advanced wireless technologies semiconductor products. In exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of Blue7, we issued or reserved for issuance at the closing to holders of Blue7 capital stock other than us an aggregate of 815,007 shares of our common stock, of which 98,470 shares were held in escrow to satisfy any obligations of Blue7 to indemnify us against any claims against Blue7 for any breaches of its representations or warranties contained in or made pursuant to the merger agreement and certain other matters set forth in the merger agreement. These shares in escrow were subsequently released to the Blue7 shareholders otherwise entitled to receive them upon termination of the escrow period. The shares of our common stock were issued pursuant to an exemption under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. An aggregate of 231,137 shares of the 815,007 shares of our common stock issuable under the Merger Agreement are reserved for future issuance upon the exercise of options to purchase common stock, which options were assumed by us under the terms of the merger agreement. Prior to the acquisition, we held approximately 17% of the outstanding shares of Blue7 and provided loans totaling $900,000 to Blue7. In addition, our Board member, Mr. William J. Almon had invested $100,000 for a 2% ownership interest in Blue7 during fiscal year 2005.

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PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS

        The following table sets forth information as of August 31, 2007 about the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned and the percentage of common stock beneficially owned before and after the completion of this offering by:

        Ownership information is based upon information furnished by the respective individuals or entities, as the case may be. Unless otherwise indicated below, the address of each beneficial owner listed on the table is c/o Sigma Designs, Inc., 1778 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, California 95035.

        We have determined beneficial ownership in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as indicated by the footnotes below, we believe, based on the information furnished to us, that the persons and entities named in the table below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock that they beneficially own, subject to applicable community property laws.

        Applicable percentage ownership is based on 24,398,318 shares of common stock outstanding on August 31, 2007. For purposes of the table below, we have assumed that 28,398,318 shares of common stock will be outstanding upon completion of this offering. In computing the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of that person, shares of common stock that are subject to options which are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of August 31, 2007 are deemed to be outstanding. We have not deemed these shares outstanding, however, for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.

 
   
  Percent Beneficially Owned
 
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner(1)

  Number of
Shares
Beneficially Owned

  Before
Offering

  After
Offering

 
5% Shareholders              
Entities associated with Galleon Management, L.L.C.(2)   1,215,750   5.0 % 4.3 %
Named Executive Officers and Directors              
Thinh Q. Tran(3)   1,272,294   5.1   4.4  
Thomas E. Gay III        
Silvio Perich(4)   25,500   *   *  
Jacques Martinella(5)   176,054   *   *  
Kit Tsui(6)   281,682   1.1   1.0  
Kenneth Lowe(7)   88,997   *   *  
William J. Almon(8)   58,297   *   *  
Julien Nguyen(9)   28,421   *   *  
Lung C. Tsai(10)   20,000   *   *  
All directors and executive officers as a group (9 persons)(11)   1,951,245   7.6 % 6.6 %

*
Represents less than 1% of our common stock.
(1)
The persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of Common Stock shown as beneficially owned by them, subject to community property laws where applicable and the information contained in the footnotes to this table.
(2)
Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on May 17, 2007. The reported securities are held by various funds affiliated with Galleon Management, L.L.C. Raj Rajaratnam reports shares

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(3)
Includes 731,001 shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter; and 213,293 shares of common stock held by Thinh Q Tran's family trust and 38,000 shares of common stock held by his four children's trusts (9,500 shares each). Mr. Tran disclaims beneficial ownership of common stocks held by these trusts.
(4)
Includes 22,500 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.
(5)
Includes 152,672 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.
(6)
Includes 171,165 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.
(7)
Includes 88,997 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.
(8)
Includes 10,625 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.
(9)
Includes 23,914 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.
(10)
Includes 20,000 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.
(11)
Includes 1,220,874 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options held by nine officers and directors which were exercisable at August 31, 2007 or within 60 days thereafter.

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

        This section describes the material terms of our capital stock under our second restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws. The terms our second restated articles of incorporation and bylaws are more detailed than the general information provided below. Therefore, you should carefully consider the actual provisions of these documents.

Authorized Capital Stock

        As of the date of this prospectus, our authorized capital stock consists of 37,000,000 shares. Those shares consist of (1) 35,000,000 shares designated as common stock, no par value and (2) 2,000,000 shares designated as preferred stock, no par value; 50,000 of which have been designated Series A Preferred Stock, 5,000 of which have been designated Series B Preferred Stock, 3,000 of which have been designated Series C Preferred Stock and 35,000 of which have been designated Series D Participating Preferred Stock. Our Series D Participating Preferred Stock was designated in connection with the adoption of a preferred stock rights agreement. The only equity securities currently outstanding are shares of common stock.

Voting Rights

        The holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters to be voted upon by the shareholders. Shareholder voting in the election of directors may cumulate such shareholder's votes and give one candidate a number of votes equal to the number of directors to be elected multiplied by the number of votes to which the shareholder's shares are entitled, or distribute such shareholder's votes on the same principle among as many candidates as the shareholder may select. However, no shareholder shall be entitled to cumulate votes for a particular candidate unless the candidate's name has been placed in nomination prior to the voting and the shareholder, or any other shareholder, has given notice prior to the voting of the intention to cumulate the shareholder's votes.

Dividend Rights

        Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any outstanding preferred stock, the holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared from time to time by the board of directors out of funds legally available for that purpose. We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our capital stock and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our capital stock in the foreseeable future. See "Dividend Policy" for additional information.

Liquidation Rights

        In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the company, the holders of common stock are entitled to share ratably in all assets remaining after payment of liabilities, subject to prior distribution rights of preferred stock, if any, then outstanding.

Other Rights

        The common stock has no preemptive or conversion rights or other subscription rights. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the common stock.

Preferred stock

        Our board of directors will be authorized to issue from time to time, without further shareholder approval, up to an aggregate of two million shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix or alter the designations, preferences, rights and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions of the shares of each series, including the dividend rights, dividend rates, conversion rights, voting rights,

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rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, liquidation preferences and the number of shares constituting any series or designations of any series. We may issue preferred stock in ways which may delay, defer or prevent a change in control without further action by our shareholders and may adversely affect the voting and other rights of the holders of our common stock. The issuance of our preferred stock with voting and conversion rights may adversely affect the voting power of the holders of our common stock, including the loss of voting control to others. We have no present plans to issue any shares of preferred stock.

Anti-Takeover Provisions

        Shareholder Rights Plan.     On June 7, 2004, our board of directors adopted a preferred stock rights agreement, or rights plan. Pursuant to the rights plan, each share of our common stock currently has an associated right. Under circumstances specified in the rights plan, each right would entitle the registered holder to purchase from us one one-thousandth share of Series D participating preferred stock at a purchase price of $58.00 in cash, subject to adjustment in the manner set forth in the rights plan.

        The rights are not exercisable and cannot be transferred separately from the common stock until:

        If and when the rights become exercisable, each holder of a right shall have the right to receive, upon exercise, that number of shares of common stock, or in certain circumstances, cash, property or other of our securities, that equals the exercise price of the right divided by 50% of the current market price for each share of common stock at the date of the occurrence of such event. In the event at any time after any person becomes an acquiring person:

        The rights have anti-takeover effects, in that they would cause substantial dilution to a person or group that attempts to acquire a significant interest in our company on terms not approved by our board of directors. The rights expire on June 18, 2014 but may be redeemed by us for $.001 per right at any time on or prior to the fifth day, or such later date as may be determined by our board of directors, following a person's acquisition of 15% or more of our common stock. As long as the rights are not separately transferable, each new share of common stock issued will have one right associated with it.

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        Charter and Bylaws.     Our articles of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control of our company. These provisions could limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock. Our board of directors can authorize the issuance of preferred stock that can be created and issued by our board of directors without prior shareholder approval, commonly referred to as "blank check" preferred stock, with rights senior to those of our common stock. Special meetings of the shareholders may be called by the board of directors, the chairman of the board of directors and president, or by one or more shareholders holding at least 10% of the outstanding common stock. We also have advance notice requirements for submitting nominations for election to our board of directors and for proposing matters that can be acted upon by shareholders at a meeting. Shareholder amendments to our bylaws require a majority vote.

Nasdaq National Market Listing Symbol

        Our common stock is currently traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "SIGM."

Transfer Agent and Registrar

        The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is Mellon Investor Services, LLC.

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UNDERWRITING

        Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, the underwriters named below, through their representatives Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and UBS Securities LLC have severally agreed to purchase from us the following respective number of shares of common stock at a public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions set forth on the cover page of this prospectus:

Underwriters

  Number
of Shares

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.    
UBS Securities LLC    
Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated    
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.    
RBC Capital Markets Corporation    
   
  Total   4,000,000
   

        The underwriting agreement provides that the obligations of the several underwriters to purchase the shares of common stock offered hereby are subject to certain conditions precedent and that the underwriters will purchase all of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus, other than those covered by the over-allotment option described below, if any of these shares are purchased.

        We have been advised by the representatives of the underwriters that the underwriters propose to offer the shares of common stock to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover of this prospectus and to dealers at a price that represents a concession not in excess of $        per share under the public offering price. The underwriters may allow, and these dealers may re-allow, a concession of not more than $        per share to other dealers. After the public offering, representatives of the underwriters may change the offering price and other selling terms.

        We have granted to the underwriters an option, exercisable not later than 30 days after the date of this prospectus, to purchase up to 600,000 additional shares of common stock at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. The underwriters may exercise this option only to cover over-allotments made in connection with the sale of the common stock offered by this prospectus. To the extent that the underwriters exercise this option, each of the underwriters will become obligated, subject to conditions, to purchase approximately the same percentage of these additional shares of common stock as the number of shares of common stock to be purchased by it in the above table bears to the total number of shares of common stock offered by this prospectus. We will be obligated, pursuant to the option, to sell these additional shares of common stock to the underwriters to the extent the option is exercised. If any additional shares of common stock are purchased, the underwriters will offer the additional shares on the same terms as those on which the shares are being offered.

        The underwriting discounts and commissions per share are equal to the public offering price per share of common stock less the amount paid by the underwriters to us per share of common stock. The underwriting discounts and commissions are    % of the public offering price. We have agreed to pay the underwriters the following discounts and commissions, assuming either no exercise or full exercise by the underwriters of the underwriters' over-allotment option:

 
   
  Total Fees
 
  Fee per share
  Without Exercise of
Over-Allotment Option

  With Full Exercise of
Over-Allotment Option

Discounts and commissions paid by us   $     $     $  

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        In addition, we estimate that our share of the total expenses of this offering, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $660,000.

        We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against some specified types of liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, and to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect of any of these liabilities.

        Each of our officers and directors has agreed not to offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any transaction that is designed to, or could be expected to, result in the disposition of any shares of our common stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of our common stock or derivatives of our common stock owned by these persons prior to this offering or common stock issuable upon exercise of options or warrants held by these persons for a period of 90 days after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part without the prior written consent of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and UBS Securities LLC. This consent may be given at any time without public notice. Transfers or dispositions can be made during the lock-up period in the case of gifts or for estate planning purposes where the donee signs a lock-up agreement. In addition sales can be made pursuant to 10b5-1 sales plans entered into prior to the date of this prospectus (pursuant to which an aggregate of approximately 284,359 shares may be sold during the lock-up period). We have entered into a similar agreement with the representatives of the underwriters except that without such consent we may grant options and sell shares pursuant to our stock option plans and our employee stock purchase plans. There are no agreements between the representatives and any of our directors or officers releasing them from these lock-up agreements prior to the expiration of the 90-day lock-up period.

        The representatives of the underwriters have advised us that the underwriters do not intend to confirm sales to any account over which they exercise discretionary authority.

        In connection with the offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell shares of our common stock in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, purchases to cover positions created by short sales and stabilizing transactions.

        Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than they are required to purchase in the offering. Covered short sales are sales made in an amount not greater than the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares of common stock from us in the offering. The underwriters may close out any covered short position by either exercising their option to purchase additional shares or purchasing shares in the open market. In determining the source of shares to close out the covered short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase shares through the over-allotment option.

        Naked short sales are any sales in excess of the over-allotment option. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the shares in the open market prior to the completion of the offering.

        Stabilizing transactions consist of various bids for or purchases of our common stock made by the underwriters in the open market prior to the completion of the offering.

        The underwriters may impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter repays to the other underwriters a portion of the underwriting discount received by it because the representatives of the underwriters have repurchased shares sold by or for the account of that underwriter in stabilizing or short covering transactions.

        Purchases to cover a short position and stabilizing transactions may have the effect of preventing or slowing a decline in the market price of our common stock. Additionally, these purchases, along with

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the imposition of the penalty bid, may stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the market price of our common stock. As a result, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. These transactions may be effected on the Nasdaq Global Market, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.

        A prospectus in electronic format is being made available on Internet web sites maintained by one or more of the lead underwriters of this offering and may be made available on web sites maintained by other underwriters. Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on any underwriter's web site and any information contained in any other web site maintained by an underwriter is not part of the prospectus or the registration statement of which the prospectus forms a part.

        Our common stock is quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "SIGM".

        Each underwriter has represented and agreed that (i) it has not offered or sold and, prior to the expiration of the period of six months from the closing date of this offering, will not offer or sell any shares of our common stock to persons in the United Kingdom except to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of their businesses or otherwise in circumstances which have not resulted and will not result in an offer to the public in the United Kingdom within the meaning of the Public Offers of Securities Regulations 1995; (ii) it has complied with and will comply with all applicable provisions of the Financial Services Act 1986 with respect to anything done by it in relation to the shares of our common stock in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom; and (iii) it has only issued or passed on and will only issue or pass on in the United Kingdom, any document received by it in connection with the issue of the shares of our common stock to a person who is of a kind described in Article 11(3) of the Financial Services Act 1986 (Investment Advertisements) (Exemptions) Order 1996 or is a person to whom such document may otherwise lawfully be issued or passed on.

        Some of the underwriters or their affiliates have provided investment banking services to us in the past and may do so in the future. They receive customary fees and commissions for these services.

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LEGAL MATTERS

        Selected legal matters with respect to the validity of the common stock offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Palo Alto, California. Selected legal matters relating to the offering will be passed upon for the underwriters by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto, California.


EXPERTS

        The consolidated financial statements as of February 3, 2007 and for each of the fiscal years in the three-year period ended February 3, 2007 included in this prospectus have been audited by Armanino McKenna LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report appearing herein, and have been so included in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

        The audit report on management's assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of February 3, 2007, expresses an opinion that the Company did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of February 3, 2007 because of the effect of material weaknesses on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria and contains an explanatory paragraph that states:

         Company-level controls —The Company did not maintain effective company-level controls as defined in the Internal Control—Integrated Framework published by COSO. These deficiencies related to each of the five components of internal control as defined by COSO (control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication, and monitoring). These deficiencies resulted in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected. Specifically,

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         Controls over share-based compensation —The Company had inadequate administration, supervision, and review controls over the approval and recording of share-based compensation.

        The Company rested previously filed annual and interim financial statements in their annual report on Form 10-K to correct the errors related to accounting for share-based compensation.

         Financial statement preparation and review procedures —The Company had inadequate policies, procedures and personnel to ensure that accurate, reliable interim and annual consolidated financial statements were prepared and reviewed on a timely basis. Specifically, the Company had insufficient: a) levels of supporting documentation; b) review and supervision within the accounting and finance departments; c) preparation and review of footnote disclosures accompanying its financial statements; and d) technical accounting resources. These deficiencies resulted in errors in the financial statements and more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of its annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected.

         Inadequate reviews of account reconciliations, analyses and journal entries —The Company had inadequate review procedures over account reconciliations, account and transaction analyses, and journal entries.

        Specifically, deficiencies were noted in the following areas: a) management review of supporting documentation, calculations and assumptions used to prepare the financial statements, including spreadsheets and account analyses; and b) management review of journal entries recorded during the financial statement preparation process. These deficiencies resulted in an understatement of warranty accrual and inventory reserves, misclassification errors between R&D expenses and Cost of Goods Sold, and other errors in the financial statements. These deficiencies resulted in a more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the Company's annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected.

         Inadequate controls over purchases and disbursements —The Company had inadequate controls over the segregation of duties and authorization of purchases, and the disbursement of funds. These weaknesses increase the likelihood that misappropriation of assets and/or unauthorized purchases and disbursements could occur and not be detected in a timely manner. These deficiencies resulted in errors in the Company's financial statements and in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of its annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected. Specifically,

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        These material weaknesses were considered in determining the nature, timing, and extent of the audit tests applied in our audit of the consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule as of and for the year ended February 3, 2007, and this report does not affect our report dated April 20, 2007, on those financial statements and financial statement schedule.


CHANGES IN INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

        On January 3, 2007, we filed a Form 8-K reporting that Grant Thornton LLP had informed us of its resignation as our independent registered public accounting firm effective as of that date. This Form 8-K, including the exhibit thereto, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2007 is hereby incorporated by reference. We will provide to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom this prospectus is delivered a copy of this Form 8-K and the exhibit thereto that we have incorporated by reference into this prospectus but not delivered with this prospectus. To receive a free copy of these documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus, call or write to Sigma Designs, Inc., Attention: Investor Relations, 1778 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, California 95035, telephone number (408) 262-9003.

        On June 17, 2005, Deloitte & Touche LLP, our independent registered public accountant firm prior to Grant Thornton LLP, resigned as our independent registered public accounting firm effective as of that date.


WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

        We have filed with the SEC a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the common stock offered by this prospectus. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules to the registration statement. Please refer to the registration statement, exhibits and schedules for further information with respect to the common stock offered by this prospectus. Statements contained in this prospectus regarding the contents of any contract or other document are only summaries. With respect to any contract or document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, you should refer to the exhibit for a copy of the contract or document, and each statement in this prospectus regarding that contract or document is qualified by reference to the exhibit. A copy of the registration statement and its exhibits and schedules may be inspected without charge at the SEC's public reference room, located at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at (202) 551-8090 for further information on the public reference room. Our SEC filings are also available to the public from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

        Upon completion of this offering, we will be subject to the information reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and we intend to file reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. These periodic reports, proxy statements and other information will be available for inspection and copying at the SEC's public reference room and the website of the SEC referred to above.

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INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
  Page No.
Consolidated Financial Statements (Audited):    
 
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

F-2
 
Consolidated Balance Sheets—February 3, 2007 and January 28, 2006 (Restated)

 

F-3
 
Consolidated Statements of Operations—Fiscal years ended February 3, 2007, January 28, 2006 (Restated) and January 29, 2005 (Restated)

 

F-4
 
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity and Comprehensive Income—Fiscal years ended February 3, 2007, January 28, 2006 (Restated) and January 29, 2005 (Restated)

 

F-5
 
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows—Fiscal years ended February 3, 2007, January 28, 2006 (Restated) and January 29, 2005 (Restated)

 

F-6
 
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

F-7

Condensed Financial Statements (Unaudited):

 

 
 
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)—August 4, 2007 and February 3, 2007

 

F-45
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)—Three and six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 (Restated)

 

F-46
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)—Six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 (Restated)

 

F-47
 
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

 

F-48

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Shareholders Sigma Designs, Inc.

        We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Sigma Designs, Inc. as of February 3, 2007 and January 28, 2006 (restated), and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended February 3, 2007 (restated). Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a). These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).

        Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

        In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Sigma Designs, Inc. at February 3, 2007 and January 28, 2006 (restated), and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended February 3, 2007 (restated), in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

        As discussed in Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements" the Company has restated previously issued financial statements as of January 28, 2006 and for each of the years in the two year period ended January 28, 2006. As discussed in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, effective January 29, 2006, the Company adopted the provision of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment.

        We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of Sigma Designs, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of February 3, 2007, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated April 20, 2007 expressed an unqualified opinion on management's assessment of, and an adverse opinion on the effective operation of, internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ ARMANINO MCKENNA LLP
San Ramon, California
April 20, 2007

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share data)

 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

 
 
   
  (As Restated)(1)

 
ASSETS              
CURRENT ASSETS:              
  Cash and cash equivalents   $ 24,413   $ 16,827  
  Short-term investments     8,791     9,525  
  Accounts receivable (net of allowances of $601 in 2007, and $1,491 in 2006)     11,231     4,951  
  Note receivable—related party (note 17)         900  
  Inventories     16,003     3,830  
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets     1,095     1,138  
   
 
 
    Total current assets     61,533     37,171  
EQUIPMENT AND LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS—net     3,364     1,474  
LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS     263     1,282  
GOODWILL     5,020      
OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS     5,527      
OTHER NON-CURRENT ASSETS     377     430  
   
 
 
TOTAL ASSETS   $ 76,084   $ 40,357  
   
 
 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
CURRENT LIABILITIES:              
  Accounts payable   $ 13,723   $ 3,467  
  Accrued liabilities and other     8,800     5,667  
  Current portion of bank term loan     226     211  
   
 
 
    Total current liabilities     22,749     9,345  
BANK TERM LOAN     15     233  
OTHER LONG—TERM LIABILITIES     348     102  
   
 
 
    Total Liabilities     23,112     9,680  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Note 10)              
SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:              
  Preferred stock—no par value: 2,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding          
  Common stock—no par value: 35,000,000 shares authorized; shares outstanding: 2007, 22,903,930; 2006, 21,945,874     119,301     107,700  
  Deferred compensation         (4,303 )
  Shareholder notes receivable     (58 )   (58 )
  Accumulated other comprehensive income     351     204  
  Accumulated deficit     (66,622 )   (72,866 )
   
 
 
    Total shareholders' equity     52,972     30,677  
   
 
 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY   $ 76,084   $ 40,357  
   
 
 

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share data)

 
  Years Ended
 
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

 
 
   
  (As Restated)(1)

  (As Restated)(1)

 
NET REVENUES   $ 91,218   $ 33,320   $ 31,398  
COST OF REVENUES     46,783     11,925     9,667  
   
 
 
 
GROSS PROFIT     44,435     21,395     21,731  
OPERATING EXPENSES:                    
  Research and development     22,515     15,040     12,288  
  Sales and marketing     7,841     6,056     5,268  
  General and administrative     8,222     4,868     4,531  
   
 
 
 
    Operating expenses     38,578     25,964     22,087  
   
 
 
 
INCOME (LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS     5,857     (4,569 )   (356 )
  Gain on sales of long-term investments         2,549      
  Interest income and other income, net     815     529     294  
   
 
 
 
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES     6,672     (1,491 )   (62 )
PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES     428     70     63  
   
 
 
 
NET INCOME (LOSS)   $ 6,244   $ (1,561 ) $ (125 )
   
 
 
 
NET INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE:                    
Basic   $ 0.28   $ (0.07 ) $ (0.01 )
   
 
 
 
Diluted   $ 0.24   $ (0.07 ) $ (0.01 )
   
 
 
 
SHARES USED IN COMPUTATION:                    
Basic     22,683     21,412     20,809  
   
 
 
 
Diluted     25,670     21,412     20,809  
   
 
 
 

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

(In thousands, except share data)

 
   
   
   
   
  Accumulated Other
Comprehensive Income

   
   
   
 
 
  Common Stock
   
   
   
   
  Total
Comprehensive
Income
(Loss)

 
 
  Deferred
Compensation

  Shareholder
Notes
Receivable

  Unrealized
Gain/Loss

  Accumulated
Translation
Adjustment

  Accumulated
Deficit

  Total
Shareholders'
Equity

 
 
  Shares
  Amount
 
Balance, January 31, 2004 (previously reported)   20,637,995     86,948               37     (60,963 )   26,022    
Adjustment to opening shareholders' equity       13,036   (3,858 )   (29 )       211     (10,217 )   (857 )  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
Balance, January 31, 2004 (restated)(1)   20,637,995     99,984   (3,858 )   (29 )       248     (71,180 )   25,165    
Net loss                         (125 )   (125 ) (125 )
Unrealized loss on investments                 (24 )           (24 ) (24 )
Cumulative translation adjustment                     28         28   28  
                                               
 
Total comprehensive loss                               (121 )
Deferred stock based compensation       2,316   (2,316 )                      
Amortization of deferred stock based compensation         1,476                     1,476    
Common stock issued under stock plans   400,967     1,259                       1,259    
Excess tax benefit from stock options       1                       1    
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
Balance, January 29, 2005 (restated)(1)   21,038,962     103,560   (4,698 )   (29 )   (24 )   276     (71,305 )   27,780    
Net loss                         (1,561 )   (1,561 ) (1,561 )
Unrealized gain on investments                 5             5   5  
Cumulative translation adjustment                     (53 )       (53 ) (53 )
                                               
 
Total comprehensive loss                               (1,609 )
Deferred stock based compensation       1,187   (1,187 )                      
Amortization of deferred stock based compensation         1,582                     1,582    
Note receivable issued for common stock       29       (29 )                  
Common stock issued under stock plans   906,912     2,924                       2,924    
Excess tax benefit from stock options                                
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
Balance, January 28, 2006 (restated)(1)   21,945,874     107,700   (4,303 )   (58 )   (19 )   223     (72,866 )   30,677    
Net income                         6,244     6,244   6,244  
Unrealized gain on investments                 35             35   35  
Cumulative translation adjustment                     112         112   112  
                                               
 
Total comprehensive income                               6,391  
Reversal of APB 25 deferred compensation upon the adoption of FAS 123R       (4,303 ) 4,303                        
Compensation expenses recognized in accordance with FAS 123R       4,949                       4,949    
Fair value of vested stock options assumed from Blue7 acquisition       1,110                       1,110    
Issuance of common stock for Blue7 acquisition   583,870     8,189                       8,189    
Non-employee stock based compensation       317                       317    
Excess tax benefit from stock options       123                       123    
Common stock issued under stock plans   374,186     1,216                       1,216    
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
Balance, February 3, 2007   22,903,930   $ 119,301     $ (58 ) $ 16   $ 335   $ (66,622 ) $ 52,972    
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

 
  Year Ended
 
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

 
 
   
  (As Restated)(1)

  (As Restated)(1)

 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:                    
  Net income (loss)   $ 6,244   $ (1,561 ) $ (125 )
  Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:                    
  Depreciation and amortization     2,352     938     492  
  Stock-based compensation     5,266     1,582     1,476  
  Provision for inventory valuation     1,224     29     230  
  Provision for bad debts and sales returns     30     31     634  
  Gain on sales of long-term investments         (2,580 )    
  Loss on disposal of assets     10     43     7  
  Investment impairment charge     19     31      
  Excess tax benefit from stock options     123         1  
  Accretion of contributed leasehold improvements     (81 )   (81 )   (85 )
  Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                    
    Accounts receivable     (6,310 )   1,435     (1,729 )
    Inventories     (13,397 )   (184 )   (1,304 )
    Prepaid expenses and other current assets     45     (58 )   (111 )
    Other non-current assets              
    Accounts payable     9,517     (73 )   1,874  
    Accrued liabilities and other     3,450     1,619     451  
   
 
 
 
    Net cash provided by operating activities     8,492     1,171     1,811  
   
 
 
 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:                    
  Purchase of equipment     (3,014 )   (699 )   (1,227 )
  Purchases of short-term investments     (22,234 )   (42,216 )   (20,154 )
  Maturity of short-term investments     23,003     41,225     11,600  
  Net proceeds (purchases of) from long-term investments         4,580     (2,000 )
  Issuance of short-term promissory notes         (900 )    
  Acquisition net of cash received     147          
  Other non-current assets     67     164     106  
   
 
 
 
    Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities     (2,031 )   2,154     (11,675 )
   
 
 
 
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:                    
  Bank borrowings         600      
  Repayment of bank borrowings     (203 )   (156 )    
  Net proceeds from sale of common stock     1,216     2,924     1,259  
  Costs related to registration of private offering of common stock         (63 )   (130 )
  Repayment of capital lease obligations             (5 )
   
 
 
 
    Net cash provided by financing activities     1,013     3,305     1,124  
   
 
 
 
Effect of exchange rates changes on cash     112     (53 )   28  
   
 
 
 
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS     7,586     6,577     (8,712 )
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS:                    
  Beginning of year     16,827     10,250     18,962  
   
 
 
 
  End of year   $ 24,413   $ 16,827   $ 10,250  
   
 
 
 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:                    
CASH PAID FOR INTEREST   $ 30   $ 45   $ 4  
   
 
 
 
CASH PAID FOR INCOME TAXES   $ 171   $ 9   $ 15  
   
 
 
 
Issuance of common stock and assumption of stock options related to business acquisition   $ 11,414          
   
 
 
 

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

        Nature of Operations —Sigma Designs, Inc. (the Company) specializes in silicon-based digital media processors for IP video technology, connected media players, high-definition television and PC add-in and other markets. The Company's award-winning REALmagic® Video Streaming Technology is used in a variety of consumer applications providing highly integrated solutions for high-quality decoding of H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 and Windows® Media Video 9 (WMV9). The Company sells its products to consumer equipment manufacturers, distributors, value-added resellers and corporate customers.

        Basis of Presentation —The consolidated financial statements include Sigma Designs, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries in France and Hong Kong. All intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated upon consolidation.

        Reclassifications —Certain reclassifications have been made to prior year balances in order to conform to the current year's presentation.

        Accounting Period —The Company's fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to January 31. Fiscal 2007 ended on February 3, 2007. Fiscal 2006 ended on January 28, 2006. Fiscal 2005 ended on January 29, 2005. Fiscal 2007 included 53 weeks. Fiscal 2006 and 2005 each included 52 weeks.

        Use of Estimates —The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements include but are not limited to and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates used in preparing these financial statements are related primarily to estimates to determine the collectability of accounts receivable to determine the allowances against the accounts receivable balances, estimates of the market value used in calculating the value of inventory on a lower of cost or market basis, estimates used in equity award valuation and stock-based compensation calculations, estimates of expected future cash flows and useful lives used in the review for impairment of investments, goodwill, intangible assets and other long-lived assets, estimates of the Company's ability to realize its deferred tax asset which are also used to establish whether valuation allowances are needed on those assets, and estimates related to litigation and settlement costs accrual. It is at least reasonably possible that the estimates will change within the next year. Actual results may also differ materially from management's estimates.

        Change in accounting estimate —There were no changes in accounting estimates during fiscal 2007. During fiscal 2006, the Company revised its estimate of the useful lives of certain production test equipment due to technology changes. Those lives were shortened to 2 years. Previously, all production test equipment was depreciated over 5 years. These changes were made to better reflect the estimated periods during which such equipment will remain in service. The change had the effect of increasing fiscal 2006 depreciation expense which was recorded as cost of revenues and decreasing net income by approximately $130,000 (less than $0.01 per basic and diluted share).

        Concentration of Credit Risk —Financial instruments which potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and accounts receivable. The majority of the Company's cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments are on deposit with two financial institutions. The Company performs ongoing credit

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evaluations of its customers and generally does not require collateral for sales on credit. The Company reviews accounts receivable on a monthly basis to determine if any receivables will potentially be uncollectible. The Company includes any accounts receivable balances that are determined to be uncollectible, along with a general reserve, in its overall allowance for doubtful accounts. The general reserve in the allowance for doubtful accounts is a calculation based upon the accounts receivable balance and the historical effectiveness of the Company's collection of those receivables. The Company will continue to maintain reserves for potential credit losses.

        Cash and Cash Equivalents —The Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with a remaining maturity of 90 days or less to be cash equivalents.

        Short Term Investments —Short-term investments represent highly liquid debt instruments with a remaining maturity date at purchase of greater than 90 days and are stated at fair value. The differences between amortized cost (cost adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts which are recognized as adjustments to interest income) and fair value representing unrealized holding gains or losses, are recorded separately as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) within shareholders' equity. The Company's debt securities are classified as available-for-sale because the sale of such securities may be required prior to maturity. Any gains and losses on the sale of debt securities are determined on a specific identification basis.

        Inventories —Inventories are stated at the lower of standard cost (which approximates first-in, first-out basis) or market. The Company periodically reviews its inventories for excess and obsolete inventory items and adjusts carrying costs to estimated net realizable values when they are determined to be less than cost. As a result of this inventory review, the Company charged approximately $1.2 million, $29,000 and $230,000 to cost of revenues for fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

        Long-Term Investments —Investments in private equity securities of less than 20% owned companies are accounted for using the cost method unless the Company can exercise significant influence or the investee is economically dependent upon the Company, in which case the equity method is used. The Company evaluates the long-term investments for impairment annually according to Emerging Issues Task Force ("EITF") Issue No. 03-01, The Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and Its Application to Certain Investments. EITF 03-01 provides guidance for evaluating whether an investment is other-than-temporarily impaired and requires certain disclosures with respect to these investments. The guidance also included accounting considerations subsequent to the recognition of an other-than-temporary impairment and requirements for disclosures about unrealized losses that have not been recognized as other-than-temporary impairments.

