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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Form 10-K
 
     
þ
  ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
    For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005
 
OR
 
o
  TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
    For the transition period from           to
Commission file number: 0-30539
TVIA, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware
  94-3175152
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)
 
4001 Burton Drive
Santa Clara, California 95054
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(408) 982-8588
(Registrant’s telephone number,
including area code)
Securities registered to Section 12(b) of the Act:
None
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share
      Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required 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.     Yes þ          No o
      Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (Section 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.     o
      Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).     Yes o          No þ
      The aggregate market value of Common Stock held by non-affiliates (based upon the closing sale price on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market) on September 30, 2004 was approximately $24.8 million.
      As of May 31, 2005, there were 23,390,446 shares of Common Stock, $0.001 per share par value, outstanding.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
      Items 10 (as to directors and Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance), 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Part III incorporate by reference information from the registrant’s proxy statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the registrant’s 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on August 11, 2005.
 
 


TVIA, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2005 FORM 10-K
             
        Page
         
PART I     3  
   Business     3  
   Properties     9  
   Legal Proceedings     9  
   Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders     10  
 PART II     10  
   Market for Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters     10  
   Selected Financial Data     12  
   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations     13  
   Financial Statements and Supplementary Data     31  
   Changes In and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure     53  
   Controls and Procedures     53  
 PART III     53  
   Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant     53  
   Executive Compensation     54  
   Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholders Matters     54  
   Certain Relationships and Related Transactions     55  
   Principal Accountant Fees and Services     55  
 PART IV     55  
   Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules     55  
 EXHIBIT 3(II).1
 EXHIBIT 10.11
 EXHIBIT 10.12
 EXHIBIT 10.13
 EXHIBIT 23.1
 EXHIBIT 31.1
 EXHIBIT 31.2
 EXHIBIT 32.1
 EXHIBIT 32.2

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This document contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Tvia’s (“the Company’s”) actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, fluctuations in customer demand, risks associated with competition, risks associated with product development, reliance on foreign manufacturers, foreign business, political and economic risks and risks identified in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission, filings, including, but not limited to, those discussed elsewhere in this Form 10-K under the heading “Risk Factors” located at the end of Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” of this Form 10-K.
All references to “Tvia,” “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” mean Tvia, Inc. and its subsidiary, except where it is made clear that the term means only the parent company.
Item 1. Business
      Tvia, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focused on designing, producing and marketing display processors for the digital and interactive TV market. The Company offers a family of flexible, high-quality display processors to TV manufacturers, creating next-generation digital high definition (HD) LCD TV, enhanced definition (ED) progressive-scan CRT TV and interactive multimedia display processors for Interactive Set Top Boxes.
      We currently offer five product families: the TrueView 5700 family, introduced in fiscal year 2005; the TrueView 5600 family, introduced in fiscal year 2004; the CyberPro 5202 family, introduced in calendar year 2002; the CyberPro 5300 family, introduced in calendar year 1999; and the CyberPro 5000 family, introduced in calendar year 1998. These product families currently generate most of our revenues. We sell our products through two channels. First, we sell our products directly to original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, and recognize revenues at the time of shipment to these OEMs. We also sell our products to a number of distributors. We defer recognition of revenues for sales to our distributors until they have sold our products to end-users. We also generate revenues from licensing our proprietary software which we believe will continue to constitute a small percentage of total revenues in the future.
      Tvia was originally incorporated in California as Intergraphics Systems, Inc. in March 1993. In August 1997, we changed our name to IGS technologies. In March 2000, we changed our name to Tvia, Inc. In August 2000, we incorporated in Delaware. The Company has a subsidiary in the People’s Republic of China that supports the Company’s research and development activities and performs product testing and sales and marketing functions. Tvia operates in one principal industry segment.
Available Information
      Our internet address is http://www.tvia.com. Tvia makes the following filings available on its website as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC: our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Forms 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
Industry Background
      There are more than 2 billion standard analog televisions in the world today. All broadcast TV stations in the country have temporary use of a second, separate channel so that they can transition from analog broadcasting to digital. The target deadline for ending analog broadcasting is December 31, 2006, but this date may be extended. When analog broadcasting ends, consumers with analog sets will need to obtain a separate converter box to watch over-the-air TV. Analog sets equipped with a converter box will display the digital broadcasts, but not in full digital quality.
      Digital Television (DTV) is a new type of broadcasting that will transform your television viewing experience. Images and sound will be captured using digital technology, delivering a movie-quality experience with multicasting and interactive capabilities. That means better quality, more choices, and

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more control over your television. There are many quality levels of digital television programming. The most common are:
  •  Standard Definition TV (SDTV) — SDTV is the basic level of quality display and resolution for both analog and digital. Transmission of SDTV may be in either the traditional (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) format.
 
  •  Enhanced Definition TV (EDTV) — EDTV is a step up from Analog Television. EDTV comes in 480p widescreen (16:9) or traditional (4:3) format and provides better picture quality than SDTV, but not as high as HDTV.
 
  •  High Definition TV (HDTV) — HDTV in widescreen format (16:9) provides the highest resolution and picture quality of all digital broadcast formats. Combined with digitally enhanced sound technology, HDTV sets new standards for sound and picture quality in television. (Note: HDTV and digital TV are not the same thing — HDTV is one format of digital TV.)
      Over the next decade, we anticipate that digital television, or DTV, penetration will increase from 12 percent in 2004 to 44 percent by 2007. We believe this mass-scale global technology expansion will produce unique opportunities for superior display processor revenue growth. Several technologies are competing for a share of the DTV market including cathode ray tube (CRT), digital light processing (DLP), and plasma displays (PDP, and LCD).
      According to the market-research firm DisplaySearch, DTV is expected to follow a similar path to that of digital video disks (DVDs). DVD players have enjoyed rapid acceptance over the last few years. There are several factors that have contributed to the success of the DVD player, including ubiquitous content, smaller form factor, improved audio and visual quality and falling prices, a by-product of silicon integration. By comparison, the DTV market is small, but rapidly increasing. Based on current market conditions, we believe DTV unit shipments will increase over the next five years from 22 million in 2004 to 89 million in 2007.
      DTV growth drivers will largely mirror those of DVD players. Importantly, two of the largest components of DTV are glass and silicon, which we expect to drop materially in price over the next few years due to new capacity and better integration.
      Industry analysts define advanced television, or DTV, or digital displays, as displays that do not contain a digital tuner and integrated MPEG-2 decoder. In the case of LCD televisions, they tune and receive analog video signals and through the use of silicon-based processes such as 3D digital comb filtering and de-interlacing, significantly enhance the content so that it approaches the quality of DTV. At higher price points, the DTV televisions may include add-in board slots for DTV tuners and MPEG-2 decoders.
      According to SDI Marketing and Samsung, worldwide sales of DTVs, which include LCD, PDP, PJTV (projection televisions) and HDTV (CRT), are expected to grow from 22 million units in 2004 to 89 million units in 2007. Currently, television pictures are made up of lines that are scanned horizontally. HDTV pictures are created by scanning up to twice as many lines. This resolution and other technical factors improve the sharpness of the pictures, allowing you to read on your television small text commonly seen on your computer. HDTV sets have wider, movie-theater like screens that more closely resemble human peripheral vision, making it a better viewing experience.
      Within the emerging DTV market, LCD television is the largest and fastest growing sub-segment. Moreover, LCD televisions best illustrate the semi-conductor sales opportunities resulting from the transition to digital video through the use of silicon chips. LCD televisions principally receive analog television broadcasts and employ analog interfaces, yet they are incapable of scanning video in an interlaced manner. Interlaced video means that only half the image is scanned in or at any given frame or moment and as such, a viewer is only seeing half an image comprised of either odd or evenly scanned lines. LCDs only scan video progressively, and are fed interlaced or non-progressively with

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poor quality analog video signals or are fed digital signals through analog interfaces. As a result, they require silicon de-interlacers to create a high-definition, high-quality video image.
      Our Solution
  •  We believe our display processors provide high quality, efficient silicon de-interlacing and scaling that allow our customers to produce high-quality progressive scan CRT television and LCD television at an attractive price.
 
  •  We believe our display processors, software and reference design and design support enable our OEM customers to accelerate their time to market by reducing their systems engineering development. Our engineers work closely with our customers’ engineers to facilitate systems design. These benefits enable our OEM customers to bring products with rich features and differentiated systems to market quickly.
Products
      Our products are based on advanced architecture integrated circuits and system designs that provide real time, cost effective and high quality display processing. We currently offer five product families: the TrueView 5700 family, introduced in calendar year 2004; the TrueView 5600 family, introduced in calendar year 2004; the CyberPro 5202 family, introduced in calendar year 2002; the CyberPro 5300 family, introduced in calendar year 1999; and the CyberPro 5000 family, introduced in calendar year 1998. Each of our semiconductor solutions include different features, which OEMs can select for inclusion in their products.
      The TrueView 5700 is a low pin count, low-cost, highly integrated digital video image display processor providing the key features necessary to design ED progressive scan CRT television.
      The TrueView 5600 product line targets the HD LCD television market and other LCD based applications such as, Multimedia displays, Web-pads, in-flight entertainment systems, and info-tainment system displays that process enhanced picture-in-picture and multiple source capabilities. Features that are optimized specifically for LCD’s include superior de-interlacing, advanced scaler performance and exceptional alpha blending features and multiple independent media streams. The strong alpha blending feature allows for transparent layers of media content used in creating outstanding menus and guides.
      The CyberPro 5202 incorporates all the features of our CyberPro 5000, 5005, 5050 and 5055 products. In addition, a 24-bit digital interface directly supports LCDs, and other digital interfaces. Enhanced, flexible alpha-blending capabilities allow overlay of different windows with programmable levels of opacity. Two advanced television encoders allow the user to configure the recording picture in personal video recorder, or PVR, applications. The processor maintains crisp text presentation, even as the opacity of the window is varied. The CyberPro 5202 is designed for displays to multiple devices such as traditional cathode ray tube televisions, advanced televisions, panel displays, emerging interactive displays and LCD products.
      The CyberPro 5300 is the first product in the CyberPro 5300 family designed for broadband set-top boxes that require 3D animation, 3D effects or 3D graphics processing capability.
      The CyberPro 5305, 5350 and 5355 are similar to our CyberPro 5005, 5050 and 5055 products, but also provide 3D animation, 3D effects, or 3D graphics processing capability.
      The CyberPro 5000 is the first product of the CyberPro 5000 family designed for broadband digital set-top boxes and advanced televisions. The CyberPro 5000 has enhanced text, graphics and video processing engines. It also includes two video ports for two simultaneous video streams, high picture quality of broadband video on television, hardware-magnified view of web pages on television and a flexible transparency algorithm for blending multiple video, text, graphics, pictures and animation on screen.

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      The CyberPro 5005 is designed for broadband set-top boxes and advanced televisions with Internet and DVD capability. In addition to CyberPro 5000 features, the 5005 provides MacroVision encryption for copy protection.
      The CyberPro 5050 is designed for broadband set-top boxes and advanced televisions that have integrated audio capability. Additional features include an audio digital signal processor engine with audio synthesis, MIDI, I2S, PCM and stereo audio.
      The CyberPro 5055 combines all of the features of our CyberPro 5000, 5005 and 5050 products. The CyberPro 5055 provides a solution for broadband set-top boxes and advanced televisions that process multiple media streams including DVD and full duplex audio.
Customers
      We target customers in the advanced television and emerging interactive display markets. We began to focus on the emerging interactive display market in 1997, and later expanded our focus to include the advanced digital television markets. The majority of our sales in fiscal 2005 were to manufacturers and distributors of DVR, electronic gaming, CRT-DTV, TV converter boxes, security market and transportation entertainment systems (airplanes, taxi and trains). In prior years, the majority of our sales were to the IPTV (TV over the internet) interactive set top market. Many of our customers manufacture or distribute products in more than one of our target markets.
      In fiscal 2005, sales to SMS Electronics, Ltd., Kanematsu Devices Corporation and Micro Network Korea Co., Ltd. represented 34%, 17% and 10% of revenues, respectively. In fiscal 2004, sales to Kanematsu Devices Corporation, SMS Electronics, Ltd., Weikeng Industrial Co., and Fujitsu-Siemens Computers Gmbh represented 15%, 12%, 12% and 10% of revenues, respectively. In fiscal 2003, sales to Siemens Communications Ltd., Kanematsu Devices Corporation and Micro Network Korea Co., Ltd. represented 24%, 17% and 10% of revenues, respectively. In fiscal 2005, sales to customers in the Europe, Japan, China, the United States and Korea comprised 34%, 20%, 13%, 11% and 10% of revenues, respectively. In fiscal 2004, sales to customers in the United States, Europe, Taiwan and Japan comprised 24%, 24%, 18%, and 15% of revenues, respectively. In fiscal 2003, sales to customers in Europe, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and Korea comprised 35%, 25%, 16%, 14% and 10% of revenues, respectively.
Sales and Marketing
      We sell and market our display processors through our direct sales force, sales representatives and distributors.
      Our products are marketed primarily through reference platforms and evaluation kits designed internally and with industry leading microprocessors, real-time operating systems and other strategic partners directly or indirectly through our partners’ channels to OEMs for evaluation and development. These reference platforms and evaluation kits (hardware and software) have proven to be vital to our success in obtaining new design wins. We also promote our products through our website, trade shows, articles, press releases and joint promotions with our strategic partners.
      Our personnel work closely with customers, sales representatives and authorized distributors to define product features, performance, price and market timing of new products. We provide technical support and design assistance directly to OEM customers, regardless of the sales channels used. We believe that a high level of customer support is necessary to successfully develop and maintain long-term relationships with our customers. These relationships begin at the design phase and develop, as customer needs change and evolve. We provide support through both on-site customer service and remote support from our facilities.
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designing, testing and qualifying system designs that incorporate our integrated circuits and software products. We believe that the depth and quality of this design support team are key to improving our customers’ time to market and maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction. Our direct sales offices are located in Santa Clara, California and Shenzhen and Hefei, People’s Republic of China. All of our sales offices provide hardware and software applications support.
Research and Development
      Our research and development efforts are focused on four areas: device architecture and logic design, physical layer design, software development and device testing. As of March 31, 2005, our research and development staff consisted of 76 employees, (12 of whom were located in the United States and 64 of whom were located in the People’s Republic of China). Our research and development efforts have centered on architecture design, streaming media processing modes, high-speed digital and mixed signal design and software.
      We conduct research and development at our design centers in Santa Clara, California and Hefei, People’s Republic of China. Our People’s Republic of China facility is located in a science park near Hefei University of Technology, where employee costs are lower than in the San Francisco Bay Area.
      Our research and development expenses for fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003 were $5.8 million, $6.8 million and $9.0 million, respectively. Research and development expenses consist mainly of personnel and other costs associated with the development of product designs, process technology, software and programming hardware. We anticipate that we will continue to commit substantial resources to research and development in the future.
Manufacturing
      We have adopted a fabless semiconductor manufacturing model and therefore we outsource all of our semiconductor manufacturing and assembly. This approach allows us to focus our resources on the design, development, testing and marketing of our products and significantly reduces our capital requirements. We develop our designs to be compatible with three foundries, United Manufacturing Corporation, or UMC, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, or TSMC, both of which are located in Hsin Chu, Taiwan, and HuaHong NEC located in the People’s Republic of China. This allows us to shift production from one facility to the other in the event of a capacity constraint at one foundry. We currently use 0.35 micron technology for production of our CyberPro 5000, TrueView 5600 and Trueview 5700 families. We use 0.3 micron technology for production of our CyberPro 5300 family and 0.18 micron technology for production of our CyperPro 5202 family.
      We internally design and optimize digital and analog cells through our physical layer design group. We believe this allows us to reduce the size of the semiconductor and therefore the cost. This also gives us greater control over the quality and reliability of our multi-media display processors.
      Assembly of our devices is performed by Advance Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Belling Corp., Ltd. in ShangHai, People’s Republic of China. We may also use Siliconware Precision Industries Ltd., located in Hsin Chu, Taiwan. Final testing is primarily performed by us at our subsidiary in Hefei, People’s Republic of China.
Competition
      The semiconductor industry and the market for integrated circuits for advanced televisions and emerging interactive displays is highly competitive. We believe we can compete favorably in each of the key competitive factors in our target markets. These factors are:
  •  Functionality;
 
