UNITED STATES


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549


FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

x
þQUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.

For the quarterly period ended: SeptemberJune 30, 2003

2010

OR

¨
oTRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.

For the transition period from                    to                    

Commission file number: 000-49842


ParthusCeva,

CEVA, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware 77-0556376

Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

77-0556376
(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

2033 Gateway Place, Suite 150, San Jose, California95110-1002

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
 95110-1002
(Zip Code)

(408) 514-2900


(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)


Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yesxþ Noo
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes o No o¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer oAccelerated filer þ
Non-accelerated filer o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o¨ No xþ

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock as of the latest practicable date: 18,166,43721,243,241 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value, as of November 10, 2003.August 3, 2010.

 



TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Page

PART I.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION  

Item 1.

 Financial Statements 4
Page
  
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Interim Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets at September 30, 2003, June 30, 20032010 and December 31, 20022009 4
3
  
Interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (unaudited) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2003 and 2002 and the threesix months ended June 30, 20032010 and 2009 5
4
  
Interim Condensed Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity and Related Company Investment(unaudited) for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20032010 and 20022009 6
5
  
Interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20032010 and 20022009 7
6
  
Notes to the Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 87

Item 2.

 
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 1215

Item 3.

 Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 22

Item 4.

Controls and Procedures23

PART II.

OTHER INFORMATION  

 ExhibitsQuantitative and Reports on Form 8-KQualitative Disclosures about Market Risk 2421

SIGNATURES

 25
Controls and Procedures22
OTHER INFORMATION
Legal Proceedings23
Risk Factors23
Unregistered Sales Of Equity Securities And Use Of Proceeds31
Exhibits31
SIGNATURES32
Exhibit 31.1
Exhibit 31.2
Exhibit 32

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 


FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND INDUSTRY DATA
This quarterly report includesQuarterly Report contains forward-looking statements that are subject to a number ofinvolve risks and uncertainties.uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of CEVA to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical facts, includedfact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are generally written in the future tense and/or are preceded by words such as “will,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “expect,” “suggest,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” or other similar words. Forward-looking statements include the following:
Our belief that there is an industry shift towards licensing DSP technology from third party IP providers as opposed to developing it in-house;
Our belief that the penetration of handsets in emerging markets such as China, India and Latin America could generate future growth potential for CEVA;
Our belief that the full scale migration to our DSP cores and technologies in the handsets market has not been fully realized and continues to progress;
Our optimism about adoption of our technologies for new categories of products, such as data cards, USB dongles, smart metering, tablets, netbooks and eReaders;
Our belief that Texas Instruments’ and Freescale’s announcement of their intent to exit the baseband market, after historically having been large players in this market, is a strong positive driver for our future market share expansion;
Our belief that both the handsets and mobile broadband markets continue to present significant growth opportunities for us;
Subject to a return to normal seasonal growth, our optimism about 2010 resulting from key customers with production capability for high volume products, including portable consumer products, set-top boxes, ultra-low-cost phones and smartphones;
Our belief that we are well-positioned to capitalize on the growth in the ultra-low-cost phone, smarphones and mobile broadband markets;
Our belief that our operating expenses will increase in 2010 as compared to 2009;
Our belief that our new DSP core, CEVA-XC, is well positioned to expand our licensee base in existing wireless handsets and new wireless infrastructure markets;
We are experiencing strong interest and pipe line build-up for our DSP cores due to general business improvements in our primary markets, particularly the cellular baseband market, and the availability of CEVA-XC DSP core designs for 4G software;
Our anticipation that our current cash on hand, short-term deposits and marketable securities, along with cash from operations, will provide sufficient capital to fund our operations for at least the next 12 months; and
Our belief that changes in interest rates within our investment portfolio will not have a material affect on our financial position on an annual or quarterly basis.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained in this quarterly report regarding our strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans,are based on information that is currently available to us and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. The words “will”, “believe”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “estimate”, “expect”, “project”,expectations and similar expressions are intendedassumptions that we deem reasonable at the time the statements were made. We do not undertake any obligation to identify forward-looking statements, although not allupdate any forward-looking statements in this report contain these identifying words. We cannot guarantee future results, levelsor in any of activity, performance or achievements and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Ourother communications, except as required by law. All such forward-looking statements doshould be read as of the time the statements were made and with the recognition that these forward-looking statements may not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint venturesbe complete or strategic alliances. Ouraccurate at a later date.

1


Many factors may cause actual results couldto differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including the risks described in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Factors That Could Affect Our Operating Results” and elsewhere in this quarterly report. We do not assume any obligations to update any ofexpressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make.

contained in this report. These factors include, but are not limited to, those risks set forth in Part II — Item 1A — “Risk Factors” of this Form 10-Q.
This report contains market data prepared by third parties, including Ericsson, Gartner, Inc., ABI Research and iSupply. Actual market results may differ from the projections of such organizations.

 

*****2


ParthusCeva was formed through the combination of Parthus Technologies plc (“Parthus”) and ParthusCeva on November 1, 2002.Unless otherwise indicated, the financial information in this quarterly report includes the results of the business of Parthus only for the periods following the combination on November 1, 2002.

PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Item 1.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS



U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share data

   

September 30,

2003


  

June 30,

2003


  

December 31,

20021


 
   Unaudited  Unaudited    

ASSETS

             

Current assets:

             

Cash and cash equivalents

  $63,515  $65,294  $73,810 

Trade receivables, net

   7,894   9,374   6,471 

Other accounts receivable and prepaid expenses

   1,956   1,814   1,748 

Inventories, net

   220   236   168 
   


 


 


Total current assets

   73,585   76,718   82,197 
   


 


 


Long-term investments:

             

Severance pay fund

   1,418   1,471   1,152 

Investment in other company

   1,350   1,350   1,350 
   


 


 


    2,768   2,821   2,502 
   


 


 


Property and equipment, net

   6,356   7,153   6,593 

Goodwill

   38,398   38,398   38,398 

Other intangible assets, net

   4,863   4,924   5,492 
   


 


 


Total assets

  $125,970  $130,014  $135,182 
   


 


 


LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

             

Current liabilities:

             

Trade payables

  $3,223  $4,138  $2,491 

Accrued expenses and other payables

   11,260   12,714   18,982 

Taxes payable

   1,030   1,093   1,291 

Deferred revenues

   984   1,719   1,115 
   


 


 


Total current liabilities

   16,497   19,664   23,879 
   


 


 


Accrued severance pay

   1,427   1,480   1,231 
   


 


 


Stockholders’ equity:

             

Common Stock:

             

$0.001 par value: 100,000,000 shares authorized; 18,166,343, 18,080,476 and 18,053,507 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2003, June 30, 2003 and December 31, 2002, respectively

   18   18   18 

Additional paid in capital

   134,445   134,135   134,051 

Accumulated deficit

   (26,417)  (25,283)  (23,997)
   


 


 


Total stockholders’ equity

   108,046   108,870   110,072 
   


 


 


Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

  $125,970  $130,014  $135,182 
   


 


 



1The December 31, 2002 balance sheet information has been derived from the December 31, 2002 audited consolidated financial statements of the Company.

         
  June 30,  December 31, 
  2010  2009 
  Unaudited  Audited 
ASSETS
        
Current assets:        
Cash and cash equivalents $22,228  $12,104 
Short term bank deposits  12,079   40,056 
Marketable securities (see Note 3)  59,214   48,438 
Trade receivables (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $700 at both June 30, 2010 and December 31, 2009)  5,546   5,995 
Deferred tax assets  1,059   1,096 
Prepaid expenses and other accounts receivable  3,938   5,345 
       
Total current assets  104,064   113,034 
         
Long term bank deposit  15,066    
Severance pay fund  4,536   4,455 
Deferred tax assets  564   309 
Property and equipment, net  1,346   1,148 
Goodwill  36,498   36,498 
       
Total long-term assets  58,010   42,410 
       
Total assets $162,074  $155,444 
       
         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
        
Current liabilities:        
Trade payables $650  $530 
Deferred revenues  527   432 
Accrued expenses and other payables  8,064   9,735 
Deferred tax liabilities  1,062   1,168 
       
Total current liabilities  10,303   11,865 
       
         
Long term liabilities:        
Accrued severance pay  4,558   4,483 
         
Stockholders’ equity:        
Common Stock:        
$0.001 par value: 60,000,000 shares authorized; 21,093,079 and 20,429,736 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively  21   20 
Additional paid in-capital  164,001   158,325 
Treasury stock  (1,133)   
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)  (336)  251 
Accumulated deficit  (15,340)  (19,500)
       
Total stockholders’ equity  147,213   139,096 
       
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $162,074  $155,444 
       
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

3


INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS


(unaudited)
U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share data

   

Nine months

ended

September 30,


  Three months ended

 
     September 30,

  

June 30,

2003


 
   2003

  2002

  2003

  2002

  
   Unaudited  Unaudited  Unaudited  Unaudited  Unaudited 

Revenues:

                     

Licensing and royalties

  $21,802  $10,916  $7,651  $3,921  $7,170 

Other revenue

   5,430   2,618   1,651   931   1,917 
   


 

  


 

  


Total revenues

   27,232   13,534   9,302   4,852   9,087 
   


 

  


 

  


Cost of revenues

   4,654   938   1,415   322   1,601 
   


 

  


 

  


Gross profit

   22,578   12,596   7,887   4,530   7,486 
   


 

  


 

  


Operating expenses:

                     

Research and development, net

   12,591   4,624   4,490   1,408   4,052 

Sales and marketing

   4,258   2,227   1,436   734   1,449 

General and administrative

   4,418   2,368   1,455   1,013   1,485 

Amortization of intangible assets

   856   —     288   —     284 

Reorganization and severance charge

   2,782   —     1,402   —     —   
   


 

  


 

  


Total operating expenses

   24,905   9,219   9,071   3,155   7,270 
   


 

  


 

  


Operating income (loss)

   (2,327)  3,377   (1,184)  1,375   216 

Financial income, net

   605   75   160   25   205 

Currency translation differences

   (598)  —     (10)  —     (389)
   


 

  


 

  


Income (loss) before taxes on income

   (2,320)  3,452   (1,034)  1,400   32 

Taxes on income

   100   961   100   419   —   
   


 

  


 

  


Net income (loss)

   (2,420)  2,491   (1,134)  981   32 
   


 

  


 

  


Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share

  $(0.134) $0.276  $(0.063) $0.109  $0.002 

Weighted average number of shares of Common Stock used in computation of net income (loss) per share (in thousands):

                     

Basic

   18,085   9,041   18,108   9,041   18,079 

Diluted

   18,085   9,041   18,108   9,041   18,149 
   


 

  


 

  


                 
  Six months ended  Three months ended 
  June 30,  June 30, 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
Revenues:                
Licensing $9,315  $8,817  $4,593  $4,273 
Royalties  10,134   7,709   5,154   3,950 
Other revenue  1,761   2,097   862   887 
             
Total revenues  21,210   18,623   10,609   9,110 
Cost of revenues  1,577   2,362   863   1,152 
             
Gross profit  19,633   16,261   9,746   7,958 
Operating expenses:                
Research and development, net  9,114   8,071   4,505   3,996 
Sales and marketing  3,584   3,286   1,776   1,650 
General and administrative  3,116   3,030   1,570   1,558 
             
Total operating expenses  15,814   14,387   7,851   7,204 
             
Operating income  3,819   1,874   1,895   754 
Financial income, net  1,098   950   541   474 
Other income (see Note 10)     1,901      1,901 
             
Income before taxes on income  4,917   4,725   2,436   3,129 
Income tax expenses  735   1,042   313   814 
             
Net income $4,182  $3,683  $2,123  $2,315 
             
Basic net income per share $0.20  $0.19  $0.10  $0.12 
             
Diluted net income per share $0.19  $0.19  $0.10  $0.12 
             
Weighted-average number of shares of Common Stock used in computation of net income per share (in thousands):                
Basic  20,859   19,536   21,061   19,515 
             
Diluted  21,991   19,884   22,069   20,014 
             
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

4


INTERIM CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERSSTOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY AND

RELATED COMPANY INVESTMENT


(unaudited)
U.S. dollars in thousands, (exceptexcept share data)

Nine months ended September 30, 2003


  Common stock

  

Additional

paid-in

capital


  

Accumulated

deficit


  

Total

stockholders’

equity


 
  Shares

  Amount

     

Balance as of January 1, 2003

  18,053,507  $18  $134,051  $(23,997) $110,072 

Net loss

  —     —     —     (2,420)  (2,420)

Issuance of Common Stock upon exercise of stock options

  14,658   (*)  39   —     39 

Issuance of Common Stock upon purchase of ESPP shares

  98,178   (*)  355   —     355 
   
  


 

  


 


Balance as of September 30, 2003

  18,166,343  $18  $134,445  $(26,417) $108,046 
   
  


 

  


 



data
                                 
                  Accumulated           
          Additional      other      Total  Total 
Six months ended Common stock  paid-in  Treasury  comprehensive  Accumulated  Comprehensive  stockholders’ 
June 30, 2010 Shares  Amount  capital  stock  income (loss)  deficit  income  equity 
Balance as of January 1, 2010  20,429,736  $20  $158,325  $  $251  $(19,500)     $139,096 
Net income                 4,182  $4,182   4,182 
Unrealized loss from available-for-sale securities, net              (314)     (314)  (314)
Unrealized loss from hedging activities, net              (273)     (273)  (273)
                                
Total comprehensive income                         $3,595     
                                
Equity-based compensation        1,124                1,124 
Issuance of Common Stock upon exercise of employee stock options  675,378   1   4,027                4,028 
Issuance of Common Stock under employee stock purchase plan  89,365   (*)  525                525 
Purchase of Treasury Stock  (108,009)  (*)     (1,207)            (1,207)
Issuance of Treasury Stock upon exercise of employee stock options  6,609   (*)     74      (22)      52 
                          
Balance as of June 30, 2010  21,093,079  $21  $164,001  $(1,133) $(336) $(15,340)     $147,213 
                          
                                 
                  Accumulated           
          Additional      other      Total  Total 
Six months ended Common stock  paid-in  Treasury  comprehensive  Accumulated  Comprehensive  stockholders’ 
June 30, 2009 Shares  Amount  capital  stock  income (loss)  deficit  income  equity 
Balance as of January 1, 2009  19,532,026  $20  $153,712  $(5,077) $(24) $(26,972)     $121,659 
Net income                 3,683  $3,683   3,683 
Unrealized gain from available-for-sale securities, net              419      419   419 
Unrealized gain from hedging activities, net              2      2   2 
                                
Total comprehensive income                         $4,104     
                                
Equity-based compensation        1,525                1,525 
Purchase of Treasury Stock  (140,828)  (1)     (822)            (823)
Issuance of Treasury Stock upon exercise of employee stock options  50,052   1   1   370      (56)      316 
Issuance of Treasury Stock under employee stock purchase plan  81,509   (*)     627      (153)      474 
                          
Balance as of June 30, 2009  19,522,759  $20  $155,238  $(4,902) $397  $(23,498)     $127,255 
                          
(*)Amount less than $1.

Nine months ended September 30, 2002


  

Common stock


  

Related

Company

investment


  

Retained

earnings


  

Total

stockholders’

equity

and Related

Company

investment


 
  

Shares


  

Amount


     

Balance as of January 1, 2002

  20,000,000  $20  $4,325  $—    $4,345 

Net income

  —     —     —     2,491   2,491 

Capital return to Related Company

  —     —     —     (2,491)  (2,491)

Contribution from Related Company

  —     —     5,523   —     5,523 
   
  

  

  


 


Balance as of September 30, 2002

  20,000,000  $20  $9,848  $—    $9,868 
   
  

  

  


 


The accompanying notes are an integral part of the interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

5


INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS


(unaudited)
U.S. dollars in thousands

   

Nine months ended

September 30,


 
   2003

  2002

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

         

Net income (loss)

   (2,420)  2,491 

Adjustments required to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in operating activities:

         

Depreciation

   2,876   697 

Amortization of intangible assets

   856   —   

Loss on disposal of property and equipment

   4   —   

Currency translation differences

   259   —   

Increase in trade receivables

   (1,420)  (66)

Increase in other accounts receivable and prepaid expenses

   (113)  (2,762)

Increase in inventories

   (69)  (10)

Increase (decrease) in trade payables

   (745)  228 

(Decrease) increase in deferred revenues

   (131)  245 

Decrease in accrued expenses and other payables

   (7,897)  (708)

Decrease in taxes payable

   (231)  (2,295)

Decrease in accrued severance pay, net

   (70)  (18)
   


 


Net cash used in operating activities

   (9,101)  (2,198)
   


 


Cash flows from investing activities:

         

Purchase of property and equipment

   (1,697)  (834)

Proceeds from sale of property and equipment

   38   —   

Purchase of technology

   (50)  —   
   


 


Net cash used in investing activities

   (1,709)  (834)
   


 


Cash flows from financing activities:

         

Proceeds from issuance of Common Stock upon exercise of stock options

   39   —   

Proceeds from issuance of Common Stock upon purchase of ESPP shares

   355   —   

Contribution from Related Company

   —     3,032 
   


 


Net cash provided by financing activities

   394   3,032 

Effect of exchange rate movements on cash

   121   —   
   


 


Changes in cash and cash equivalents

   (10,295)  —   

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period

   73,810   —   
   


 


Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year period

  $63,515  $—   
   


 


Supplemental disclosure of Cash flow Information;

         

Income taxes paid

  $68  $—   

         
  Six months ended 
  June 30, 
  2010  2009 
Cash flows from operating activities:
        
Net income $4,182  $3,683 
Adjustments required to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:        
Depreciation  258   248 
Equity-based compensation  1,124   1,525 
Loss (gain) on available-for-sale marketable securities  (14)  57 
Amortization of premiums on available-for-sale marketable securities  718   187 
Accrued interest on short term bank deposits  (322)  (545)
Unrealized foreign exchange loss (gain)  (51)  103 
Gain on realization of investments     (1,901)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:        
Decrease (increase) in trade receivables  449   (154)
Decrease (increase) in prepaid expenses and other accounts receivable  1,268   (215)
Decrease (increase) in deferred tax, net  (176)  16 
Increase (decrease) in trade payables  131   (7)
Increase (decrease) in deferred revenues  95   (300)
Decrease in accrued expenses and other payables  (1,706)  (1,856)
Increase (decrease) in accrued severance pay, net  (6)  2 
       
Net cash provided by operating activities  5,950   843 
       
         
Cash flows from investing activities:
        
Purchase of property and equipment  (456)  (164)
Investment in bank deposits  (19,432)  (35,527)
Proceeds from bank deposits  32,625   30,867 
Investment in available-for-sale marketable securities  (35,448)  (19,201)
Proceeds from maturity and sale of available-for-sale marketable securities  23,528   16,354 
Proceeds from realization of investments     1,901 
       
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities  817   (5,770)
       
         
Cash flows from financing activities:
        
Purchase of Treasury Stock  (1,207)  (823)
Proceeds from issuance of Common Stock upon exercise of employee stock options  4,028    
Proceeds from issuance of Common Stock under employee stock purchase plan  525    
Proceeds from issuance of Treasury Stock upon exercise of employee stock options  52   316 
Proceeds from issuance of Treasury Stock under employee stock purchase plan     474 
       
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities  3,398   (33)
Effect of exchange rate movements on cash  (41)  (153)
       
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents  10,124   (5,113)
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period  12,104   13,328 
       
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period $22,228  $8,215 
       
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO THE INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

NOTE 1:- GENERAL

ParthusCeva, Inc. (“ParthusCeva or the Company”) was a wholly owned subsidiary of DSP Group, Inc. (“DSPG”) until November 1, 2002. On that date, DSPG contributed its DSP cores licensing business and operations and the related assets and liabilities to the Company (the “Separation”); DSPG then spun-off the Company by distributing 9,040,851 shares of Common Stock of the Company to the existing stockholders of DSPG on a one-for-three basis (one share of the Company’s Common Stock for every three shares of DSPG common stock held); and Parthus was acquired by the Company from the existing shareholders of Parthus BUSINESS

The financial information in exchange for the issuance of 8,998,887 new shares of Common Stock of the Company (the “Combination”).The Company was incorporated in Delaware on November 22, 1999. The Company had no business or operations prior to the transfer of the DSP cores licensing business and operations from DSPG.

