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2005 News Releases "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE" MOSAID Announces Fourth-Quarter and Year-End Results for Fiscal Year 2005 A Watershed Year for MOSAID; OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada – June 23, 2004 – MOSAID Technologies Incorporated (TSX:MSD) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended April 30, 2005. Revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005 were $16,542,000, compared to $8,779,000 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004. Net income for the quarter was $4,546,000 or $0.39 per diluted share, compared to a net income of $661,000 or $0.06 per diluted share a year ago. Before discontinued operations, earnings for the quarter were $4,316,000 or $0.37 per diluted share, compared with net earnings of $302,000 or $0.03 per diluted share a year ago. The Company's fourth quarter results reflect a $670,000 write-down of its investment in Acuid Corporation Limited, a development stage company providing high-speed data transfer technology. Revenues for the fiscal year were $49,743,000, compared to revenues of $28,417,000 reported for the same period last year. Net income for fiscal year 2005 was $37,585,000 or $3.39 per diluted share, compared to net loss of $8,907,000 or $0.86 per diluted share reported for fiscal 2004. The earnings for fiscal 2005 before discontinued operations were $37,128,000 or $3.35 per diluted share, compared to a loss before discontinued operations of $1,235,000 or $0.12 per diluted share a year ago. Results for the year include a one-time income tax asset revaluation of $28,300,000 in the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Retained Earnings. The revaluation is due to the Company's assessment that the future income tax asset is more likely than not to be used against future profits over a reasonable time frame. The Company's cash balance and short-term marketable securities at the end of fiscal 2005 were $65.9 million, compared with $38.2 million at the end of fiscal 2004. Cash balances were augmented by a $14.0 million issue of common shares through a private placement in the third quarter of fiscal year 2005. Strongest Financial Performance Recorded in Three Years "Fiscal year 2005 was a pivotal year for MOSAID," said George Cwynar, President and Chief Executive Officer of MOSAID. "As a result of signing patent licenses with Samsung and Hynix we have recorded our highest annual revenues in three years, and we expect to have a growing and highly profitable IP business for the foreseeable future. With this change in our financial position we are investing again to grow MOSAID's businesses, through both internal development and acquisition." "In a separate news release issued today, we announced that MOSAID will begin issuing dividends to our shareholders," said Cwynar. "The Board of Directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.125 per share of common stock. The first dividend will be paid on July 15, 2005 to shareholders of record on July 8, 2005. We have also announced today our plan to seek regulatory approval for a normal course issuer bid, stating our intention to purchase up to 4% of MOSAID's total shares outstanding in the coming year." Operating Highlights · Major Success with Samsung and Hynix Patent Licenses Early in the calendar year, MOSAID announced the signing of major patent license agreements with Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, the largest DRAM suppliers in the world. These two agreements settled patent infringement lawsuits initiated by MOSAID against Samsung in 2001, and Hynix in January 2005. The licenses represent a watershed event for MOSAID's patent licensing business. The terms of the licenses offer the opportunity to have an ongoing and renewable future revenue stream. The completion of these agreements is also important as it confirms the strength of the patent portfolio, and clearly validates that MOSAID can successfully use the court system, when required, to secure fair licensing terms from the largest manufacturers. On April 1, 2005, Judge Martini issued summary judgement rulings in MOSAID's New Jersey patent infringement case against Infineon Technologies. The rulings yielded mixed results for MOSAID but the Company remains committed to bringing this case to a successful conclusion. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has now transferred the case back to the Northern District of California. Trial is expected in the Spring of 2006. On April 7, 2005, MOSAID sued Infineon in the state of Texas for infringement of three new patent families. The key reason for launching this additional litigation was to demonstrate to Infineon, and other prospective licensees, that MOSAID has great depth in its patent portfolio. The Eastern District of Texas is typically known as a fast jurisdiction for patent cases. Therefore, MOSAID expects that a trial will be concluded in this particular case in approximately 16 months. · Semiconductor IP Focused on High-Speed Memory Controllers In the past year, the Design Licensing group evolved its business model to focus on the development and marketing of IP blocks as standard