  •  Performance;
 
  •  Time to market;

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  •  Price;
 
  •  Conformity to industry standards;
 
  •  Product road maps; and
 
  •  Technical support.
      Our current and primary competitors are ATI Technologies, Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Genesis Microchip, Inc., Pixelworks, Inc., Trident Microsystems, Inc. MediaTek Inc.(TWN), Morning Star (TWN), and Silicon Image, Inc. In addition to these competitors, we expect other major semiconductor manufacturers will enter the market as the advanced television and emerging interactive display markets develop. A number of companies, including International Business Machines Corporation, STMicroelectronics N.V., National Semiconductor, Equator Technologies, Inc., LSI Logic and Philips Electronics N.V., have announced that they are developing or plan to introduce competing products in the advanced television and emerging interactive display markets which could result in significant competition. We expect competition to intensify as current competitors expand their product offerings and new competitors enter the market.
Intellectual Property
      We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws and contractual restrictions to establish and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights that we develop and license from others.
      We have been granted two United States patents, containing claims covering various aspects of combining digital streams of video and graphics for presentation on an output display and for changing the size of graphic data for presentation on a television output display. We expect to file patent applications as we deem appropriate to protect our technology and products. We cannot be sure that our patent applications will result in the issuance of patents, or that any issued patents will provide commercially significant protection to our technology.
      We also license from others certain audio, graphics and semiconductor technology that is incorporated in our semiconductors and certain intellectual property rights. These licenses are perpetual and survive the termination of the agreements under which we obtained such licenses. The protections we receive from others against infringement under the terms of these licensing agreements are limited and we cannot be sure that alternative technology exists.
      In December 2000, we entered into an agreement with Oak Technology, Inc. or Oak, which has proprietary 3D graphics technology that permits incorporation of the 3D graphics function onto our chips. As a result of our agreement, we were granted the right to use this 3D graphics technology for 3D graphics integration in our products and to manufacture, distribute and sublicense products using the 3D graphics technology.
      In April 2001, we amended the agreement with Oak Technology, in order to license Oak’s proprietary MPEG-2 technology that permits the incorporation of MPEG-2 decoding functions onto our chips. As a result of our agreement, we were granted the right to use this MPEG-2 technology for MPEG-2 integration in our products and to manufacture, distribute and sublicense products using the MPEG-2 decoding technology. In December 2003, we postponed the development of product related to this technology indefinitely; accordingly, we wrote off $1.5 million of license technology related to this MPEG-2 technology.
      In July 2003, we sold our software business and software-related assets to MediaTek, Inc. The software assets were developed internally to support our products, including Home IT, advanced digital video broadcasting, MPEG 4 software, SDK software and software drivers. In connection with this transaction, MediaTek granted to us a royalty-free license to continue to use those software assets to support our existing products and fulfill our maintenance obligations to our existing customers.

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      We attempt to avoid infringing known proprietary rights of third parties in our product development efforts. It is difficult to proceed with certainty in a rapidly evolving technological environment in which there may be numerous patent applications pending, with regard to similar technologies, many of which are confidential when filed. If our products violate third-party proprietary rights, we might not be able to obtain licenses to continue offering these products without substantial reengineering. Efforts to undertake this reengineering might not be successful, licenses might be unavailable on commercially reasonable terms, if at all, and litigation might not be avoided or settled without substantial expense and damage awards.
CyberPro and Tvia are registered trademarks, and the Tvia logo is a trademark of Tvia, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.
Backlog
      Our sales are made primarily pursuant to standard purchase orders for delivery of products. Due to industry practice which allows customers to cancel or change orders with limited advance notice prior to shipment, we believe that backlog is not a reliable indicator of future revenue levels.
Seasonality
      The electronics industry has historically been subject to seasonal and cyclical fluctuations in demand for its products, and this trend may continue in the future. The seasonal peak occurs prior to the Christmas holidays and the seasonal downturn occurs primarily during the June, July period. Industry downturns may be caused by adverse economic conditions. These industry downturns have been, and may continue to be, characterized by diminished product demand, excess manufacturing capacity and subsequent erosion of average selling prices.
Employees
      As of March 31, 2005, we had 151 full time employees including 76 engaged in research and development, 24 engaged in sales and marketing, 26 engaged in operations and 25 engaged in general management and administration activities. Of these employees, 28 work in our Santa Clara facility, two work in Japan and 121 work at our facility in the People’s Republic of China. Our employees are not represented by any collective bargaining agreement and we have never experienced a work stoppage. We believe our relations with our employees are good.
Item 2. Properties
      Our headquarters, which also serves as our principal administrative, selling, marketing, customer support, applications engineering and product development facility, is located in Santa Clara, California, and consists of one building of approximately 16,500 square feet under a lease that expires on December 31, 2006. We also lease a building located in Hefei, People’s Republic of China of approximately 15,000 square feet under a lease that expires in June 2007 for our research and development operations in China; a building in Beijing, People’s Republic of China of approximately 650 square feet that expires in November 2005, used for marketing and customer support purposes in China; and a building located in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China of approximately 2,500 square feet that expires in August 2005 for our marketing and customer support in China.
      We believe our existing facilities are adequate to meet our needs for the near future and that future growth can be accomplished by leasing additional or alternative space on commercially reasonable terms.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
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against us or, to the best of our knowledge, threatened against us, will have a significant adverse effect on our financial position or results of operations.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
      Not applicable.
Executive Officers
      The executive officers of the Company are as follows:
      Eli Porat, 59, was elected Chairman of the Board effective April 1, 2005 and succeeded Kenny Liu who resigned effective April 1, 2005. Mr. Porat has also served as our Chief Executive Officer since November 2001 and as President since February 2002. Mr. Porat has served as a director of our Company since March 2001. From January 1997 to November 2001, Mr. Porat was Chief Executive Officer of OpenGrid, Inc., a mobile business solutions company. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Porat was Chief Executive Officer of DSP Group, an audio digital signal processing company. From 1972 to 1983, Mr. Porat was with Intel Corporation. Mr. Porat earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
      Diane Bjorkstrom, 49, joined the Company in September 2004 as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Administration. Prior to joining the Company, she served as an independent financial consultant from August 2002 to September 2004. From January 2002 to July 2002, Ms. Bjorkstrom served as the Chief Financial Officer of Blend MediaWorks, Inc., a software company. From October 1997 to January 2002, Ms. Bjorkstrom was employed by the Brenner Group Inc., an executive management firm. While there, she was the interim Chief Financial Officer of various high-tech companies. Ms. Bjorkstrom holds a B.S. in Commerce/ Accounting from Rider University. Ms. Bjorkstrom is a Certified Public Accountant.
      Jhi-Chung Kuo, 52, a co-founder of the Company, has served as our Vice President of Engineering since April 2002. From July 2000 to March 2002, he served as our Chief Technology Officer. From March 1993 to June 2000, Mr. Kuo served as our Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Kuo received a B.S. in Physics from National Central University in Taiwan and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University.
      Benjamin. Silva, 44, joined the Company in September 2004 prior to being appointed Vice President of Worldwide Sales. From January 2004 through September 2004, he was the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at DG2L Technologies, Inc., a provider of next-generation digital media technologies. From October 2001 through December 2003, Mr. Silva served as the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development at iVAST, Inc., a digital media software company. From September 1999 through September 2001, he was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development at Streaming 21, Inc., an Internet streaming video technology company. Mr. Silva holds a B.A. degree in communication/theatre with a minor in business administration from Boston University.
PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters
      The Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 (“Common Stock”), was traded on the Nasdaq National Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbol “TVIA”, until December 4, 2002, when it began to trade on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market under the same ticker symbol. The following table sets forth, for the

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periods indicated, the range of high and low sales prices for the Common Stock on the SmallCap Market during the Company’s 2004 and 2005 fiscal years.
                                 
    Fiscal 2005   Fiscal 2004
         
    High   Low   High   Low
                 
March 31
    2.19       1.32       3.30       1.97  
December 31
    2.30       1.07       3.25       1.57  
September 30
    2.04       1.27       2.20       1.03  
June 30
    2.73       1.59       1.08       0.65  
      As of May 31, 2005, the Common Stock was held by 165 stockholders of record (not including beneficial holders of stock held in street name). The Company has never declared or paid dividends on its capital stock and does not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. The Company currently intends to retain future earnings for the development of its business.
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Compensation Plans
      Information regarding securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans can be found under Item 12 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Purchase of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
      On November 10, 2001, the Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program to acquire outstanding common stock in the open market. Under this program, the Board of Directors authorized the acquisition of up to 200,000 shares of our common stock. This program does not have a stock repurchase maximum amount or an expiration date. As of March 31, 2005, we had acquired 143,700 shares on the open market that we hold as treasury stock.
      On August 20, 2002, the Board of Directors authorized an additional stock repurchase program to acquire up to 5 million shares of outstanding common stock in the open market for a maximum of $0.50 per share. This program does not have an expiration date. As of March 31, 2005, we had not repurchased any shares of common stock under this program.

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data
      The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements, the notes to the consolidated financial statements, and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” which are included elsewhere in this report. The consolidated statements of operations data for each of the five fiscal years in the period ended March 31, 2005, and the consolidated balance sheet data as of the end of each such fiscal year, are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements.
                                             
    Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003   2002   2001
                     
    (In thousands, except per share data)
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:
                                       
Revenues:
                                       
 
Product sales
  $ 3,098     $ 2,042     $ 1,771     $ 11,342     $ 12,743  
 
Development contracts and other
    183       267       461       498       701  
                               
   
Total revenues
    3,281       2,309       2,232       11,840       13,444  
                               
Cost of revenues:
                                       
 
Product sales
    1,587       1,235       1,460       8,522       7,650  
 
Development contracts and other
    198       88       83       109       68  
                               
   
Total cost of revenues
    1,785       1,323       1,543       8,631       7,718  
                               
Gross profit
    1,496       986       689       3,209       5,726  
                               
Operating expenses:
                                       
 
Research and development
    5,829       6,823       8,983       12,664       6,774  
 
Sales, general and administrative
    3,703       2,667       3,545       5,056       5,695  
 
Amortization of deferred stock compensation
                595       1,572       2,701  
 
Restructuring costs
                950              
                               
   
Total operating expenses
    9,532       9,490       14,073       19,292       15,170  
                               
 
Operating loss
    (8,036 )     (8,504 )     (13,384 )     (16,083 )     (9,444 )
Other income (expense), net
                                       
 
Interest income
    406       401       703       1,818       2,105  
 
Interest expense
    (10 )     (11 )     (14 )           (459 )
 
Gain on sale of software business
          9,075                    
                               
Net income (loss) before extraordinary item
    (7,640 )     961       (12,695 )     (14,265 )     (7,798 )
Extraordinary item, net of income taxes
                            672  
                               
Income (loss) before taxes
    (7,640 )     961       (12,695 )     (14,265 )     (8,470 )
Income taxes
          25                    
                               
Net income (loss)
    (7,640 )     936       (12,695 )     (14,265 )     (8,470 )
Dividend related to convertible preferred stock
                            671  
                               
Net income (loss)
  $ (7,640 )   $ 936     $ (12,695 )   $ (14,265 )   $ (9,141 )
                               
Basic and diluted net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders before extraordinary item
  $ (0.33 )   $ 0.04     $ (0.58 )   $ (0.66 )   $ (0.56 )
Extraordinary item, net of income taxes
                            0.05  
                               
Basic and diluted net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders
  $ (0.33 )   $ 0.04     $ (0.58 )   $ (0.66 )   $ (0.61 )
                               

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    Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003   2002   2001
                     
    (In thousands, except per share data)
Shares used in computing basic net loss per share to common stockholders
    22,827       22,323       21,952       21,631       15,052  
                               
Shares used in computing diluted net loss per share to common stockholders
    22,827       23,982       21,952       21,631       15,052  
                               
                                         
    Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003   2002   2001
                     
    (In thousands, except per share data)
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
                                       
Cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments
  $ 21,742     $ 27,206     $ 24,417     $ 35,505     $ 46,682  
Working capital
    21,513       28,000       24,273       35,979       50,305  
Total assets
    25,487       31,403       31,193       43,387       57,435  
Long term liabilities
    345             486              
Total stockholders’ equity
  $ 22,642     $ 30,059     $ 28,766     $ 40,925     $ 53,422  
Quarterly Financial Data:
                                   
    4th Quarter   3rd Quarter   2nd Quarter   1st Quarter
                 
    (In thousands, except per share amounts)
Fiscal 2005:
                               
 
Revenues
  $ 1,046     $ 1,090     $ 617     $ 528  
 
Gross margin
  $ 493     $ 501     $ 266     $ 236  
 
Net income (loss)
  $ (2,937 )   $ (1,580 )   $ (1,598 )   $ (1,525 )
 
Basic net income (Loss) per share
  $ (0.13 )   $ (0.07 )   $ (0.07 )   $ (0.07 )
 
Diluted net income (loss) per share
  $ (0.13 )   $ (0.07 )   $ (0.07 )   $ (0.07 )
                                   
    4th Quarter   3rd Quarter   2nd Quarter   1st Quarter
                 
Fiscal 2004:
                               
 
Revenues
  $ 481     $ 628     $ 620     $ 580  
 
Gross margin
  $ 214     $ 269     $ 266     $ 237  
 
Net income (loss)
  $ (1,496 )   $ (2,946 )   $ 7,442     $ (2,064 )
 
Basic net income (Loss) per share
  $ (0.07 )   $ (0.13 )   $ 0.34     $ (0.09 )
 
Diluted net income (loss) per share
  $ (0.07 )   $ (0.13 )   $ 0.32     $ (0.09 )
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
      The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with “Selected Financial Data” and our Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included elsewhere in this Form 10-K. This document contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Tvia’s (“the Company’s”) actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, fluctuations in customer demand, risks associated with competition, risks associated with product development, reliance on foreign manufacturers, foreign business, political and economic risks and risks identified in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission, filings, including, but not limited to, those discussed elsewhere in this Form 10-K under the heading “Risk Factors” located at the end of Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” of this Form 10-K.