These financial statements give effect to the transfer by DSPG of the DSP cores licensing business and operations and the related assets and liabilities of such business to the Company for all periods presented and includethis quarterly report includes the results of Parthus subsequentCEVA, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Company” or “CEVA”).

CEVA licenses a family of programmable DSP cores, DSP-based subsystems and application-specific platforms, including HD video, HD audio, Voice over IP, Bluetooth, Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
CEVA’s technologies are licensed to the Combination on November 1, 2002.

ParthusCeva licenses toleading semiconductor companies and electronic equipment manufacturers (also known as original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs) complete, integratedmanufacturer (OEM) companies in the form of intellectual property (IP) solutions that enable. These companies design, manufacture, market and sell application-specific integrated circuits (“ASICs”) and application-specific standard products (“ASSPs”) based on CEVA’s technology to OEM companies for incorporation into a wide variety of electronic devices. The Company’s programmableend products. CEVA’s IP is primarily deployed in high volume markets, including wireless handsets (e.g., GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/WiMax/LTE, CDMA and TD-SCDMA), mobile broadband (USB dongles, tablets, notebooks, netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MID), M2M, eReader), portable multimedia (e.g., portable video players, MobileTVs, Mobile Internet Devices, personal navigation devices and MP3/MP4 players), home entertainment (e.g., DVD/Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and digital signal processing (DSP) coresTVs), game consoles (portable and application-level IP platforms power handheld wirelesshome systems), storage (e.g., hard disk drives and solid state drives (SSD)) and telecommunication devices global positioning system (GPS) devices, consumer audio products, automotive applications(e.g., residential gateways, femtocells, VoIP phones and a range of other consumer products.

network infrastructure).

NOTE 2:- BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals and an accrual for restructuring, reorganization and severances charges) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20032010 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2003.2010. For further information, reference is made to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in ourthe Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002.

2009.

The interim condensed consolidated financial statements incorporate the financial statements of the Company and all of its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated on consolidation.

For periods prior to November 1, 2002, the Company’s financial statements present the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the licensing business and operations of DSPG, which have been carved out from the financial statements of DSPG using the historical results of operations and historical bases of the assets and liabilities of the DSPG business that it comprises (the “Company’s Business”). The consolidated financial statements reflect the assets, liabilities, results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and related company investment, and cash flows as if the Company’s Business had operated as a separate entity for the periods presented.

The Company began accumulating its retained earnings on November 1, 2002, the date on which DSPG transferred to the Company all of the assets and liabilities relating to the Company’s Business.

The transfer of assets, liabilities and operations of the Company’s Business from DSPG is a reorganization of entities under common control and has been accounted for in a manner similar to a pooling of interests. Accordingly, the financial statements of the Company have been restated to include the Company’s Business as if it had always been operated as a separate entity.

The Company’s consolidated financial statements for the period prior to November 2002 include:

(1)Allocations of certain DSPG corporate headquarters assets, liabilities and expenses relating to the Company’s Business.

(2)Services from certain employees of DSPG in Japan and France who performed marketing and technical support activities and whose costs were allocated to the Company.

(3)Costs directly attributable to the Company’s Business including charges for shared facilities, functions and services used by the Company’s Business. Certain costs and expenses have been allocated based on management’s estimates of the cost of services provided to the Company’s Business. Such costs include research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses. Such allocations and charges are based on either a direct cost pass-through or a percentage of total costs for the services provided based on factors such as headcount or the specific level of activity directly related to such costs.

NOTES TO THE INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

(4)Payroll and related expenses, such as vacation, bonuses and compensation expenses, relating to the Company’s sales and marketing and research and development activities were attributed on a specific identification basis. Depreciation expenses were attributed based on the specific fixed assets attributed to the Company. General and administrative expenses, including corporate and officers’ salaries and related expenses, were attributed to the Company based on a weighted ratio composed of the percentage of time that administrative employees spent on the Company’s Business. Rent, maintenance and other administrative expenses were attributed based on relevant ratios, such as square footage and headcount. Other general and administrative expenses, such as legal and accounting fees, were attributed based on the estimations of DSPG’s management and the Company’s management.

(5)Interest income shown in the consolidated financial statements prior to the Combination reflects the interest income associated with the aggregate related company investment amount and the Company’s operating income for the period based on a weighted average interest rate for the period.

(6)All of the Company’s net income recorded during the period presented prior to Combination was returned to DSPG as part of DSPG’s company investment account.

Management believes that the foregoing allocations were made on a reasonable basis and would not have been materially different if the Company had operated as a stand-alone entity for all periods presented; however, the allocations of costs and expenses do not necessarily indicate the costs that would have been or will be incurred by the Company on a stand-alone basis.

The significant accounting policies applied in the annual consolidated financial statements of the Company as of December 31, 2002,2009, contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2003 (File No. 000-49842),15, 2010, have been applied consistently in these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

NOTE 3: MARKETABLE SECURITIES
Marketable securities consist of certificates of deposits, corporate bonds and securities and U.S. government and agency securities. The Company determines the appropriate classification of marketable securities at the time of purchase and re-evaluates such designation at each balance sheet date. In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) No. 320-10-25 “Investments in Debt and Equity Securities Recognition,” the Company classified marketable securities as available-for-sale securities. Available-for-sale securities are stated at fair value, with unrealized gains and losses reported in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), a separate component of stockholders’ equity, net of taxes. Realized gains and losses on sales of marketable securities, as determined on a specific identification basis, are included in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company has classified all marketable securities as short-term, even though the stated maturity date may be one year or more beyond the current balance sheet date, because it may sell these securities prior to maturity to meet liquidity needs or as part of risk versus reward objectives.
The Company periodically assesses whether its investments with unrealized losses are other than temporarily impaired (“OTTI”). OTTI charges exist when an entity has the intent to sell the security, it will more likely than not be required to sell the security before anticipated recovery, or it does not expect to recover the entire amortized cost basis of the security (that is, a credit loss exists). OTTI is determined based on the specific identification method and is reported in the interim condensed consolidated statements of operations. The Company did not recognize any OTTI charges on its marketable securities during the six months ended June 30, 2010 and 2009.

 

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(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
                 
  As at June 30, 2010 (Unaudited) 
      Gross  Gross    
  Amortized  unrealized  unrealized  Fair 
  cost  gains  losses  value 
Certificates of deposits $5,351  $8  $  $5,359 
Corporate bonds and securities  54,054   108   (307)  53,855 
             
  $59,405  $116  $(307) $59,214 
                 
  As at December 31, 2009 (Audited) 
      Gross  Gross    
  Amortized  unrealized  unrealized  Fair 
  cost  gains  losses  value 
Certificates of deposits $1,842  $6  $(1) $1,847 
U.S. government and agency securities  1,934   16      1,950 
Corporate bonds and securities  44,413   318   (90)  44,641 
             
  $48,189  $340  $(91) $48,438 
The following table summarizes the Company’s investments in marketable securities by the contractual maturity date of the security:
                 
  As at June 30, 2010 (Unaudited) 
      Gross  Gross    
  Amortized  unrealized  unrealized  Fair 
  cost  gains  losses  value 
Due in one year or less $23,506  $96  $(12) $23,590 
Due after one year to three years  35,899   20   (295)  35,624 
             
  $59,405  $116  $(307) $59,214 
                 
  As at December 31, 2009 (Audited) 
      Gross  Gross    
  Amortized  unrealized  unrealized  Fair 
  cost  gains  losses  value 
Due in one year or less $19,528  $159  $(2) $19,685 
Due after one year to three years  28,661   181   (89)  28,753 
             
  $48,189  $340  $(91) $48,438 
As of June 30, 2010 and December 31, 2009, management believes the losses detailed in the tables above are not OTTI. Management expects to recover the entire cost basis of these securities, and does not intend to sell or expect to be required to sell these investment before a recovery of the cost basis.
The total fair value of marketable securities with outstanding unrealized losses as of June 30, 2010 amounted to $34,195. Of the unrealized losses outstanding as of June 30, 2010, the entire amount of $307 was outstanding for less than 12 months.
Proceeds from maturity and sales of available-for-sale marketable securities during the six months ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 were $23,528 and $16,354, respectively. Gross realized gains and losses from the sale of available-for sale securities for the three months ended June 30, 2010 were $39 and $31, respectively, as compared to $2 and $6 for the comparable periods in 2009. Gross realized gains and losses from the sale of available-for sale securities for the six months ended June 30, 2010 were $52 and $38, respectively, as compared to $9 and $66 for the comparable periods in 2009.

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NOTES TO THE INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED
(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
NOTE 3:-4: FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT
FASB ASC No. 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value. Fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received for selling an asset or paid for the transfer of a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or a liability. A three-tier fair value hierarchy is established as a basis for considering such assumptions and for inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:
Level 1Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible on the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities;
Level 2Quoted prices in markets that are not active, or inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the asset or liability; and
Level 3Prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable (supported by little or no market activity).
The Company measures its marketable securities and foreign currency derivative contracts at fair value. Marketable securities are classified within Level 2 because they are valued using quoted market prices or alternative pricing sources and models utilizing market observable inputs. Foreign currency derivative contracts are classified within Level 2 as the valuation inputs are based on quoted prices and market observable data of similar instruments.
The table below sets forth the Company’s assets and liabilities measured at fair value by level within the fair value hierarchy. Assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
                 
Description June 30, 2010  Level I  Level II  Level III 
Assets:                
Short term bank deposits $12,079  $  $12,079  $ 
Marketable securities:                
Certificates of deposits  5,359      5,359    
Corporate bonds and securities  53,855      53,855    
Foreign exchange contracts  221      221    
Long term bank deposits  15,066      15,066    
                 
Liabilities:                
Foreign exchange contracts  194      194    
 
Description December 31, 2009  Level I  Level II  Level III 
Assets:                
Short term bank deposits $40,056  $  $40,056  $ 
Marketable securities:                
Certificates of deposits  1,847      1,847    
U.S. government and agency securities  1,950      1,950    
Corporate bonds and securities  44,641      44,641    
Foreign exchange contracts  128      128    
                 
Liabilities:                
Foreign exchange contracts  27      27    
In addition to the assets and liabilities described above, the Company’s financial instruments also include cash, cash equivalents, trade receivables, other accounts receivable, trade payables and accrued expenses and other payables. The fair values of these financial instruments were not materially different from their carrying values at June 30, 2010 due to the short-term maturity of such instruments.

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(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
NOTE 5: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION AND MAJOR CUSTOMER DATA

a. Summary information about geographic areas:

The Company manages its business on the basis of one industry segment,reportable segment: the licensing of intellectual property to semiconductor companies and electronic original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) complete, integrated intellectual property solutions that enable a wide variety of electronic devices (see Note 1 for a brief description of the Company’s business).

The following is a summary of operationsrevenues within geographic areas:

   

Nine months ended

September 30,


  

Three months ended

September 30,


  

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months
ended
June 30,

2003


   2003

  2002

  2003

  2002

  

Revenues based on customer location:

                    

United States

  $13,275  $4,932  $3,516  $1,990  $4,185

Europe, Middle East and Africa

   8,513   5,000   3,403   734   3,038

Asia

   5,444   3,602   2,383   2,128   1,864
   

  

  

  

  

   $27,232  $13,534  $9,302  $4,852  $9,087
   

  

  

  

  

                 
  Six months ended  Three months ended 
  June 30,  June 30, 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited) 
                 
Revenues based on customer location:                
United States $3,714  $3,056  $1,879  $2,497 
Europe and Middle East (1) (2)  11,217   8,772   4,503   3,519 
Asia Pacific (3) (4) (5)  6,279   6,795   4,227   3,094 
             
  $21,210  $18,623  $10,609  $9,110 
             
                 
(1) Sweden $2,587  $4,444  $1,197  $1,141 
(2) Germany $5,158    *)   *)   *)
(3) China $2,897    *) $2,314    *)
(4) S. Korea   *) $2,037  $1,141    *)
(5) Japan   *) $2,696    *) $1,409 
*)Less than 10%
b. Major customer data as a percentage of total revenues:

The following table sets forth the customers that represented 10% or more of the Company’s net revenuetotal revenues in each of the periods set forth below.

   

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ended

September 30,


  

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ended

September 30,


  

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months
ended
June 30,

2003


 
   2003

  2002

  2003

  2002

  

Customer A

  11.5% —    10.1% —    14.0%

Customer B

  10.0% —    —    —    14.7%

Customer C

  —    —    13.7% —    —   

Customer D

  —    —    10.9% —    —   

Customer E

  —    13.5% —    —    —   

Customer F

  —    13.3% —    35.7% —   

Customer G

  —    11.2% —    31.3% —   

                 
  Six months ended  Three months ended 
  June 30,  June 30, 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited) 
Customer A  18%  16%  17%  14%
Customer B  24%   (*)   (*)   (*)
Customer C   (*)   (*)  15%   (*)
Customer D   (*)   (*)   (*)  18%
Customer E   (*)  11%   (*)   (*)
(*)Less than 10%
NOTES TO THE INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

NOTE 4:-6: NET INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE OF COMMON STOCK

Basic net income (loss) per share is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of Common Stockcommon stock outstanding during each period. Diluted net income (loss) per share is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of Common Stockcommon stock outstanding during each period, plus dilutive potential shares of Common Stockcommon stock considered outstanding during the period, in accordance with Statement of Financial StandardFASB ASC No. 128,260, “Earnings Per Share”. The potential common shares that were anti-dilutive at September 30, June 30, 2003 and March 31, 2003 were 2.6 million shares, 4.3 million shares and 3.3 million shares, respectively. There were no potential common shares that were anti-dilutive for the comparable periods in 2002.

   Nine months ended
September 30,


  Three months ended
September 30,


  

Three
months
ended
June 30,

2003


   2003

  2002

  2003

  2002

  

Net income (loss)

  $(2,420) $2,491  $(1,134) $981  $32
   


 

  


 

  

Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share

  $(0.134) $0.276  $(0.063) $0.109  $0.002
   


 

  


 

  

Weighted average number of shares of Common Stock used in computation of net income (loss) per share (in thousands):

                    

Basic

   18,085   9,041   18,108   9,041   18,079

Diluted

   18,085   9,041   18,108   9,041   18,149
   


 

  


 

  

Share.”
                 
  Six months ended  Three months ended 
  June 30,  June 30, 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited) 
Numerator:
                
Numerator for basic and diluted net income per share $4,182  $3,683  $2,123  $2,315 
             
                 
Denominator:
                
Denominator for basic net income per share  20,859   19,536   21,061   19,515 
Effect of employee stock options  1,132   348   1,008   499 
             
Denominator for diluted net income per share  21,991   19,884   22,069   20,014 
             
                 
Basic net income per share $0.20  $0.19  $0.10  $0.12 
             
Diluted net income per share $0.19  $0.19  $0.10  $0.12 
             

 

NOTE 5:- STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS10


The Company issues stock options to its employees and directors and provides employees the right to purchase stock pursuant to approved stock option and employee stock purchase programs. The Company accounts for its stock-based compensation plans under the intrinsic value method of accounting as defined by Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees”, and related interpretations. No stock-based employee compensation cost is reflected in net income for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2003 as all options granted under these plans had an exercise price equal to the fair market value of the underlying common stock on the date of grant. There were no options outstanding in the three or nine months ended September 30, 2002. No options were granted in the quarter ended March 31, 2003. Options to purchase 1.4 million shares at exercise prices ranging from $3.36 to $7.45 per share were granted in the quarter ended June 30, 2003. Options to purchase 16,220 shares at an exercise price of $7.65 per share were granted in the quarter ended September 30, 2003.