        Equipment and Leasehold Improvements —Equipment and leasehold improvements are stated at cost and categorized into computer and test equipment, software, furniture and fixtures and other. Depreciation and amortization are computed using the straight-line method based on the useful lives of the assets (three to five years) or the lease term if shorter, except for certain production test equipment (two to five years). The contributed leasehold improvements provided by the landlord for the Company's current facility is amortized using the straight-line method over lesser of the remaining lease term or useful life of leasehold improvements.

        Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets —Goodwill is recorded as the difference, if any, between the aggregate consideration paid for an acquisition and the fair value of the net tangible and intangible

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assets acquired. The amounts and useful lives assigned to intangible assets acquired, other than goodwill, impact the amount and timing of future amortization.

        In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets," the Company reviews goodwill for impairment annually, or more frequently, when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. The provisions of SFAS 142 require that a two-step test be performed to assess goodwill for impairment. First, the fair value of each reporting unit is compared to its carrying value. If the fair value exceeds the carrying value, goodwill is not impaired and no further testing is performed. The second step is performed if the carrying value exceeds the fair value. The fair value of a reporting unit is allocated to all the assets and liabilities of the reporting unit as if the reporting unit had been acquired in a business combination at the date of the impairment test. The fair value of tangible net assets and both recognized and unrecognized intangible assets is deducted from the fair value of the reporting unit to determine the implied fair value of reporting unit goodwill. The implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill must be compared to the carrying value of the goodwill. If the carrying value of a reporting unit's goodwill exceeds its implied fair value, an impairment loss equal to the difference will be recorded.

        We are currently amortizing acquired intangible assets with definite lives. Acquired developed technology is amortized over 7 years and non-compete agreements are amortized over the contractual period (currently 3 years). The amortization expense for acquired developed technology is classified as cost of sales and the amortization expense for other acquired intangible assets is classified as research and development expense in our consolidated statements of income.

        Long Lived Assets —The Company accounts for long-lived assets, including purchased intangible assets, in accordance with SFAS No. 144 , Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets . Long-lived assets are evaluated for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances such as a change in technology indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. An impairment loss would be recognized when the sum of the undiscounted future net cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its eventual disposal is less than its carrying amount.

        Revenue Recognition —We derive revenues primarily from three principal sources: product sales, product development contracts and service contracts. We generally recognize revenues for product sales and service contracts in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 104, "Revenue Recognition", under which revenue is recognized when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or service has been rendered, the fee is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.

        Revenues from product sales to OEMs, distributors and end users are generally recognized upon shipment, as shipping terms are FOB shipping point, except that revenues are deferred when management cannot reasonably estimate the amount of returns or where collectibility is not assured. In those situations, revenue is recognized when collection subsequently becomes probable and returns are estimable (generally upon resale by customers, often referred to as a sell-through basis). Allowances for sales returns, price protection and warranty costs are recorded at the time that revenues are recognized.

        Product development agreements typically require that we provide customized software to support customer-specific designs, accordingly this revenue is accounted for under the AICPA Statement of

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Position ("SOP") 97-2. We offer post-contract customer support ("PCS") on a contractual basis for additional fees, which is typically a one year term. In instances where software is bundled with the PCS, vendor specific objective evidence does not exist to allocate the total fee to all undelivered elements of the arrangement and, therefore, revenue and related costs are deferred until all elements, except PCS are delivered. The total fee is then recognized ratably over the PCS term (typically one year) after the software is delivered. We classify development costs related to product development agreements as cost of revenues. Product development revenues were approximately $581,000, $1.2 million and $981,000, for fiscal 2007, 2006, and 2005, respectively.

        Revenues from service contracts consist of fees for providing engineering support services, and are recognized ratably over the contract term. Expenses related to support service revenues are included in cost of sales. Support service revenues were $334,000, $150,000 and $303,000 for fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005 respectively.

        Research and Development expenses —Research and Development expenses include costs and expenses associated with the design and development of new products. To the extent that such costs include the development of computer software, they are generally incurred prior to the establishment of the technological feasibility of the related product that is under development and are therefore expensed as incurred.

        Income Taxes —Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of (a) temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes, and (b) operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. Income taxes are accounted for under an asset and liability approach in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 109. Deferred tax liabilities are recognized for future taxable amounts and deferred tax assets are recognized for future deductions net of a valuation allowance to reduce deferred tax assets to amounts that are more likely than not to be realized.

        Stock-Based Compensation —On January 29, 2006, the Company adopted SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004), "Share-Based Payment," ("123(R)") which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors based on estimated fair values. SFAS 123(R) supersedes our previous accounting under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees" ("APB 25") for periods beginning in fiscal 2007. In March 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued SAB No. 107 relating to SFAS 123(R). We have applied the provisions of SAB 107 in our adoption of SFAS 123(R).

        We adopted SFAS 123(R) using the modified prospective transition method, which requires the application of the accounting standard as of January 29, 2006, the first day of our fiscal year 2007. Our consolidated financial statements as of and for the twelve months ended February 3, 2007 reflect the impact of SFAS 123(R). In accordance with the modified prospective transition method, our consolidated financial statements for prior periods have not been restated to reflect, and do not include, the impact of SFAS 123(R). Stock-based compensation expense recognized under SFAS 123(R) for fiscal 2007 was $4.9 million, which consisted of stock-based compensation expense related to the grant of stock options and stock purchase rights.

        SFAS 123(R) requires companies to estimate the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as expense over the requisite service period in our consolidated

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statement of operations. Prior to the adoption of SFAS 123(R), we accounted for employee equity awards and employee stock purchases using the intrinsic value method in accordance with APB 25 as allowed under SFAS No. 123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation" ("SFAS 123").

        Stock-based compensation expense recognized during fiscal 2007 is based on the value of the portion of share-based payment awards that is ultimately expected to vest during the period. Stock-based compensation expense recognized in our consolidated statement of operations for fiscal 2007 includes compensation expense for share-based payment awards granted prior to, but not yet vested as of January 28, 2006 based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the pro forma provisions of SFAS 123 and compensation expense for the share-based payment awards granted subsequent to January 28, 2006 based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of SFAS 123(R). As stock-based compensation expense recognized in the consolidated statement of operations for fiscal 2007 is based on awards ultimately expected to vest, it has been adjusted for estimated forfeitures. SFAS 123(R) requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. In our pro forma information required under SFAS 123 for the periods prior to fiscal 2007, the Company accounted for forfeitures as they occurred.

        The effect of recording stock-based compensation to employees for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2007 was as follows (in thousands, except per share amount):

 
  Fiscal 2007
 
Stock-based compensation by type of award:        
  Stock options   $ 4,842  
  Employee stock purchase plan     107  
   
 
Total stock-based compensation     4,949  
Tax effect on stock-based compensation     (317 )
   
 
Net effect on net income     4,632  
Effect on net income per share:        
  Basic   $ 0.20  
  Diluted   $ 0.18  

        During fiscal 2007, we recorded stock-based compensation of $317,000 for consulting services. The net expense after tax effect was $296,000 or $0.01 per basic and diluted share.

Prior to the Adoption of SFAS 123(R)

        Prior to the adoption of SFAS 123(R), we provided the disclosures required under SFAS 123, as amended by SFAS No. 148, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosures." Consistent with the disclosure provisions of SFAS 148, our net loss and basic and diluted loss per share

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for fiscal 2006 and 2005 would have been adjusted to the pro forma amounts indicated below (in thousands, except per share amounts):

 
  Years Ended
 
 
  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

 
 
  (As Restated)(1)

  (As Restated)(1)

 
Net loss   $ (1,561 ) $ (125 )
Add: stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net income, net of tax     1,582     1,477  
Deduct: stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method, net of tax     (3,461 )   (3,430 )
   
 
 
Pro forma net loss   $ (3,440 ) $ (2,078 )
   
 
 
Basic net loss per share:              
  As reported   $ (0.07 ) $ (0.01 )
   
 
 
  Pro forma   $ (0.16 ) $ (0.10 )
   
 
 

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

        Foreign Currency —The functional currency of the Company's foreign subsidiaries is the local currency of each country. Accordingly, gains and losses from the translation of the financial statements of the foreign subsidiaries are included in shareholders' equity. Transaction gains and losses, which are included in the other expenses, net, in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, have not been significant for all years presented.

        Comprehensive Income (Loss) —Comprehensive income consists of net income (loss) and other comprehensive income or loss. Other comprehensive income or loss components include foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gains or losses on investments.

        Fair Value of Financial Instruments —For certain of the Company's financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, short-term investments, note receivable, accounts payable and other current liabilities, the carrying amounts approximate their fair value due to the relatively short maturity of these items.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

        In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued FASB interpretation No. 48 (FIN No. 48) "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes-an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109 (FAS No. 109)." This interpretation prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. This interpretation also provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. The evaluation of a tax position in accordance with this interpretation is a two-step process. In the first step, recognition, the Company determines whether it is

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more-likely-than-not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The second step addresses measurement of a tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not criteria. The tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50 percent likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Differences between tax positions taken in a tax return and amounts recognized in the financial statements will generally result in a) an increase in a liability for income taxes payable or a reduction of an income tax refund receivable, b) a reduction in a deferred tax asset or an increase in a deferred tax liability or c) both a and b. Tax positions that previously failed to meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold should be recognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is met. Previously recognized tax positions that no longer meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold should be de-recognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is no longer met. Use of a valuation allowance as described in FAS No. 109 is not an appropriate substitute for the de-recognition of a tax position. The requirement to assess the need for a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets based on sufficiency of future taxable income is unchanged by this interpretation. This interpretation is effective for the Company on February 4, 2007. The Company is currently evaluating the impact FIN No. 48 will have to the Company's consolidated balance sheet and statement of operations.

        In September 2006, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements ("SFAS 157"). SFAS 157 establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. The changes to current practice resulting from the application of SFAS 157 relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value, and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS 157 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and is required to be adopted by the Company beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. We are currently in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have on our consolidated financial position and results of operation.

2. RESTATEMENT OF CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Restatement of Previously Issued Financial Statements

        The Company is restating its consolidated balance sheet as of January 28, 2006 and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' equity, and cash flows for each of the Company's fiscal years ended January 28, 2006 and January 29, 2005 as a result of an internal stock option investigation commenced by the Audit Committee of the Company's Board of Directors ("Board") and other errors identified as a result of the audit of the fiscal year ended February 3, 2007, and the re-audit of fiscal years ended January 28, 2006 and January 29, 2005. In addition, the Company is restating the unaudited quarterly financial information and financial statements for the interim periods of 2006, and unaudited condensed financial statements for the three months ended April 29, 2006.

        Financial information included in the reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K filed by the Company prior to September 21, 2006, and the related opinions of the independent registered public accounting firms, and all earnings press releases and similar communications issued by the Company prior to September 21, 2006 should not be relied upon and are superseded in their entirety by this 2007 Form 10-K and other reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or after September 21, 2006.

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Background-Stock Option Investigation

        We previously disclosed, on July 26, 2006, that the Audit Committee of our Board had commenced an internal investigation, assisted by outside legal counsel and accounting experts, of our practices related to historical stock option grants. During the investigation, the Audit Committee reviewed stock option grants to officers, directors and employees from 1997 to 2006 encompassing approximately 1,000 grants on 41 different grant dates. On September 21, 2006, we announced that certain of the actual measurement dates for prior option grants may differ from the recorded measurement dates.

        The Audit Committee concluded its investigation in April 2007. Its investigation found that nearly all of the stock option grants for new hires, as well as for promotion and retention, were approved by the use of Unanimous Written Consents ("UWC" or "UWCs") of the Company's Board, rather than at a Board meeting. The Audit Committee found that the Company's process resulted in grant dates on the UWCs routinely established before the receipt of fully-signed UWCs authorizing such grants. The Audit Committee also found that due to these and other deficiencies in the administration of our stock option plans, a number of options grants between 1997 and 2006 were misdated.

        The Audit Committee has concluded that the stock option grant process, including the utilization of UWC process described above, reflected management's lack of appreciation of the legal and accounting standards of the stock option grant process and the erroneous belief that dates other than the stated grant date were, at best, administrative in nature and not governing. Based on the quarterly low price points of the option grants, and absent any objective documentation to the contrary, the Audit Committee has also speculated that the ultimate selection of the grant dates stated on the UWCs may have benefited from limited hindsight, but it has not found any conclusive evidence to this effect. The Audit Committee did not find any evidence of intent to deceive or to destroy or alter documents or to obstruct or impede the investigation in any way.

Accounting Considerations—Stock-Based Compensation

        We originally accounted for all employee, officer and director stock option grants as fixed grants under APB 25, using a measurement date of the recorded grant date. We issued all grants with an exercise price equal to the fair market value of our common stock on the recorded grant date, and therefore originally recorded no stock-based compensation expense.

        As a result of the findings of the investigation conducted by the Audit Committee and our own further review of our stock option granting practices, we determined that, although fixed accounting under APB 25 was appropriate, the measurement dates for certain stock option grants differed from the recorded grant dates for such grants. In some instances, we were only able to locate sufficient evidence to identify the measurement date described in APB 25, the first date on which both the number of shares that an individual employee was entitled to receive and the exercise price were known, within a range of possible dates. As a result, we developed a methodology to establish the revised measurement date as our estimate of the first date on which both the number of shares that an individual employee was entitled to receive and the exercise price were known with finality. Using the methodology described below, we concluded that it was appropriate to revise the measurement dates for these grants based upon our findings, and we refer to these revised measurement dates as the "Deemed Measurement Dates".

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        We calculated stock-based compensation expense under APB 25 based upon the intrinsic value as of the Deemed Measurement Dates of stock option awards determined to be "fixed" under APB 25 and the vesting provisions of the underlying options. We calculated the intrinsic value on the Deemed Measurement Date as the closing price of our common stock on such date as reported on the Nasdaq National Market, now the Nasdaq Global Market, less the exercise price per share of common stock as stated in the underlying stock option agreement, multiplied by the number of shares subject to such stock option award. We recognized these amounts as compensation expense over the vesting period of the underlying options (generally four years).

        The methodology developed by such advisor was used by us, with such advisor's assistance, to determine the Deemed Measurement Dates associated with prior stock option grants was as follows:

         New Hire Non-Officer Employee Stock Options Effective January 2006— Effective January 2006, we amended our practice of granting options to new hire non-officer employees to grant all such options at the end of the quarter in which the employee was hired. Accordingly, we determined the Deemed Measurement Date for each of these grants to be the last business day of the quarter of the employee's quarter of hire, because it was determined to be the first date when the number of shares and the price of each grant were known with finality.

         All Other Stock Options —We determined the Deemed Measurement Dates for all stock option grants other than those described above to be either the Approval Date or the Communication Date for the stock option grant. The Approval Date was used in each case that it was reliably determined, and the Communication Date was used in those cases where the Approval Date could not be determined or was determined to be unreliable.

        The "Approval Date" for the stock option was the date set forth in executed minutes or a fully-executed consent of the board of directors or stock option committee, provided that (1) documentary evidence existed that the allocation of shares had been finalized on such date, and (2) the Communication Date for the stock option was within 30 days of the Approval Date.

        The "Communication Date" for the stock option was the date we determined the key terms of the option (both the number of shares and the exercise price) to be initially communicated to the optionee. In the absence of specific documentary evidence of initial communication, we generally determined the Communication Date to be the earliest of: (1) the date the employee record was added to the stock option database application (the "Record Add Date"); (2) the optionee manual signature date on the stock option agreement (the "Stock Option Agreement Date"); and (3) for officers and directors, the date that a Form 3 or 4 was filed with the SEC with respect to the grant (the "Form 3/4 Date"). However, if we determined that the earliest date was the Record Add Date, and if the Stock Option Agreement Date was more than 30 days after the Record Add Date, then we determined the Communication Date to be the earlier of the Stock Option Agreement Date or the Form 3/4 Date.

        When applying this methodology to groups of grants, we generally determined the Communication Date for the group to be the latest Record Add Date, the earliest Stock Option Agreement Date, as we determined that, under our stock option grant process, the terms of stock options were generally communicated concurrently to each member of the group. We excluded a limited number of options, or "Outliers", from the determination of the latest Record Add Date and the earliest Stock Option Agreement Date for a group of grants when, based upon available evidence, we considered the Outlier

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dates as not reliable as to the date that the terms of the stock option grants were communicated to the group.

        We determined that variable accounting under APB 25, which is required in situations when the terms of option grants are modified subsequent to the date that all granting actions are complete, was not applicable for any of the grants during the Review Period.

        The methodology described above, and the determination of which stock option grants should be considered Outliers, as described above, involves judgment. We believe that the judgments applied are consistent with the provisions of the appropriate accounting pronouncements and the letter from the Office of the Chief Accountant of the SEC to the Financial Executives International and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants dated September 19, 2006.

        The following table summarizes the impact of the restatement adjustments on beginning accumulated deficit as of January 31, 2004, and net income for the years ended January 28, 2006 and January 29, 2005 (in thousands):

 
  Net Income (Loss)
Years Ended

   
 
 
  Accumulated
Deficit
As Of
Feb. 1,
2004

 
 
  Jan. 28,
2006

  Jan. 29,
2005

 
As previously reported   $ 1,884   $ 1,840   $ (60,963 )
Adjustments:                    
  Stock compensation expense     (1,582 )   (1,476 )   (9,150 )
  Payroll taxes, interest and penalties     (1,403 )   (227 )   (1,680 )
  Other     (460 )   (262 )   613  
   
 
 
 
  Total adjustments     (3,445 )   (1,965 )   (10,217 )
   
 
 
 
As adjusted   $ (1,561 ) $ (125 ) $ (71,180 )
   
 
 
 

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        The table below presents the impact of the individual restatement adjustments (in thousands), which is explained in further detail following the table:

 
  Three
Months
Ended
April 29,
2006

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
  Fiscal Years
 
  2006
  2005
  2004
  2003
  2002
  2001
  2000
  1999
  1998
 
  (unaudited)

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Stock-based compensation expense   $ 1,095   $ 1,582   $ 1,476   $ 1,553   $ 1,343   $ 1,156   $ 1,315   $ 1,532   $ 1,137   $ 997
Accelerated vesting and extended exercisability     55             76     8                     33
Payroll taxes, interest and penalties     372     1,403     227     700     155     15     227     523     22     38
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total stock-based expenses     1,522     2,985     1,703     2,329     1,506     1,171     1,542     2,055     1,159     1,068
Less: Compensation expense previously recorded     (795 )                                  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net adjustment to net income (loss) due to stock-based compensation     727     2,985     1,703     2,329     1,506     1,171     1,542     2,055     1,159     1,068
Add: Other adjustments     67     460     262     (123 )   (153 )   (161 )   (242 )   66        
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total adjustments to net income (loss)   $ 794   $ 3,445   $ 1,965   $ 2,206   $ 1,353   $ 1,010   $ 1,300   $ 2,121   $ 1,159   $ 1,068
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Restatement Adjustments

        Our restated consolidated financial statements incorporate stock-based compensation expense, and related payroll taxes, penalties and interest expenses. The restatement adjustments result in a $16.4 million increase in accumulated deficit as of January 28, 2006. This amount includes a reduction of our previously reported consolidated net income of approximately $3.4 million and $2.0 million for the years ended January 28, 2006 and January 29, 2005, respectively. The total restatement impact for periods through January 31, 2004 of $10.2 million has been reflected as a prior period adjustment to accumulated deficit as of that date.

        The restatement adjustments reduced the Company's previously reported diluted earnings per share by $0.15 and $0.09 for the years ended January 28, 2006 and January 29, 2005, respectively.

         Stock-Based Compensation —These adjustments are from the Company's determination that the initially recorded measurement dates of option grants could not be relied upon, based upon the Audit Committee's investigation and the Company's subsequent reviews and analyses. For substantially all such option grants, there was correspondence or other evidence that indicated that not all required corporate approvals had been obtained as of the initially recorded measurement date. The Company adopted a methodology to remeasure these option grants to a revised measurement date, as described below, and accounted for these grants as fixed awards under Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB) No. 25 Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees , or APB 25.

         Accelerated vesting and extended exercisability —These adjustments were made as a result of the acceleration of stock option vesting upon termination and the extension of the exercisability of certain options held by a few employees.

         Payroll taxes, interest and penalties —In connection with the stock-based compensation adjustments, the Company determined that certain options previously classified as Incentive Stock Options under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code ("IRC"), or ISOs, were determined to have been granted with an exercise

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price below the fair market value of our stock on the revised measurement date (see discussion under "Accounting Considerations" below). Under IRC tax regulations, ISOs may not be granted with an exercise price less than the fair market value on the date of grant, and therefore these grants might not qualify for ISO tax treatment. These stock options are referred to as the "Affected ISOs." The potential disqualification of ISO status exposes the Company to additional payroll-related withholding taxes on the exercise of options granted to U.S. employees, and penalties and interest for failing to properly withhold taxes on exercise of those options. As of February 3, 2007, the Company has recorded a net liability of approximately $3.9 million in connection with the potential disqualification of ISO tax treatment for option awards. The payroll tax, interest and penalty expenses were recorded in the periods in which the underlying stock options were exercised. Then, in subsequent periods in which the liabilities were legally extinguished due to expiration of statutes of limitations, the expenses were reversed, and recognized as a reduction in the related functional expense category in the Company's consolidated statements of operations.

        Because virtually all holders of options issued by the management of the Company were not involved in or aware of the incorrect pricing of the Affected ISOs, management has taken certain actions and is considering possible additional actions to address the impact of certain adverse tax consequences, including under IRC Section 409A, that may result from the exercise price of stock options being less than the fair market value of the Company's common stock on the Deemed Measurement Date, as defined below. IRC Section 409A (and, as applicable, similar tax laws in California and other states) imposes penalty taxes on our employees on stock options granted with an exercise price lower than the fair market value on the date of grant that vest after December 31, 2004 (the "409A Affected Options"). The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has issued transition rules under IRC Section 409A that allows for a correction, or cure, for 409A Affected Options. In December 2006, the Company entered into agreements with each of its executive officers to amend the 409A Affected Options held by such person to limit the period of exercisability to a defined calendar year. Further, prior to December 31, 2007, the Company may offer other holders of 409A Affected Options the opportunity to effect a cure of all such options by either increasing the exercise price to the market price on the actual grant date or, if lower, the market price at the time of the amendment or limiting the period of exercisability to a defined calendar year. The Company may approve bonuses payable to holders of the amended options to compensate them for the resulting increase in their option exercise price. The amount of these bonuses would be effectively repaid to the Company if and when the options are exercised and the increased exercise price is paid (although there is no assurance that the options will be exercised). If necessary to comply with applicable law, such cure will be effected as a tender offer. In connection with such cure, the Company may pay approximately $2.5 million in 2008 to non-officer employees of the Company. For those employees who exercised a 409A Affected Option during 2006, as a precautionary measure, we have sent the IRS and California Franchise Tax Board ("FTB") notices of our intent to participate in settlement programs they have developed to allow employers to pay certain taxes on behalf of employees to settle potential taxes resulting from the exercise of these 409A Affected Options during 2006. In connection with the Company's proposed participation in these programs, the Company may pay an aggregate of approximately $0.3 million to the IRS and FTB. The Company may also approve bonuses of an aggregate of approximately $0.2 million payable to these effected employees to compensate them for additional income tax imposed on them as a result of the payments the Company may make on their behalf to the IRS and FTB.

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         Income tax benefit (provision) —Because of the potential impact of the measurement date changes on the qualified status of Affected ISOs, the Company has determined that all Affected ISOs might not be qualified as ISOs under IRS regulations, and therefore should be accounted for as if they were Nonstatutory Stock Options under the IRC, or NSOs, for income tax accounting purposes. However, the Company recorded no income tax benefit associated with stock-based compensation and related charges because of valuation allowances provided against the resulting deferred tax assets, as the Company believes that sufficient doubt exists that it will be able to realize the value of those assets.

Other Accounting Adjustments

        In addition to the stock-based compensation adjustments described above, we also made certain other adjustments to our previously-reported net income (loss):

    During our fiscal 2007 audit, we determined that incorrect measurement dates were used to value stock options exchanged with the employees previously with Blue7 employees upon the acquisition. As a result, the increase in purchase price of $0.7 million was recorded as an increase to both goodwill and future stock-based compensation expense as of the date of acquisition. This compensation expense will be amortized to our consolidated statement of operations over the remaining vesting period of the related options. For the first quarter of fiscal 2007, we recorded incremental stock-based compensation expense of $40,000.

    During our fiscal 2007 audit, we determined that the collection of our French research and development tax credit was reasonably assured and, therefore, should have been accounted for using the accrual method, whereas such credits were previously recorded upon the receipt of cash. As a result, we restated our previously-reported operating results for fiscal years 2001 through 2006 to record aggregate income of $217,000 in Interest and other income.

    For fiscal 2005 and prior years we accrued and expensed estimated audit and tax professional fees ratably during the fiscal year prior to such services being actually performed. As a result, we restated fiscal years 2003 through 2006 to reflect the expensing of such audit and tax professional fees as the services were performed. The restatement for this element resulted in increases (decreases) in General and administrative expenses of zero, $224,000, and $(105,000) for each of fiscal year 2007, 2006, and 2005, respectively.

    During our fiscal 2007 audit, we restated our previously-reported operating results for fiscal years 2001 through 2006 to record certain adjustments to previously-provided income taxes. These adjustments amounted to an aggregate increase in income tax provision and income taxes payable of $326,000 to reflect income taxes related to our foreign subsidiaries.

    During our fiscal 2007 audit, we restated our previously-reported operating results for the first quarter of fiscal 2007 to record an increase to our warranty reserve and warranty expense of $27,000.

        In addition to the above adjustments, reclassifications have been made to prior year balances to conform to the current year presentation.

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Impact of the Restatement Adjustments on the Consolidated Financial Statements

        The following table presents the impact of the financial statement restatement adjustments on the Company's previously reported consolidated statements of income for the years ended January 28, 2006 and January 29, 2005 (in thousands).

 
  Years Ended
 
 
  January 28, 2006
  January 29, 2005
 
 
  As
Previously
Reported

  Adjustments
  As
Restated

  As
Previously
Reported

  Adjustments
  As
Restated

 
NET REVENUES   $ 33,320   $   $ 33,320   $ 31,437   $ (39 ) $ 31,398  
COST OF REVENUES     11,552     373 (1)   11,925     9,527     140 (1)   9,667  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
GROSS PROFIT     21,768     (373 )   21,395     21,910     (179 )   21,731  
OPERATING EXPENSES:                                      
  Research and development     14,041     999 (1)   15,040     11,648     640 (1)   12,288  
  Sales and marketing     5,076     980 (1)   6,056     4,804     464 (1)   5,268  
  General and administrative     4,131     737 (1)   4,868     4,209     322 (1)   4,531  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Operating expenses     23,248     2,716     25,964     20,661     1,426     22,087  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
INCOME (LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS     (1,480 )   (3,089 )   (4,569 )   1,249     (1,605 )   (356 )
  Gains on sales of long-term investments     2,549         2,549              
  Interest income and other income, net     823     (294 ) (2)   529     595     (301 ) (2)   294  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAXES     1,892     (3,383 )   (1,491 )   1,844     (1,906 )   (62 )
PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES     8     62     70     4     59     63  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
NET INCOME (LOSS)   $ 1,884   $ (3,445 ) $ (1,561 ) $ 1,840   $ (1,965 ) $ (125 )
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
NET INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE:                                      
  Basic   $ 0.09   $ (0.16 ) $ (0.07 ) $ 0.09   $ (0.10 ) $ (0.01 )
  Diluted   $ 0.08   $ (0.15 ) $ (0.07 ) $ 0.08   $ (0.09 ) $ (0.01 )
SHARES USED IN COMPUTATION:                                      
  Basic     21,412           21,412     20,809           20,809  
  Diluted     23,667           21,412     23,529           20,809  

(1)
Includes the impact of stock-based compensation charges and related payroll taxes.

(2)
Includes the impact of penalties and interest in connection with payroll tax liabilities recorded.

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        The following table presents the impact of the financial statement restatement adjustments on the Company's previously reported consolidated balance sheet as of January 28, 2006 (in thousands).

 
  As
Previously
Reported

  Adjustments
  As
Restated

 
ASSETS                    
CURRENT ASSETS:                    
  Cash and cash equivalents   $ 16,827   $   $ 16,827  
  Short-term investments     9,525         9,525  
  Accounts receivable (net of allowances of $1,491)     4,951         4,951  
  Note receivable—related party     900         900  
  Inventories     3,830         3,830  
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets     1,001     137     1,138  
   
 
 
 
    Total current assets     37,034     137     37,171  
EQUIPMENT AND LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS—net     1,474         1,474  
LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS     1,282         1,282  
OTHER NON- CURRENT ASSETS     169     261     430  
   
 
 
 
TOTAL ASSETS   $ 39,959   $ 398   $ 40,357  
   
 
 
 
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY CURRENT LIABILITIES:                    
  Accounts payable   $ 3,467   $   $ 3,467  
  Accrued liabilities and other     2,031     3,636 (2)   5,667  
  Current portion of bank term loan     211         211  
   
 
 
 
    Total current liabilities     5,709     3,636     9,345  
BANK TERM LOAN     233         233  
OTHER LONG—TERM LIABILITIES     102         102  
   
 
 
 
    Total liabilities     6,044     3,636     9,680  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:                    
Preferred stock—no par value: 2,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding              
Common stock—no par value: 35,000,000 shares authorized; 21,945,874 shares outstanding     91,131     16,569 (1)   107,700  
Shareholder notes receivables         (58 ) (1)   (58 )
Deferred compensation         (4,303 ) (1)   (4,303 )
Accumulated other comprehensive income     23     181     204  
Accumulated deficit     (57,239 )   (15,627 ) (1)(2)   (72,866 )
   
 
 
 
Total shareholders' equity   $ 33,915   $ (3,238 ) $ 30,677  
   
 
 
 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY   $ 39,959   $ 398   $ 40,357  
   
 
 
 

(1)
Includes the impact of stock-based compensation charges.

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(2)
Includes the impact of payroll taxes and related penalties and interest.

3. CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS

        Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments consisted of the following (in thousands):

 
  February 3, 2007
  January 28, 2006
 
  Adjusted
Cost

  Unrealized
loss

  Fair
market
value

  Adjusted
Cost

  Unrealized
loss

  Fair
market
value

Money market funds   $ 13,552   $   $ 13,552   $ 586   $   $ 586
Certificate of Deposits                 399     (1 )   398
Corporate commercial paper     1,734         1,734     4,095     (1 )   4,094
Corporate bonds     724         724     4,300     (11 )   4,289
US agency discount notes                 565     (1 )   564
US agency non callable     2,000     (1 )   1,999     2,426     (6 )   2,420
Auction rate securities     5,175         5,175            
   
 
 
 
 
 
Total cash equivalents and short-term investments   $ 23,185   $ (1 )   23,184   $ 12,371   $ (20 )   12,351
Cash on hand held in the United States                 8,985                 13,199
Cash on hand held overseas                 1,035                 802
               
             
Total cash on hand                 10,020                 14,001
                $ 33,204               $ 26,352
               
             
Reported as:                                    
  Cash and cash equivalents               $ 24,413               $ 16,827
  Short-term investments                 8,791                 9,525
               
             
                $ 33,204               $ 26,352
               
             

        The amortized cost and estimated market value of investments, by contractual maturity, are shown below (in thousands). Actual maturities may differ from contractual maturities.