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Overview
      We design, develop and market display processors for the interactive-television market as well as a family of flexible, high-quality display processors tailored to the Asia Pacific television manufacturers creating next-generation digital LCD, HD, and progressive-scan televisions.
      We currently offer five product families: the TrueView 5700 family, introduced in calendar year 2004; the TrueView 5600 family, introduced in calendar year 2003; the CyberPro 5202 family, introduced in calendar year 2002; the CyberPro 5300 family, introduced in calendar year 1999; and the CyberPro 5000 family, introduced in calendar year 1998. These product families currently generate most of our revenues. We sell our products through two channels. First, we sell our products directly to original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, and recognize revenues at the time of shipment to these OEMs. Second, we sell our products to a number of distributors. We defer recognition of revenues for sales to our distributors until they have sold our products to end-users. Historically, a relatively small number of customers and distributors have accounted for a significant portion of our product sales. In fiscal 2005, sales to SMS Electronics, Ltd., Kanematsu Devices Corporation and Micro Network Korea Co., Ltd. represented 34%, 17% and 10% of revenues, respectively. In fiscal 2004, sales to Kanematsu Devices Corporation, SMS Electronics, Ltd., Weikeng Industrial Co., and Fujitsu-Siemens Computers Gmbh represented 15%, 12%, 12% and 10% of revenues, respectively. In fiscal 2003, sales to Siemens Communications Ltd., Kanematsu Devices Corporation and Micro Network Korea Co., Ltd. represented 24%, 17% and 10% of revenues, respectively. Various factors have affected and may continue to affect our gross margin. These factors include, but are not limited to, our product mix, the position of our products in their respective life cycles, yields and the mix of our product sales and development contracts and other revenues. For example, newly introduced products generally have higher average selling prices and generate higher gross margins. Both average selling prices and the related gross margins typically decline over product life cycles due to competitive pressures and volume price agreements. Our gross margin and operating results in the future may continue to fluctuate as a result of these and other factors.
      The sales cycle for the test and evaluation of our products can range from three months to nine months or more, plus an additional three to nine months or more before an OEM customer commences volume production of equipment incorporating our products, if ever. Due to these lengthy sales cycles, we may experience a delay between incurring operating expenses and inventory costs and the generation of revenues from design wins.
      We have sustained operating losses on a quarterly and annual basis since inception. As of March 31, 2005, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $69.7 million. These losses resulted from significant costs incurred in the planning and development of our technology and services and from significant marketing costs. We anticipate higher revenues for at least the next several quarters as compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year. We believe that this is due to an increase in demand in the digital television market.
      We have a subsidiary in Hefei, People’s Republic of China, which performs final production tests, research and development and logistics support. There are offices in Shenzhen and Beijing, People’s Republic of China, to provide sales and complete system support including design and integration to our customers.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
      The preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of net revenue and expenses during the reporting period. We regularly evaluate our estimates and assumptions related to allowances for doubtful accounts, sales returns and allowances, inventory reserves, purchased intangible asset valuations, warranty reserves, and other contingencies. We base our estimates and assumptions on historic experience and on various other factors that we believe to be

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reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. To the extent there are material differences between our estimates and the actual results, our future results of operations will be affected.
      We believe the following critical accounting policies, among others, affect the significant judgments and estimates we use in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements:
  •  Revenues. We recognize revenues from product sales upon shipment to OEMs and end users provided that persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the price is fixed or determinable, title has transferred, collection of resulting receivables is reasonably assured, there are no customer acceptance requirements, and there are no remaining significant obligations. Reserves for sales returns and allowances are recorded at the time of shipment. Our sales to distributors are made under agreements allowing for returns or credits under certain circumstances. We defer recognition of revenue on sales to distributors until products are resold by the distributor.
  Our revenue reporting is dependent on receiving accurate data from our distributors in a timely fashion. Most distributors provide us information about the end customer when products are purchased for resale. Distributors also provide periodic data regarding the products in stock as well as product, price, quantity, and end customer when products are resold. In determining the appropriate amount of revenue to recognize, we use this data and apply judgment in reconciling differences between their reported inventories and activities. If distributors incorrectly report their inventories or activities or if our judgment is in error, it could lead to inaccurate reporting of our revenues and deferred income and net income.
  •  Receivables. We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of customers to make required payments. As part of the estimation process, we analyze various factors, including a review of specific transactions, historical experience and current market and economic conditions. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, resulting in an impairment of their ability to make payments, additional allowances could be required.
 
  •  Inventory. Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out) or market and include materials, labor and overhead. Allowances when required are made to reduce carrying values of inventories to their estimated net realizable values. The write down of our inventory for estimated obsolescence or unmarketable inventory is equal to the difference between the cost of inventory and the estimated realizable value based upon assumptions about future demand and market conditions. These assumptions are based on our analysis of various factors, including a review of specific transactions, historical experience and current market and economic conditions. If actual future demand or market conditions are less favorable than those projected by management, additional inventory write-downs could be required.
 
  •  Impairment of Long-Lived Assets. We evaluate long-lived assets for impairment on an annual basis in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. In addition we perform an impairment assessment when indicators of impairment, such as reductions in demand or significant economic slowdowns in the semiconductor industry, are present. Reviews are performed to determine whether the carrying value of assets is impaired based on comparison to the undiscounted expected future cash flows. If the comparison indicates that there is impairment, the impaired asset is written down to fair value. Impairment is based on the excess of the carrying amount over the fair value of those assets. Significant management judgment is required in the forecast of future operating results that is used in the preparation of expected discounted cash flows. It is reasonably possible that the estimates of anticipated future net revenue, the remaining estimated economic life of the products and technologies, or both, could differ from those used to assess the recoverability of these assets. In that event, additional impairment charges or shortened useful lives of certain long-live assets could be required.

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Results of Operations
      The following tables set forth, for the periods indicated, certain consolidated statement of operations data reflected as a percentage of revenues. Our results of operations are reported as a single business segment.
                             
    Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:
                       
Revenues:
                       
 
Product sales
    94 %     88 %     79 %
 
Development contracts and other
    6       12       21  
                   
   
Total revenues
    100       100       100  
                   
Cost of revenues:
                       
 
Product sales
    48       53       65  
 
Development contracts and other
    6       4       4  
                   
   
Total cost of revenues
    54       57       69  
                   
Gross profit
    46       43       31  
                   
Operating expenses:
                       
 
Research and development
    178       295       402  
 
Sales, general and administrative
    113       116       159  
 
Amortization of deferred stock compensation
                27  
 
Restructuring expenses
                43  
                   
   
Total operating expenses
    291       411       631  
                   
Operating Loss
    (245 )     (368 )     (600 )
                   
Other income (expense), net
                       
 
Interest income
    12       17       31  
 
Interest expense
                 
 
Gain on sale of software business
          393        
                   
   
Other income (expense), net
    12       410       31  
                   
Net income (loss) before taxes
    (233 )     42       (569 )
Income taxes
          1        
                   
Net income (loss)
    (233 )%     41 %     (569 )%
                   
Results of Operations for the Fiscal Years Ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
      Revenues. Revenues were $3.3 million, $2.3 million and $2.2 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Revenues increased $1.0 million in fiscal year 2005 compared to fiscal year 2004. The increase in revenue for fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 was primarily the result of an increase in units shipped to customers. Revenues were relatively flat in fiscal year 2004 compared to fiscal year 2003. We generate most of our revenues from design wins with new OEMs that rely on third-party manufacturers or distributors to provide inventory management and purchasing functions.
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years 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. All export revenues are denominated in United States dollars. We believe export sales will represent a majority of our revenues in the foreseeable future.
      Gross margin. Gross margin increased to 46% in fiscal year 2005 compared to 43% in fiscal 2004 primarily due to improved manufacturing yields and lower production costs. Gross margin increased to 43% in fiscal year 2004 compared to 31% in fiscal year 2003 primarily due to lower overhead burden and sale of inventories previously reserved for in fiscal year 2002. The reduction in overhead burden was due to lower headcount and facilities costs.
      Research and development. Research and development expenses include personnel and other costs associated with the development of product designs, process technology, software and programming hardware. Historically, our research and development expenses reflect our continuing efforts to develop and bring to market innovative and cost effective multi-media display processors that process the rich media content available on the broadband network. We are now focusing our research and development efforts on display processors for the interactive television market.
      Research and development expenses were $5.8 million, $6.8 million and $9.0 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The decrease in research and development expense in absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenues from fiscal 2004 to fiscal 2005 is primarily due to a write-off of license technology totaling $1.5 million in fiscal 2004 without a comparable write-off in fiscal 2005. The decrease in research and development expense in absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenues from fiscal 2003 to fiscal 2004 resulted from the sale of our software business unit to MediaTek, Inc. in July 2003, partially offset by a write-off of license technology in fiscal 2004. Our research and development activities in the People’s Republic of China provide software and application specific integrated circuit development support to our domestic operations. The costs of our research and development activities in China are substantially lower than the costs of our research and development activities in Santa Clara, California. In the foreseeable future, we expect research and development expenses in absolute dollars to slightly increase compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 expenses on an annualized basis.
      Sales, general and administrative. Sales, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel and other costs associated with the management of our business and with the sale and marketing of our products. Sales, general and administrative expenses were $3.7 million, $2.7 million and $3.5 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The increase in sales, general and administrative expenses from fiscal year 2004 to fiscal year 2005 is primarily the result of hiring a direct sales staff in fiscal 2005, the related travel incurred by the sales staff, higher sales commission paid to sales staff and increased legal and audit fees. The decreases in sales, general and administrative expenses from fiscal year 2003 to fiscal year 2004 resulted from a reduction in workforce and other cost cutting measures. In the foreseeable future, we expect sales, general and administrative expenses in absolute dollars to be higher. This increase is expected to be primarily associated with the costs of compliance with the requirements established by the section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
      Amortization of deferred stock compensation. We grant stock options to hire, motivate and retain employees. We incurred stock compensation expense of $0.0 million, $0.0 million and $0.6 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.
      Gain on Sale of Software Unit. The Company recorded a gain on a sale of its software business and software-related assets to MediaTek, Inc. in exchange for $10 million in cash in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. Expenses related to this transaction amounted to $0.9 million.
      Restructuring Charges. During fiscal 2003, the Company recorded a restructuring charge of $950,000 relating to a headcount reduction and termination of an operating lease for an abandoned building. The restructuring was recorded to align the cost structure with changing market conditions. The plan resulted in headcount reduction of approximately 49 employees, which was made up of 55% of research and development staff, 23% of operations staff, 16% of general and administrative staff and

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6% of sales and marketing staff. The charge in relation to the operating lease of the abandoned building represents the estimated difference between the total non-discounted future sublease income and the non-discounted lease commitments relating to this building. The restructuring plan was completed as of March 31, 2004.
      The following table summarizes the activity associated with the restructuring liabilities (in thousands):
                                 
            Severances    
    License   Leased   and    
    Technology   Facilities   Benefits   Total
                 
Balance at March 31, 2002
  $     $     $     $  
Additions
    69       162       719       950  
Non-cash charges
    (69 )                 (69 )
Cash charges
          (139 )     (719 )     (858 )
                         
Balance at March 31, 2003
          23             23  
Cash charges
          (23 )            
                         
Balance at March 31, 2004
  $     $     $     $  
                         
      Other income (expense), net. Other income (expense), net consists primarily of interest income, interest expense and the gain on sale of our software business unit. Other income, net was $0.4 million, $9.5 million and $0.7 million for fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Other income, net, generated in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 was primarily a result of interest income earned from our investments. Other income, net, generated in the fiscal years ended March 31, 2004 primarily resulted from a gain of $9.1 million on sale of our software business and software-related assets to MediaTek, Inc. Other income, net, generated in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003 was primarily a result of interest income earned from our investments.
      Provision for income taxes. We are taxed in our jurisdictions of operations based on the extent of taxable income generated in each jurisdiction. For income tax purposes, revenues are attributed to the taxable jurisdiction where the sales transactions generating the revenues were initiated. We incurred operating losses for each of the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005 and 2003, and therefore made no provision for income tax in these fiscal years. A provision for income tax for fiscal 2004 was recorded despite our prior years’ net operating losses. This was attributable to the US federal alternative minimum tax applied on the gain of the software business unit. As of March 31, 2005, we had federal, state, and foreign net cumulative operating losses of approximately $53 million, $17 million and $3.8 million, respectively, which are available to offset future taxable income. If not used, these net operating losses will expire on various dates through 2025, 2015 and 2007, respectively.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
      During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, net cash used in operating activities was $5.4 million, primarily resulting from an operating loss of $7.6 million, an increase in accounts receivable of $0.5 million, partially offset by an increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $1.2 million and depreciation and amortization expense of $1.3 million. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, net cash used in operating activities was $5.4 million, primarily resulting from an operating loss of $8.5 million, a decrease in accrued expenses and accounts payable of $0.7 million, partially offset by a gain on the sale of our software business unit of $9.1 million, non-cash expenses of $3.0 million and a decrease of $0.5 million in inventories. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003, net cash used in operating activities was $10.5 million, primarily resulting from a net loss of $12.7 million, a decrease in accrued expenses and accounts payable of $0.9 million and an increase in accounts receivable of $0.2 million, partially offset by non-cash expenses of $2.0 million and decreases of $0.8 million and $0.5 million in prepaid expenses and other current assets, and inventories, respectively.