In May 2003, the Company made an offer to its employees (including executive officers) and directors to exchange their outstanding options to purchase shares of Common Stock that had an exercise price of more than $5.50 per share. In exchange for eligible options, participants received a commitment for new stock options to be granted on or after December 19, 2003. Only those participants in the option exchange who are employees or directors of the Company on the date the new options are granted will be eligible to receive the new grant. In deciding to make this offer, the Company’s Board of Directors and management considered the need to motivate and retain employees. At the time, all then-outstanding options had exercise prices significantly in excess of the trading price of the Company’s common stock, which substantially eroded the incentive value of those options. In addition, the exercise price for the substantial majority of the then-outstanding options had been fixed prior to the spin-off of the Company and its combination with Parthus Technologies, based upon a third party’s estimated valuation, which included assumptions which proved unrealistic in the ensuing economic environment. As a consequence, the exercise prices of then-outstanding options never reflected actual trading values of the Company’s common stock. Options to purchase a total of 1,778,172 shares of Common Stock were accepted for exchange under the offer and accordingly were cancelled as of June 18, 2003. The Company intends to grant new options, to purchase approximately 1,778,172 shares, on or after December 19, 2003. The new options will have an exercise price per share equal to the closing price on the NASDAQ National Market on the date the new options are granted.

During the third quarter of 2003, the Company issued 98,178 shares of Common Stock to employees under the approved 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan for consideration of $355,000.

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(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

As required by SFAS No. 123, as amended by SFAS No. 148, pro forma information regarding net income (loss) and net income (loss) per share is provided below, and has been determined as if ParthusCeva had accounted for its employee stock options under the fair value method of that Statement. The fair value for these options was estimated at the date of grant using a Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:

Three and nine

months ended

September 30,


2003

2002

Dividend yield

0%—  

Expected volatility

80%—  

Risk-free interest rate

2%—  

Expected life

4 Years—  

The weighted average fair valuenumber of shares related to the outstanding options excluded from the calculation of diluted net income per share since their effect was anti-dilutive was 51,404 and 46,486 shares for the three and six months ended June 30, 2010, respectively, and 2,078,256 and 2,733,197 shares for the corresponding periods of 2009.
NOTE 7: COMMON STOCK AND STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS
The Company grants stock options to employees and non-employee directors of the Company and its subsidiaries and provides the right to purchase common stock pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plan to employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. Most of the options granted tounder the employees ofCompany’s stock-based compensation plans have been granted at the Company during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2003 was $4.54 and $3.64 per share, respectively. The exercise prices of such options were equal to thefair market pricevalue of the Company’s common stock aton the dategrant date. A summary of the respectiveCompany’s stock option grants.

activity and related information for the three months ended June 30, 2010, is as follows:

         
      Weighted 
  Number of  average exercise 
  options  price 
Outstanding as of March 31, 2010  3,527,326  $7.83 
Granted  142,500   12.49 
Exercised  (238,023)  4.91 
Forfeited or expired  (11,199)  9.13 
       
Outstanding as of June 30, 2010  3,420,604  $8.23 
       
Exercisable as of June 30, 2010  2,187,777  $7.81 
       
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2010, the Company issued 0 and 89,365 shares of common stock under its employee stock purchase plan for an aggregate consideration of 0 and $525, respectively.
The following pro forma information includestable shows the effecttotal equity-based compensation expense included in the condensed consolidated statement of operations:
                 
  Six months ended  Three months ended 
  June 30,  June 30, 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited) 
Cost of revenue $33  $69  $15  $34 
Research and development expenses  306   492   139   230 
Sales and marketing expenses  208   304   96   142 
General and administrative expenses  577   660   290   311 
             
Total $1,124  $1,525  $540  $717 
             
The fair value for the Company’s stock options granted to employees and non-employees directors was estimated using the following assumptions:
         
  Three months ended 
  June 30, 
  2010  2009 
  (unaudited)  (unaudited) 
Expected dividend yield  0%  0%
Expected volatility  38%-62%  49%-78%
Risk-free interest rate  0.3%-2.6%  0.5%-3.4%
Expected forfeiture (employees)  10%  10%
Expected forfeiture (executives)  5%  5%
Contractual term of up to 7 Years  7 Years 
Suboptimal exercise multiple (employees)  1.5   1.5 
Suboptimal exercise multiple (executives)  1.3   1.3 

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(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
The Company did not grant new purchase rights under the 2002 employee stock purchase plan during the three months ended June 30, 2010 and 2009.
As of June 30, 2010 and 2009, there were balances of $1,845 and $2,846, respectively, of unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested awards. The impact of equity-based compensation expense on basic net income per share was $0.03 and $0.05 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2010, respectively, and $0.04 and $0.08 for the corresponding periods of 2009. The impact of equity-based compensation expense on diluted net income per share was $0.02 and $0.05 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2010, respectively, and $0.04 and $0.08 for the corresponding periods of 2009.
NOTE 8: DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
The Company implemented the requirements of FASB ASC No. 815,” Derivatives and Hedging” which requires companies to recognize all of their derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities in the statement of financial position at fair value. The accounting for changes in fair value (i.e., gains or losses) of a derivative instrument depends on whether it has been designated and qualifies as part of a hedging transaction and further, on the type of hedging transaction. For those derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as hedging instruments, a company must designate the hedging instrument, based upon the exposure being hedged, as a fair value hedge, cash flow hedge, or a hedge of a net investment in a foreign operation. Due to the Company’s global operations, it is exposed to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations in the normal course of its business. The Company’s treasury policy allows it to offset the risks associated with the effects of certain foreign currency exposures through the purchase of foreign exchange forward or option contracts (“Hedging Contracts”). The policy, however, prohibits the Company from speculating on such Hedging Contracts for profit. To protect against the increase in value of forecasted foreign currency cash flow resulting from salaries paid in currencies other than the U.S. dollar during the year, the Company instituted a foreign currency cash flow hedging program. The Company hedges portions of the anticipated payroll of its non-U.S. employees denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar for a period of one to purchase shares. For purposestwelve months with Hedging Contracts. Accordingly, when the dollar strengthens against the foreign currencies, the decline in present value of pro forma disclosures,future foreign currency expenses is offset by losses in the estimated fair value of the optionsHedging Contracts. Conversely, when the dollar weakens, the increase in the present value of future foreign currency expenses is amortizedoffset by gains in the fair value of the Hedging Contracts. These Hedging Contracts are designated as cash flow hedges and are all effective as hedges of these expenses.
For derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as a cash flow hedge (i.e., hedging the exposure to expense overvariability in expected future cash flows that is attributable to a particular risk), the options’ vesting period.

   

Three months
ended

September 30,


  

Nine months

ended

September 30,


   2003

  2002

  2003

  2002

Net income (loss) as reported

  $(1,134) $981  $(2,420) $2,491
   


 

  


 

Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method for all awards, net of related tax effects

  $(3,024) $—    $(9,737) $—  
   


 

  


 

Pro forma net income (loss)

  $(4,158) $981  $(12,157) $2,491
   


 

  


 

Income (loss) per share:

                

Basic & diluted as reported

  $(0.063) $—    $(0.134) $—  
   


 

  


 

Basic & diluted pro forma

  $(0.230) $—    $(0.672) $—  
   


 

  


 

effective portion of the gain or loss on the derivative instrument is reported as a component of other comprehensive income (loss) and reclassified into earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged transaction affects earnings. Any gain or loss on a derivative instrument in excess of the cumulative change in the present value of future cash flows of the hedged item is recognized in current earnings during the period of change. As of June 30, 2010 and 2009, the notional principal amount of the Hedging Contracts held by the Company was $6,790 and $5,990, respectively.

Other derivative instruments that are not designated as hedging instruments consist of forward contracts that the Company uses to hedge monetary assets denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Gains and losses on these contracts as well as related costs are included in financial income, net, along with the gains and losses of the related hedged item. As of June 30, 2010 and 2009, the notional principal amount of the foreign exchange contracts held by the Company was $8,302 and $0, respectively.
The pro forma stock compensation expense presented aboveCompany recorded in cost of revenues and operating expenses a net loss of $22 and a net gain of $83 for the periodthree and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2003 has been calculated using the accrual method.

There are no pro forma numbers2010, respectively, and a net loss of $123 and $362 for the first nine monthscomparable periods of 2002 as ParthusCeva’s common stock has only been publicly trading since November 1, 2002. Refer2009, related to Note 2 for further details.

NOTE 6:- REORGANIZATION AND SEVERANCE CHARGE

its Hedging Contracts. In the first and third quarters of 2003,addition, the Company recorded reorganizationin financial income, net, a gain of $216 and severance charges of $1,380$221 for the three and $1,402, respectively. six months ended June 30, 2010, respectively, related to derivatives not designated as hedging instruments. There were no derivatives not designated as hedging instruments for the three and six months ended June 30, 2009.

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NOTES TO THE INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED
(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
The charges arose in connection with the implementationfair value of the Company’s strategic initiative to strengthen its headquarters functionoutstanding derivative instruments is as follows:
         
  As at June 30,  As of December 31, 
  2010  2009 
  (Unaudited)  (Audited) 
Derivative assets:
        
Derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments:        
Foreign exchange option contracts $  $103 
Foreign exchange forward contracts     25 
       
      128 
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:        
Foreign exchange forward contracts  221    
       
Total $221  $128 
       
         
Derivative liabilities:
        
Derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments:        
Foreign exchange option contracts  4    
Foreign exchange forward contracts  190   27 
       
Total $194  $27 
       
The Company recorded the fair value of derivative assets in “prepaid expenses and other accounts receivable” and the fair value of derivative liabilities in “accrued expenses and other payables” in the U.S.Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet.
The increase (decrease) in gains recognized in “accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)” on derivatives, before tax effect, is as follows:
                 
  Six months ended  Three months ended 
  June 30,  June 30, 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited) 
Derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments:                
Foreign exchange option contracts $11  $(274) $(4) $173 
Foreign exchange forward contracts  (223)  (86)  (225)  251 
             
  $(212) $(360) $(229) $424 
             
The gains (losses), includingreclassified from “accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)” into income, are as follows:
                 
  Six months ended  Three months ended 
  June 30,  June 30, 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited)  (unaudited) 
Derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments:                
Foreign exchange option contracts $(118) $284  $  $157 
Foreign exchange forward contracts  35   78   22   (34)
             
  $(83) $362  $22  $123 
             
NOTE 9: SHARE REPURCHASE PROGRAM
In May 2010, the hiringCompany announced that its board of directors approved the expansion of its share repurchase program by another two million shares of common stock, with one million shares available for repurchase in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and one million shares available for repurchase in accordance with Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This authorization is in addition to the previously announced repurchase program of one million shares, which was fully utilized during the second quarter of 2010.

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NOTES TO THE INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED
(U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
During the second quarter of 2010, the Company repurchased 108,009 shares of common stock at an average purchase price of $11.2 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.2 million. The Company did not repurchase any common stock during the first quarter of 2010. As of June 30, 2010, 1,998,400 shares of common stock remain available for repurchase under its share repurchase program.
The repurchases of common stock are accounted for as treasury stock, and result in a reduction of stockholders’ equity. When treasury shares are reissued, the Company charges the excess of the repurchase cost over issuance price using the weighted average method to accumulated deficit. In the event the repurchase cost using the weighted average method is lower than the issuance price, the Company credits the difference to additional paid-in capital.
During both the second quarter and first half of 2010, the Company issued 6,609 shares of common stock, out of treasury stock, to employees who exercised their stock options. During the second quarter and first half of 2009, the Company issued 32,679 and 131,561 shares, respectively, of common stock, out of treasury stock, to employees who exercised their stock options or purchased shares from the Company’s 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
NOTE 10: OTHER INCOME
The Company recorded a capital gain of $1,901 during both the second quarter and first half of 2009 from the divestment of its equity investment in GloNav Inc. to NXP Semiconductors.
NOTE 11: RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
In July 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2010-20, Receivables (Topic 310),Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses. The update enhances disclosures about the credit quality of financing receivables and the allowance for credit losses. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of these standards on its consolidated financial statements.
In February 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-09,Subsequent Events(“ASU No. 2010-09”). The amendment removes the requirement for an SEC filer to disclose a date through which subsequent events have been evaluated in both issued and revised financial statements. The amendment is effective upon issuance and as such the Company adopted ASU No. 2010-09 during the first quarter of 2010. The Company has evaluated subsequent events after March 31, 2010 through the date and time the condensed consolidated financial statements were issued. There were no subsequent events that required disclosure or adjustment to the financial statements.
In January 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-06,Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements,which requires disclosures about inputs and valuation techniques used to measure fair value, as well as disclosures about significant transfers, beginning in the first quarter of 2010. Additionally, these amended standards require presentation of disaggregated activity within the reconciliation for fair value measurements using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), beginning in the first quarter of 2011. The Company does not expect these new standards to significantly impact its condensed consolidated financial statements.
In October 2009, the FASB issued a new chief executive officer andaccounting standard, ASU No. 2009-13 “Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements, “ which provides guidance for arrangements with multiple deliverables. Specifically, the new standard requires an entity to allocate consideration at the inception of an arrangement to all of its deliverables based on their relative selling prices. In the absence of the vendor-specific objective evidence or third-party evidence of the selling prices, consideration must be allocated to the deliverables based on management’s best estimate of the selling prices. In addition, the new standard eliminates the use of the residual method of allocation. In October 2009, the FASB also issued a new chief financial officer,accounting standard, ASU No. 2009-14, “Certain Revenue Arrangements That Include Software Elements,” which changes revenue recognition for tangible products containing software and hardware elements. Specifically, tangible products containing software and hardware that function together to deliver the related resignationstangible products’ essential functionality are scoped out of the Company’s Ireland-based chief executive officerexisting software revenue recognition guidance and chief financial officer andwill be accounted for under the resignationsmultiple-element arrangements revenue recognition guidance discussed above. Both standards will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of the Company’s Chairman and Vice-Chairman from their executive management positions. Also included are severance charges for 8 employees arising from the decision to discontinue the Company’s Hard IP manufacturing business.2011. The Company had also recorded a restructuring charge inis currently evaluating the fourth quarterimpact of 2002.

these standards on its condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

The major components of the fourth quarter 2002 restructuring charge and the first and third quarter 2003 reorganization charges are as follows:14

   

Balance at
December 31,

2002


  Charge

  Cash

  

Balance at
September 30,

2003


Reorganization payments

  $125  $2,632  $2,178  $579

Onerous leases

   2,898   —    $1,119   1,779

Professional fees

   231   150  $381   —  
   

  

  

  

   $3,254  $2,782  $3,678  $2,358
   

  

  

  


Item 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

You should read the following discussion together with the unaudited financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this quarterly report. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual resultsAny or all of our forward-looking statements in this quarterly report may differ materially from those indicatedturn out to be wrong. These forward-looking statements can be affected by suchinaccurate assumptions we might make or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements.statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Factors which could cause actual results to differ materially include those set forth under “—in Part II — Item 1A — “Risk Factors, That Could Affect Our Operating Results”, as well as those otherwise discussed in this section and elsewhere in this quarterly report. See “Forward-Looking Statements”.Statements.”

INTRODUCTION

ParthusCeva was formed through the combination of Parthus Technologies plc and ParthusCeva, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of DSP Group, Inc., on November 1, 2002. With respect to periods prior to November 1, 2002, the discussion below assumes that the separation of the DSP cores licensing business from DSP Group had been in effect throughout the relevant periods. Our financial statements show the DSP cores licensing business as an entity carved out from the consolidated financial statements of DSP Group using the historical results of operations and historical bases of assets and liabilities of this business. This information may not reflect what our financial position or results of operations actually would have been had we operated as a separate, stand-alone entity for the periods presented, and may not be indicative of our future financial position or results of operations. We have not made adjustments to our historical

BUSINESS OVERVIEW
The financial information for periods prior to November 1, 2002 to reflect the significant changespresented in our cost structure, funding and operations that have resulted from the separation of the DSP cores licensing business from DSP Group and our combination with Parthus.This discussionthis quarterly report includes the results of CEVA, Inc. and its subsidiaries. CEVA is the businessworld’s leading licensor of Parthus only for the periods following the combination on November 1, 2002.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

ParthusCeva licenses to semiconductor companies and electronic equipment manufacturers complete, integrated intellectual property solutions that enable a wide variety of electronic devices. Our programmable DSP cores and application-levelplatform solutions. Our technologies are widely licensed and power some of the world’s leading semiconductor and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) companies. In 2009, our licensees shipped over 334 million CEVA-powered chipsets, an increase of 9% over 2008 shipments of 307 million chipsets. In 2009, Gartner Inc. reported our share of the licensable DSP market at 46%.