 
  February 3, 2007
  January 28, 2006
 
  Amortized
cost

  Estimated
market
value

  Amortized
cost

  Estimated
market
value

Due in 1 year or less   $ 23,185   $ 23,184   $ 12,371   $ 12,351
Due in greater than 1 year                
   
 
 
 
TOTAL   $ 23,185   $ 23,184   $ 12,371   $ 12,351
   
 
 
 

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4. INVENTORIES

        Inventories consist of (in thousands):

 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

Raw materials   $ 7,696   $ 817
Work in process     1,680     552
Finished goods     6,627     2,461
   
 
TOTAL   $ 16,003   $ 3,830
   
 

5. EQUIPMENT AND LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS—NET

        Equipment and leasehold improvements consist of (in thousands):

 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

 
Computers and test equipment   $ 2,794   $ 2,262  
Software     3,138     1,109  
Furniture and fixtures     1,352     1,177  
Other     145     122  
   
 
 
Total     7,429     4,670  
Accumulated depreciation and amortization     (4,065 )   (3,196 )
   
 
 
TOTAL   $ 3,364   $ 1,474  
   
 
 

        Furniture and fixtures at cost included $761,000 and $725,000 of leasehold improvements as of February 3, 2007 and January 28, 2006, respectively. Depreciation and leasehold amortization expense for fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005 was $1,089,000, $938,000 and $492,000, respectively. The increased depreciation expense in fiscal 2006 included $130,000 of accelerated depreciation of certain test equipment due to reduction of their estimated useful lives.

6. LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS

        Long-term investments consist of (in thousands):

 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

Blue7 Communications ("Blue7")   $   $ 1,000
Local MPEG-4 system provider Envivio, Inc. (see Note 17)     263     263
NETAV         19
   
 
TOTAL   $ 263   $ 1,282
   
 

        On February 26, 2006, the Company acquired Blue7. (See Note 15)

        In fiscal 2007, the Company recorded a $19,000 impairment loss to writeoff the remaining value of its investment in NETAV. In fiscal 2006, the Company recorded a $31,000 impairment loss to this investment due primarily to the dissolution of NETAV.

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7. GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLES

        During the first quarter of fiscal 2007, we recorded goodwill of $5.0 million in connection with the acquisition of Blue7. Refer to Note 15 for further information regarding this acquisition.

        Acquired intangible assets, subject to amortization, were as follows as of February 3, 2007 (in thousands):

 
  Cost
  Accumulated
Amortization

  Net
Developed Technology     5,300     (726 )   4,574
Noncompete Agreements     1,400     (447 )   953
   
 
 
Total intangible assets   $ 6,700   $ (1,173 ) $ 5,527
   
 
 

        Amortization expense related to the acquired intangible assets was $1.2 million for fiscal 2007. As of February 3, 2007, we expect amortization expense in future periods to be as shown below (in thousands):

Fiscal Year

  Developed
Technology

  Noncompete
Agreements

  Total
2008   $ 757   $ 467   $ 1,224
2009     757     467     1,224
2010     757     19     776
2011     757         757
2012     757         757
Thereafter     789         789
   
 
 
    $ 4,574   $ 953   $ 5,527
   
 
 

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8. ACCRUED LIABILITIES

        Accrued liabilities consist of (in thousands):

 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

 
   
  (As Restated)(1)

Accrued salaries and benefits   $ 889   $ 642
Accrued payroll taxes     4,562     3,568
Deferred revenues     755     211
Accrued royalties     410     147
Accrued commissions     277     92
Accrued warranty     556     289
Income taxes payable     465     336
Customer deposits     85     35
Other accrued liabilities     801     347
   
 
TOTAL   $ 8,800   $ 5,667
   
 

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

9. PRODUCT WARRANTY

        In general, the Company sells products with a one-year limited warranty that the Company's products will be free from defects in materials and workmanship. Warranty cost is estimated at the time revenue is recognized, based on historical activity. Accrued warranty cost includes both hardware repair and/or replacement and software support costs and is included in accrued liabilities and other on the balance sheets.

        Details of the change in accrued warranty for fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005 are as follows (in thousands):

 
  Balance
Beginning
Period

  Additions
  Deductions
  Balance
End of
Period

Fiscal Years                        
2007   $ 289   $ 599   $ (332 ) $ 556
2006   $ 191   $ 187   $ (89 ) $ 289
2005   $ 134   $ 177   $ (120 ) $ 191

10. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

        The Company's standard terms and conditions of sale include a patent infringement indemnification provision for claims from third parties related to the Company's intellectual property. The terms and conditions of sale generally limit the scope of the available remedies to a variety of industry-standard methods including, but not limited to, a right to control the defense or settlement of any claim, procure the right for continued usage, and a right to replace or modify the infringing products to make them non-infringing. Such indemnification provisions are accounted for in accordance

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with SFAS No. 5 Accounting for Contingencies. To date, the Company has not incurred or accrued any costs related to any claims under such indemnification provisions.

         Leases —The Company's primary facilities are leased under a non-cancelable lease which expires in September 2007. In February 2007, the Company entered into a new lease agreement for a facility to which the Company intends to relocate its headquarters. The new lease will expire in September 2012. Future minimum annual payments under operating leases are as follows (in thousands):

Fiscal Years

  Operating
Leases

2008     730
2009     605
2010     626
2011     665
2012     705
Thereafter     448
   
TOTAL MINIMUM LEASE PAYMENTS   $ 3,779
   

        Rent expense was $749,000, $670,000 and $692,000 for fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively, net of sublease income of approximately $7,000, $33,000 and $54,000 for fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

        The Company currently places non-cancelable orders to purchase semiconductor products from its suppliers on an eight to twelve week lead-time basis. As of February 3, 2007, the total amount of outstanding non-cancelable purchase orders was approximately $4.6 million.

         Royalties —The Company pays royalties for the right to sell certain products under various license agreements. During fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, the Company recorded royalty expense of $1.3 million, $490,000 and $270,000, respectively.

         Benefit Plan —The Company sponsors a 401(k) savings plan in which most employees are eligible to participate. The plan commenced in fiscal 1994. The Company is not obligated to make contributions to the plan and no contributions have been made by the Company.

         Legal Proceedings —Certain current and former directors and officers of the Company have been named as defendants in several shareholder derivative actions filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which have been consolidated under the caption In re Sigma Designs, Inc. Derivative Litigation (the "Federal Action") and in a substantially similar shareholder derivative action filed in the Superior Court for Santa Clara County, California captioned Korsinsky v. Tran, et al. (the "State Action").

        Plaintiffs in the Federal and State Actions allege that the individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties to the Company in connection with the alleged backdating of stock option grants during the period from 1994 through 2005 and that certain defendants were unjustly enriched. Plaintiffs in the Federal Action assert derivative claims against the individual defendants based on alleged violations of Sections 10(b), 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rules 10b-5 and 14a-9 promulgated thereunder. They also allege that the individual defendants aided and abetted one another's alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and violated California Corporations Code

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section 25402 and bring claims for an accounting and rescission. In the State Action, plaintiffs also allege that the individual defendants wasted corporate assets. Both Actions seek to recover unspecified money damages, disgorgement of profits and benefits and equitable relief. The Federal Action also seeks treble damages, rescission of certain defendants' option contracts, imposition of a constructive trust over executory option contracts and attorney's fees. The Company is named as a nominal defendant in both the Federal and State Actions; thus, no recovery against the Company is sought.

        The Company has filed a motion to dismiss the Federal Action on the ground that the plaintiffs had not made a pre-litigation demand on the Company's Board of Directors and had not demonstrated that such a demand would have been futile. The defendant directors and officers joined in that motion, and filed a motion to dismiss the Federal Action for failure to state a claim against each of them. The Company has also filed a motion to dismiss or stay the State Action in favor of the earlier-filed Federal Action. The defendant directors and officers joined in that motion. Pursuant to a joint stipulation, the court ordered that the State Action be stayed in favor of the earlier-filed Federal Action.

        The Company has previously disclosed in press releases that the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has initiated an informal inquiry into the Company's stock option granting practices. The SEC has requested that the Company voluntarily produce documents relating to, among other things, our stock option practices. The Company is cooperating with the SEC.

11. CURRENT AND LONG-TERM DEBT

        On August 12, 2005, the Company entered into a Loan and Security Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") with United Commercial Bank (the "Bank"). The Loan Agreement provides for a maximum borrowing amount of approximately $15.5 million across three credit facilities consisting of two 2-year Lines of Credit and a 30-month Term Loan of $500,000.

        The first 2-year Line of Credit allows the Company to borrow up to 80% of its accounts receivable to a maximum of $15 million and, has a floating interest rate of the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate plus 0.25% per annum. The second 2-year Line of Credit allows the Company to borrow up to $5 million as long as (1) unrestricted cash at the Bank exceeds $10 million, (2) the credit limit of the first 2-year Line of Credit is utilized and (3) the total outstanding balances under both 2-year Lines of Credit cannot exceed $15 million at any one time. The second 2-year Line of Credit has a floating interest rate of the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate plus 0.25% per annum. The Company's obligations under the Loan Agreement are secured by substantially all of the Company's assets, including its intellectual property. Both Lines of Credit expire and are payable in full on August 12, 2007. At the Company's option, the loans under the Loan Agreement can be repaid without premium or penalty. As of February 3, 2007, the Company had no amounts outstanding under these two Lines of Credit but had availability to draw down approximately $8.5 million. On February 8, 2006, the Company utilized $2.4 million of the first 2-year Line of Credit for a standby letter of credit to a supplier.

        Principal amounts under the Term Loan will become due and payable on a monthly basis such that the Term Loan will be fully repaid in February 2008. The monthly payment including interest of the Term Loan is approximately $18,000. The Term Loan has a floating interest rate of the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate plus 0.5% per annum. The effective average interest rate paid on the Term Loan from January 29, 2006 to February 3, 2007, was approximately 8.54%. As of February 3, 2007, the

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Company had $241,000 outstanding under the Term Loan. The amounts of the Term Loan mature as follows (in thousands):

Maturities

  Loan
Payment

Fiscal 2008   $ 226
Fiscal 2009     15
   
Total   $ 241
   

        Under the Loan Agreement, the Company is subject to certain financial covenants. As of February 3, 2007, the Company was not in compliance with all of the covenants contained in the Loan Agreement, and is seeking a waiver from the lender.

12. NET INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE

        Basic earnings per share (EPS) excludes dilution and is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that would occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock.

        The reconciliation of the denominators of the basic and diluted net income per share computations for the fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005 is shown in the following table (in thousands, except per share data):

 
  Fiscal Years
 
 
  2007
  2006
  2005
 
 
   
  (As Restated)(1)

  (As Restated)(1)

 
Numerator:                    
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders, Basic and diluted   $ 6,244   $ (1,561 ) $ (125 )
   
 
 
 
Denominator:                    
  Weighted average common shares outstanding     22,683     21,412     20,809  
   
 
 
 
Shares used in computation, basic     22,683     21,412     20,809  
Escrowed shares related to Blue7 acquisition     94          
Effect of dilutive securities:                    
  Stock options     2,893          
   
 
 
 
Shares used in computation, diluted     25,670     21,412     20,809  
   
 
 
 
Net income per share:                    
  Basic   $ 0.28   $ (0.07 ) $ (0.01 )
   
 
 
 
  Diluted   $ 0.24   $ (0.07 ) $ (0.01 )
   
 
 
 
  Dilutive shares not included in loss years         2,621     2,720  
   
 
 
 

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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        A summary of the excluded potential dilutive securities as of the end of each fiscal year follows (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

Stock options   489   2   20

13. SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

Comprehensive Income

        The reconciliation of net income (loss) to total comprehensive income (loss) is as follows (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

 
 
   
  (As Restated)(1)

  (As Restated)(1)

 
Net income (loss)   $ 6,244   $ (1,561 ) $ (125 )
Other comprehensive income                    
  Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities     35     5     (24 )
  Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment     112     (53 )   28  
   
 
 
 
Total comprehensive income (loss)   $ 6,391   $ (1,609 ) $ (121 )
   
 
 
 

(1)
See Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Stock Option Plans

        2003 Director Stock Option Plan (the "2003 Director Plan"):     During fiscal 2004, the Company adopted the 2003 Director Stock Option Plan to replace the predecessor 1994 Director Stock Option Plan which expired in fiscal 2005. A total of 207,500 shares of common stock are currently reserved for issuance under the 2003 Director Plan of which 65,000 have been granted as of February 3, 2007.

        2001 Employee Stock Option Plan (the "2001 Option Plan"):     During fiscal 2002, the Company adopted the 2001 Employee Stock Option Plan (the "2001 Option Plan") and reserved 500,000 shares of the Company's common stock for issuance under the plan, with automatic annual increases on the first day of the Company's fiscal year equal to the lesser of (i) 1,000,000 shares, (ii) 4% of the Company's outstanding common stock on such date or (iii) a lesser number of shares as determined by the Board of Directors, commencing February 1, 2002. On March 8, 2006, an additional 877,834 shares resulting from the automatic annual increase of 4% of the Company's outstanding common stock were added to the shares available for issuance under the 2001 Employee Stock Option Plan. As of February 3, 2007, the Company reserved a total of 3.8 million shares of common stock for issuance under this plan. Generally, the plan provides for the granting of options to purchase shares of common

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stock at the fair market value on the date of grant. Options granted under the plan become exercisable over a five-year period and expire no more than ten years from the date of grant (all options outstanding at February 3, 2007 expire ten years from date of grant). The 2001 plan replaced the predecessor 1994 Option Plan which expired in fiscal 2005.

        The total stock option activities and balances of the Company's stock option plans are summarized as follows:

 
  Number of
Shares
Outstanding

  Weighted Average
Exercise Prices
Per Share

  Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Term
(Years)

  Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(in thousands)

Balance, January 31, 2004 (2,551,665 exercisable at a weighted-average price of $2.65)   4,264,436   $ 2.77          
Granted (weighted-average fair value of $2.98)   933,500     5.55          
Cancelled   (28,428 )   2.58          
Exercised   (334,169 )   2.46          
   
 
         
Balance, January 29, 2005 (2,853,801 exercisable at a weighted-average price of $2.79)   4,835,339     3.33          
Granted (weighted-average fair value of $5.26)   967,900     10.36          
Cancelled   (92,679 )   5.89          
Exercised   (825,343 )   2.89          
   
 
         
Balance, January 28, 2006 (2,745,101 exercisable at a weighted-average price of $2.99)   4,885,217     4.75          
Granted (weighted-average fair value of $9.58)   1,092,837     10.51          
Cancelled   (173,783 )   8.14          
Exercised   (337,909 )   2.74          
   
 
         
Balance, February 3, 2007   5,466,362   $ 5.92   5.93   $ 108,137
Ending Vested & Expected to Vest   5,278,232   $ 5.76   5.83   $ 105,268
Ending Exercisable   3,243,508   $ 3.53   4.17   $ 71,908
   
               

        The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the total pretax intrinsic value, based on our closing stock price of $25.70 as of February 3, 2007, which would have been received by the option holders had all options holders exercised their options as of that date. The aggregate exercise date intrinsic value of options that were exercised during fiscal 2007 equaled $3.7 million. The total fair value of options which vested during fiscal 2007 equaled $5.5 million.

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        At February 3, 2007, options to purchase 232,644 shares were available for future grant.

Options Outstanding

  Options Exercisable
Range of
Exercise Prices

  Number
Outstanding
at February 3,
2007

  Weighted
Average
Remaining
Life

  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

  Number
Exercisable at
February 3,
2007

  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

$  0.95-$  1.69   903,608   5.05   $ 1.42   818,351   $ 1.40
$  1.71-$  1.71   42,248   8.28     1.71   28,059     1.71
$  2.31-$  2.31   547,156   0.21     2.31   547,156     2.31
$  2.34-$  3.40   771,043   4.22     3.06   637,003     3.01
$  3.50-$  5.38   444,922   3.43     3.84   432,605     3.79
$  5.43-$  5.43   659,838   7.4     5.43   301,735     5.43
$  5.60-$  9.57   491,447   6.41     6.56   289,115     6.16
$  9.89-$  9.89   711,400   8.65     9.89   166,187     9.89
$11.06-$11.06   605,000   9.5     11.06      
$12.54-$25.70   289,700   9.31     17.70   23,297     15.77
   
 
 
 
 
$  0.95-$25.70   5,466,362   5.93   $ 5.92   3,243,508   $ 3.53
   
 
 
 
 

        As of February 3, 2007, the unrecorded stock-based compensation balance related to stock options outstanding excluding estimated forfeitures was $12.3 million and will be recognized over an estimated weighted average amortization period of 2.70 years. The amortization period is based on the expected vesting term of the option.

Preferred Stock Rights Plan

        On May 28, 2004, the Company's Board of Directors adopted a Preferred Stock Rights Plan. Under the plan, the Company declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right ("the Rights") for each share of Common Share held by stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 18, 2004. Each Right initially entitles stockholders to purchase a fractional share of the Company's Preferred Stock at $58 per share. However, the rights are not immediately exercisable and will become exercisable only upon the occurrence of certain events. If a person or group acquires or announces a tender or exchange offer that would result in the acquisition of 15 percent or more of the Company's common stock while the stockholder rights plan remains in place, then, unless the rights are redeemed by the Company for $0.001 per right, the rights will become exercisable by all rights holders except the acquiring person or group for shares of the Company or the third party acquirer having a value of twice the right's then-current exercise price. Absent of the aforementioned triggering events, the Rights will expire on June 18, 2014. The rights may have the effect of deterring or delaying a change in control of the Company.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

        During fiscal 2002, the Company adopted the 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "2001" Purchase Plan") and reserved 100,000 shares of the Company's common stock for issuance under the plan, with an automatic annual increase on the first day of the Company's fiscal year equal to the lesser of (i) 500,000 shares, (ii) 2% of the Company's outstanding common stock on such date or (iii) a lesser number of shares as determined by the Board of Directors. On February 1, 2005, the Board of

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Directors approved an additional 25,000 shares to be reserved under the 2001 Purchase Plan. Under this plan, eligible employees may authorize payroll deductions of up to 10% of their regular base salaries to purchase common stock at 85% of the fair market value at the beginning or end of each six-month offering period. During fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, 36,277, 81,569 and 66,798 shares of the Company's common stock were purchased at an average price of $8.02, $6.59 and $6.58 per share, respectively. At February 3, 2007, 226,292 shares under the 2001 Purchase Plan remain available for future purchase.

Stock-Based Compensation

Valuation Assumptions

        The fair value of share-based compensation awards is estimated at the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The determination of fair value of share-based compensation awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model is affected by our stock price as well as assumptions regarding a number of highly complex and subjective variables. These variables include, but are not limited to, our expected stock price volatility over the term of the awards, and actual employee stock option exercise behavior.

        In connection with the adoption of SFAS 123(R), we reassessed our valuation technique and related assumptions. We estimate the fair value of stock options using a Black-Scholes valuation model, consistent with the provisions of SFAS 123(R), SAB No. 107 and our prior period pro forma disclosures of net earnings, including stock-based compensation expense (determined under a fair value method as prescribed by SFAS 123). The weighted-average estimated values of employee stock options granted during fiscal 2007, 2006, and 2005 were $9.58, $6.22, and $5.02 per share, respectively. The weighted-average estimated fair value of employee stock purchase rights granted pursuant to the ESPP during fiscal 2007 was $5.93, per share, respectively. The fair value of each option and employee stock purchase right grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model with the following weighted-average assumptions:

 
  Years Ended
 
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 31,
2005

 
 
   
  (As Restated)(1)

  (As Restated)(1)

 
Stock Options              
  Expected volatility   69.98 % 61.10 % 75.57 %
  Risk free interest rate   4.77 % 4.29 % 2.61 %
  Expected term of options and purchase rights (in years)   5.90   1.43   1.41  
  Dividend yield   None   None   None  

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Expected volatility   54.55 % 62.10 % 67.68 %
  Risk free interest rate   4.66 % 3.10 % 1.37 %
  Expected term of options and purchase rights (in years)   0.50   0.50   0.50  
  Dividend yield   None   None   None  

        The computation of the expected volatility assumptions used in the Black-Scholes calculations for new grants and purchase rights is based on the historical volatility of our stock price, measured over a

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period equal to the expected term of the grant or purchase right. The risk-free interest rate is based on the yield available on U.S. Treasury Strips with an equivalent remaining term. The expected life of employee stock options represents the weighted-average period that the stock options are expected to remain outstanding and was determined based on historical experience of similar awards, giving consideration to the contractual terms of the stock-based awards and vesting schedules. The expected life of purchase is the period of time remaining in the current offering period. The dividend yield assumption is based on our history of not paying dividends and assumption of not paying dividends in the future.

        As the stock-based compensation expense recognized in the consolidated statement of operations for fiscal 2007 is based on awards ultimately expected to vest, such amount has been reduced for estimated forfeitures. SFAS 123(R) requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. Forfeitures were estimated based on our historical experience. Prior to fiscal 2007, the expected forfeitures of employee stock options were accounted for on an as-incurred basis.

14. INCOME TAXES

        Income before provision for income taxes consisted of the following (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

 
 
   
  (As Restated)

  (As Restated)

 
United States   $ 6,135   $ (1,962 ) $ (447 )
International     537     471     385  
   
 
 
 
Total   $ 6,672   $ (1,491 ) $ (62 )
   
 
 
 

        The federal, state and foreign income tax provision is summarized as follows (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

 
   
  (As Restated)

  (As Restated)

Current                  
  Federal   $ 314   $   $
  State     64     6     2
  Foreign     50     64     61
   
 
 
Total Current     428     70     63
   
 
 

Deferred

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Federal            
  State            
  Foreign            
   
 
 
Total Deferred            
   
 
 
Total Provision   $ 428   $ 70   $ 63
   
 
 

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        The tax effects of significant items comprising the Company's deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

 
 
   
  (As Restated)

 
Deferred tax assets:              
  Net operating losses and credits carry forwards   $ 16,077   $ 24,420  
  Allowance, reserve and other     8,773     6,516  
  Depreciation     284     291  
  Tax Credits     10,727     8,854  
   
 
 
Total gross deferred tax assets     35,861     40,081  
Valuation allowance     (33,653 )   (40,081 )
   
 
 
Total net deferred tax assets     2,208      
Deferred tax liabilities:              
  Acquired intangibles     (2,208 )    
   
 
 
Total net deferred tax assets   $   $  
   
 
 

        At February 3, 2007, undistributed earnings of the Company's French operations totaling $2.7 million were considered to be permanently reinvested. No deferred tax liability has been recognized for the remittance of such earnings to the U.S. since it is management's intention to utilize those earnings in the foreign operations. Generally, such earnings become subject to U.S. tax upon the remittance of dividends and under certain other circumstances. It is not practicable to estimate the amount of deferred tax liability on such undistributed earnings.

        We have elected to track the portion of our federal and state net operating loss carryforwards attributable to stock option benefits, in a separate memo account pursuant to SFAS No. 123(R). Therefore, these amounts are no longer included in our gross or net deferred tax assets. Pursuant to SFAS No. 123(R), footnote 82, the benefit of these net operating loss carryforwards will only be recorded to equity when they reduce cash taxes payable. The amounts removed to the memo account as of 2/3/2007 are $5.8 million for federal and $0.3 million for state tax purposes, respectively.

        On November 10, 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued FASB Staff Position No. FAS 123(R)-3 "Transition Election Related to Accounting for Tax Effects of Share-Based Payment Awards." The Company has elected to adopt the alternative transition method provided in the FASB Staff Position for calculating the tax effects of stock-based compensation pursuant to SFAS 123(R). The alternative transition method includes simplified methods to establish the beginning balance of the additional paid-in capital pool ("APIC pool") related to the tax effects of employee stock-based compensation and to determine the subsequent impact on the APIC pool and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows of the tax effects of employee stock-based compensation awards that are outstanding upon adoption of SFAS 123(R).

        SFAS No. 109 requires that the tax benefit of net operating losses, temporary differences and credit carryforwards be recorded as an asset to the extent that management assesses that realization is "more likely than not." Realization of the future tax benefits is dependent on the Company's ability to

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generate sufficient taxable income within the carryforward period. Because of the Company's recent history of operating losses, risks associated with its new product introduction including the dependence on rapid acceptance of new technology, the dependence on development of complimentary software by third parties and other risks, such as technological change in the industry, short product life cycles and reliance on a limited number of suppliers and manufacturing contractors, management believes that recognition of the deferred tax assets arising from the above-mentioned future tax benefits is currently not likely to be realized and, accordingly, has provided a full valuation allowance.

        Net operating losses and tax credit carry forwards as of February 3, 2007 are as follows (in thousands):

 
  Amount
  Expiration
Years

Net operating losses, federal   $ 56,284   Thru 2024
Net operating losses, state     4,525   Thru 2014
Tax credits, federal     7,408   Thru 2027
Tax credits, state     3,266   Thru 2014- Indefinite
Tax credits, foreign     54   Indefinite

        Current federal and California tax laws include substantial restrictions on the utilization of net operating losses and tax credits in the event of an "ownership change" of a corporation. Accordingly, the Company's ability to utilize net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards may be limited as a result of such ownership changes. Such a limitation could result in the expiration of carryforwards before they are utilized.

        The effective tax rate of the Company's provision (benefit) for income taxes differs from the federal statutory rate as follows (in thousands):

 
  2007
  2006
  2005
 
Computed at 35%   $ 2,336   $ (444 ) $ (13 )
State taxes net of federal benefit     42     4     1  
Difference between statutory rate and foreign effective tax rate     (109 )   (101 )   (54 )
Expenses not deductible for tax purposes     235     615     65  
Stock based compensation expense     554          
Change in valuation allowance, federal effect only     (1,505 )   685     525  
Tax credit     (1,125 )   (689 )   (461 )
   
 
 
 
TOTAL   $ 428   $ 70   $ 63  
   
 
 
 

15. ACQUISITION

        On February 16, 2006, we completed the acquisition of Blue7 for $11.9 million. Blue7's results of operations are included in statement of operations from the acquisition date. Prior to the acquisition, Sigma held approximately 17% of the outstanding shares of Blue7 and provided loans totaling $900,000 to Blue7. Blue7 focuses on the development of advanced wireless technologies and Ultra-Wideband

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(UWB) semiconductor products. The transaction was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting in accordance with SFAS No. 141, "Business Combinations."

        Assets acquired and liabilities assumed were recorded at their fair values as of February 16, 2006. The total $11.9 million purchase price is comprised of the following (in thousands):

 
   
 
Value of Sigma stock issued   $ 8,190  
Fair value of vested stock options assumed     1,091  
Retirement of note receivables     400  
Retirement of interest receivable     25  
Investment in Blue7 prior to the acquisition     1,000  
Note receivable converted to Blue7 preferred shares prior to the acquisition     500  
Cash acquired from Blue7 acquisition     (147 )
Direct costs     804  
   
 
Total estimated purchase price   $ 11,863  
   
 

        As a result of the acquisition, we issued approximately 583,870 shares of Sigma common stock based on an exchange ratio of 0.0529101 shares of Sigma common stock for each outstanding share of Blue7 common stock. Of the 583,870 shares of Sigma common stock issued, 98,470 shares were held in escrow until March, 2007 to satisfy any obligations of Blue7 to indemnify Sigma against any claims against Blue7 for any breaches of its representations or warranties contained in or made pursuant to the merger agreement and certain other matters set forth in the Merger Agreement. The common stock issued in the acquisition was valued at $14.03 which was the average closing sales prices of Sigma common stock for five consecutive trading days from December 13, 2005 to December 19, 2005 surrounding the announcement date (December 15, 2005) of the proposed transaction.

        Under the terms of the merger agreement, each Blue7 stock option that was outstanding and unexercised was converted into an option to purchase Sigma common stock based on the 0.0529101 exchange ratio and we assumed those stock options in accordance with the terms of the applicable Blue7 stock option plan and related stock option agreements. Based on Blue7's stock options outstanding at February 16, 2006, we converted options to purchase approximately 4.8 million shares of Blue7 common stock into options to purchase approximately 231,137 shares of Sigma common stock. The fair value of options assumed was determined using the Black-Scholes valuation model and the following assumptions:

 
   
 
Expected term (in years)   5.13 years  
Volatility   74 %
Risk free interest rate   4.59 %

        Direct costs of $804,000 include mainly legal and accounting fees, business valuation, and other external costs directly related to the acquisition.

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Purchase Price Allocation:

        In accordance with SFAS No. 141 the total purchase price was allocated to Blue7's net tangible and intangible assets based upon their estimated fair values as of February 16, 2006. The excess purchase price over the value of the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets was recorded as goodwill. The fair values assigned to tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed are based on estimates and assumptions of management.

        The following represents the allocation of the purchase price to the acquired net assets of Sigma and the associated estimated useful lives:

 
  Amount
  Estimated
Useful Life

 
  (in thousands)

   
Net tangible assets   $ 104    
Identifiable intangible assets:          
  Licensing agreements     39   6 to 15 months
  Developed technology     5,300   7 years
  Noncompete agreements     1,400   3 years
Goodwill     5,020    
   
   
Total purchase price   $ 11,863    
   
   

         Identifiable intangible assets— Developed technology consists of products that have reached technological feasibility and includes products in the acquired product lines. Developed technology was valued using the discounted cash flow ("DCF") method. This method calculates the value of the intangible asset as being the present value of the after tax cash flows potentially attributable to it, net of the return on fair value attributable to tangible and other intangible assets.

        The results of operations of Blue7 have been included in the Company's consolidated financial statements subsequent to the date of acquisition. The financial information in the table below summarizes the reported results of operations, as well as the pro forma combined results of operations of the Company and Blue7 as though the companies had been combined as of the beginning of the year presented (in thousands, except per share amounts):

 
  Fiscal Year Ended
Jan 28, 2006

 
Reported revenue   $ 33,320  
Reported net loss   $ (1,561 )
Reported net loss per share—basic and diluted   $ (0.07 )

Pro forma revenue

 

$

33,553

 
Pro forma net loss   $ (3,770 )
Pro forma net loss per share—basic and diluted   $ (0.17 )

        The pro forma financial information is presented for informational purposes only and is not indicative of the results of operations that would have been achieved if the merger had taken place at the beginning of the year presented.

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16. MAJOR CUSTOMERS

        Major customers that accounted for over 10% of our total net revenues are as follows:

Customers

  Regions
  Fiscal 2007
  Fiscal 2006
  Fiscal 2005
 
Freebox SA   Europe   20 %    
Uniquest   Asia   17 % 26 % 15 %
Cisco / Kiss Technology*   North America /Europe   3 % Less than 1 %* 14 %

*
Cisco, a North American company, acquired our customer Kiss Technologies, formerly a European company, in fiscal 2006

        No domestic customers accounted for more than 10% of total accounts receivable at February 3, 2007 and January 28, 2006. Four international customers accounted for 24%, 18%, 15% and 12% respectively, of total accounts receivables at February 3, 2007. Two international customers accounted for 30% and 12% respectively, of total accounts receivables at January 28, 2006.

17. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

        On April 10, 2006, the Company entered into a sublease agreement to rent approximately 2,500 square feet of a facility from a start-up company founded by a member of the Company's board of directors. This is a month-to-month operating lease with base rent of $4,000 plus proportionate share of operating costs commencing April 1, 2006.

        During June 2005, the Company loaned $500,000 to Blue7, a California corporation, in which the Company had invested $1.0 million, for an approximately 17% ownership interest. One of the Company's board members had invested $100,000 for a 2% ownership interest during fiscal 2005. In November 2005 and January 2006, the Company loaned an additional $250,000 and $150,000 to Blue7. As of January 28, 2006, the total outstanding loan balance was $900,000. As of February 3, 2007, the total loan balance of $900,000 was forgiven and accounted as part of the Blue7 acquisition cost.

        The Company had an ownership interest of less than 10% in an original equipment manufacturer (the "OEM") headquartered in Europe which was accounted for using the cost method. The Company sold its ownership interest with a carrying cost of $2.0 million in this OEM for approximately $3.5 million in September 2005, resulting a gain on sale of investment of approximately $1.5 million. During fiscal 2006 and 2005, the Company had product revenues of $123,000 and $4.5 million, respectively, from this OEM.

        The Company maintains an investment in Envivio, Inc., (see Note 6) in which the Company has current invested capital of $263,000 for an ownership fraction of less than 1% ownership position. Three of the Company's board members have investments in this same firm, with an aggregate ownership fraction of less than 1% ownership position. The Company's Chairman and CEO, Thinh Tran, is a member of Envivio's board of directors.

18. SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

         Geographic Operating Information —SFAS No. 131, "Disclosures About Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information," provides annual and interim reporting standards for an enterprise's business

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segments and related disclosures about its products, services, geographical areas and major customers. The Company operates in one reportable segment.

