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RF MICRO DEVICES INC - 10-Q - MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
[October 31, 2014]

RF MICRO DEVICES INC - 10-Q - MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.


(Edgar Glimpses Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SAFE HARBOR FOR FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that relate to our plans, objectives, estimates and goals. Statements expressing expectations regarding our future and projections relating to products, sales, revenues and earnings are typical of such statements and are made under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "believe," and "estimate," and variations of such words and similar expressions, identify such forward-looking statements. Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to the factors listed below: Standard Operating Risk Factors • changes in business and economic conditions, including downturns in the semiconductor industry and/or the overall economy; • our ability to accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards in a timely manner; • our ability to accurately predict customer demand and thereby avoid the possibility of obsolete inventory, which would reduce our profit margins; • our customers' and distributors' ability to manage the inventory they hold and forecast their demand; • our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, operations, product technologies and personnel as well as achieve expected synergies; • our ability to achieve cost savings and improve yields and margins on our new and existing products; • our ability to respond to possible downward pressure on the average selling prices of our products caused by our customers or our competitors; • our ability to efficiently utilize our capacity, or to acquire additional capacity, in response to customer demand; • the inability of certain of our customers to access their traditional sources of credit, which could lead them to reduce their level of purchases or seek credit or other accommodations from us; • our ability to continue to improve our product designs, develop new products in response to new technologies, and achieve design wins; • our dependence on a limited number of customers for a substantial portion of our revenue; • our ability to bring new products to market in response to market shifts and to use technological innovation to shorten time-to-market for our products; • the risks associated with our wafer fabrication facility, our assembly facility and our test and tape and reel facilities; • variability in manufacturing yields, and raw material costs and availability; • our dependence on third parties, including wafer foundries, wafer starting material suppliers, passive component manufacturers, assembly and packaging suppliers and test and tape and reel suppliers; • our ability to manage platform provider and customer relationships; • our ability to procure, commercialize and enforce intellectual property rights (IPR) and to operate our business without infringing on the unlicensed IPR of others; 15-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents • the risks associated with security breaches and other similar disruptions, which could compromise our information and expose us to liability and could cause our business and reputation to suffer; • currency fluctuations, tariffs, trade barriers, tax and export license requirements and health and security issues associated with our foreign operations; and • our ability to attract and retain skilled personnel and develop leaders for key business units and functions.



Merger-Related Risk Factors • the ability to obtain regulatory approvals of the transaction with TriQuint; • failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the transaction, including as a result of a delay in completing the transaction or a delay or difficulty in integrating the businesses of RFMD and TriQuint; • the expected amount and timing of cost savings and operating synergies, and • uncertainty as to whether we will be able to consummate the transaction with TriQuint, on the terms set forth in the definitive merger agreement entered into on February 22, 2014, and as amended.

These and other risks and uncertainties, which are described in more detail in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in other reports and statements that we file with the SEC, could cause the actual results and developments to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any of these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they were made and we undertake no obligation to update or revise such statements, except as required by the federal securities laws.


OVERVIEW The following Management's Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A") is intended to help the reader understand the consolidated results of operations and financial condition of RF Micro Devices, Inc. MD&A is provided as a supplement to, and should be read in conjunction with, our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes.

We are a recognized global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency (RF) solutions. Our products enable worldwide mobility, provide enhanced connectivity and support advanced functionality in the mobile device, wireless infrastructure, wireless local area network (WLAN or WiFi), cable television (CATV)/broadband, Smart Energy/advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and aerospace and defense markets. We are recognized for our diverse portfolio of semiconductor technologies and RF systems expertise, and we are a preferred supplier to the world's leading mobile device, customer premises and communications equipment providers.

We design, develop, manufacture and market our products to both domestic and international original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers in both wireless and wired communications applications, in each of our following operating segments.

• Cellular Products Group (CPG) is a leading global supplier of cellular RF solutions which perform various functions in the cellular front end section.

The cellular front end section is located between the transceiver and the antenna. These RF solutions include power amplifier (PA) modules, transmit modules, PA duplexer modules, antenna control solutions, antenna switch modules, switch filter modules, switch duplexer modules, and RF power management solutions. CPG supplies its broad portfolio of cellular RF solutions into a variety of mobile devices, including smartphones, handsets, notebook computers, and tablets.

• Multi-Market Products Group (MPG) is a leading global supplier of a broad array of RF solutions, such as PAs, low noise amplifiers, variable gain amplifiers, high power gallium nitride transistors, attenuators, mixers, modulators, switches, VCOs, phase locked loop modules, circulators, isolators, multi-chip modules, front end modules, and a range of military and space components (amplifiers, mixers, VCOs and power dividers). Major communications applications include mobile wireless infrastructure (second generation (2G), third generation (3G) and fourth generation (4G)), point-to-point and microwave radios, WiFi (infrastructure and mobile devices), and CATV wireline infrastructure. Industrial applications include Smart Energy/AMI, private mobile radio, and test and measurement equipment. Aerospace and defense applications include military communications, radar and electronic warfare, as well as space communications.

16-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents • Compound Semiconductor Group (CSG) is a business group that was established to leverage our compound semiconductor technologies and related expertise in RF and non-RF end markets and applications.

As of September 27, 2014, our reportable segments are CPG and MPG. CSG does not currently meet the quantitative threshold for an individually reportable segment under ASC 280-10-50-12. These business segments are based on the organizational structure and information reviewed by our Chief Executive Officer, who is our chief operating decision maker (or CODM), and are managed separately based on the end markets and applications they support. The CODM allocates resources and assesses the performance of each operating segment primarily based on operating income and operating income as a percentage of revenue.

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