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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 10-Q
     
þ   QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended October 31, 2006
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: 0-29939
 
OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
  77-0401990
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
1341 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, California 94089-1136
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (408) 542-3000
 
     Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for 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 whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer þ      Accelerated filer o       Non-accelerated filer o
     Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934). Yes o No þ
     At December 6, 2006, 54,858,247 shares of common stock of the Registrant were outstanding, exclusive of 5,870,000 shares of treasury stock.
 
 

 


 

OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
INDEX
             
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 
           
  Financial Statements:        
 
           
 
  Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited) — October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006     3  
 
           
 
  Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited) — Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005     4  
 
           
 
  Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) — Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005     5  
 
           
 
  Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)     6  
 
           
  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations     27  
 
           
  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk     46  
 
           
  Controls and Procedures     47  
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
 
           
  Legal Proceedings     48  
 
           
  Risk Factors     49  
 
           
  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds     63  
 
           
  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders     64  
 
           
  Exhibits     64  
 
           
Signatures     65  
 
           
Exhibit Index     66  
 EXHIBIT 10.13
 EXHIBIT 31.1
 EXHIBIT 31.2
 EXHIBIT 32

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PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(unaudited)
                 
    October 31,     April 30,  
    2006     2006  
ASSETS
               
Current assets:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 207,035     $ 240,227  
Short-term investments
    142,941       114,278  
Accounts receivable, net
    75,288       65,916  
Inventories
    103,693       54,973  
Refundable and deferred income taxes
    1,689       1,708  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    10,779       9,158  
Recoverable insurance proceeds
    13,000        
 
           
Total current assets
    554,425       486,260  
 
               
Property, plant and equipment, net
    83,921       38,010  
Long-term investments
    20,301       18,673  
Goodwill
    7,541       4,892  
Intangibles, net
    25,540       26,245  
Other non-current assets
    4,023       3,189  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 695,751     $ 577,269  
 
           
 
               
LIABILITIES, MINORITY INTEREST AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
               
 
               
Current liabilities:
               
Accounts payable
  $ 78,076     $ 42,770  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
    23,179       21,351  
Litigation settlement accrual
    13,820        
Accrued income taxes payable
    63,939       52,406  
Deferred income
    6,849       6,329  
Current portion of capital lease obligations
    141       152  
 
           
Total current liabilities
    186,004       123,008  
 
           
 
               
Long-term liabilities:
               
Capital lease obligations, less current portion
    208       308  
Deferred tax liabilities
    3,071       4,033  
 
           
Total long-term liabilities
    3,279       4,341  
 
           
Total liabilities
    189,283       127,349  
 
           
 
               
Commitments and contingencies (Note 15)
               
 
               
Minority interest
    35,227       27,113  
 
               
Stockholders’ equity:
               
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 100,000 shares authorized; 60,552 issued and 54,682 outstanding at October 31, 2006 and 59,744 shares issued and 53,874 outstanding at April 30, 2006, respectively
    61       60  
Additional paid-in capital
    311,890       285,112  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    1,451       1,092  
Treasury stock, 5,870 shares at October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006
    (79,568 )     (79,568 )
Retained earnings
    237,407       216,111  
 
           
Total stockholders’ equity
    471,241       422,807  
 
           
Total liabilities, minority interest and stockholders’ equity
  $ 695,751     $ 577,269  
 
           
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited).

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OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(unaudited)
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    October 31,     October 31,  
    2006     2005     2006     2005  
Revenues
  $ 137,656     $ 126,820     $ 274,531     $ 222,814  
Cost of revenues
    92,101       80,997       179,256       145,062  
 
                       
Gross profit
    45,555       45,823       95,275       77,752  
 
                       
 
                               
Operating expenses:
                               
Research, development and related
    18,657       9,935       35,499       18,412  
Selling, general and administrative
    15,774       9,059       28,225       15,837  
Litigation settlement
    3,300             3,300        
 
                       
Total operating expenses
    37,731       18,994       67,024       34,249  
 
                       
 
                               
Income from operations
    7,824       26,829       28,251       43,503  
Interest income, net
    3,366       2,094       6,769       4,053  
Other income, net
    669       36       1,646       59  
 
                       
Income before income taxes and minority interest
    11,859       28,959       36,666       47,615  
Provision for income taxes
    3,907       5,791       10,531       9,523  
Minority interest
    2,537       571       4,839       1,113  
 
                       
Net income
  $ 5,415     $ 22,597     $ 21,296     $ 36,979  
 
                       
 
                               
Net income per share:
                               
Basic
  $ 0.10     $ 0.42     $ 0.39     $ 0.67  
 
                       
Diluted
  $ 0.10     $ 0.41     $ 0.38     $ 0.65  
 
                       
 
                               
Shares used in computing net income per share:
                               
Basic
    54,620       53,807       54,511       55,493  
 
                       
Diluted
    55,624       55,486       55,689       57,193  
 
                       
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited).

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OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    October 31,  
    2006     2005  
Cash flows from operating activities:
               
Net income
  $ 21,296     $ 36,979  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
               
Depreciation and amortization
    7,822       4,712  
Stock-based compensation
    15,277       2  
Affiliate’s stock grants
    179        
Tax benefits from stock option exercises
          955  
Minority interest in net income of consolidated affiliates
    4,839       1,113  
Equity investments (gain) loss, net
    (1,628 )     125  
Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment
    7        
Changes in assets and liabilities:
               
Accounts receivable, net
    (9,384 )     (13,679 )
Inventories
    (48,819 )     (12,823 )
Refundable and deferred income taxes
          54  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    (17,653 )     (2,170 )
Accounts payable
    35,349       20,717  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
    14,702       (392 )
Accrued income taxes payable
    11,535       9,179  
Deferred income
    520       2,789  
Deferred tax liabilities
    (962 )     (955 )
 
           
Net cash provided by operating activities
    33,080       46,606  
 
           
Cash flows from investing activities:
               
Purchases of short-term investments
    (125,672 )     (122,054 )
Proceeds from sales or maturities of short-term investments
    96,800       121,375  
Purchases of property, plant and equipment, net of sales
    (49,143 )     (984 )
Proceeds from consolidation of VisEra, net of cash payments
          13,792  
Purchases of long-term investments
          (11,847 )
Purchases of intangible assets
    (548 )      
 
           
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
    (78,563 )     282  
 
           
Cash flows from financing activities:
               
Proceeds from short-term borrowings of consolidated affiliate
          3,981  
Repayment of short-term borrowings of consolidated affiliate
          (3,038 )
Payment of capital lease obligations
    (74 )      
Cash contribution by minority shareholder
    4,290        
Affiliate cash dividend paid to minority shareholder
    (245 )      
Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan
    8,345       2,267  
Payment for repurchases of common stock
          (79,568 )
 
           
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
    12,316       (76,358 )
 
           
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
    (25 )     263  
 
           
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
    (33,192 )     (29,207 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    240,227       170,457  
 
           
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 207,035     $ 141,250  
 
           
Supplemental cash flow information:
               
Income taxes paid
  $ 1,764     $ 228  
 
           
Interest paid
  $ 13     $  
 
           
Supplemental schedule of non-cash investing and financing activities:
               
Capital equipment financing obligations
  $ 554     $  
 
           
Affiliate shares issued to affiliate employees
  $ 459     $  
 
           
Change-of-interest benefit from minority shareholder cash contribution
  $ 1,229     $  
 
           
Issuance of escrow shares to CDM selling stockholders
  $ 34     $  
 
           
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited).

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OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
Note 1 — Basis of Presentation
     Overview
          The accompanying interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006 and for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 have been prepared by OmniVision Technologies, Inc., and its subsidiaries (“OmniVision” or the “Company”) in accordance with the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The amounts as of April 30, 2006 are derived from the Company’s annual audited financial statements. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles have been condensed or omitted in accordance with such rules and regulations. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary to state fairly the financial position of the Company and its results of operations and cash flows as of and for the periods presented. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the annual audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2006 (the “Form 10-K”).
          The results of operations for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the fiscal year ending April 30, 2007 or any other future period.
     Use of Estimates
          The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company bases its estimates and judgments on its historical experience, knowledge of current conditions and beliefs of what could occur in the future considering available information. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
     Reclassifications
          In this report, the Company has revised the classification of certain previously reported amounts to conform to the current period presentation. The Company revised the classification of certain variable rate demand notes from cash and cash equivalents to short-term investments as of January 31, 2006 and for all prior periods. These revisions had no impact on the results of operations of the Company. The following table summarizes the balances as previously reported and as revised (in thousands):
                                 
    Cash and   Short-term
    Cash Equivalents   Investments
    As Reported   Revised   As Reported   Revised
October 31, 2005
  $ 172,365     $ 141,250     $ 93,711     $ 124,826  
          The Company’s revision of the classification of variable rate demand notes affects the following line items in the Statement of Cash Flows for the six months ended October 31, 2005 (in thousands):
                 
    Cash Flows Activity
    As Reported   As Revised
Purchases of short-term investments
  $ (48,164 )   $ (122,054 )
Proceeds from sales or maturities of short-term investments
    45,000       121,375  
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
    (31,692 )     (29,207 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    204,057       170,457  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 172,365     $ 141,250  

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OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
     Principles of Consolidation
          The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries and its consolidated affiliates. All significant inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated.
     Revenue Recognition
          For shipments to customers without agreements that allow for returns or credits, principally original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) and value added resellers (“VARs”), the Company recognizes revenue using the “sell-in” method. Under this method, the Company recognizes revenue upon the shipment of products to the customer provided that the Company has received a signed purchase order, the price is fixed or determinable, title and risk of loss has transferred to the customer, collection of resulting receivables is considered reasonably assured, product returns are reasonably estimable, there are no customer acceptance requirements and there are no remaining material obligations. At the time revenue is recognized, the Company provides for future returns of potentially defective product based on historical experience.
          For shipments to distributors under agreements allowing for returns or credits, the Company recognizes revenue using the “sell-through” method under which the Company defers revenue until the distributor resells the product to the Company’s end-user customer and the Company is notified in writing by the distributor of such sale. The amount billed to these distributors less the cost of inventory shipped to but not yet sold by the distributors is shown net on the consolidated balance sheets as deferred income.
          In addition, the Company recognizes revenue from the performance of services to a limited number of customers by its wholly-owned subsidiary, CDM, and by its consolidated affiliate, VisEra Technologies Company, Ltd. (“VisEra”). The Company recognizes the CDM-associated revenue under fixed-price, milestone-based and cost-plus contract arrangements. The Company recognizes CDM-associated revenue each month based upon the proportional performance of the contract as hours are incurred relative to the total estimated hours. CDM-associated revenue has not been material in any of the periods presented. For production services, the Company recognizes revenue when the production services are complete and the product has been shipped to the customer.
     Foreign Currency Translation
          The functional currencies of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries are the local currencies with the exception of the Company’s subsidiaries located in Hong Kong, OmniVision Technologies (Hong Kong) Company Limited and OmniVision Trading (Hong Kong) Company Ltd., and in the Cayman Islands, OmniVision International Holding, Ltd., for which the functional currency is the U.S. dollar. Effective May 1, 2006, the functional currency of one of the Company’s consolidated affiliates, VisEra, also became the U.S. dollar. The change was made necessary by a significant increase in U.S. dollar-based transactions after VisEra’s entry into the color-filter business. The functional currency of Silicon Optronics, Inc., (“SOI”), the other consolidated affiliate of the Company, remains the New Taiwan dollar. Transaction gains and losses resulting from transactions denominated in currencies other than the respective functional currencies are included in “Other income, net” for the periods presented.
          For subsidiaries with local currencies as the functional currencies, the assets and liabilities of the subsidiaries are translated at the rates of exchange on the balance sheet date. Revenue and expense items are translated at the average rate of exchange for the period. Unrealized gains and losses from foreign currency translation are included in “Accumulated other comprehensive income,” a component of stockholders’ equity. For subsidiaries or consolidated affiliates with U.S. dollar functional currencies, non-monetary assets are remeasured into U.S. dollars with historical rates of exchange. Remeasurement gains and losses are included in “Other income, net” and have not been material for all periods presented.

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OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
     Cash and Cash Equivalents
          The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with a maturity at the date of purchase of three months or less to be cash equivalents. Cash equivalents consist principally of commercial paper, government bonds, certificates of deposit and money market funds that are stated at cost, which approximates fair value.
          The Company is exposed to credit risk in the event of default by the financial institutions or the issuers of these instruments to the extent that amounts on deposit represent cash balances in excess of amounts that are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
     Inventories
          Inventories are stated at the lower of cost, determined on first-in, first-out (“FIFO”) basis, or market.
          The Company records allowances to reduce the carrying value of inventories to their net realizable value when the Company believes that the net realizable value is less than cost. The Company also records allowances for the cost of inventories when the number of units on hand exceeds the number of units that the Company forecasts will be sold over a certain period of time, generally 12 months.
     Stock-Based Compensation
          Effective May 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment,” (“SFAS No. 123(R)”) which requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options and employee stock purchases under the 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2000 Purchase Plan”), to be recognized in the financial statements based on their respective grant date fair values. SFAS No. 123(R) supersedes Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees” (“APB 25”) and related interpretations and eliminates the pro forma disclosures of SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” (“SFAS No. 123”). In March 2005, the SEC issued SAB No. 107, Share-Based Payment (“SAB 107”), which provides guidance regarding the interaction of SFAS No. 123(R) and certain SEC rules and regulations. The Company has applied the provisions of SAB 107 in its adoption of SFAS No. 123(R).
          The Company adopted SFAS No. 123(R) using the modified prospective method. The Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 reflect the impact of adopting SFAS No. 123(R). In accordance with the modified prospective method, the consolidated financial statements for prior periods have not been restated to reflect, and do not include, the impact of SFAS No. 123(R). See Note 12.
          Under SFAS No. 123(R), stock-based compensation is measured at the grant date, based on the fair value of the award using the Black-Scholes option pricing model (“Black-Scholes”), and is recognized as expense over the requisite service period of the award. The Company has chosen to recognize stock-based compensation expense using the straight-line attribution method. Black-Scholes requires the use of highly subjective, complex assumptions, including the expected term and the price volatility of the Company’s stock. SFAS No. 123(R) also requires forfeiture rates to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from initial estimates. Stock-based compensation expense was recorded net of estimated forfeitures for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 such that expense was recorded only for those stock-based awards that are expected to vest. Previously under APB 25 to the extent awards were forfeited prior to vesting, the corresponding previously recognized expense was reversed in the period of forfeiture.
          In November 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB Staff Position (“FSP”) No. FAS123(R)-3, “Transition Election Related to Accounting for Tax Effects of Share-based Payment Awards” (“FSP 123(R)-3”). FSP 123(R)-3 provides an alternative transition method of accounting for the tax effects of adopting SFAS No. 123(R). This FSP grants one year from the later of the date of the FSP or the adoption of SFAS

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OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
No. 123(R) to the Company for determination of the one-time election for purposes of transition. As of October 31, 2006, the Company had not yet chosen a transition method to establish the beginning balance of the additional paid-in capital pool (“APIC Pool”) related to the tax effects of employee stock-based awards granted prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R).
          Prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), the Company accounted for stock-based employee compensation arrangements using the intrinsic value method in accordance with the provisions of APB 25, and complied with the disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 123. Under APB 25, compensation cost was recognized based on the difference on the date of grant, if any, between the fair value of the Company’s stock and the amount an employee was required to pay to acquire the stock. In accordance with SFAS No. 123, the Company provided pro forma information to illustrate the effect on net income and earnings per share as if the Company had applied the fair value recognition provisions of SFAS No. 123 to stock-based employee compensation. In the pro forma presentation, we recognized stock-based compensation expense under the accelerated method, as specified in FASB Interpretation No. 28, “Accounting for Stock Appreciation Rights and Other Variable Stock Option or Award Plans.”
     Comprehensive Income (Loss)
          Comprehensive income (loss) is defined as the change in the equity of a company during a period from transactions and other events and circumstances excluding transactions resulting from investments by owners and distributions to owners. Comprehensive income for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 was $5.6 million and $21.7 million, respectively, and included net income, unrealized gains (losses) from available-for-sale securities and translation gains (losses) from foreign subsidiaries. Comprehensive income for the three and six months ended October 31, 2005 was $21.9 million and $36.5 million, respectively.
     Recent Accounting Pronouncements
          In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ratified the consensus reached on Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) Issue No. 06-03, “How Sales Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities Should Be Presented in the Income Statement (That is, Gross Versus Net Presentation).” The EITF reached a consensus that the presentation of taxes on either a gross or a net basis is an accounting policy decision that requires disclosure. EITF 06-3 is effective for the first interim or annual reporting period beginning after December 15, 2006. The Company does not believe that the application of EITF 06-3 will have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
          In June 2006, the FASB issued FASB interpretation No. 48 (FIN No. 48) “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—an Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109.” FIN No. 48 requires that the Company recognize in the consolidated financial statements the impact of a tax position that is more likely than not to be sustained upon examination based on the technical merits of the position. The evaluation of a tax position in accordance with this interpretation is a two-step process. In the first step, recognition, the Company determines whether it is more-likely-than-not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The second step addresses measurement of a tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not criterion. The tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that has a greater than 50 percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Tax positions that previously failed to meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold will be recognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is met. Previously recognized tax positions that no longer meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold will be de-recognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is no longer met. FIN No. 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. The differences between the amounts recognized in the consolidated financial statements prior to the adoption of FIN No. 48 and the amounts reported after adoption will be accounted for as a cumulative-effect adjustment recorded to the beginning balance of retained earnings. The Company is currently evaluating the impact FIN No. 48 will have on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of income.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
          In September 2006, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements’’ (“SFAS No. 157”), which defines fair value, establishes guidelines for measuring fair value and expands the requisite disclosures for fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 does not require any new fair value measurements but rather establishes a common definition of fair value to be used throughout generally accepted accounting principles. SFAS No. 157 is effective in fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and is required to be adopted by the Company in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting SFAS No. 157 on its consolidated results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
          In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 108, “Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements,” (“SAB No. 108”), which provides interpretative guidance on how the effects of the carryover or reversal of prior year misstatements should be considered in quantifying a current year misstatement. Pursuant to SAB No. 108, registrants are required to quantify errors using both a balance sheet and an income statement approach and evaluate whether either approach results in quantifying a misstatement that, when all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors are considered, is material. The Company does not believe that the application of SAB No. 108 will have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Note 3 — Short-Term Investments
     Available-for-sale securities at October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006 were as follows (in thousands):
                                 