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      Cash flows provided by investing activities were $6.4 million in the fiscal year 2005 compared to cash flows used in investing activities of $2.4 million in fiscal year 2004. This increase was primarily due to the sales of short term investments of $12.3 million, partially offset by purchases of short term investments of $6.1 million in fiscal year 2005. Cash flows used in investing activities were $2.4 million in the fiscal year 2004 compared to cash flows provided by investing activities of $15.3 million in fiscal year 2003. This decrease was primarily due to the purchase of investments, partially offset by the proceeds from the sale of our software business unit.
      Net cash flows used in financing activities were $0.2 million and $0.1 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005 and 2004 respectively. The increase in fiscal 2005 compared to fiscal 2004 was primarily the result of payments of capital leases of $0.5 million, partially offset by the proceeds from the sale of common stock of $0.3 million under our Incentive Stock and Employee Stock Purchase Plans. Net cash flows used in financing activities were $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2004 and 2003 respectively. The financing activities were primarily payments of capital leases and the repurchase of company stock, partially offset by the proceeds from the sale of common stock under our Incentive Stock and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
      As of March 31, 2005, our principal source of liquidity consisted of cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments. Working capital at March 31, 2005 was $21.5 million.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
      We do not have any financial partnerships with unconsolidated entities, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which are often established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. Accordingly, we are not exposed to any financing, liquidity, market or credit risk that could arise if we had such relationships.
      We lease facilities under non-cancelable operating leases expiring at various dates through June 2007. Under the terms of the leases, the Company is responsible for a portion of the facilities’ operating expenses, insurance and property taxes.
      Future contractual obligations as of March 31, 2005 were as follows (in thousands):
                                           
Payments Due by Period
 
    Less Than       More Than
Contractual Obligations   Total   1 Year   1-3 Years   3-5 Years   5 Years
                     
Operating Lease Obligations
    165       100       65                  
 
Total
    165       100       65              
      Based on our current expectations, we believe that our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, which totaled $21.7 million at March 31, 2005, will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital requirements through at least the next twelve months. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 we used $5.5 million of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
      In December 2004, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), (SFAS 123R), Share-Based Payment. SFAS 123R requires the Company to measure all employee stock-based compensation awards using a fair value method and record such expense in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In addition, the adoption of SFAS 123R will require additional accounting related to the income tax effects and additional disclosure regarding the cash flow effects resulting from share-based payment arrangements. On March 29, 2005, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin 107 (SAB 107). This Bulletin summarizes the views of the SEC’s staff regarding the interaction between SFAS 123R, Share-Based Payment and certain Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations and provides the staff’s views regarding the valuation of share-based payment arrangements for public companies. As a result of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s

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press release issued on April 15, 2005, the Company will be required to comply with SFAS 123R effective the first quarter of fiscal 2007. The Company is currently evaluating which transition method and pricing model to adopt, and assessing the effects of adopting SFAS 123R. The adoption of SFAS 123R’s fair value method will have a significant adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations, although it will have no impact on its overall financial condition. The impact of the adoption of SFAS 123R cannot be predicted at this time because it will depend on levels of share-based payments granted in the future. However, had the Company adopted SFAS 123R in prior periods, the impact of that standard would have approximated the impact of SFAS No. 123 as described under the “Stock-Based Compensation” section in Note 1.
      In November 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 151 “Inventory Costs — An Amendment of ARB No. 43, Chapter 4” (SFAS 151). SFAS 151 clarifies that abnormal amounts of idle facility expense, freight, handling costs and spoilage should be expensed as incurred and not included in overhead. Further, SFAS 151 requires that allocation of fixed and production facilities overheads to conversion costs should be based on normal capacity of the production facilities. The provisions in SFAS 151 are effective for inventory costs incurred during fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005. The Company is currently assessing the effects of adopting this Statement and does not expect the adoption will have a significant effect on its financial statements.
      In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 153 “Exchanges of Non-monetary Assets — An Amendment of APB Opinion No. 29” (SFAS 153). The provisions of this statement are effective for non-monetary asset exchanges occurring in fiscal periods beginning after June 15, 2005. SFAS 153 eliminates the exception to fair value for exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception for exchange transactions that do not have commercial substance — that is, transactions that are not expected to result in significant changes in the cash flows of the reporting entity. The Company believes that the adoption of SFAS 153 will not have a significant effect on its financial statements.
      In December 2004, the FASB issued Staff Position No. FAS 109-2, “Accounting and Disclosure Guidance for the Foreign Earnings Repatriation Provision within the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004” (SFAS 109-2). The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 introduces a special one-time dividends received deduction on the repatriation of certain foreign earnings to a U.S. taxpayer, provided certain criteria are met. SFAS 109-2 provides accounting and disclosure guidance for the repatriation provision and was effective immediately upon issuance. The Company believes that the adoption of SFAS 109-2 will not have a significant effect on its financial statements.

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RISK FACTORS
We expect continuing losses and may not achieve profitability which could affect our ability to expand our business.
      We have incurred significant operating losses in each year since our inception, except in fiscal year 2004. The net income reported in fiscal year 2004 was primarily due to the sale of our software business. We expect to continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future, primarily as a result of expenses for research and development. Our losses increased as we transitioned our focus away from the personal computer market toward the advanced television and display markets in 1996. We have incurred net losses of approximately $69.7 million from our inception in March 1993 through March 31, 2004. If we continue to incur net losses, we may not be able to expand our business as quickly as we would like. We do not know when or if we will become profitable and if we do become profitable, we may not be able to sustain or increase our profitability.
Because the emergence of the interactive television market has been slower than anticipated, we may not be able to sell our products or sustain our business.
      Our multi-media display processors are incorporated into products that allow interactive television. The concept of interactive television and the market for products that facilitate it are new and developing. As a result, our profit potential is unproven and may never materialize. Broad acceptance of advanced televisions and emerging interactive displays will depend on the extent to which consumers use devices other than personal computers to access the Internet. To date, the market for these products has not developed as quickly as our customers and we had previously anticipated. Consequently, certain of our customers have significant inventory of our semiconductors or products that incorporate our semiconductors, thereby limiting the opportunity to sell additional semiconductors to these customers until their present inventories are depleted. Our success will also depend on the ability of OEMs and service providers that work with our OEMs to create demand for and market the products incorporating our semiconductors. Unless a sufficiently large market for advanced televisions and emerging interactive displays and other products that are used for interactive television develops, demand for products incorporating our semiconductor solutions may not be sufficient to sustain our business.
A significant amount of our revenues comes from a few customers and any decrease in revenues from these customers could significantly impact our financial results.
      Historically we have been, and we expect to continue to be, dependent on a relatively small number of customers for a significant portion of our total revenues. In fiscal 2005, Sales to SMS Electronics, Ltd., Kanematsu Devices Corporation and Micro Network Korea Co., Ltd. represented 34%, 17% and 10% of total revenues in fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, respectively. Sales to Kanematsu Devices Corporation, SMS Electronics, Ltd., Weikeng Industrial Co., and Fujitsu-Siemens Computers Gmbh represented 15%, 12%, 12% and 10% of total revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, respectively. Sales to Siemens Communications Ltd., Kanematsu Devices Corporation, and Micro Network Korea Co, Ltd. represented 24%, 17% and 10% of our total revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003, respectively. We may not be able to retain our largest customers or to obtain additional key accounts. Any reduction or delay in sales of our products to any key customer or our inability to successfully develop relationships with additional key customers could negatively impact our financial results.
Our operating expenses may increase as we build our business and these increased expenses may impact our ability to become profitable.
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years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, research and development expenses represented 178%, 295% and 402% of our revenues, respectively. We expect to continue to spend financial and other resources on developing and introducing new products and services, and on our research and development activities in China. While we have implemented actions to reduce our operating expenses, our operating expenses may increase as a percentage of revenues if our revenues decline. If our revenues do not increase, our business and results of operations could suffer. We base our expense levels in part on our expectations regarding future revenues. If our revenues for a particular quarter are lower than we expect, we may be unable to proportionately reduce our operating expenses for that quarter.
Customers may cancel or defer significant purchase orders, or our distributors may return our products, which would cause our inventory levels to increase and our revenues to decline.
      We sell our products on a purchase order basis through our direct sales channel, sales representatives and distributors, and our customers may cancel or defer purchase orders at any time with little or no penalty. We recognize revenues from sales to our distributors when they have sold our products to their customers. We recognize revenues on sales to our OEM customers when we ship our products to the OEM. We permit certain of our distributors to return products to us. If our customers cancel or defer significant purchase orders or our distributors return our products, our inventories would increase and our revenues would decrease, which would materially harm our business as increases in inventory reserves could be required. Refusal of OEM customers to accept shipped products or delays or difficulties in collecting accounts receivable could have an adverse effect on our business.
Because of our long product development process and sales cycle, we incur substantial expenses before we generate revenues and may not recover our expenditures.
      To develop market acceptance of our products, we must dedicate significant resources to research and development, production and sales and marketing. We develop products based on forecasts of demand and we incur substantial product development expenditures prior to generating associated revenues. Our customers typically perform numerous tests and extensively evaluate our products before incorporating them into their systems. The time required for testing, evaluating and designing our products into a customer’s equipment can take up to nine months or more, with an additional three to nine months or more before an OEM customer commences volume production of equipment incorporating our products, if ever. Because of this lengthy development cycle, we may experience a delay between the time we accrue expenses for research and development and sales and marketing efforts and the time when we generate revenues, if any.
      Furthermore, achieving a design win with a customer does not necessarily mean that this customer will order large volumes of our products. A design win is not a binding commitment by a customer to purchase our products. Rather, it is a decision by a customer to use our products in the design process. In addition, our customers can choose at any time to discontinue using our products in that customer’s designs or product development efforts. If our products are chosen to be incorporated into a customer’s products, we may still not realize significant revenues from that customer if that customer’s products are not commercially successful. As a result, our profitability from quarter to quarter and from year to year may be materially affected by the number and timing of our new product introductions in any period and the level of acceptance gained by these products.
If we fail to successfully develop, introduce and sell new products, we may be unable to effectively compete in the future.
      We operate in a highly competitive, quickly changing environment marked by new and emerging products and technologies. Our success depends on our ability to develop, introduce and successfully market new products and enhance our existing products in the advanced television and emerging interactive display markets. The development of these new products is highly complex and, from time to time, we have experienced delays in completing their development and introduction. Any one of the

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following factors could affect our ability to develop, introduce and sell new products and could materially harm our business:
  •  our failure to complete new product designs in a timely manner;
 
  •  our inability to manufacture our new products according to design specifications;
 
  •  our inability to deliver our products to our customers in a timely manner for any reason, including a lack of manufacturing capacity or the failure of our contracted foundries to meet targeted-manufacturing yields; and
 
  •  our sales force’s and independent distributors’ inability to create adequate demand for our products.
Our future operating results are likely to fluctuate and may fail to meet expectations which could cause our stock price to decline.
      Our operating results have varied in the past and are likely to do so in the future as we attempt to meet consumer demand in the markets for advanced televisions and emerging interactive displays. Our future operating results will depend on many factors and may fail to meet our expectations for a number of reasons. Any failure to meet these expectations or those of securities analysts and investors could cause our stock price to fluctuate or decline significantly. A number of factors, including those listed below, may cause fluctuations in our operating results and stock price:
  •  the general condition of the semiconductor industry market;
 
  •  fluctuations in the volume of product sales, changes in product mix and pricing concessions on sales;
 
  •  the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders;
 
  •  the timing of investments in, and the results of, research and development;
 
  •  changes in industry standards;
 
  •  introduction of interactive television services by service providers;
 
  •  availability of manufacturing capacity and raw materials, and inventory write-offs;
 
  •  product introductions and price changes by our competitors;
 
  •  our ability to specify, develop, introduce and market new products with smaller geometries, more features and higher levels of design integration in accordance with design requirements and design cycles;
 
  •  the level of orders received that can be shipped in a given period;
 
  •  changes in earning estimates or investment recommendations by analysts;
 
  •  changes in investors perceptions; and
 
  •  the effect of the terrorist attacks in the United States and any related conflicts or similar events worldwide.
Our industry is highly competitive, and we cannot assure you that we will be able to effectively compete.
      The market for advanced televisions and emerging interactive displays in particular, and the semiconductor industry in general, are highly competitive. We compete with a number of domestic and international suppliers of semiconductors in our targeted markets. We expect competition to intensify as

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current competitors expand their product offerings and new competitors enter our targeted markets. We believe that we must compete on the basis of a variety of factors, including:
  •  functionality;
 
  •  performance;
 
  •  time to market;
 
  •  price;
 
  •  conformity to industry standards;
 
  •  product road maps; and
 
  •  technical support.
      We currently compete with ATI Technologies, Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Genesis Microchip, Inc., Pixelworks, Inc., Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Silicon Image, Inc. In addition to these competitors, we expect other major semiconductor manufacturers will enter our targeted markets as the broadband set-top box, advanced television and information access device markets become more established. A number of companies, including International Business Machines Corporation, STMicroelectronics N.V., National Semiconductor Corporation, Equator Technologies, Inc., LSI Logic and Philips Electronics N.V., have announced that they are developing or plan to introduce competing products in the advanced television and emerging interactive display markets which could result in significant competition.
      Some of our current and potential competitors operate their own fabrication facilities or have a longer operating history and significantly greater financial, sales and marketing resources. They may also have pre-existing relationships with our customers or potential customers. As a result, these competitors may be able to adapt more quickly to new or emerging products, develop new technologies, or address changes in customer requirements or devote greater resources to the development and promotion of strategic relationships among themselves or with existing or potential customers. It is possible that new competitors or alliances among competitors could emerge and rapidly acquire significant market share. Increased competition could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition by, for example, increasing pressure on our profit margin or causing us to lose sales opportunities.
We depend on three independent foundries to manufacture our products based on our forecasts, which could result in an oversupply or undersupply of products.
      We do not own or operate our own fabrication facility. We currently depend upon two outside foundries for the manufacture of our products, United Manufacturing Corporation, or UMC, located in Taiwan and HuaHong NEC in the People’s Republic of China. We do not have long term supply agreements with these foundries to manufacture our semiconductor products and each has limited manufacturing capacity.
      The foundries require us to provide forecasts of our anticipated manufacturing orders in advance of receiving purchase orders from our customers. This may result in product shortages or excess product inventory. Obtaining additional supply in the face of product shortages may be costly or not possible, especially in the short term. Our failure to adequately forecast demand for our products would materially harm our business. For example, in fiscal 2002 we took an inventory charge related to slow moving inventory. The foundries may allocate capacity to the production of other companies’ products while reducing delivery to us on short notice.

