Concentrations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 28, 2019

5. Concentrations

Credit Risk and Significant Customers

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist of cash equivalents, short- and long-term investments, restricted cash, and accounts receivable. Intevac generally invests its excess cash in money market funds, certificates of deposit, commercial paper, obligations of the U.S. government and its agencies, corporate debt securities, asset backed securities and municipal bonds. The Company has adopted an investment policy and established guidelines relating to credit quality, diversification and maturities of its investments in order to preserve principal and maintain liquidity. All investment securities in Intevac’s portfolio have an investment grade credit rating.

Intevac’s accounts receivable tend to be concentrated in a limited number of customers. The following customers accounted for at least 10 percent of Intevac’s accounts receivable at December 28, 2019 and December 29, 2018.


	2019			2018
Seagate Technology		60	%		45	%
U.S. Government		25	%		*
HGST		*			25	%

*	Less than 10%

Intevac’s largest customers tend to change from period to period. Historically, a significant portion of Intevac’s revenues in any particular period have been attributable to sales to a limited number of customers. Intevac performs credit evaluations of its customers’ financial condition and generally requires deposits on system orders but does not generally require collateral or other security to support customer receivables.

The following customers accounted for at least 10 percent of Intevac’s consolidated net revenues in fiscal 2019 and/or 2018.


	2019			2018
Seagate Technology		49	%		52	%
U.S. Government		20	%		*
Jolywood (Hongkong) Industrial Holdings Co., Limited		14	%		*
HGST		*			13	%

*	Less than 10%

Products

Disk manufacturing products contributed a significant portion of Intevac’s revenues in fiscal 2019 and 2018. Intevac expects that the ability to maintain or expand its current levels of revenues in the future will depend upon continuing market demand for its products; its success in enhancing its existing systems and developing and manufacturing competitive disk manufacturing equipment, such as the 200 Lean; its success in utilizing Intevac’s expertise in complex manufacturing equipment to develop and sell new manufacturing equipment products for PV, DCP and advanced semiconductor packaging and Intevac’s success in developing military products based on its

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