        All such operating entities segments have similar economic characteristics, as defined in SFAS No. 131. Accordingly, the Company operates in one reportable segment: the development, manufacturing and marketing of multimedia computer devices and products. The Company's chief operating decision-maker is its Chief Executive Officer.

        For fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, the Company recorded sales to customers throughout the United States and Canada, France, Korea, China, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Denmark; Belgium, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, and Croatia (collectively referred to as "Rest of Europe"); Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand, Turkey, Israel, Australia, South American and South Africa (collectively "Rest of Asia/New Zealand/Other Region").

        The following table summaries total net revenues attributed to each product group (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

SoCs   $ 86,984   $ 28,198   $ 26,341
Boards     2,944     3,514     3,280
Other     1,290     1,608     1,777
   
 
 
TOTAL NET REVENUES   $ 91,218   $ 33,320   $ 31,398
   
 
 

        The following table summarizes total net revenues attributable to each market segment (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

IP video technology market   $ 61,501   $ 19,170   $ 18,024
Connected media player market     24,698     11,227     10,379
HDTV product market     1,657     797     362
PC add-in and other markets     3,362     2,126     2,633
   
 
 
TOTAL NET REVENUES   $ 91,218   $ 33,320   $ 31,398
   
 
 

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        The following table sets forth our net revenues by geographic region, and the percentage of total net revenues represented by each geographic region, for each of the last three fiscal years (in thousands):

 
  Fiscal 2007
  Fiscal 2006
  Fiscal 2005
 
Asia   $ 48,386   53 % $ 27,293   82 % $ 20,532   65 %
North America     9,607   11 %   3,944   12 %   4,401   14 %
Europe     33,109   36 %   2,081   6 %   6,462   21 %
Other regions     116   %   2   %   3   %
   
     
     
     
TOTAL NET REVENUES   $ 91,218       $ 33,320       $ 31,398      
   
     
     
     

        The following table summarizes total net revenues and long-lived assets attributable to significant countries (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

Net revenues:                  
  France   $ 26,836   $ 268   $ 67
  Korea     15,616     8,548     5,024
  China     9,767     7,125     6,695
  United States     9,498     3,816     4,346
  Singapore     7,403     256     123
  Japan     7,286     2,859     1,914
  Rest of Europe     6,243     1,690     1,618
  Taiwan     4,368     4,823     5,376
  Hong Kong     3,675     3,206     1,056
  Rest of Asia/New Zealand/Other Region     387     478     346
  Canada     109     128     56
  Denmark     30     123     4,777
   
 
 
TOTAL NET REVENUES*   $ 91,218   $ 33,320   $ 31,398
   
 
 
 
  Years Ended
 
  February 3,
2007

  January 28,
2006

  January 29,
2005

Long-lived assets:                  
  United States   $ 1,711   $ 1,318   $ 1,656
  France     140     152     87
  Hong Kong     9     4     13
   
 
 
TOTAL LONG-LIVED ASSETS   $ 1,860   $ 1,474   $ 1,756
   
 
 

*
Net revenues are attributable to countries based on invoicing location of customer.

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19. QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

        The following table presents unaudited quarterly financial information for each of the Company's last eight quarters ended February 3, 2007 (unaudited, in thousands, except per share data). For more information on these matters, please refer to Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements"

 
  Quarters Ended
 
 
  Feb 3,
2007

  Oct 28,
2006

  Jul 29,
2006

  Apr 29,
2006

  Jan 28,
2006

  Oct 29,
2005

  Jul 30,
2005

  Apr 30,
2005

 
 
   
   
   
  (Restated)(1)

  (Restated)(1)

  (Restated)(1)

  (Restated)(1)

  (Restated)(1)(2)

 
Net revenues   $ 31,228   $ 25,055   $ 20,136   $ 14,799   $ 10,487   $ 8,497   $ 7,961   $ 6,375  
Gross profit     16,005     12,038     8,962     7,430     6,096     5,799     5,512     3,988  
Income (loss) from operations     4,623     2,697     68     (1,530 )   (865 )   (435 )   (347 )   (2,922 )
Net income (loss)     4,643     2,742     216     (1,356 )   (715 )   1,167     (254 )   (1,759 )
Net income (loss) per share:                                                  
  Basic   $ 0.20   $ 0.12   $ 0.01   $ (0.06 ) $ (0.03 ) $ 0.05   $ (0.01 ) $ (0.08 )
  Diluted   $ 0.18   $ 0.11   $ 0.01   $ (0.06 ) $ (0.03 ) $ 0.05   $ (0.01 ) $ (0.08 )

(1)
The unaudited selected financial data for the quarters ended April 29, 2006, January 28, 2006, October 29, 2005, July 30, 2005 and April 30, 2005 has been restated to reflect adjustments related to the stock option restatement as more fully described in Note 2, "Restatement of Consolidated Financial Statements", of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

(2)
During the first and third quarter of fiscal 2006, the Company recorded approximately $1.0 million and $1.5 million of long-term investment gains, respectively.

        The following table presents the impact of the financial statement restatement adjustments on the Company's previously reported consolidated statements of operations (unaudited, in thousands, except per share data):

 
  As Previously Reported Quarters Ended
 
 
  Apr 29,
2006

  Jan 28,
2006

  Oct 29,
2005

  Jul 30,
2005

  Apr 30,
2005

 
Net revenues   $ 14,799   $ 10,487   $ 8,497   $ 7,961   $ 6,375  
Gross Profits     7,669     6,284     5,831     5,540     4,113  
Income (loss) from operations     (770 )   302     79     38     (1,899 )
Net income (loss)     (562 )   490     1,948     163     (717 )
Net income (loss) per share:                                
  Basic   $ (0.03 ) $ 0.02   $ 0.09   $   $ (0.03 )
  Diluted   $ (0.03 ) $ 0.02   $ 0.08   $   $ (0.03 )

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  Adjustments Quarters Ended
 
 
  Apr 29,
2006

  Jan 28,
2006

  Oct 29,
2005

  Jul 30,
2005

  Apr 30,
2005

 
Net revenues   $   $   $   $   $  
Gross Profits     (239 )   (188 )   (32 )   (28 )   (125 )
Income (loss) from operations     (760 )   (1,167 )   (514 )   (385 )   (1,023 )
Net income (loss)     (794 )   (1,205 )   (781 )   (417 )   (1,042 )
Net income (loss) per share:                                
  Basic   $ (0.03 ) $ (0.05 ) $ (0.04 ) $ (0.01 ) $ (0.05 )
  Diluted   $ (0.03 ) $ (0.05 ) $ (0.03 ) $ (0.01 ) $ (0.05 )
 
  As Restated Quarters Ended
 
 
  Apr 29,
2006

  Jan 28,
2006

  Oct 29,
2005

  Jul 30,
2005

  Apr 30,
2005

 
Net revenues   $ 14,799   $ 10,487   $ 8,497   $ 7,961   $ 6,375  
Gross Profit     7,430     6,096     5,799     5,512     3,988  
Income (loss) from operations     (1,530 )   (865 )   (435 )   (347 )   (2,922 )
Net income (loss)     (1,356 )   (715 )   1,167     (254 )   (1,759 )
Net income (loss) per share:                                
  Basic   $ (0.06 ) $ (0.03 ) $ 0.05   $ (0.01 ) $ (0.08 )
  Diluted   $ (0.06 ) $ (0.03 ) $ 0.05   $ (0.01 ) $ (0.08 )

        The following table presents the impact of the financial statement restatement adjustments on the Company's previously reported condensed consolidated balance sheets line items (unaudited, in thousands):

 
  As Previously Reported Quarters Ended
 
 
  Apr 29,
2006

  Jan 28,
2006

  Oct 29,
2005

  Jul 30,
2005

  Apr 30,
2005

 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets   $ 780   $ 1,001   $ 648   $ 603   $ 613  
Total current assets     42,214     37,034     33,119     28,697     28,319  
Goodwill     4,493                  
Total assets     55,531     39,959     36,329     33,954     33,676  
Accrued liabilities and other     2,791     2,031     2,037     1,943     2,207  
Total current liabilities     11,823     5,709     4,011     4,090     4,191  
Total liabilities     12,080     6,044     4,426     4,581     4,756  
Common stock     102,535     91,131     89,618     89,034     88,737  
Shareholder notes receivable                      
Accumulated deficit     (57,802 )   (57,239 )   (57,729 )   (59,677 )   (59,841 )
Total shareholders' equity     43,451     33,915     31,903     29,373     28,920  
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity   $ 55,531   $ 39,959   $ 36,329   $ 33,954   $ 33,676  

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  Adjustments Quarters Ended
 
 
  Apr 29,
2006

  Jan 28,
2006

  Oct 29,
2005

  Jul 30,
2005

  Apr 30,
2005

 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets   $ 137   $ 137   $   $ 253   $ 253  
Total current assets     137     137         253     253  
Goodwill     654                  
Total assets     1,026     398     362     615     615  
Accrued liabilities and other     4,035     3,636     2,789     2,617     2,580  
Total current liabilities     4,035     3,636     2,789     2,617     2,580  
Total liabilities     4,035     3,636     2,789     2,617     2,580  
Common stock     13,934     16,569     15,546     15,522     15,538  
Shareholder notes receivable     (58 )   (58 )   (58 )   (29 )   (29 )
Accumulated deficit     (16,421 )   (15,627 )   (14,422 )   (13,641 )   (13,224 )
Total shareholders' equity     (3,009 )   (3,238 )   (2,427 )   (2,002 )   (1,965 )
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity   $ 1,026   $ 398   $ 362   $ 615   $ 615  
 
  As Restated Quarters Ended
 
 
  Apr 29,
2006

  Jan 28,
2006

  Oct 29,
2005

  Jul 30,
2005

  Apr 30,
2005

 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets   $ 917   $ 1,138   $ 648   $ 856   $ 866  
Total current assets     42,351     37,171     33,119     28,950     28,572  
Goodwill     5,147                  
Total assets     56,557     40,357     36,691     34,569     34,291  
Accrued liabilities and other     6,826     5,667     4,826     4,560     4,787  
Total current liabilities     15,858     9,345     6,800     6,707     6,771  
Total liabilities     16,115     9,680     7,215     7,198     7,336  
Common stock     116,469     107,700     105,164     104,556     104,275  
Shareholder notes receivable     (58 )   (58 )   (58 )   (29 )   (29 )
Accumulated deficit     (74,223 )   (72,866 )   (72,151 )   (73,318 )   (73,065 )
Total shareholders' equity     40,442     30,677     29,476     27,371     26,955  
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity   $ 56,557   $ 40,357   $ 36,691   $ 34,569   $ 34,291  

20. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Chief Financial Officer:

        Effective February 5, 2007, Kit Tsui resigned from her position as the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, and assumed the new role of Vice President of Planning and Administration. On the same day, the Company appointed Mark Kent to serve as its Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. From September 2004 to May 2006, Mr. Kent served as the Chief Financial Officer of Transmeta Corporation, a semiconductor microprocessor company. From February 2001 to January 2004, Mr. Kent served as the Chief Financial Officer in Residence of Oak Investment Partners, a venture capital firm, where he served as interim Chief Financial Officer for several portfolio companies. From April 1999 to January 2001, Mr. Kent served as Chief Financial Officer of Crossworlds Software, Inc., an integration software company. From December 1994 to March 1999, Mr. Kent served as the Treasurer of LSI Logic Corporation, a semiconductor company.

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Lease Agreement:

        On February 22, 2007, the Company entered into a new lease agreement for a 66,000 square foot facility in Milpitas, California in which the Company intends to relocate its headquarters sometime before the expiration of the current lease. This new lease will commence on June 30, 2007 and expire in September 2012. The Company is obligated to pay a monthly base rent plus common area maintenance and building operating expenses. The monthly base rent ranges from approximately $42,000 to $55,000, with free base rent for the initial three months.

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share data)

(Unaudited)

 
  August 4,
2007

  February 3,
2007*

 
Assets              
Current assets:              
  Cash and cash equivalents   $ 33,468   $ 24,413  
  Short-term investments     9,625     8,791  
  Accounts receivable, net     20,972     11,231  
  Inventories, net     16,800     16,003  
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets     1,339     1,095  
   
 
 
    Total current assets     82,204     61,533  

Equipment and leasehold improvements, net

 

 

3,201

 

 

3,364

 
Long-term investments     263     263  
Goodwill     5,020     5,020  
Other intangible assets, net     4,915     5,527  
Other non-current assets     418     377  
   
 
 
Total assets   $ 96,021   $ 76,084  
   
 
 

Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Current liabilities:              
  Accounts payable   $ 9,729   $ 13,723  
  Accrued liabilities     11,746     8,800  
  Current portion of bank term loan     133     226  
   
 
 
    Total current liabilities     21,608     22,749  

Bank term loan

 

 


 

 

15

 
Other long-term liabilities     177     348  
   
 
 
    Total liabilities     21,785     23,112  
Commitments and contingencies (Notes 15 and 16)              
Shareholders' equity:              
  Preferred stock—no par value: 2,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding          
  Common stock and additional paid-in capital, no par value: 35,000,000 shares authorized; 24,086,653 and 22,903,930 shares issued and outstanding at August 4, 2007 and February 3, 2007, respectively     126,505     119,301  
  Shareholder notes receivable         (58 )
  Accumulated other comprehensive income     398     351  
  Accumulated deficit     (52,667 )   (66,622 )
   
 
 
    Total shareholders' equity     74,236     52,972  
   
 
 
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity   $ 96,021   $ 76,084  
   
 
 

*
February 3, 2007 balances have been derived from the audited financial statements as of the same date.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 
  Three Months Ended
  Six Months Ended
 
 
  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

 
Net revenues   $ 42,548   $ 20,136   $ 78,564   $ 34,935  
Cost of revenues     20,240     11,174     38,446     18,543  
   
 
 
 
 
Gross profit     22,308     8,962     40,118     16,392  

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Research and development     8,364     5,039     14,453     10,266  
  Sales and marketing     2,692     1,706     4,924     3,485  
  General and administrative     2.456     2,149     6,705     4,103  
   
 
 
 
 
    Total operating expenses     13,512     8,894     26,082     17,854  

Income (loss) from operations

 

 

8,796

 

 

68

 

 

14,036

 

 

(1,462

)
Interest and other income, net     400     179     720     355  
   
 
 
 
 
Income (loss) before income taxes     9,196     247     14,756     (1,107 )
Provision for income taxes     608     31     799     33  
   
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss)   $ 8,588   $ 216   $ 13,957   $ (1,140 )
   
 
 
 
 

Basic net income (loss) per share

 

$

0.36

 

$

0.01

 

$

0.60

 

$

(0.05

)
Shares used in computing per share amount     23,867     22,710     23,423     22,567  

Diluted net income (loss) per share

 

$

0.32

 

$

0.01

 

$

0.52

 

$

(0.05

)
Shares used in computing per share amount     26,814     25,214     26,820     22,567  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

 
  Six Months Ended
 
 
  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:              
  Net income (loss)   $ 13,957   $ (1,140 )
  Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used for operating activities:              
    Depreciation and amortization     1,556     996  
    Non-cash loss on disposal of equipment         10  
    Share-based compensation expense     3,039     2,361  
    Shareholder note receivable written off     29      
    Provision for inventory valuation     316     248  
    Provision for bad debts and sales returns     268     32  
    Long-term investment gain     (31 )    
    Accretion of contributed leasehold improvements     (58 )   (40 )
  Changes in operating assets and liabilities:              
    Accounts receivable     (10,009 )   (7,096 )
    Inventories     (1,113 )   (7,328 )
    Prepaid expenses and other current assets     (245 )   379  
    Other non-current assets     (41 )    
    Accounts payable     (4,006 )   6,121  
    Accrued liabilities and others     2,657     1,182  
    Other long-term liabilities     (172 )    
   
 
 
      Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities     6,147     (4,275 )
   
 
 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Purchase of short-term investments     (43,459 )   (13,993 )
  Sale of short-term investments     42,625     15,126  
  Purchase of equipment     (418 )   (682 )
  Recovery of long-term investment loss     31      
  Cash received in business acquisition, net of cash paid         147  
  Other         20  
   
 
 
      Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities     (1,221 )   618  
   
 
 

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Bank borrowings         1,000  
  Shareholder note receivables     29      
  Net proceeds from exercise of employee stock options and stock purchase rights     4,162     1,079  
  Repayment of bank term loan     (109 )   (99 )
   
 
 
      Net cash provided by financing activities     4,082     1,980  
   
 
 
Effect of foreign exchange rates changes on cash and cash equivalents     47     55  
   
 
 

INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

 

 

9,055

 

 

(1,622

)

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Beginning of period     24,413     16,827  
   
 
 
  End of period   $ 33,468   $ 15,205  
   
 
 
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:              
  Common stock issued and fair value of stock options assumed for Blue7 acquisition   $   $ 11,414  
   
 
 
  Cash paid for interest   $ 9   $ 35  
   
 
 
  Cash paid for income taxes   $ 116   $ 5  
   
 
 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

1. Nature of Operations and Significant Accounting Policies

         Nature of Operations —Sigma Designs, Inc. (the "Company") specializes in integrated system-on-chip solutions for the IPTV, high definition DVD and other media players, HDTV markets and other markets. The Company sells its products to designers and manufacturers and, to a lesser extent, to distributors who, in turn, sell to manufacturers.

         Basis of Presentation —The consolidated financial statements include Sigma Designs, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries in France and Hong Kong. All intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated upon consolidation.

        The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("US GAAP") for interim financial information and with the instructions to Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") Form 10-Q and Article 10 of SEC Regulation S-X. They do not include all of the information and footnotes required by US GAAP for complete financial statements. The information included in these financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended February 3, 2007.

        The condensed consolidated financial statements included herein are unaudited; however, they contain all normal recurring accruals and adjustments that, in the opinion of management, are necessary to present fairly the Company's consolidated financial position at August 4, 2007 and February 3, 2007, the consolidated results of its operations for the three months and six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006, and the consolidated cash flows for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006. The results of operations for the three months and six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for future quarters or the year.

         Accounting Period —Each of the Company's fiscal quarters includes 13 weeks and ends on the last Saturday of the period. The second quarter of fiscal 2008 ended on August 4, 2007. The second quarter of fiscal 2007 ended on July 29, 2006.

        Certain reclassifications have been made to prior year balances in order to conform to the current year's presentation.

         Use of Estimates —The preparation of financial statements in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues generated and expenses incurred during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates used in preparing these financial statements are related primarily to estimates to determine the collectability of accounts receivable, to determine the allowances against the accounts receivable balances, estimates of the market value used in calculating the value of inventory on the lower of cost or market basis, estimates used in equity award valuation and share-based compensation calculations, estimates of expected future cash flows and useful lives used in the review for impairment of investments, goodwill, intangible assets and other long-lived assets, estimates of the Company's ability to realize its deferred tax asset, which are also used to establish whether valuation allowances are needed on those assets, and estimates related to litigation and settlement costs accrual. These estimates may change from period to period. Actual results may also differ materially from management's estimates.

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         Concentration of Credit Risk —Financial instruments which potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and accounts receivable. The majority of the Company's cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments are on deposit with two financial institutions. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers and generally does not require collateral for sales on credit. The Company reviews accounts receivable on a monthly basis to determine if any receivables will potentially be uncollectible. The Company includes any accounts receivable balances that are determined to be uncollectible, along with a general reserve, in its overall allowance for doubtful accounts. The general reserve in the allowance for doubtful accounts is a calculation based upon the accounts receivable balance and the historical effectiveness of the Company's collection of those receivables. The Company maintains reserves for potential credit losses.

         Cash and Cash Equivalents —The Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with a remaining maturity of 90 days or less to be cash equivalents.

         Short Term Investments —Short-term investments represent highly liquid debt instruments with a remaining maturity date at purchase of greater than 90 days and are stated at fair value. The Company's debt securities are classified as available-for-sale because the sale of such securities may be required prior to maturity. The differences between amortized cost (cost adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts which are recognized as adjustments to interest income) and fair value representing unrealized holding gains or losses, are recorded separately as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) within shareholders' equity. Any gains and losses on the sale of debt securities are determined on a specific identification basis.

         Inventories —Inventories are stated at the lower of standard cost (which approximates first-in, first-out basis) or market. The Company periodically reviews its inventories for excess and obsolete inventory items and adjusts carrying costs to estimated net realizable values when they are determined to be less than cost. As a result of this inventory review, the Company charged approximately $132,000 and $236,000 to cost of revenues for the three months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006, respectively, and $316,000 and $248,000 for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006, respectively.

         Long-Term Investments —Investments in private equity securities of less than 20% owned companies are accounted for using the cost method unless the Company can exercise significant influence or the investee is economically dependent upon the Company, in which case the equity method is used. The Company evaluates the long-term investments for impairment annually according to Emerging Issues Task Force ("EITF") Issue No. 03-01, The Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and Its Application to Certain Investments. EITF 03-01 provides guidance for evaluating whether an investment is other-than-temporarily impaired and requires certain disclosures with respect to these investments. The guidance also included accounting considerations subsequent to the recognition of an other-than-temporary impairment and requirements for disclosures about unrealized losses that have not been recognized as other-than-temporary impairments.

         Equipment and Leasehold Improvements —Equipment and leasehold improvements are stated at cost and categorized into computer and test equipment, software, furniture and fixtures and other. Depreciation and amortization are computed using the straight-line method based on the useful lives of

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the assets (three to five years) or the lease term if shorter, except for certain production test equipment (two to five years). The contributed leasehold improvements provided by the landlord for the Company's current facility is amortized using the straight-line method over lesser of the remaining lease term or useful life of leasehold improvements.

         Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets —Goodwill is recorded as the difference, if any, between the aggregate consideration paid for an acquisition and the fair value of the net tangible and intangible assets acquired. The amounts and useful lives assigned to intangible assets acquired, other than goodwill, impact the amount and timing of future amortization.

        In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets," the Company reviews goodwill for impairment annually, or more frequently, when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. The provisions of SFAS 142 require that a two-step test be performed to assess goodwill for impairment. First, the fair value of each reporting unit is compared to its carrying value. If the fair value exceeds the carrying value, goodwill is not impaired and no further testing is performed. The second step is performed if the carrying value exceeds the fair value. The fair value of a reporting unit is allocated to all the assets and liabilities of the reporting unit as if the reporting unit had been acquired in a business combination at the date of the impairment test. The fair value of tangible net assets and both recognized and unrecognized intangible assets is deducted from the fair value of the reporting unit to determine the implied fair value of reporting unit goodwill. The implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill must be compared to the carrying value of the goodwill. If the carrying value of a reporting unit's goodwill exceeds its implied fair value, an impairment loss equal to the difference will be recorded.

        The Company is currently amortizing acquired intangible assets with definite lives. Acquired developed technology is amortized over 7 years and non-compete agreements are amortized over the contractual period (currently 3 years). The amortization expense for acquired developed technology is classified as cost of sales and the amortization expense for other acquired intangible assets is classified as research and development expense in our consolidated statements of income.

         Long Lived Assets —The Company accounts for long-lived assets, including purchased intangible assets, in accordance with SFAS No. 144 , Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets . Long-lived assets are evaluated for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances such as a change in technology indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. An impairment loss would be recognized when the sum of the undiscounted future net cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its eventual disposal is less than its carrying amount.

         Revenue Recognition —The Company derives revenues primarily from three principal sources: product sales, product development contracts and service contracts. We generally recognize revenues for product sales and service contracts in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 104, "Revenue Recognition," under which revenue is recognized when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or service has been rendered, the fee is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.

        Revenues from product sales to original equipment manufactures ("OEMs"), distributors and end users are generally recognized upon shipment, as shipping terms are FOB shipping point, except that

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revenues are deferred when management cannot reasonably estimate the amount of returns or where collectibility is not assured. In those situations, revenue is recognized when collection subsequently becomes probable and returns are estimable (generally upon resale by customers, often referred to as a sell-through basis). Allowances for sales returns, price protection and warranty costs are recorded at the time that revenues are recognized.

        Product development agreements typically require that the Company provide customized software to support customer-specific designs, accordingly this revenue is accounted for under the AICPA Statement of Position ("SOP") 97-2. The Company offers post-contract customer support ("PCS") on a contractual basis for additional fees, which is typically a one year term. In instances where software is bundled with the PCS, vendor specific objective evidence does not exist to allocate the total fee to all undelivered elements of the arrangement and, therefore, revenue and related costs are deferred until all elements, except PCS are delivered. The total fee is then recognized ratably over the PCS term (typically one year) after the software is delivered. We classify development costs related to product development agreements as cost of revenues. Product development revenues were approximately $347,000 and $134,000 for the three months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006, and $589,000 and $525,000 for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006.

        Revenues from service contracts consist of fees for providing engineering support services, and are recognized ratably over the contract term. Expenses related to support service revenues are included in cost of sales. Support service revenues were approximately $119,000 and $68,000 for the three months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006, and $718,000 and $86,000 for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006.

         Research and Development expenses —Research and development expenses include costs and expenses associated with the design and development of new products. To the extent that such costs include the development of computer software, they are generally incurred prior to the establishment of the technological feasibility of the related product that is under development and are therefore expensed as incurred.

         Income Taxes —Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of (a) temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes, and (b) operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. Income taxes are accounted for under an asset and liability approach in accordance with SFAS No. 109. Deferred tax liabilities are recognized for future taxable amounts and deferred tax assets are recognized for future deductions net of a valuation allowance to reduce deferred tax assets to amounts that are more likely than not to be realized. Income tax provision for the three and six months ended August 4, 2007 was $608,000 and $799,000, respectively, and was comprised of alternative minimum tax, state income tax and foreign income tax. Income tax provision for the three and six months ended July 29, 2006 was $31,000 and $33,000, respectively, and was comprised of state income tax and foreign income tax.

        On July 13, 2006, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 48, "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—An Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109" ("FIN 48"). FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in any entity's financial statements in accordance with FASB Statement No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" and prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attributes for financial statement disclosure of tax positions taken or expected to be taken

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on a tax return. Under FIN 48, the impact of an uncertain income tax position on the income tax return must be recognized as the largest amount that is more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon audit by the relevant taxing authority. An uncertain income tax position will not be recognized if it has less than a 50% likelihood of being sustained. Additionally, FIN 48 provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006.

        The Company adopted the provisions of FIN 48 on February 4, 2007, the beginning of our fiscal year 2008. The total amount of unrecognized tax benefits as of the date of adoption was $2.4 million. As a result of the implementation of FIN 48, we recognized no increase in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits, which was accounted for during previous reporting periods.

        Included in the balance of unrecognized tax benefits at February 4, 2007, are $374,000 of tax benefits that, if recognized, would reduce our effective tax rate, and $2.0 million of unrecognized benefits that would increase our deferred tax assets. During the six months ended August 4, 2007, there were no material changes to these amounts.

        The Company has adopted the accounting policy that interest recognized in accordance with Paragraph 15 of FIN 48 and penalty recognized in accordance with Paragraph 16 of FIN 48 are classified as part of our income taxes. The aggregate amount of interest and penalty recognized in the statement of operations and statement of financial position was $36,000 as of February 3, 2007. During the six months ended August 4, 2007, there were no material changes to these amounts.

        Our operations are subject to income and transaction taxes in the United States and in multiple foreign jurisdictions. Significant estimates and judgments are required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes. Some of these estimates are based on interpretations of existing tax laws or regulations. The ultimate amount of tax liability may be uncertain as a result.

        Tax authorities may challenge the allocation of profits between our subsidiaries and may challenge certain tax benefits claimed on our tax returns, and we may not prevail in any such challenge. If the Company were not to prevail, the Company could be subject to higher tax rates or lose certain tax benefits that could result in a higher tax rate.

        The Company is subject to taxation in the United States and various states and foreign jurisdictions. The French taxing authority is currently auditing the research and development tax credit that we claimed from fiscal year 2001 through the 2005 fiscal year. In addition the IRS has commenced an employee payroll tax audit for our fiscal years 2004 and 2005 and an income tax audit for our fiscal year 2005. There are no other ongoing income tax examinations by taxing authorities at this time. The Company's tax filings for the tax years from 1990 to 2006 remain open in various taxing jurisdictions.

         Foreign Currency —The functional currency of the Company's foreign subsidiaries is the local currency of each country. Accordingly, gains and losses from the translation of the financial statements of the foreign subsidiaries are included in shareholders' equity. Transaction gains and losses, which are included in the other expenses, net, in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, have not been significant for all years presented.

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         Comprehensive Income (Loss) —Comprehensive income consists of net income (loss) and other comprehensive income or loss. Other comprehensive income or loss components include foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gains or losses on investments.

         Fair Value of Financial Instruments —For certain of the Company's financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, short-term investments, note receivable, accounts payable and other current liabilities, the carrying amounts approximate their fair value due to the relatively short maturity of these items.

         Recent Accounting Pronouncements —In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements . SFAS 157 establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. The changes to current practice resulting from the application of SFAS 157 relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value, and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS 157 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and the Company is required to adopt it beginning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have on our consolidated financial position and results of operation.

2. Long-Term Investments

        On February 16, 2006, the Company acquired the remaining 83% ownership of Blue7 Communications ("Blue7") in which the Company had previously invested $1.0 million in fiscal 2006. After the acquisition, Blue7 became the Company's 100%-owned subsidiary.

        The Company maintains an investment in Envivio, Inc., a privately held corporation, in which the Company has current invested capital of $263,000 for a fractional ownership position of 1%. Three of the Company's board members also have investments in this same firm, with an aggregate fractional ownership position of less than 1%. The Company's Chairman and CEO, Thinh Tran, is a member of Envivio's board of directors.

3. Share-based Compensation

        On January 29, 2006, we adopted SFAS 123(R) as interpreted by Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107 ("SAB 107"), which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors including equity awards related to the Company's 2001 Employee Stock Option Plan (the "2001 Option Plan"), 2003 Director Stock Option Plan (the "2003 Director Plan") and 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "2001 Purchase Plan") based on estimated fair values.

        The Company adopted SFAS 123(R) using the modified prospective transition method, which required the application of the accounting standard as of January 29, 2006, the first day of our fiscal year 2007. Share-based compensation expense recognized under SFAS 123(R) for the three and six months ended August 4, 2007 was $1.6 million and $2.8 million, respectively, and for the three months and six months ended July 29, 2006 was $1.1 million and $2.3 million, respectively, which consisted of share-based compensation expenses related to the grant of stock options and employee stock purchase rights.

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        SFAS 123(R) requires companies to estimate the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as expense over the requisite service period in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

        Share-based compensation expense recognized under SFAS 123(R) is based on the value of the portion of share-based payment awards that is ultimately expected to vest during the period. Share-based compensation expense for the three and six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 included compensation expense for share-based payment awards granted prior to, but not yet vested as of January 29, 2006 based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the pro forma provisions of SFAS 123 and compensation expense for the share-based payment awards granted subsequent to January 29, 2006 based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of SFAS 123(R). As share-based compensation expense recognized for the three months and six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 is based on awards ultimately expected to vest, such amount has been reduced for estimated forfeitures. SFAS 123(R) requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.

        The effect of recording share-based compensation for the three-months and six-months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 was as follows (in thousands except per share data):

 
  Three Months Ended
  Six Months Ended
 
 
  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

 
Share based compensation by type of award:                          
  Stock options   $ 1,431   $ 1,097   $ 2,589   $ 2,182  
  Employee stock purchase plan     156     35     213     86  
   
 
 
 
 
Total share-based compensation     1,587     1,132     2,802     2,268  
Tax effect on share-based compensation     (93 )   (91 )   (164 )   (182 )
   
 
 
 
 
Net effect on net income (loss)   $ 1,494   $ 1,041   $ 2,638   $ 2,086  
   
 
 
 
 
Effect on income (loss) per share                          
  Basic   $ 0.06   $ 0.05   $ 0.11   $ 0.09  
  Diluted   $ 0.06   $ 0.04   $ 0.10   $ 0.09  

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Valuation Assumptions

        The fair value of share-based payment awards is estimated at the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The determination of fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model is affected by our stock price as well as assumptions regarding a number of highly complex and subjective variables. These variables include, but are not limited to, our expected stock price volatility over the term of the awards, grant price, market price and actual employee stock option exercise behavior.