Given the technological complexity of DSP-based applications, there are increased requirements to supplement the DSP core IP platforms powerwith additional technologies in the form of integrated application-specific hardware peripherals and software components. Therefore, we believe there is an industry shift from developing DSP technologies in-house to licensing them from third party IP providers, like us, due to the design cycle time constantly shortening and the cost of ownership and maintenance of such architectures.
During the past three years, our business has shown profitability growth and market share expansion as a result of the widespread deployment of our DSP cores with all major handset OEMs — LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson — and many others, including a major U.S.-based smartphone manufacturer. This positive trend is evident from our royalty revenues which increased by 13% in 2009 from 2008 and increased 78% when comparing 2009 to 2007. Based on internal data and iSupply worldwide shipment data, CEVA’s worldwide market share of baseband chips for handsets that incorporate our technologies reached approximately 29% of the worldwide handsets volume based on first quarter 2010 worldwide shipments. Revenues derived from the handsets market accounted for approximately 58% and 57% of our total annual royalty revenues and total annual revenues, respectively, for 2009. We believe the full scale migration to our DSP cores and technologies in the handsets market has not been fully realized and continues to progress. Also, we are optimistic about adoption of our technologies for new categories of products, such as data cards, USB dongles, smart metering, tablets, netbooks, and eReaders. The announcements by Texas Instruments and Freescale of their intent to exit the baseband market, after historically having been large players in this market, is a strong positive driver for our future market share expansion.
We believe both the handsets and mobile broadband markets continue to present significant growth opportunities for CEVA. According to Ericsson’s management commentary, as of June 2010, there were more than five billion cellular subscriptions worldwide, which is 72% of the entire global population. iSuppli forecasts that worldwide handset shipments will grow 11% in 2010 to 1.3 billion units, with the majority of the growth coming from ultra-low-cost phone demands in developing countries and the broader adoption of advanced smartphones in mature markets. We are well-positioned to capitalize on the growth in the ultra-low-cost phone, smartphone and mobile broadband markets as key chip suppliers serving these markets use our technologies broadly. ABI Research forecasts that shipments of cellular-based devices will nearly double in 2014 from 2009, reaching 2.2 billion units. The source of this substantial growth is primarily due to new categories of devices that utilize cellular connectivity. More commonly referred to as mobile broadband connectivity, these devices comprise of various consumer and machine-to-machine equipment, including eReaders, netbooks, tablets, data cards and smart metering equipment. Every cellular-connected device requires a DSP-based modem for connectivity and many of the leading suppliers of these modems are using our DSP technologies.
Beyond products enabled by our technologies in handsets and mobile broadband markets, in 2009, we witnessed a noticeable increase in design starts of next-generation 4G WiMAX/LTE products utilizing our advanced DSP cores. Fourth generation wireless devices, handheld devices, consumer electronics products GPS devices, consumer audiorequire much greater performance and flexibility than 3G products. In addition to our CEVA-X family of DSP cores currently being designed into multiple 4G chipsets, we introduced a new DSP architecture, the CEVA-XC, in February 2009, to specifically address the unique and evolving needs of implementing LTE/4G, WiMAX and Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based wireless communication applications. We further enhanced this product offering by adding critical LTE software libraries and a robust partner program in 2010. During the second quarter of 2010, we completed three licensing agreements for CEVA-XC; this underscores our belief that this new product line is well positioned to expand our licensee base in both existing wireless handsets and new wireless infrastructure markets.

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Notwithstanding the various growth opportunities we have outlined above, our business operates in a highly competitive environment. Competition has historically increased pricing pressures for our products and automotive applications. We develop and marketdecreased our integrated portfolioaverage selling prices. Some of open-licensable IP in three distinct areas: DSP cores, system-on-a-chip sub-systems and application-specific platform IP.

Our strategy is to engage inour competitors have reduced their licensing and royalty agreementsfees to attract customers and expand their market share. In order to penetrate new markets and maintain our market share with leading semiconductor manufacturers and OEMs that have a track record of successful adoption and deployment of key next-generation technologies.our existing products, we may need to offer our products in the future at lower prices which may result in lower profits. In addition, we derive a portionour future growth is dependent not only on the continued success of our revenues fromexisting products but also the salesuccessful introduction of new products, which requires the dedication of resources into research and development boards and tool kits, development work which we referin turn may increase our operating expenses. We currently anticipate that our operating expenses will increase during 2010 in comparison to as IP Creation and the sale of our GPS technology in modular form which we refer2009, mainly due to as Hard IP. In the third quarter of 2003 management determined that Hard IP was not part of the future strategic focus of the Company and a plan has been implemented to end of life Hard IP by December 31, 2003.

We seek to leverage our substantial investment to dateincreased investments in research and development, including the addition of new engineers, and currency exchange expenses as the U.S. dollar is currently devalued against the New Israeli Shekel (“NIS”), Euro, and British Pound, which are the primary currencies for our employee salary expenses. In addition to utilizemonitoring and controlling our experienced R&D staffoperating expenses, we must maintain our current level of gross margin in order to enhanceoffset any future declines in shipment quantities of products based on our technologies or any future declines in any per-unit royalty rates. Furthermore, since our products are incorporated into end products of our OEM customers, our business is very dependent on our OEM customers’ ability to achieve market acceptance of their end products in the handsets and consumer electronic markets, which are similarly very competitive.

The ever-changing nature of the market also affects our continued business growth potential. For example, the success of our video and audio products are highly dependent on the market adoption of new services and products, such as smartphones, connected devices in the form of DTV, set-top boxes, tablets, mobile Internet devices, HD video and audio within products such as Blu-ray DVDs, digital TVs, set-top boxes. In addition, our business is affected by market conditions in emerging markets, such as China, India and Latin America, where the penetration of handsets, especially ultra-low-cost phones, could generate future growth potential for our business. The maintenance of our competitive position and our future growth also are dependent on our ability to adapt to ever-changing technology, offeringsshort product life cycles, evolving industry standards, changing customer needs and the trend towards cellular connectivity, and voice, audio and video convergence in the markets that we operate.
Moreover, due to drivethe uncertainty about the sustainability of the market recovery, it is extremely difficult for our customers, our vendors and us to accurately forecast and plan future business activities. Therefore, the current economic conditions, and specifically the volatility in the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries, could seriously impact our revenue growth by offering cutting-edge solutions.

and harm our business, financial condition and operating results. As a result, our past operating results should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Total Revenues

Total revenues were $9.3$10.6 and $21.2 million infor the thirdsecond quarter and first half of 2003,2010, respectively, representing an increase of 2.4%16% and 14%, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2009. The increase in total revenues reflected significantly higher royalty revenues, as well as higher licensing revenues from $9.1 millionour different product lines, offset by lower revenues from the provision of technical support to customers. Five largest customers accounted for 59% and 63% of total revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, as compared to 54% and 52% for the comparable periods in 2009. Two customers accounted for 17% and 15% of total revenues for the second quarter of 20032010, as compared to two different customers that accounted for 14% and an increase18% of 91.7% from $4.9 million in the third quarter of 2002. Totaltotal revenues were $27.2 million for the first nine months of 2003, an increase of 101.2% from $13.5 million for the first nine months of 2002. The increase over the second quarter of 2003 primarily reflects an increase in royalty revenues of $313,000. The increase over the comparative periods in 2002 principally reflects the combination with Parthus in November 2002, which resulted in additional revenues from licensing and royalties on platform-level IP solutions, IP Creation and Hard IP.

Licensing and royalty revenues accounted for 82.3% of our total revenues in the third quarter and 80.1% in the first nine months of 2003, compared with 80.8% for the third quarter of 2002 and 80.7% for the first nine months of 2002. Revenues from three2009. Two customers accounted for 13.7, 10.9%18% and 10.1% of total revenues in the third quarter of 2003; revenues from two customers accounted for 11.5% and 10.0%24% of total revenues for the first nine monthshalf of 2003.

Licensing2010, as compared to two different customers that accounted for 16% and Royalty11% of total revenues for the first half of 2009. Because of the nature of our license agreements and the associated large initial payments due, the identity of major customers generally varies from quarter to quarter and we do not believe that we are materially dependent on any one specific customer or any specific small number of licensees. Our total revenues derived from the handsets market represented 70% and 69% of our total revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, as compared to 59% and 52% for the comparable periods of 2009.

We generate our revenues from licensing our technology, which in certain circumstances is modified to customer-specific requirements. Revenues

Licensing from license fees that involve customization of our technology to customer specifications are recognized in accordance with the principles set out in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codifications (“ASC”) No. 605-35-25 “Construction-Type and Production-Type Contracts Recognition.” We account for all of our other IP license revenues and related services in accordance with FASB ASC No. 985-605, “Software Revenue Recognition.”

We generate royalty revenue from our customers based on two models: royalties paid by our customers during the period in which they ship units of chipsets incorporating our technology, which we refer to as “per unit royalties,” and royalties which are paid in a lump sum and in advance to cover a pre-determined fixed number of future unit shipments, which we refer to as “prepaid royalties.” In either case, these royalties are non-refundable payments and are recognized when payment becomes due, provided no future obligation exists. Prepaid royalties are recognized under our licensing revenue line and accounted for 2% and 11% of total revenues were $7.7 million in the third quarter of 2003, an increase of 6.7% from $7.2 million infor the second quarter of 20032010 and 2009, respectively, and 1% and 5% of total revenues for the first half of 2010 and 2009, respectively. Only royalty revenue from customers who are paying as they ship units of chipsets incorporating our technology is recognized in our royalty revenue line. These per unit royalties are invoiced and recognized on a quarterly basis in arrears as we receive quarterly shipment reports from our licensees.

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Licensing Revenues
Licensing revenues were $4.6 and $9.3 million for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, an increase of 95.1% from $3.9 million in the third quarter of 2002. Licensing7% and royalty revenues were $21.8 million in the first nine months of 2003, an increase of 99.7% from $10.9 million in the first nine months of 2002. The increase6% from the second quarter and first half of 2003 primarily reflects2009. The increase in licensing revenues for the second quarter of 2010 as compared to the corresponding period of 2009 resulted mainly from higher revenues from our CEVA-X DSP core family of products. The increase in licensing revenues for the first half of 2010 as compared to the corresponding period of 2009 resulted mainly from higher revenues from our CEVA-TeakLite DSP core family of products, partially offset by lower revenues from our CEVA-X DSP core family of products and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products. We are experiencing strong interest and pipe line build-up for our DSP cores due to general business improvements in our primary markets, particularly the cellular baseband market, and the availability of our new advanced CEVA-XC DSP product.
Licensing revenues accounted for 43% and 44% of our total revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, compared to 47% of our total revenues for both the second quarter and first half of 2009. During the second quarter of 2010, we concluded nine new license agreements. All nine agreements were for CEVA DSP cores, platforms and software. During the second quarter of 2010, we experienced strong demand from wireless industry leaders for our flagship CEVA-XC DSP product, which is part of our CEVA-X DSP core family of products, to power their LTE users equipment and facilitate network upgrades. Three of the nine licensing agreements concluded during the second quarter of 2010 were for our new CEVA-XC DSP product. Target applications for customer deployment are 3G and 4G handsets, mobile broadband, cellular base stations, VoIP TVs and Blu-ray players. Geographically, four of the nine deals concluded were in the U.S., four were in Asia and one was in Europe.
Royalty Revenues
Royalty revenues were $5.2 and $10.1 million for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, an increase of 30% and 31% from the second quarter and first half of 2009. Royalty revenues accounted for 49% and 48% of our total revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, compared to 43% and 42% for the comparable periods of 2009. Royalty revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010 included $0.4 million of catch-up royalties on past shipments, resulting from two existing customers in the consumer space. Royalty revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2009 included $0.9 million of royalties resulting from “catch up” royalties on past shipments from another existing customer. Excluding the “catch up” royalties, the increase in royalty revenues of $313,000 and licensing revenues of $167,000. The increase from the 2002 periods primarily reflects the combination with Parthus.

Of the total licensing and royalty revenues, royalty revenues were $1.2 million in the third quarter of 2003, an increase of 36.7% from $854,000 infor the second quarter and first half of 2003 and an increase of 430.5% from $220,0002010 reflected our market share expansion in the third quarter of 2002. Royalty revenues were $2.6 millionhandsets market, offset by a decrease in the first nine monthsaverage royalty rate per unit as a result of 2003, an increasea change in product mix due to higher shipments of 48.9% from $1.82G/EDGE phones as compare to high end smartphones. Our per unit and prepaid royalty customers reported sales of 126 and 247 million in the first nine months of 2002. The increase in the third quarter of 2003 compared withchipsets incorporating our technology for the second quarter and first half of 2003 was driven by increases in2010, respectively, compared to 65 and 124 million for the underlyingcomparable periods of 2009. The five largest customers paying per unit shipmentsroyalty accounted for 77% and 80% of customers’our total royalty revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, compared to 83% and 69% for the comparable periods of 2009.

As of June 30, 2010, 25 licensees were shipping products incorporating our Teak DSP core. We hadtechnologies pursuant to 34 licensing arrangements. Of the 34 licensing arrangements, 30 are under per unit royalty arrangements and 4 are under prepayment arrangements. As of June 30, 2009, 21 licensees were shipping products incorporating our technologies pursuant to 28 licensing arrangements. Of the 28 licensing arrangements, 24 royalty-paying licensees in the third quarter of 2003, compared with 21 inwere under per unit royalty arrangements and 4 were under prepayment arrangements.
Other Revenues
Other revenues were $0.9 and $1.8 million for the second quarter and first half of 2003. Royalty-generating licensees reported sales2010, respectively, a decrease of 14.5 million chips incorporating our technology in the third quarter of 2003, compared with 10.4 million chips in3% and 16% from the second quarter and first half of 2003.

Other Revenues

Other2009, respectively. The decrease in other revenues were $1.7 million in the third quarter of 2003, a decrease of 13.9% from $1.9 million infor the second quarter and first half of 2003. The third quarter 2003 figure represents an increase2010, as compared to the corresponding periods of 77.3%2009, reflected principally lower support-related revenues, mainly associated with our customers’ tighter expense controls and refraining from $931,000 in the third quarter of 2002.extending or renewing support-related agreements. Other revenues accounted for 8% of our total revenues for both the second quarter and first half of 2010, compared to 10% and 11% for the comparable periods of 2009. Other revenues include support and training for licensees and sale of development systems.

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Geographic Revenue Analysis
                                 
  First Half  First Half  Second Quarter  Second Quarter 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
  (in millions, except percentages)  (in millions, except percentages) 
                                 
United States $3.7   17% $3.0   16% $1.9   18% $2.5   27%
Europe and MiddleEast (1) (2)
 $11.2   53% $8.8   47% $4.5   42% $3.5   39%
AsiaPacific (3) (4) (5)
 $6.3   30% $6.8   37% $4.2   40% $3.1   34%
                                 
(1) Sweden $2.6   12% $4.4   24% $1.2   11% $1.1   13%
(2) Germany $5.2   24% $*)  *) $*)  *) $*)  *)
(3) China $2.9   14% $*)  *) $2.3   22% $*)  *)
(4) S. Korea $*)  *) $2.0   11% $1.1   11% $*)  *)
(5) Japan $*)  *) $2.7   14% $*)  *) $1.4   15%
*)Less than 10%
Due to the nature of our license agreements and the associated potential large individual contract amounts, the geographic split of revenues both in absolute and percentage terms generally varies from quarter to quarter.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues were $5.4 million in the first nine months of 2003, an increase of 107.3% from $2.6$0.9 and $1.6 million for the second quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2002. The increase in Other revenues from2010, respectively, compared to $1.2 and $2.4 million for the comparable periods in 2002 was primarily due to revenues generated in IP Creation and Hard IP in the 2003 periods following the combination with Parthus.

Geographic Revenue Analysis

The following is a summary of operations within geographic areas:

   Nine months ended
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September 30,


  

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months
ended
June 30,

2003


   2003

  2002

  2003

  2002

  

Revenues based on customer location:

                    

United States

  % 48.7  % 36.4  % 37.8  % 41.0  % 46.1

Europe, Middle East and Africa

   31.3   36.9   36.6   15.1   33.4

Asia

   20.0   26.7   25.6   43.9   20.5
   

  

  

  

  

   % 100.0  % 100.0  % 100.0  % 100.0  % 100.0

Cost of Revenues

Cost of revenues was $1.4 million in the third quarter of 2003, a decrease of 11.6% from $1.6 million in the second quarter of 2003. The third quarter 2003 figure represents an increase of 339.4% from $322,000 in the third quarter of 2002, reflecting the combination of an increase in revenues and a change in revenue mix.2009. Cost of revenues accounted for 15.2%8% and 17.1%7% of our total revenues for the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003,2010, respectively, compared with 6.6%to 13% for both the comparable periods of 2009. The decrease for the second quarter of 2010 principally reflected lower customization work for our licensees and 6.9%lower royalty payback expenses paid to the Office of Chief Scientist of Israel. The decrease for the first half of 2010 principally reflected lower customization work for our licensees, lower salary and related costs and lower royalty payback expenses paid to the Office of Chief Scientist of Israel. Royalty payback expenses amounted to 3%-3.5% of the actual sales of certain of our products, the development of which previously received grants from the Office of Chief Scientist of Israel. Included in cost of revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010 was a non-cash equity-based compensation expense of $15,000 and $33,000, respectively, compared to $34,000 and $69,000 for the comparable periods of 2009.

Gross Margin
Gross margin for the second quarter and first half of 2010 were 92% and 93%, respectively, compared to 87% for both the comparable periods of 2009. The increase in 2002, respectively. Gross profit increased to $7.9 milliongross margin for the second quarter and $22.6first half of 2010 principally reflected higher royalty revenues which have higher gross margins, and a decrease in cost of revenues.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses were $7.8 and $15.8 million for the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003,2010, respectively, compared with $4.5 millionto $7.2 and $12.6$14.4 million for the comparable periods in 2002, respectively. Gross margins decreased to 84.8% and 82.9% for the third quarter and first nine months of 2003, respectively, compared with 93.4% and 93.1% for the comparable periods in 2002, respectively.2009. The increase in total costoperating expenses for the second quarter of revenues2010 principally reflected higher salary and decreaserelated costs, partially as a result of a higher number of personnel, and lower research grants received from the Office of Chief Scientist of Israel, partially offset by lower project-related expenses and non-cash equity-based compensation expenses. The increase in gross margin weretotal operating expenses for the first half of 2010 principally reflected higher salary and related costs, mainly as a result of a higher number of personnel and partially offset by lower non-cash equity-based compensation expenses.
We currently anticipate that our operating expenses will increase in 2010 in comparison to 2009, mainly due primarily to increased investments in research and development, including the change in revenue mix compared withaddition of new engineers, higher salaries and related expenses, and to some extent, higher currency exchange expenses as the 2002 periods. InU.S. dollar is currently devalued against the 2003 periods, a lower proportion of revenues was derived from higher-gross margin royalty revenuesNIS, Euro and additional lower margin revenues were generated from IP Creation and Hard IP followingBritish Pound, which are the combination with Parthus.

primary currencies for our employee salary expenses.