    As of October 31, 2006  
          Gross     Gross        
    Amortized     Unrealized     Unrealized     Fair  
    Cost     Gain     Loss     Value  
Certificates of deposit
  $ 4,540     $     $     $ 4,540  
Municipal bonds and notes
    118,451       10       (14 )     118,447  
Commercial paper and bond funds
    19,950       4             19,954  
 
                       
 
  $ 142,941     $ 14     $ (14 )   $ 142,941  
 
                       
 
                               
Contractual maturity dates, less than one year
                          $ 107,877  
Contractual maturity dates, one year to two years
                            19,721  
Contractual maturity dates, two years to 35 years(1)
                            15,343  
 
                             
 
                          $ 142,941  
 
                             
                                 
    As of April 30, 2006  
          Gross     Gross        
    Amortized     Unrealized     Unrealized     Fair  
    Cost     Gain     Loss     Value  
Municipal bonds and notes
  $ 95,445             (39 )   $ 95,406  
Commercial paper
    18,900             (28 )     18,872  
 
                       
 
  $ 114,345     $     $ (67 )   $ 114,278  
 
                       
 
                               
Contractual maturity dates, less than one year
                          $ 36,648  
Contractual maturity dates, one year to 34 years(1)
                            77,630  
 
                             
 
                          $ 114,278  
 
                             
 
(1)   Represents auction rate securities, which have a maturity date of up to 30 years with the interest rate being reset principally up to every 35 days and variable rate demand notes, which have a final maturity date of up to 35 years but whose interest rate is reset at varying intervals typically between one and seven days.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
Note 4 — Balance Sheet Accounts (in thousands)
                 
    October 31,     April 30,  
    2006     2006  
Cash and cash equivalents:
               
Cash
  $ 10,509     $ 8,597  
Money market funds and certificates of deposit
    123,294       197,030  
Commercial paper and government bonds
    73,232       34,600  
 
           
 
  $ 207,035     $ 240,227  
 
           
 
               
Accounts receivable, net:
               
Accounts receivable
  $ 82,146     $ 73,412  
Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts
    (1,028 )     (1,067 )
Allowance for sales returns
    (5,830 )     (6,429 )
 
           
 
  $ 75,288     $ 65,916  
 
           
 
               
Inventories:
               
Work in progress
  $ 68,772     $ 34,310  
Finished goods
    34,921       20,663  
 
           
 
  $ 103,693     $ 54,973  
 
           
 
               
Prepaid expenses and other current assets:
               
Prepaid expenses
  $ 3,489     $ 2,758  
Deposits and other
    5,518       4,556  
Interest receivable
    1,772       1,844  
 
           
 
  $ 10,779     $ 9,158  
 
           
 
               
Property, plant and equipment, net:
               
Buildings and land use right
  $ 7,368     $ 7,163  
Buildings/leasehold improvements
    3,235       2,702  
Machinery and equipment
    46,095       34,185  
Furniture and fixtures
    765       713  
Software
    2,649       2,280  
Construction in progress
    40,444       3,248  
 
           
 
    100,556       50,291  
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization
    (16,635 )     (12,281 )
 
           
 
  $ 83,921     $ 38,010  
 
           
 
               
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities:
               
Employee compensation
  $ 7,345     $ 5,301  
Third party commissions
    1,501       1,876  
Acquisition costs
          2,095  
Professional services
    1,862       2,494  
Noncancelable purchase commitments
    2,169       2,627  
Pricing adjustments
    6,935       3,968  
Other
    3,367       2,990  
 
           
 
  $ 23,179     $ 21,351  
 
           

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
Note 5 — Long-term Investments
     Long-term investments as of October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006 consisted of the following (in thousands):
                 
    October 31,     April 30,  
    2006     2006  
ImPac
  $ 2,477     $ 2,130  
XinTec
    17,824       16,543  
 
           
Total
  $ 20,301     $ 18,673  
 
           
     ImPac Technology Co., Ltd.
          In June 2003, in order to enhance its access to plastic and ceramic packaging services that were in short supply, the Company purchased approximately 27% of the common stock of ImPac Technology Co., Ltd. (“ImPac”), a privately-held company based in Taiwan for a total of $2.0 million in cash. In December 2003, the Company made an additional cash contribution of approximately $0.8 million to maintain its equity ownership percentage in ImPac. Unrelated third parties own the balance of ImPac’s equity. During fiscal 2004, the Company’s equity interest declined to approximately 23% due to additional rounds of financing obtained by ImPac in which the Company did not participate. The Company’s purchases from ImPac are at arm’s length and the Company accounts for this investment using the equity method. The Company recorded equity income of $224,000 and $347,000, respectively, in “Other income, net”, as its portion of the net income in the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 recorded by ImPac. The Company recorded equity income of $68,000 and $50,000, respectively, in “Other income, net”, as its portion of the net income in the three and six months ended October 31, 2005 recorded by ImPac. See Note 16.
     XinTec, Inc.
          In October 2005, pursuant to the terms of the Amended VisEra Agreement (as defined below), VisEra Holding Company (“VisEra Cayman”) completed the acquisition from existing shareholders of shares of XinTec, Inc. (“XinTec”) representing approximately 29.6% of the issued and outstanding shares of XinTec, a Taiwan-based supplier of chip-scale packaging services, in which the Company already held an approximate eight percent interest. The Company accounts for its investment in XinTec under the equity method. For the three and six months ended October 31, 2006, the Company recorded equity income of $0.5 million and $1.3 million, respectively, in “Other income, net.” Prior to the three months ended July 31, 2005, the Company recorded its investment in XinTec under the cost method. For the three and six months ended October 31, 2005, the Company recorded an equity loss of $216,000 in “Other income, net.” The Company’s purchases of services from XinTec are at arm’s length.
          On August 31, 2006, the Company entered into an Equipment Procurement Agreement (the “Equipment Agreement”) with XinTec. Under the terms of the Equipment Agreement, XinTec has agreed to provide wafer level packaging services to the Company on the terms and conditions of a manufacturing agreement to be negotiated between the parties. The Company has agreed to procure, through XinTec, up to $50 million of certain equipment to be located at XinTec’s facilities for the sole purpose of providing such wafer level packaging services to the Company. In addition, XinTec has agreed to dedicate capacity to fulfill the Company’s future orders.
          In the three months ended October 31, 2006, the Company remitted to XinTec approximately $24.9 million pursuant to the Equipment Agreement. The Company expects that the program as a whole will be complete by the middle of calendar year 2007. The first equipment was installed in November 2006. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company takes title to the equipment as soon as practicable following installation of the equipment at XinTec’s fabrication facilities. See Note 17.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
Note 6 — Consolidated Affiliates
     Silicon Optronics, Inc.
          In May 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (“PSC”) to establish a joint venture in Taiwan. The purpose of the joint venture, which is called SOI, is to conduct manufacturing, marketing and selling of certain of the Company’s legacy products. The Company contributed approximately $2.1 million to SOI in exchange for an ownership percentage of approximately 49%. In March 2005, the Company assumed control of the board of directors of SOI and the Company has consolidated SOI since April 30, 2005.
          In July 2006, SOI declared a cash dividend of $482,000, of which $245,000 was payable to minority shareholders. SOI also issued shares to its employees with an estimated fair value of $459,000. The cash dividend was paid in August 2006. As a result of the issuance of shares by SOI to its employees, the Company’s ownership percentage declined from 49% to approximately 47%.
          In August 2006, SOI filed its application to become a public company with the Taiwan Securities and Futures Bureau (“TSFB”). In September, the TSFB accepted the application. SOI also plans to apply for a listing on the Taiwan Emerging Market (“TEM”) in 2007. In Taiwan, obtaining acceptance to become a public company and being listed on the TEM are mandatory steps prior to an initial public offering (“IPO”). The timing of the commencement of SOI’s IPO application will depend on its business outlook. The due diligence process will follow and is anticipated to take approximately six months after SOI files its application for a listing on the Taiwan GreTai Securities Market (“TGSM”), which is the approximate equivalent in Taiwan of the Over-The-Counter market in the United States. SOI will complete the IPO process by applying for listing on the TGSM.
     VisEra Technologies Company, Ltd.
          In August 2005, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Shareholders’ Agreement (the “Amended VisEra Agreement”) with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (“TSMC”), VisEra, and VisEra Cayman. The Amended VisEra Agreement amended and restated the original Shareholders’ Agreement that the parties entered into on October 29, 2003, pursuant to which the Company and TSMC agreed to form VisEra, a joint venture in Taiwan, for the purposes of providing manufacturing services and automated final testing services related to complementary metal oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, image sensors. In November 2003, pursuant to the terms of the original Shareholders’ Agreement, the Company contributed $1.5 million in cash to VisEra and granted a non-exclusive license to certain of its manufacturing and automated final testing technologies and patents. In order to provide greater financial and fiscal flexibility to VisEra, in connection with the Amended VisEra Agreement, the parties formed VisEra Cayman, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and VisEra became a subsidiary of VisEra Cayman.
          Under the terms of the Amended VisEra Agreement, the parties reaffirmed their respective commitments to VisEra, and expanded the scope of and made certain modifications to the original Shareholders’ Agreement. In particular, the parties agreed to raise the total capital committed to the joint venture from $50.0 million to $68.0 million, which commitments may be met or discharged in the form of cash or asset contributions. The Company and TSMC have equal interests in VisEra Cayman. Through October 31, 2006, the Company has contributed $18.5 million to VisEra and VisEra Cayman. A minimum of an additional $6.1 million in cash or asset contributions will be made by the Company and TSMC, with the remaining $10.7 million to be made by additional investors, additional contributions by the Company and TSMC, or a combination thereof, provided that the Company and TSMC have and will maintain equal interests in VisEra Cayman. At a future date yet to be determined, the Company expects to contribute certain of its assets to the joint venture, including technology and plant and equipment currently owned by it or to be purchased with funds for existing commercial commitments. To the extent, if any, that the value of the assets contributed by the Company exceeds the balance of the Company’s commitment, the Company will receive cash from VisEra Cayman. See Note 17.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
          As a result of the additional investment that the Company and TSMC made in VisEra during the quarter ended October 31, 2005, the Company’s and TSMC’s interest each increased from 25% to 43%, and consequently the Company re-evaluated its accounting for VisEra in accordance with FASB Interpretation No. 46, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities” (“FIN 46”). The Company concluded that, as a result of its step acquisition of VisEra, and because substantially all of the activities of VisEra either involve or are conducted on behalf of the Company, VisEra is a variable interest entity. Since the Company is the source of virtually all of VisEra’s revenues, the Company has a decisive influence over VisEra’s profitability. Accordingly, the Company considers itself to be the primary beneficiary of VisEra, and includes VisEra’s financial results in its consolidated financial statements. In the quarter ended January 2006, the Company increased its interest in VisEra from 43% to 46% through purchases of unissued shares.
          All other material terms of the original Shareholders’ Agreement remain in effect. See Note 15.
          In January 2006, in accordance with the Amended VisEra Agreement, VisEra purchased color filter processing equipment and related assets from TSMC for an aggregate price equivalent to $16.9 million. In connection with the purchase, VisEra entered into a three-year lease agreement with TSMC. Under this agreement, VisEra leases from TSMC approximately 14,000 square feet of factory and office space where the assets are located at an annual cost of approximately $2.4 million.
          In May 2006, VisEra Cayman purchased certain equipment and intellectual property from Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., or Dai Nippon, for approximately $3.1 million. Dai Nippon also made an investment in VisEra Cayman of approximately $4.3 million, representing an approximate 3.6% interest in the common stock of VisEra Cayman. Because the per share value of the Dai Nippon investment exceeded the Company’s average per share carrying value in VisEra Cayman, the Company recorded a one-time change-of-interest benefit of $1.2 million directly to “Additional paid-in capital,” a component of stockholders’ equity.
          In August 2006, VisEra submitted a proposal to the Company to increase its manufacturing capacity. In its present form, the proposal will require TSMC and the Company to each make an additional investment totaling up to approximately $50.0 million. The Company’s board of directors approved the first phase of the proposal, which will require an additional investment of approximately $27.0 million in VisEra Cayman. TSMC, the Company’s joint venture partner, also invested an equal amount in the joint venture. This investment is part of an ongoing capacity expansion plan at VisEra.
     Note 7 — Intangible Assets and Goodwill
     Intangible assets as of October 31, 2006 consist of the following (in thousands):
                         
            Accumulated        
    Cost     Amortization     Net Book Value  
Core technology
  $ 17,800     $ 5,340     $ 12,460  
Patents and licenses
    13,460       3,174       10,286  
Other intangible assets
    2,073       309       1,764  
Trademarks and tradenames
    1,400       420       980  
Customer relationships
    100       50       50  
 
                 
Intangible assets, net
  $ 34,833     $ 9,293     $ 25,540  
 
                 

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
          Intangible assets as of April 30, 2006 consist of the following (in thousands):
                         
            Accumulated        
    Cost     Amortization     Net Book Value  
Core technology
  $ 17,800     $ 3,560     $ 14,240  
Patents and licenses
    11,260       1,865       9,395  
Other intangible assets
    1,525       102       1,423  
Trademarks and tradenames
    1,400       280       1,120  
Customer relationships
    100       33       67  
 
                 
Intangible assets, net
  $ 32,085     $ 5,840     $ 26,245  
 
                 
          During the three and six months ended October 31, 2006, the Company recorded $1.8 million and $3.5 million, respectively, in total amortization expense of intangible assets. During the three and six months ended October 31, 2005, the Company recorded $1.5 million and $2.8 million, respectively, in total amortization expense of intangible assets. The total expected future amortization of these intangible assets is as follows (in thousands):
         
Years Ending April 30,        
2007
  $ 3,490  
2008
    6,980  
2009
    6,947  
2010
    6,800  
2011
    1,286  
Thereafter
    37  
 
     
Total
  $ 25,540  
 
     
          The following table shows the activity recorded to “Goodwill” for the six months ended October 31, 2006 (in thousands):
         
    Goodwill  
Balance at April 30, 2006
  $ 4,892  
Increase in goodwill associated with CDM acquisition in fiscal 2005 (1)
    2,649  
 
     
Balance at October 31, 2006
  $ 7,541  
 
     
 
(1)   In the three months ended October 31, 2006, the Company increased “Goodwill” related to its acquisition of CDM by $2.6 million. The increase was partially related to a put option that expired during the current quarter with respect to the remaining CDM escrow shares. The escrow shares were puttable back to the Company at a premium and 145,000 shares were put to the Company for cash totaling $2.8 million. Additionally, the value of the initial shares that were issued in April 2005 as part of the CDM acquisition was also increased due to a put option that expired unexercised subsequent to their original issuance. Both amounts should have been recorded as part of the initial acquisition of CDM.
Note 8 — Credit Facilities of Consolidated Affiliates
          VisEra maintains three unsecured lines of credit with three financial institutions, which provide a total of approximately $11.0 million in available credit. All borrowings under the three lines of credit maintained by VisEra bear interest at the market interest rate prevailing at the time of borrowing. SOI maintains four unsecured lines of credit with three commercial banks, which provide a total of approximately $3.4 million in available credit. All borrowings under the four lines of credit maintained by SOI bear interest at the market interest rate prevailing at the time of borrowing. There are no financial covenant requirements associated with these facilities and at October 31, 2006, and April 30, 2006, there were no borrowings.
Note 9 — Capital Lease Obligations
          In February 2006, the Company leased telecommunications equipment under a three-year capital lease at an imputed interest rate of 7.5% per annum. Terms of the agreement require the Company to make monthly payments