        The Company estimates the fair value of stock options consistent with the provisions of SFAS 123(R), SAB No. 107 and its prior period pro forma disclosures of net earnings, including share-based compensation expense (determined under a fair value method as prescribed by SFAS 123). The weighted-average estimated value of employee stock options granted during the three months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 was $19.40 and $6.42 per share, respectively. The weighted-average estimated fair value of employee stock purchase rights granted pursuant to the Employee Stock Purchase Plan during the three months ended August 4, 2007 was $8.47 per share. No stock purchase rights were granted to the employees pursuant to the Employee Stock Purchase Plan during the three months ended July 29, 2006 due to the Company's then noncompliance with the SEC periodic filing requirements. The fair value of each option and employee stock purchase right grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model with the following weighted-average assumptions:

 
  Three months ended
  Six months ended
 
 
  August 4, 2007
  July 29, 2006
  August 4, 2007
  July 29, 2006
 
 
  Stock
Options

  Stock
Purchase
Plan

  Stock
Options

  Stock
Purchase
Plan

  Stock
Options

  Stock
Purchase
Plan

  Stock
Options

  Stock
Purchase
Plan

 
Expected volatility   66 % 60 % 69 % 63 % 67 % 60 % 73 % 63 %
Risk free interest rate   4.57 % 4.93 % 4.82 % 5.11 % 4.57 % 4.93 % 4.67 % 5.11 %
Expected term of options and purchase rights (in years)   6.04   0.5   6.1   0.5   6.1   0.5   5.45   0.5  
Dividend Yield   None   None   None   None   None   None   None   None  

        The expected volatility is based on an equal weighted average of implied volatilities from traded options of the Company's stock and the historical volatility of the Company's stock. The risk-free interest rate is based on the yield available on U.S. Treasury securities with an equivalent remaining term. The expected life of employee stock options represents the weighted-average period that the stock options are expected to remain outstanding and was determined based on historical experience of similar awards, giving consideration to the contractual terms of the share-based awards and vesting schedules. The expected life of purchase is the period of time remaining in the current offering period. The dividend yield assumption is based on our history of not paying dividends and assumption of not paying dividends in the future.

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Option Activity

2001 Option Plan and 2003 Director Plan

        A summary of activity under the above captioned plan is as follows:

 
  Shares
  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

  Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(Years)

  Aggregate
Intrinsic Value

Options outstanding at February 3, 2007   5,492,738   $ 5.92          
  Options granted   176,000   $ 26.81          
  Options forfeited   (33,829 ) $ 12.53          
  Options exercised   (648,816 ) $ 2.42          
   
               
Options outstanding at May 5, 2007   4,986,093   $ 7.06          
  Options granted   359,500   $ 30.47          
  Options forfeited   (173,384 ) $ 22.76          
  Options exercised   (510,578 ) $ 4.08          
   
               
Options outstanding at August 4, 2007   4,661,631   $ 9.13   6.62   $ 104,605,879
Options vested and expected to vest August 4, 2007   4,481,826   $ 8.89   6.53   $ 101,668,768
Options exercisable at August 4, 2007   2,434,266   $ 4.71   4.89   $ 65,380,080

        The aggregate intrinsic value, which is not equivalent to the value determined by Black-Scholes, is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying awards and the quoted price of our common stock. The aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised under our stock option plans was $12.6 million and $0.6 million for the three months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006, respectively, determined as of the date of option exercise. The fair value of options that vested during the three months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 was $982,000 and $781,000, respectively.

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        The options outstanding and currently exercisable at August 4, 2007 were in the following exercise price ranges:

 
   
  Options Outstanding
  Options Exercisable
Range of Exercise Prices
  Number
Outstanding
at August 4,
2007

  Weighted
Average
Remaining
Life

  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

  Number
Exercisable
at August 4,
2007

  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

$ 0.95   $ 1.69   574,156   4.69   $ 1.42   552,230   $ 1.42
$ 1.71   $ 3.22   483,081   2.89   $ 2.86   417,511   $ 2.84
$ 3.30   $ 3.50   574,402   4.36   $ 3.42   538,990   $ 3.43
$ 4.25   $ 5.79   470,342   5.99   $ 5.44   311,511   $ 5.44
$ 6.31   $ 7.89   510,787   6.97   $ 7.69   281,660   $ 7.67
$ 7.99   $ 9.89   352,316   8.05   $ 9.77   119,060   $ 9.70
$ 11.06   $ 11.06   596,000   9.06   $ 11.06     $
$ 11.40   $ 13.88   485,047   7.81   $ 11.71   180,306   $ 11.71
$ 15.91   $ 28.63   391,000   9.23   $ 23.28   32,998   $ 16.07
$ 31.57   $ 31.57   224,500   10.00   $ 31.57     $
           
           
     
$ 0.95   $ 31.57   4,661,631   6.62   $ 9.13   2,434,266   $ 4.71
           
           
     

        As of August 4, 2007, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested share-based compensation arrangements granted under our option plans was $21 million which will be recognized over an estimated weighted average amortization period of 3.16 years.

2003 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

        Under the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, eligible employees can participate and purchase shares semi-annually through payroll deductions at the lower of 85% of the fair market value of the stock at the commencement or end of the offering period. The Purchase Plan permits eligible employees to purchase common stock through payroll deductions for up to 10% of qualified compensation. The Company accounts for the Employee Stock Purchase Plan as a compensatory plan.

Non-Employee Related Stock-Compensation Expenses

        In accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R) and Emerging Issues Task Force, Issue 96-18, "Accounting for Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees For Acquiring, or in Conjunction With Selling, Goods or Services" (EITF 96-18), the Company recorded share-based compensation expense for options issued to non-employees based on the fair value of the options as

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estimated on the measurement date which is typically the grant date, using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

 
  Three Months Ended
  Six Months Ended
 
 
  August 4, 2007
  July 29, 2006
  August 4, 2007
  July 29, 2006
 
Expected volatility   66 % 90 % 67 % 90 %
Risk free interest rate   4.57 % 4.92 % 4.57 % 4.94 %
Expected term of options (in years)   6.02   6.41   6.16   6.53  
Dividend yield   None   None   None   None  

        The Company recognizes share-based compensation expense over the corresponding service periods, which are typically five years. For the three and six months ended August 4, 2007, the Company recorded compensation expense of $125,000 and $233,000, respectively. For the three and six months ended July 29, 2007, the Company recorded non-employee related stock compensation expense of $36,000 and $91,000, respectively.

4. Inventories, Net

        Inventories, net consisted of the following (in thousands):

 
  August 4,
2007

  February 3,
2007

Raw materials   $ 8,742   $ 7,696
Work in process     2,656     1,680
Finished goods     5,402     6,627
   
 
    $ 16,800   $ 16,003
   
 

5. Current and Long-Term debt

Credit Facilities

        On August 12, 2005, the Company entered into a Loan and Security Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") with United Commercial Bank (the "Bank"). The Loan Agreement provides for a maximum borrowing amount of approximately $15.5 million across three credit facilities consisting of two 2-year Lines of Credit of $15 million and a 30-month Term Loan of $0.5 million.

        On May 15, 2006, the Company utilized $2.8 million of its first 2-year Line of Credit for a standby letter of credit to a supplier. As of August 4, 2007, the Company had no outstanding balance under either of our two Lines of Credit and had availability to draw down an approximate amount of $11.2 million.

        Principal amounts under the Term Loan were due and payable on a monthly basis such that the Term Loan would have been fully repaid in February 2008. The Term Loan had a floating interest rate of the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate plus 0.5% per annum. The average interest rate paid on the Term Loan for the six months ended August 4, 2007 and July 29, 2006 was approximately 8.75% and

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8.58%, respectively. As of August 4, 2007, the Company had $133,000 outstanding under the Term Loan.

        Under the Loan Agreement, the Company was subject to certain financial covenants. As of August 4, 2007, the Company was in compliance with all of the covenants contained in the Loan Agreement.

        On August 30, 2007, the Company paid off the $133,000 outstanding under the Term Loan and terminated both Lines of Credit under the Loan Agreement.

6. Net income (Loss) per Share

        "Net income (loss) per share—basic" for the periods presented is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding (excluding shares subject to repurchase). Net income (loss) per share—diluted for the periods presented in which the Company had net income (loss) is computed by including shares subject to repurchase as well as dilutive options and warrants outstanding; in periods when the Company had a net loss, these potentially dilutive securities have been excluded as they would be anti-dilutive.

        The following table sets forth the basic and diluted net income (loss) per share computation for the periods presented (in thousands, except per share data):

 
  Three Months Ended
  Six Months Ended
 
 
  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

 
Numerator:                          
  Net income (loss), as reported   $ 8,588   $ 216   $ 13,957   $ (1,140 )
Denominator:                          
  Weighted average common shares outstanding—basic     23,867     22,710     23,423     22,567  
Effect of dilutive securities:                          
  Escrowed shares related to Blue7 acquisition         99     16      
  Stock options     2,947     2,405     3,381      
   
 
 
 
 
  Shares used in computation, diluted     26,814     25,214     26,820     22,567  

Net income (loss) per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Basic   $ 0.36   $ 0.01   $ 0.60   $ (0.05 )
  Diluted   $ 0.32   $ 0.01   $ 0.52   $ (0.05 )

        The following is a summary of the excluded potentially dilutive securities as of (in thousands):

 
  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

Stock options excluded because exercise price in excess of average stock price   301   980
   
 
Stock options excluded because of the anti-dilutive effect as a result of net loss     2,616
   
 

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7. Comprehensive Income (Loss)

        The reconciliation of net income (loss) to total comprehensive income (loss) is as follows (in thousands):

 
  Three months ended
  Six months ended
 
 
  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

 
Net income (loss)   $ 8,588   $ 216   $ 13,957   $ (1,140 )
Other comprehensive income:                          
  Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities     (14 )   5     (13 )   31  
  Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment     1     16     60     56  
   
 
 
 
 
Total comprehensive income (loss)   $ 8,575   $ 237   $ 14,004   $ (1,053 )
   
 
 
 
 

8. Acquisition

        On February 16, 2006, we completed the acquisition of Blue7 Communications ("Blue7") for $11.9 million. Blue7's balance sheet and results of operations are included in our consolidated balance sheet and statements of operations from the acquisition date (February 16, 2006). Prior to the acquisition, Sigma held approximately 17% of the outstanding shares of Blue7 and provided loans totaling $900,000 to Blue7. Blue7 focuses on the development of advanced wireless technologies and Ultra-Wideband semiconductor products. The transaction was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting in accordance with SFAS 141, "Business Combinations."

9. Goodwill and Intangibles

        As of August 4, 2007, goodwill of $5.0 million was recorded due to the acquisition of Blue7.

        Acquired intangible assets, subject to amortization, were as follows as of August 4, 2007 (in thousands):

 
  Cost
  Accumulated
Amortization

  Net
Developed technology   $ 5,300   $ (1,104 ) $ 4,196
Non-compete agreements     1,400     (681 )   719
   
 
 
Total acquired intangible assets   $ 6,700   $ (1,785 ) $ 4,915
   
 
 

        Acquired intangible assets, subject to amortization, were as follows as of February 3, 2007 (in thousands):

 
  Cost
  Accumulated
Amortization

  Net
Developed technology   $ 5,300   $ (726 ) $ 4,574
Non-compete agreements     1,400     (447 )   953
   
 
 
Total acquired intangible assets   $ 6,700   $ (1,173 ) $ 5,527
   
 
 

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        Amortization expense related to the acquired intangible assets was $306,000 and $612,000 for the three months and six months ended August 4, 2007, respectively, and the same amounts as compared to the same period a year ago. As of August 4, 2007, we expect amortization expense in future periods to be as shown below:

Fiscal year

  Developed
Technology

  Noncompete
Agreements

  Total
Remainder of fiscal year 2008   $ 379   $ 233   $ 612
2009     757     467     1,224
2010     757     19     776
2011     757         757
2012     757         757
Thereafter     789         789
   
 
 
    $ 4,196   $ 719   $ 4,915
   
 
 

10. Segment and Related Information

        The Company follows the requirements of SFAS No. 131, "Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information." The Company's operating segments consist of its geographically based entities in the United States, Hong Kong and France. All such operating segments have similar economic characteristics, as defined in SFAS No. 131. Accordingly, it is the Company's opinion that it operates in one aggregated reportable segment: the development, manufacturing and marketing of multimedia devices and products.

11. Significant Customers

        Four customers accounted for more than 10% of total net revenues during the three months ended August 4, 2007 and four customers accounted for more than 10% of total net revenues during the three months ended July 29, 2006. Five customers accounted for more than 10% of total net revenues during the six months ended August 4, 2007, and two customers accounted for more than 10% of total net revenues during the six months ended July 29, 2006.

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        Major customers that accounted for over 10% of our total net revenues are as follows:

 
  Three months ended
  Six months
ended

 
Customers

  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

  August 4,
2007

  July 29,
2006

 
MTC Singapore   18 % *   13 % *  
Macnica, Inc.   17 % *   12 % *  
Freebox   15 % 26 % 14 % 15 %
Uniquest   12 % 10 % 17 % 24 %
Cisco/ Scientific Atlanta   *   11 % 11 % *  
Netgem   *   11 % *   *  

*
Revenue from the customer was less than 10% of our total net revenues.

        Major customers that accounted for over 10% of our total net receivables are as follows:

Customers

  August 4,
2007

  February 3,
2007

 
MTC Singapore   30 % 12 %
Macnica   15 % *  
Freebox   14 % 24 %
Cisco/Scientific Atlanta   14 % 18 %
Uniquest   *   15 %

*
Customer's balance was less than 10% of our total net receivables.

12. Concentration of Other Risks

Foundry Partners and Subcontractors

        The Company outsources all of its manufacturing. The Company primarily relies on one foundry in Taiwan to fabricate wafers for the Company's products and substantially all of the assembly, packaging and testing of the Company's chipset products is done by one subcontractor in Taiwan.

        Supplier and industry risks associated with outsourced manufacturing that could limit the Company's suppliers' ability to supply products to the Company involve production capacity, delivery schedules, quality assurance and production costs. Other risks include the potential for unfavorable economic conditions, political strife, prolonged work stoppages, natural or manmade disasters, power shortages and other phenomena.

13. Related Party Transactions

        On April 10, 2006, the Company entered into a sublease agreement to rent approximately 2,500 square feet of a facility from Grandis, Inc., a start-up company founded by Mr. William J. Almon, a member of the Company's board of directors. Mr. Almon resigned from Grandis as Chairman and CEO effective June 2, 2006. This is a month-to-month operating lease with base rent of $4,000 plus a

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proportionate share of operating costs commencing April 1, 2006. This sublease will expire in September 2007.

        In June 2005, the Company loaned $500,000 to Blue7, a California corporation, in which the Company had invested $1.0 million, for an approximately 17% ownership interest. One of the Company's board members had invested $100,000 for a 2% ownership interest during the Company's fiscal year 2005. In November 2005 and January 2006, the Company loaned an additional $250,000 and $150,000 to Blue7, respectively. As of February 16, 2006, the total loan balance of $900,000 was forgiven and accounted for as part of the Blue7 acquisition cost.

        The Company maintains an investment in Envivio, Inc., in which the Company has current invested capital of $263,000 for a fractional ownership position of 1%. Three of the Company's board members also have investments in this same firm, with an aggregate fractional ownership position of less than 1%. The Company's Chairman and CEO, Thinh Tran, is a member of Envivio's board of directors.

        In May 2007, the Board approved the write off of a $29,000 shareholder note receivable which related to a former outside director and was no longer collectible. During the three months ended August 4, 2007, the Company recorded $29,000 as compensation expense.

14. Product Warranty

        In general, the Company sells products with a one-year limited warranty that the Company's products will be free from defects in materials and workmanship. Warranty cost is estimated at the time revenue is recognized, based on historical activity. Accrued warranty cost includes both hardware and software support costs. Details of the change in accrued warranty for the periods indicated are as follows (in thousands):

 
  Balance
Beginning of
Period

  Additions
  Deductions
  Balance
End of
Period

Three Months Ended                        
  August 4, 2007   $ 519   $ 405   $ (169 ) $ 755
  July 29, 2006     275     159     (83 )   351
Six Months Ended                        
  August 4, 2007   $ 556   $ 485   $ (286 ) $ 755
  July 29, 2006     289     253     (191 )   351

15. Contingencies

        The Company's standard terms and conditions of sale include a patent infringement indemnification provision for claims from third parties related to the Company's intellectual property. The terms and conditions of sale generally limit the scope of the available remedies to a variety of industry-standard methods, including but not limited to a right to control the defense or settlement of any claim, a right to procure the right for continued usage and a right to replace or modify the infringing products to make them non-infringing. Such indemnification provisions are accounted for in

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accordance with SFAS No. 5, "Accounting for Contingencies." To date, the Company has not incurred any costs related to any claims under such indemnification provisions.

Legal Proceedings

        Certain of the Company's current and former directors and officers have been named as defendants in several shareholder derivative actions filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which have been consolidated under the caption In re Sigma Designs, Inc. Derivative Litigation (the "Federal Action" ) and in a substantially similar shareholder derivative action filed in the Superior Court for Santa Clara County, California captioned Korsinsky v. Tran, et al. (the "State Action" ).

        Plaintiffs in the Federal and State Actions allege that the individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties to us in connection with the alleged backdating of stock option grants during the period from 1994 through 2005 and that certain defendants were unjustly enriched. Plaintiffs in the Federal Action assert derivative claims against the individual defendants based on alleged violations of Sections 10(b), 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rules 10b-5 and 14a-9 promulgated thereunder. They also allege that the individual defendants aided and abetted one another's alleged breaches of fiduciary duty, caused corporate waste, violated California Corporations Code section 25402 and bring claims for an accounting and rescission. In the State Action, plaintiffs also allege that the individual defendants wasted corporate assets. Both Actions seek to recover unspecified money damages, disgorgement of profits and benefits and equitable relief. The Federal Action also seeks treble damages, rescission of certain defendants' option contracts, imposition of a constructive trust over executory option contracts and attorney's fees. The Company is named as a nominal defendant in both the Federal and State Actions; thus, no recovery against us is sought.

        The Company has filed a motion to dismiss the Federal Action on the ground that the plaintiffs had not made a pre-litigation demand on our Board of Directors and had not demonstrated that such a demand would have been futile. The defendant directors and officers joined in that motion, and filed a motion to dismiss the Federal Action for failure to state a claim against each of them. Pursuant to a joint stipulation, plaintiffs filed an Amended Consolidated Shareholder Derivative Complaint on August 13, 2007. Defendants have until September 19, 2007 to respond to the Complaint. A hearing on the Motion to Dismiss the Amended Consolidated Shareholder Derivative Complaint is currently scheduled for November 30, 2007. The Company has also filed a motion to dismiss or stay the State Action in favor of the earlier filed Federal Action. The defendant directors and officers joined in that motion. Pursuant to a joint stipulation, the court ordered that the State Action be stayed in favor of the earlier-filed Federal Action.

        On July 5, 2007, a Verified Petition for Writ of Mandate to Compel Inspection of Books, Records and Documents was filed in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, captioned Levine v. Sigma Designs,  Inc. The Company filed a Demurrer to the Petition as well as an Answer on August 13, 2007. A hearing on the Demurrer is currently scheduled for September 21, 2007.

        The Company previously disclosed that the SEC has initiated an informal inquiry into our stock option granting practices. The SEC has requested that the Company voluntarily produces documents relating to, among other things, our stock option practices. The Company is cooperating with the SEC.

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        In May 2007, the IRS began an employment tax audit for the Company's fiscal year 2004 and 2005. The Company has also requested that fiscal year 2006 be included in this audit cycle. In August 2007, the IRS began an income tax audit for the Company's fiscal year 2005. The focus of the employment tax audit relates to tax issues connected to the Company's granting stock options with exercise prices per share that were less than the fair market value per share of the common stock underlying the option on the option's measurement date for financial reporting purposes. The IRS has not yet proposed any tax deficiency, interest or penalty amounts in respect of these audits.

        In August 2007, the IRS notified the Company that it owed a $97,000 penalty for failure to make a timely deposit of employment taxes in April 2007. The penalty involves one particular payment made in connection with certain stock option exercises in April 2007. The Company is disputing this penalty. The IRS has suspended the penalty matter pending further discussion with the Company.

16. Commitments

        The Company's primary facilities are leased under a non-cancelable lease which expires in September 2007. In February 2007, the Company entered into a new lease agreement and relocated its headquarters to this facility in early September 2007. The new lease will expire in September 2012. As of August 4, 2007, future minimum annual payments under operating leases are as follows (in thousands):

Fiscal Years

  Operating
Leases

2008   $ 310
2009     804
2010     831
2011     870
2012     909
Thereafter     575
   
Total minimum lease payments   $ 4,299
   

17. Subsequent Event

        On August 30, 2007, the Company paid off $133,000 outstanding under the Term Loan and terminated both Lines of Credit under the Loan Agreement.

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Part II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 13.    Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

        The following table sets forth the various expenses expected to be incurred by the Registrant in connection with the sale and distribution of the securities being registered hereby, other than underwriting discounts and commissions. All amounts are estimated except the SEC registration fee and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. filing fee.

SEC registration fee   $ 4,467
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. filing fee     15,050
Blue Sky fees and expenses     15,000
Accounting fees and expenses     225,000
Legal fees and expenses     275,000
Printing and engraving expenses     120,000
Registrar and transfer agent's fees     5,000
Miscellaneous fees and expenses     483
   
  Total   $ 660,000
   

Item 14.    Indemnification of Directors and Officers

        Section 317 of the California Corporations Code provides for the indemnification of officers, directors and other corporate agents in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons under certain circumstances for liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Our articles of incorporation and bylaws provides for indemnification of our directors and officers to the extent and under the circumstances permitted by the California Corporations Code.

Item 15.    Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

        On February 16, 2006, in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of Blue7 Communications, we issued an aggregate of 583,870 shares of our Common Stock to 36 individuals in exchange for all outstanding shares of Blue7 other than the share held by us. On March 5, 2007, we issued 98,470 shares of our Common Stock that were previously held in escrow pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger. All shares of our Common Stock were issued pursuant to an exemption from registration under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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Item 16.    Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

(a)
Exhibits

Exhibit
Number

  Description
  Filed Herewith or Incorporated
Herein by Reference to

1.1   Form of Underwriting Agreement.   Filed herewith.

3.1

 

Second Restated Articles of Incorporation dated June 1, 1998.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 33-17789) filed October 8, 1987, Amendment No. 1 thereto filed June 9, 1988 and Amendment No. 2 thereto filed June 14, 1988, which Registration Statement became effective June 14, 1988.

3.2

 

Certificate of Amendment to the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation dated June 22, 2001.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-64234) filed on June 29, 2001.

3.3

 

Certificate of Determination of Preferences of Series A Preferred Stock dated June 13, 1997.

 

Filed herewith.

3.4

 

Certificate of Determination of Preferences of Series B Preferred Stock dated January 30, 1998.

 

Filed herewith.

3.5

 

Certificate of Determination of Preferences of Series C Preferred Stock dated January 20, 1999.

 

Filed herewith.

3.6

 

Certificate of Determination of Rights, Preferences and Privileges of Series D Participating Preferred Stock dated June 4, 2004.

 

Filed herewith.

3.7

 

Bylaws of Registrant, as amended.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2003.

4.1

 

Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of June 7, 2004, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as Rights Agent, including the Certificate of Designation, the form of Rights Certificate and the Summary of Rights attached thereto as Exhibit A, B and C, respectively.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 8, 2004.

4.2

 

Form of Common Stock Certificate.

 

Filed herewith.

5.1

 

Opinion of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

 

Filed herewith.
         

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10.2*

 

Registrant's 1986 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended, and form of Subscription Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-61549) filed on August 14, 1998.

10.4*

 

Registrant's Amended and Restated 1994 Stock Plan and form of Stock Option Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-86875) filed on September 10, 1999.

10.5*

 

Registrant's 1994 Director Stock Option Plan and form of Director Option Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-74308) filed on January 28, 1994, Amendment No. 1 thereto filed February 24, 1994, Amendment No. 2 thereto filed March 3, 1994, Amendment No. 3 thereto filed March 4, 1994 and Amendment No. 4 thereto filed March 8, 1994.

10.6*

 

Registrant's 2001 Employee Stock Option Plan.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (333-64234) filed on June 29, 2001.

10.7*

 

Registrant's 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Form of Subscription Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (333-64234) filed on June 29, 2001.

10.8

 

Registrant's 2001 Loan and Security Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank, as amended.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 2, 2002.

10.9

 

Lease between the Registrant and EOP-Industrial Portfolio, L.L.C.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2003.

10.10

 

Amendment to Registrant's 2001 Loan and Security Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004.

10.11

 

Amended and Restated Schedule to Loan and Security Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004.

10.12

 

Purchase of Series B Preferred Stock in Envivio from Sigma Designs, Inc.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2005.
         

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10.13

 

Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 13, 2005, by and among the Registrant, Blue7 Communications and the other parties named therein.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 16, 2005.

10.14

 

Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger dated January 9, 2006 by and among the Registrant, Blue7 Communications and the other parties named therein.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit 2.1 filed with the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 12, 2006.

10.15

 

Industrial Lease, dated as of February 22, 2007, by and between the Registrant and AMB Property, L.P.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2007.

10.16*

 

2003 Director Stock Option Plan.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Form S-8 filed on July 11, 2003.

10.17*

 

Offer Letter, dated as of May 16, 2007, between the Registrant and Thomas E. Gay III.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on June 14, 2007.

10.18

 

Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of August 12, 2005, by and between the Registrant and United Commercial Bank.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on September 8, 2005.

21.1

 

Subsidiaries of the Registrant.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004.

23.1

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Armanino McKenna LLP)

 

Filed herewith.

23.2

 

Consent of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

 

Filed herewith.

24.1

 

Power of Attorney

 

Previously filed.

*
Denotes an executive or director compensation contract.

(b)
Financial Statement Schedule

Independent Auditors' Report on Schedule

    Schedule II—Valuation and Qualifying Accounts.
    Other schedules are omitted because they are not required.

Item 17.    Undertakings

        Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant

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of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

        The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that:

            (1)   For purposes of determining any liability under the Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

            (2)   For the purpose of determining any liability under the Act, each post effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

            (3)   It will provide to the underwriters at the closing(s) specified in the underwriting agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

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SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Milpitas, State of California, on the 14th day of September, 2007.

        SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.
         
         
    By   /s/   THINH Q. TRAN       
Thinh Q. Tran
President, Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name
  Title
  Date

 

 

 

 

 
/s/   THINH Q. TRAN       
Thinh Q. Tran
  President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board (Principal Executive Officer)   September 14, 2007

/s/  
THOMAS E. GAY III       
Thomas E. Gay III

 

Chief Financial Officer and Secretary (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

September 14, 2007

*

William J. Almon

 

Director

 

September 14, 2007

*

Julian Nguyen

 

Director

 

September 14, 2007

*

Lung C. Tsai

 

Director

 

September 14, 2007

*/s/  
THOMAS E. GAY III       
Thomas E. Gay III
Attorney-in-fact

 

 

 

September 14, 2007

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Exhibit Index

Exhibit
Number

  Description
  Filed Herewith or Incorporated
Herein by Reference to

1.1   Form of Underwriting Agreement.   Filed herewith.

3.1

 

Second Restated Articles of Incorporation dated June 1, 1998.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 33-17789) filed October 8, 1987, Amendment No. 1 thereto filed June 9, 1988 and Amendment No. 2 thereto filed June 14, 1988, which Registration Statement became effective June 14, 1988.

3.2

 

Certificate of Amendment to the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation dated June 22, 2001.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-64234) filed on June 29, 2001.

3.3

 

Certificate of Determination of Preferences of Series A Preferred Stock dated June 13, 1997.

 

Filed herewith.

3.4

 

Certificate of Determination of Preferences of Series B Preferred Stock dated January 30, 1998.

 

Filed herewith.

3.5

 

Certificate of Determination of Preferences of Series C Preferred Stock dated January 20, 1999.

 

Filed herewith.

3.6

 

Certificate of Determination of Rights, Preferences and Privileges of Series D Participating Preferred Stock dated June 4, 2004.

 

Filed herewith.

3.7

 

Bylaws of Registrant, as amended.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2003.

4.1

 

Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of June 7, 2004, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as Rights Agent, including the Certificate of Designation, the form of Rights Certificate and the Summary of Rights attached thereto as Exhibit A, B and C, respectively.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 8, 2004.

4.2

 

Form of Common Stock Certificate.

 

Filed herewith.

5.1

 

Opinion of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

 

Filed herewith.

10.2*

 

Registrant's 1986 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended, and form of Subscription Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-61549) filed on August 14, 1998.
         


10.4*

 

Registrant's Amended and Restated 1994 Stock Plan and form of Stock Option Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-86875) filed on September 10, 1999.

10.5*

 

Registrant's 1994 Director Stock Option Plan and form of Director Option Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-74308) filed on January 28, 1994, Amendment No. 1 thereto filed February 24, 1994, Amendment No. 2 thereto filed March 3, 1994, Amendment No. 3 thereto filed March 4, 1994 and Amendment No. 4 thereto filed March 8, 1994.

10.6*

 

Registrant's 2001 Employee Stock Option Plan.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (333-64234) filed on June 29, 2001.

10.7*

 

Registrant's 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Form of Subscription Agreement.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (333-64234) filed on June 29, 2001.

10.8

 

Registrant's 2001 Loan and Security Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank, as amended.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 2, 2002.

10.9

 

Lease between the Registrant and EOP-Industrial Portfolio, L.L.C.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2003.

10.10

 

Amendment to Registrant's 2001 Loan and Security Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004.

10.11

 

Amended and Restated Schedule to Loan and Security Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004.

10.12

 

Purchase of Series B Preferred Stock in Envivio from Sigma Designs, Inc.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2005.

10.13

 

Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 13, 2005, by and among the Registrant, Blue7 Communications and the other parties named therein.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 16, 2005.
         


10.14

 

Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger dated January 9, 2006 by and among the Registrant, Blue7 Communications and the other parties named therein.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit 2.1 filed with the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 12, 2006.

10.15

 

Industrial Lease, dated as of February 22, 2007, by and between the Registrant and AMB Property, L.P.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2007.

10.16*

 

2003 Director Stock Option Plan.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Form S-8 filed on July 11, 2003.

10.17*

 

Offer Letter, dated as of May 16, 2007, between the Registrant and Thomas E. Gay III.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on June 14, 2007.

10.18

 

Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of August 12, 2005, by and between the Registrant and United Commercial Bank.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on September 8, 2005.

21.1

 

Subsidiaries of the Registrant.

 

Incorporated by reference to exhibit filed with the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004.

23.1

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Armanino McKenna LLP)

 

Filed herewith.

23.2

 

Consent of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

 

Filed herewith.

24.1

 

Power of Attorney

 

Previously filed.

*
Denotes an executive or director compensation contract.



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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
Industry Data
Company Information
RISK FACTORS
Risks Related to Our Business and Our Industry
Risks Related to the Offering and Our Common Stock
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
USE OF PROCEEDS
MARKET PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK
DIVIDEND POLICY
CAPITALIZATION
SELECTED HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT
DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
UNDERWRITING
LEGAL MATTERS
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Exhibit 1.1

4,000,000 Shares

Sigma Designs, Inc.

Common Stock

(No Par Value)

FORM OF EQUITY UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
UBS Securities LLC
As Representatives of the
    Several Underwriters

c/o Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
60 Wall Street, 4 th Floor
New York, New York 10005

c/o UBS Securities LLC
299 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10171

Ladies and Gentlemen:

        Sigma Designs, Inc., a California corporation (the "Company") proposes to sell to the several underwriters (the "Underwriters") named in Schedule I hereto for whom you are acting as representatives (the "Representatives") an aggregate of 4,000,000 shares (the "Firm Shares") of the Company's common stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"). The Company also proposes to sell at the Underwriters' option an aggregate of up to 600,000 additional shares of the Company's Common Stock (the "Option Shares") as set forth below.

        As the Representatives, you have advised the Company (a) that you are authorized to enter into this Agreement on behalf of the several Underwriters, and (b) that the several Underwriters are willing, acting severally and not jointly, to purchase the numbers of Firm Shares set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I, plus the Option Shares if you elect to exercise the over-allotment option in whole or in part for the accounts of the several Underwriters. The Firm Shares and the Option Shares (to the extent the aforementioned option is exercised) are herein collectively called the "Shares."

        In consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein and of the interests of the parties in the transactions contemplated hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:

        1.      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.     