 

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Research and Development Expenses, Net

Research

Our research and development expenses net of related government research grants, were $4.5 and $9.1 million in the third quarter of 2003, an increase of 10.8% from $4.1 million infor the second quarter and first half of 2003.2010, respectively, compared to $4.0 and $8.1 million for the comparable periods of 2009. The net increase overfor both the second quarter period reflects primarilyand first half of 2010 principally reflected higher third party sub-contract designsalary and project materialrelated costs, partially as a result of a higher number of research and masking expenses relateddevelopment personnel hired to the tape out of our IP into chip format. The third quarter 2003 figure represents an increase of 218.9% from $1.4 millionleverage opportunities in the thirdLTE and HD video markets, as well as lower research grants received from the Office of Chief Scientist of Israel, partially offset by a decrease in project-related expenses and lower non-cash equity-based compensation expenses. Included in research and development expenses for the second quarter and first half of 2002. Such2010 were a non-cash equity-based compensation expenses were $12.6 million inof $139,000 and $306,000, respectively, compared to $230,000 and $492,000 for the first nine monthscomparable periods of 2003, an increase of 172.3% from $4.6 million in the first nine months of 2002.2009. Research and development expenses as a percentage of our total revenues were 48.3%42% and 46.2%43% for thirdthe second quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003,2010, respectively, compared with 29.0%to 44% and 34.2%43% for the comparable periods in 2002, respectively. The increase over the 2002 periods reflects primarily higher labor and associated costs resulting from increased headcount and increased investment in design tools and sub-contract design following the combination with Parthus. of 2009.
The number of research and development personnel (including contractors) was 183 at September 30, 2003 compared with 187126 at June 30, 2003 and 482010, compared to 120 at SeptemberJune 30, 2002.

2009.

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Sales

Our sales and marketing expenses were $1.4$1.8 and $3.6 million in eachfor the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, compared to $1.7 and $3.3 million for the third quarter andcomparable periods of 2009. The increase for the second quarter of 2003.2010 principally reflected higher commission expenses. The third quarter 2003 figure represents an increase for the first half of 95.6% from $734,0002010 principally reflected higher salary and related expenses due to a few changes in the third quarter of 2002. Salespersonnel, higher commission expenses and higher travel expenses, partially offset by lower non-cash equity-based compensation expenses. Included in sales and marketing expenses

were $4.3 million in for the second quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003, an increase2010 was a non-cash equity-based compensation expense of 91.2% from $2.2 million in$96,000 and $208,000, respectively, compared to $142,000 and $304,000 for the first nine monthscomparable periods of 2002. The increase in absolute terms over the 2002 periods principally reflects the additional sales and marketing personnel acquired through the combination with Parthus and required to support our expanded sales and marketing efforts in the 2003 periods.2009. Sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of our total revenues were 15.4% and 15.6%17% for thirdboth the second quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003, respectively,2010, compared with 15.1%to 18% for both the second quarter and 16.5% for the respective comparable periods in 2002. The percentage decrease reflects higher revenues in the 2003 periods compared with the comparable periods in 2002, which offset the additional cost from the substantial increase in the numberfirst half of sales and marketing personnel. 2009.

The total number of sales and marketing personnel was 2622 at each of September 30, 2003 and June 30, 2003,2010, compared with 5to 21 at SeptemberJune 30, 2002.

2009.

General and Administrative Expenses

General

Our general and administrative expenses were $1.5$1.6 and $3.1 million in each of the third quarter andfor the second quarter and first half of 2003. The third quarter figure represents an increase2010, respectively, compared to $1.5 and $3.0 million for the comparable periods of 43.6% from $1.0 million2009. Included in the third quarter of 2002. Generalgeneral and administrative expenses were $4.4 million in the first nine months of 2003, an increase of 86.5% from $2.4 million for the second quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2002.2010 was a non-cash equity-based compensation expense of $290,000 and $577,000, respectively, compared to $311,000 and $660,000 for the comparable periods of 2009. General and administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 15.6% and 16.2%15% for both the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003, respectively,2010, compared with 20.9%to 17% and 17.5%16% for the comparable periods in 2002,second quarter and first half of 2009, respectively.
The increase in absolute terms reflects the combination with Parthus, including increased facilities costs. The total number of general and administrative personnel (including contractors) was 3023 at September 30, 2003 compared with 32 atthe end of both June 30, 20032010 and 7 at September 30, 2002.

2009.

AmortizationFinancial Income, Net (in millions)
                 
  First Half  First Half  Second Quarter  Second Quarter 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
Financial income, net $1.10  $0.95  $0.54  $0.47 
of which:
                
Interest income and gains and losses from marketable securities, net $1.03  $1.07  $0.50  $0.54 
Foreign exchange gain (loss) $0.07  $(0.12) $0.04  $(0.07)
Interest income and gains and losses from marketable securities, net, consists of Intangibles

We recorded expensesinterest earned on investments, gains and losses from marketable securities and amortization of $288,000discount and $856,000premium on marketable securities. The slightly decrease in Interest income and gains and losses from marketable securities, net, during the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003, respectively,2010 principally reflected higher combined cash, bank deposits and marketable securities balances held, offset by lower interest rates.

We review our monthly expected non-U.S. dollar denominated expenditures and look to hold equivalent non-U.S. dollar cash balances to mitigate currency fluctuations. This has resulted in connection witha foreign exchange gain of $39,000 and $66,000 for the amortization of intangible assets acquired in the combination with Parthus.

Reorganization and Severance Charge

We incurred a reorganization and severance charge of $1.4 million in the third quarter of 2003 in connection with the resignations of the Company’s Chairman and Vice-Chairman from their executive management positions as part of our decision to strengthen our headquarters function in the U.S. and our decision to discontinue certain Hard IP operations in the United Kingdom. No comparable charge was incurred in the third quarter of 2002.

Financial income, net

Financial income, net, was $160,000 and $605,000 in the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003, respectively, compared with $25,0002010, and $75,000a foreign exchange loss of $70,000 and $124,000 for the comparable periods in 2002, respectively, reflecting the higher cash balances on hand following the combination with Parthus.

of 2009.
Other Income (in millions)
                 
  First half  First Half  Second Quarter  Second Quarter 
  2010  2009  2010  2009 
Gain on realization of investments $  $1.90  $  $1.90 

 

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Total operating expenses were $9.1

We recorded a capital gain of $1.9 million (including a reorganization and severance charge of $1.4 million) in the third quarter of 2003, compared with $7.3 million infor both the second quarter and first half of 2003 and $3.2 million in the third quarter of 2002. Total operating expenses were $24.9 million in the first nine months of 2003, compared with $9.2 million in the first nine months of 2002. The increase2009 from the 2002 periods reflects the combination with Parthus, as well as our continued internal investmentThis investment has resulted in higher numbers of engineering staff, facility costs and depreciation charges together with additional sales and marketing and administrative costs required to support our investments following the combination with Parthus. Real increases in operating expenses of $400,000 in the third quarter of 2003 compared with the second quarter of 2003 principally reflect higher research and development expenditures on third party sub-contract design and project material and masking expenses related to the tape outdivestment of our IP into chip format.

Currency Translation Differences

We incurred foreign exchange losses of approximately $10,000 and $598,000equity investment in the third quarter and first nine months of 2003, respectively, arising principally on the translation of euro liabilities as a result of the appreciation of the euro against the U.S. dollar in the period.

GloNav Inc. to NXP Semiconductors.

Provision for Income Taxes

We incurred a charge of $100,000

Our income tax expenses were $313,000 and $735,000 for domestic income taxes in each of the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of 2003. This compares with provisions of $419,0002010, respectively, compared to $814,000 and $961,000$1,042,000 for the comparable periods of 2009. The decrease for the second quarter of 2010 primarily reflected a tax expense of $0.5 million related to capital gains, which we recorded during the second quarter of 2009, from the divestment in 2002, respectively,GloNav to NXP Semiconductor. The decrease for the first half of 2010 primarily reflected a tax expense of $0.5 million related to capital gains, which we recorded during the second quarter of 2009, from the divestment in GloNav to NXP Semiconductor, offset by withholding tax expenses which we were provided for domestic andunable to obtain a refund from a certain foreign tax liabilities.

authority during the first half of 2010. We have significant operations in Israel and the Republic of Ireland, and a substantial portion of our taxable income is generated there. Currently, our Israeli and Irish subsidiaries are taxed at rates substantially lower than U.S. tax rates.

One of our Irish operating subsidiaries currently qualifies for a 10% tax rate on its trade, which under current legislation will remain in force until December 31, 2010. After this date, a tax rate of 12.5% will apply. Another Irish subsidiary qualifies for exemption from income taxes as its sole revenue source is license fees from qualifying patents within the meaning of Section 140 of the Irish Taxes Consolidation Act 1997.
Our Israeli operating subsidiary’s production facilities have been granted “Approved Enterprise” status under Israeli law in connection with six separate investment plans. Income from an “Approved Enterprise” is tax-exempt for a period of two or four years and is subject to a reduced corporate tax rate of 10% to 25% (based on percentage of foreign ownership) for an additional period of six or eight years. The tax benefit under the first, second, third and fourth plans have expired and are subject to corporate tax of 25% in 2010. However, the Israeli operating subsidiary received in 2008 an approval for the erosion of tax basis in respect to its second, third and fourth plans, and as a result no taxable income was attributed to the second and third plans, and reduced taxable income was attributed to the fourth plan.
On April 1, 2005, an amendment to the Israeli Investment Law came into effect (the “Amendment”) and significantly changed the provisions of the Investment Law. The Amendment included revisions to the criteria for investments qualified to receive tax benefits as an “Approved Enterprise.” The Amendment applies to new investment programs and investment programs commenced after 2004, and does not apply to investment programs approved prior to December 31, 2004, and therefore benefits included in any certificate of approval that was granted before the Amendment came into effect will remain subject to the provisions of the Investment Law as they were on the date of such approval. Our Israeli subsidiary’s seventh plan (commenced in 2007) is subject to the provisions of the Amendment. We believe that we are currently in compliance with the requirements of the Amendment. However, if we fail to meet these requirements, we would be subject to corporate tax in Israel at the regular statutory rate of 25% for 2010. We could also be required to refund tax benefits, with interest and adjustments for inflation based on the Israeli consumer price index.
Certain expenditures pursuant to Israeli law are permitted to be recognized as a tax deduction over a three year period which has resulted in the recognition of deferred tax assets in 2010.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

As of SeptemberJune 30, 2003,2010, we had approximately $63.5$22.2 million in cash and cash equivalents.

equivalents, $71.3 million in short term bank deposits and marketable securities, and $15.1 million in long term bank deposits, totaling $108.6 million, compared to $100.6 million at December 31, 2009. During the first half of 2010, we invested $54.9 million of cash in bank deposits and available-for-sale marketable securities with maturities up to 35 months. In addition, during the same period, bank deposits and available-for-sale marketable securities were sold or redeemed for cash amounting to $56.2 million. Tradable certificates of deposits and corporate bonds and securities and U.S. government and agency securities instruments are classified as available-for-sale marketable securities. The purchase and sale or redemption of available-for-sale marketable securities are considered part of investing cash flow. Available-for-sale marketable securities are stated at fair value, with unrealized gains and losses reported in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), a separate component of stockholders’ equity, net of taxes. Realized gains and losses on sales of investments, as determined on a specific identification basis, are included in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Determining whether the decline in fair value is other-than-temporary requires management’s judgment based on the specific facts and circumstances of each investment. We assess periodically whether our investments with unrealized losses are other than temporarily impaired (“OTTI”). OTTI charges exist when an entity has the intent to sell the security, it will more likely than not be required to sell the security before anticipated recovery or it does not expect to recover the entire amortized cost basis of the security (that is, a credit loss exists). OTTI is determined based on the specific identification method and is reported in the consolidated statements of operations. We did not recognize any OTTI charges on marketable securities during the first half of 2010.

 

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Bank deposits are classified as short-term bank deposits and long-term bank deposits. Short-term bank deposits are non-tradable deposits with maturities of more than three months but less than one year, whereas long-term bank deposits are non-tradable deposits with maturities of more than one year. Non-tradable deposits are presented at their cost, including accrued interest, and purchases and sales are considered part of cash flows from investing activities.
Net cash used inprovided by operating activities for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2003first half of 2010 was $9.1$6.0 million, compared with $2.2to $0.8 million of net cash used inprovided by operating activities for the comparable period in 2002. The net cash outflow from operating activities forof 2009. For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2003 included the settlementfirst half of merger-related costs of approximately $3.1 million following the combination with Parthus and cash outflow2009, we expended $645,000 in connection with the restructuring and reorganization costs incurred in November 2002, March 2003 and September 2003 amounting to approximately $3.7 million. Cash used in operating activities for the comparable period in 2002 resulted from movements in taxes payable, trade payables and accruals. of our SATA activities.
Cash flows from operating activities may vary significantly from quarter to quarter depending on the timing of our receipts and payments.

Cash Our ongoing cash outflows from capital equipment purchases amountedoperating activities principally relate to approximately $1.7 millionpayroll-related costs and obligations under our property leases and design tool licenses. Our primary sources of cash inflows are receipts from our accounts receivable and interest earned from our cash, deposits and marketable securities. The timing of receipts of accounts receivable from customers is based upon the completion of agreed milestones or agreed dates as set out in the contracts.

Net cash provided by investing activities for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2003,first half of 2010 was $0.8 million, compared with $834,000to $5.8 million of net cash used in investing activities for the comparable period in 2002. In addition, weof 2009. We had a cash outflow of $50,000 on technology acquired$35.4 million and a cash inflow of $23.5 million in respect of investments in marketable securities during the first half of 2010, as compared to cash outflow of $19.2 million and a cash inflow of $16.4 million in respect of investments in marketable securities during the first half of 2009. For the first half of 2010, we had net proceeds of $13.2 million from bank deposits, as compared to net investments of $4.7 million in bank deposits for the comparable period of 2009. During the first half of 2009, we had a cash inflow of $1.9 million from the saledivestment of capital equipment of $38,000 for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2003.

our equity investment in GloNav to NXP Semiconductors.

Net cash provided by financing activities during the first half of $394,000 reflects proceeds2010 was $3.4 million. No cash was used in financing activities during the first half of 2009.
In May 2010, we announced that our board of directors approved the expansion of our share repurchase program by another two million shares of common stock, with one million shares available for repurchase in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and one million shares available for repurchase in accordance with Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This authorization is in addition to the previously announced repurchase program of one million shares, which was fully utilized during the second quarter of 2010.
During the first half of 2010 and 2009, we repurchased 108,009 and 140,828 shares of common stock, respectively, pursuant to our share repurchase program, at an average purchase price of $11.2 and $5.9 per share, respectively, for an aggregate purchase price of $1.2 and $0.8 million, respectively. As of June 30, 2010, 1,998,400 shares of common stock remain available for repurchase under our share repurchase program.
During the first half of 2010 and 2009, we received $4.6 and $0.8 million, respectively, from the issuance of sharescommon stock and treasury stock upon exerciseexercises of employee stock options and purchases under our employee stock purchase of ESPP shares during the nine-month period ended September 30, 2003. This compares with a capital contribution of approximately $3.0 million by DSP Group for the comparable period in 2002.

plan.

We believe that our current cash on hand and marketable securities, along with cash from operations, will provide sufficient capital to fund our operations for at least the next 12 months. The table below presentsWe cannot provide assurances, however, that the principal categories of our contractual obligations as of September 30, 2003:

   

Payments Due by Period

($ in thousands)


  Contractual Obligations  


  Total

  Less than 1 year

  1-3 Years

  3-5 Years

  More than 5
years


Operating Lease Obligations – Leasehold properties

  29,138  2,284  3,843  3,118  19,893

Operating Lease Obligations – Other

  652  463  189  —    —  

Purchase Obligations

  2,018  2,018  —    —    —  
   
  
  
  
  

Total

  31,808  4,765  4,032  3,118  19,893
   
  
  
  
  

Operating leasehold obligations are principally on our leasehold properties located in the United States, Ireland, Israel and the United Kingdom.

Other operating lease obligations relate to license agreements entered into for design tools of $311,000 and obligations under motor vehicle leases of $341,000.

Purchase obligations consist of capital commitments of $1.4 million, principally for design tools, and operating purchase order commitments of $584,000.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES, ESTIMATES AND ASSUMPTIONS

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amountsunderlying assumed levels of revenues and expenses during the reported period. Management bases its estimates and judgments on historical experience and on other factors that are believed to be reasonable under current circumstances. Actual results may differ from these estimates if these assumptionswill prove to be incorrectaccurate.

In addition, as part of our business strategy, we occasionally evaluate potential acquisitions of businesses, products and technologies. Accordingly, a portion of our available cash may be used at any time for the acquisition of complementary products or businesses. Such potential transactions may require substantial capital resources, which may require us to seek additional debt or equity financing. We cannot assure you that we will be able to successfully identify suitable acquisition candidates, complete acquisitions, integrate acquired businesses into our current operations, or expand into new markets. Furthermore, we cannot provide assurances that additional financing will be available to us in any required time frame and on commercially reasonable terms, if conditions developat all. See “Risk Factors—We may seek to expand our business through acquisitions that could result in diversion of resources and extra expenses.” for more detailed information.
Item 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
A majority of our revenues and a portion of our expenses are transacted in U.S. dollars and our assets and liabilities together with our cash holdings are predominately denominated in U.S. dollars. However, the majority of our expenses are denominated in currencies other than as assumed for purposes of such estimates. Our significant accounting policiesthe U.S. dollar, principally the Euro, the NIS and the basisBritish Pound. Increases in volatility of preparationthe exchange rates of currencies other than the U.S. dollar versus the U.S. dollar could have an adverse effect on the expenses and liabilities that we incur when remeasured into U.S. dollars. We review our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements are detailedmonthly expected non-U.S. dollar denominated expenditures and look to hold equivalent non-U.S. dollar cash balances to mitigate currency fluctuations. This has resulted in note 2. The following is a brief discussionforeign exchange gain of those$39,000 and $66,000 for the second quarter and first half of our critical accounting policies that require significant estimates2010, respectively, and judgments by management:

a foreign exchange loss of $70,000 and $124,000 for the comparable periods of 2009.

