Posted by Jack Davis on February 12th, 2009 at 1:27 pm | Categorized as Applied Micro Circuits, Layoffs | Tagged as Applied Micro Circuits, Compensation cutbacks, Layoffs
Applied Micro Circuits, which warned it was planning a “restructuring” without giving any details when it filed its earnings late last month, provided some in a filing with the SEC late Thursday.
The company’s board approved a restructuring plan Jan. 27 that includes letting go of “slightly over 100 people.” In October the company announced it would Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jack Davis on October 31st, 2008 at 6:07 pm | Categorized as Applied Micro Circuits, Buyback, Layoffs | Tagged as Applied Micro Circuits, Layoffs, Stock Buybacks
The board of directors at Applied Micro Circuits (Nasdaq:AMCC) approved a $100 million stock repurchase program Wednesday, the company revealed in a quarterly filing today. Details of the program “are still to be determined.”
The amount is about a third of the company’s total market value as of Friday. It is also slightly more than half of the Sunnyvale chip maker’s total Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jack Davis on October 6th, 2008 at 8:11 pm | Categorized as Applied Micro Circuits, Executive Pay, Layoffs | Tagged as Applied Micro Circuits, Executive Pay, Layoffs
As it did just about this time last year, Applied Micro Circuits told some of its employees today they had to go, according to a regulatory filing Monday, as the company enacted its sixth restructuring in four years. The move affects about 5 percent of its work force, which numbered 583 at the end of its last fiscal year on March 31, meaning that about 29 employees got pink slips today.
The company’s board of directors approved the plan back on Aug. 20 and says that it expects to incur cash charges of about Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jack Davis on July 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm | Categorized as Applied Micro Circuits, Patents | Tagged as Applied Micro Circuits, Patents, Qualcomm
Applied Micro Circuits has sold a series of patents, patent applications and associated rights to some of its technologies to wireless chip maker Qualcomm for $33 million to be paid over the next three years, according to a filing with the SEC today. Applied Micro will retain the non-exclusive right to make and sell its existing products that use technology covered by the patents.
The contract terms include a provision under which Qualcomm could withhold Read the rest of this entry »
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