        The Company represents and warrants to each of the Underwriters as follows:


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        2.      PURCHASE, SALE AND DELIVERY OF THE FIRM SHARES.     

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        3.      OFFERING BY THE UNDERWRITERS.     

        It is understood that the several Underwriters are to make a public offering of the Firm Shares as soon as the Representatives deem it advisable to do so. The Firm Shares are to be initially offered to the public at the initial public offering price set forth in the Prospectus. The Representatives may from time to time thereafter change the public offering price and other selling terms.

        It is further understood that you will act as the Representatives for the Underwriters in the offering and sale of the Shares in accordance with a Master Agreement Among Underwriters entered into by you and the several other Underwriters.

        The Underwriters have not used and will not use any "free writing prospectus" (as defined in Rule 405 under the Act) other than (i) a free writing prospectus that, solely as a result of use by any such Underwriter, would not trigger an obligation to file such free writing prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule III or prepared pursuant to Section 4(b) (including any electronic road show), or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by the Underwriters and approved by the Company in advance in writing.

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriters may, without the consent of the Company, use customary Bloomberg communications containing terms of the offering of the Shares and the information set forth in any free writing prospectus specified in (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph.

        4.      COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.     

        The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that:

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        5.      COSTS AND EXPENSES.     

        The Company will pay all costs, expenses and fees incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following: accounting fees of the Company; the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company; any roadshow expenses; the cost of printing and delivering to, or as requested by, the Underwriters copies of the Registration Statement, Preliminary Prospectuses, the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, the Prospectus, this Agreement, the Listing of Additional Shares Notification Form, the Blue Sky Survey and any supplements or amendments thereto; the filing fees of the Commission; the filing fees

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and expenses (including legal fees and disbursements) incident to securing any required review by the NASD of the terms of the sale of the Shares; the Listing Fee of the Nasdaq Global Market; the costs and expenses (including without limitation any damages or other amounts payable in connection with legal or contractual liability) associated with the reforming of any contracts for sale of the Shares made by the Underwriters caused by a breach of the representation in Section 1(b) and the expenses, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters, incurred in connection with the qualification of the Shares under State securities or Blue Sky laws. Any transfer taxes imposed on the sale of the Shares to the several Underwriters will be paid by the Company. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay for any of the Underwriter's expenses (other than those related to qualification under NASD regulation and State securities or Blue Sky laws) except that, if this Agreement shall not be consummated because the conditions in Section 6 hereof are not satisfied, or because this Agreement is terminated by the Representatives pursuant to Section 11 hereof, or by reason of any failure, refusal or inability on the part of the Company to perform any undertaking or satisfy any condition of this Agreement or to comply with any of the terms hereof on its part to be performed, unless such failure, refusal or inability is due primarily to the default or omission of any Underwriter, the Company shall reimburse the several Underwriters for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred in connection with investigating, marketing and proposing to market the Shares or in contemplation of performing their obligations hereunder; but the Company shall not in any event be liable to any of the several Underwriters for damages on account of loss of anticipated profits from the sale by them of the Shares.

        6.      CONDITIONS OF OBLIGATIONS OF THE UNDERWRITERS.     

        The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Firm Shares on the Closing Date and the Option Shares, if any, on the Option Closing Date are subject to the accuracy, as of the Applicable Time, the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, and to the performance by the Company of its covenants and obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

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        The opinions and certificates mentioned in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in all material respects satisfactory to the Representatives and to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, counsel for the Underwriters.

        If any of the conditions hereinabove provided for in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement to be fulfilled, the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be terminated by the Representatives by notifying the Company of such termination in writing or by telegram at or prior to the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be.

        In such event, the Company and the Underwriters shall not be under any obligation to each other (except to the extent provided in Sections 5 and 8 hereof).

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        7.      CONDITIONS OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY.     

        The obligations of the Company to sell and deliver the Shares required to be delivered as and when specified in this Agreement are subject to the conditions that at the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and in effect or proceedings therefor initiated or threatened.

        8.      INDEMNIFICATION.     

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        9.      DEFAULT BY UNDERWRITERS.     

        If on the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, any Underwriter shall fail to purchase and pay for the portion of the Shares which such Underwriter has agreed to purchase and pay for on such date (otherwise than by reason of any default on the part of the Company), the Representatives shall use your reasonable efforts to procure within 36 hours thereafter one or more of the other Underwriters, or any others, to purchase from the Company such amounts as may be agreed upon and upon the terms set forth herein, the Shares which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters failed to purchase. If during such 36 hours the Representatives shall not have procured such other Underwriters, or any others, to purchase the Shares agreed to be purchased by the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters, then (a) if the aggregate number of shares with respect to which such default shall occur does not exceed 10% of the Shares to be purchased on the Closing Date or the Option Closing date, as the case may be, the other Underwriters shall be obligated, severally, in proportion to the respective numbers of Shares which they are obligated to purchase hereunder, to purchase the Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters failed to purchase, or (b) if the aggregate number of shares of Shares with respect to which such default shall occur exceeds 10% of the Shares to be purchased on the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Company or the Representatives will have the right, by written notice given within the next 36-hour period to the parties to this Agreement, to terminate this Agreement without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters or of the Company except to the extent provided in Sections 5 and 8 hereof. In the event of a default by any Underwriter or Underwriters, as set forth in this Section 9, the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as the case may be, may be postponed for such period, not exceeding seven days, as you, as Representatives, may determine in order that the required changes in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. The term "Underwriter" includes any person substituted for a defaulting Underwriter. Any action taken under this Section 9 shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

        10      NOTICES.     

        All communications hereunder shall be in writing and, except as otherwise provided herein, will be mailed, delivered, telecopied or telegraphed and confirmed as follows: if to the Underwriters, to Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 60 Wall Street, 4 th  Floor, New York, New York 10005; Attention: Syndicate Manager, with a copy to Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, Attention: General Counsel and to UBS Securities LLC, 299 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10171; Attention: Syndicate Department; if to the Company, to Sigma Designs, Inc., 1778 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035.

        11      TERMINATION.     

        This Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice to the Company:

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        12      SUCCESSORS.     

        This Agreement has been and is made solely for the benefit of the Underwriters, the Company and their respective successors, executors, administrators, heirs and assigns, and the officers, directors and controlling persons referred to herein, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder. No purchaser of any of the Shares from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign merely because of such purchase.

        13      INFORMATION PROVIDED BY UNDERWRITERS.     

        The Company and the Underwriters acknowledge and agree that the only information furnished or to be furnished by any Underwriter to the Company for inclusion in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus consists of the information set forth in the third, ninth, and tenth through fifteenth paragraphs under the caption "Underwriting" in the Prospectus.

        14      MISCELLANEOUS.     

        The reimbursement, indemnification and contribution agreements contained in this Agreement and the representations, warranties and covenants in this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of (a) any termination of this Agreement, (b) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or controlling person thereof, or by or on behalf of the Company or its directors or officers or controlling person thereof, as the case may be, and (c) delivery of and payment for the Shares under this Agreement.

        The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Underwriter in providing investment banking services to the Company in connection with the offering, including in acting pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, has acted and is acting as an independent contractor and not as a fiduciary and the Company does not intend such Underwriter to act in any capacity other than as an independent contractor, including as a fiduciary or in any other position of higher trust.

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        This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

        This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York, including, without limitation, Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law.

        The Underwriters, on the one hand, and the Company (on its own behalf and, to the extent permitted by law, on behalf of its stockholders), on the other hand, waive any right to trial by jury in any action, claim, suit or proceeding with respect to your engagement as underwriter or your role in connection herewith.

        If the foregoing letter is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicates hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.

        Very truly yours,

 

 

 

 

SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

 

 

 

 

By

 

 
           
            Name:
            Title:

The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written.

 

 

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.

 

 

 

 

UBS SECURITIES LLC

 

 

 

 

As Representatives of the several Underwriters listed on Schedule I

 

 

 

 

By:

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
       
    Authorized Officer        

By

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
       
    Authorized Officer        

By:

 

UBS Securities LLC

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
       
Title:        

By

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
       
Title:        

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SCHEDULE I

SCHEDULE OF UNDERWRITERS

Underwriter

  Number of Firm Shares
to be Purchased

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.    
UBS Securities LLC    
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.    
RBC Capital Markets Corporation    
Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated    
  Total    
   


SCHEDULE II

Public offering price per share of Common Stock:   $[•]           
Number of shares of Common Stock offered:   [•] shares


SCHEDULE III

[List each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to be included in the General Disclosure Package including Final Term Sheet, if applicable]



SCHEDULE IV

SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY

Company

  Jurisdiction of Incorporation
Blue7 Communications   California
Sigma Designs (Asia) Ltd.   Hong Kong
Sigma Designs Europe   France


EXHIBIT A

LOCK-UP AGREEMENT

        August 9, 2007                          

Sigma Designs, Inc.
1221 California Circle
Milpitas, CA 95035

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
UBS Securities LLC

As Representatives of the
    Several Underwriters

c/o Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
60 Wall Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10005

c/o UBS Securities LLC
299 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10171

Ladies and Gentlemen:

        The undersigned understands that Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and UBS Securities LLC, as representatives (the "Representatives") of the several underwriters (the "Underwriters"), propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") with Sigma Designs, Inc. (the "Company"), providing for the public offering by the Underwriters, including the Representatives, of common stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), of the Company (the "Public Offering").

        To induce the Underwriters that may participate in the Public Offering to continue their efforts in connection with the Public Offering, the undersigned agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, the undersigned will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, contract to sell (including any short sale), grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of any shares of Common Stock (including, without limitation, shares of Common Stock of the Company which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned on the date hereof in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, shares of Common Stock which may be issued upon exercise of a stock option or warrant and any other security convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock) or enter into any Hedging Transaction (as defined below) relating to the Common Stock (each of the foregoing referred to as a "Disposition") during the period specified in the following paragraph (the "Lock-Up Period"). The foregoing restriction is expressly intended to preclude the undersigned from engaging in any Hedging Transaction or other transaction which is designed to or reasonably expected to lead to or result in a Disposition during the Lock-Up Period even if the securities would be disposed of by someone other than the undersigned. "Hedging Transaction" means any short sale (whether or not against the box) or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including, without limitation, any put or call option) with respect to any security (other than a broad-based market basket or index) that includes, relates to or derives any significant part of its value from the Common Stock.

        The Lock-Up Period will commence on the date hereof and continue until, and include, the date that is 90 days after the date of the final prospectus relating to the Public Offering.

        Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned may transfer (a) shares of Common Stock acquired in open market transactions by the undersigned after the completion of the Public Offering, and (b) any or all of the shares of Common Stock or other Company securities if the transfer is by (i) gift,



will or intestacy, or (ii) distribution to partners, members or shareholders of the undersigned; provided , however , that in the case of a transfer pursuant to clause (b) above, it shall be a condition to the transfer that the transferee execute an agreement stating that the transferee is receiving and holding the securities subject to the provisions of this Lock-Up Agreement. In addition, to the extent that the undersigned has an effective 10b5-1 sales plan on the date of this Lock-Up Agreement, the undersigned may sell shares of Common Stock pursuant to such plan; provided , however , that, after September 3, 2007, the number of shares of Common Stock sold pursuant to such plan during the Lock-Up Period shall not be in excess of the number of shares of Common Stock issued to the undersigned upon exercise of that portion of any option issued by the Company to the undersigned that may be subject to Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and that shall terminate if not exercised by December 31, 2007 under the terms of an Amendment to Stock Option Agreement entered into between the Company and the undersigned in December 2006 (any such shares referred to as "409A Shares").

        The undersigned agrees that the Company may, and that the undersigned will, (i) with respect to any shares of Common Stock or other Company securities for which the undersigned is the record holder, cause the transfer agent for the Company to note stop transfer instructions during the Lock-Up Period with respect to such securities on the transfer books and records of the Company and (ii) with respect to any shares of Common Stock or other Company securities for which the undersigned is the beneficial holder but not the record holder, cause the record holder of such securities to cause the transfer agent for the Company to note stop transfer instructions during the Lock-Up Period with respect to such securities on the transfer books and records of the Company. If the undersigned owns 409A Shares, the undersigned acknowledges that the Company will cause the transfer agent for the Company to note stop transfer instructions during the Lock-Up Period on all shares of Common Stock owned by the undersigned except for the 409A Shares.

        In addition, the undersigned hereby waives any and all notice requirements and rights with respect to registration of securities pursuant to any agreement, understanding or otherwise setting forth the terms of any security of the Company held by the undersigned, including any registration rights agreement to which the undersigned and the Company may be party; provided that such waiver shall apply only to the proposed Public Offering, and any other action taken by the Company in connection with the proposed Public Offering.

        The undersigned hereby agrees that, to the extent that the terms of this Lock-Up Agreement conflict with or are in any way inconsistent with any registration rights agreement to which the undersigned and the Company may be a party, this Lock-Up Agreement supersedes such registration rights agreement.

        The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this Lock-Up Agreement. All authority herein conferred or agreed to be conferred shall survive the death or incapacity of the undersigned and any obligations of the undersigned shall be binding upon the heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns of the undersigned.

        Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if the closing of the Public Offering has not occurred prior to December 1, 2007, this agreement shall be of no further force or effect.


 

 

Signature:

 

                        


 

 

Print Name:

 

                        


Number of shares owned subject to warrants, options or convertible securities:

 

Certificate numbers:



 





 





 





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SCHEDULE III
SCHEDULE IV SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY
EXHIBIT A LOCK-UP AGREEMENT

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Exhibit 3.3

CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION OF
PREFERENCES OF SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK OF
SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

        The undersigned, Thinh Q. Tran and Kit Tsui, hereby certify that:

        1.     They are the duly elected President and Secretary, respectively, of Sigma Designs, Inc., a California corporation the "Corporation").

        2.     The Corporation hereby designates Fifty Thousand (50,000) shares of Series A Preferred Stock.

        3.     None of the shares of the Series A Preferred Stock have been issued.

        4.     Pursuant to authority given by the Corporation's Second Restated Articles of Incorporation, the Board of Directors of the Corporation has duly adopted the following recitals and resolutions:

         WHEREAS , the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation provide for a class of shares known as Preferred Shares, issuable from time to time in one or more series; and

         WHEREAS , the Board of Directors of the Corporation is authorized within the limitations and restrictions stated in the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation to determine or alter the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions granted to or imposed on any wholly unissued series of Preferred Shares, to fix the number of shares constituting any such series, and to determine the designation thereof, or any of them; and

         WHEREAS , the Corporation has not issued any shares of Preferred Stock and the Board of Directors of this Corporation desires to determine the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions relating to this initial series of Preferred Stock, and the number of shares constituting said Series and the designation of said series;

        "A.   Fifty thousand of the authorized shares of Preferred Stock of the Corporation, none of which have been issued or are outstanding, are hereby designated "Series A Convertible Preferred Stock" (the "Series A Preferred Stock").

        B.    The rights, preferences, privileges, restrictions and other matters relating to the Series A Preferred Stock are as follows:

        1.      Dividend Rights.     The holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive quarterly in arrears, but only out of funds that are legally available therefor, dividends in cash or common stock of the Corporation, at the option of the Corporation, at the rate of three percent (3%) of the "Original Issue Price" of the Series A Preferred Stock per annum, accruing daily on the basis of a 360-day year commencing with the issuance of such Series A Preferred Stock, on each outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock. The Original Issue Price of the Series A Preferred Stock (as adjusted for any combination, consolidation, shares distributions or shares dividends with respect to such shares) shall be equal to $100.00 per share.

        2.      Voting Rights.     Except as otherwise provided by law, the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent required by law) for taking any corporate action.



        3.      Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.     In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, either voluntary or involuntary, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, prior and in preference to any distribution of the assets or surplus funds of the Corporation to the holders of the Common Stock by reason of their ownership thereof; an amount equal to the Original Issue Price, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends on such Series A Preferred Stock to the date of such payment (the "Liquidation Preference"). If, upon occurrence of such event the assets and funds thus distributed among the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be insufficient to permit the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock the full Liquidation Preference, then the entire assets and funds of the Corporation legally available for distribution shall be distributed among the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock in proportion to the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by each such holder. After payment has been made to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock of the Liquidation Preference, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive the remaining assets of the Corporation.

        4.      Consolidation, Merger, Exchange, Etc.     In case the corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination, statutory share exchange or other transaction in which the Common Stock is exchanged for or changed into other shares or securities, money and/or any other property, then in any such case the Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time be either, at the option of the Corporation, (a) similarly exchanged or changed into preferred shares of the surviving entity providing the holders of such preferred stock with (to the extent possible) the same relative rights and preferences as the Series A Preferred Stock or (b) converted into the shares of stock and other securities, money and/or any other property receivable upon or deemed to be held by holders of Common Stock immediately following such consolidation, merger, combination, statutory share exchange or other transaction, and the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled upon such event to receive such amount of securities, money and/or any other property as the shares of the Common Stock of the Corporation into which such shares of Series A Preferred Stock could have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, combination, statutory share exchange or other transaction would have been entitled.

        5.      Conversion.     

                (a)   At the option of the holder of the Series A Preferred Stock, up to twenty-five percent (25%) of the Series A Preferred Stock held by such holder may be converted, on or after 120 days from the closing of the purchase thereof, into fully paid and nonassessable shares of the Corporation's Common Stock or, if the Conversion Price (as defined below) is below $10.00 and the Corporation so chooses, the Cash Equivalent (as defined below) at the Conversion Price. The number of shares of Common Stock each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall be convertible into shall be calculated by dividing the Original Issue Price of the Series A Preferred Stock to be converted by the conversion price, which shall be calculated at ten percent (10%) less than (the "Discount") the low reported trading price of the Corporation's Common Stock, as reported by Bloomberg, L.P., over the five-day trading period ending on the day prior to conversion (the "Conversion Price"); provided, however, that the Conversion Price shall not exceed $10.00 in any case. Thereafter, an additional twenty-five percent (25%) of the Series A Preferred Stock held by such holder shall be convertible on or after the first day of each calendar month thereafter on a cumulative basis. In the event the Corporation chooses to issue cash in lieu of Common Stock upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock, such cash amount (the "Cash Equivalent") shall be calculated by multiplying (1) the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the dollar amount of the Series A Preferred Stock that the holder of Series A Preferred Stock has elected to convert by (b) the product of .9 and the lowest infra day trading price of the Common Stock on the day of conversion; and (ii) the closing bid price of the Common Stock on the day of conversion. Such cash payment shall be delivered within five (5) days of conversion. The holder of Series A Preferred Stock shall indicate upon its notice of conversion its preferred method of conversion, and the Company shall provide the holder of Series A Preferred Stock with notice of its choice of the means of

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conversion, Common Stock or the Cash Equivalent, within twenty four (24) hours after receipt of the notice of conversion. Failure by the Company to provide such notice will entitle the holder of Series A Preferred Stock to its choice of the method of conversion. Should the Company elect to remit the Cash Equivalent rather than Common Stock, such cash payment shall be delivered within five (5) days of conversion, or the holder of Series A Preferred Stock may elect to revoke his conversion or receive a conversion in stock. In the event the Conversion Price equals or exceeds $10.00, the Corporation shall effect a conversion only in stock.

                (b)   Any Series A Preferred Stock that is outstanding on the second anniversary of the initial issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock will be automatically converted into abates of the Corporation's Common Stock as provided above.

                (c)    Reservation of Stock Issuable Upon Conversion.     The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the shares of the Series A Preferred Stock, such number of its shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock except to the extent such conversion is limited by Section 5(d). To the extent that at any time there are fewer shares of Common Stock available than are required to effect such conversion, the Common Stock will be allocated on a pro rata basis among holders of Series A Preferred Stock derived from the proportion of Series A Preferred Stock each holder of Series A Preferred Stock holds upon the closing of the transaction. If at any time the number of authorized but unissued shares. of Common Stock shall not be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, the Corporation will take such corporate action as may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to such number of shares as shall be sufficient for such purpose except as limited by Section 5(d).

                (d)   Notwithstanding Section 5(a), 5(b) and 5(c), the Series A Preferred Stock issued herewith shall not be entitled to conversion into Common Stock that would cause the Corporation to issue greater than 2,220,000 shares of Common Stock. Any such conversion requests with respect to such Series A Preferred Stock that would, in the aggregate with all other Series A Preferred Stock previously converted, cause the Company to issue more than 2,220,000 shares of Common Stock shall be.converted by the Corporation into cash at a rate of one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the Original Issue Price of such unconverted Series A Preferred Stock. Such cash payment shall be delivered within five (5) days of conversion.

                (e)    Mechanisms for Effecting Conversions.     The holder shall effect conversions by surrendering the certificate or certificates representing the shares of Series A Preferred Stock to be converted to the Corporation, together with the form of conversion notice attached hereto as Exhibit A (the "Conversion Notice"), provided, however, that the holder shall not convert more than an aggregate of 25% of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock originally issued to it in any one month period. Each Conversion Notice shall specify the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock to be converted, the preferred means of conversion of the holder of Series A Preferred Stock, and the date on which such conversion is to be effected, which date may not be prior to the date the holder delivers such Conversion Notice by facsimile (the "Conversion Date"). If no Conversion Date is specified in a Conversion Notice, the Conversion Date shall be the date that the Conversion Notice is deemed delivered pursuant to Section 10. If the holder is converting less than all shares of Series A Preferred Stock represented by the certificate or certificates tendered by the holder with the Conversion Notice, or if a conversion hereunder cannot be effected in full for any reason, the Corporation shall convert up to the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock which can be so converted and shall promptly deliver to such holder a certificate for such number of shares as have not been converted.

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        6.      Fractional Shares.     In lieu of any fractional shares to which the holder of the Series A Preferred Stock would otherwise be entitled, the Corporation shall pay cash equal to such fraction multiplied by the closing price of one share of the Corporation's Common Stock on the trading day prior to conversion, if such price is available. If such price is not available, this Corporation shall pay cash for fractional shares equal to such fraction multiplied by the fair market value of one share of Series A Preferred Stock as determined by the Board of Directors of this Corporation. Whether or not fractional shares are issuable upon such conversion shall be determined on the basis of the total number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock of each holder at the time converting into Common Stock and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such aggregate conversion.

        7.      Minimal Adjustments.     No adjustment in the Original Issue Price need be made if such adjustment would result in a change in the Conversion Price of less than $0.01. Any adjustment of less than $0.01 which is not made shall be carried forward and shall be made at the time of and together with any subsequent adjustment which, on a cumulative basis, amounts to an adjustment of $0.01 or more in the Conversion Price.

        8.      Adjustment of Conversion for Dividend and Distributions.     

                (a)   In the event the Corporation shall at any time after issuance of the Series A Preferred Stuck declare or pay any dividend or other distribution on Common Stock, payable in Common Stock or other securities or rights convertible into, or exchangeable for, Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise) into a greater or lesser number of Common Stock, then in each such case the number of Common Stork issuable upon the conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be adjusted (the "Adjustment") by multiplying the number of Common Stock to which the holder was entitled before such event by a multiplier X/Y determined as follows:

X   =   The number of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event.

Y

 

=

 

The number of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

                (b)   In the event the Corporation shall at any time after issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock, distribute to holders of its Common Stock, other than as part of a dissolution or liquidation or the winding up of its affairs, any shares of its capital stock, any evidence of indebtedness, or other securities or any of its assets (other than Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock), then, in any such case, the Preferred Stock holder shall be entitled to receive, upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock, with respect to each share of Common Stock isolable upon such conversion, the amount of cash or evidence of indebtedness or other securities or assets which such Series A Preferred Stock holder would have been entitled to receive with respect to each such share of Common Stock as a result of the happening of such event had the Series A Preferred Stock holder converted to Common Stock immediately prior to the record date or other date determining the shareholders entitled to participate in such distribution (the "Determination Date") or, in lieu thereof, if the Board of Directors of the Corporation should so determine at the time of such distribution, a reduced Conversion Price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price on the Determination Date by a fraction, the numerator of which is the result of such Conversion Price reduced by the value of such distribution applicable to one share of Common Shares (such value to be determined in good faith by the Corporation's Board of Directors) and the denominator of which is such Conversion Price.

                (c)   In the event an Adjustment is made by the Corporation, the Corporation shall notify each holder of Series A Preferred Stock as soon as is commercially practicable and, if deemed necessary, shall explain briefly to each holder the Adjustment procedure and the reason for the Adjustment.

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        9.      Vote to Change the Terms of Series A Preferred Shares.     The approval of the Board of Directors and the affirmative vote at a meeting duly called by the Board of Directors for such purpose (or the written consent without a meeting) of the holders of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the then outstanding Series A Preferred Stock shall be required to either (i) amend, alter, change or repeal any of the powers, designations, preferences and rights of the Series A Preferred Stock or (ii) for a period of one year after the date this certificate is filed with the California Secretary of State, authorize or issue a class of equity securities or convertible debt ranking senior in liquidation preference, dividends, or distribution of assess to the Series A Preferred Stock.

        10.      Notices.     All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon delivery to the party to be notified in person or upon delivery by courier service or upon delivery after deposit with the United States mail, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or upon receipt by the party of a facsimile copy, addressed (a) if to a holder of Series A Preferred Stock, at such address of such holder of Series A Preferred Stock set forth in Exhibit A, or at such other address as such holder of Series A Preferred Stock shall have furnished to Sigma Deigns, Inc. in writing, or (b) if to any other holder of any Shares, at such address as such holder shall have furnished Sigma Designs, Inc. in writing, or, until any such holder so furnishes an address to Sigma Designs, Inc. then to and at the address of the last holder of such Shares who has so furnished an address to Sigma Designs, Inc. or (c) if to Sigma Designs, Inc. one copy should be sent to Sigma Designs, Inc., 46501 Landing Parkway, Fremont, California 94538 and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address as Sigma Designs, Inc. shall have furnished to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock."

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Exhibit A

SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.
CONVERSION NOTICE
AT THE ELECTION OF HOLDER

(To be Executed by the Registered Holder
in order to Convert shares of Preferred Stock)

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to convert the number of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock indicated below, into shares of Common Stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), of Sigma Designs, Inc. (the "Corporation") according to the conditions hereof, or, if applicable, its preference for the Cash Equivalent, as of the date written below. If shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates and opinions as reasonably requested by the Corporation in accordance therewith. No fee will be charged to the Holder for any conversion, except for such transfer taxes, if any.

Conversion calculations:

   
Date to Effect Conversion

 

 

Holder to indicate one Conversion Preference:

 

 

o

Shares

 

 

o

Cash Equivalent

 

 


Number of Shares of Preferred Stock to be Converted

 

 


Applicable Conversion Price

 

 


Signature

 

 


Name:

 

 


Address:

The Company undertakes within twenty-four (24) hours of its receipt, whether by facsimile or other means provided for in Section 10 of the Certificate of Determination, of this conversion notice (and, in any case prior to the time it effects the conversion requested hereby), to notify the converting holder of its choice, where applicable, of the means of conversion.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned each declares under penalty of perjury that the matters set out in the foregoing certificate are true of his own knowledge, and the undersigned have executed this certificate at Fremont, California as of the 13th day of June, 1997.


 

 

/s/ THINH Q. TRAN

Thinh Q. Tran
President

 

 

/s/ KIT TSUI

Kit Tsui
Secretary

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Exhibit 3.4

CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION OF
PREFERENCES OF SERIES B CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

        The undersigned, Thinh Q. Tran and Kit Tsui, hereby certify that:

        1.     They are the duly elected President and Secretary, respectively, of Sigma Designs, Inc., a California corporation (the "Corporation").

        2.     The Corporation hereby designates Five Thousand (5,000) shares of Series B Preferred Stock.

        3.     None of the shares of the Series B Preferred Stock have been issued.

        4.     Pursuant to authority given by the Corporation's Second Restated Articles of Incorporation, the Board of Directors of the Corporation has duly adopted the following recitals and resolutions.

         WHEREAS , the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation provide for a class of shares known as Preferred Shares, issuable from time to time in one or more series; and

         WHEREAS , the Board of Directors of the Corporation is authorized within the limitations and restrictions stated in the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation to determine or alter the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions granted to or imposed on any wholly unissued series of Preferred Shares, to fix the number of shares constituting any such series, and to determine the designation thereof, or any of them; and

         WHEREAS , the Corporation has previously issued Forty-Five Thousand (45,000) shares of Preferred Stock designated as Series A Preferred Stock and the Board of Directors of this Corporation desires to determine the rights, preferences, privileges, restrictions relating to this new series of Preferred Stock, and the number of shares constituting said Series and the designation of said series;

         NOW, THEREFORE BE IT

         RESOLVED:     That the Secretary of this Corporation are each authorized to execute, verify and file a certificate of determination of preferences with respect to the Series B Preferred Stock in accordance with the laws of the State of California.

         RESOLVED FURTHER:     That the Board of Directors hereby determines the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions relating to said initial Series of Preferred Stock shall be as set forth below:

        "A.   Five thousand of the authorized shares of Preferred Stock of the Corporation, none of which have been issued or are outstanding, are hereby designated "Series B Convertible Preferred Stock" (the "Series B Preferred Stock").

        B.    The rights, preferences, privileges, restrictions and other matters relating to the Series A Preferred Stock are as follows:

                1.      Rank.     The Series B Preferred Stock shall rank (i) prior to the Corporation's common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Stock"); (ii) prior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created (unless, with the consent of the holders of Series B Preferred Stock obtained in accordance with Section 8 hereof, such class or series of capital stock specifically, by its terms, ranks senior to the Series B Preferred Stock) (collectively, with the Common Stock, "Junior Securities"); (iii)  pari   passu with the Series A Preferred Stock and any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking, by its terms, on parity with the Series B Preferred Stock (" Pari   Passu   Securities "); and (iv) junior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created (with the consent of the holders of Series B Preferred Stock obtained in accordance with Section 8 hereof) specifically ranking, by its terms, senior to the Series B Preferred Stock ("Senior Securities") in each case as to distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary.

                2.      Dividends Rights.     The Series B Preferred Stock shall not bear any dividends. In no event, so long as any Series B Preferred Stock shall remain outstanding, shall any dividend whatsoever be declared or paid upon, nor shall any distribution be made upon, any Junior Securities, nor shall any shares of Junior Securities be purchased or redeemed by the Corporation nor shall any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the purchase or redemption of any Junior Securities (other than a distribution of Junior Securities), without, in each such case, the written consent of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock, voting together as a class. The stated value of the Series B Preferred Stock shall be one Thousand Dollars ($1,000) per share (the "Stated Value").



                3.      Voting Rights.     

                        (a)    The holders of the Series B Preferred Stock have no voting power whatsoever, except as otherwise provided by the California General Corporation Law ("CAGCL"), in this Season 3, and in Section 8 below.

                        (b)    Notwithstanding the above, the Corporation shall provide each holder of Series B Preferred Stock with prior notification of any meeting of the shareholders (and copies of proxy materials and other information sent to shareholders). In the event of any taking by the Corporation of a record of its shareholders for the purpose of determining shareholders who are entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, any right to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire (including by way of merger, consolidation or recapitalization) any share of any class or any other securities or property, or to receive any other right, or for the purpose of determining shareholders who are entitled to vote in connection with any proposed sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation, or any proposed liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the Corporation shall mail a notice to each holder, at least ten (10) days prior to the record date specified therein (or thirty (30) days prior to the consummation of the transaction or event, whichever is earlier), of the date on which any such record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, right or other event, and a brief statement regarding the amount and character of such dividend, distribution, right or other event to the extent known at such time.

                        (c)    To the extent that under the CAGCL the vote of the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class or series as applicable, is required to authorize a given action of the Corporation, the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least a majority of the shares of the Series B Preferred Stock represented at a duly held meeting at which a quorum is present or by written consent of a majority of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock (except as otherwise may be required under the CAGCL) shall constitute the approval of such action by the class. To the extent that under the CAGCL holders of the Series B Preferred Stock are entitled to vote on a matter with holders of Common Stock, voting together as one class, each share of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of shares of Common Stock into which it is then convertible using the record date for the taking of such vote of shareholders as the date as of which the Conversion Price is calculated. Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to notice of all shareholder meetings or written consents (and copies of proxy materials and other information sent to shareholders) with respect to which they would be entitled to vote, which notice would be provided pursuant to the Corporation's bylaws and the CAGCL.