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
of approximately $14,000 through February 2009. Accordingly, the Company recorded a capital asset for $393,000 that is being depreciated over a five-year period in accordance with the Company’s capitalization policy. As of October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006, $349,000 and $460,000, respectively, were outstanding under the capital lease. As of October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006, $208,000 and $308,000, respectively, was classified as a long-term obligation.
Note 10 — Net Income Per Share
          Basic net income per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
          Diluted net income per share is computed according to the treasury stock method using the weighted average number of common and potentially dilutive common shares outstanding during the period. Potentially dilutive common shares represent the effect of stock options. For the three and six months ended October 31, 2006, 9,820,166 and 5,163,158 shares, respectively, of common stock subject to outstanding options were not included in the calculation of diluted net income per share because they were antidilutive (i.e., the per share exercise price for such options exceeded the average trading price of the Company’s common stock as reported on The Nasdaq Stock Market for the periods presented). For the three and six months ended October 31, 2005, 6,377,239 shares of common stock subject to outstanding options were not included in the calculation of diluted net income per share because they were antidilutive.
          The Company’s earnings per share were calculated under the provisions of SFAS No. 128, “Earnings Per Share,” or SFAS No. 128. SFAS No. 128 requires that the Company take into account the effect on consolidated earnings per share of options, warrants and convertible securities issued by its subsidiaries. The effect on consolidated earnings per share depends on whether the securities issued by the subsidiary enable their holders to obtain common stock of the subsidiary company or common stock of the parent company. Securities issued by a subsidiary that enable their holders to obtain the subsidiary’s common stock are included in computing the subsidiary’s earnings per share data. The diluted per-share earnings of the subsidiary are included in the Company’s consolidated earnings per share computations based on the consolidated group’s holding of the subsidiary’s securities. In February 2005, SOI issued to its employees options exercisable for 1,400,000 shares of its own common stock. In June 2006, SOI issued to its employees options exercisable for an additional 700,000 shares of its own stock. In the calculation of its earnings per share for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, the Company included the effect of SOI’s options in its consolidated earnings per share.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
          The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share attributable to common stockholders for the periods indicated (in thousands, except per share data):
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    October 31,     October 31,  
    2006     2005     2006     2005  
Basic:
                               
Numerator:
                               
Net income
  $ 5,415     $ 22,597     $ 21,296     $ 36,979  
 
                       
 
                               
Denominator:
                               
Weighted average common shares for net income per share
    54,620       53,807       54,511       55,493  
 
                       
 
                               
Basic net income per share
  $ 0.10     $ 0.42     $ 0.39     $ 0.67  
 
                       
 
                               
Diluted:
                               
Numerator:
                               
Net income
  $ 5,415     $ 22,597     $ 21,296     $ 36,979  
Dilutive effect of SOI consolidation
    (2 )     (9 )     (3 )     (20 )
 
                       
Net income for diluted computation
  $ 5,413     $ 22,588     $ 21,293     $ 36,959  
 
                       
 
                               
Denominator:
                               
Denominator for basic net income per share
    54,620       53,807       54,511       55,493  
Weighted average effect of common stock options
    1,004       1,679       1,178       1,700  
 
                       
Weighted average common shares for diluted net income per share
    55,624       55,486       55,689       57,193  
 
                       
 
                               
Diluted net income per share
  $ 0.10     $ 0.41     $ 0.38     $ 0.65  
 
                       
Note 11 — Segment and Geographic Information
          The Company identifies its operating segments based on business activities, management responsibility and geographic location. For all periods presented, the Company operated in a single reportable business segment.
          The Company sells its image-sensor products either directly to OEMs and VARs or indirectly through distributors. The following table shows the percentage of revenues from sales to OEMs and VARs and to distributors for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    October 31,     October 31,  
    2006     2005     2006     2005  
OEMs and VARs
    62.7 %     69.2 %     65.4 %     71.2 %
Distributors
    37.3       30.8       34.6       28.8  
 
                       
Total
    100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %
 
                       

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
          Since the Company’s end-user customers market and sell their products worldwide, the Company’s revenues by geographic location are not necessarily indicative of the geographic distribution of end-user sales, but rather indicate where the products and/or their components are manufactured or sourced. The revenues by geography in the following table are based on the country or region in which the Company’s customers issue purchase orders (in thousands):
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    October 31,     October 31,  
    2006     2005     2006     2005  
Hong Kong
  $ 51,984     $ 57,300     $ 102,066     $ 101,592  
China
    38,903       20,197       64,895       34,029  
Taiwan
    29,081       25,011       57,052       43,690  
South Korea
    7,287       11,476       21,528       17,188  
Japan
    4,855       11,203       17,943       22,430  
United States
    1,259       1,463       3,752       2,420  
All other
    4,287       170       7,295       1,465  
 
                       
Total
  $ 137,656     $ 126,820     $ 274,531     $ 222,814  
 
                       
          The Company’s long-lived assets are located in the following countries (in thousands):
                 
    October 31,     April 30,  
    2006     2006  
Taiwan
  $ 86,126     $ 40,637  
China
    16,962       17,146  
United States
    1,538       1,633  
All other
    504       456  
 
           
Total
  $ 105,130     $ 59,872  
 
           
Note 12 — Employee Stock Purchase and Stock Option Plans
     2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
          The 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2000 Purchase Plan”) was adopted by the board of directors in February 2000 and was approved by the shareholders in March 2000. The 2000 Purchase Plan became effective upon the closing of the Company’s initial public offering. Under the 2000 Purchase Plan, 3,000,000 shares of common stock were initially reserved for issuance together with an annual increase in the number of shares reserved thereunder beginning on the first day of the fiscal year commencing May 1, 2001 in an amount equal to the lesser of: 2,000,000 shares, or 4% of the Company’s outstanding common stock on the last day of the prior fiscal year, or an amount determined by the Company’s board of directors. The offering periods under this plan are the periods of approximately 24 months commencing on the first trading day on or after June 1 and December 1 of each year and terminating on the last trading day in the periods ending twenty-four months later. Depending on the fair market value of the common stock, the offer periods can be consecutive or overlapping. The purchase period under the 2000 Purchase Plan begins on the first trading day on or after June 1 and December 1 of each year and ends six months later. The purchase price of the common stock under this plan is 85% of the lesser of the fair market value per share on the first trading day of the offering period or on the last trading day of the purchase period. Employees may end their participation in an offering period at any time, and their participation ends automatically on termination of employment with the Company. The 2000 Purchase Plan will terminate in February 2010, unless the board of directors determines to terminate it sooner. As of October 31, 2006, 1,760,000 shares had been purchased under the 2000 Purchase Plan.
     1995 Stock Option Plan
          In May 1995, the Company adopted the 1995 Stock Option Plan under which 7,200,000 shares of common stock were reserved for issuance to eligible employees, directors and consultants upon exercise of the stock options

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
and stock purchase rights. Incentive stock options are granted at a price not less than 100% of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock and at a price of not less than 110% of the fair market value for grants to any person who owns more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock on the date of grant. Nonstatutory stock options are granted at a price not less than 85% of the fair market value of the common stock and at a price not less than 110% of the fair market value for grants to a person who owns more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock on the date of the grant. Options granted under the 1995 Stock Option Plan generally vest over five years and are exercisable immediately or for up to ten years (five years for grants to any person who owns more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock on the date of the grant).
          In February 2000, the Company terminated the 1995 Stock Option Plan as to future grants. However, options outstanding under the 1995 Stock Option Plan continue to be governed by the terms of the 1995 Stock Option Plan.
     2000 Stock Plan
          In February 2000, the Company adopted the 2000 Stock Plan under which 6,000,000 shares of common stock were initially reserved for issuance together with an annual increase in the number of shares reserved thereunder beginning on the first day of the Company’s fiscal year, commencing May 1, 2002, in an amount equal to the lesser of: 3,000,000 shares, or 6% of outstanding shares of common stock on the last day of the prior fiscal year, or an amount determined by the Company’s board of directors. The 2000 Stock Plan provides for grants of incentive stock options to its employees including officers and employees, directors and nonstatutory stock options to its consultants including nonemployee directors. Incentive stock options are granted at a price not less than 100% of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock and at a price not less than 110% of the fair market value for grants to any person who owns more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock on the date of grant. Nonstatutory stock options are granted at a price not less than 85% of the fair market value of the common stock and at a price not less than 110% of the fair market value for grants to a person who owns more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock on the date of the grant. Options granted under the 2000 Stock Plan have been at fair market value on the date of the grant and generally vest over four years and are exercisable up to ten years (five years for grants to any person who owned more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock on the date of the grant).
          Options to purchase 2,235,000 and 5,017,000 shares of common stock were granted to employees during the three and six months ended October 31, 2006, respectively, under the 2000 Stock Plan. Options to purchase 63,500 and 1,073,419 shares of common stock were granted to employees during the three and six months ended October 31, 2005, respectively, under the 2000 Stock Plan. As of October 31, 2006, options to purchase 12,796,000 shares of common stock were outstanding.
     2000 Director Option Plan
          The 2000 Director Option Plan was adopted by the board of directors in February 2000 and approved by the shareholders in March 2000. Under this plan 500,000 shares of common stock were initially reserved for issuance together with an annual increase in the number of shares reserved thereunder beginning on the first day of the Company’s fiscal year commencing May 1, 2002 equal to the lesser of 150,000 shares, or 0.25% of the outstanding shares of the common stock on the last day of the prior fiscal year, or an amount determined by the board of directors. The 2000 Director Option Plan provides for an initial grant to the nonemployee director to purchase 40,000 shares of common stock. Subsequent to the initial grants, each nonemployee director is granted an option to purchase 20,000 shares of common stock at the next meeting of the board of directors following the annual meeting of stockholders, if on the date of the annual meeting the director has served on the board of directors for no less than six months. The contractual term of options granted under the 2000 Director Option Plan is ten years, but the options expire three months following the termination of the optionee’s status as a director or twelve months if the termination is due to death or disability. The initial 40,000 share grants are exercisable at a rate of one-fourth of the shares on the first anniversary of the grant date and at a rate of 1/16th of the shares per quarter thereafter. The subsequent 20,000 share grants are exercisable at the rate of 1/16th of the shares per quarter. The exercise price of all of these options is 100% of the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
     Stock-Based Compensation Award Activity
          The following table summarizes stock-based compensation award activity under the 2000 Stock Plan and the 2000 Director Option Plan, and the related weighted average exercise price, for the six months ended October 31, 2006:
                         
            Options outstanding  
                    Weighted  
    Options             Average  
    Available     Number     Price  
    For Grant     of Shares     Per Share  
    (in     (in          
    thousands)     thousands)          
Balance at April 30, 2006
    3,041       8,963     $ 16.22  
Replenished
    3,135              
Granted
    (5,017 )     5,017       21.56  
Exercised
          (709 )     9.87  
Expired or forfeited
    475       (475 )     20.53  
 
                   
Balance at October 31, 2006
    1,634       12,796       18.50  
 
                   
Vested and expected to vest at October 31, 2006
            11,763     $ 18.24  
 
                   
          As of October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006, options to purchase 5,076,000 and 4,768,000 shares, respectively, were vested. Information regarding the options outstanding as of October 31, 2006 is summarized below:
                                                                 
    Options Outstanding     Options Exercisable  
            Weighted                             Weighted              
            Average     Weighted                     Average     Weighted        
            Remaining     Average     Aggregate     Options     Remaining     Average     Aggregate  
Range of Exercise   Options     Contractual     Exercise     Intrinsic     Vested and     Contractual     Exercise     Intrinsic  
Prices   Outstanding     Life     Price     Value     Exercisable     Life     Price     Value  
                            (in     (in                     (in  
    (in thousands)     (in years)             thousands)     thousands)     (in years)             thousands)  
$0.15–$12.14
    1,871       5.88     $ 7.21               1,546             $ 6.26          
$12.15–$16.40
    2,796       7.38       15.69               2,022               15.75          
$16.41–$18.77
    2,966       9.50       17.14               358               17.69          
$18.78–$25.40
    2,465       7.92       23.88               1,075               23.47          
$25.41–$30.05
    2,698       9.51       25.84               75               27.72          
 
                                                           
$0.15–$30.05
    12,796       8.20     $ 18.50     $ 19,262       5,076       6.92     $ 14.81     $ 17,067  
 
                                               
          The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the total pretax intrinsic value (the aggregate difference between the closing stock price of the Company’s common stock on October 31, 2006 of $16.42 and the exercise price of in-the-money options) that would have been received by the option holders had all option holders exercised their options as of that date. The total number of shares of common stock underlying in-the-money options exercisable as of October 31, 2006 was 3,568,000.
          The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 was $1.4 million and $4.6 million, respectively. Total cash received from employees as a result of employee stock option exercises during the six months ended October 31, 2006 was approximately $7.0 million.
          As of October 31, 2006, there was $54.3 million, net of forfeitures, of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.4 years. The Company’s current practice is to issue new shares to settle share option exercises. For the 2000 Purchase Plan, there was $0.7 million of unrecognized compensation cost as of October 31, 2006, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.9 years.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
     Impact of the Adoption of SFAS No. 123(R)
          The Company adopted SFAS No. 123(R) beginning May 1, 2006 and used the modified prospective transition method. In accordance with the modified prospective transition method, the Company’s consolidated financial statements for prior periods have not been restated to reflect, and do not include, the impact of SFAS No. 123(R). Effective with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), stock-based compensation expense is recognized in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and includes (i) compensation expense for stock-based compensation awards granted prior to, but not yet vested as of May 1, 2006, based on the grant-date fair value estimated in accordance with the pro forma provisions of SFAS No. 123 and (ii) compensation expense for the stock-based compensation awards granted or modified subsequent to May 1, 2006, based on the grant-date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R). The impact of SFAS No. 123(R) on the Company’s consolidated financial statements by award type for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 was as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):
                 
    Three Months     Six Months  
    Ended     Ended  
    October 31,     October 31,  
    2006     2006  
Stock-based compensation expense by type of award:
               
Employee stock options
  $ 8,423     $ 14,453  
Employee stock purchase plan
    399       824  
 
           
Total stock-based compensation
    8,822       15,277  
Tax effect
    1,152       1,944  
 
           
Net effect on net income
  $ 7,670     $ 13,333  
 
           
     Valuation Assumptions
          SFAS No. 123(R) requires companies to estimate the fair value of stock-based compensation awards on the grant date using an option pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as expense over the requisite service period in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income. The Company measures the fair value of stock-based compensation awards using Black-Scholes consistent with the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R), SEC SAB No. 107 and the Company’s prior period pro forma disclosures of net earnings, including stock-based compensation (determined under a fair value method as prescribed by SFAS No. 123). Black-Scholes was developed to estimate the fair value of freely tradable, fully transferable options without vesting restrictions. These assumptions differ significantly from the characteristics of the Company’s stock-based compensation awards. Black-Scholes also requires the use of highly subjective, complex assumptions, including expected term and the price volatility of the Company’s stock.
          The fair value for these options was estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The per share weighted average estimated grant date fair value for employee options granted was $8.67 and $11.59 during the three and six months ended October 31, 2006, respectively. The per share weighted average estimated grant date fair value for employee options granted was $7.49 and $7.59 during the three and six months ended October 31, 2005, respectively.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
          The following weighted average assumptions are included in the estimated fair value calculations for stock options granted in the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005:
                                 
    Employee Stock Option Plans
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    October 31,   October 31,
    2006   2005   2006   2005
Risk-free interest rate
    4.81 %     4.00 %     4.94 %     3.72 %
Expected term of options (in years)
    4.0       3.5       4.0       3.5  
Expected volatility
    62.3 %     80.9 %     64.8 %     84.1 %
Expected dividend yield
    0 %     0 %     0 %     0 %
          Using Black-Scholes, the per share weighted average estimated fair value of rights issued pursuant to the Company’s 2000 Purchase Plan during the three and six months ended October 31, 2006 was $8.25 and $8.19, respectively. Using Black-Scholes, the per share weighted average estimated fair value of rights issued pursuant to the Company’s 2000 Purchase Plan during the three and six months ended October 31, 2005 was $3.15 and $3.24, respectively.
          The following weighted average assumptions are included in the estimated grant date fair value calculations for rights to purchase stock under the 2000 Purchase Plan:
                                 
    Employee Stock Purchase Plan
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    October 31,   October 31,
    2006   2005   2006   2005
Risk-free interest rate
    5.11 %     3.65 %     5.11 %     3.47 %
Expected term of options (in years)
    0.5       0.5       0.5       0.5  
Expected volatility
    57.2 %     36.4 %     57.2 %     39.6 %
Expected dividend yield
    0 %     0 %     0 %     0 %
          The methodologies for determining the above values were as follows:
    Expected term: The expected term represents the period that the Company’s stock-based awards are expected to be outstanding and is estimated based on historical experience.
 
    Risk-free interest rate: The risk-free interest rate assumption is based upon observed interest rates appropriate for the expected term of the Company’s stock-based awards.
 
    Expected volatility: The Company determines expected volatility based on an average between the historical volatility of the Company’s common stock and the implied volatility based on the Company’s traded options.
 
    Dividend yield: The dividend yield assumption reflects the Company’s intention not to issue a dividend under its dividend policy.
 