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We may encounter periods of semiconductor oversupply, resulting in pricing pressure, as well as undersupply, resulting in a risk that we could be unable to fulfill our customers’ requirements.
      The semiconductor industry has historically been characterized by wide fluctuations in the demand for, and supply of, its products. These fluctuations have resulted in circumstances when supply and demand for the industry’s products have been widely out of balance. Our operating results may be materially harmed by industry wide semiconductor oversupply, which could result in severe pricing pressure or inventory write-downs. For example, in fiscal 2002 we took a charge for slow moving inventory, which negatively impacted our gross margin for fiscal 2002. On the other hand, in a market with undersupply, we would have to compete with larger companies for limited manufacturing capacity. If material shortages occur, we may incur additional costs to procure the scarce components or be unable to have our products manufactured in a timely manner or in quantities necessary to meet our requirements. Since we outsource all of our manufacturing, we are particularly vulnerable to supply shortages. As a result, we may be unable to fill orders and may lose customers. Any future industry wide oversupply or undersupply of semiconductors would materially harm our business and have a negative impact on our earnings.
If we have to qualify new independent foundries for any of our products and do not have sufficient supply of our products on hand, we may lose revenues and damage our customer relationships.
      Processes used to manufacture our products are complex, customized to our specifications and can only be performed by a limited number of manufacturing facilities. The foundries we use have from time to time experienced lower than anticipated manufacturing yields, particularly in connection with the introduction of new products and the installation and start up of new process technologies. In addition, the foundries we use are located in a seismically active area, and earthquakes have caused these foundries to close for repairs, resulting in a delay in manufacturing our products.
      Although we primarily utilize two independent foundries, most of our components are not manufactured at both foundries at any given time. The inability of one of the foundries to provide components could result in significant delays and harm our business. In the event either foundry experienced manufacturing or financial difficulties or suffered any damage or destruction to its facilities, or in the event of any other disruption of foundry capacity, we may not be able to qualify alternative manufacturing sources for existing or new products in a timely manner. For example, in September 1999, Taiwan experienced a major earthquake. The earthquake and its resulting aftershocks caused power outages and significant damage to Taiwan’s infrastructure. Similarly, in September 2001, a typhoon hit Taiwan causing businesses in Taipei and the financial markets to close for two days. In addition, as a result of the rapid growth of the semiconductor industry based in the industrial park where both foundries are located, severe constraints have been placed on the water and electricity supply in that region. Any shortages of water or electricity or a natural disaster could adversely affect these foundries’ ability to supply our products, which could have a material adverse effect on our operating results.
      Even our current outside foundries would need to have manufacturing processes qualified in the event of a disruption at the other foundry, which we may not be able to accomplish in a timely manner sufficient to prevent an interruption in the supply of the affected products. We cannot provide assurance that any existing or new foundries would be able to produce integrated circuits with acceptable manufacturing yields in the future, or will continue to have sufficient capacity to meet our needs. If our manufacturing requirements are not satisfied, our business would be materially harmed.
Our semiconductors are complex to manufacture and may have errors or defects which could be costly to correct.
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manufacturing processes and other reasons. We refer to the proportion of final acceptable integrated circuits that have been processed, assembled and tested relative to the gross number of integrated circuits that could have been produced from the raw materials as our product yields. Identifying defects and determining the reason for low yields may be discovered after production has begun and at various stages of the production cycle. Our failure to discover defects early in the production cycle will result in higher costs and may require a diversion of our technical personnel and resources away from product development in order to correct the defect. In addition, defective products that have been released into the market and distributed to our customers and end users may result in harm to our reputation, significant warranty costs, diversion of our technical and managerial resources and potential product liability claims that would be costly to defend.
Our software is complex and may have bugs or defects which could be costly to correct.
      Our products depend on complex software that we develop internally and license from others. Complex software often contains defects, particularly when first introduced or when new versions are released. Determining whether our software has defects may occur after our products are released into the market and distributed to our customers and end users, and may result in harm to our reputation, significant warranty costs, diversion of our technical resources and potential product liability claims that would be costly to defend and divert managerial resources.
We face foreign business, political and economic risks because a majority of our sales are to customers outside of the United States.
      Sales of our products to our OEM customers and to distributors located outside the United States accounted for 89%, 76% and 86% of our total revenues in fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003. We anticipate that sales to customers located outside the United States will continue to represent a significant portion of our total sales in future periods. In addition, many of our domestic customers sell their products outside of North America, thereby indirectly exposing us to risks associated with foreign commerce. Asian economic instability impacts the sales of products manufactured by our customers, as does the Chinese New Year, during which time many manufacturers and businesses close their operations. We may be negatively impacted by the terrorist attacks on the United States and the resulting conflicts worldwide. We could also experience greater difficulties collecting accounts receivable from customers outside of the United States. Accordingly, our operations and revenues are subject to a number of risks associated with foreign commerce.
      To date, we have denominated sales of our products in foreign countries exclusively in United States dollars. As a result, any increase in the value of the United States dollar relative to the local currency of a foreign country will increase the price of our products in that country so that our products become relatively more expensive to customers in the local currency of that foreign country. As a result, sales of our products in that foreign country may decline. To the extent any of these types of risks materialize, our business would be materially harmed.
If the industries into which we sell our products experience recession or other cyclical effects impacting our customers’ budgets, our operating results could be negatively impacted.
      The primary customers for our products are companies in the advanced television and emerging display device markets. Any significant downturn in these particular markets or in general economic conditions which result in the cutback of research and development budgets or capital expenditures would likely result in the reduction in demand for our products and services and could harm our business. For example, the United States economy, including the semiconductor industry, has experienced a recession, which has negatively impact our business and operating results. A further decline in the United States economy could result from further terrorist attacks in the United States. If the economy continues to decline as a result of the recent economic, political and social turmoil, existing and perspective customers may continue to reduce their design budgets or delay implementation of our products, which could further harm our business and operating results.

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      In addition, the markets of semiconductor products are cyclical. In recent years, some Asian countries have experienced significant economic difficulties, including devaluation and instability business failures and a depressed business environment. These difficulties triggered a significant downturn in the semiconductor market, resulting in reduced budgets for chip design tools. In addition, the electronics industry has historically been subject to seasonal and cyclical fluctuations in demand for its products, and this trend may continue in the future. These industry downturns have been, and my continue to be, characterized by diminished product demand, excess manufacturing capacity and subsequent erosion of average selling prices. As a result, our future operating results may reflect substantial fluctuations from period to period as a consequence of these industry patterns, general economic conditions affecting the timing of orders from customers and other factors. Any negative factors affecting the semiconductor industry, including the downturns described here, could significantly harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The rapid growth of our business and operations has strained and may continue to strain our administrative, operational and financial resources, and our failure to manage our future growth could affect our operations and our future ability to expand.
      We have in the past and may in the future experience rapid growth and expansion in our business and operations. Our growth has placed, and may continue to place, a significant strain on our administrative, operational and financial resources and increased demands on our systems and controls. Our future growth may require the implementation of a variety of new and upgraded operational and financial systems, procedures and controls, including improvement of our accounting and other internal management systems, all of which may require substantial managerial effort. We cannot provide assurance that these efforts would be accomplished successfully. Our growth has resulted in a continuing increase in the level of responsibility for both existing and new management personnel, and may require that we recruit, hire and train a substantial number of new personnel. Our failure to manage our past and future growth could prevent us from successfully achieving market acceptance for our products, disrupt our operations, delay our expansion and harm our business.
We depend on key personnel, the loss of whom would impair or inhibit the growth of our business.
      Our success depends on the skills, experience and performance of our executive officers and other key management and technical personnel, many of whom would be difficult to replace. We are particularly dependent on Eli Porat, our Chief Executive Officer and President. The competition for employees with technical skills is intense, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we may not be able to attract and retain a sufficient number of such qualified new personnel in the future. The loss of the service of one or more of our key employees, or our failure to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel would inhibit the growth of our business.
We rely on strategic relationships to commercialize our products, and these relationships may require that we expend significant resources without guarantees that our endeavors will be profitable.
      We rely on strategic relationships with some of our customers who we believe are the market leaders in our target markets. These relationships often involve the proposed development by us of new products involving significant technological challenges. Since the proposed products under development may offer potential competitive advantages to our customers, considerable pressure is frequently placed on us to meet development schedules. While an essential element of our strategy involves establishing such relationships, these projects require substantial amounts of our limited resources, with no guarantee of revenues to us, and could materially detract from or delay the completion of other important development projects. Delays in development could impair the relationship between our customers and us and negatively impact sales of the products under development. Moreover, our

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customers may develop their own solutions for products currently supplied by us, which could have an adverse effect on our business.
We depend on third-party subcontractors for assembly of our semiconductors which reduces our control over the delivery, quantity, quality, or cost of our products.
      Substantially all of our products are assembled by one of three subcontractors, two of which are located in Taiwan, and one in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Typically, we procure services from these subcontractors on a purchase order basis. Their availability to assemble our products could be adversely affected if either subcontractor experiences financial difficulties or suffers any damage or destruction to its facilities or any other disruption of its assembly capacity. Because we rely on third party subcontractors for assembly of our products, we cannot directly control product delivery schedules. We have experienced in the past, and may experience in the future, product shortages or quality assurance problems that could increase the cost of manufacturing or testing of our products. It is time consuming and difficult to find and qualify alternative assemblers. If we are forced to find substitute subcontractors, shipments of our products could be delayed. Any problems associated with the delivery, quantity or cost of our products could harm our business.
Political instability in the People’s Republic of China or Taiwan could harm our manufacturing and research and development capabilities and negatively impact our product sales.
      We operate our research and development facility in the People’s Republic of China. In addition, most all of our products are manufactured and assembled outside of the United States at facilities operated by third parties in Taiwan. The political and economic conditions in the region, including the People’s Republic of China’s dispute with Taiwan, may adversely impact our operations including manufacture and assembly of our products and research and development efforts. We cannot assure you that restrictive laws or policies on the part of either the People’s Republic of China or the United States will not constrain our ability to operate in both countries. If we are required to relocate our facilities, our business will be disrupted and our costs associated with research and development will increase.
If our competitors use our intellectual property and proprietary rights, our ability to compete would be impaired.
      Our success depends in part upon our rights in proprietary technology and processes that we develop and license from, and to, others. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants and strategic partners in order to protect proprietary technologies that use our products. We cannot assure you that these measures will provide meaningful protection for our proprietary technologies and processes, and they do not prevent independent third party development of competitive products. In addition, it is difficult to monitor unauthorized use of technology, particularly in foreign countries where laws may not protect our proprietary rights as fully as in the United States.
      We currently have two patents in the United States, and we may seek additional patents in the future. Because the content of patent applications in the United States is not publicly disclosed until the patent is issued, applications may have been filed which relate to our products or processes. We cannot assure you that our current patent applications or any future patent applications will result in a patent being issued with the scope of the claims we seek, if at all, or whether any patents we have or may receive will be challenged or invalidated. The failure of any patents to provide protection to our technology would make it easier for our competitors to offer similar products.

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We may face intellectual property infringement claims that could be costly and could result in the loss of proprietary rights which are necessary to our business.
      Other parties may assert patent infringement claims against us, including claims against technology that we license from others, and our products or processes may infringe issued patents of others. Litigation is common in the semiconductor industry and any litigation could result in significant expense to us. Litigation would also divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel, whether or not the litigation is determined in our favor. Litigation could also require us to develop non-infringing technology or enter into royalty or license agreements. These royalty or license agreements may not be available on acceptable terms, including limitations on representations and warranties regarding infringement and indemnification in the event of infringement claims. Our failure or inability to develop non-infringing technology, license the proprietary rights on a timely basis or receive appropriate protection on licensed technology would harm our business.
Regulation of our customers’ products may slow the process of introducing new products and could impair our ability to compete.
      The Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC, has broad jurisdiction over our target markets. Various international entities or organizations may also regulate aspects of our business or the business of our customers. Although our products are not directly subject to regulation by any agency, the transmission pipes, as well as much of the equipment into which our products are incorporated, are subject to direct government regulation. For example, before they can be sold in the United States, advanced televisions and emerging interactive displays must be tested and certified by Underwriters Laboratories and meet FCC regulations. Accordingly, the effects of regulation on our customers or the industries in which our customers operate may, in turn, harm our business. FCC regulatory policies affecting the ability of cable operators or telephone companies to offer certain services and other terms on which these companies conduct their business may impede sales of our products. In addition, our business may also be adversely affected by the imposition of tariffs, duties and other import restrictions on systems of suppliers or by the imposition of export restrictions on products that we sell internationally. Changes in current laws or regulations or the imposition of new laws or regulations in the United States or elsewhere could harm our business.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Quantitative and Qualitative Discussion of Market Interest Rate Risk
      Our cash equivalents and short-term investments are exposed to financial market risk due to fluctuation in interest rates, which may affect our interest income and, in the future, the fair market value of our investments. We manage the exposure to financial market risk by performing ongoing evaluations of our investment portfolio and we presently invest entirely in short-term, investment grade, government and corporate securities. These securities are highly liquid and generally mature within 12 months from the purchase date. Due to the short maturities of our investments, the carrying value should approximate the fair value. In addition, we do not use our investments for trading or other speculative purposes. We have performed an analysis to assess the potential effect of reasonably possible near term changes in interest and foreign currency exchange rates. The effect of any change in foreign currency exchange rates is not expected to be material to our results of operations, cash flows or financial condition. Due to the short duration of our investment portfolio, an immediate 100 basis points change in interest rates would not have a material effect on the fair market value of our portfolio due mainly to the short-term nature of the major portion of our investment portfolio. Therefore, we would not expect our operating results or cash flows to be affected to any significant degree by the effect of a sudden change in market interest rates on our securities portfolio.

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Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
      We are an international company, selling our products globally and, in particular, in Japan, Korea, the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. Although we transact our business in United States dollars, we cannot assure you that future fluctuations in the value of the United States dollar will not affect the competitiveness of our products, gross profits realized, and results of operations. Further, we incur expenses in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and other countries that are denominated in currencies other than United States dollars. We cannot estimate the effect that an immediate 100 basis points change in foreign currency exchange rates would have on our future operating results or cash flows as a direct result of changes in exchange rates. However, we do not believe that we currently have any significant direct foreign currency exchange rate risk and have not hedged exposures denominated in foreign currencies or any derivative financial instruments.

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Tvia, Inc.:
      In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of operations, of stockholders’ equity and of cash flows present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Tvia, Inc. and its subsidiary at March 31, 2005 and 2004, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2005 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
  /s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
San Jose, California
June 17, 2005

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except per share data)
                     
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004
         
ASSETS
Current assets:
               
 
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 4,078     $ 3,259  
 
Short-term investments
    17,664       23,947  
 
Accounts receivable, net
    792       295  
 
Inventories
    598       602  
 
Other current assets and prepaid expenses
    881       1,241  
             
   
Total current assets
    24,013       29,344  
Property and equipment, net
    1,088       1,947  
Other assets
    386       112  
             
   
Total assets
  $ 25,487     $ 31,403  
             
 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDER’S EQUITY
Current liabilities:
               
 
Accounts payable
  $ 302     $ 201  
 
Accrued liabilities and other
    1,738       657  
 
Short-term portion of capital leases
          486  
 
Short-term portion of notes payable
    460        
             
   
Total current liabilities
    2,500       1,344  
 
Long-term portion of notes payable
    345        
             
   
Total liabilities
    2,845       1,344  
             
Commitments and contingencies (Note 11)
               
Stockholders’ equity
               
 
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value: 5,000 shares authorized; none outstanding
           
 
Common stock, $0.001 par value: 125,000 shares authorized; 23,171 and 22,576 shares outstanding, respectively
    23       23  
 
Additional paid-in-capital
    93,118       92,798  
 
Accumulated comprehensive income (loss)
    (89 )     8  
 
Accumulated deficit
    (69,660 )     (62,020 )
 
Treasury stock
    (750 )     (750 )
             
   
Total stockholders’ equity
    22,642       30,059  
             
   
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 25,487     $ 31,403  
             
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
                             
    Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Revenues:
                       
 
Product sales
  $ 3,098     $ 2,042     $ 1,771  
 
Development contracts and other
    183       267       461  
                   
   
Total revenues
    3,281       2,309       2,232  
                   
Cost of revenues:
                       
 
Product sales (excluding amortization of deferred compensation of $0, $0 and $9, respectively)
    1,587       1,235       1,460  
 
Development contracts and other
    198       88       83  
                   
   
Total cost of revenues
    1,785       1,323       1,543  
                   
Gross profit
    1,496       986       689  
                   
Operating expenses:
                       
 
Research and development (excluding amortization of deferred stock compensation of $0, $0 and $155, respectively)
    5,829       6,823       8,983  
 
Sales, general and administrative (excluding amortization of deferred stock compensation of $0, $0 and $431, respectively)
    3,703       2,667       3,545  
 
Amortization of deferred stock compensation
                595  
 
Restructuring charges
                950  
                   
 
Total operating expenses
    9,532       9,490       14,073  
                   
 
Operating loss
    (8,036 )     (8,504 )     (13,384 )
                   
Other income (expense), net:
                       
 
Interest income
    406       401       703  
 
Interest expense
    (10 )     (11 )     (14 )
 
Sale of software business
          9,075        
                   
   
Other income (expense), net
    396       9,465       689  
                   
Income (loss) before taxes
    (7,640 )     961       (12,695 )
Income taxes
          25        
                   
Net income (loss) after taxes
  $ (7,640 )   $ 936     $ (12,695 )
                   
