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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
We have not received any written comments that were issued not less than 180 days before December 31,
2011, the end of the fiscal year covered by this report, from the SEC staff regarding our periodic or current
reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that remain unresolved.
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
At December 31, 2011, we owned principal research and development, engineering, manufacturing,
warehouse and administrative facilities located in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, China, Singapore and
Malaysia. These facilities totaled approximately 2.5 million square feet.
Our main facility with respect to our graphics and chipset products is located in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
This facility consists of approximately 240,000 square feet of office and research and development space. We
occupy two other facilities in Markham, Ontario that comprise over 215,000 square feet, including approximately
65,000 square-feet of manufacturing and warehouse space. We also currently own and operate three
microprocessor assembly and test facilities comprising an aggregate of 521,000 square feet. Our current
microprocessor assembly and test facilities are located in Malaysia, Singapore and China and are described in
further detail in the section entitled “Assembly, Test, Mark and Packaging Facilities,” above.
In some cases, we lease all or a portion of the land on which our facilities are located. We lease
approximately 115,000 square feet of land in Singapore and 422,000 square feet of land in Suzhou, China for our
microprocessor assembly and test facilities.
As of December 31, 2011, we also leased approximately 2.6 million square feet of space for engineering,
manufacturing, warehouse and administrative use, including a number of smaller regional sales offices located in
commercial centers near customers, principally in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. These
leases expire at varying dates through 2022.
We also have approximately 100,000 square feet of building space that is currently vacant. We continue to
have lease obligations with respect to this space that expire at various dates through 2012. We are actively
marketing this space for sublease.
We currently do not anticipate difficulty in either retaining occupancy of any of our facilities through lease
renewals prior to expiration or through month-to-month occupancy, or replacing them with equivalent facilities.
We believe that our existing facilities are suitable and adequate for our present purposes, and that, except as
discussed above, the productive capacity of such facilities is substantially being utilized or we have plans to utilize it.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Environmental Matters
We are named as a responsible party on Superfund clean-up orders for three sites in Sunnyvale, California
that are on the National Priorities List. Since 1981, we have discovered hazardous material releases to the
groundwater from former underground tanks and proceeded to investigate and conduct remediation at these three
sites. The chemicals released into the groundwater were commonly used in the semiconductor industry in the
United States in the wafer fabrication process prior to 1979.
In 1991, the Company received Final Site Clean-up Requirements Orders from the California Regional
Water Quality Control Board relating to the three sites. We have entered into settlement agreements with other
responsible parties on two of the orders. During the term of such agreements other parties have agreed to assume
most of the foreseeable costs as well as the primary role in conducting remediation activities under the orders.
We remain responsible for additional costs beyond the scope of the agreements as well as all remaining costs in
the event that the other parties do not fulfill their obligations under the settlement agreements.
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