    Estimated pre-vesting forfeitures: When estimating pre-vesting forfeitures, the Company considers forfeiture behavior based on actual historical information.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
     Periods Prior to Adoption of SFAS No. 123(R)
          Prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), the Company applied APB 25 and related interpretations and provided the required pro forma disclosures of SFAS No. 123, as amended by SFAS No. 148, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation — Transition and Disclosures.” The pro forma information in the following table illustrates the effect on net income and net income per share for the three and six months ended October 31, 2005 as if the Company had applied the fair value recognition provisions of SFAS No. 123 (in thousands, except per share amounts):
                 
    Three Months     Six Months  
    Ended     Ended  
    October 31,     October 31,  
    2005     2005  
Net income, as reported
  $ 22,597     $ 36,979  
Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation determined under fair value based method for all awards, net of related tax effects
    5,808       11,348  
 
           
 
               
As adjusted net income
  $ 16,789     $ 25,631  
 
           
 
               
Net income per share — Basic:
               
As reported
  $ 0.42     $ 0.67  
 
           
As adjusted
  $ 0.31     $ 0.46  
 
           
 
               
Net income per share — Diluted:
               
As reported
  $ 0.41     $ 0.65  
 
           
As adjusted
  $ 0.31     $ 0.46  
 
           
 
               
Shares used in computing net income per share — Basic:
               
As reported
    53,807       55,493  
 
           
As adjusted
    53,807       55,493  
 
           
 
               
Shares used in computing net income per share — Diluted:
               
As reported
    55,486       57,193  
 
           
As adjusted
    53,807       55,493  
 
           
Note 13 — Additional Paid-in Capital
          The following table shows the activity recorded to “Additional paid-in capital” for the six months ended October 31, 2006 (in thousands):
         
    Additional  
    Paid-in  
    Capital  
Balance at May 1, 2006
  $ 285,112  
Exercise of stock options
    6,993  
Employee stock purchase plan
    1,351  
Compensation related to stock options granted
    15,277  
Gain from minority investment
    1,229  
Goodwill adjustment for put rights issued to CDM selling stockholders
    1,894  
Shares issued for CDM Optics acquisition
    34  
 
     
Balance at October 31, 2006
  $ 311,890  
 
     
Note 14 — Treasury Stock
          On June 21, 2005, the Company’s board of directors authorized the repurchase in an open-market program of up to an aggregate of $100 million of the Company’s common stock. Repurchases under the open-market program

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
were authorized for a twelve-month period that ended on June 21, 2006. As of October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006, the Company had cumulatively repurchased 5,870,000 shares of its common stock under the open-market program for an aggregate cost of approximately $79.6 million.
Note 15 — Commitments and Contingencies
     Commitments
          In December 2000, the Company formed a subsidiary, Hua Wei Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (“HWSC”), to conduct testing operations and other processes associated with the manufacturing of its products in China. The registered capital of HWSC is $30.0 million of which the Company has funded a total of $19.7 million. Under an agreement with the Chinese government, the date by which the remaining $10.3 million of registered capital must be funded has been extended to January 17, 2007. The $19.7 million invested through October 31, 2006 was used primarily for payment to building contractors for the construction of facilities and the purchase of equipment.
          The Company also maintains a subsidiary in Shanghai, the Shanghai Design Center (“SDC”), which provides assistance to the Company in various product design projects. Under a separate agreement with the Chinese government, approximately $4.9 million of registered capital for SDC will be funded by March 7, 2009. The investment will provide additional design capacity to the Company.
          The Company has various commitments arising from the Amended VisEra Agreement. In particular, the parties agreed to raise the total capital committed to the joint venture from $50 million to $68 million, which commitments may be made in the form of cash or asset contributions. The parties have equal interests in VisEra and VisEra Cayman. Through October 31, 2006, the Company has contributed $18.5 million to VisEra and VisEra Cayman. A minimum of an additional $6.1 million in cash or asset contributions will be made by the Company and TSMC, with the remaining $10.7 million to be made by additional investors, additional contributions by the parties, or a combination thereof, provided that the parties have and will maintain equal interests in VisEra Cayman. To the extent, if any, that the value of the assets contributed exceeds the value of the Company’s commitment, the Company will receive cash from VisEra Cayman. See Notes 6 and 17.
     Litigation
          From time to time, the Company has been subject to legal proceedings and claims with respect to such matters as patents, product liabilities and other actions arising in the normal course of business.
          On November 29, 2001, a complaint captioned McKee v. OmniVision Technologies, Inc., et. al., Civil Action No. 01CV 10775, was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against OmniVision, some of the Company’s directors and officers, and various underwriters for the Company’s initial public offering. Plaintiffs generally allege that the named defendants violated federal securities laws because the prospectus related to the Company’s offering failed to disclose, and contained false and misleading statements regarding, certain commissions purported to have been received by the underwriters, and other purported underwriter practices in connection with their allocation of shares in the Company’s offering. The complaint seeks unspecified damages on behalf of a purported class of purchasers of the Company’s common stock between July 14, 2000 and December 6, 2000. Substantially similar actions have been filed concerning the initial public offerings for more than 300 different issuers, and the cases have been coordinated as In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, 21 MC 92. Claims against the Company’s directors and officers have been dismissed without prejudice pursuant to a stipulation. On February 19, 2003, the Court issued an order dismissing all claims against the Company except for a claim brought under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933. A stipulation of settlement for the release of claims against the issuer defendants, including the Company, has been submitted to the Court. On February 15, 2005, the Court preliminarily approved the settlement contingent on specified modifications. On August 31, 2005, the Court issued an order confirming preliminary approval of the settlement. On April 24, 2006, the Court held a fairness hearing in connection with the motion for final approval of the settlement. The Court did

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
not issue a ruling on the motion for final approval at the fairness hearing. On December 5, 2006 the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the Court’s order certifying a class in several “test cases” that had been selected by the underwriter defendants and plaintiffs in the coordinated proceeding In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. The settlement continues to remain subject to final Court approval and a number of other conditions. If the settlement does not occur and litigation against the Company continues, the Company believes that it has meritorious defenses and intends to defend the case vigorously. The Company further believes that the settlement will not have any material adverse affect on its financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
          On June 10, 2004, the first of several putative class actions was filed against the Company and certain of its present and former directors and officers in federal court in the Northern District of California on behalf of investors who purchased the Company’s common stock at various times from February 2003 through June 9, 2004. Those actions were consolidated under the caption In re OmniVision Technologies, Inc., No. C-04-2297-SC, and a consolidated complaint was filed. The consolidated complaint asserts claims on behalf of purchasers of the Company’s common stock between June 11, 2003 and June 9, 2004, and seeks unspecified damages. The consolidated complaint generally alleges that defendants violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by allegedly engaging in improper accounting practices that purportedly led to the Company’s financial restatement. On July 29, 2005, the court denied the Company’s motion to dismiss the complaint and discovery commenced thereafter. The parties engaged in settlement discussions and in November 2006, the parties reached an agreement in principle to settle this litigation. Much of the settlement would be funded by insurance carriers that issued Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Policies to the Company. The Company has accrued $3.3 million for the quarter ended October 31, 2006, as the Company’s share of the settlement, including unreimbursed defense costs, net of $13.0 million in recoverable insurance proceeds. The parties are currently drafting a written settlement agreement and other customary documentation. As a result of the pending statement, the parties have agreed to stay discovery and other proceedings. Notice of the settlement must be provided to the purported shareholder class, and the Court must grant final approval of the settlement. The Company believes that ultimate settlement is probable at the currently estimated amount. There is no assurance that the Court will grant such approval, or that the settlement will become final. If the settlement does not occur and litigation against the Company continues, the Company believes that it has meritorious defenses and intends to defend the case vigorously. If the litigation continues, the Company cannot estimate whether the result of the litigation would have a material adverse effect on its financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
          On October 20, 2005, a purported shareholder derivative complaint, captioned Hackl v. Hong, No. 1:05-CV-050985, was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court for the State of California. This derivative action contains allegations that are virtually identical to the prior state court derivative actions that were voluntarily dismissed, and which were based on the allegations contained in the securities class actions. The current complaint generally seeks unspecified damages and equitable relief based on causes of action against various of the Company’s present and former directors and officers for purported breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, waste of corporate assets, unjust enrichment and violations of California Corporations Code. The Company is named solely as a nominal defendant against whom no monetary recovery is sought. Pursuant to a January 20, 2006 Court Order, plaintiff furnished a bond for reasonable expenses in order to proceed with his derivative action. The Company and individual defendants filed demurrers to the complaint. On May 15, 2006, the Court sustained the Company’s demurrer to the complaint with leave to amend on the grounds that plaintiff failed to make a pre-litigation demand on the Company’s board of directors and fails to sufficiently plead that demand is futile. On October 4, 2006, the Court sustained the Company’s demurrer to the amended complaint as well and granted leave to amend. Plaintiff is currently scheduled to file a second amended complaint on December 12, 2006.
Note 16 — Related Party Transactions
          In May 2006, the Company consummated a loan agreement with one of its employees. Under the terms of the agreement which was approved in fiscal 2004, the Company extended to the employee a three-year $1.0 million loan with an imputed interest rate of approximately five percent per annum which matures on May 12, 2009. The loan is secured by a deed of trust.
          In the second quarter of fiscal 2006, the Company entered into an agreement with ImPac (see Note 5) under which ImPac agreed to provide certain management and support services to HWSC. The Company compensates

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
For the Three and Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 and 2005
(unaudited)
ImPac for the services provided in accordance with the Company’s policy regarding related party transactions. The Company’s board of directors approved the agreement, which may be cancelled by either party at any time. Subsequent to October 31, 2006, the Company and ImPac have mutually agreed to phase out the management and support services over the next several months beginning on January 1, 2007. During the three and six months ended October 31, 2006, the Company paid ImPac approximately $254,000 and $0.5 million, respectively, as compensation for management and support services. During the three and six months ended October 31, 2005, the Company paid ImPac approximately $116,000 as compensation for management and support services. In addition, from August 2005 to present, Tsuey-Jiuan Chen, the president of ImPac, has also acted as president of HWSC. From August 2001 to April 2003, Tsuey-Jiuan Chen served on the Company’s board of directors.
          In January 2006, in accordance with the Amended VisEra Agreement (see Note 6), VisEra, the Company’s joint venture with TSMC, purchased from TSMC color filter processing equipment and related assets for an aggregate price equivalent to $16.9 million. In connection with the purchase, VisEra entered into a three-year lease agreement with TSMC. Under this agreement, VisEra leases from TSMC approximately 14,000 square feet of factory and office space where the assets are located. Under a related services contract, TSMC agreed to provide VisEra with certain manufacturing support services, such as mail delivery and receipt and reception services, at prices which approximate cost.
Note 17 Subsequent Event
          The Company has various commitments arising from the Amended VisEra Agreement. In particular, the parties agreed to raise the total capital committed to the joint venture from $50 million to $68 million, which commitments may be made in the form of cash or asset contributions. In November 2006, the Company provided a further $6.1 million as its portion of an additional cash or asset contribution to be made by the Company and TSMC under the current Amended VisEra Agreement. See Notes 6 and 16.
          On December 5, 2006, XinTec held a special shareholder meeting during which XinTec’s shareholders approved an additional private-placement investment by TSMC. As a result, the Company’s ownership percentage declined from 7.8% to 4.4%, and VisEra’s ownership percentage declined from 29.6% to 16.9%. See Note 5.

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          The following information should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed interim financial statements and the notes thereto included in Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The following discussion contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements generally include words such as “may,” “will,” “plans,” “seeks,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “outlook,” “intends,” “believes” and words of similar import as well as the negative of those terms. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the expansion of our testing capabilities and packaging capacity, manufacturing services to be provided by VisEra, future trends and opportunities in certain markets, the development, introduction and capabilities of new products, the establishment of partnerships with other companies, increased unit volume sales, the increase of competition in our industry, the continued importance of the camera cell phone market to our business, continued price competition and reduction of average selling prices with respect to our products, the extent of certain future expenses, our effective tax rate for fiscal 2007, our future investments, our working capital requirements in fiscal 2007, and the sufficiency of our available cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are based on current expectations and are subject to important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Such important factors include, but are not limited to, those set forth under the caption “Item 1A. Risk Factors,” beginning on page 49 of this Quarterly Report and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and in other documents we file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements by or attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by such factors.
          OmniVision and OmniPixel are registered trademarks of OmniVision Technologies, Inc. CameraChip, OmniPixel2, OmniQSP, VarioPixel and VarioPixel2 are trademarks of OmniVision Technologies, Inc. Wavefront Coded is a registered trademark of CDM Optics, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of OmniVision Technologies, Inc. Wavefront Coding is a trademark of CDM Optics, Inc.
Overview
          We design, develop and market high performance, highly integrated and cost efficient semiconductor image sensor devices. Our main products, image-sensing devices which we refer to by the name CameraChip™ image sensors, are used to capture an image electronically and are used in a number of consumer and commercial mass-market applications. Our CameraChip image sensors are designed to use the complementary metal oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, fabrication process. Our CameraChip image sensors are predominantly single-chip CMOS solutions that integrate several distinct functions including image capture, image processing, color processing, signal conversion and output of a fully processed image or video stream. We believe that our highly integrated CameraChip image sensors enable camera device manufacturers to build high quality camera products that are smaller, less complex, more reliable, lower cost and more power efficient than cameras using traditional charge-coupled devices, or CCDs.
     Technology
          In August 2004, we announced the introduction of our advanced OmniPixel™ technology. OmniPixel technology represented a global redesign that featured new pixel architecture, new circuit design, new embedded algorithms, new materials and new process technology. OmniPixel technology also includes support for features such as auto-focus, zooming, panning and mechanical shutter control.
          In September 2005, we announced the introduction of our advanced OmniPixel2® architecture. This architecture, which is based on a 2.2 µ x 2.2 µ pixel and uses a 0.13 µ process geometry, is less than half the size of the OmniPixel architecture introduced in 2004, but with improved performance. With the OmniPixel2 architecture, we have significantly improved sensor performance in three key areas. The improved fill-factor and zero-gap micro-lens structure increase the sensor’s ability to capture light, and its improved quantum efficiency improves its dynamic range, its ability to adapt to large and rapid changes in light levels.

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          During the three months ended October 31, 2006, we shipped the first sample of our new sensor based on our Wavefront Coding™ technology. Our customers have indicated a high level of interest in Wavefront Coding, which we are continuing to refine through ongoing internal development efforts. Although continued refinements of the technology will defer the realization of first product revenues, we remain committed to fully exploiting the potential of this advanced lens focus system.
     New Products
          In October 2005, we announced the OV2640 sensor, our first product on the OmniPixel2 architecture and the world’s first 2-megapixel sensor on a 1/4 inch form factor. In addition to the features of the OmniPixel2 architecture, the OV2640 sensor also incorporates an advanced image signal processor called the OmniQSP system which provides high-grade picture processing and features traditionally found only in digital still cameras. In July 2006, we announced that the OV2640 sensor was in volume production.
          In October 2005, we also announced the OV7950, an enhanced sensor designed specifically for the automotive market. The OV7950 offers several improvements including a dual dynamic overlay function allowing for both a dynamic and a static visual aid layer (text or graphics) within the image. This is especially useful for reference frames and guiding systems in backup and parking assist cameras for cars and trucks.
          In April 2006, we unveiled our second-generation, 5-megapixel camera chip. The OV5620 offers a small form-factor, 5-megapixel CMOS camera that we believe surpasses CCD sensors in performance. Furthermore, we believe the OV5620’s advanced high-definition, or HD, video modes with vivid colors make this CameraChip image sensor especially attractive for next generation digital still cameras, or DSCs, and hybrid cameras, which take both still and video pictures.
          In September 2006, we introduced the OV7720, a high sensitivity digital VGA CameraChip sensor designed specifically for security and surveillance applications. Unlike the sensors used in conventional analog security cameras, the new sensor produces high quality digital output and eliminates the need for A/D converters while simplifying post processing. The OV7720 is one of the first high performance sensors capable of running at 60 frames per second and delivers, we believe, exceptional low-light sensitivity and performance without sacrificing the speed required for advanced security applications. In September 2006, we also unveiled the new OV7949 advanced CMOS CameraChip sensor designed specifically for commercial CCTV/video monitoring security systems. The highly integrated, single-chip OV7949 video camera chip sensor is based on our proprietary OmniPixel architecture. The OV7949 combines a high level of functionality with a brand new design that we specifically engineered to operate extremely well in low-light conditions, a feature especially critical to indoor and night security monitoring systems.
          In October 2006, we announced the availability of our new all digital OV7710 CameraChip advanced CMOS image sensor developed specifically for automotive applications. The OV7710 is a highly integrated CMOS video camera that combines a high level of functionality with all digital output. Digital output is a key requirement for automotive machine-vision applications such as airbag deployment, lane departure warning, collision avoidance/pedestrian detection, windshield wiper control, and drowsiness detection. The OV7710 features a dual dynamic overlay function, which permits text or graphics within the image.
     Joint Venture with TSMC
          In October 2003, we entered into a Shareholders’ Agreement, or the VisEra Agreement, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., or TSMC, pursuant to which we agreed with TSMC to form VisEra Technologies Company, Ltd., or VisEra, a joint venture in Taiwan. VisEra’s mission is to provide manufacturing services and automated final testing services. In connection with the formation of VisEra, both TSMC and we entered into separate nonexclusive license agreements with VisEra pursuant to which each party licenses certain intellectual property to VisEra relating to manufacturing services and automated final testing services. The VisEra Agreement also provided that once VisEra had acquired the capability to deliver high quality manufacturing services and automated final testing services, we would be committed to direct a substantial portion of our requirements in these areas to VisEra, subject to pricing and technology requirements. Both TSMC and we have also committed not to compete directly or indirectly with VisEra in the provision of certain manufacturing services