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share:
  $ (0.33 )   $ 0.04     $ (0.58 )
                   
Shares used in computing basic net income (loss) per share
    22,827       22,323       21,952  
                   
Shares used in computing diluted net income (loss) per share
    22,827       23,982       21,952  
                   
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(In thousands, except share data)
                                                                 
    Common Stock           Accumulated            
        Additional   Deferred   Other            
        Par   Paid-In   Stock   Comprehensive   Accumulated   Treasury   Stockholder’s
    Shares   Amount   Capital   Compensation   Income (Loss)   Deficit   Stock   Equity
                                 
Balance at March 31, 2002
    22,161,748       22       92,388       (595 )     31       (50,261 )     (660 )     40,925  
Amortization of deferred stock compensation
                      595                         595  
Purchase of treasury stock
    (143,700 )                                   (90 )     (90 )
Repurchase of common stock
    (93,691 )           (14 )                             (14 )
Issuance of Common stock under ESPP and through exercises of stock options
    238,865             70                               70  
Unrealized loss on available-for-sale investments
                            (25 )                 (25 )
Net loss
                                  (12,695 )             (12,695 )
                                                 
Balance at March 31, 2003
    22,163,222       22       92,444             6       (62,956 )     (750 )     28,766  
Issuance of Common stock under ESPP and through exercises of stock options
    412,767       1       354                               355  
Unrealized gain on available-for-sale investments
                            2                   2  
Net Income
                                  936             936  
                                                 
Balance at March 31, 2004
    22,575,989     $ 23     $ 92,798     $     $ 8     $ (62,020 )   $ (750 )   $ 30,059  
Issuance of Common stock under ESPP and through exercises of stock options
    595,057             320                               320  
Unrealized loss on available-for-sale investments
                            (97 )                 (97 )
Net loss
                                  (7,640 )           (7,640 )
                                                 
Balance at March 31, 2005
    23,171,046     $ 23     $ 93,118     $     $ (89 )   $ (69,660 )   $ (750 )   $ 22,642  
                                                 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
                               
    Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
                       
     
Net income (loss)
  $ (7,640 )   $ 936     $ (12,695 )
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in operating activities:
                       
 
Depreciation and Amortization
    1,276       1,748       1,565  
 
Amortization of deferred stock compensation
                595  
 
Write-down of license technology
          1,449       69  
 
Gain on sale of software unit
          (9,075 )      
 
Loss on retirement of fixed assets
    104                  
 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                       
   
Accounts receivable
    (497 )     36       (167 )
   
Inventories
    4       453       455  
   
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    126       (269 )     598  
   
Accounts payable
    101       (150 )     (340 )
   
Accrued expenses
    1,081       (518 )     (596 )
                   
     
Net cash used in operating activities
    (5,445 )     (5,390 )     (10,516 )
                   
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
                       
 
Purchase of available-for-sale investments
    (6,137 )     (39,977 )     (32,220 )
 
Proceeds from sale of available-for-sale investments
    12,324       29,369       47,918  
 
Proceeds from sale of software unit
    753       8,373        
 
Purchase of property and equipment
    (503 )     (92 )     (366 )
 
Purchase of intangible assets
          (44 )     (27 )
                   
 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
    6,437       (2,371 )     15,305  
                   
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
                       
 
Repayments of capital leases
    (493 )     (415 )     (120 )
 
Proceeds from issuance of common stock
    320       355       56  
 
Treasury stock repurchase
                (90 )
                   
 
Net cash used in financing activities
    (173 )     (60 )     (154 )
                   
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
    819       (7,821 )     4,635  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    3,259       11,080       6,445  
                   
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 4,078     $ 3,259     $ 11,080  
                   
Supplemental Cash Flow Information:
                       
 
Interest paid
  $ 10     $ 11     $ 14  
                   
 
Acquisition of property and equipment under capital leases
  $     $     $ 1,021  
                   
 
Notes payable issued for the right to the use of design software
  $ 920     $     $  
                   
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
      Tvia, Inc and its subsidiary. (the “Company”) is a fabless semiconductor company focused on designing, producing and Marketing display processors for the digital and interactive TV market. The Company offers a family of flexible, high-quality display processors to TV manufacturers, creating next-generation digital high definition LCD TV, ED progressive-scan CRT TV and interactive multimedia display processors for Interactive Set Top Boxes.
      The Company has a subsidiary in the People’s Republic of China that supports the company’s research and development activities and performs product testing and sales support functions.
Use of Estimates
      The preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
      On an ongoing basis, the Company’s management evaluates its estimates, including those related to revenue recognition, provision for doubtful accounts and sales returns, fair value of investments, fair value of acquired intangible assets, useful lives of intangible assets and property and equipment, income taxes, restructuring costs, and contingencies and litigation, among others. The estimates are based on historical experience and on various other assumptions that management believes are reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ significantly from the estimates made by management with respect to these items and other items that require management’s estimates.
Principles of Consolidation
      The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Tvia, Inc. and its subsidiary. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated.
Cash and Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments
      The Company considers all highly liquid investment securities with original maturities of three months or less from the date of purchase to be cash equivalents. Management determines the appropriate classification of short-term investments at the time of purchase. To date, all short-term investments have been classified as available-for-sale and are carried at fair value with unrealized gains and losses, if any, included as a component of accumulated comprehensive loss in stockholders’ equity, net of any related tax effects. Interest, dividends and realized gains and losses are included in other income (expense) in the consolidated statements of operations.
Allowance for Sales Returns and Doubtful Accounts
      Sales return allowances are recorded at the time when revenue is recognized based on historical returns, current economic trends and changes in customer demand. Such allowances are adjusted periodically to reflect actual experience and anticipated returns. No sales return allowances have been recorded during fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003 based on these factors. Allowance for doubtful accounts is established as management’s best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in the Company’s existing accounts receivable. Management determines the allowance based on historical write-off experience and reviews the allowance for doubtful accounts monthly. Past due balances over

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90 days are reviewed individually for collectibility. Account balances are charged off against the allowance when it is probable that receivable will not be recovered.
Inventories
      Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (on a first-in, first-out basis) or market and include materials, labor and overhead. Allowances when required are made to reduce carrying values of inventories to their estimated net realizable values.
Property and Equipment
      Property and equipment are carried at cost and are depreciated using the straight-line method over the assets’ estimated useful life of two to five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of the asset life or the remaining lease term. Management has determined asset lives based on their historical experience of technical obsolescence of equipment and the short life of tooling that is specific to certain product families.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
      The Company reviews long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangibles for impairment. The Company reviews assets to be held and used whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of a long-lived asset may not be recoverable. The Company measures recoverability of assets by comparing their carrying amount to the future undiscounted cash flows that they are expected to generate. If an asset is considered to be impaired, the impairment reflects the amount by which the carrying value of the asset exceeds its estimated fair market value.
Revenue Recognition
      The Company recognizes revenue from product sales upon shipment to the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, and end users provided that persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the price is fixed or determinable, title has transferred, collection of resulting receivables is reasonably assured, there are no customer acceptance requirements, and there are no remaining significant obligations. Reserves for sales returns and allowances are recorded at the time of shipment. Our sales to distributors are made under agreements allowing for returns or credits under certain circumstances. The Company defers recognition of revenue on sales to distributors until products are resold by the distributor. The Company warrants its products, however warranty claims historically have been insignificant.
      Revenue from development contracts (non-recurring engineering agreements or NRE) is deferred and recognized as revenue upon achievement of NRE milestones.
Software Development Costs
      The Company has expensed all software development costs to date as substantially all of such development costs have been incurred prior to the Company’s products attaining technological feasibility.
Research and Development Expenses
      Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and related costs of employees engaged in research, design and development activities. The Company expenses all research and development related costs in the period in which such costs are incurred.

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Income Taxes
      The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with Statement of Accounting Standards No. 109 (SFAS No. 109), “Accounting for Income Taxes”. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to the difference between financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recorded or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized as income in the period that includes the enactment date. Deferred tax assets are reduced, if necessary, by a valuation allowance for any tax benefits that are not expected to be realized. As of March 31, 2005 and 2004 the Company recorded a full valuation allowance for the entire deferred tax asset as a result of uncertainty regarding the realization of the asset balance due to the net losses incurred and lack of taxable income.
Comprehensive Income (Loss)
      Comprehensive income (loss) includes net income (loss), foreign currency translation adjustments and net unrealized gain (loss) on available for sale securities. A summary of comprehensive gain (loss) is as follows (in thousands):
                         
    For the Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Net income (loss)
  $ (7,640 )   $ 936     $ (12,695 )
Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale-investments
    (97 )     2       (25 )
                   
Comprehensive income (loss)
  $ (7,737 )   $ 938     $ (12,720 )
                   
Stock-Based Compensation
      The Company accounts for stock-based compensation using the intrinsic value method prescribed in Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB) No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees.” Under APB No. 25, compensation cost is measured as the excess, if any, of the quoted market price of its stock at the date of grant over the exercise price of the option granted. Compensation cost for stock options, if any, is recognized over the vesting period on an accelerated basis consistent with the method described in Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 28 (“FIN 28”). The Company provides additional pro forma disclosures as required under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” and SFAS No. 148, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, Transition and Disclosure.”

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
      The following table illustrates the effect on our net loss and net loss per share if the Company had recorded compensation costs based on the estimated grant date fair value as defined by SFAS No. 123 for all granted stock-based awards (in thousands, except per share amounts).
                         
    For the Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Net income (loss) as reported
  $ (7,640 )   $ 936     $ (12,695 )
Add: stock-based compensation expense included in net income (loss)
                595  
Less: stock based compensation determined under SFAS No. 123
    (1,071 )     (1,315 )     (2,195 )
                   
Pro-forma net income (loss)
  $ (8,711 )   $ (379 )   $ (14,295 )
                   
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share
                       
As reported
  $ (0.33 )   $ 0.04     $ (0.58 )
Pro-forma
  $ (0.38 )   $ (0.02 )   $ (0.65 )
      The fair value of each option grant and stock purchase right were estimated on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the assumptions disclosed in Note 8.
Net Income (Loss) Per Share
      Basic income (loss) per common share is computed using the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the year. Diluted income per share is computed using the weighted average number of shares of common stock, adjusted for the dilutive effect of potential common stock. Potential common stock, computed using the treasury stock method, includes options and warrants.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
      In December 2004, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), (SFAS 123R), Share-Based Payment. SFAS 123R requires the Company to measure all employee stock-based compensation awards using a fair value method and record such expense in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In addition, the adoption of SFAS 123R will require additional accounting related to the income tax effects and additional disclosure regarding the cash flow effects resulting from share-based payment arrangements. On March 29, 2005, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin 107 (SAB 107). This Bulletin summarizes the views of the SEC’s staff regarding the interaction between SFAS 123R, Share-Based Payment and certain Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations and provides the staff’s views regarding the valuation of share-based payment arrangements for public companies. As a result of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s press release issued on April 15, 2005, the Company will be required to comply with SFAS 123R effective the first quarter of fiscal 2007. The Company is currently evaluating which transition method and pricing model to adopt, and assessing the effects of adopting SFAS 123R. The adoption of SFAS 123R’s fair value method will have a significant adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations, although it will have no impact on its overall financial condition. The impact of the adoption of SFAS 123R cannot be predicted at this time because it will depend on levels of share-based payments granted in the future. However, had the Company adopted SFAS 123R in prior periods, the impact of that standard would have approximated the impact of SFAS No. 123 as described under the “Stock-Based Compensation” section in Note 1.
      In November 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 151 “Inventory Costs — An Amendment of ARB No. 43, Chapter 4” (SFAS 151). SFAS 151 clarifies that abnormal amounts of idle facility expense,

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
freight, handling costs and spoilage should be expensed as incurred and not included in overhead. Further, SFAS 151 requires that allocation of fixed and production facilities overheads to conversion costs should be based on normal capacity of the production facilities. The provisions in SFAS 151 are effective for inventory costs incurred during fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005. The Company is currently assessing the effects of adopting this Statement and does not expect the adoption will have a significant effect on its financial statements.
      In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 153 “Exchanges of Non-monetary Assets — An Amendment of APB Opinion No. 29” (SFAS 153). The provisions of this statement are effective for non-monetary asset exchanges occurring in fiscal periods beginning after June 15, 2005. SFAS 153 eliminates the exception to fair value for exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception for exchange transactions that do not have commercial substance — that is, transactions that are not expected to result in significant changes in the cash flows of the reporting entity. The Company believes that the adoption of SFAS 153 will not have a significant effect on its financial statements.
      In December 2004, the FASB issued Staff Position No. FAS 109-2, “Accounting and Disclosure Guidance for the Foreign Earnings Repatriation Provision within the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004” (SFAS 109-2). The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 introduces a special one-time dividends received deduction on the repatriation of certain foreign earnings to a U.S. taxpayer, provided certain criteria are met. SFAS 109-2 provides accounting and disclosure guidance for the repatriation provision and was effective immediately upon issuance. The Company believes that the adoption of SFAS 109-2 will not have a significant effect on its financial statements.
Note 2. Balance Sheet Components (in thousands)
                   
    March 31,   March 31,
    2005   2004
         
Accounts receivable, net:
               
 
Trade receivables
  $ 912     $ 298  
 
Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts
    (120 )     (3 )
             
    $ 792     $ 295  
             
Inventories:
               
 
Work-in-process
  $ 515     $ 207  
 
Finished goods
    83       395  
             
    $ 598     $ 602  
             
Property and equipment, net:
               
 
Furniture and fixtures
  $ 76     $ 39  
 
Machinery and equipment
    2,838       2,775  
 
Software
    2,851       2,851  
             
      5,765       5,665  
 
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization
    (4,677 )     (3,718 )
             
    $ 1,088     $ 1,947  
             

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Depreciation expense for fiscal years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 was $1,148, $1,559 and $1,312 respectively.
                   