                4.      Liquidation Preference, Dissolution or Winding Up.     

                        (a)    If the Corporation shall commence a voluntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws or any other applicable Federal of State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, or consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any law or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Corporation or of any substantial part of its property, or make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or if a decree or order for relief in respect of the Corporation shall be entered by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in an involuntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law resulting in the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Corporation or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and any such decree or order shall be unstayed and in effect for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days and, on account of any such event, the Corporation shall liquidate, dissolve or wind up, or if the Corporation shall otherwise liquidate, dissolve or wind up (each such event being considered a "Liquidation Event"), no distribution shall be made to the holders of any shares of capital stock of the Corporation (other than Senior Securities) upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series B Preferred Stock, subject to Section 6, shall have received the Liquidation Preference (as defined in Section 4(c)) with respect to each share. If upon the occurrence of a Liquidation Event, the assets and funds available for distribution among the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock and holders of Pari   Passu Securities shall be insufficient to permit the payment to such holders of the preferential amounts payable thereon, then the entire assets and funds of the Corporation legally

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available for distribution to the Series B Preferred Stock and the Pari   Passu Securities shall be distributed ratably among such shares in proportion to the ratio that the Liquidation Preference payable on each such share bears to the aggregate liquidation preference payable on all such shares.

                        (b)    So long as no shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outstanding, at the option of any holder of Series B Preferred Stock, (i) the sale, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation, (ii) the effectuation by the Corporation of a transaction or series of related transactions in which more than 50% of the voting power of the Corporation is disposed of, or (iii) the consolidation, merger, or other business combination of the Corporation with or into any other Person (as defined below) as Persons in which the Corporation is not the survivor, shall either: (x) be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation pursuant to which the Corporation shall be required to distribute upon consummation of such transmittal an amount equal to 115% of the Liquidation Preference with respect to each outstanding share of Series B Preferred Stock in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Section 4 or (y) be treated pursuant to Section 6(e)(ii) below; provided , however , that no such distribution pursuant to clause (x) above will be available and such event will be required to be treated pursuant to clause (y) above, where (i) the Company undertakes such an event and plans to account for such event as a "pooling of interests" in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; and (ii) the value of the distribution that would have been received pursuant to clause (x) above would be less than the value of the Common Stock that would be received upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 6 below (treating the Trading Day (as defined in Section 6(d)) immediately preceding the date of such distribution as the "Conversion Date" (as defined in Section 6(d)(i)). "Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity or organization.

                        (c)    For purposes hereof, the "Liquidation Preference" with respect to a share of the Series B Preferred Stock shall mean an amount equal to the sum of (i) Stated Value thereof, plus (ii) an amount equal to three percent (3%) per annum of such Stated Value for the period beginning on the data of issuance of such share and ending on the date of final distribution to the holder thereof (pro rated for any portion of such period). The liquidation preference with respect to any Pari   Passu Securities shall be as set forth in the Certificate of Determination filed in respect thereof.

                5.      Redemption.     

                        (a)    If any of the following events (each, a "Mandatory Redemption Event") shall occur:

                                (i)    The Corporation fails to issue shares of Common Stock to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock upon exercise by the holders of their conversion rights in accordance with the terms of this Certificate of Determination (for a period of at least sixty (60) days if such failure is solely as a result of the circumstances governed by the second paragraph of Section 6(g) below and the Corporation is using all commercially reasonable efforts to authorize a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock as soon as practicable), fails to transfer or to cause its transfer agent to transfer (electronically or in certificated form) any certificate for shares of Common Stock issued to the holders upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock as and when required by this Certificate of Determination or the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 30, 1998, by and among the Corporation and the other signatories thereto (the "Registration Rights Agreement"), fails to remove any restrictive legend (or to withdraw any stop transfer instructions in respect thereof) on any certificate or any shares of Common Stock issued to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock as and when required by this Certificate of Determination, the Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of January 30, 1998, by and between the Corporation and the other signatories thereto (the "Purchase Agreement") or the Registration Rights Agreement, or fails to fulfill its obligations pursuant to Sections 4(c), 4(e), 4(h), 4(j) or 5 of the Purchase Agreement (or makes any announcement, statement or threat that it does not intend to honor the obligations described in this paragraph) and any such failure shall continue uncured (or any announcement, statement or threat not to honor its obligations shall not be rescinded in writing) for ten (10) business days;

                                (ii)    The Corporation fails to obtain effectiveness with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") of the Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) prior to July 31, 1998 or such Registration Statement lapses in effect (or sales otherwise

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cannot be made thereunder, whether by reason of the Company's failure to amend or supplement the prospectus included therein, in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise for more than forty-five (45) consecutive days or sixty (60) days to any twelve (12) month period after such Registration Statement becomes effective; or

                                (iii)    The Corporation shall fail to maintain the listing of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market ("Nasdaq"), the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange and such failure shall remain uncured for at least ten (10) days;

then, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of any Mandatory Redemption Event at the option of the holders of a majority of the then outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock by written notice (the "Series B Shareholder Notice") to the corporation of such Mandatory Redemption Event, so long as no share of Series A Preferred Stock is outstanding, the Corporation shall purchase each holder's shares of Series B Preferred Stock for an amount per share equal to the greater of (1) 115% multiplied by the Stated Value of the shares to be redeemed, and (2) the "parity value" of the shares to be redeemed, where parity value means the product of (a) the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such shares in accordance with Section 6 below (without giving any effect to any limitations on conversion of shares set forth in Sections 6(a) or 6(b) below, and treating the Trading Day (as defined in Section 6(d)) immediately preceding the date of payment of Mandatory Redemption Amount (the "Mandatory Redemption Date") as the "Conversion Date" (as defined in Section 6(d)(i)) unless the Mandatory Redemption Event arises as a result of a breach in respect of a specific Conversion Date in which case such Conversion Date shall be the Conversion Date), multiplied by (b) the Closing Price (as defined in Section 6(d) for the Common Stock on such "Conversion Date" (the greater of such amounts being referred to as the "Mandatory Redemption Amount"). The Mandatory Redemption Amount payable to any holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall be reduced, dollar for dollar, by any Conversion Default Payments previously paid to such holder pursuant to Sections 6(f)(ii) and 6(g) and any payments previously paid to such holder pursuant to Section 2(c) of the Registration Rights Agreement.

                        If a Series B Shareholder Notice is sent to the Corporation while any share of Series A Preferred Stock is outstanding, in lieu of paying the Mandatory Redemption Amount, (i) the Conversion Amount (as defined to Section 6(a)) shall equal the sum of the Stated Value plus the Premium Amount (as defined in Section 6(a)) and (ii) the Applicable Percentage (as defined in Section 6(d)) shall be reduced in accordance with the proviso set forth in the definition of Applicable Percentage.

                        In the case of a Mandatory Redemption Event, if the Corporation fails to pay the Mandatory Redemption Amount for each share within five (5) business days of written notice that such amount is due and payable, then (assuming there are sufficient authorized shares) in addition to all other available remedies, each holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall have the right at any time, so long as the Mandatory Redemption Event continues, to require the Corporation, upon written notice, to immediately issue (in accordance with and subject to the terms of Section 6 below), in lieu of the Mandatory Redemption Amount, with respect to each outstanding share of Series B Preferred Stock held by such holder, the number of shares of Common Stock of the Corporation equal to the Mandatory Redemption Amount divided by the Conversion Price then in effect.

                        (b)    If the Series B Preferred Stock ceases to be convertible as a result of the limitations described in Section 6(c) below (a "19.99% Redemption Event"), and the Corporation has not prior to, or within thirty (30) days of, the date that such 19.99% Redemption Event arises, (i) obtained approval of the issuance of the additional shares of Common Stock by the requisite vote of the holders of the then-outstanding Common Stock (not including any shares of Common Stock held by present or former holders of Series B Preferred Stock that were issued upon conversion of Series B Preferred Stock) or (ii) received other permission pursuant to Nasdaq Requirement 4460(i) allowing the Corporation to resume issuances of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Series B Preferred Stock or the Corporation's Common Stock is not then listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market or an exchange or quotation system that has a rule substantially similar to Rule 4460(i) of The Nasdaq Stock Market, then the Corporation shall obligated to redeem, out of the Corporation's funds legally available therefor, immediately all of the then outstanding Series B Preferred Stock, in accordance with this Section 5(b). An irrevocable Redemption Notice shall be delivered promptly to the holders of Series B Preferred

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Stock at their registered address appearing on the records of the Corporation and shall state (1) that 19.99% of the Outstanding Common Amount (as defined in Section 6(d)) has been issued upon exercise of the Series B Preferred Stock, (2) that the Corporation is obligated to redeem all of the outstanding Series B Preferred Stock and (3) the Mandatory Redemption Date, which shall be a date within ten (10) business days of the date of the Redemption Notice. On the Mandatory Redemption Date, the Corporation shall make payment of the Mandatory Redemption Amount (as defined in Section 5(a) above) in cash.

                        (c)    At any time after July 31, 1998 (the "First Optional Redemption Date"), notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 5, so long as (i) no Mandatory Redemption Event shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) the Registration Statement is then in effect and has been in effect and sales can be made thereunder for at least twenty (20) days prior to the Optional Redemption Date (as defined below) and (iii) the Closing Bid Date (as defined in Section 6(b)) of the Common Stock, is greater than 150% of Fixed Conversion Price (as defined in Section 6(d)(i)) for any twenty (20) consecutive Trading Days (as defined below), the Corporation shall have the right, exercisable on not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock (which notice may not be sent to holders of the Series B Preferred Stock prior to the First Optional Redemption Date), to redeem the outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock in accordance with this Section 5(c). The First Optional Redemption Date shall be delayed by one (1) Trading Day each for each Trading Day occurring prior thereto and prior to the full conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock that (i) sales cannot be made pursuant to the Registration Statement (whether by reason of the Company's failure to properly supplement or amend the prospectus included therein in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise) or (ii) any Mandatory Redemption Event (as defined in Section 5(a)) exists, without regard to whether any cure periods shall have run. Any notice of redemption hereunder (an "Optional Redemption") shall be delivered to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock at their registered addresses appearing on the books and records of the Corporation and shall state (1) that the Corporation is exercising its right to redeem the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock issued on the date of issuance of such shares (the "Issue Date") set forth in such notice and (2) the date of redemption (the Optional Redemption Notice"). On the date fixed for redemption (the "Optional Redemption Date"), the Corporation shall make payment of the Optional Redemption Amount (as defined below) to or upon the order of the holders as specified by the holders in writing to the Corporation at least one (1) business day prior to the Optional Redemption Date. If the Corporation exercises its right to redeem the Series B Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall make payment to the holders of an amount in cash (the "Optional Redemption Amount") equal to 100% multiplied by the Stated Value of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock to be redeemed for each share of Series B Preferred Stock then held. Notwithstanding notice of an Optional Redemption, the holders shall at all times prior to the Optional Redemption Date maintain the right to convert all or any shares of Series B Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 6 and any shares of Series B Preferred Stock so converted after receipt of an Optional Redemption Notice and prior to the Optional Redemption Date set forth in such notice and payment of the aggregate Optional Redemption Amount shall be deducted from the shares of Series B Preferred Stock which are otherwise subject to redemption pursuant to such notice. "Trading Day" shall mean any day on which the Common Stock is traded for any period on Nasdaq, or on the principal securities exchange or other securities market on which the Common Stock is then being traded.

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                        (d)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 6 below, subject to the terms of this Section 5(d), if the Closing Price (as defined below) of the Common Stock is below 70% of the Fixed Conversion Price (as defined in Section 6(d)(i)) on any day a Notice of Conversion (as defined in Section 6(f) below) is given, the Corporation shall have the option, in lieu of issuing shares of Common Stock to the holders upon conversion in accordance with the terms of Section (f) below, to redeem all or any portion of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock submitted for conversion for an amount in cash equal to the number of shares of Common Stock that would have otherwise been issued upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock at the applicable Conversion Price (as defined in Section 6(d)) multiplied by the Redemption Market Price (as defined herein). "Redemption Market Price" shall be equal to the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Conversion Date. "Closing Price," as of any date, means the last sale price of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market as reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets or an equivalent, reliable reporting service mutually acceptable to and hereafter designated by the holders of a majority in interest of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock and the Corporation ("Bloomberg") or, if The Nasdaq National Market is not the principal trading market for such security, the last sale price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do not apply, the last sale price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg. or, if no last sale price of such security or in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security in any of the foregoing manners, the average of the bid prices of any market makers for such or security as reported in the "pink sheets" by the National Quotation Bureau, Inc. If the Closing Price cannot be calculated for such security on such date in the manner provided above, the Closing Price shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Corporation and the holders of a majority in interest of shares of Series B Preferred Stock being converted for which the calculation of the Closing Price is required in order to determine the Conversion Price of such Series B Preferred Stock. From time to time following the Issue Date, the holders may request advance notice as to whether the Corporation will issue shares of Common Stock, deliver cash in redemption or any combination thereof in respect of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock submitted for conversion pursuant to Section 6. Such request shall be made in writing and the Corporation shall respond in writing as promptly as practicable but within two (2) business days of receipt of the request. The Corporation will be bound by such response for a period of twenty (20) Trading Days from the date of its response. A failure to respond within two (2) business days shall be deemed to be an election to issue Common Stock on conversion. Any redemption amounts payable hereunder shall be paid to the converting holder within two (2) Trading Days of the Conversion Date.

                6.      Conversion at the Option of the Holder.     

                        (a)    Subject to the conversion schedule set forth in Section 6(b)(i) below, each holder of shares of Series B Preferred Stock may, at its option at any time and from time to time, upon surrender of the certificates therefor, convert any or all of its shares of Series B Preferred Stock into Common Stock as follows (an "Optional Conversions"). Each share of Series B Preferred Stock shall be convertible into such number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock as is determined by dividing (1) the Conversion Amount (as defined below), by (2) the then effective Conversion Price (as defined below); provided , however , that, unless the holder delivers a waiver in accordance with the immediately following sentence, in no event (other than pursuant to the Automatic Conversion (as defined herein)) shall a holder of shares of Series B Preferred Stock be entitled to convert any such shares in excess of that number of shares upon conversion of which the sum of (x) the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the holder and its affiliates (other than shares of Common Stock which may be deemed beneficially owned through the ownership of the unconverted portion of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock) and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock with respect to which the determination of this proviso is being made, would result in beneficial ownership by a holder

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and such holder's affiliates of more than 4.9% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock. For purposes of the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence, (i) beneficial ownership shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Regulation 13D-G thereunder, except as otherwise provided in clause (x) of such proviso and (ii) a holder may waive the limitations set forth therein by written notice to the Corporation upon not less than sixty-one (61) days prior written notice (with such waiver taking effect only upon the expiration of such sixty-one (61) day notice period). The "Conversion Amount" shall equal the Stated Value; provided , however , that if a Mandatory Redemption Notice is sent while any share of Series A Preferred Stock is outstanding, the Conversion Amount shall equal the sum of (a) the stated Value, plus (b) the Premium Amount where the "Premium Amount" means the product of the Stated Value, multiplied by .08, multiplied by (N/365) wham "N" equals the number of days elapsed from the Issue Date to and including the date the last Mandatory Redemption Event ceased to occur prior to the Conversion Date (as defined below) or, if a Mandatory Redemption Event is continuing on the Conversion Date, the Conversion Date.

                        (b)     Limitations on Conversion.

                                (i)    Each holder of shares of Series B Preferred Stock may convert only up to that percentage of the aggregated Stated Value of all shares of Series B Preferred Stock received by such holder on the Issue Date specified below during the time period set forth opposite such percentage.

Percentage
  Time Period

0%   1-180 days following the Issue Date
33.3%   181-210 days following the Issue Date
66.6%   211-240 days following the Issue Date
100%   241 days following the Issue Date

provided , however , that the restrictions on conversion set forth above shall not apply, to conversions taking place on any Conversion Date (as defined below) (i) after April 30, 1998, if on the Conversion Date the Closing Price of the Common Stock is greater than or equal to (a) the Fixed Conversion Price (as defined in Section 6(d)(i)) or (b) 120% times the then applicable Market Price (as defined in Section 6(d)(i)) or (ii) on or after the date the Corporation makes a public announcement that it intends to merge or consolidate with any other corporation or sell or transfer substantially all of the assets of the Corporation or (iii) on or after the date any person, group or entity (including the Corporation) publicly announces a tender offer to purchase 50% or more of the Corporation's Common Stock or otherwise publicly announces an intention to replace a majority of the Corporation's Board of Directors by waging a proxy battle or otherwise.

                                (ii)    In addition to the limitation set forth in Section 6(b)(i) above, and notwithstanding anything else contained herein to the contrary, the Company may prohibit holders of shares of Series B Preferred Stock from converting any shares of Series B Preferred Stock (the "Conversion, Limitation") for a period of thirty (30) calendar days (the "Conversion Limitation Period"), provided that the Company provides each holder of the Series B Preferred Stock with at least ten (10) Trading Days prior written notice of its intent to exercise the Conversion Limitation. The Company shall have the right to exercise a Conversion Limitation only one time, and upon the exercise of the Conversion Limitation, the Fixed Conversion Price for all conversions effected after the exercise of the Conversion Limitation shall equal the lesser of (i) 110% times the average of the Closing Bid Prices (as defined below) for the Common Stock for the five (5) Trading Days ending on the last day of the Conversion Limitation Period and (ii) 150% of the average of the Closing Bid Prices for the Common Stock for the five (5) Trading Days ending February 27, 1998. "Closing Bid Price" means, for any security as of any date, the closing bid price on The Nasdaq National Market as reported by Bloomberg or, if The Nasdaq National Market is not the principal trading market for such security, the closing bid price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such

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security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or if the forgoing do not apply, the closing bid price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no closing bid price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security or in any of the foregoing manners, the average of the bid prices of any market makers for such security or as reported in to "pink sheets" by the National Quotation Bureau, Inc. If the Closing Bid Price cannot be calculated for such security on such date in the manner provided above, the Closing Bid Price shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Corporation and the holders of a majority in interest of shares of Series B Preferred Stock being converted for which the calculation of the Trade Price is required in order to determine the Conversion Price of such Series B Preferred Stock.

                        (c)    So long as the Common Stock is listed for trading on Nasdaq or an exchange or quotation system that has a rule substantially similar to Rule 4460(i) then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein if, at any time, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock then issued upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stack (including any shares of capital stock or rights to acquire shares of capital stock issued by the Corporation which are aggregated or integrated with the Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock for purposes of such rule described below) equals 19.99% of the "Outstanding Common Amount" (as hereinafter defined), the Series B Preferred Stock shall, from that time forward, cease to be convertible into Common Stock in accordance with the terms of this Section 6(a) and Section 7 below, unless the Corporation (i) has obtained approval of the issuance of the Common Stock upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock by a majority of the total votes cast on such proposal, in person or by proxy, by the holders of the then-outstanding Common Stock (not including any shares of Common Stock held by present or former holders of Series B Preferred Stock that were issued upon conversion of Series B Preferred Stock), or (ii) shall have otherwise obtained permission to allow such issuances from Nasdaq in accordance with Nasdaq Requirement 4460(i) or the Corporation's Common Stock is not then listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market or an exchange or quotation system that has a rule substantially similar to Rule 4460(i) of The Nasdaq Stock Market. For purposes of this paragraph, "Outstanding Common Amount" means (i) the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of the Series B Preferred Stock pursuant to the Purchase Agreement plus (ii) any additional shares of Common Stock issued thereafter in respect of such shares pursuant to a stock dividend, stock split or similar event. The maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable as a result of the 19.99% limitation set forth herein is hereinafter referred to as the "Maximum Share Amount." With respect to each holder of Series B Preferred Stock, the Maximum Share Amount shall refer to such holder's pro rata share thereof determined in accordance with Section 9 below. In the event that Corporation obtains Stockholder Approval or the approval of The Nasdaq Stock Market, by reason of the inapplicability of the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market or otherwise and concludes that it is able to increase the number of shares to be issued above the Maximum Share Amount (such increased number being the "New Maximum Share Amount"), the references to Maximum Share Amount, above, shall be deemed to be, instead, references to the greater New Maximum Share Amount. In the event that Stockholder Approval is not obtained, there are insufficient reserved or authorized shares or a registration statement covering the additional shares of Common Stock which constitute the New Maximum Share Amount is not effective prior to the Maximum Share Amount being issued (if such registration statement is necessary to allow for the public resale of such securities), the Maximum Share Amount shall remain unchanged; provided , however , that the Holder may grant an extension to obtain a sufficient reserved or authorized amount of shares or of the effective date of such registration statement. In the event that (a) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the outstanding Series B Preferred Stock represents at least twenty percent (20%) of the Maximum Share Amount and (b) the sum of (x) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Series B Preferred stock plus (y) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that remain issuable upon conversion of Series B Preferred Stock, represents at least one hundred percent

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(100%) of the Maximum Share Amount (the "Triggering Event"), the Corporation will use its best efforts to seek and obtain Stockholder Approval (or obtain such other relief as will allow conversions hereunder in excess of the Maximum Share Amount) as soon as practicable following the Triggering Event and before the Mandatory Redemption Date.

                        (d)     Conversion Price.     (i) Subject to subparagraph (ii) below, the "Conversion Price" shall be the lesser of the Market Price (as defined here) and the Fixed Conversion Price (as defined herein), subject to adjustments pursuant to the provisions of Section 6(e) below. Prior to the determination of the Fixed Conversion Price, the Conversion Price shall be the Market Price. "Market Price" shall mean the Applicable Percentage (as defined below) times the average of the lowest six (6) daily Trade Prices of the Common Stock, during the twenty (20) Trading Day period ending one (1) Trading Day prior to the date (the "Conversion Date") the Conversion Notice is sent by a holder to the Corporation via facsimile (the "Pricing Period"). "Fixed Conversion Price" shall mean 150% of the average Closing Bid Prices for the five (5) Trading Days ending February 27, 1998. "Trade Price" means, for any security as of any date, the trade price on the Nasdaq National Market as reported by Bloomberg or, if The Nasdaq National Market is not the principal trading market for such security, the trade price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do not apply, the trade price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no trade price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security or in any of the foregoing manners, the bid price of any market makers for such security as reported in the "pink sheets" by the National quotation Bureau, Inc. If the Trade Price cannot be calculated for such security on such date in the manner provided above, the Trade Price shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Corporation and the holders of a majority in interest of shares of Series B Preferred Stock being converted for which the calculation of the Trade Price is required in order to determine the Conversion Price of such Series B Preferred Stock "Applicable Percentage" shall mean 100%; provided , however , that if, while any share of Series A Preferred Stock is outstanding, (a) there is a Mandatory Redemption Event described in Paragraphs 5(a)(i) and 5(a)(ii), the Applicable Percentage shall be permanently reduced to 80% and (b) there is a Mandatory Redemption Event described in paragraph 5(a)(iii) and the Applicable Percentage at such time equals 100%, the Applicable Percentage shall be permanently reduced to 90%, subject to adjustment pursuant to clause (a) of this proviso.

                                (ii)     Notwithstanding anything contained in subparagraph (i) of this Paragraph (d) to the contrary, in the event the Corporation (i) makes a public announcement that it intends to consolidate or merge with any other corporation (other than a merger in which the Corporation is the surviving or continuing corporation and its capital stock is unchanged) or sell or transfer all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation or (ii) any person, group or entity (including the Corporation) publicly announces a tender offer to purchase 50% or more of the Corporation's Common Stock or otherwise publicly announces an intention to replace a majority of the corporation's Board of Directors by waging a proxy battle or otherwise (the date of the announcement referred to in clause (i) or (ii) is hereinafter referred to as the "Announcement Date"), then the Conversion Price shall, effective upon the Announcement Date and continuing through the Adjusted Conversion Price Termination Date (as defined below), be equal to lower of (x) the Conversion Price which would have been applicable for an Optional Conversion occurring on the Announcement Date and (y) the Conversion Price that would otherwise be in effect. From and after the Adjusted Conversion Price Termination Date, the Conversion Price shall be determined as set forth in subparagraph (i) of this Section 6(d). For purposes hereof, "Adjusted Conversion Price Termination Date" shall mean the earlier of (x) one hundred twenty (120) days from the Announcement Date or (y) with respect to any proposed transaction, tender offer or removal of the majority of the Board of Directors which a public announcement as contemplated by this subparagraph (ii) has been made, the date upon which the Corporation (in the case of clause (i) above) or the person, group or entity (in the case of clause (ii)

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above) publicly announces the termination or abandonment of the proposed transaction or tender offer which caused this subparagraph (ii) to become operative.

                        (e)     Adjustments to Conversion Price.     The Conversion Price shall be subject to adjustments from time to time as follows:

                                (i)     Adjustments to Conversion Price Due to Stock Split, Stock Dividend, Etc.     If any time when Series B Preferred Stock is issued and outstanding, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased or decreased by a stock split, stock dividend, combination, reclassification, rights offering below the Average Trading Price (as defined below) to all holders of Common Stock or other similar event, which event shall have taken place during the reference period of determination of the Conversion Price for any Optional Conversion or Automatic Conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock, then the Conversion Price shall be calculated giving appropriate effect to the stock split, stock dividend, combination, reclassification or other similar event. In such event, the Corporation shall notify the Transfer Agent of such change on or before the effective date thereof. "Average Trading Price," which shall be measured as of the record date in respect of the rights offering means (i) the average of the last reported sale prices for the shares of Common Stock on Nasdaq as reported by Bloomberg, as applicable, for the five (5) Trading Days immediately preceding such date, or (ii) if Nasdaq is not the principal trading market for the shares of Common Stock, the average of the last reported sale prices on the principal trading market for the Common Stock during the same period as reported by Bloomberg, or (ii) if market value cannot be calculated as of such date or any of the foregoing bases, the Average Trading Price shall be the fair market value as reasonably determined in good faith by (a) the Board of Directors of the Corporation or, (b) at the option of a majority-in-interest of the holders of the outstanding Series B Preferred Stock by an independent investment bank of nationally recognized standing in the valuation of businesses similar to the business of the Corporation.

                                (ii)     Adjustment Due to Merger, Consolidation, Etc.     If, at any time when Series B Preferred Stock as issued and outstanding and prior to the conversion of all Series B Preferred Stock, there shall be any merger, consolidation, exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar event, as a result of which shares of Common Stock of the Corporation shall be changed into the same or a different number of shares of another class or classes of stock or securities of the Corporation or another entity, or in case of any sale of conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation other than in connection with a plan of complete liquidation of the Corporation, then the holders of Series B Preferred Stock shall thereafter have the right to receive upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock, upon the bases and upon the terms and conditions specified herein and in lieu of the shares of Common Stock immediately theretofore issuable upon conversion, such stock, securities or assets which the holders of Series B Preferred Stock would have been entitled to receive in such transaction had the Series B Preferred Stock been converted in full (without regard to any limitations on conversion contained herein) immediately prior to such transaction, and in any such case appropriate provisions shall be made with respect to the rights and interests of the holders of Series B Preferred Stock to the end that the provisions hereof (including, without limitation, provisions for adjustments of the Conversion Price and of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock) shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as may be practicable in relation to any securities or assets thereafter deliverable upon the conversion of Series B Preferred Stock. The Corporation shall not effect any transaction described in this subparagraph (ii) unless (a) it first gives, to the extent practical, thirty (30) days' prior written notice (but in any event at least ten (10) business days prior written notice) of such merger, consolidation, exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar event or sale of assets (during which time the holders of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to convert the Series B Preferred Stock) and (b) the resulting successor or acquiring entity (if not the Corporation)

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assumes by written instrument the obligations of this subparagraph (ii). The above provisions shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales, transfers or share exchanges.

                                (iii)     Other Securities Offerings.     If, at any time after the original date of issuance of the Series B Preferred Stock, the Corporation sells Common Stock or securities convertible into, or exchange for, Common Stock, other than (a) a sale pursuant to a bona fide firm commitment underwritten public offering of Common Stock by the Corporation (not including a continuous offering pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended), (b) the issuance of securities under any Company stock option, restricted stock option or employee stock purchase plan approved by a majority of the Company's disinterested directors or an incentive related distributions to employees approved by a majority of the Company's disinterested directors, (c) the issuance of securities in connection with equipment financing or (d) the issuance of securities in connection with any commercial bank financing (collectively, the "Other Common Stock"), then, if effective or maximum sales price of the Common Stock with respect to such transaction (including the effective or maximum conversion, or exchange price) ("Other Price") if less than the effective Conversion Price of the Series B Preferred Stock at such time and such Other Common Stock is eligible for resale prior to January 30, 1999, the Corporation shall adjust the Conversion Price applicable to the Series B Preferred Stock not yet converted in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock so that the Conversion Price applicable to the Series B Preferred Stock shall not, in any event, be greater, after giving effect to all other adjustments contained herein, than the Other Price.

                                (iv)     Adjustment Due to Distribution.     Subject to Section 2, if the Corporation shall declare or make any distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) to all holders of Common Stock as of a certain date or record as a dividend, stock repurchase, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including any dividend or distribution to the Corporation's shareholders in cash or shares (or rights to acquire shares) of capital stock of a subsidiary (i.e., a spin-off) (a "Distribution"), then the holders of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled, upon any conversion of shares of Series B Preferred Stock after such date of record for determining shareholders entitled to such Distribution, to receive the amount of such assets which would have been payable to the holder with respect to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion had such holder been the holder of such shares of Common Stock on the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to such Distribution.

                                (v)     Purchase Rights.     Subject to Section 2 if at any time when any Series B Preferred Stock is issued and outstanding, the Corporation issues any convertible securities or rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property (the "Purchase Rights") pro rata to the record holders of any class of Common Stock, then the holders of Series B Preferred Stock will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggressive Purchase Rights which such holder could have acquired if such holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock (without regard to any limitations on conversion contained herein) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights.

                                (vi)     Adjustment for Restricted Periods.     In the event that (1) the Corporation fails to obtain effectiveness with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) prior to ninety (90) days following the Issue Date, or (2) such Registration Statement lapses in effect, or sales otherwise cannot be made thereunder, whether by reason of the Corporation's failure or inability to amend or supplement the prospectus (the "Prospectus") included therein in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise, after such Registration Statement become effective, then the Pricing Period shall be comprised of, (i) in the case of an event described in clause (1), the twenty (20) Trading Days preceding the 90th day

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following the Issue Date plus all Trading Days through and including the third Trading Day following the date of effectiveness of the Registration Statement; and (ii) in the case of an event described in clause (2), the number of Trading Days preceding the date on which the holder of the Series B Preferred Stock is first notified that sales may not be made under the Prospectus that would otherwise then be included in the Pricing Period in accordance with the definition thereof set forth in Section 6(d)(i), plus all Trading Days through and including the third Trading Day following the date on which the Holder is first notified that such sales may again be made under the Prospectus. If a holder of Series B Preferred Stock determines that sales may not be made pursuant to the Prospectus (whether by reason of the Corporation's failure or inability to amend or supplement the Prospectus) it shall so notify the Corporation in writing and, unless the Corporation provides such holder with a written opinion of the Corporation's counsel to the contrary, such determination shall be binding for purposes of this paragraph.

                                (vii)     Notice of Adjustments.     Upon the occurrence of each adjustment or readjustment of the Conversion Price pursuant to this Section 6(e), the Corporation, at its expense, shall promptly compute such adjustment or readjustment and prepare and furnish to each holder of Series B Preferred Stock a certificate setting forth such adjustment or readjustment and showing in detail the facts upon which adjustment or readjustment is based. The Corporation shall, upon the written request at any time of any holder of Series B Preferred Stock, furnish to such holder a like confiscate setting forth (i) such adjustment or readjustment, (ii) the Conversion Price at the time in effect and (iii) the number of shares of Comma Stock and the amount, if any, of other securities or property which at the time would be received upon conversion of a share of Series B Preferred Stock.