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and automated final testing services. Historically, we have relied upon TSMC to provide us with a substantial proportion of our wafers. As a part of the VisEra Agreement, TSMC agreed to commit substantial wafer manufacturing capacity to us in exchange for our commitment to purchase a substantial portion of our wafers from TSMC, subject to pricing and technology requirements.
          In August 2005, we entered into an Amended and Restated Shareholders’ Agreement with TSMC, or the Amended VisEra Agreement, under which the parties reaffirmed their respective commitments to VisEra, expanded the scope of and made minor modifications to the VisEra Agreement. Under the Amended VisEra Agreement, the parties agreed to raise the total capital committed to the joint venture from $50.0 million to $68.0 million. The $18.0 million increase was designated principally for the acquisition from unrelated existing shareholders of approximately 29.6% of the issued share capital of XinTec, Inc., or XinTec, a Taiwan-based provider of chip-scale packaging services of which we directly owned approximately 7.8%. In fiscal 2006, VisEra invested an additional $0.5 million and we invested an additional $130,000 in XinTec as our portion of an additional capital injection to enable XinTec to expand its production capacity. As a result of the increase in our beneficial interest in XinTec due to VisEra’s investment in XinTec during fiscal 2006, we now account for our investment in XinTec under the equity method. On December 5, 2006, XinTec held a special shareholder meeting during which XinTec’s shareholders approved an additional private-placement investment by TSMC. As a result, our ownership percentage declined from 7.8% to 4.4% and VisEra’s ownership percentage declined from 29.6% to 16.9%.
          As a result of the additional investment that TSMC and we made in VisEra during the quarter ended October 31, 2005, TSMC’s and our interest each increased from 25% to 43%, and consequently we re-evaluated our accounting for VisEra in accordance with FIN 46. We concluded that, as a result of our step acquisition of VisEra and because substantially all of the activities of VisEra either involve or are conducted on our behalf, VisEra is a variable interest entity. Since we are the source of virtually all of VisEra’s revenues, we have a decisive influence over VisEra’s profitability. Accordingly, we consider ourselves to be the primary beneficiary of the joint venture, and we now include VisEra’s financial results in our consolidated financial statements. In the quarter ended January 2006, we increased our interest in VisEra from 43% to 46% through purchases of unissued shares. In January 2006, pursuant to the Amended VisEra Agreement, VisEra purchased from TSMC the equipment used for applying color filers and micro-lenses to wafers, and VisEra is now providing the related processing services that we previously purchased from TSMC. In November 2006, we provided a further $6.1 million as our portion of an additional cash or asset contribution to be made by TSMC and us under the current Amended VisEra Agreement.
          In August 2006, VisEra submitted a proposal to us to increase its manufacturing capacity. In its present form, the proposal will require TSMC and us to each make an additional investment totaling up to approximately $50.0 million. Of this amount, we approved the first phase of the proposal, which will require an additional investment of approximately $27.0 million in VisEra Cayman. TSMC, our joint venture partner, will also invest an equal amount in the joint venture. This investment is part of an ongoing capacity expansion plan at VisEra. In July 2006, we agreed with VisEra that we would assume direct responsibility for the logistics management services that VisEra currently provides to us. We currently expect this change will be effective during the third quarter of fiscal 2007 and, as a result, we expect that we may be required to de-consolidate VisEra as of the date of the change. We do not expect that the de-consolidation of VisEra will have any material effect on our reported revenue or reported net income.
     Joint Venture with PSC
          In May 2004, we entered into an agreement with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation, or PSC, to establish Silicon Optronics, Inc., or SOI, our joint venture with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation in Taiwan. The purpose of SOI is to conduct manufacturing, marketing and selling of certain of our legacy products. In connection with the establishment of SOI, we have agreed to enter into manufacturing and other agreements as appropriate with PSC. In March 2005, we assumed control of the board of directors of SOI and we have consolidated SOI since April 30, 2005. In July 2006, SOI declared a cash dividend of $482,000, of which $245,000 was payable to minority shareholders. SOI also issued shares to its employees with an estimated fair value of $459,000. The cash dividend was paid in August 2006. As a result of the issuance of shares by SOI to its employees, our ownership percentage declined from 49% to approximately 47%.

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     Acquisition of CDM
          In April 2005, we completed the acquisition of privately held CDM Optics, Inc., or CDM. CDM is located in Boulder, Colorado. CDM is the exclusive licensee from an affiliate of the University of Colorado of a patented technology, known as Wavefront Coding technology that increases the performance of an imaging system by substantially increasing the depth of field and/or correcting optical aberrations within the image. We expect that it will significantly reduce the size and complexity of the auto-focus function on future camera modules utilizing OmniVision sensors. Because the image is always in focus, Wavefront Coding technology also eliminates the time-delay inherent in conventional auto or manually focused camera systems. The closing consideration for the acquisition consisted of $10.0 million in cash and approximately 515,000 shares of our common stock. We are further obligated to pay an additional $10.0 million in cash upon the sale of a pre-determined number of revenue-producing products incorporating CDM’s technology. CDM and the costs associated with the acquisition are included in our consolidated balance sheets at October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2005.
          In the three months ended October 31, 2006, we increased “Goodwill” related to our acquisition of CDM by $2.6 million. The increase was partially related to a put option that expired during the current quarter with respect to the remaining CDM escrow shares. The escrow shares were puttable back to us at a premium and 145,000 shares were put to us for cash totaling $2.8 million. Additionally, the value of the initial shares that were issued in April 2005 as part of the CDM acquisition were also increased due to a put option that expired unexercised subsequent to the original issuance of the shares. Both amounts should have been recorded as part of the initial acquisition of CDM.
     Capital Resources
          As of October 31, 2006, we had approximately $207.0 million in cash and cash equivalents and approximately $142.9 million in short-term investments. To mitigate market risk related to short-term investments, we have an investment policy designed to preserve the value of capital and to generate interest income from these investments without material exposure to market fluctuations. Market risk is the potential loss due to the change in value of a financial instrument as a result of changes in interest rates or bond prices. Our policy is to invest in financial instruments with short maturities, limiting interest rate exposure, and to measure performance against comparable benchmarks. We maintain our portfolio of cash equivalents and short-term investments in a variety of securities, including both government and corporate obligations with ratings of A or better and money market funds.
          In June 2005, our board of directors approved a proposal to use up to $100 million of our available cash to repurchase our common stock in an open-market program. Repurchases under the open-market program were authorized for a twelve-month period that ended on June 21, 2006. During the program’s twelve-month period, we repurchased a total of 5,870,000 shares at a weighted average price of $13.56 per common share for a total of $79.6 million.
     The Current Economic and Market Environment
          We operate in a challenging economic environment that has undergone significant changes in technology and in patterns of global trade. We strive to remain a leader in the development and marketing of image sensing devices based on the CMOS fabrication process and have benefited from the growing market demand for and acceptance of this technology. The shift in global fabrication to Asia has introduced a range of cost pressures on domestic manufacturers. In response to these pressures, and in order to be closer to our primary customer base and our sources of offshore fabrication, we relocated a substantial portion of our testing operations to China during fiscal 2004 and completed this relocation in early fiscal 2005.
          We sell our products worldwide directly to original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, which include branded customers and contract manufacturers, and value added resellers, or VARs, and indirectly through distributors. In order to ensure that we address all available markets for our image sensors, we divide our marketing efforts into two separate departments, each headed by a Vice President. The Mainstream Products marketing department addresses the camera cell phone and DSC markets, and the Advanced Products marketing department addresses the security and surveillance, toys and games, personal computers, automotive and medical markets.

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          In the camera cell phone market in particular, future revenues depend to a large extent on design wins where, on the basis of an exhaustive evaluation of available products, a particular hand-set maker determines which image sensor to design into one or more specific models. There is generally a time lag of between six and nine months between the time of a particular design win and the first shipments of the designated product. Design wins are also an important driver in the many other markets that we address, and in some cases, such as automotive applications, the time lag between a particular design win and first revenue can be longer than one year.
          The overwhelming majority of sales of our products depend on decisions by engineering designers and manufacturers of products that incorporate image sensors to specify one of our products rather than one made by a competitor. In most cases, the decision to specify a particular product requires conforming other specifications of the product to the chosen image sensor and makes subsequent changes both difficult and expensive. Accordingly, the ability to produce and deliver on time reliable products in large quantities is a key competitive differentiator. Since our inception, we have shipped more than 400 million image sensors, including approximately 120 million in the six months ended October 31, 2006, which demonstrates the capabilities of our production system, including our sources of offshore fabrication. To increase and enhance our production capabilities, we recently completed a project with TSMC, our principal wafer supplier and one of the largest wafer fabrication companies in the world, to increase from two to four the number of their fabrication facilities, at which our products can be produced. We are also working with PSC to expand their ability to process wafers for us. VisEra, our joint venture with TSMC and our investments in two key back-end packaging suppliers are part of a broad strategy to ensure that we have sufficient back-end capacity for packaging our image sensors in the various formats required by our customers. We are currently expanding our capacity with VisEra and XinTec, one of the key packaging suppliers. As necessary, we will make further investments to ensure that we have sufficient production capacity to meet the demands of our customers.
          Since our end-user customers market and sell their products worldwide, our revenues by geographic location are not necessarily indicative of the geographic distribution of end-user sales, but rather indicate where the products and/or their components are manufactured or sourced. The revenues by geography are based on the country or region in which our customers issue purchase orders to us.
          We believe that the market opportunity represented by camera cell phones remains very large. We benefited from growth in shipments of sensors for camera cell phones on a year-over-year basis, driven, in part, by increased demand for our VGA and 1.3-megapixel image sensors.
          We also believe that, like the digital still camera market, camera cell phone demand will not only continue to shift toward higher resolutions, but also will increasingly fragment into multiple resolution categories. In addition, there is increased demand for customization, and several different interface standards are coming to maturity. All of these trends will require the development of multiple products. In response to these trends we introduced several 1.3-megapixel products based on our OmniPixel technology. More recently, we began volume production of the first product based on the second generation of our OmniPixel technology which we call OmniPixel2 technology. This is a 2-megapixel image sensor, the world’s first 2-megapixel sensor in a quarter-inch format, and during the quarter ended July 31, 2006, we began shipping this product in volume.
          We also believe that VGA resolution sensors will continue to account for a large portion of the volume shipments in handsets during the remainder of fiscal 2007. Consequently, we have continued to introduce new products at this resolution.
          The digital still camera market also demonstrates a continuing trend toward higher resolution products, with a growing acceptance of CMOS image sensors. We have continued to address this trend through the development and introduction of higher resolution products. In April 2006, we introduced our OV5620 sensor, a second generation small-scale, CMOS image sensor based on our OmniPixel2 technology. The new sensor offers advanced imaging features both for digital still cameras and hybrid cameras which take both still and video pictures. Along with the transition to higher resolution products, we continue to see increased pressure on product pricing.
          The digital sensor market also demonstrates a trend toward slim and thin form factors. In January 2006, based on the new and improved OV7670 VGA sensor, we introduced an ultra thin VGA camera module which measures just 6 x 6 x 4.1 mm. Our design meets the current trend of slim and thin form factors in camera phones and other electronic devices. In addition to addressing the continuous demand for smaller, thinner camera phones, we believe

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that the ultra thin module solution may also prove popular in personal computer, or PC, notebook applications where the camera module needs to be no thicker than the LCD housing. In October 2006, we introduced our sixth generation 1.3-megapixel CameraChip sensor based on our OmniPixel2 technology. Featuring a 2-micron pixel and 1/5-inch optical format, the OV9660 enables a 25 percent thinner camera module than the previous generation, meeting the requirements of ultra slim handset designs. Additionally, the smaller module size is especially attractive to handset makers because it allows a drop-in upgrade from VGA to 1.3 megapixels, thereby extending the life of existing VGA camera phone designs.
          In the emerging notebook market for embedded image sensors, we continue to win designs. We are supplying sensors to four of the top five notebook OEMs. Our shipments to notebook and standalone PC camera manufacturers continue to grow as services such as Skype, Google, AOL and Yahoo are adding video capability to their conferencing software. The OV9660 also provides ultra-portable notebook manufacturers with the ability to upgrade to 1.3-megapixel cameras without the need for a costly system redesign by avoiding the size constraints which previously limited them to VGA resolution cameras.
          We addressed the trend in game consoles toward interactive applications when, in December 2005, we announced that our OV7930 VGA CMOS CameraChip image sensor is featured in a video and music entertainment system from one of the world’s largest toy makers. The new toy records users with a motion camera, so they can see themselves on television as they sing along to their favorite songs. This toy, which includes a camera, wireless microphone and special effects lenses, is the first of its kind in the entertainment toy market. Our OV7930 CameraChip image sensor introduces a cost efficient, true single-chip design with high video quality.
          As the markets for image sensors have grown, we have experienced competition from manufacturers of CMOS and CCD image sensors. Our principal competitors in the market for CMOS image sensors include MagnaChip, Micron, Samsung, ST Microelectronics and Toshiba. We expect to see continued price competition in the image sensor market for camera cell phones and digital cameras as those markets continue to grow. Although we believe that we currently compete effectively in those markets, our competitive position could be impaired by companies that have greater financial, technical, marketing, manufacturing and distribution resources, broader product lines, better access to large customer bases, greater name recognition, longer operating histories and more established strategic and financial relationships than we do. Such companies may be able to adapt more quickly to new or emerging technologies and customer requirements or devote greater resources to the promotion and sale of their products. Many of these competitors own and operate their own fabrication facilities, which in certain circumstances may give them the ability to price their products more aggressively than we can or may allow them to respond more rapidly than we can to changing market opportunities.
          As a result of the increase in competition and the growth of various consumer-product applications for image sensors, we have experienced a shortening in the life cycle of some image-sensor products. For example, although in the security and surveillance market we continue to sell image sensors introduced more than four years ago, in the camera cell phone market, product life cycles can be as short as six months. With the shortening of product life cycles, it will be increasingly difficult to accurately forecast customer demand for our products. As a result, we face the risk of being unable to fulfill customer orders if we underestimate market demand and the risks of excess inventory and product obsolescence if we overestimate market demand for our products. The shortening of product life cycles also increases the importance of having short product development cycles and being accurate in the prediction of market trends in the design of new products. The reduction in product life cycles increases the importance of our continued investment in research and development, which we consider to be critical to our future success.
          In common with many other semiconductor products and as a response to competitive pressures, the average selling prices, or ASPs, of image sensor products have declined steadily since their introduction, and we expect ASPs to continue to decline in the future. Accordingly, in order to maintain our gross margins, we and our suppliers have to work continuously to lower our manufacturing costs and increase our production yields, and in order to maintain or grow our revenues, we have to increase the number of units we sell by a large enough amount to offset the effect of declining ASPs. In addition, if we are unable to timely introduce new products that incorporate more advanced technology and include more advanced features that can be sold at higher average selling prices, our gross margin will decline.

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          In August 2004, we announced the introduction of our advanced OmniPixel technology. In September 2004, we introduced our first small-scale, CMOS image sensor with five megapixels based on our new OmniPixel technology. In October 2005, we announced the second generation of our OmniPixel technology, OmniPixel2 technology. Certain risks are inherent in the introduction of such new products and technology. During the early stages of production, production yields and gross margins for new products are typically lower than those of established products. We can encounter unexpected manufacturing issues, such as the unexpected back-end problems that resulted in low yields on two of our products, the first of which arose in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 and in the first quarter of fiscal 2006.
          We have migrated the production of our new sensors to the 0.13 µ line width process, and initiated mass production volumes at the end of calendar 2005. Given the rapidly changing nature of our technology, there can be no assurance that we will not encounter delays or other unexpected yield issues with future products. In addition, in preparation for new product introductions, we gradually decrease production of established products. Due to our 12-14 week production cycle, it is extremely difficult to predict precisely how many units of established products we will need. It is also difficult to accurately predict the speed of the ramp of new products. As a result, it is possible that we could suffer from shortages for certain products and build inventories in excess of demand for other products. We carefully consider the risk that our inventories may be excess to expected future demand and record appropriate reserves. If, as sometimes happens, we are subsequently able to sell these reserved products, the sales have little or no associated cost and consequently they have a favorable impact on gross margins.
     Sources of Revenues
          We generate almost all our revenue by selling our products directly to OEMs and VARs and indirectly through distributors. We treat sales to OEMs and VARs as one source of revenue, and distributors as another. Our revenue recognition policies for the two groups are different. In general, we sell to our customers on FOB shipping point or FCA terms.
          For shipments to customers without agreements that allow for returns or credits, principally OEMs and VARs, we recognize revenue using the “sell-in” method. Under this method, we recognize revenue when title passes to the customer provided that we have received a signed purchase order, the price is fixed or determinable, title and risk of loss has transferred to the customer, collection of resulting receivables is considered reasonably assured, product returns are reasonably estimable, there are no customer acceptance requirements and there are no remaining material obligations. We provide for future returns based on historical experience at the time we recognize revenue.
          For shipments to distributors under agreements allowing for returns or credits, we recognize revenue using the “sell-through” method under which we defer revenue until the distributor resells the product to its customer and notifies us in writing of such sale. Deferred income on shipments to distributors represents the amount billed less the cost of inventory shipped to but not yet sold by distributors. Accounting for revenue on the “sell-through” method requires that we obtain sales and inventory information from our distributors. As part of our internal control process, we observe our distributors’ physical counts of their inventories of our products on a regular basis.
          In order to determine whether collection is probable, we assess a number of factors, including our past transaction history with the customer and the creditworthiness of the customer. If we determine that collection is not reasonably assured, we defer the recognition of revenue until collection becomes reasonably assured or upon receipt of payment.
          In addition, we recognize revenue from the provision of services to a limited number of our customers by our wholly-owned subsidiary, CDM, and by our consolidated affiliate, VisEra. We recognize the CDM-associated revenue under fixed-price, milestone-based and cost-plus contract arrangements. We recognize CDM-associated revenue each month based upon the proportional performance of the contract as hours are incurred relative to the total estimated hours. CDM-associated revenue has not been material in any of the periods presented. We recognize VisEra’s revenue from third party customers when the production services provided by VisEra are complete and the product is shipped to the customer.