Other assets:
               
 
License technology
  $ 482     $ 81  
 
Less: Amortization
    (128 )     (1 )
             
 
License technology, net
    354       80  
 
Deposits
    32       32  
             
    $ 386     $ 112  
             
Accrued expenses:
               
 
Accrued compensation costs
  $ 492     $ 421  
 
Accrued license technology
    700       13  
 
Accrued audit and legal
    192       15  
 
Other
    354       208  
             
    $ 1,738     $ 657  
             
Note 3. Short-term Investments
      The value of the Company’s investments by major security type is as follows:
                         
    Mature Less Than 12 Months
     
    Cost   Aggregate   Unrealized
As of March 31, 2005   Value   Fair Value   Gain/(Loss)
             
    (In thousands)
U.S. government and agency securities
  $ 7,000     $ 6,958     $ (42 )
U.S. corporate and bank debt
    10,753       10,706       (47 )
                   
Total
  $ 17,753     $ 17,664     $ (89 )
                   
                                                 
    Mature Less Than 12 Months   Mature in 12 Months or More
         
    Cost   Aggregate   Unrealized   Cost   Aggregate   Unrealized
As of March 31, 2004   Value   Fair Value   Gain/(Loss)   Value   Fair Value   Gain/(Loss)
                         
    (In thousands)   (In thousands)
U.S. government and agency securities
  $     $     $     $ 6,000     $ 6,000     $  
U.S. corporate and bank debt
    9,392       9,395       3       8,547       8,552       5  
                                     
Total
  $ 9,392     $ 9,395     $ 3     $ 14,547     $ 14,552     $ 5  
                                     
Note 4. Sale of Software Business and Software-Related Assets
      On July 3, 2003, the Company sold its software business and software-related assets to MediaTek, Inc for $10.0 million. The software assets were developed internally to support the Company’s products, including Home IT, advanced digital video broadcasting, MPEG 4 software, SDK software and software drivers. The development costs related to the software assets were expensed as incurred. Under the agreement, MediaTek granted to the Company a royalty-free license to continue to use those software assets to support its existing products and fulfill its maintenance obligations to its existing customers.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
The Company reported a gain of $9.1 million from this transaction in the results of operations in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. At March 31, 2004, $750,000 was in an escrow account and that amount was received in April 2004.
Note 5. Restructuring Charges and Impairment Charge
Restructuring Charges.
      During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003, the Company recorded a restructuring charge of $950,000 relating to a headcount reduction and termination of an operating lease for an abandoned building. The restructuring was recorded to align the cost structure with changing market conditions. The plan resulted in headcount reduction of approximately 49 employees, which was made up of 55% of research and development staff, 23% of operations staff, 16% of general and administrative staff and 6% of sales and marketing staff. The charge in relation to the operating lease of the abandoned building represents the estimated difference between the total non-discounted future sublease income and the non-discounted lease commitments relating to this building. The restructuring plan was completed as of March 31, 2004.
      The following table summarizes the activity associated with the restructuring liabilities (in thousands):
                                 
    License   Leased   Severances    
    Technology   Facilities   and Benefits   Total
                 
Balance at March 31, 2002
  $     $     $     $  
Additions
    69       162       719       950  
Non-cash charges
    (69 )                 (69 )
Cash charges
          (139 )     (719 )     (858 )
                         
Balance at March 31, 2003
          23             23  
Cash charges
          (23 )            
                         
Balance at March 31,2004
  $     $     $     $  
                         
Impairment Charges
      The Company wrote off $1.5 million of license technology in the third quarter of fiscal year 2004 related to a change in the product development plan.
Note 6. Income Taxes
      The Company recorded a provision of $25,000 for Federal alternative minimum tax, applied on the gain of the software business unit, and none for state and foreign income taxes in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. There were no provisions for income taxes in the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005 and 2003.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
      The components of the net deferred income tax asset are as follows:
                 
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004
         
    (In thousands)
Net operating losses
  $ 19,566     $ 16,073  
Reserve for accruals not deducted for tax purposes
    677       977  
Available tax credit carry forwards
    2,618       2,784  
Other timing differences
    1,818       1,870  
             
Gross deferred tax asset
    24,679       21,704  
Valuation allowance
    (24,679 )     (21,704 )
             
Net deferred tax asset
  $     $  
             
      At March 31, 2005, the Company had net cumulative operating loss carry forwards for federal, state and foreign income tax purposes of approximately $53 million, $17 million and $3.8 million, respectively. The federal net operating loss carry forwards expire on various dates through 2025. The state net operating loss carry forwards expire on various dates through 2015. The foreign net operating losses expire on various dates starting in 2007. As of March 31, 2005, the Company had federal and state tax credit carry forwards of approximately $1.5 million and $1.7 million, respectively available to offset future taxes.
      Utilization of net operating losses may be subject to annual limitations due to ownership change limitations imposed by the Internal Revenue Service and similar state provisions. A full valuation allowance has been established for the Company’s deferred tax assets at March 31, 2005 and 2004 since realization of such assets through the generation of future taxable income is uncertain.
      A China subsidiary of the Company, Tvia, Inc. China, has been granted a full exemption from Enterprise Income Tax (“EIT”) in accordance with the PRC Law of Enterprise Income Tax, for the first two years and a 50% reduction in EIT for the next three years, commencing from the first profitable year after offsetting all tax losses carried forward (available for carry forward for a maximum of five years). As of March 31, 2005, no EIT was payable.
      The difference between the actual tax provision (benefit) and the amount obtained by applying the U.S. Federal statutory rate to income (loss) before provision for income taxes (benefit) is as follows:
                 
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004
         
    (In thousands)
Tax provision (benefit) at statutory rate
    (34.0 )%     34.0 %
Valuation allowance
    39.0 %     25.4 %
Other
    (5.0 )%     3.6 %
Utilization of net operating losses
    0.0 %     (60.2 )%
             
      0.0 %     2.8 %
             

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TVIA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
Note 7. Earnings per Share
      The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share (in thousands, except per share data):
                           
    Year Ended March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
    (In thousands, except per share
    data)
Net income (loss)
  $ (7,640 )   $ 936     $ (12,695 )
                   
Basic and diluted;
                       
 
Weighted average shares of common stock outstanding
    22,827       22,340       22,053  
 
Less: Weighted average shares of common stock subject to repurchase
          (17 )     (101 )
                   
Weighted average shares used in computing basic net income (loss) per share
    22,827       22,323       21,952  
Diluted effect of common share equivalents
          1,659        
Weighted average shares used in computing diluted net income (loss) per share
    22,827       23,982       21,952  
                   
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share
  $ (0.33 )   $ 0.04     $ (0.58 )
                   
Options and warrants excluded from the computation of diluted net income (loss) per share
    5,382       1,364       4,710  
                   
Excluded options and warrants were excluded from the computation of diluted loss per share as a result of their anti-dilutive effect. While these common stock equivalents are currently anti-dilutive, they could be dilutive in the future.
Note 8. Stockholders’ Equity and Employee Compensation Plans
Stock Option Plans
2000 Stock Incentive Plan and 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
      The 2000 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2000 Plan”) provides for the issuance of shares of the Company’s common stock to directors, employees and consultants. The 2000 Plan provides for the issuance of incentive stock options or non-qualified stock options as well as stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and stock units. To date the Company has only granted stock options under the 2000 Plan. The 2000 Plan provides for the issuance of up to 2,333,333 shares of common stock, plus, commencing on January 1, 2001, annual increases equal to the least of 73,000 shares (amended on August 21, 2001 to 730,000 shares), 3% of the fully diluted outstanding common stock on January 1 of each year, or a lesser amount determined by the Board of Directors. Pursuant to the 2000 Plan, the exercise price for incentive stock options is at least 100% of the fair market value on the date of grant or for employees owning in excess of 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock, 110% of the fair market value on the date of grant. For non-qualified stock options, the exercise price is par value of the Company’s common stock. Options generally expire in 10 years. Options generally vest ratably over four years beginning the date of grant. As of March 31, 2005, 1,997,335 shares were available for grant under the 2000 Plan.
      In March 2000, the Board of Directors adopted an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”). A total of 333,333 shares (amended in May 2004 to 833,333 shares) of the Company’s common stock

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
were reserved for issuance under the ESPP, plus, commencing on April 1, 2001, annual increases equal to the least of 83,333 shares, 3% of the outstanding common stock on such date, or a lesser amount determined by the Board of Directors. Each participant may purchase up to 4,000 shares on any purchase date. The ESPP permits eligible employees to contribute up to 15% of cash compensation toward the semi-annual purchase of the Company’s common stock. The purchase price is 85% of the fair market value on the day prior to the beginning of the 24 month period at which an eligible employee is enrolled, or the end of each six-month accumulation period, whichever is lower. Employees purchased 98,699, 117,745 and 39,851 in fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. As of March 31, 2005, 657,014 shares were available for purchase under the ESPP.
1999 Stock Incentive Plan
      The Stock Incentive Plan (the “1999 Plan”) provides for the issuance of up to 5,166,667 shares of the Company’s common stock to directors, employees and consultants. The 1999 Plan provides for the issuance of restricted stock bonuses, restricted stock purchase rights, incentive stock options or non-qualified stock options. Pursuant to the 1999 Plan, the exercise price for incentive stock options is at least 100% of the fair market value on the date of grant or for employees owning in excess of 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock, 110% of the fair market value on the date of grant. For non-qualified stock options, the exercise price is no less than 85% of the fair market value on the date of grant.
      Options generally expire in ten years. Vesting periods are determined by the Board of Directors; however, options generally vest ratably over four years beginning one year after the date of grant. Options may be exercised prior to full vesting. Any unvested shares so exercised are subject to a repurchase right in favor of the Company with the repurchase price to be equal to the original purchase price of the stock. The right to repurchase at the original price lapses at a minimum rate of 20% per year over five years from the date the options granted. The 2000 Plan is the successor to the 1999 Plan. Since the 2000 Plan became effective the 1999 plan was terminated and no further grants were made under the 1999 Plan. All shares and future cancellations were merged into the 2000 Plan.
Out of Plan Options
      In November 2001, the Company issued two out of plan non-qualified options to acquire the Company’s common stock. One grant was for 800,000 shares, vesting over a four-year period. The second grant was for 200,000 shares, vesting over a six-year period but with a provision for earlier vesting one year after the grant date provided that certain criteria are achieved. Both grants had an exercise price of $1.27 per share, the fair market value on the date of grant, and expire in ten years.

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TVIA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
      The following table summarizes activity under all of the Company’s stock option plans and out-of-plan options:
                   
    Outstanding   Weighted Average
    Options   Exercise Price
         
Balance at March 31, 2002
    4,161,653     $ 2.62  
 
Granted
    2,33,401       0.86  
 
Exercised
    (199,014 )     0.26  
 
Cancellations
    (1,746,232 )     2.81  
             
Balance at March 31, 2003
    4,449,808       1.79  
 
Granted
    1,347,333       1.43  
 
Exercised
    (295,022 )     0.64  
 
Cancellations
    (607,736 )     1.88  
             
Balance at March 31, 2004
    4,894,383       1.74  
 
Granted
    1,714,010       1.44  
 
Exercised
    (496,358 )     0.51  
 
Cancellations
    (729,501 )     2.17  
             
Balance at March 31, 2005
    5,382,534     $ 1.71  
             
                                     
Options Outstanding   Options Exercisable
     
    Weighted        
Number   Average   Weighted   Number   Weighted
Outstanding   Remaining   Average   Exercisable   Average
at March 31,   Contractual   Exercise   at March 31,   Exercise
2005   Life   Price   2005   Price
                 
  545,107       7.26     $ 0.48       399,851     $ 0.47  
  513,042       8.23       0.75       201,728       0.60  
  1,000,000       6.67       1.27       1,000,000       1.27  
  675,000       9.55       1.43       0       0.00  
  802,000       9.19       1.48       50,000       1.50  
  5,000       9.86       1.51       0       0.00  
  804,894       8.50       1.57       431,564       1.57  
  559,089       6.71       1.91       543,883       1.91  
  445,735       5.37       5.42       445,234       5.43  
  32,667       5.33       11.00       32,667       11.00  
                           
  5,382,534       7.78     $ 1.71       3,104,927     $ 1.98  
                           
      The weighted average fair values of options granted in fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003 were $0.94, $0.86 and, $0.90, respectively. The fair value of each option grant and stock purchase right is

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TVIA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
estimated on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
                         
    Stock Incentive Plans
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Risk-free Interest Rate
    3.45 %     2.65 %     1.25 %
Expected Life of Options from Grant Date
    5.6  years       4.5  years       4.5  years  
Expected Dividend Yield
    0.0 %     0.0 %     0.0 %
Expected Stock Volatility
    92.3 %     92.0 %     90.0 %
                         
    Employee Stock Purchase Plans
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Risk-free Interest Rate
    2.07 %     0.94 %     1.25 %
Expected Life of Options from Grant Date
    0.5  years       0.5  years       0.5  years  
Expected Dividend Yield
    0.0 %     0.0 %     0.0 %
Expected Stock Volatility
    79.3 %     85.0 %     90.0 %
      The weighted average fair values of the purchase rights granted in fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003 were $0.74, $0.48 and $0.18, respectively.
Deferred Stock Compensation
      Deferred stock compensation represents the aggregate difference, at the grant date, between the respective exercise price of stock options and the fair value of the underlying stock. The deferred stock compensation expense is amortized on an accelerated basis over the vesting period of the individual award, generally four years. This method is in accordance with FIN No. 28. The Company had not recorded any unearned stock-based compensation in the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, and has amortized deferred stock compensation of $0.0 million, $0.0 million and $0.6 million, in these periods, respectively.
Stock Repurchase Agreements
      In connection with the exercise of options pursuant to the 1999 Plan, employees entered into restricted stock purchase agreements with the Company. Under the terms of these agreements, the Company has a right to repurchase any shares at the original exercise price of the shares upon termination of employment. The repurchase right lapses ratably over the vesting term of the original grant. As of March 31, 2005 no shares were subject to repurchase by the Company.
401(k) Plan
      The Company maintains a retirement and deferred savings plan for its employees in the United States of America (the “401(k) Plan”), who meet certain age and service requirements. The 401(k) Plan provided that each participant may defer up to 15% of their annual compensation on a pre-tax basis, not to exceed the dollar limit that is set by law, with the Company contributing a matching 25 percent of their contribution, up to 3 percent of their annual compensation. Substantially all of the Company’s employees are eligible to participate in the Tvia 401(k) Plan. The Company contributed $60,000, $59,000 and $98,000 to the 401(k) Plan for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

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TVIA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
Note 9. Certain Risks
      The Company is subject to the risks associated with similar technology companies. These risks include, but are not limited to: history of operating losses, dependence on a small number of key individuals, customers and suppliers, competition from larger, more established companies, the impact of rapid technological changes and changes in customer demand/requirements.
      Revenues to significant customers, those representing approximately 10% or more of total revenues for the respective periods, are summarized as follows:
                         
    For the Year Ended
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
Customer A
    17 %     15 %     17 %
Customer B
    34 %     12 %     *  
Customer C
    *       12 %     *  
Customer D
    *       10 %     *  
Customer E
    10 %     *       10 %
Customer F
    *       *       24 %
 
(* = less than 10%)
Concentration of Credit Risk
      Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of bank deposits and accounts receivable. The Company places its cash and cash equivalents in checking and money market accounts in financial institutions. The Company’s accounts receivable are derived primarily from sales to OEMs and distributors. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers and maintains an allowance for potential doubtful accounts.
      As of March 31, 2005 and 2004, accounts receivable were concentrated with customers as follows:
                 
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004
         
Customer A
    *       20 %
Customer B
    *       15 %
Customer C
    *       17 %
Customer D
    16 %     *  
Customer E
    27 %     *  
Customer F
    20 %     *  
Customer G
    27 %     *  
 
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TVIA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
      The following is a summary of activities in allowance for doubtful accounts and returns (in thousands)
                                 
    Balance at   Charged to        
    Beginning   Costs and       Balance at
Description   of Period   Expenses   Write-offs   End of Period
                 
Year Ended March 31, 2005
                               
Allowance for doubtful accounts
  $ 3     $ 117     $ 0     $ 120  
Year Ended March 31, 2004
                               
Allowance for doubtful accounts
  $ 50     $ 15     $ 62     $ 3  
Year Ended March 31, 2003
                               