 

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Significant management judgments

As a result of currency fluctuations and estimates must be usedthe remeasurement of non-U.S. dollar denominated expenditures in U.S. dollars for financial reporting purposes, we may experience fluctuations in our operating results on an annual and madequarterly basis. To protect against the increase in connectionvalue of forecasted foreign currency cash flows resulting from salaries paid in currencies other than the U.S. dollar during the year, we instituted during the second quarter of 2007, a foreign currency cash flow hedging program. We hedge portions of the anticipated payroll for our non-U.S. employees denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar for a period of one to twelve months with forward and option contracts. During the recognitionsecond quarter and first half of revenue in any accounting period. Material differences in2010, we recorded accumulated other comprehensive loss of $191,000 and $273,000, respectively, from our forward and option contracts, net of taxes, with respect to anticipated payroll expenses for our non-U.S. employees. During the second quarter and first half of 2009, we recorded accumulated other comprehensive gain of $547,000 and $2,000, respectively, from our forward and option contracts, net of taxes, with respect to anticipated payroll expenses for our non-U.S. employees. As of June 30, 2010, the amount of other comprehensive loss from our forward and option contracts, net of taxes, was $186,000, which will be recorded in the consolidated statements of operations during the following 12 months. We recognized a net loss of $22,000 and a net gain of $83,000 for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, and a net loss of $123,000 and $362,000 for the comparable periods of 2009, related to forward and options contracts. We note that hedging transactions may not successfully mitigate losses caused by currency fluctuations. We expect to continue to experience the effect of exchange rate and currency fluctuations on an annual and quarterly basis.
The majority of our cash and cash equivalents are invested in high grade certificates of deposits with major U.S., European and Israeli banks. Generally, cash and cash equivalents and bank deposits may be redeemed and therefore minimal credit risk exists with respect to them. Nonetheless, deposits with these banks exceed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insurance limits or similar limits in foreign jurisdictions, to the extent such deposits are even insured in such foreign jurisdictions. While we monitor on a systematic basis the cash and cash equivalent balances in the operating accounts and adjust the balances as appropriate, these balances could be impacted if one or more of the financial institutions with which we deposit our funds fails or is subject to other adverse conditions in the financial or credit markets. To date we have experienced no loss of principal or lack of access to our invested cash or cash equivalents; however, we can provide no assurance that access to our invested cash and cash equivalents will not be affected if the financial institutions that we hold our cash and cash equivalents fail.
We hold an investment portfolio consisting principally of corporate bonds and securities. We intend, and have the ability, to hold such investments until recovery of temporary declines in market value or maturity; accordingly, as of June 30, 2010, we believe the losses associated with our investments are temporary and no impairment loss was recognized during the first half of 2010. However, we can provide no assurance that we will recover present declines in the market value of our investments.
Interest income and gains from marketable securities, net, were $0.50 and $1.03 million for second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively, compared to $0.54 and $1.07 million for the comparable periods of 2009.
We are exposed primarily to fluctuations in the level of U.S. and EMU (European Monetary Union) interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, fixed interest investments may be adversely impacted, whereas a decline in interest rates may decrease the anticipated interest income for variable rate investments. We typically do not attempt to reduce or eliminate our market exposures on our investment securities because the majority of our investments are short-term. We currently do not have any derivative instruments but may put them in place in the future. Fluctuations in interest rates within our investment portfolio have not had, and we do not currently anticipate such fluctuations will have, a material effect on our financial position on an annual or quarterly basis.
Item 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
As of the end of the period covered by this report, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of June 30, 2010.
There has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected or is reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
We are not a party to any litigation or other legal proceedings that we believe could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Item 1A. RISK FACTORS
ThisForm 10-Q contains forward-looking statements concerning our future products, expenses, revenue, liquidity and cash needs as well as our plans and strategies. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and we assume no obligation to update this information. Numerous factors could cause our actual results to differ significantly from the results described in any given periodthese forward-looking statements, including the following risk factors.
There are no material changes to the Risk Factors described under the title “Factors That May Affect Future Performance” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 other than (1) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “Our quarterly operating results fluctuate from quarter to quarter due to a variety of factors, including our lengthy sales cycle, and may not be a meaningful indicator of future performance;” (2) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “We rely significantly on revenue derived from a limited number of customers;” (3) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “We generate a significant amount of our total revenues from the handsets market and our business and operating results may be materially adversely affected if we do not continue to succeed in this highly competitive market;” (4) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “Because we have significant international operations, we may be subject to political, economic and other conditions relating to our international operations that could increase our operating expenses and disrupt our revenues and business;” (5) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “Our operating results are affected by general economic conditions and the highly cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry;” (6) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “Our research and development expenses may increase if the grants we currently receive from the Israeli and Irish governments are reduced or withheld;” (7) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “We are exposed to fluctuations in currency exchange rates;” and (8) changes to the Risk Factor below entitled “The Israeli tax benefits that we currently receive and the government programs in which we participate require us to meet certain conditions and may be terminated or reduced in the future, which could increase our tax expenses.”
The markets in which we operate are highly competitive, and as a result if these judgments or estimates provewe could experience a loss of sales, lower prices and lower revenue.
The markets for the products in which our technology is incorporated are highly competitive. Aggressive competition could result in substantial declines in the prices that we are able to be incorrect or if management’s estimates changecharge for our intellectual property. Many of our competitors are striving to increase their share of the growing DSP market and are reducing their licensing and royalty fees to attract customers. The following factors may have a significant impact on our competitiveness:
We compete directly in the DSP core space with Tensilica and Verisilicon;
CPU IP providers, such as Virage Logic (through its acquisition of ARC), ARM Holdings, MIPS Technologies and Tensilica, who offer DSP and DSP extensions to their IP;
Our video solution is software-based and competes with hardware implementations offered by companies such as Hantro (acquired by On2), Imagination Technologies, Chips & Media, and Virage Logic (through its acquisition of ARC);
Internal engineering teams, such as Mediatek, NXP, STMicroelectronics and Zoran, may design programmable DSP core products in-house and therefore not license our technologies; and
SATA and SAS IP markets are highly standardized with several vendors, such as ARM Holdings, Gennum’s Snowbush IP group, Silicon Image and Synopsys, that offer similar products, thereby leading to pricing pressures for both licensing and royalty revenue.
In addition, we may face increased competition from smaller, niche semiconductor design companies in the future. Some of our customers also may decide to satisfy their needs through in-house design. We compete on the basis of development of the business or market conditions.

In recognizing revenue, we apply the provisions of Statement of Position No. 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition,” as amended by Statements of Position Nos. 98-4DSP performance, overall chip cost, power consumption, flexibility, reliability, communication and 98-9. A portion of our revenue is derived from license agreements that entail the

customization of our application IPmultimedia software availability, design cycle time, tool chain, customer support, name recognition, reputation and financial strength. Our inability to the customer’s specific requirements. Revenues from initial license fees for such arrangements are recognized in accordance with Statement of Position No. 81-1, “Accounting for Performance of Construction-Type and Certain Production-Type Contracts” basedcompete effectively on the percentage-to-completion method over the period from signing of the

license through to customer acceptance, as such IP requires significant modification or customization that takes time to complete. The percentage to completion is measured by monitoring progress using records of actual time incurred to date in the project compared to the total estimated project requirement, which corresponds to the costs related to earned revenues. Estimates of total project requirements are based on prior experience of customization, delivery and acceptance of the same or similar technology and are reviewed and updated regularly by management. After delivery, if uncertainty exists about customer acceptance of the IP, license revenue is not recognized until acceptance. Estimated gross profit or loss from long-term contracts may change due to changes in estimates resulting from differences between actual performance and original forecasts. Such changes in estimated gross profit are recorded in results of operations when they are reasonably determinable by management, on a cumulative catch-up basis.

We believe that the use of the percentage of completion method is appropriate as we have the ability to make reasonably dependable estimates of the extent of progress towards completion, contract revenues and contract costs. In addition, contracts executed include provisions that clearly specify the enforceable rights regarding services to be provided and received by the parties to the contracts, the consideration to be exchanged and the manner and terms of settlement. In all cases we expect to perform our contractual obligations, and our licensees are expected to satisfy their obligations under the contract.

If we do not accurately estimate the resources required or the scope of the work to be performed, or do not manage our projects properly within the planned periods of time or satisfy our obligations under the contracts, then future results may be significantly and negatively affected or losses on existing contracts may need to be recognized.

Acquired Intangibles

Intangible assets arising on acquisition are capitalized and amortized to the statement of operations over the period during which benefits are expected to accrue, currently estimated at five years. Where events and circumstances are present which indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable, we will recognize an impairment loss. Factors we consider important and which could trigger impairment include:

significant underperformance relative to expected historical or projected future operating results;

significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy for our overall business;

significant negative industry or economic trends; and

significant decline in our stock price for a sustained period.

Such impairment loss is measured by comparing the recoverable value of the asset with its carrying amount. The determination of the value of such intangible assets requires management to make assumptions regarding estimated future cash flows and other factors to determine the fair value of the respective assets. If these estimates or the related assumptions change in the future, we could be required to record impairment charges. Any material change in our valuation of assets in the future and any consequent adjustment for impairmentbases could have a material adverse impacteffect on our future reportedbusiness, results of operations and financial results.

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Goodwill associated with the excess purchase price over the fair value

Our quarterly operating results fluctuate from quarter to quarter due to a variety of assets acquired is currently reviewed for impairment annually or sooner if events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of goodwillfactors, including our lengthy sales cycle, and may not be recoverable. Factors considered important,a meaningful indicator of future performance.
In some quarters our operating results could be below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, which could trigger an interim impairment review, include the following:

significant under-performance relative to expected historical or projected future operating results;

significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy for our overall business;

significant negative industry or economic trends; and

significant decline incause our stock price for a sustained period; and

significant decline into fall. Factors that may affect our market capitalization relative to net book value.

Such impairment loss is measured by comparing the recoverable valuequarterly results of goodwill with its carrying amount. The determination of the value of goodwill requires management to make assumptions regarding estimated future cash flows and other factors to determine its fair value. If these estimates or the related assumptions changeoperations in the future include, among other things:

the timing of the introduction of new or enhanced technologies by us and our competitors, as well as the market acceptance of such technologies;
the timing and volume of orders and production by our customers, as well as fluctuations in royalty revenues resulting from fluctuations in unit shipments by our licensees and shifts by our customers from prepaid royalty arrangements to per unit royalty arrangements;
the mix of revenues among licensing revenues, per unit and prepaid royalties and service revenues;
our lengthy sales cycle and specifically in the third quarter of any fiscal year during which summer vacations slow down decision-making processes of our customers in executing contracts;
the gain or loss of significant licensees, partly due to our dependence on a limited number of customers generating a significant amount of quarterly revenues;
any delay in execution of any anticipated licensing arrangement during a particular quarter;
delays in the commercialization of end products that incorporate our technology;
currency fluctuations of the Euro and NIS versus the U.S. dollar;
fluctuations in operating expenses and gross margins associated with the introduction of new or enhanced technologies and adjustments to operating expenses resulting from restructurings;
our ability to scale our operations in response to changes in demand for our technologies;
entry into new markets, including China, India and Latin America;
changes in our pricing policies and those of our competitors;
restructuring, asset and goodwill impairment and related charges, as well as other accounting changes or adjustments; and
general economic conditions, including the current economic conditions, and its effect on the semiconductor industry and sales of consumer products into which our technologies are incorporated.
Each of the above factors is difficult to forecast and could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. Also, we license our technology to OEM customers for incorporation into their end products for consumer markets, including handsets and consumer electronics products. The royalties we generate are reported by our customers and invoiced by us one quarter in arrears. As a result, our royalty revenues are affected by seasonal buying patterns of consumer products sold by our OEM customers that incorporate our technology and the market acceptance of such ends products supplied by our OEM customers. The fourth quarter in any given year is usually the strongest quarter for sales by our OEM customers in the consumer markets, and thus, the first quarter in any given year is usually the strongest quarter for royalty revenues as our royalties are reported and invoiced one quarter in arrears. By contrast, the second quarter in any given year is usually the weakest quarter for us in relation to royalty revenues. However, this general quarterly fluctuation may be impacted by the global economic slowdown and the slow recovery of business conditions.
In addition, as noted above, our operating expenses and, accordingly, our operating income, are subject to fluctuation from quarter to quarter. In particular, due to the uncertainty about the sustainability of the economic recovery and general outlook, and pricing instability in worldwide markets, the level of operating efficiency and lower operating expenses that we reported for 2009 may not continue in 2010. We currently anticipate that our operating expenses will be higher for 2010, in comparison to 2009, mainly due to increased investments in research and development, including the addition of new engineers, higher salaries and related expenses and to some extent currency exchange expenses as the U.S. dollar is currently devalued against the NIS, the Euro, and the British pound, which are the primary currencies for our employee salary expenses. Any future increase in our operating expenses or decrease in our operating efficiency could adversely impact our future financial results.
We rely significantly on revenue derived from a limited number of customers.
We expect that a limited number of customers, generally varying in identity from period-to-period, will account for a substantial portion of our revenues in any period. Two customers, varying in identity from period-to-period, accounted for 17% and 15% of our total revenues for the second quarter of 2010 and 18% and 24% of our total revenues for the first half of 2010. Our five largest customers, varying in identity from period-to-period, accounted for 59% and 63% of our total revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively. Our five largest customers paying per unit royalties, varying in identity from period-to-period, accounted for 77% and 80% of our total royalty revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively. Moreover, license agreements for our DSP cores have not historically provided for substantial ongoing license payments. Significant portions of our anticipated future revenue, therefore, will likely depend upon our success in attracting new customers or expanding our relationships with existing customers. Our ability to succeed in these efforts will depend on a variety of factors, including the performance, quality, breadth and depth of our current and future products, as well as our sales and marketing skills. In addition, some of our licensees may in the future decide to satisfy their needs through in-house design and production. Our failure to obtain future licensing customers would impede our future revenue growth and could materially harm our business.

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We generate a significant amount of our total revenues from the handsets market and our business and operating results may be requiredmaterially adversely affected if we do not continue to record impairment charges.succeed in this highly competitive market.
Revenues derived from the handsets market accounted for approximately 70% and 69% of our total revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2010, respectively. Any materialadverse change in our valuation of goodwillability to compete and maintain our competitive position in the futurehandsets market, including through the introduction of enhanced technologies that attract OEM customers that target the handsets market, would harm our business, financial condition and any consequent adjustment for impairment couldresults of operations. Moreover, the handsets market is extremely competitive and is facing intense pricing pressures, and we expect that competition and pricing pressures will only increase. Our existing OEM customers may fail to introduce new handsets that attract consumers, or encounter significant delays in developing, manufacturing or shipping new or enhanced handsets in this market. The inability of our OEM customers to compete would result in lower shipments of handsets powered by our technologies which in turn would have a material adverse impacteffect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We depend on market acceptance of third-party semiconductor intellectual property.
The semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) industry is a relatively small and emerging industry. Our future reported financial results.

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

In June 2002,growth will depend on the FASB issued SFAS No. 146, “Accounting for Costs Associatedlevel of market acceptance of our third-party licensable intellectual property model, the variety of intellectual property offerings available on the market, and a shift in customer preference away from in-house development of proprietary DSPs towards licensing open DSP cores. Furthermore, the third-party licensable intellectual property model is highly dependent on the market adoption of new services and products, such as smartphones, mobile broad band, ultra-low-cost phones in emerging markets, Personal Multimedia Players (PMP), Blu-ray DVDs, connected digital TVs and set-top boxes with Exit or Disposal Activities,” which addresses significant issues regardinghigh definition audio and video. Such market adoption is important because the recognition, measurement, and reporting of costsincreased cost associated with exitownership and disposal activities, including restructuring activities. SFAS No. 146 requires that costs associated with exit or disposal activities be recognized when they are incurredmaintenance of the more complex architectures needed for the advanced services and products may motivate companies to license third-party intellectual property rather than atdesign them in-house.

The trends that would enable our growth are largely beyond our control. Semiconductor customers also may choose to adopt a multi-chip, off-the-shelf chip solution versus licensing or using highly-integrated chipsets that embed our technologies. If the date of a commitment to an exitabove referenced market shifts do not materialize or disposal plan. SFAS No. 146 is effective for all exit or disposal activities initiated after December 31, 2002. The company adopted SFAS No. 146 during the nine months ended September 30, 2003. The adoption of SFAS No. 146 didthird-party SIP does not have a material impact on the financial position,achieve market acceptance, our business, results of operations cash flowsand financial condition could be materially harmed.
Because our IP solutions are components of or disclosures by the Company.

In November 2002, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 45 “Guarantor’s Accountingend products, if semiconductor companies and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others” (“FIN 45”). FIN 45 requires a guarantor to recognize, at the inception of a guarantee, a liability for the fair value of the obligation undertaken by it in issuing the guarantee. It also expands the disclosure requirements in the financial statements of the guarantor with respect to its obligations under certain guarantees that it has issued. The Company is required to adopt the initial recognition and initial measurement accounting provisions of this interpretation on a prospective basis to guarantees issued or modified after December 31, 2002. The adoption of FIN 45 did not have any impact on the financial position, results of operations, cash flows of or disclosures by the Company.

In January 2003, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 46, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities,” (“FIN 46”). This interpretation clarifies the application of Accounting Research Bulletin No. 51, “Consolidated Financial Statements,” to certain entities in which equity investorselectronic equipment manufacturers do not haveincorporate our solutions into their end products or if the characteristicsend products of a controlling financial interest orour customers do not have sufficient equity at risk for the entityachieve market acceptance, we may not be able to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support from other parties. FIN 46 is effective February 1, 2003 for variable interest entities created after January 31, 2003, and July 31, 2003 for variable interest entities created prior to February 1, 2003. The adoption of FIN 46 did not have a material impact on the financial position, results of operations or cash flows of the Company.