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     Critical Accounting Policies
          For a discussion of our critical accounting policies, please refer to the discussion in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2006. There have been no material changes in any of our critical accounting policies since April 30, 2006, except for policies that are related to the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment,” or SFAS No. 123(R).
          Stock-Based Compensation Expense
          Effective May 1, 2006, we adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R). SFAS No. 123(R) that requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options and employee stock purchases under our employee stock purchase plan, to be recognized in our financial statements based on their respective grant date fair values. We currently use the Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of our share-based payment awards. The Black-Scholes option pricing model requires the use of highly subjective and complex assumptions, including our stock price, expected volatility, expected term, risk-free interest rate and expected dividend yield. For expected volatility, we use an average between the historical volatility of our common stock, and the implied volatility of traded options on our common stock. The expected term of the awards is based on historical data regarding our employees’ option exercise behaviors. The risk-free interest rate assumption is based on observed interest rates appropriate for the terms of our awards. The dividend yield assumption is based on our history and expectation of dividend payouts. The fair value of our restricted stock units is based on the fair market value of our common stock on the date of grant. In addition to the requirement for fair value estimates, SFAS No. 123(R) also requires the recording of expense that is net of an anticipated forfeiture rate. Only expenses associated with awards that are ultimately expected to vest are included in our financial statements. Our forfeiture rate is determined based on our historical option cancellation experience.
          We evaluate the Black-Scholes assumptions that we use to value our awards on a quarterly basis. With respect to the forfeiture rate, we will revise the rate, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from our estimates. Otherwise, we will revise the forfeiture rate on an annual basis. If factors change and we employ different assumptions, stock-based compensation expense related to future stock-based payments may differ significantly from estimates recorded in prior periods.
Results of Operations
          The following table sets forth the results of our operations as a percentage of revenues. Our historical operating results are not necessarily indicative of the results we can expect for any future period.
                                 
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    October 31,   October 31,
    2006   2005   2006   2005
Revenues
    100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %
Cost of revenues
    66.9       63.9       65.3       65.1  
 
                               
Gross margin
    33.1       36.1       34.7       34.9  
 
                               
Operating expenses:
                               
Research, development and related
    13.5       7.8       12.9       8.3  
Selling, general and administrative
    11.5       7.1       10.3       7.1  
Litigation settlement
    2.4             1.2        
 
                               
Total operating expenses
    27.4       14.9       24.4       15.4  
 
                               
Income from operations
    5.7       21.2       10.3       19.5  
Interest income, net
    2.4       1.6       2.5       1.9  
Other income, net
    0.5             0.6        
 
                               
Income before income taxes and minority interest
    8.6       22.8       13.4       21.4  
Provision for income taxes
    2.8       4.6       3.8       4.3  
Minority interest
    1.9       0.4       1.8       0.5  
 
                               
Net income
    3.9 %     17.8 %     7.8 %     16.6 %
 
                               

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Three Months Ended October 31, 2006 as Compared to Three Months Ended October 31, 2005
Revenues
          We derive substantially all of our revenues from the sale of our image-sensor products for use in a wide variety of consumer and commercial mass-market applications including camera cell phones, security and surveillance cameras, digital still cameras, embedded applications for personal computers, interactive video and toy cameras and automotive products. Revenues for the three months ended October 31, 2006 increased by 8.5% to approximately $137.7 million from $126.8 million for the three months ended October 31, 2005. The increased revenues were due to an increase in unit sales of our image-sensor products, primarily for cell phones, partially offset by a decrease in average selling prices. Revenue from SOI, whose operating results were consolidated for the first time in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, represented approximately three percent and four percent of our revenue for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
     Revenues from Sales to OEMs and VARs as Compared to Distributors
          We sell our image-sensor products either directly to OEMs and VARs or indirectly through distributors. The following table shows the percentage of revenues from sales to OEMs and VARs and distributors in the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005:
                 
    Three Months Ended
    October 31,
    2006   2005
OEMs and VARs
    62.7 %     69.2 %
Distributors
    37.3       30.8  
 
               
Total
    100.0 %     100.0 %
 
               
          OEMs and VARs. In the three months ended October 31, 2006, one OEM customer accounted for approximately 17.8% of our revenues. In the three months ended October 31, 2005, one OEM customer accounted for approximately 18.8% of our revenues. For the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, no other OEM or VAR customer accounted for 10% or more of our revenues.
          Distributors. In the three months ended October 31, 2006, two distributor customers accounted for approximately 13.6% and 13.4% of our revenues, respectively. In the three months ended October 31, 2005, one distributor customer accounted for approximately 17.0% of our revenues. No other distributor accounted for 10% or more of our revenues during either of these periods.
     Revenues from Domestic Sales as Compared to Foreign Sales
          The following table shows the percentage of our revenues derived from sales of our image-sensor products to domestic customers as compared to foreign customers for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005:
                 
    Three Months Ended
    October 31,
    2006   2005
Domestic sales
    0.9 %     1.2 %
Foreign sales
    99.1       98.8  
 
               
Total
    100.0 %     100.0 %
 
               
          We derive the majority of our foreign sales from customers in Asia and, to a lesser extent, in Europe. Over time, our sales to Asia-Pacific customers have increased primarily as a result of the continuing trend of outsourcing the production of consumer electronics products to Asia-Pacific manufacturers and facilities and to the increasing markets in Asia for consumer products. Because of the preponderance of Asia-Pacific manufacturers and the fact that virtually all products incorporating our image-sensor products are sold globally, we believe that the geographic distribution of our sales does not accurately reflect the geographic distribution of sales into end-user markets of products which incorporate our image sensors.

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Gross Profit
     Our gross margin in the three months ended October 31, 2006 was 33.1%, down from the 36.1% we reported for the three months ended October 31, 2005. The principal cause of the year-over-year decrease in our gross margin was a less favorable product mix, in particular the larger share of VGA sensors in our unit and dollar volume, and a decline in our average selling prices, which were partially offset by reductions in our production costs. In addition, we recorded approximately $1.0 million in stock compensation expense to cost of revenues in the three months ended October 31, 2006 in accordance with SFAS No. 123(R). We adopted SFAS No. 123(R) effective May 1, 2006 and there was no similar expense in the prior year quarter. Our gross margin in the three months ended October 31, 2005 was reduced by approximately four hundred basis points from the sales of the products with which we had back-end yield issues that arose in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 and the first and second quarters of fiscal 2006. Both of these issues are now resolved.
     Revenue from sales of previously reserved products in the three months ended October 31, 2006 was $4.1 million, as compared to $0.8 million during the same period in the prior fiscal year. In addition, during the three months ended October 31, 2006, we recognized credits of $1.6 million in compensation from suppliers whose product quality in previous periods did not meet our standards. In the three months ended October 31, 2006, we recorded an allowance for excess and obsolete inventory totaling $1.5 million to cost of revenues as compared to $1.5 million during the same period in the prior fiscal year.
Research, Development and Related Expenses
     Research, development and related expenses consist primarily of compensation and personnel-related expenses, non-recurring engineering costs and costs for purchased materials, designs, tooling, depreciation of computers and workstations, and amortization of acquired intangible intellectual property and computer aided design software. Because the number of new designs can fluctuate from period to period, research, development and related expenses may fluctuate significantly. Research, development and related expenses for the three months ended October 31, 2006 increased to approximately $18.7 million from approximately $9.9 million for the three months ended October 31, 2005. As a percentage of revenues, research and development expenses for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 represented 13.5% and 7.8%, respectively.
     The increase in research, development and related expenses of approximately $8.7 million, or 87.8%, for the three months ended October 31, 2006 from the similar period in the prior year resulted primarily from the recognition of $3.6 million in stock-based compensation expense recognized with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), a $2.9 million increase in salary and payroll-related expenses associated with the hiring of additional personnel, a $0.7 million increase in software expenses, a $0.6 million increase in office and outside service expenses, a $237,000 increase in amortization expenses of acquired intangible assets and a $170,000 increase in non-recurring engineering expenses related to new product development. We anticipate that our research, development and related expenses will continue to increase as we develop and introduce new products employing our OmniPixel2 and Wavefront Coding technologies.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
     Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation and personnel related expenses, commissions paid to distributors and manufacturers’ representatives and insurance and legal expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended October 31, 2006 increased to approximately $15.8 million from $9.1 million for the three months ended October 31, 2005. As a percentage of revenues, selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 represented 11.5% and 7.1%, respectively.
     The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses of approximately $6.7 million, or 74.1%, for the three months ended October 31, 2006 from the similar period in the prior year resulted primarily from the recognition of $4.2 million in stock-based compensation expense recognized with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), a $1.6 million increase in salary and payroll-related expenses associated with the hiring of additional personnel, a $0.5 million increase in outside service expenses, a $0.4 million increase in commissions paid primarily to distributors as a result of increased revenues and a $0.4 million increase in accounting expense,

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partially offset by a $0.7 million reduction in an allowance for bad debt and $0.6 million reduction in legal expenses. We anticipate that our selling, general and administrative expenses will increase in the future due to the continued expansion of our organization and the continuing upgrade of our computer systems, including our enterprise resource planning, or ERP, and other management information systems.
Litigation Settlement
     We have accrued $3.3 million in litigation settlement expenses for the quarter ended October 31, 2006, to reflect our share of a settlement of a securities class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The parties to the litigation have reached an agreement in principle to settle the litigation. The parties are drafting a written settlement agreement and other customary documentation. Notice of the settlement must be provided to the purported shareholder class and the Court must provide final approval of the settlement. Litigation settlement expenses for the three months ended October 31, 2006 represented 2.4% of revenue. (See “Note 15 – Commitments and Contingencies” of the Notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.)
Interest Income, Net
     Our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are invested in interest-bearing accounts consisting primarily of money market funds, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, high-grade corporate securities and government bonds with maturities from the date of purchase up to 35 years. Interest income increased for the three months ended October 31, 2006 from the corresponding period in the prior year to approximately $3.4 million from $2.1 million. Increased interest income for the three months ended October 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior year resulted from higher balances in interest-bearing accounts resulting primarily from cash from operations, and by higher interest rates.
Other Income, Net
     Other income, net, for the three months ended October 31, 2006 was income of $0.7 million as compared to $36,000 in the prior year and consisted of $0.5 million as our portion of the income recorded by XinTec and $224,000 as our portion of the income recorded by ImPac Technology Co., Ltd., or ImPac, both of which we account for using the equity method of accounting, combined with other income, net. (See “Note 5 – Long-term Investments” of the Notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.) Other income, net, for the three months ended October 31, 2005 was income of $36,000 and included our portion of the net income recorded by ImPac and the net loss recorded by XinTec.
Provision for Income Taxes
     We generated approximately $11.9 million and $29.0 million in income before income taxes and minority interest for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We recorded provisions for income taxes for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 of approximately $3.9 million and $5.8 million, respectively. For the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, our effective tax rates were 32.9% and 20.0%, respectively. Quarterly income taxes are calculated using an estimate of the effective tax rate for the fiscal year. The tax provision for the quarter reflects the estimated annual effective tax rate and includes, when applicable, the impact of changes from the prior estimated rate and discrete tax items. The current quarter rate is higher than the rate reflected in the provision for the quarter ended July 31, 2006 because we now expect our annual effective tax rate for the current fiscal year to be higher than we previously estimated, and the current quarter reflects the consequent adjustment. The sequential increase in current quarter tax rate is partially offset by the income tax benefit from discrete tax items, in particular the class action lawsuit settlement. In both years, however, our effective tax rates are less than the combined federal and state statutory rate of approximately 40% principally because we earn a portion of our income in jurisdictions where tax rates are lower than the combined federal and state statutory rate. The higher effective tax rate for fiscal 2007 as compared to fiscal 2006 is principally due to the unfavorable impact of the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) and the change in the geographical mix of income, partially offset by an increase in tax exempt interest income. We expect that our consolidated effective tax rate during the remainder of fiscal 2007 will continue to be less than the combined federal and state statutory rates. The extent to which our effective tax rate in fiscal 2007 is less than the combined federal and state statutory rates is principally contingent upon the proportion and geographic mix of our total pre-tax income that is generated in jurisdictions outside the United States.

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Minority Interest
     Minority interest for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 was $2.5 million and $0.6 million, respectively. For the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, approximately $197,000 and $350,000, respectively, represents the 53% interest that we do not own in the net income of SOI, which we included in our consolidated operating results for the first time beginning in the three months ended July 31, 2005. For the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, approximately $2.3 million and $221,000 represents the 57% interest that we do not own in the net income of VisEra, which we included in our consolidated operating results for the first time beginning in the three months ended October 31, 2005.
Six Months Ended October 31, 2006 as Compared to Six Months Ended October 31, 2005
Revenues
     Revenues for the six months ended October 31, 2006 increased by 23.2% to approximately $274.5 million from $222.8 million for the six months ended October 31, 2005. The increased revenues were due to an increase in unit sales of our image-sensor products, primarily for cell phones, partially offset by a decrease in average selling prices. Revenue from SOI, whose operating results were consolidated for the first time in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, represented approximately three percent and six percent of our revenue for the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
  Revenues from Sales to OEMs and VARs as Compared to Distributors
     The following table shows the percentage of revenues from sales to OEMs and VARs and distributors in the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005:
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    October 31,  
    2006     2005  
OEMs and VARs
    65.4 %     71.2 %
Distributors
    34.6       28.8  
 
           
Total
    100.0 %     100.0 %
 
           
     OEMs and VARs. In the six months ended October 31, 2006, one OEM customer accounted for approximately 15.5% of our revenues. In the six months ended October 31, 2005, two OEM customers accounted for approximately 16.4% and 10.0% of our revenues, respectively. For the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, no other OEM or VAR customer accounted for 10% or more of our revenues.
     Distributors. In the six months ended October 31, 2006, two distributor customers accounted for approximately 13.2% and 10.7% of our revenues. In the six months ended October 31, 2005, one distributor customer accounted for approximately 15.4% of our revenues. No other distributor accounted for 10% or more of our revenues during either of these periods.
  Revenues from Domestic Sales as Compared to Foreign Sales
     The following table shows the percentage of our revenues derived from sales of our image-sensor products to domestic customers as compared to foreign customers for the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005:
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    October 31,  
    2006     2005  
Domestic sales
    1.4 %     1.1 %
Foreign sales
    98.6       98.9  
 
           
Total
    100.0 %     100.0 %
 
           

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Gross Profit
     Our gross margin in the six months ended October 31, 2006 was 34.7% as compared to the 34.9% we reported for the six months ended October 31, 2005. The principal cause of the year-over-year slight decrease in our gross margin was a less favorable product mix, in particular the larger share of VGA sensors in our unit and dollar volume and a decline in our average selling prices, which were partially offset by reductions in our production costs. In addition, we recorded approximately $2.0 million in stock compensation expense in the six months ended October 31, 2006 in accordance with SFAS No. 123(R). We adopted SFAS No. 123(R) effective May 1, 2006 and there was no similar expense in the first six months of the prior year. Our gross margin in the six months ended October 31, 2005 was reduced by approximately five hundred basis points due to the back-end yield issues that arose in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 and the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Both of these issues are now resolved.
     Revenue from sales of previously reserved products in the six months ended October 31, 2006 was $7.0 million, as compared to $6.7 million during the same period in the prior fiscal year. In addition, during the six months ended October 31, 2006, we recognized credits of $3.8 million in compensation from suppliers whose product quality in previous periods did not meet our standards. In the six months ended October 31, 2006, we recorded an allowance for excess and obsolete inventory totaling $2.1 million to cost of sales as compared to $3.3 million during the same period in the prior fiscal year.
Research, Development and Related Expenses
     Research, development and related expenses for the six months ended October 31, 2006 increased to approximately $35.5 million from approximately $18.4 million for the six months ended October 31, 2005. As a percentage of revenues, research and development expenses for the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 represented 12.9% and 8.3%, respectively.
     The increase in research, development and related expenses of approximately $17.1 million, or 92.8%, for the six months ended October 31, 2006 from the similar period in the prior year resulted primarily from the recognition of $6.7 million in stock-based compensation expense recognized with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), a $5.2 million increase in salary and payroll-related expenses associated with the hiring of additional personnel, a $1.7 million increase in non-recurring engineering expenses related to new product development, a $1.3 million increase in software expenses, a $0.9 million increase in office and outside service expenses and a $0.6 million increase in amortization expenses of acquired intangible assets. The increase in non-recurring engineering expenses is primarily due to an increase in the number of new designs we released to our foundry partners.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
     Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation and personnel related expenses, commissions paid to distributors and manufacturers’ representatives and insurance and legal expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the six months ended October 31, 2006 increased to approximately $28.2 million from $15.8 million for the six months ended October 31, 2005. As a percentage of revenues, selling, general and administrative expenses for the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 represented 10.3% and 7.1%, respectively.
     The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses of approximately $12.4 million, or 78.2%, for the six months ended October 31, 2006 from the similar period in the prior year resulted primarily from the recognition of $6.7 million in stock-based compensation expense recognized with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), a $3.1 million increase in salary and payroll-related expenses, a $1.3 million increase in outside service expenses, a $1.0 million increase in commissions paid primarily to distributors associated with increased revenues and a $0.7 million increase in our facility expense, partially offset by a $1.3 million reduction in legal expenses.
Litigation Settlement
     We have accrued $3.3 million in litigation settlement expenses for the six months ended October 31, 2006, to reflect our share of a settlement of a securities class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The parties to the litigation have reached an agreement in principle to settle the litigation. The parties are drafting a written settlement agreement and other customary documentation. Notice of the settlement must be provided to the purported shareholder class and the Court must provide final approval of the