Allowance for doubtful accounts
  $ 112     $ 8     $ 70     $ 50  
Vendor Concentration
      The Company does not own or operate a fabrication facility, and accordingly relies substantially on two outside foundries, United Manufacturing Corporation (“UMC”) and Hua Hong Nippon Electronics Co. (“HHNEC”) to supply all of the Company’s semiconductor manufacturing requirements. There are significant risks associated with the Company’s reliance on outside foundries, including the lack of ensured wafer supply, limited control over delivery schedules, quality assurance and control, manufacturing yields and production costs and the unavailability of or delays in obtaining access to key process technologies. Any inability of one of the foundries to provide the necessary components could result in significant delays and could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations. In the event either foundry suffers financial difficulties or suffers any damage or destruction to its respective facilities, or in the event of any other disruption of foundry capacity, the Company may not be able to qualify alternative manufacturing sources for existing or new products in a timely manner.
      Substantially all of the Company’s products are assembled and tested by one of three third-party subcontractors, Siliconware Precision Industries Ltd., and Advance Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., both located in Taiwan, and Belling Corp., Ltd. in the People’s Republic of China. The availability of assembly and testing services from these subcontractors could be adversely affected in the event any subcontractor experiences financial difficulties or suffers any damage or destruction to its respective facilities, or in the event of any other disruption of assembly and testing capacity. As a result of this reliance on third-party subcontractors for assembly and testing of its products, the Company cannot directly control product delivery schedules, which has in the past, and could in the future, result in product shortages or quality assurance problems that could increase the cost of manufacture, assembly or testing of the Company’s products.
Note 10. Segment and Geographic Information
      The Company is organized and operates in one reportable segment, which is the development, manufacture and sale of streaming media integrated circuits for the advanced television and emerging interactive display markets.
      The Company has operations in the United States and China. The total assets in the China subsidiary as of March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 were not material to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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TVIA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
      The following table summarizes revenues by geographic area as a percentage of total revenues:
                         
    For the Year Ended
    March 31,
     
    2005   2004   2003
             
United States
    11 %     24 %     14 %
Europe
    34 %     24 %     35 %
China
    13 %     18 %     25 %
Japan
    20 %     15 %     16 %
Korea
    10 %     *       10 %
 
(* Less than 10%)
Note 11. Commitments and Contingencies
Stock Repurchase
      On November 10, 2001, the Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program to acquire outstanding common stock in the open market. Under this program, the Board of Directors authorized the acquisition of up to 200,000 of the Company’s common stock. As of March 31, 2005, the Company acquired 143,700 shares on the open market that it holds as treasury stock.
      On August 20, 2002, the Board of Directors authorized an additional stock repurchase program to acquire outstanding common stock in the open market. Under this program, the Board of Directors authorized the acquisition up to 5 million shares of common stock. As of March 31, 2005, the Company had not repurchased any shares of common stock under this program.
Litigation
      The Company is subject to various claims which arise in the normal course of business. In the opinion of management, the Company is unaware of any claims which would have a material adverse effect on the financial position, liquidity or results of operations of the Company.
Leases Commitments
      The Company leases its facilities under non-cancelable operating leases expiring at various dates through June 2007. Under the terms of the leases, the Company is responsible for a portion of the facilities’ operating expenses, insurance and property taxes. Rent expense under operating leases for the years ended March 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, were approximately $0.2 million, $0.2 million and $0.6 million, respectively.
      The Company leased certain fixed assets under capital leases which expired at various dates through February 2005. In December 2004, the Company acquired the right to the use of design software for a period of two years in exchange for the issuance of notes payable.

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TVIA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
      Future payments due under operating leases as of March 31, 2005 are as follows (in thousands):
                           
    Operating        
    Notes   Operating    
Fiscal Year   Payable   Leases   Total
             
 
2006
  $ 500     $ 100     $ 600  
 
2007
    375       65       440  
                   
Total minimum payments
    875     $ 165     $ 1,040  
                   
Less: Amount representing interest
    (70 )                
                   
Present value of minimum payments
    805                  
Less: Current portion
    (460 )                
                   
Long term portion
  $ 345                  
                   

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Item 9. Changes In and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
      None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
      (a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures. We maintain, and our management is responsible for “disclosure controls and procedures,” as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, management recognized that disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met. Our disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to meet, and management believes that they meet, reasonable assurance standards. Additionally, in designing disclosure controls and procedures, our management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible disclosure controls and procedures. The design of any disclosure controls and procedures also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
      Based on their evaluation as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, subject to the limitations noted above, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that material information relating to us, including our consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to them by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this Annual Report on Form 10-K was being prepared.
      (b) Changes in internal controls. There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) identified in connection with the evaluation described in Item 8A(a) above that occurred during our last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART III
Item 10. Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant
      The information required by this item (with respect to Directors) is incorporated by reference from the information under the caption “Election of Directors” contained in the Company’s Proxy Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the Company’s 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on August 11, 2005 (the “Proxy Statement”). Certain information required by this item concerning executive officers is set forth in Part I of this Report under the caption “Executive Officers of the Registrant.”
      Item 405 of Regulation S-K calls for disclosure of any known late filing or failure by an insider to file a report required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act. This disclosure is contained in the section entitled “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance” in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
      The Company has a separately designated standing Audit Committee established in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Exchange Act. The members of the Audit Committee are James Bunker (Chairperson), R. David Dicioccio and Mark Mangiola, all of whom meet the independence standards established by The Nasdaq Stock Market for serving on an audit committee. The Board of Directors has

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determined that R. David Dicioccio and Mark Mangiola are each an “audit committee financial expert” as defined SEC regulations.
      The Company has adopted a code of ethics, the Tvia Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code”), that applies to all directors and employees, including Tvia’s principal executive officer, principle financial officer and controller on March 22, 2004. The Company’s Code of Ethics is available on the Company’s website at http://www.tvia.com. To date, there have been no waivers under the Company’s Code of Ethics. The Company will post any waivers, if and when granted, under its Code of Ethics on the Company’s website at http://www.tvia.com.
Item 11. Executive Compensation
      The information required by this item is incorporated by reference from the information under the captions “Election of Directors — Director Compensation,” “Executive Compensation,” and “Election of Directors — Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation” contained in the Proxy Statement.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholders Matters
      The information required by this item is incorporated by reference from the information under the caption “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Equity Compensation Plan Information” contained in the Proxy Statement.
EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION
      Set forth in the table below is certain information regarding the number of shares of Common Stock that were subject to outstanding stock options or other compensation plan grants and awards as of March 31, 2005.
                         
            Number of Securities
            Remaining Available for
    Number of Securities       Future Issuance Under
    to be Issued   Weighted-Average   Equity Compensation
    Upon Exercise of   Exercise Price of   Plans (Excluding
    Outstanding Options,   Outstanding Options,   Securities Reflected
Plan Category   Warrants and Rights   Warrants and Rights   In Column (a)
             
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders
    4,382,534 (1)   $ 1.81       2,654,349  
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders
    1,000,000 (2)   $ 1.27        
                   
Totals
    5,382,534     $ 1.71       2,654,349 (3)
 
(1)  Includes shares to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options and warrants granted under the 1999 Plan and the 2000 Plan. Options or warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s Common Stock are no longer granted under the 1999 Plan.
 
(2)  In November 2001, the Company issued two out-of-plan non-qualified options. The first grant is for 800,000 shares of Common Stock, with an exercise price of $1.27, the fair market value on the date of grant. The option vests over a four year period. The second grant is for 200,000 shares of Common Stock, with an exercise price of $1.27, the fair market value on the date of grant. If certain performance objectives are met, the second option will vest ratably over 48 months beginning on the last day of the first month following the first anniversary of the vesting commencement date. If the performance objectives are not met, the option will vest in full on the sixth anniversary of the vesting commencement date.

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(3)  Includes 657,014 shares reserved for issuance under the Company’s 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”). The number of shares reserved for issuance under the ESPP increases on April 1, of every year, by the lesser of: 83,333 shares; 3% of the outstanding Common Stock on such date; or a lesser amount determined by the Board of Directors. Each participant may purchase up to 4,000 shares on any purchase date. The ESPP permits eligible employees to contribute up to 15% of cash compensation toward the semi-annual purchase of the Company’s Common Stock. The purchase price is 85% of the fair market value on the day prior to the beginning of the six-month period at which an eligible employee is enrolled, or the end of each six-month accumulation period, whichever is lower.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions
      The information required by this item is incorporated by reference from the information contained under the captions “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions” contained in the Proxy Statement.
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
      The information required by this item is incorporated by reference from the information under the caption “Ratification of Independent Auditors — Principal Accountant Fees and Services” and “Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures” contained in the Proxy Statement.
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
(a)     Documents filed as part of this report:
  (1) Financial Statements
        Reference is made to the Index to Consolidated Financial Statements of Tvia, Inc., under Item 8 of Part II hereof.
  (2) Financial Statement Schedules
        Financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are not applicable or not required or because the information is included elsewhere in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto.
  (3) Exhibits
        See Item 15(c) below. Each management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement required to be filed has been identified.

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(b) Exhibits
         
Exhibit    
Number   Description of Document
     
  3(i) .1   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to Amendment No. 8 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  3(ii) .1   Amended and Restated Bylaws of Tvia, Inc.
  4 .1   Form of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  4 .2   Form of Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement dated as of April 3, 2000 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .1#   Amended and Restated 1999 Stock Incentive Plan of Tvia, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .2#   Amended and Restated 2000 Stock Incentive Plan of Tvia, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002).
  10 .3#   Amended and Restated 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Tvia, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (File No. 000-30539)).
  10 .4   Form of Directors and Officers’ Indemnification Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to Amendment No. 3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .5   UMC Wafer Foundry Standard Terms and Conditions (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .6#   Form of Executive Severance Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .7#   Confidential Severance Agreement and Change Status Release dated March 11, 2005 by and between the Company and Kenny Liu (incorporated by reference to Form 8-K, filed March 15, 2005) (File No. 0-30539)
  10 .8   Multi-Tenant Single-Building Modified-Net Lease dated October 27, 1995 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and Integraphics System, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .9   First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated January 15, 1999 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .10   Second Amendment to Lease Agreement dated May 6, 1999 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .11   Third Amendment to Lease Agreement dated June 27, 2003 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc.
  10 .12   Fourth Amendment to Lease Agreement dated June 7, 2004 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc.
  10 .13   Fifth Amendment to Lease Agreement dated May 17, 2005 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc.
  10 .14#   Option Agreement between the Company and Eli Porat dated November 30, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2001).

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Exhibit    
Number   Description of Document
     
  10 .15#   Option agreement between the Company and Eli Porat dated November 30, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.19 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2001).
  10 .16#   Agreement and Release of Claims by and between the Company and Jack Guedj dated January 31, 2002 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002).
  21 .1   Subsidiaries of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003).
  23 .1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
  24 .1   Power of Attorney (see page 45 of this Form 10-K).
  31 .1   Rule 13a-14(a) certification of Chief Executive Officer
  31 .2   Rule 13a-14(a) certification of Chief Financial Officer
  32 .1**   Statement of Chief Executive Officer under Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C.ss.1350).
  32 .2**   Statement of Chief Financial Officer under Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C.ss.1350).
 
**  In accordance with Item 601(b)(32)(ii) of Regulation S-K and SEC Release Nos. 33-8238 and 34-47986, Final Rule: Management’s Reports on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, the certifications furnished in Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 hereto are deemed to accompany this Form 10-K and will not be deemed “filed” for purpose of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.
 
#   Indicates management contact or compensatory plan or arrangement.
 
†   Confidential treatment has been requested or granted with respect to certain portions of these agreements.
(c)     Financial Statement Schedules.
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SIGNATURES
      Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
  TVIA, INC.
  By  /s/ ELI PORAT
 
 
  Eli Porat
  Chief Executive Officer and President
Date: June 17, 2005
POWER OF ATTORNEY
      KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Eli Porat and Diane Bjorkstrom, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, each with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this report on Form 10-K and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact or their substitute or substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
             
Name   Title   Date
         
/s/ ELI PORAT
 
Eli Porat
  Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 17, 2005
 
/s/ DIANE BJORKSTROM
 
Diane Bjorkstrom
  Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
  June 17, 2005
 
/s/ KENNY LIU
 
Kenny Liu
  Director   June 17, 2005
 
/s/ YVES FAROUDJA
 
Yves Faroudja
  Director   June 17, 2005
 
/s/ JAMES BUNKER
 
James Bunker
  Director   June 17, 2005

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Name   Title   Date
         
 
/s/ MARK MANGIOLA
 
Mark Mangiola
  Director   June 17, 2005
 
/s/ R. DAVID DICIOCCIO
 
R. David Dicioccio
  Director   June 17, 2005

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EXHIBIT INDEX
         
Exhibit    
Number   Description of Document
     
  3(i) .1   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to Amendment No. 8 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  3(ii) .1   Amended and Restated Bylaws of Tvia, Inc.
  4 .1   Form of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  4 .2   Form of Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement dated as of April 3, 2000 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .1#   Amended and Restated 1999 Stock Incentive Plan of Tvia, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .2#   Amended and Restated 2000 Stock Incentive Plan of Tvia, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002).
  10 .3#   Amended and Restated 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Tvia, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (File No. 000-30539)).
  10 .4   Form of Directors and Officers’ Indemnification Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to Amendment No. 3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .5   UMC Wafer Foundry Standard Terms and Conditions (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .6#   Form of Executive Severance Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .7#   Confidential Severance Agreement and Change Status Release dated March 11, 2005 by and between the Company and Kenny Liu (incorporated by reference to Form 8-K, filed March 15, 2005) (File No. 0-30539)
  10 .8   Multi-Tenant Single-Building Modified-Net Lease dated October 27, 1995 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and Integraphics System, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .9   First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated January 15, 1999 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .10   Second Amendment to Lease Agreement dated May 6, 1999 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-34024)).
  10 .11   Third Amendment to Lease Agreement dated June 27, 2003 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc.
  10 .12   Fourth Amendment to Lease Agreement dated June 7, 2004 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc.
  10 .13   Fifth Amendment to Lease Agreement dated May 17, 2005 between Koll/Intereal Bay Area and IGS Technologies, Inc.
  10 .14#   Option Agreement between the Company and Eli Porat dated November 30, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2001).
  10 .15#   Option agreement between the Company and Eli Porat dated November 30, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.19 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2001).


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Exhibit    
Number   Description of Document
     
  10 .16#   Agreement and Release of Claims by and between the Company and Jack Guedj dated January 31, 2002 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002).
  21 .1   Subsidiaries of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003).
  23 .1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
  24 .1   Power of Attorney (see page 45 of this Form 10-K).
  31 .1   Rule 13a-14(a) certification of Chief Executive Officer
  31 .2   Rule 13a-14(a) certification of Chief Financial Officer
  32 .1**   Statement of Chief Executive Officer under Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C.ss.1350).
  32 .2**   Statement of Chief Financial Officer under Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C.ss.1350).
 
**  In accordance with Item 601(b)(32)(ii) of Regulation S-K and SEC Release Nos. 33-8238 and 34-47986, Final Rule: Management’s Reports on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, the certifications furnished in Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 hereto are deemed to accompany this Form 10-K and will not be deemed “filed” for purpose of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.
 
#   Indicates management contact or compensatory plan or arrangement.
 
†   Confidential treatment has been requested or granted with respect to certain portions of these agreements.