In April 2003, the FASB issued SFAS No. 149, “Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities”, which amends and clarifies financial accounting and reporting for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts (collectively referred to as derivatives) and for hedging activities under SFAS No. 133, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities”. This statement requires contracts with comparable characteristics be accounted for similarly. In particular, this Statement (a) clarifies under what circumstances a contract with an initial net investment meets the characteristic of a derivative as discussed in SFAS No. 133, (b) clarifies when a derivative contains a financing component and (c) amends the definition of an “underlying” to conform it to language used in FASB Interpretation No. 45, “Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others”. This Statement is effective for contracts entered into or modified after June 30, 2003 and for hedging relationships designated after June 30, 2003. Application of the new rules did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements of the Company.

In May 2003, the FASB issued SFAS No. 150, “Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity”. This statement establishes standards for how an issuer classifies and measures certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity. It requires that an issuer classify a financial instrument that is within its scope as a liability (or an asset in some circumstances). Many of those instruments were previously classified as equity. SFAS No. 150 is effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003. The adoption did not have any impact on the consolidated financial statements of the Company.

FACTORS THAT COULD AFFECT OUR OPERATING RESULTS

We caution you that the following important factors, among others, could cause our actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of us in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, press releases, communications with investors and oral statements. Any or allgenerate adequate sales of our forward-looking statements in this quarterly report, and in any other public statements we make, may turn outproducts.

We do not sell our IP solutions directly to be wrong. They can be affected by inaccurate assumptions we might make or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties. Many factors mentioned in the discussion below will be important in determining future results. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are advised, however, to consult any further disclosures we make in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

RISKS RELATING TO OUR MARKETS AND OPERATIONS

The industries in whichend-users; we license our technology primarily to semiconductor companies and electronic equipment manufacturers, who then incorporate our technology into the products they sell. As a result, we rely on our customers to incorporate our technology into their end products at the design stage. Once a company incorporates a competitor’s technology into its end product, it becomes significantly more difficult for us to sell our technology to that company because changing suppliers involves significant cost, time, effort and risk for the company. As a result, we may incur significant expenditures on the development of a new technology without any assurance that our existing or potential customers will select our technology for incorporation into their own product and without this “design win,” it becomes significantly difficult to sell our IP solutions. Moreover, even after a customer agrees to incorporate our technology into its end products, the design cycle is long and may be delayed due to factors beyond our control, which may result in the end product incorporating our technology not reaching the market until long after the initial “design win” with such customer. From initial product design-in to volume production, many factors could impact the timing and/or amount of sales actually realized from the design-in. These factors include, but are experiencingnot limited to, changes in the competitive position of our technology, our customers’ financial stability, and our ability to ship products according to our customers’ schedule. Moreover, current economic conditions may further prolong a challenging periodcustomer’s decision-making process and design cycle.

Further, because we do not control the business practices of our customers, we do not influence the degree to which they promote our technology or set the prices at which they sell products incorporating our technology. We cannot assure you that has negatively impactedour customers will devote satisfactory efforts to promote our IP solutions. In addition, our unit royalties from licenses are dependent upon the success of our customers in introducing products incorporating our technology and could continue to negatively impact our business and operating results.

the success of those products in the marketplace. The primary customers for our products are semiconductor design and manufacturing companies, system OEMs and electronic equipment manufacturers, particularly in the telecommunications field. These industries are highly cyclical and have been subject to significant economic downturns at various times, particularly in recent periods.periods, including the global economic downturn that started in the second half of 2008. These downturns are characterized by production overcapacity and reduced revenues, which at times may encourage semiconductor companies or electronic product manufacturers to reduce their expenditure on our technology. During 2001, the semiconductor industry as a whole experienced the most severe contraction in its history, with total semiconductor sales worldwide declining by more than 30%, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The market for semiconductors used in mobile communications was particularly hard hit, with the overall decline in sales worldwide estimated by Gartner Dataquest to have been well above 30%. These adverse conditions stabilized but did not improve during the course of 2002. The overall semiconductor market appears to have strengthened somewhat during the first nine months of 2003. If continued strengthening of the market is not sustained or if the market again weakens, our business could be further materially and adversely affected.

The markets in which we operate are highly competitive, and as a result we could experience a loss of sales, lower prices and lower revenue.

The markets for the products in which our technology is used are highly competitive. Aggressive competition could result in substantial declines in the prices that we are able to charge for our intellectual property. It could also cause our existing customers to move their orders to our competitors. Many of our competitors are large companies that have significantly greater financial and other resources than we have.

In addition, we may face increased competition from smaller, niche semiconductor design companies in the future. Some of our customers may also decide to satisfy their needs through in-house design and production. We compete on the basis of price, product quality, design cycle time, reliability, performance, customer support, name recognition and reputation and financial strength. Our inability to compete effectively on these bases could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We have undertaken an effort to strengthen our headquarters functions in the U.S. and to put in place a new management team; this process may not be completed successfully and could be disruptive to our operations.

In April 2003 we announced our intention to strengthen our headquarters function in the U.S. We have hired Chet Silvestri to serve as our Chief Executive Officer and Christine Russell to serve as our Chief Financial Officer, and we expect to appoint a new independent Chairman of the Board. In connection with these steps, Eliyahu Ayalon and Brian Long resigned their executive positions with the Company as of the end of July 2003; they remain on the Board of Directors and continue to serve as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board, respectively.

Although we believe that these efforts will strengthen our sales and investor presence in the U.S., where most of our customers and stockholders are located, and will further advance the integration process arising from our combination with Parthus, we can provide no assurance that the anticipated benefits of these efforts will arise. Moreover, the transition to new management, including a new Chairman, CEO and CFO, may create operational difficulties that could hinder our ability to exploit our market opportunities. To the extent that this transition takes longer than planned, it could also delay our ability to implement our overall business strategy on a timely basis.

Our operating results fluctuate from quarter to quarter due to a variety of factors, including our lengthy sales cycle, and are not a meaningful indicator of future performance.

In some quarters our operating results could be below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, which could cause our stock price to fall. Factors that may affect our quarterly results of operations in the future include, among other things:

the timely introduction of, demand for and market acceptance of new or enhanced technologies;

new product announcements and introductions by competitors;

timing and volume of orders and production, as well as fluctuations in royalty revenues resulting from fluctuations in unit shipments by our licensees;

our lengthy sales cycle;

gain or loss of significant customers, licensees, distributors and suppliers; and

changes in our pricing policies and those of our competitors and suppliers.

We rely significantly on revenue derived from a limited number of licensees.

We expect that a limited number of licensees will account for a substantial portion of our revenues in any period. Moreover, license agreements for our DSP cores have not historically provided for substantial ongoing license payments, although they may provide for royalties based on product shipments. Significant portions of our anticipated future revenue, therefore, will likely depend upon our success in attracting new customers or expanding our relationships with existing customers. Our ability to attract new customers and expand our relationships with existing customers will depend on a variety of factors, including the performance, quality, breadth and depth of our current and future products. Our failure to obtain agreements with these customers or prospective customers will impede our future revenue growth.

We depend on market acceptance of third-party semiconductor intellectual property (SIP).

Our future growth will depend on the level of acceptance by the market of our third-party, licensable intellectual property model and the variety of intellectual property offerings available on the market, which to a large extent are not in our control. If the market shifts and third-party SIP is no longer desired by our customers, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially harmed.

We depend on the success of our licensees to promote our solutions in the marketplace.

We do not sell our technology directly to end-users; we license our technology primarily to semiconductor companies and to electronic equipment manufacturers, who then incorporate our technology into the products they sell. Because we do not control the business practices of our licensees, we do not influence the degree to which they promote our technology or set the prices at which they sell products incorporating our technology. We cannot assure you that our licensees will devote satisfactory efforts to promoting our solutions. In addition, our unit royalties are totally dependent upon the success of our licensees in introducing products incorporating our technology and the success of those products in the marketplace. If we do not retain our current licenseescustomers and continue to attract new licensees,customers, our business may be harmed.

 

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Because we have significant international operations, we may be subject to political, economic and other conditions relating to our international operations that could increase our operating expenses and disrupt our revenues and business.
Approximately 83% of our total revenues for the first half of 2010 were derived from customers located outside of the United States. We expect that international customers will continue to account for a significant portion of our revenue for the foreseeable future. As a result, the occurrence of any negative international political, economic or geographic events could result in significant revenue shortfalls. These shortfalls could cause our business, financial condition and results of operations to be harmed. Some of the risks of doing business internationally include:
unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;
fluctuations in the exchange rate for the U.S. dollar;
imposition of tariffs and other barriers and restrictions;
burdens of complying with a variety of foreign laws, treaties and technical standards;
uncertainty of laws and enforcement in certain countries relating to the protection of intellectual property;
multiple and possibly overlapping tax structures and potentially adverse tax consequences;
political and economic instability; and
changes in diplomatic and trade relationships.
We depend on a limited number of key personnel who would be difficult to replace.

Our success depends to a significant extent upon certain of our key employees and senior management;management, the loss of the service of these employeeswhich could materially harm us.our business. Competition for skilled employees in our field is intense. We cannot assure you that in the future we will be successful in attracting and retaining the required personnel.

The sales cycle for our IP solutions is lengthy, which makes forecasting of our customer orders and revenues difficult.
The sales cycle for our IP solutions is lengthy, often lasting three to nine months. Our customers generally conduct significant technical evaluations, including customer trials, of our technology as well as competing technologies prior to making a purchasing decision. In addition, purchasing decisions also may be delayed because of a customer’s internal budget approval process. Furthermore, given the current market conditions, we have less ability to predict the timing of our customers’ purchasing cycle and potential unexpected delays in such a cycle. Because of the lengthy sales cycle and potential delays, our dependence on a limited number of customers to generate a significant amount of revenues for a particular period and the size of customer orders, if orders forecasted for a specific customer for a particular period do not occur in that period, our revenues and operating results for that particular quarter could suffer. Moreover, a portion of our expenses related to an anticipated order is fixed and difficult to reduce or change, which may further impact our operating results for a particular period.
We may dispose of or discontinue existing product lines and technology developments, which may adversely impact our future results.
On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our various product offerings and technology developments in order to determine whether any should be discontinued or, to the extent possible, divested. In December 2008, we restructured our SATA activities to better fit SATA’s operating expense levels to its overall revenue contribution. We cannot guarantee that we have correctly forecasted, or will correctly forecast in the future, the right product lines and technology developments to dispose or discontinue or that our decision to dispose of or discontinue various investments, products lines and technology developments is prudent if market conditions change. In addition, there are no assurances that the discontinuance of various product lines will reduce our operating expenses or will not cause us to incur material charges associated with such decision. Furthermore, the discontinuance of existing product lines entails various risks, including the risk that we will not be able to find a purchaser for a product line or the purchase price obtained will not be equal to at least the book value of the net assets for the product line. Other risks include managing the expectations of, and maintaining good relations with, our customers who previously purchased products from our disposed or discontinued product lines, which could prevent us from selling other products to them in the future. We may also incur other significant liabilities and costs associated with our disposal or discontinuance of product lines, including employee severance costs and excess facilities costs.

 

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Weakness

Because our IP solutions are complex, the detection of errors in our products may be delayed, and if we deliver products with defects, our credibility will be harmed, the sales and market acceptance of our products may decrease and product liability claims may be made against us.
Our IP solutions are complex and may contain errors, defects and bugs when introduced. If we deliver products with errors, defects or bugs, our credibility and the market acceptance and sales of our products could be significantly harmed. Furthermore, the nature of our products may also delay the detection of any such error or defect. If our products contain errors, defects and bugs, then we may be required to expend significant capital and resources to alleviate these problems. This could result in the world economy as a resultdiversion of geopolitical events couldtechnical and other resources from our other development efforts. Any actual or perceived problems or delays may also adversely affect our ability to attract or retain customers. Furthermore, the existence of any defects, errors or failure in our products could lead to product liability claims or lawsuits against us or against our customers. A successful product liability claim could result in substantial cost and divert management’s attention and resources, which would have a negative impact on our financial condition and results of operations.
Our operating results are affected by general economic conditions and the pricehighly cyclical nature of our common stock.

Recent declinesthe semiconductor industry.

During the 2008-2009 global downturn, general worldwide economic conditions significantly deteriorated, and resulted in decreased consumer confidence and spending, reduced corporate profits and capital spending, adverse business conditions and liquidity concerns. Our total revenues decreased in 2009 as compared to 2008. The economic weakness as a resultdownturn made, and the current uncertainty about the sustainability of the Iraq warrecovery makes, it extremely difficult for our customers, the end-product customers, our vendors and terrorist incidents have hadus to accurately forecast and plan future business activities and make reliable projections. Furthermore, during challenging economic times our customers may face various economic issues, including reduced demand for their products, longer design or production cycles, inability to gain timely access to sufficient credit, focus on cash preservation and tighter inventory management, all of which could result in an impairment of their ability to make timely payments to us and could cause reduced spending on our technologies.
Moreover, we operate within the semiconductor industry which experiences significant fluctuations in sales and profitability. The industry was materially adversely affected by the 2008-2009 global downturn. Downturns in the semiconductor industry are characterized by diminished product demand, excess customer inventories, accelerated erosion of prices and excess production capacity. These factors could cause substantial fluctuations in our revenues and in our results of operations.
If global economic and market conditions remain uncertain or deteriorate, we could experience a material adverse impact on our operations. If consumer confidence does not recover or is not sustained, our revenuesbusiness and results of operations may continueoperations.
Our success will depend on our ability to be adversely impacted in 2003 and beyond. Any escalation in these events, or similar future events, may disruptsuccessfully manage our operations or thosegeographically dispersed operations.
Most of our licensees. Anyemployees are located in Israel and Ireland. Accordingly, our ability to compete successfully will depend in part on the ability of these events could also increase volatilitya limited number of key executives located in geographically dispersed offices to integrate management, address the U.S. and worldwide financial markets and economy, which could harm our stock price and may limit the capital resources available to us and our licensees. This could have a significant impact on our operating results, revenues and costs and may result in increased volatility in the market priceneeds of our common stock.

Potential political, economiccustomers and military instabilityrespond to changes in our markets. If we are unable to effectively manage and integrate our remote operations, our business may be materially harmed.

Our operations in Israel may be adversely affect our results of operations.

Someaffected by instability in the Middle East region.

One of our principal research and development facilities areis located in, and our executive officers and some of our directors and senior employees are residents of, Israel. Although substantially all of our sales currently are being made to customers outside Israel, we are nonetheless directly influenced by the political, economic and military conditions affecting Israel. Any major hostilities involving Israel or the interruption or curtailment of trade between Israel and its current trading partners, could significantly harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

In addition, certain of our officers and employees are currently obligated to perform annual reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces and are subject to being called forto active military duty at any time. Although we have operated effectively under these requirements since our inception, we cannot predict the effect of these obligations on the company in the future. Our operations could be disrupted by the absence, for a significant period, of one or more of our key officers or key employees due to military service.

RISKS RELATING TO OUR

SEPARATION FROM DSP GROUP

Our research and development expenses may increase if the grants we currently receive from the Israeli and Irish governments are reduced or withheld.
We may have conflicts of interest with DSP Group with respect to our past and ongoing relationships and we may not be able to resolve these conflicts on terms that are most favorable to us.

The separation of our DSP cores licensing businesscurrently receive research grants from DSP Group was completed in November 2002. Immediately thereafter, we combined with Parthus. Prior to that time, we were a wholly owned subsidiary of DSP Group. Conflicts of interest may arise between DSP Group and us in a number of areas relating to our past and ongoing relationships, including labor, tax, employee benefit, indemnification, intellectual property, employee retention and recruiting and business opportunities that may be attractive to both DSP Group and us. We may not be able to resolve anyprograms of the potential conflictsOffice of interest discussed above on favorable terms or at all.

Restrictions on our ability to takethe Chief Scientist of Israel of the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade and under the funding programs of Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland. To be eligible for these grants, we must meet certain actions could inhibit our growth.

The agreement governing our separation from DSP Group contains restrictions on the liquidation, disposition or discontinuation of our DSP cores licensing business during the two-year period following our spin-off from DSP Group, which will end November 1, 2004. These restrictions, as well as our agreement to indemnify DSP Group if we do notdevelopment conditions and comply with these restrictions, could limit our ability to grow our business and compete effectively. In addition, these restrictions and indemnification obligations could make us a less attractive acquisition or merger candidate during this period.

We could be subject to joint and several liability for taxes of DSP Group.

As a former member of a group filing consolidated income tax returns with DSP Group, we could be liable for federal income taxes of DSP Group and other members of the consolidated group, including taxes, if any, incurred by DSP Group on the distribution of our stock to the stockholders of DSP Group. DSP Group has agreed to indemnify us against these taxes, other than taxes for which we have agreed to indemnify DSP Group pursuant to the terms of the tax indemnification and allocation agreement and separation agreement we entered into with DSP Group.

Our historical financial information may not be representative of our results as an independent company.

Our historical consolidated financial statements for periods prior to November 1, 2002 have been carved out from the consolidated financial statements of DSP Group using the historical results of operations and historical bases of the assets and liabilities of our business. Accordingly, this information does not necessarily reflect what our financial position, results of operations and cash flows would have been had our business operated as a separate, stand-alone entity during those periods. We have not made adjustments to the historical financial information for such periods to reflect the significant changes in the cost structure, funding and operations that resulted from the separation of the DSP cores licensing business from DSP Group and the combination with Parthus.

Some of our directors and senior employees may have conflicts of interest because of their ownership of DSP Group’s common stock or position with DSP Group.