off-the-shelf products, rather than providing custom design services and solutions. Now known as the Semiconductor IP Products group, within the Company's IP Division, this group is primarily focused on delivering high-performance memory controllers and interface products to System-on-Chip manufacturers. MOSAID's memory controllers integrate all of the elements required to interface to standard memory components such as DRAM or SRAM. · Systems Division Meets Memory Manufacturers' Growing Demands In fiscal year 2005, the Systems Division completed a worldwide release of its latest Test Control Software (TCS), doubling its tester bitmap capacity to 8 Gigabits. This third doubling of bit-map capacity in less than two years tracks the explosive growth of NAND Flash memory chips used for media storage in the thriving markets for consumer products such as camera phones, MP3 players and digital cameras. MOSAID believes it is currently the only provider of full bit-map capture, display and analysis for 8 Gigabit memories. TCS is the test program development and run-time software for MOSAID's MS4205 and MS4205ex test systems operating at data rates of up to 832 Mbps. During the year, the Division focused the majority of its development efforts on next generation products that will meet customers' requirements for testing tomorrow's larger and more complex memory devices and embedded memory. Guidance Guidance for the Company's revenues in Q1 of fiscal year 2006 is $14.3 to $14.7 million and net earnings of $3.3 to $3.7 million. Revenues for fiscal year 2006 are forecast to range between $58 to $62 million and net earnings between $13 to $15 million. It is expected that approximately 70% of the fiscal 2006 revenues will stem from the Intellectual Property Division. Conference Call and Webcast About MOSAID Founded in 1975, MOSAID is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with offices in Santa Clara, California; Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit the Company’s web site at www.mosaid.com. Forward Looking Information For more information, please contact:
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MOSAID TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Quarter and Year-ended April 30, 2005 (tabular dollar amounts in thousands, except per share amounts)1. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by generally accepted accounting principles for annual financial statements. Effective for its fiscal 2005 year, the Company changed its year-end date from a floating year end date, based upon an exact 52 week year, to a static date of April 30th. As a result of the change, the current year is 53 weeks and 1 day in duration. In conjunction with changing its year-end date, effective fiscal 2006, the Company has altered its interim reporting dates from floating dates based upon 13 week quarters to static dates of July 31, October 31 and January 31. In the opinion of management, all adjustments consisting of normal recurring adjustments, considered necessary for a fair presentation of the Company's financial position, results of operations and cash flows have been included. The accounting policies used in preparing these interim financial statements are consistent with those used in preparing the previous year's published annual financial statements, except as follows: Hedging Relationships Effective April 24, 2004, the Company adopted Accounting Guideline 13, Hedging Relationships ("AcG-13"). AcG-13 establishes new criteria for hedge accounting and applies to all hedging relationships in effect for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2003. To qualify for hedge accounting, the hedging relationships must be appropriately documented at the inception of the hedge and there must be reasonable assurance, both at the inception and throughout the term of the hedge, that the hedging relationship will be effective. Effectiveness requires a high correlation of changes in fair values or cash flows between the hedged item and the hedging item. The Company complies with the requirements of AcG-13, such that any hedging relationships entered into will qualify for hedge accounting. All outstanding hedges that previously qualified for hedge accounting continue to qualify for hedge accounting. Stock-based compensation and other stock-based payments Effective April 24, 2004, the Company adopted the fair value provisions in CICA Handbook Section 3870, Stock-based compensation and other stock-based payments, on a retroactive basis. The recommendation requires the use of fair value methods for all awards to both employees and non-employees. Using the Black-Scholes option pricing model and amortizing the fair value on a straight-line basis, over the vesting period, the impact on previously published results is:
These statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated financial statements prepared for the fiscal year ended April 23, 2004. Segmented disclosure As a result of reclassifying interest expense from operating expense to net interest income for both the current and comparative periods, the expense has been removed from segment profit and into the unallocated amounts. |
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