                        (f)     Mechanics For Conversion.     In order to convert Series B Preferred Stock into full shares of Common Stock, a holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall: (i) submit a copy of the fully executed notice of conversion in the form attached hereto as it Exhibit A ("Notice of Conversion") to the Corporation by facsimile dispatched on the Conversion Date (or by other means resulting in notice to the Corporation on the Conversion Date) at the office of the Corporation or its designated Transfer Agent for the Series B Preferred Stock that the holder elects to convert the same, which notice shall specify the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock to be converted, the applicable Conversion Price and a calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion (together with a copy the first page of each certificate to be converted) prior to Midnight, New York City time (the "Conversion Notice Deadline") on the date of conversion specified on the Notice of Conversion and (ii) surrender the original certificates representing she Sales B Preferred Stock converted (the "Preferred Stock Certificates"), duly endorsed, along with a copy of the Notice of Conversion to the office of the Corporation or the Transfer Agent for the Series B Preferred Stock as soon as practicable thereafter. The Corporation shall not be obligated to issue certificates evidencing the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion, unless either the Preferred Stock Certificates are delivered to the Company or its Transfer Agent as provided above, or the holder notifies the Corporation or its Transfer Agent that such certificates have been lost, stolen or destroyed (subject to the requirement of subparagraph (i) below). In the case of a dispute as to the calculation of the Conversion Price, the Corporation shall promptly issue such number of shares of Common Stock that are not disputed in accordance with subparagraph (ii) below. The Corporation shall submit the disputed calculations to its outside accountant via facsimile within two (2) business days of receipt of the Notice of Conversion. The accountant shall audit the calculations and notify the Corporation and the holder of the resale no later than two (2) business days from the time it receives the disputed calculations. The accountant's calculation shall be deemed conclusive absent manifest error.

                                (i)     Lost or Stolen Certificates.     Upon receipt by the Corporation of evidence of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Preferred Stock Certificates representing shares of Series B Preferred Stock, and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) of indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation, and upon surrender and cancellation of the Preferred Stock Certificate(s), if

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mutilated, the Corporation shall execute and deliver new Preferred Stock Certificate(s) of like tenor and date.

                                (ii)     Delivery of Common Stock Upon Conversion.     Upon the surrender of certificates as described above together with a Notice of Conversion, the Corporation shall issue and, within three (3) business days after such surrender (or, the case of lost, stolen or destroyed certificates, after provision of agreement and indemnification pursuant to subparagraph (i) above) (the "Delivery Period), deliver (or cause its Transfer Agent to so issue and deliver) to or upon the order of the holder (i) that number of shares of Common Stock for the portion of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock converted as shall be determined in accordance herewith and (ii) a certificate representing the balance of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock not converted, if any. In addition to any other remedies available to the holder, including actual damages and/or equitable relief, the Corporation shall pay to a holder $1,000 per day to cash for each day beyond a two (2) day grace period following the Delivery Period that the Corporation fails to deliver Common Stock (a "Conversion Default") issuable upon surrender of shares of Series B Preferred Stock with a Notice of Conversion until such time as Corporation has delivered all such Common Stock (the "Conversion Default Payments"). Such cash amount shall be paid to such holder by the fifth day of the month following the month in which it has accrued or, at the option of the holder (by written notice to the Corporation by the first day of the month following the month in which it has accrued), shall be convertible into Common Stock in accordance with the terms of this Section 6. The maximum amount of damages payable by the Corporation to all holders of Series B Preferred Stock pursuant to this paragraph 6(f)(ii) shall be $10,000.

                                In lieu of delivering physical certificates representing the Common Stock issuable upon conversion, provided the Corporation's Transfer Agent is participating in the Depository Trust Company ("DTC") Fast Automated Securities Transfer ("FAST") program, upon request of the holder and its compliance with the provisions contained in Section 6(a)-(c) and in this Section 6(f), the Corporation shall use its best efforts to cause its Transfer Agent to electronically transmit the Common Stock issuable upon conversion to the holder by crediting the account of holder's Prime Broker with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission ("DWAC") system. The time periods for delivery and penalties described in the immediately preceding paragraph shall apply to the electronic transmittals described herein.

                                (iii)     No Fractional Shares.     If any conversion of Series B Preferred Stock would result in a fractional share of Common Stock or the right to acquire a fractional share of Common Stock, such fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon Conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock shall be the next higher number of shares.

                                (iv)     Conversion Date.     The "Conversion Date" shall be the date specified as the Notice of Conversion, provided that the Notice of Conversion is submitted by facsimile (or by other means resulting in notice) to the Corporation or its Transfer Agent before Midnight, New York City time, on the Conversion Date. The person or persons entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such securities as of the Conversion Date and all rights with respect to the shares of Series B Preferred Stock surrendered shall forthwith terminate except the right to receive the shares of Common Stock or other securities or property issuable on such conversion and except that the holder's preferential rights as a holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall survive to the extent the corporation fails to deliver such securities.

                        (g)     Reservation of Stock Issuable Upon Conversion.     A number of shares of the authorized but unissued Common Stock sufficient to provide for the conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock outstanding at the then current Conversion Price shall at all times be reserved by the Corporation, free from preemptive rights, for such conversion or exercise. As of the date of issuance of

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the Series B Preferred Stock, 3,300,000 authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock have been duly reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock (the "Reserved Amount"). The Reserved Amount shall be increased from time to time in accordance with the Company's obligations pursuant to Section 4(h) of the Purchase Agreements. In addition, if the Corporation shall issue any securities or make any change in its capital structure which would change the number of shares of Common Stock into which each share of the Series B Preferred Stock shall be convertible at the then current Conversion Price, the Corporation shall at the same time also make proper provision so that thereafter there shall be a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock authorized and reserved, free from preemptive rights, for conversion of the outstanding Series B Preferred Stock.

                If at any time a holder of shares of Series B Preferred Stock submits a Notice of Conversion, and the Corporation does not have sufficient authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock available to effect such conversion in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6 (a "Conversion Default"), the Corporation shall issue to the holder (or holders, if more than one holder submits a Notice of Conversion in respect of the same Conversion Date, pro rata based on the ratio that the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock then held by each such holder bears to the aggregate member of such shares held by such holders) all of the shares of Common Stock which are available to effect such conversion. The number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock included in the Notices of Conversion which exceeds the amount which is then convertible into available shares of Common Stock (the "Excess Amount") shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, not be convertible into Common Stock in accordance with the terms hereof until (and at the holder's option at any time after) the date additional shares of Common Stock are authorized by the Corporation to permit such conversion, at which time the Conversion Price in respect thereof shall be the lesser of (i) the Conversion Price on the Conversion Default Date (as defined below) and (ii) the Conversion Price on the Conversion Date elected by the holder in respect thereof. The Corporation shall use its best efforts to effect an increase in the authorized number of shares of Common Stock as soon as possible following a Conversion Default. In addition, the Corporation shall pay to the holder payments ("Conversion Default Payments") for a Conversion Default in the amount of (a) (N/365), multiplied by (b) the sum of the Stated Value plus the Premium Amount (if any) per share of Series B Preferred Stock through the Authorization Date (as defined below), multiplied by (c) the Excess Amount on the day the holder submits a Notice of Conversion giving rise to a Conversion Default (the "Conversion Default Date"), multiplied by (d) 20, where (i) N = the number of days from the Conversion Default Date to the date (the "Authorization Date") that the Corporation authorizes a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to effect conversion of the full number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock. The Corporation shall send notice to the holder of the authorization of additional shares of Common Stock, the Authorization Date and the amount of holder's accrued Conversion Default Payments. The accrued Conversion Default Payment for each calendar month shall be paid in cash or shall be convertible into Common Stock at the Conversion Price, at the holder's option, as follows:

                                (i)    In the event the holder elects to take such payment in cash, cash payment shall be made to holder by the fifth day of the month following the month in which it has accrued; and

                                (ii)    In the event the holder elects to take such payment in Common Stock, the holder may convert such payment amount into Common Stock at the Conversion Price (as in effect at the time of Conversion) at any time after the fifth day of the month following the month in which it has accrued in accordance with the terms of this Section 6 (so long as there is then a sufficient number of authorized shares).

                Nothing herein shall limit the holder's right to pursue actual damages for the Corporation's failure to maintain a sufficient number of authorized shares of Common Stock, and each holder shall have the right to pursue all remedies available at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief).

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                (h)    Upon the occurrence of each adjustment or readjustment of the Conversion Price pursuant to this Section 6, the Corporation, at its expense, shall promptly compute such adjustment or readjustment in accordance with the terms hereof and prepare and furnish to each holder of Series B Preferred Stock a certificate setting forth such adjustment or readjustment showing in detail the facts upon which such adjustment or readjustment is based. The Corporation shall, upon the written request at any time of any holder of Series B Preferred Stock, furnish or cause to be furnished to such holder a like certificate setting forth (i) such adjustment or readjustment, (ii) the Conversion Price at the time in effect and (iii) the number of shares of Common Stock and the amount, if any, of other securities or property which at the time would be received upon conversion of a share of Series B Preferred Stock.

                (i)     Status as Stockholder.     Upon submission of a Notice of Conversion by a holder of Series B Preferred Stock, (i) the shares covered thereby (other than the shares, if any, which cannot be issued because their issuance would exceed such holder's allocated portion of the Reserved Amount) shall be deemed converted into shares of Common Stock and (ii) the holder's rights as a holder of such converted shares of Series B Preferred Stock shall cease and terminate, excepting only the right to receive certificates for such shares of Common Stock and to any remedies provided herein or otherwise available at law or in equity to such holder because of a failure by the Corporation to comply with the terms of this Certificate of Determination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a holder has not received certificates for all shares of Common Stock prior to the tenth (10 th ) business day after the expiration of the Delivery Period with respect to a conversion of shares of Series B Preferred Stock for any reason, then (unless the holder otherwise elects to retain its status as a holder of Common Stock by so notifying the Corporation) the holder shall regain the rights of a holder of such shares of Series B Preferred Stock with respect to such shares of Series B Preferred Stock and the Corporation shall, as soon as practicable, return such unconverted shares of Series B Preferred Stock to the holder or, if such shares of Series B Preferred Stock have not been surrendered, adjust its records to reflect that such shares of Series B Preferred Stock have not been converted. In all cases, the holder shall retain all of its rights and remedies (including, without limitation, the right to receive Conversion Default Payments pursuant to Section 6(f) to the extent required thereby for such Conversion Default and any subsequent Conversion Default).

                7.      Automatic Conversion.     So long as the Registration Statement is effective and there is not then a continuing Mandatory Redemption Event, each share of Series B Preferred Stock issued and outstanding on January 30, 2000, subject to any adjustment as set forth below (the "Automatic Conversion Date"), automatically shall be converted into shares of Common Stock on such date at the then effective Conversion Price in accordance with, and subject to, the provisions of Section 6 hereof (the "Automatic Conversion"). The Automatic Conversion Date shall be delayed by one (1) Trading Day each for each Trading Day occurring prior thereto and prior to the full conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock that (i) sales cannot be made pursuant to the Registration Statement (whether by reason of the Company's failure to properly supplement or amend the prospectus included therein in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise) or (ii) any Mandatory Redemption Event (as defined in Section 5) exists, without regard to whether any cure periods shall have run. The Automatic Conversion Date shall be the Conversion Date for purposes of determining the Conversion Price and the time within which certificates representing the Common Stock must be delivered to the holder.

                8.      Protective Provisions.     So long as shares of Series B Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without first obtaining the approval (by vote or written consent, as provided by the CAGCL) of the holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock:

                (a)   alter or change the rights, preferences or privileges of the Series B Preferred Stock or any Senior Securities so as to affect adversely the Series B Preferred Stock;

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                (b)   create any new class or series of capital stock having a preference over the Series B Preferred Stock as to distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation (as previously defined in Section 1 hereof, "Senior Securities");

                (c)   increase the authorized number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock; or

                (d)   do any act or thing not authorized or contemplated by the Certificate of Determination which would result in taxation of the holders of shares of the Series B Preferred Stock under Section 305 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any comparable provision of the Internal Revenue Code as hereafter from time to time amended).

                In the event holders of at least at majority of the then outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock agree to allow the Corporation to alter or change the rights, preferences or privileges of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock, pursuant to subsection (a) above, so as to affect the Series B Preferred Stock, then the Corporation will deliver notice of such approved change to the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock that did not agree to such alteration or change (the "Dissenting Holders . ") and Dissenting Holders shall have the right for a period of thirty (30) days to convert pursuant to the terms of this Certificate of Determination is they exist prior to such alteration or change or continue to hold their shares of Series B Preferred Stock.

                9.      Pro Rata Allocations.     The Maximum Share Amount and the Reserved Amount (including any increases thereto) shall be allocated by the Corporation pro rata among the holders of Series B Preferred Stock based on the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock then held by each holder relative to the total aggregate number of shares of Sales B Preferred Stock then outstanding.

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned each declares under penalty of perjury that the matters set out in the foregoing certificate are true of his own knowledge, and the undersigned have executed this certificate at Fremont, California as of the 30 th day of January, 1998.


 

 

/s/ THINH Q. TRAN

Thinh Q. Tran
President

 

 

/s/ KIT TSUI

Kit Tsui
Secretary

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Exhibit A

NOTICE OF CONVERSION

(To be Executed by the Registered Holder
in order to Convert the Series B Preferred Stock)

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to convert             shares of Series B Preferred Stock. represented by stock certificate No(s)              (the "Preferred Stock Certificates") into shares of common stock ("Common Stock") of Sigma Designs, Inc. (the "Corporation") according to the conditions of the Certificate of Determination of Series B Preferred Stock, as of the date written below. If securities are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates. No fee will be charged to the Holder for any conversion, except for transfer taxes, if any. A copy of each Preferred Stock Certificate is attached hereto (or evidence of loss, theft or destruction thereof).

The undersigned represents and warrants that all offers and sales by the undersigned of the securities issuable to the undersigned upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock shall be made pursuant to registration of the securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Act.

If the undersigned does not wish to have the Common Stock delivered electronically by crediting the account of the undersigned's Prime Broker with the Depository Trust Company through its Deposit Withdrawal Agreement Conversion System, check here  o

   
Date of Conversion:

 

 


Applicable Conversion Price:

 

 


Number of Shares of Common Stock to be Issued:

 

 


Signature:

 

 


Name:

 

 


Address:

*The Corporation is not required to issue shares of Common Stock until the original Series B Preferred Stock Certificate(s) (or evidence of loss, theft or destruction thereof) to be converted are received by the Corporation or its Transfer Agent. The Corporation shall issue and deliver shares of Common Stock to an overnight courier not later than two (2) business days following receipt of the original Preferred Stock Certificate(s) to be converted, and shall make payments pursuant to the Certificate of Determination for the number of business days such issuance and delivery is late.

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Exhibit 3.5

CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION OF
PREFERENCES OF SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK OF
SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

        The undersigned, Thinh Q. Tran and Kit Tsui, hereby certify that:

        1.     They are the duly elected President and Secretary, respectively, of Sigma Designs, Inc., a California corporation (the "Corporation").

        2.     The Corporation hereby designates Three Thousand (3,000) shares of Series C Preferred Stock.

        3.     None of the shares of the Series C Preferred Stock have been issued.

        4.     Pursuant to authority given by the Corporation's Second Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, the Board of Directors of the Corporation has duly adopted the following recitals and resolutions:

         WHEREAS , the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended, provide for a class of shares known as Preferred Shares, issuable from time to time in one or more series; and

         WHEREAS , the Board of Directors of the Corporation is authorized within the limitations and restrictions stated in the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation to determine or alter the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions granted to or imposed on any wholly unissued series of Preferred Shares, to fix the number of shares constituting any such series, and to determine the designation thereof, or any of them; and

         WHEREAS , the Corporation has not issued any shares of Series C Preferred Stock and the Board of Directors of this Corporation desires to determine the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions relating to this series of Preferred Stock, and the number of shares constituting said Series C and the designation of said series;

         NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT

         RESOLVED:      That the President and the Secretary of this Corporation are each authorized to execute, verify and file a certificate of a determination of preferences with respect to the Series C Preferred Stock in accordance with the laws of the State of California.

         RESOLVED FURTHER:      That the Board of Directors hereby determines the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions relating to said Series of Preferred Stock shall be as set forth below:

        "A    Three thousand of the authorized shares of Preferred Stock of the Corporation, none of which have been issued or are outstanding, are hereby designated "Series C Convertible Preferred Stock" (the "Series C Preferred Stock").

        B.    The rights, preferences, privileges, restrictions and other matters relating to the Series C Preferred Stock are as follows:

                1.      Dividend Rights.     The holders of Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, but only out of funds that are legally available therefor, in cash upon the occurrence of an event described in Section 3 below, or quarterly in arrears, in cash or Common Stock of the Corporation, at the option of the Corporation, upon the conversion of the Preferred Stock described in Section 5 below (as to the number of shares of Preferred Stock so converted), dividends at the rate of eight percent (8%) of the "Original Issue Price" of the Series C Preferred Stock per annum, accruing daily on the basis of a 360-day year commencing with the issuance of such Series C Preferred Stock, on each outstanding share of Series C Preferred Stock. The Original Issue Price of the Series C Preferred Stock (as adjusted for any combination, consolidation, shares distributions or shares dividends with respect to such shares) shall be equal to $1,000.00 per share.



                2.      Voting Rights.     Except as otherwise provided by law, the holders of Series C Preferred Stock shall have no voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent required by law) for taking any corporate action.

                3.      Rank Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.     The Series C Preferred Stock shall rank (i) prior to the Corporation's common stock, no par value per share, (ii) prior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created, unless such class or series by its terms specifically ranks senior to or in parity with Series C Preferred Stock, (iii)  pari   passu with the Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock and any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking, by its terms, on parity with the Series C Preferred Stock (" Pari   Passu Securities"), and (iv) junior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereinafter created specifically ranking, by its terms, senior to the Series C Preferred Stock, and in each case as to distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary. In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, either voluntary or involuntary, the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, prior and in preference to any distribution of the assets or surplus funds of the Corporation to the holders of the Common Stock and in pari   passu with the Pari   Passu Securities by reason of their ownership them of, an amount equal to the Original Issue Price, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends on such Series C Preferred Stock to the date of such payment (the "Liquidation Preference"). If, upon occurrence of such event the assets and funds thus distributed among the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and the Pari   Passu Securities shall be insufficient to permit the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock the full Liquidation Preference and the Pari   Passu Securities the liquidation preference payable thereon then the entire assets and funds of the Corporation legally available for distribution shall be distributed among the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and the Pari   Passu Securities in proportion to the liquidation preference payable thereon and the number of shares held by each such holder of Series C Preferred Stock or Pari   Passu Securities. After payment has been made to the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and the Pari   Passu Securities of the liquidation preferences payable thereon, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive the remaining assets of the Corporation, if any.

                4.      Consolidation, Merger, Exchange, Etc.     In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination, statutory share exchange or other transaction in which the Common Stock is exchanged for or changed into other shares or securities, money and/or any other property, then in any such case the Series C Preferred Stock shall at the same time be either, at the option of the Corporation, (a) similarly exchanged or changed into preferred shares of the surviving entity providing the holders of such preferred stock with (to the extent possible) the same relative rights and preferences as the Series C Preferred Stock or (b) converted into the shares of stock and other securities, money and/or any other property receivable upon or deemed to he held by holders of Common Stock immediately following such consolidation, merger, combination, statutory share exchange or other transaction, and the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled upon such event to receive such amount of securities, money and/or any other property as the shares of the Common Stock of the Corporation into which such shares of Series C Preferred Stock could have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, combination, statutory share exchange or other transaction would have been entitled.

                5.      Conversion.     

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                6.      Fractional Shares.     In lieu of any fractional shares to which the holder of the Series C Preferred Stock would otherwise be entitled, the Corporation shall pay cash equal to such fraction multiplied by the closing price of one share of the Corporation's Common Stock on the trading day prior to conversion, if such price is available. If such price is not available, this Corporation shall pay cash for fractional shares equal to such fraction multiplied by the fair market value of one share of

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Series C Preferred Stock as determined by the Board of Directors of this Corporation. Whether or not fractional shares are issuable upon such conversion shall be determined on the basis of the total number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock of each holder at the time converting into Common Stock and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such aggregate conversion.

                7.      Minimal Adjustments.     No adjustment in the Original Issue Price need be made if such adjustment would result in a change in the Conversion Price of less than $0.01. Any adjustment of less than $0.01 which is not made shall be carried forward and shall be made at the time of and together with any subsequent adjustment which, on a cumulative basis, amounts to an adjustment of $0.01 or more in the Conversion Price.

                8.      Adjustment of Conversion for Dividend and Distributions.     

X   =   The number of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event.

Y

 

=

 

The number of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

                9.      Redemption at Option of Corporation.     

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                10.      Vote to Change the Terms of Series C Preferred Shares.     The approval of the Board of Directors and the affirmative vote at a meeting duly called by the Board of Directors for such purpose

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(or the written consent without a meeting) of the holders of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the then outstanding Series C Preferred Stock shall be required to amend, alter, change or repeal any of the powers, designations, preferences and rights of the Series C Preferred Stock.

                11.      Notices.     All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon delivery to the party to be notified in person or upon delivery by courier service or upon delivery after deposit with the United States mail, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or upon receipt by the party of a facsimile copy, addressed (a) if to a holder of Series C Preferred Stock, at such address of such holder of Series C Preferred Stock set forth in Exhibit B, or at such other address as such holder of Series C Preferred Stock shall have furnished to Sigma Designs, Inc. in writing, or (b) if to any other holder of any Shares, at such address as such holder shall have furnished Sigma Designs, Inc. in writing, or, until any such holder so furnishes an address to Sigma Designs, Inc. then to and at the address of the last holder of such Shares who has so furnished an address to Sigma Designs, Inc. or (c) if to Sigma Designs, Inc. one copy should be sent to Sigma Designs, Inc., 46501 Landing Parkway, Fremont, California 94538 and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address as Sigma Designs, Inc. shall have furnished to the holders of Series C Preferred Stock."

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned each declares under penalty of perjury that the matters set out in the foregoing certificate are true of his and her knowledge, and the undersigned have executed this certificate at Fremont, California as of the 20th day of January, 1999.


 

 

/s/ THINH Q. TRAN

Thinh Q. Tran
President

 

 

/s/ KIT TSUI

Kit Tsui
Secretary

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Exhibit A

SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.
CONVERSION NOTICE
AT THE ELECTION OF HOLDER

(To be Executed by the Registered Holder
in order to Convert shares of Preferred Stock)

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to convert the number of shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock indicated below, into shares of Common Stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), of Sigma Designs, Inc. (the "Corporation") according to the conditions hereof, as of the date written below. If shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates and opinions as reasonably requested by the Corporation in accordance therewith. No fee will be charged to the Holder for any conversion, except for such transfer taxes, if any.

Conversion calculations:


 

 

Date to Effect Conversion

 

 

Number of Shares of Preferred Stock to be Converted
(Not less than 50 shares of Preferred Stock)

 

 

Applicable Conversion Price

 

 

Signature

 

 

Name:

 

 

Address:

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Exhibit B

HOLDER ADDRESSES

1.   Preferred Hardware Distributors, Inc.
    Mailing Address:   c/o Mitsuba Southeast, Inc.
1775 River Green Parkway
Duluth, GA 30096
Attention: Walter Huang, President
    Fax Number   770-622-1680

2.

 

JFIC Inc.
    Mailing Address:   c/o Utobia Corp
111 N. Hudson Avenue
Industry, CA 91744
Attention: Howard Chan, President
    Fax Number:   626-855-5072

3.

 

Multiventure Technologies, Inc.
    Mailing Address:   c/o Multiventure International, Inc.
20170 Town Center Lane, Suite 150
Cupertino, CA 95014
Attention: James Mah, CEO
    Fax Number:   408-255-0439

4.

 

Jason Onan
    Mailing Address:   15961 Viewfield Road
Monte Sono, CA 95030
    Fax Number:   510-770-2640

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Exhibit 3.6

CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION OF
RIGHTS, PREFERENCES AND PRIVILEGES OF
SERIES D PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK OF SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

        The undersigned, Thinh Q. Tran and Kit Tsui, do hereby certify:

        A.    That they are the duly elected and acting President and Secretary, respectively, of Sigma Designs, Inc., a California corporation (the " Corporation ").

        B.    That, immediately prior to the filing of this Certificate of Determination, the Corporation was authorized to issue 2,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, and no shares of Preferred Stock were outstanding.

        C.    That pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board of Directors by the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, the Board of Directors of the Company on May 28, 2004 adopted the following resolutions creating a series of Preferred Stock designated as Series D Participating Preferred:

Creation of Series D Participating Preferred Stock

                Section 1.     Designation and Amount .    The shares of such series shall be designated as " Series D Participating Preferred Stock ." The number of shares constituting such series shall be 35,000.

                Section 2.     Proportional Adjustment .    In the event that the Corporation shall at any time after the issuance of any share or shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock (i) declare any dividend on Common Stock of the Corporation (" Common Stock ") payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the outstanding Common Stock or (iii) combine the outstanding Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the Corporation shall simultaneously effect a proportional adjustment to the number of outstanding shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock.

                Section 3.     Dividends and Distributions .

        (a)   Subject to the prior and superior right of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the last day of April, July, October and January in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a " Quarterly Dividend Payment Date "), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series D Participating Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series D Participating Preferred Stock.

        (b)   The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series D Participating Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock).



        (c)   Dividends shall begin to accrue on outstanding shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be no more than 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.

                Section 4.     Voting Rights .    The holders of shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall have the following voting rights:

        (a)   Each share of Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 1,000 votes on all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of the Corporation.

        (b)   Except as otherwise provided herein or by law, the holders of shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Common Stock shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of shareholders of the Corporation.

        (c)   Except as required by law, the holders of Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall have no special voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent that they are entitled to vote with holders of Common Stock as set forth herein) for taking any corporate action.

                Section 5.     Certain Restrictions .

        (a)   The Corporation shall not declare any dividend on, make any distribution on, or redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Common Stock after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series D Participating Preferred Stock unless concurrently therewith it shall declare a dividend on the Series D Participating Preferred Stock as required by Section 3 hereof.

        (b)   Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Series D Participating Preferred Stock as provided in Section 3 are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not

                    (i)    declare or pay dividends on, make any other distributions on, or redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series D Participating Preferred Stock;

                    (ii)    declare or pay dividends on, or make any other distributions on any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series D Participating Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on the Series D Participating Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;

                    (iii)    redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series D Participating Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such parity stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the

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Corporation ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the Series D Participating Preferred Stock;

                    (iv)    purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity with the Series D Participating Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes.

        (c)   The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Corporation unless the Corporation could, under paragraph (a) of this Section 5, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.

                Section 6.      Reacquired Shares .    Any shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and canceled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors, subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth herein and in the Articles of Incorporation, as then amended.

                Section 7.      Liquidation. Dissolution or Winding Up .    Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive an aggregate amount per share equal to 1,000 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of shares of Common Stock plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid dividends on such shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock.

                Section 8.      Consolidation, Merger, etc.     In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case the shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed in an amount per share equal to 1,000 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged.

                Section 9.      No Redemption .    The shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.

                Section 10.      Ranking .    The Series D Participating Preferred Stock shall rank junior to all other series of the Corporation's Preferred Stock as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets, unless the terms of any such series shall provide otherwise.

                Section 11.      Amendment .    The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation shall not be further amended in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preference or special rights of the Series D Participating Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series D Participating Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series.

                Section 12.      Fractional Shares .    Series D Participating Preferred Stock may be issued in fractions of a share which shall entitle the holder, in proportion to such holder's fractional shares, to exercise voting rights, receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have the benefit of all other rights of holders of Series D Participating Preferred Stock.

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        D.    That the authorized number of shares of Preferred Stock of the Corporation is 2,000,000, the number of shares constituting Series D Participating Preferred Stock is 35,000, and no such Preferred Stock has been issued.

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        We further declare under penalty of perjury that the matters set forth in the foregoing Certificate of Determination are true and correct of our own knowledge.

        Executed at Milpitas, California on June 4, 2004.


 

 

/s/ THINH Q. TRAN

Thinh Q. Tran
President

 

 

/s/ KIT TSUI

Kit Tsui
Secretary

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CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION OF RIGHTS, PREFERENCES AND PRIVILEGES OF SERIES D PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK OF SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

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Exhibit 4.2

NUMBER

NYU                 

COMMON STOCK

THIS CERTIFICATE IS TRANSFERABLE IN
SAN FRANCISCO, CA OR NEW YORK, NY
  GRAPHIC

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
  SHARES



COMMON STOCK

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
CUSIP 826565 10 3

THIS CERTIFIES THAT
 
 
 
 
  

IS THE OWNER OF

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE COMMON STOCK, WITHOUT PAR VALUE, OF

SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

    Countersigned and Registered:
             CHEMICAL TRUST COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
        Transfer Agent and Registrar

 

 

By

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signature
GRAPHIC   GRAPHIC   GRAPHIC
Secretary       President


SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.

        The Company is authorized to issue two classes of stock, Common Stock and Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors of the Company has authority to fix the number of shares and the designation of any series of Preferred Stock and to determine or alter the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to or imposed upon any unissued series of Preferred Stock.

        A statement of the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to or imposed upon the respective classes or series of shares and upon the holders thereof as established, from time to time, by the Articles of Incorporation of the Company and by any certificate of determination, the number of shares constituting each class and series, and the designations thereof, may be obtained by the holder hereof upon request and without charge from the Transfer Agent of the Company at its offices in San Francisco.

        This certificate also evidences and entitles the holder hereof to certain rights as set forth in a Rights Agreement between Sigma Designs, Inc. and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as the Rights Agent, dated as of June 7, 2004 (the "Rights Agreement"), the terms of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the principal executive offices of Sigma Designs, Inc. Under certain circumstances, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, such Rights will be evidenced by separate certificates and will no longer be evidenced by this certificate. The Company will mail to the holder of this certificate a copy of the Rights Agreement without charge after receipt of a written request therefor. Under certain circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement, Rights issued to, or held by, any Person who is, was or becomes an Acquiring Person or any Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement), whether currently held by or on behalf of such Person or by any subsequent holder, may become null and void.

        The following abbreviatons, when used in the inscription on the face of this certficate. shall be construed as though they were written out in fuli according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM as tenants in common   UNIF GIFT MIN ACT —     
  Custodian     
TEN ENT as tenants by the entireties       (Cust)       (Minor)
JT TEN as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common       under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
  

(State)

 

 

 

 

UNIF TRF MIN ACT —

 

  


 

Custodian (until age         )

 

  

            (Cust)       (Minor)
            under Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
              
(State)

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.


        FOR VALUE RECEIVED,                                                             hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

  
  
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE)
  
  
  
Shares
of the common stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
  
Attorney
to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated

  


 

 

 
      X  
       

 

 

 

X

 
      NOTICE:
THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

Signature(s) Guaranteed


By

  


 

 
THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION. BANKS, STOCK-BROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM PURSUANT TO SEC RULE 17Ad-15    



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Exhibit 5.1

PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP
2475 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304

September 14, 2007

Sigma Designs, Inc.
1778 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035

Ladies and Gentlemen:

        We are acting as counsel for Sigma Designs, Inc., a California corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-145351) relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act") of 4,600,000 shares of Common Stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), of the Company, all of which are authorized but heretofore unissued shares (including 600,000 shares subject to the underwriters' over-allotment option) to be offered and sold by the Company. Such Registration Statement, as amended, and including any registration statement related thereto and filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act (a "Rule 462(b) Registration Statement") is herein referred to as the "Registration Statement."

        We have reviewed and are familiar with such corporate proceedings and other matters as we have deemed necessary for this opinion. Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the shares of Common Stock to be offered and sold by the Company (including any shares of Common Stock registered pursuant to a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement) have been duly authorized and, when issued and sold by the Company in the manner described in the Registration Statement and in accordance with the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. This opinion is limited to matters governed by the General Corporation Law of the State of California.

        We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to the use of our name under the caption "Legal Matters" in the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus included therein. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder.

    Very truly yours,

 

 

/s/ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP



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Exhibit 23.1


CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

        We hereby consent to the inclusion in this registration statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-145351) of Sigma Designs, Inc. of our report dated April 20, 2007, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of Sigma Designs, Inc. and subsidiaries as of February 3, 2007 and January 28, 2006, and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the fiscal years in the three-year period ended February 3, 2007, and related financial statement schedule. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the heading "Experts" in this registration statement.

/s/   ARMANINO MCKENNA LLP     
San Ramon, California
September 14, 2007




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