Some of our directors and senior employees, including Eliyahu Ayalon, who serves as the Chairman of our board of directors and of the board of directors of DSP Group; Gideon Wertheizer, our Executive Vice President—Business Development and Chief Technology Officer; Issachar Ohana, our Vice President Sales of the DSP Intellectual Property Licensing Division; and Bat-Sheva Ovadia, our Chief Scientist—DSP Technologies, hold a significant number of shares of DSP Group’s common stock and options to purchase shares of DSP Group’s common stock. Ownership of DSP Group’s common stock by certain of our directors and senior employees could create, or appear to create, conflicts of interest when they are faced with decisions that could have different implications for DSP Group and us.

RISKS RELATING TO OUR

COMBINATION WITH PARTHUS

A number of factors could impair our ability to maximize the long-term potential of our combined businesses, and thereby harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

In November 2002, we combined our business with that of Parthus.periodic reporting obligations. Although we have integratedmet such conditions in the past, should we fail to meet such conditions in the future our businesses, we cannot assure you thatresearch grants may be repayable, reduced or withheld. The repayment or reduction of such integration will ultimately be successful over the long-term or that we will be able to fully capitalize on the potential of the combined business. Weresearch grants may encounter future difficulties stemming from the combination, including:

the impairment and/or loss of relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, licensees, vendorsincrease our research and others;development expenses which in turn may reduce our operating income.

 

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adverse financial results associated with integration of the two businesses, including unanticipated expenses related
We are exposed to the integration and deployment of acquired technologies and personnel; andfluctuations in currency exchange rates.

the disruptionA significant portion of our business and distractionis conducted outside the United States. Although most of our management.

In addition,revenue is transacted in U.S. dollars, we may be exposed to currency exchange fluctuations in the future as business practices evolve and we are forced to transact business in local currencies. Moreover, the majority of our combined technologyexpenses are denominated in foreign currencies, mainly New Israeli Shekel (NIS), Euro and British Pound, which subjects us to the risks of foreign currency fluctuations. Our primary expenses paid in the NIS, Euro and British Pound are employee salaries. Increases in the volatility of the exchange rates of the NIS, Euro and British Pound versus the U.S. dollar could have an adverse effect on the expenses and liabilities that we incur in NIS, Euro and British Pound when remeasured into U.S. dollars for financial reporting purposes. We have instituted a foreign cash flow hedging program to minimize the effects of currency fluctuations. However, hedging transactions may not successfully mitigate losses caused by currency fluctuations, and our hedging positions may be as strong as anticipated, our business modelpartial or may not be successful, or other unanticipated difficulties may be encountered. Further, we cannot assure you thatexist at all in the future. We also review our growth rate will equal the historical growth rates experienced by the two businesses separately.

ADDITIONAL RISKS RELATING TO OUR BUSINESS

Our success will depend on our abilitymonthly expected non-U.S. dollar denominated expenditure and look to manage our geographically dispersed operations successfully.

Although we are headquartered in San Jose, California, many of our executives and employees are located in Dublin, Ireland and Herzeliya, Israel. Accordingly, our abilityhold equivalent non-U.S. dollar cash balances to compete successfully will depend in part on the ability of a limited number of key executives located in geographically dispersed officesmitigate currency fluctuations. We expect to integrate management, address the needs of our customers and respond to changes in our markets. If we are unable to effectively manage our remote operations, our business may be harmed.

We may not be successful in licensing integrated, system-level solutions.

We offer our application-level IP platforms built around our DSP cores, and continue to offer our DSP coresexperience the effect of exchange rate currency fluctuations on an annual and IP platforms on a stand-alonequarterly basis. We have limited experience in offering DSP cores and IP platforms as an integrated solution. Future licenses for these integrated solutions may be more difficult to close or on terms less favorable than we currently anticipate.

If we are unable to meet the changing needs of our end-users or to address evolving market demands, our business may be harmed.

The markets for programmable DSP cores and application IP platforms are characterized by rapidly changing technology, emerging markets and new and developing end-user needs, and requiring significant expenditure for research and development. We cannot assure you that we will be able to introduce systems and solutions that reflect prevailing industry standards on a timely basis, to meet the specific technical requirements of our end-users or to avoid significant losses due to rapid decreases in market prices of our products, and our failure to do so may seriously harm our business. In addition, the reduction in the number of our employees in connection with our restructuring and reorganization efforts in the fourth quarter of 2002 and the first and third quarters of 2003 could adversely affect our ability to attract or retain customers who require certain R&D capabilities from their IP providers.

We may seek to expand our business through acquisitions that could result in diversion of resources and extra expenses.

We may pursue acquisitions of businesses, products and technologies, or establish joint venture arrangements in the future that could expand our business. We are unable to predict whether or when any other prospective acquisition will be completed. The negotiationprocess of negotiating potential acquisitions or joint ventures, as well as the integration of acquired or jointly developed businesses, technologies or products could cause diversionmay be prolonged due to unforeseen difficulties and may require a disproportionate amount of our resources and management’s time and our resources.attention. We may notcannot assure you that we will be able to successfully identify suitable acquisition candidates, complete acquisitions or integrate acquired businesses or joint ventures with our operations. If we were to make any acquisitionacquisitions or enter into a joint venture, we may not receive the intended benefits of the acquisition or joint venture. If future acquisitionsventure or such an acquisition or joint ventures disruptventure may not achieve comparable levels of revenues, profitability or productivity as our operations,existing business or if we have difficulty integrating the businesses or technologies we acquire,otherwise perform as expected. The occurrence of any of these events could harm our business, financial condition andor results of operations. Future acquisitions or joint venture may require substantial capital resources, which may require us to seek additional debt or equity financing.
Future acquisitions or joint venture by us could result in the following, any of which could seriously harm our results of operations could suffer.

or the price of our stock:
issuance of equity securities that would dilute our current stockholders’ percentages of ownership;
large one-time write-offs;
incurrence of debt and contingent liabilities;
difficulties in the assimilation and integration of operations, personnel, technologies, products and information systems of the acquired companies;
diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns;
contractual disputes;
risks of entering geographic and business markets in which we have no or only limited prior experience; and
potential loss of key employees of acquired organizations.

 

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We may not be able to adequately protect our intellectual property.

Our success and ability to compete depend in large part upon the protection of our proprietary technologies. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, mask work and other intellectual property rights, confidentiality procedures and licensing arrangements to establish and protect our proprietary rights. These agreements and measures may not be sufficient to protect our technology from third-party infringement or to protect us from the claims of others. As a result, we face risks associated with our patent position, including the potential need to engage in significant legal proceedings to enforce our patents, the possibility that the validity or enforceability of our patents may be denied, the possibility that third parties will be able to compete against us without infringing our patents and the possibility that our products may infringe patent rights of third parties.

Our tradenamestrade names or trademarks may be registered or utilized by third parties in countries other than those in which we have registered them, impairing our ability to enter and compete in these markets. In the United States, the trademark SmartCore has been registered by an unrelated company. AlthoughIf we have successfully co-existed with this other trademark holder,were forced to change any of our brand names, we cannot assure you that this statecould lose a significant amount of affairs will continue.

our brand identity.

Our business will suffer if we are sued for infringement of the intellectual property rights of third parties or if we cannot obtain licenses to these rights on commercially acceptable terms.

Although we are not currently involved in any material litigation, we

We are subject to the risk of adverse claims and litigation alleging infringement of the intellectual property rights of others. There are a large number of patents held by others, including our competitors, pertaining to the broad areas in which we are active. We have not, and cannot reasonably, investigate all such patents. From time to time, we have become aware of patents in our technology areas and have sought legal counsel regarding the validity of such patents and their impact on how we operate our business, and we will continue to seek such counsel when appropriate in the future. ClaimsIn addition, patent infringement claims are increasingly being asserted by patent holding companies (so-called patent “trolls”), which do not use technology and whose sole business is to enforce patents against companies, such as us, for monetary gain. Because such patent holding companies do not provide services or use technology, the assertion of our own patents by way of counter-claim may be ineffective. Infringement claims may require us to enter into license arrangements or result in protracted and costly litigation, regardless of the merits of these claims. Any necessary licenses may not be available or, if available, may not be obtainable on commercially reasonable terms. If we cannot obtain necessary licenses on commercially reasonable terms, we may be forced to stop licensing our technology, and our business would be seriously harmed.

Our business depends on OEMsour customers and their suppliers obtaining required complementary components.

Some of the raw materials, components and subassemblies included in the products manufactured by our OEM customers are obtained from a limited group of suppliers. Supply disruptions, shortages or termination of any of these sources could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations due to the delay or discontinuance of orders for products containing our IP, especially our DSP cores, until those necessary components are available.

The future growth of our business depends in part on our ability to license to system OEMs and small-to-medium-sized semiconductor companies directly.

directly and to expand our sales geographically.

Historically, a substantial portion of theour licensing revenues from the licensing of our DSP cores has been derived in any given period from a relatively small number of licensees. Because of the highsubstantial license fees we currently charge, onlyour customers tend to be large semiconductor companies or vertically integrated system OEMs typically license our DSP core technologies.OEMs. Part of our current growth strategy is to broaden the adoption of our client baseproducts by small and mid-size companies by offering tailored packages to small- and medium-sized semiconductor companies and other system OEMs to enable them to licensedifferent versions of our DSP core technologies.products targeted at these companies. If we are unable to effectively develop and market effectively our intellectual property through this model,these models, our revenues will continue to be largely dependent on a smaller number of licensees and the failure to secure these typesa less geographically dispersed pattern of relationshipslicensees, which could materially harm our business and results of operations.

ADDITIONAL RISKS RELATING TO OUR

INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

The Israeli tax benefits that we currently receive and the government programs in which we participate require us to meet certain conditions and may be terminated or reduced in the future, which could increase our costs.

tax expenses.

We enjoy certain tax benefits in Israel, particularly as a result of the “Approved Enterprise” and the “Benefited Enterprise” status of our facilities and programs. To maintain our eligibility for these tax benefits, we must continue to meet certain conditions, relating principally to adherence to the investment program filed with the Investment Center of the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade and to periodic reporting obligations. We believe that we will be able to continue to meet such conditions. Should we fail to meet such conditions in the future, however, these benefits would be cancelled and we would be subject to corporate tax in Israel at the standard corporate rate of 36%25% in 2010 and could be required to refund tax benefits already received. In addition, we cannot assure you that these grants and tax benefits will be continued in the future at their current levels or otherwise. The tax benefits under our first four investment programs have expired and are subject to corporate tax of 25% in 2010. However, our Israeli operating subsidiary received in 2008 an approval for the erosion of tax basis in respect to its second, third and fourth investment programs, and as a result no taxable income was attributed to the second and third investment programs, and reduced taxable income was attributed to the fourth investment program. The tax benefits under our other investment programs are scheduled to gradually expire starting in 2012. The termination or reduction of certain programs and tax benefits (particularly benefits available to us as a result of the Approved Enterprise“Approved Enterprise” and the “Benefited Enterprise” status of our facilities and programs) or a requirement to refund tax benefits already received may seriously harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

Recently, amendments to the Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments were submitted to the Israeli government to propose certain changes to the tax benefits regime, which proposals require legislative action and remain uncertain at this time.

 

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Our corporate tax rate may increase, which could adversely impact our cash flow, financial condition and results of operations.

We have significant operations in Israel and the Republic of Ireland and a substantial portion of our taxable income historically has been generated there. Currently, some of our Israeli and Irish subsidiaries are taxed at rates substantially lower than the U.S. tax rates. Although there is no current expectation of any changes to Israeli and Irish tax law,laws, if our Israeli and Irish subsidiaries were no longer to qualify for these lower tax rates or if the applicable tax laws were rescinded or changed, our operating results could be materially adversely affected. In addition, because our IrishIsraeli and IsraeliIrish operations are owned by subsidiaries of aour U.S. parent corporation, distributions to the U.S. parent corporation, and in certain circumstances undistributed income of the subsidiaries, may be subject to U.S. tax.taxes. Moreover, if U.S. or other foreign tax authorities were to change applicable foreign tax laws or successfully challenge the manner in which our subsidiaries’ profits are currently recognized, our overall taxestax expenses could increase, and our business, cash flow, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

Also our taxes on the Irish interest income may be double taxed both in Ireland and in the U.S. due to U.S. tax regulations and Irish tax restrictions on NOLs to off-set interest income.

Item 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISKLegislative action in the United States could materially and adversely affect us from a tax perspective.

A majority

Legislative action may be taken by the U.S. Congress which, if ultimately enacted, would adversely affect our effective tax rate and/or require us to take further action, at potentially significant expense, to seek to preserve our effective tax rate. In 2009 and 2010, President Obama’s administration announced budgets, which included proposed future tax legislation that could substantially modify the rules governing the U.S. taxation of certain non-U.S. affiliates. These potential changes include, but are not limited to, curbing the deferral of U.S. taxation of certain foreign earnings and limiting the ability to use foreign tax credits. Many details of the proposal remain unknown, and any legislation enacting such modifications would require Congressional support and approval. We cannot predict the outcome of any specific legislative proposals. However, if any of these proposals are enacted into law, they could significantly impact our effective tax rate.
Our stock price may be volatile so you may not be able to resell your shares of our revenues and a portioncommon stock at or above the price you paid for them.
Announcements of developments related to our expenses are transacted in U.S. dollars, and our assets and liabilities together with our cash holdings are predominately denominated in U.S. dollars. However, a portion of our expenses are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, principally the euro, the Israeli NIS and the British pound. Increases in the volatility of the exchange rates of the euro, NIS and pound versus the U.S. dollar could have an adverse effect on the expenses and liabilities that we incur when translated into U.S. dollars. We incurred foreign exchange losses of approximately $598,000 for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2003, arising principally on the translation of euro liabilities as a result of the appreciation of the euro against the U.S. dollar in the first part of 2003. As a result of such currency fluctuations and the conversion to U.S. dollars for financial reporting purposes, we may experiencebusiness, announcements by competitors, quarterly fluctuations in our operatingfinancial results, on an annual and a quarterly basis going forward. We have notchanges in the past, but maygeneral conditions of the highly dynamic industry in which we compete or the future, hedge againstnational economies in which we do business, and other factors could cause the price of our common stock to fluctuate, perhaps substantially. In addition, in recent years, the stock market has experienced extreme price fluctuations, in exchange rates. Future hedging transactions may not successfully mitigate losses caused by currency fluctuations. We expectwhich have often been unrelated to continue to experience the effectoperating performance of exchange rate fluctuations on an annualaffected companies. These factors and quarterly basis, and currency fluctuations could have a material adverse impacteffect on our results of operations.

We are exposed to financialthe market risks, including changes in interest rates. We typically do not attempt to reduce or eliminate our market exposures on our investment securities because the majorityprice of our investments are short-term. We do not have any derivative instruments.

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Item 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
The fair valuetable below sets forth the information with respect to repurchases of our investment portfolio or related income would not be significantly impacted by either a 100 basis point increase or decrease in interest rates due mainly to the short-term nature of our investment portfolio.

All the potential changes noted above are based on sensitivity analysis performed on our balances as of September 30, 2003.

Item 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Our management evaluated, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) as of September 30, 2003. Based on such evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were (1) designed to ensure that material information relating to ParthusCeva, including our consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to them by others within those entities, particularly in the period in which this report was being prepared and (2) effective, in that they provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.

No change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act) occurredcommon stock during the fiscal quarterthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2003 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

2010.

                 
          (c)  (d) 
          Total Number of  Maximum Number 
          Shares Purchased  of Shares that May 
  (a)  (b)  as Part of Publicly  Yet Be Purchased 
  Total Number of  Average Price  Announced Plans  Under the Plans 
Period Shares Purchased  Paid per Share  or Programs  or Programs) 
Month #1 (April 1, 2010 to April 30, 2010)           106,409 
Month #2 (May 1, 2010 to May 31, 2010)  21,716  $11.19   21,716   2,084,693(1)
Month #3 (June 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010)  86,293  $11.17   86,293   1,998,400 
TOTAL  108,009  $11.18   108,009   1,998,400(2)
(1)
In May 2010, our board of directors approved the expansion of our share repurchase program by another two million shares of common stock, with one million shares available for repurchase in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and one million shares available for repurchase in accordance with Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This authorization is in addition to the previous announced share repurchase program of one million shares which was fully utilized during the second quarter of 2010. Any repurchases of the one million shares of common stock pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 shall be affected in accordance with predetermined parameters set forth in a Rule 10b5-1 plan that we established. Any repurchases of the one million shares of common stock pursuant to Rule 10b-18 shall be affected from time to time, depending on market conditions and other factors, through open market purchases and privately negotiated transactions; provided such repurchases are in accordance with Rule 10b-18. Our repurchase program has no set expiration or termination date.
(2)The number represents the number of shares of our common stock that remain available for the repurchase pursuant to our Board’s authorization as of May 2010.
Item 6. EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

(a) Exhibits

Exhibit

No.


 

Description


10.1Exhibit Letter Agreement dated September 5, 2003 between ParthusCeva, Inc. and Christine Russell
No.Description
10.242010 Executive Bonus Plan (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on 8-K filed on August 3, 2010, and incorporated herein by reference)
31.1 Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer
31.2 Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Financial Officer
32 Section 1350 Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer

 

(b) Reports on Form 8-K31


On July 22, 2003, the Company furnished a current report on Form 8-K dated July 22, 2003 under Items 9 and 12 containing a copy of a press release announcing the Company’s financial results for the second quarter of 2003.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

PARTHUSCEVA, INC.

Date: November 13, 2003

By:

/S/    CHESTER J. SILVESTRI        


    

Chester J. Silvestri

CEVA, INC.
Date: August 9, 2010 By:  /s/ GIDEON WERTHEIZER  
Gideon Wertheizer 
Chief Executive Officer


(principal executive officer) 

Date: November 13, 2003

By:

/S/    CHRISTINE RUSSELL        


    

Christine Russell

Date: August 9, 2010 By:  /s/ YANIV ARIELI  
Yaniv Arieli 
Chief Financial Officer


(principal financial officer and
principal accounting officer)

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit
No.


 

Description


10.1Letter Agreement dated September 5, 2003 between ParthusCeva, Inc. and Christine Russell
31.1Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer
31.2Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Financial Officer
32   Section 1350 Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer

 

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