Derivatives and Hedging Activities

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Derivative Instruments, Gain (Loss)

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Text Block]

Derivatives and Hedging Activities

The Company uses derivative instruments primarily to manage exposures to foreign currency. The Company’s primary objective in holding derivative instruments is to reduce the volatility of earnings and cash flows associated with changes in foreign currency. The program is not designated for trading or speculative purposes. The Company’s derivative instruments expose the Company to credit risk to the extent that the counterparties may be unable to meet the terms of the agreement. The Company seeks to mitigate such risk by limiting its counterparties to major financial institutions and by spreading the risk across several major financial institutions. In addition, the potential risk of loss with any one counterparty resulting from this type of credit risk is monitored by the Company on an ongoing basis.

The Company recognizes derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities on the balance sheet at fair value and provides qualitative disclosures about objectives and strategies for using derivative instruments, quantitative disclosures about fair value amounts of gains and losses on derivative instruments, and disclosures about credit-risk-related contingent features in derivative agreements. Changes in fair value (i.e., gains or losses) of the derivatives are recorded as cost of revenues or other income (expense), or as accumulated other comprehensive income (“AOCI”). The Company does not offset or net the fair value amounts of derivative instruments and separately discloses the fair value amounts of the derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities.

Cash Flow Hedges. The Company uses forward contracts designated as cash flow hedges to hedge a portion of future forecasted purchases in Japanese yen. The gain or loss on the effective portion of a cash flow hedge is initially reported as a component of AOCI and subsequently reclassified into cost of revenues in the same period or periods in which the cost of revenues is recognized, or reclassified into other income (expense) if the hedged transaction becomes probable of not occurring. Any gain or loss after a hedge is no longer designated, because it is no longer probable of occurring or it is related to an ineffective portion of a cash flow hedge, as well as any amount excluded from the Company’s hedge effectiveness, is recognized as other income (expense) immediately. As of March 31, 2013, the Company had forward contracts in place to hedge future purchases of approximately 12.3 billion Japanese yen, or approximately $131 million based upon the exchange rate as of March 31, 2013, and the net unrealized loss on the effective portion of these cash flow hedges was ($12.9) million. The forward contracts on the Company’s future Japanese yen wafer purchases will substantially settle in the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 with no contracts settling beyond twelve months.

Other Derivatives. Other derivatives that are non-designated consist primarily of forward and cross currency swap contracts to minimize the risk associated with the foreign exchange effects of revaluing monetary assets and liabilities. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies and the associated outstanding forward and cross currency swap contracts were marked-to-market at March 31, 2013 with realized and unrealized gains and losses included in other income (expense). As of March 31, 2013, the Company had foreign currency forward contracts hedging exposures in European euros, British pounds and Japanese yen. Foreign currency forward contracts were outstanding to buy and sell U.S. dollar equivalents of approximately $196.1 million and $101.7 million in foreign currencies, respectively, based upon the exchange rates at March 31, 2013.

The Company currently has a cross currency swap contract to exchange Japanese yen for U.S. dollars that requires the Company to comply with certain covenants, the strictest of which is to maintain a minimum liquidity of $1.0 billion. Liquidity is defined as the sum of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents and short and long-term marketable securities. This cross currency swap contract was outstanding to sell U.S. dollar equivalents of approximately $30.8 million based upon the exchange rate at March 31, 2013. Should the Company fail to comply with these covenants, the Company may be required to settle the unrealized gain or loss on the foreign exchange contract prior to the original maturity date. The Company was in compliance with these covenants as of March 31, 2013.

The amounts in the tables below include fair value adjustments related to the Company’s own credit risk and counterparty credit risk.

Fair Value of Derivative Contracts. Fair value of derivative contracts as of March 31, 2013 and December 30, 2012 were as follows (in thousands):

	Derivative assets reported in
	Other Current Assets				Other Non-current Assets
	March 31, 2013		December 30, 2012		March 31, 2013		December 30, 2012
Foreign exchange contracts designated	$	260	$	—	$	—	$	—
Foreign exchange contracts not designated	14,677		19,064		—		994
Total derivatives	$	14,937	$	19,064	$	—	$	994

	Derivative liabilities reported in
	Other Current Accrued Liabilities				Non-current Liabilities
	March 31, 2013		December 30, 2012		March 31, 2013		December 30, 2012
Foreign exchange contracts designated	$	13,167	$	7,058	$	—	$	—
Foreign exchange contracts not designated	21,654		6,526		—		—
Total derivatives	$	34,821	$	13,584	$	—	$	—

Foreign Exchange and Equity Market Risk Contracts Designated as Cash Flow Hedges. The impact of the effective portion of designated cash flow derivative contracts on the Company’s results of operations for the three months endedMarch 31, 2013 and April 1, 2012 was as follows (in thousands):

	Three months ended
	Amount of loss recognized in AOCI						Amount of gain (loss) reclassified from AOCI to earnings
	March 31, 2013			April 1, 2012			March 31, 2013			April 1, 2012
Foreign exchange contracts	$	(30,630	)	$	(69,061	)	$	(1,441	)	$	6,314

Foreign exchange contracts designated as cash flow hedges relate primarily to wafer purchases in Japanese yen. Gains and losses associated with foreign exchange contracts designated as cash flow hedges are expected to be recorded in cost of revenues when reclassified out of AOCI. The Company expects to realize the majority of the AOCI balance related to foreign exchange contracts within the next twelve months.

The following table includes the ineffective portion of designated cash flow derivative contracts and the forward points excluded for the purposes of cash flow hedging designation recognized in other income (expense) (in thousands):

	Three months ended
	March 31, 2013			April 1, 2012
Foreign exchange contracts	$	(307	)	$	(4,447	)

Effect of Non-Designated Derivative Contracts on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. The effect of non-designated derivative contracts on the Company’s results of operations recognized in other income (expense) was as follows (in thousands):

	Three months ended
	March 31, 2013			April 1, 2012
Gain on foreign exchange contracts including forward point income	$	9,659		$	4,962
Loss from revaluation of foreign currency exposures hedged by foreign exchange contracts	(11,383		)	(4,211		)