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settlement. Litigation settlement expenses for the six months ended October 31, 2006 represented 1.2% of revenue. (See “Note 15 – Commitments and Contingencies” of the Notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.)
Interest Income, Net
     Our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are invested in interest-bearing accounts consisting primarily of money market funds, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, high-grade corporate securities and government bonds with maturities from the date of purchase ranging from less than 12 months to 35 years. Interest income increased for the six months ended October 31, 2006 from the corresponding period in the prior year to approximately $6.8 million from $4.1 million. Increased interest income for the six months ended October 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in the prior year resulted from higher balances in interest-bearing accounts resulting primarily from cash from operations, and by higher interest rates.
Other Income, Net
     Other income, net, for the six months ended October 31, 2006 was income of $1.6 million as compared to $59,000 in the prior year and consisted of $1.3 million as our portion of the income recorded by XinTec and $347,000 as our portion of the income recorded by ImPac Technology Co., Ltd., or ImPac, both of which we account for using the equity method of accounting, combined with other income, net. (See “Note 5 – Long-term Investments” of the Notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.) Other income, net, for the six months ended October 31, 2005 was income of $59,000 on a net basis and included our portion of the net income recorded by ImPac and the net loss recorded by XinTec, two companies in which we hold a minority interest.
Provision for Income Taxes
     We generated approximately $36.7 million and $47.6 million in income before income taxes and minority interest for the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We recorded provisions for income taxes for the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 of approximately $10.5 million and $9.5 million, respectively. For the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, our effective tax rates were 28.7% and 20.0%, respectively. These rates are less than the combined federal and state statutory rate of approximately 40% principally because we earn a portion of our profits in jurisdictions where tax rates are lower than the combined federal and state statutory rate. The higher effective tax rate for fiscal 2007 as compared to fiscal 2006 is principally due to the unfavorable impact of the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) and the change in the geographical mix of income, partially offset by an increase in tax exempt interest income.
Minority Interest
     Minority interest for the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 was $4.8 million and $1.1 million, respectively. For the six months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005, approximately $269,000 and $0.9 million, respectively, represents the 53% interest that we do not own in the net income of SOI, which we included in our consolidated operating results for the first time beginning in the three months ended July 31, 2005. For the six months ended October 31, 2006, approximately $4.6 million represents the 57% interest that we do not own in the net income of VisEra, which we included in our consolidated operating results for the first time beginning in the three months ended October 31, 2005.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
     Our principal sources of liquidity at October 31, 2006 consisted of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $350.0 million.
  Liquidity
     Our working capital increased by approximately $5.2 million to $368.5 million as of October 31, 2006 from $363.3 million as of April 30, 2006. The increase was primarily attributable to: a $48.7 million increase in inventories which resulted from an increase late in the quarter in our work-in-process to support our anticipated increase in unit volume sales in the next two quarters, to prepare for new packaging capacity expected to come on-line at XinTec and a shift in demand towards VGA products late in the quarter, which precluded wafer production

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schedule adjustments; a $28.7 million increase in short-term investments; a $13.0 million increase in recoverable insurance proceeds; a $9.4 million increase in accounts receivable, net, consistent with the increase in revenues from prior year levels and a $1.6 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets. These increases in working capital were partially offset by: a $35.3 million increase in accounts payable primarily resulting from increased inventory purchases; a $33.2 million decrease in cash and cash equivalents; a $13.8 million increase in a litigation settlement accrual; a $11.5 million increase in accrued income taxes payable and a $1.8 million increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities.
     In the three months ended October 31, 2005, we consolidated for the first time our affiliate, VisEra. VisEra maintains three unsecured lines of credit with three commercial banks, which together provide a total of approximately $11.0 million in available credit. All borrowings under the three lines of credit maintained by VisEra bear interest at the market interest rate prevailing at the time of borrowing. There are no financial covenant requirements for these facilities. At October 31, 2006, there were no borrowings outstanding under these facilities. In March 2005, we assumed control of the board of directors of SOI and as of April 30, 2005, we consolidated SOI. SOI maintains four unsecured lines of credit with three commercial banks, which provide a total of approximately $3.4 million in available credit. All borrowings under the four lines of credit maintained by SOI bear interest at the market interest rate prevailing at the time of borrowing. There are no financial covenant requirements for these facilities and at October 31, 2006, there were no borrowings outstanding under these facilities.
  Cash Flows from Operating Activities
     For the six months ended October 31, 2006, net cash provided by operating activities totaled approximately $33.1 million as compared to $46.6 million for the corresponding period in the prior year, primarily due to: net income of approximately $21.3 million for the six months ended October 31, 2006, adjusted for non-cash charges of $15.3 million in stock-based compensation, $7.8 million in depreciation and amortization, $4.8 million in the minority interest in the net income of consolidated affiliates and $1.6 million of gains in equity investments; a $35.3 million increase in accounts payable; a $14.7 million increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities; an $11.5 million increase in accrued income taxes payable and a $0.5 million increase in deferred income. These increases were partially offset by: a $48.8 million increase in inventories; a $17.7 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets; a $9.4 million increase in accounts receivable, net and a $1.0 million decrease in deferred tax liabilities. The 17.7 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets resulted from $13.0 million in recoverable insurance proceeds associated with the settlement of security class-action litigation. The $14.7 million increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities resulted from a $13.8 million litigation settlement accrual associated with the settlement of security class-action litigation. The $9.4 million increase in accounts receivable, net, reflects the higher level of revenues during the six months ended October 31, 2006, as days of sales outstanding as of October 31, 2006 increased to 50 days from 45 days as of April 30, 2006. The $48.8 million increase in inventories resulted from an increase late in the quarter in our work-in-process to support our anticipated increase in unit volume sales in the next two quarters, to prepare for new packaging capacity expected to come on-line at XinTec and a shift in demand towards VGA products late in the quarter, which precluded wafer production schedule adjustments. The increase in inventory balances resulted in a decline in inventory turns to 3.6 as of October 31, 2006 from 6.1 as of April 30, 2006. Our accrued income taxes payable increased as a consequence of an additional accrual for the three and six months ended October 31, 2006.
     For the six months ended October 31, 2005, net cash provided by operating activities totaled approximately $46.6 million primarily due to: net income of approximately $37.0 million for the six months ended October 31, 2005; a $20.7 million increase in accounts payable; a $9.2 million increase in accrued income taxes payable and a $2.8 million increase in deferred income. These increases were partially offset by: a $13.7 million increase in accounts receivable, net; a $12.8 million increase in inventories; and a $2.2 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets. The $13.7 million increase in accounts receivable, net, reflects the higher level of revenues during the six months ended October 31, 2005, as days of sales outstanding as of October 31, 2005 increased slightly to 53 days from 52 days as of April 30, 2005. The $12.8 million increase in inventories was attributable to our expansion of work-in-process inventories late in the quarter in anticipation of increased future sales in the third quarter of fiscal 2006. The increase is driven by our 12 to 14 week production cycle and reflects our anticipated increase in revenue during the third and fourth quarters of fiscal 2006. Inventory turns increased slightly to 4.6 as of October 31, 2005 from 4.5 as of April 30, 2005. Accounts payable increased as a result of the increased inventory in

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the six months ended October 31, 2005. Our accrued income taxes payable increased as a consequence of our income before taxes, partially offset by a reduction in our effective tax rate for the six months ended October 31, 2005.
   Cash Flows From Investing Activities
     For the six months ended October 31, 2006, our cash used in investing activities increased to $78.6 million as compared to $282,000 in cash provided by investing activities for the corresponding prior year period, due to: $49.1 million in purchases of property, plant and equipment; $28.9 million in net purchases of short-term investments and $0.5 million in purchase of intangible property. Of the $49.1 million increase in purchases of property, plant and equipment, $24.9 million represents investments in packaging equipment that will be operated by XinTec. In addition, $23.2 million represents capital equipment and manufacturing facility investments at VisEra. For the six months ended October 31, 2005, our cash provided by investing activities was approximately $282,000 due to $11.8 million in purchases of long-term investments, $0.7 million in net purchases of short-term investments and $1.0 million in purchases of property, plant and equipment. These uses were partially offset by $13.8 million in proceeds from the consolidation of VisEra, net of cash payments.
     In this report, we have revised the classification of certain previously reported amounts to conform to the current period presentation. We revised the classification of certain variable rate demand notes from cash and cash equivalents to short-term investments as of January 31, 2006 and for all prior periods. These revisions had no impact on the results of operations of the Company. The following table summarizes the balances as previously reported and as revised (in thousands):
                                 
    Cash and   Short-term
    Cash Equivalents   Investments
    As Reported   Revised   As Reported   Revised
October 31, 2005
  $ 172,365     $ 141,250     $ 93,711     $ 124,826  
     Our revision of the classification of variable rate demand notes affects the following line items in the Statements of Cash Flows for the six months ended October 31, 2005 (in thousands):
                 
    Cash Flow Activity
    As Reported   As Revised
Purchases of short-term investments
  $ (48,164 )   $ (122,054 )
Proceeds from sales or maturities of short-term investments
    45,000       121,375  
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
    (31,692 )     (29,207 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    204,057       170,457  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 172,365     $ 141,250  
  Cash Flows From Financing Activities
     For the six months ended October 31, 2006, net cash provided by financing activities totaled approximately $12.3 million as compared to net cash used in financing activities of $76.4 million for the corresponding period in the prior year. This change was primarily due to the absence of any repurchases of shares of our common stock under the open-market program in the six months ended October 31, 2006. Cash provided by financing activities for the six months ended October 31, 2006 resulted from $8.3 million in proceeds from the exercise of stock options and employee purchases through our employee stock purchase plan and a $4.3 million cash contribution by one of our minority interest shareholders. For the six months ended October 31, 2005, net cash used in financing activities increased to approximately $76.4 million primarily due to the $79.6 million payment for the repurchase of shares of our common stock under the open-market program in the six months ended October 31, 2005. This cash used in financing activities was partially offset by proceeds from the exercise of stock options and employee purchases through our employee stock purchase plan which totaled approximately $2.3 million for the six months ended October 31, 2005. This cash used was also partially offset by $0.9 million in net proceeds from short-term borrowings of a consolidated affiliate.

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ITEM 2.   MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS — (Continued)
   Capital Resources
     In December 2000, we formed a subsidiary, Hua Wei Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (“HWSC”), to conduct testing operations and other processes associated with the manufacturing of our products in China. A total of $19.7 million of the $30.0 million of HWSC’s registered capital, as required by Chinese law, had been funded as of October 31, 2006 from our available working capital. Under an agreement with the Chinese government, the date by which the remaining $10.3 million of registered capital must be funded has been extended to January 17, 2007. Separately, our subsidiary, the Shanghai Design Center, or SDC, will receive $4.9 million of cash infusion in the form of registered capital. Under an agreement with the Chinese government, this amount must be funded prior to March 2009. We expect to fund the capital commitment to HWSC, SDC and to our joint ventures with TSMC from our available working capital.
     We currently expect our available cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, together with cash that we anticipate to be generated from business operations, to be sufficient to satisfy our foreseeable capital requirements. Other than normal working capital requirements, we expect our capital requirements totaling approximately $100.0 million during the remainder of fiscal 2007 will consist primarily of funding required to expand the wafer packaging capacity available to us and to expand our color-filter processing and testing capacity.
     We are obligated to pay an additional $10.0 million in cash upon the sale of a pre-determined number of revenue-producing products incorporating CDM’s technology. CDM and the costs associated with the acquisition are included in our consolidated balance sheets at October 31, 2006 and April 30, 2006.
     Our ability to generate cash from operations is subject to substantial risks described below under the caption Part II Item 1A. “Risk Factors.” We encourage you to review these risks carefully.
Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments
     The following summarizes our contractual obligations and commercial commitments as of October 31, 2006 and the effect such obligations and commitments are expected to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods (in thousands):
                                         
    Payments Due by Period  
            Less than                     More than  
    Total     1 Year     1 - 3 Years     3 - 5 Years     5 Years  
Contractual Obligations:
                                       
Operating leases
  $ 29,874     $ 8,271     $ 13,169     $ 3,102     $ 5,332  
Noncancelable orders
    75,720       75,720                    
 
                             
Total contractual obligations
    105,594       83,991       13,169       3,102       5,332  
 
                             
 
                                       
Other Commercial Commitments:
                                       
Investment in HWSC
    10,300 1     10,300                    
Joint Venture with TSMC
    6,069 2     6,069                    
Investment in Shanghai Design Center
    4,900 3     4,900                    
XinTec equipment consignment
    25,100 4     25,100                          
 
                                   
Total commercial commitments
    46,369       46,369                    
 
                             
Total contractual obligations and commercial commitments
  $ 151,963     $ 130,360     $ 13,169     $ 3,102     $ 5,332  
 
                             
 
1   Represents the remaining $10.3 million of registered capital for our subsidiary, HWSC. We established this subsidiary as part of our efforts to increase capacity and reduce costs for testing our image-sensor products. Under an agreement with the Chinese government, the date by which the remaining $10.3 million of registered capital must be funded is now January 17, 2007.
 
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    Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., or TSMC, VisEra Technologies Company, Ltd., or VisEra, and VisEra Holding Company, or VisEra Cayman. In order to provide greater financial and fiscal flexibility to VisEra, in connection with the Amended VisEra Agreement, the parties formed VisEra Cayman, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and VisEra became a subsidiary of VisEra Cayman. The Amended VisEra Agreement amended and restated the original Shareholders’ Agreement that the parties entered into on October 29, 2003, pursuant to which the Company and TSMC agreed to form VisEra, a joint venture in Taiwan, for the purposes of providing manufacturing services and automated final testing services related to CMOS image sensors. In November 2003, pursuant to the terms of the original Shareholders’ Agreement, we contributed $1.5 million in cash to VisEra and granted a non-exclusive license to certain of our manufacturing and automated final testing technologies and patents. In September 2005, we contributed a further $7.5 million to VisEra Cayman. In November 2005, pursuant to the Amended VisEra Agreement, we contributed an additional $9.5 million in cash to VisEra Cayman. As a result of our step acquisition, and in accordance with the provisions of FIN 46, we consolidated the results of VisEra beginning in the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2005. See Note 6 to our condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
    Under the terms of the Amended VisEra Agreement, the parties reaffirmed their respective commitments to VisEra, and expanded the scope of and made certain modifications to the original Shareholders’ Agreement. In particular, the parties agreed to raise the total capital committed to the joint venture from $50 million to $68 million, which commitments may be made in the form of cash or asset contributions. The parties have equal interests in VisEra and VisEra Cayman. To date we have contributed $18.5 million to VisEra and VisEra Cayman. A minimum of an additional $6.5 million in cash or asset contributions will be made by each of the parties, with the remaining $10.7 million to be made by additional investors, additional contributions by the parties, or a combination thereof, provided that the parties have and will maintain equal interests in VisEra Cayman. In November 2006, we contributed approximately $6.1 million in another round of financing with certain other assets to be contributed to the joint venture at an undetermined date, including technology, plant and equipment currently owned by us or to be purchased with funds for existing commercial commitments. To the extent, if any, that the value of the assets contributed exceeds the value of our commitment, we will receive cash from VisEra Cayman. See Note 16 to our condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
    Pursuant to the terms of the Amended VisEra Agreement, VisEra Cayman used approximately $12.3 million of the $18.0 million increase in the total capital commitment for the acquisition of approximately 29.6% of the issued shares of XinTec, of which we own separately and directly approximately 7.8%. See Notes 5, 15 and 16 in our condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
    All other material terms of the original Shareholders’ Agreement remain in effect.
 
3   We intend to increase our investment in the Shanghai Design Center by $4.9 million before March 7, 2009. The investment will provide additional design capacity. See Note 15 to our condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
4   On August 31, 2006, we entered into an Equipment Procurement Agreement (the “Equipment Agreement”) with XinTec. Under the terms of the Equipment Agreement, XinTec has agreed to provide wafer level packaging services to us on the terms and conditions of a manufacturing agreement to be negotiated between the parties. We have agreed to procure, through XinTec, up to $50 million of certain equipment to be located at XinTec’s facilities for the sole purpose of providing such wafer level packaging services to us. See Note 5 to our condensed consolidated financial statements.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
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ITEM 2.   MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS — (Continued)
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
     In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ratified the consensus reached on Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) Issue No. 06-03, “How Sales Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities Should Be Presented in the Income Statement (That is, Gross Versus Net Presentation).” The EITF reached a consensus that the presentation of taxes on either a gross or a net basis is an accounting policy decision that requires disclosure. EITF 06-3 is effective for the first interim or annual reporting period beginning after December 15, 2006. We do not believe that the application of EITF 06-3 will have a material effect on our consolidated results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
     In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB interpretation No. 48 (FIN No. 48) “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—an Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109.” FIN No. 48 requires that we recognize in our consolidated financial statements the impact of a tax position that is more likely than not to be sustained upon examination based on the technical merits of the position. The evaluation of a tax position in accordance with this interpretation is a two-step process. In the first step, recognition, we determine whether it is more-likely-than-not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The second step addresses measurement of a tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not criterion. The tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that has a greater than 50 percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Tax positions that previously failed to meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold should be recognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is met. Previously recognized tax positions that no longer meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold should be de-recognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is no longer met. FIN No. 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. The differences between the amounts recognized in the consolidated financial statements prior to the adoption of FIN No. 48 and the amounts reported after adoption will be accounted for as a cumulative-effect adjustment recorded to the beginning balance of retained earnings. We are currently evaluating the impact FIN No. 48 will have on our consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of income.
     In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements’’ (“SFAS No. 157”), which defines fair value, establishes guidelines for measuring fair value and expands the requisite disclosures for fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 does not require any new fair value measurements but rather establishes a common definition of fair value to be used throughout generally accepted accounting principles. SFAS No. 157 is effective in fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and is required to be adopted by us in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. We are currently assessing the impact of adopting SFAS No. 157 on our consolidated results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
     In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 108, “Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements,” (“SAB No. 108”), which provides interpretative guidance on how the effects of the carryover or reversal of prior year misstatements should be considered in quantifying a current year misstatement. Pursuant to SAB No. 108, registrants are required to quantify errors using both a balance sheet and an income statement approach and evaluate whether either approach results in quantifying a misstatement that, when all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors are considered, is material. We do not believe that the application of SAB No. 108 will have a material effect on our consolidated results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
  Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
     We sell our products globally, in particular to branded customers, contract manufacturers, VARs and distributors in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
     The great majority of our transactions with our customers and vendors are denominated in U.S. dollars. The expenses we incur in currencies other than U.S. dollars include certain costs affecting gross profit, selling, general and administrative and research, development and related expenses, and are primarily incurred in China, where the Chinese Yuan Renminbi (“CNY”) is the local currency and Taiwan, where the New Taiwan dollar is the local currency. Historically, the Chinese government benchmarked the CNY exchange ratio against the U.S. dollar, thereby mitigating the associated foreign currency exchange rate fluctuation risk. However, in July 2005, the Chinese central bank announced that, in the future, it would benchmark the CNY against a basket of currencies, and has now allowed the CNY to appreciate by approximately three percent against the U.S. dollar.
     The functional currencies of our wholly-owned subsidiaries are the local currencies with the exception of our subsidiaries located in Hong Kong, OmniVision Technologies (Hong Kong) Company Limited and OmniVision Trading (Hong Kong) Company Ltd., and in the Cayman Islands, OmniVision International Holding, Ltd., for which the functional currency is the U.S. dollar. Effective May 1, 2006, the functional currency of one of the Company’s consolidated affiliates, VisEra, also became the U.S. dollar. The change is made necessary by a significant increase in U.S. dollar-based transactions after VisEra’s entry into the color-filter business. The functional currency of Silicon Optronics, Inc., (“SOI”), the other one of our consolidated affiliates, remains the New Taiwan dollar. Transaction gains and losses resulting from transactions denominated in currencies other than the respective functional currencies are included in “Other income (expense), net” for the periods presented. The amounts of transaction gains and losses for the three months ended October 31, 2006 and 2005 were not material.
     Given that the only expenses that we incur in currencies other than U.S. dollars are certain costs which historically have not been a significant percentage of our revenues, we do not believe that our foreign currency exchange rate fluctuation risk is significant. Consequently, we do not believe that a 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates would have a significant effect on our future net income or cash flows.
     We have not hedged exposures denominated in foreign currencies or used any other derivative financial instruments as we do not believe that we currently have any significant direct foreign currency exchange rate risk. Although we transact our business in U.S. dollars, future fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar may affect the competitiveness of our products and results of operations.
  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 our exposure to financial market risk by performing ongoing evaluations of our investment portfolio. We presently invest in money market funds, certificates of deposit issued by banks, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, high-grade corporate securities and government bonds maturing approximately 12 months or less from the date of purchase, with the exception of auction rate securities, which bear a maturity date of up to thirty years and are re-negotiated every 35 days and variable rate demand notes which have a maturity of up to 35 years and the interest rate being reset every seven days. Due to the short maturities of our investments, the carrying value should approximate the fair market value. In addition, we do not use our investments for trading or other speculative purposes. Due to the short duration of our investment portfolio, we do not expect that an immediate 10% change in interest rates would have a material effect on the fair market value of our 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.

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ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
  (a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures.
     Under the supervision and with the participation of our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, our management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that, at the level of reasonable assurance, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information we are required to disclose 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 principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
  (b) Changes in Internal Controls.
     There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II — OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
     From time to time, we have been subject to legal proceedings and claims with respect to such matters as patents, product liabilities and other actions arising in the normal course of business.
     On November 29, 2001, a complaint captioned McKee v. OmniVision Technologies, Inc., et. al., Civil Action No. 01CV 10775, was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against OmniVision, some of our directors and officers, and various underwriters for our initial public offering. Plaintiffs generally allege that the named defendants violated federal securities laws because the prospectus related to our offering failed to disclose, and contained false and misleading statements regarding, certain commissions purported to have been received by the underwriters, and other purported underwriter practices in connection with their allocation of shares in our offering. The complaint seeks unspecified damages on behalf of a purported class of purchasers of our common stock between July 14, 2000 and December 6, 2000. Substantially similar actions have been filed concerning the initial public offerings for more than 300 different issuers, and the cases have been coordinated as In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, 21 MC 92. Claims against our directors and officers have been dismissed without prejudice pursuant to a stipulation. On February 19, 2003, the Court issued an order dismissing all claims against us except for a claim brought under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933. A stipulation of settlement for the release of claims against the issuer defendants, including us, has been submitted to the Court. On February 15, 2005, the Court preliminarily approved the settlement contingent on specified modifications. On August 31, 2005, the Court issued an order confirming preliminary approval of the settlement. On April 24, 2006, the Court held a fairness hearing in connection with the motion for final approval of the settlement. The Court did not issue a ruling on the motion for final approval at the fairness hearing. On December 5, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the Court’s order certifying a class in several “test cases” that had been selected by the underwriter defendants and plaintiffs in the coordinated proceeding In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. The settlement continues to remain subject to final Court approval and a number of other conditions. If the settlement does not occur and litigation against us continues, we believe that we have meritorious defenses and intend to defend the case vigorously. We further believe that the settlement will not have any material adverse affect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
     On June 10, 2004, the first of several putative class actions was filed against us and certain of our present and former directors and officers in federal court in the Northern District of California on behalf of investors who purchased our common stock at various times from February 2003 through June 9, 2004. Those actions were consolidated under the caption In re OmniVision Technologies, Inc., No. C-04-2297-SC, and a consolidated complaint was filed. The consolidated complaint asserts claims on behalf of purchasers of our common stock between June 11, 2003 and June 9, 2004, and seeks unspecified damages. The consolidated complaint generally alleges that defendants violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by allegedly engaging in improper accounting practices that purportedly led to our financial restatement. On July 29, 2005, the court denied our motion to dismiss the complaint and discovery commenced thereafter. The parties engaged in settlement discussions and in November 2006, the parties reached an agreement in principle to settle this litigation. Much of the settlement would be funded by insurance carriers that issued Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Policies to us. We have accrued $3.3 million for the quarter ended October 31, 2006, as our share of the settlement, including unreimbursed defense costs, net of $13.0 million in recoverable insurance proceeds. The parties are currently drafting a written settlement agreement and other customary documentation. As a result of the pending settlement, the parties have agreed to stay discovery and other proceedings. Notice of the settlement must be provided to the purported shareholder class, and the Court must grant final approval of the settlement. We believe that ultimate settlement is probable at the currently estimated amount. There is no assurance that the Court will grant such approval, or that the settlement will become final. If the settlement does not occur and litigation against us continues, we believe that we have meritorious defenses and intend to defend the case vigorously. If the litigation continues, we cannot estimate whether the result of the litigation would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
On October 20, 2005, a purported shareholder derivative complaint, captioned Hackl v. Hong, No. 1:05-CV-050985, was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court for the State of California. This derivative action contains allegations that are virtually identical to the prior state court derivative actions that were voluntarily dismissed, and which were based on the allegations contained in the securities class actions. The current complaint generally seeks unspecified damages and equitable relief based on causes of action against various of our present and former directors and officers for purported breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, waste of corporate assets, unjust enrichment and violations of California Corporations Code. We are named solely as a nominal defendant against whom no monetary recovery is sought. Pursuant to a January 20, 2006 Court Order, plaintiff furnished a bond for reasonable expenses in order to proceed with his derivative action. Individual

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defendants and we filed demurrers to the complaint. On May 15, 2006, the Court sustained our demurrer to the complaint with leave to amend on the grounds that the plaintiff failed to make a pre-litigation demand on our board of directors and fails to sufficiently plead that demand is futile. On October 4, 2006, the Court sustained our demurrer to the amended complaint as well and granted leave to amend. Plaintiff is currently scheduled to file a second amended complaint on December 12, 2006.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
     This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause our future business, financial condition or results of operations to differ materially from our historical results or currently anticipated results, including those set forth below.
     The following description of these risk factors includes any material changes to and supersedes the description of the risk factors associated with our business previously disclosed in Item 1A of our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on July 14, 2006. As a result of the following risk factors, as well as of other variables affecting our operating results, past financial performance may not be a reliable indicator of future performance, and historical trends should not be used to anticipate results or trends in future periods.
Risks Related to Our Business
We face intense competition in our markets from more established CMOS and CCD image sensor manufacturers, and if we are unable to compete successfully we may not be able to maintain or grow our business.
     The image sensor market is intensely competitive, and we expect competition in this industry to continue to increase. This competition has resulted in rapid technological change, evolving standards, reductions in product selling prices and rapid product obsolescence. If we are unable to successfully meet these competitive challenges, we may be unable to maintain and grow our business. Any inability on our part to compete successfully would also adversely affect our results of operations and impair our financial condition.
     Our image-sensor products face competition from other companies that sell CMOS image sensors and from companies that sell CCD image sensors. Many of our competitors have longer operating histories, greater presence in key markets, greater name recognition, larger customer bases, more established strategic and financial relationships and significantly greater financial, sales and marketing, distribution, technical and other resources than we do. Many of them also have their own manufacturing facilities which may give them a competitive advantage. As a result, they may be able to adapt more quickly to new or emerging technologies and customer requirements or devote greater resources to the promotion and sale of their products. Our competitors include established CMOS image sensor manufacturers such as Cypress, Kodak, MagnaChip, Micron, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba as well as CCD image sensor manufacturers such as Fuji, Matsushita, NEC, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba. Many of these competitors own and operate their own fabrication facilities, which in certain circumstances may give them the ability to price their products more aggressively than we can or may allow them to respond more rapidly than we can to changing market opportunities. In addition, we compete with a large number of smaller CMOS manufacturers including PixArt and Pixelplus. Competition with these and other companies may force us to reduce our prices. For instance, we have seen increased competition in the markets for VGA image sensor products with resulting pressures on product pricing. Downward pressure on pricing could result both in decreased revenues and lower gross margins, which would adversely affect our profitability.
     Our competitors may acquire or enter into strategic or commercial agreements or arrangements with foundries or providers of color filter processing, assembly or packaging services. These strategic arrangements between our competitors and third party service providers could involve preferential or exclusive arrangements for our competitors. Such strategic alliances could impair our ability to secure sufficient capacity from foundries and service providers to meet our demand for wafer manufacturing, color filter processing, assembly or packaging services, adversely affecting our ability to meet customer demand for our products. In addition, competitors may enter into exclusive relationships with distributors, which could reduce available distribution channels for our products and impair our ability to sell our products and grow our business. Further, some of our customers could

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also become developers of image sensors, and this could potentially adversely affect our results of operations, business and prospects.
Declines in our average selling prices may result in declines in our revenues and gross margins.
     We have experienced and expect to continue to experience pressure to reduce the selling prices of our products, and our average selling prices have declined as a result. Competition in our product markets is intense and as this competition continues to intensify, we anticipate that these pricing pressures will increase. We expect that the average selling prices for many of our products will continue to decline over time. Unless we can increase unit sales sufficiently to offset these declines in our average selling prices, our revenues will decline. If we cannot reduce manufacturing costs to compensate, reductions in our selling prices will cause a decline in our gross margins and could materially and adversely affect our operating results and impair our financial condition. We have increased and intend to continue to increase our research, development and related expenses to continue the development of new image sensor products in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 that can be sold at higher selling prices and/or manufactured at lower cost. However, if we are unable to timely introduce new products that incorporate more advanced technology and include more advanced features that can be sold at higher average selling prices, or if we are unable to reduce manufacturing costs, our financial results could be adversely affected.
Sales of our image-sensor products for camera cell phones account for a large portion of our revenues, and any decline in sales to the camera cell phone market or failure of this market to continue to grow as expected could adversely affect our results of operations.
     Sales to the camera cell phone market account for a large portion of our revenues. Although we can only estimate the percentages of our products that are used in the camera cell phone market due to the significant number of our image-sensor products that are sold to module makers or through distributors and VARs, we believe that the camera cell phone market accounted for approximately 70% of our revenues in fiscal 2006 and 85% in the six months ended October 31, 2006. We expect that revenues from sales of our image-sensor products to the camera cell phone market will continue to account for a significant portion of our revenues during fiscal 2007 and beyond. Any factors adversely affecting the demand for our image sensors in this market could cause our business to suffer and adversely affect our results of operations. The digital image sensor market for camera cell phones is extremely competitive, and we expect to face increased competition in this market in the future. In addition, we believe the market for camera cell phones is also relatively concentrated and the top six producers account for more than 75% of the annual sales of these products. If we do not continue to achieve design wins with key camera cell phone manufacturers, our market share or revenues could decrease. The camera cell phone image sensor market is also subject to rapid technological change. In order to compete successfully in this market, we will have to correctly forecast customer demand for technological improvements and be able to deliver such products on a timely basis at competitive prices. If we fail to do this, our results of operations, business and prospects would be materially and adversely affected. In the past, we have experienced problems accurately forecasting customer demand in other markets. If sales to the camera cell phone market do not increase, our results of operations, business and prospects would be materially adversely affected.
Our future success depends on the timely development, introduction, marketing and selling of new CMOS image sensors, which we might not be able to achieve.
     Our failure to successfully develop new products that achieve market acceptance in a timely fashion would adversely affect our ability to grow our business and our operating results. The development, introduction and market acceptance of new products is critical to our ability to sustain and grow our business. Any failure to successfully develop, introduce, market and sell new products could materially adversely affect our business and operating results. The development of new products is highly complex, and we have in the past experienced delays in completing the development and introduction of new products. From time to time, we have also encountered unexpected manufacturing problems as we increase the production of new products. For example, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005, and again in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, the back-end yields on two of our advanced products were significantly below where we planned, and our gross margins were adversely impacted. As our products integrate new and more advanced functions, they become more complex and increasingly difficult to design and debug. Successful product development and introduction depends on a number of factors, including:

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    accurate prediction of market requirements and evolving standards, including pixel resolution, output interface standards, power requirements, optical lens size, input standards and operating systems for personal computers and other platforms;
 
    development of advanced technologies and capabilities;
 
    definition, timely completion and introduction of new CMOS image sensors that satisfy customer requirements;
 
    development of products that maintain a technological advantage over the products of our competitors, including our advantages with respect to the functionality and pixel capability of our image-sensor products and our proprietary testing processes; and
 
    market acceptance of the new products.
     Accomplishing all of this is time consuming and expensive. We may be unable to develop new products or product enhancements in time to capture market opportunities or achieve significant or sustainable acceptance in new and existing markets. In addition, our products could become obsolete sooner than anticipated because of a rapid change in one or more of the technologies related to our products or the reduced life cycles of consumer products.
Failure to obtain design wins could cause our market share and revenues to decline and could impair our ability to grow our business.
     Our future success is dependent upon manufacturers designing our image-sensor products into their products. To achieve design wins, which are decisions by manufacturers to design our products into their systems, we must define and deliver on a timely basis cost effective and innovative image-sensor solutions that satisfy the manufacturers’ requirements. Our ability to achieve design wins is subject to numerous risks including competitive pressures as well as technological risks. If we do not achieve a design win with a prospective customer, it may be difficult to sell our image-sensor products to such prospective customer in the future because once a manufacturer has designed a supplier’s products into its systems, the manufacturer may be reluctant to change its source of components due to the significant costs, time, effort and risk associated with qualifying a new supplier. Accordingly, if we fail to achieve design wins with key device manufacturers that embed image sensors in their products, our market share or revenues could decrease. Furthermore, to the extent that our competitors secure design wins, our ability to expand our business in the future will be impaired.
We depend on a limited number of third party wafer foundries, which reduces our ability to control our manufacturing process.
     Unlike some of our larger competitors, we do not own or operate a semiconductor fabrication facility. Instead, we rely on TSMC, PSC and other subcontract foundries to produce all of our wafers. Historically, we have relied on TSMC to provide us with a substantial majority of our wafers. As a part of our joint venture agreement with TSMC, TSMC has agreed to commit substantial wafer manufacturing capacity to us in exchange for our commitment to purchase a substantial portion of our wafers from TSMC, subject to pricing and technology requirements.
     We do not have long-term supply agreements with any other foundries. As a result, we have to secure manufacturing availability on a purchase order basis. These foundries have no obligation to supply products to us for any specific period, in any specific quantity or at any specific price, except as set forth in a particular purchase order. In general, our reliance on third party foundries involves a number of significant risks, including:
    reduced control over delivery schedules, quality assurance, manufacturing yields and production costs;
 
    lack of guaranteed production capacity or product supply;
 
    unavailability of, or delayed access to, next generation or key process technologies; and
 
    financial difficulties or disruptions in the operations of third party foundries due to causes beyond our control.
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substitute foundries, which would be time consuming and difficult, and could increase our costs or result in unforeseen manufacturing problems. In addition, if competition for foundry capacity increases we may be required to pay increased amounts for manufacturing services. We are also exposed to additional risks if we transfer our production of semiconductors from one foundry to another, as such transfer could interrupt our manufacturing process. Further, some of our foundries may also be developers of image sensor products and if one or more of our other foundries were to decide not to fabricate our companion DSP chips for competitive or other reasons, we would have to identify and qualify other sources for these products.
We rely on a joint venture company for color filter application and on third party service providers for packaging services, which reduces our control over delivery schedules, product quality and cost, and could adversely affect our ability to deliver products to customers.
     We rely on VisEra, our joint venture with TSMC, for the color filter processing of our completed wafers. In addition, we rely on Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc., or ASE, and ImPac for substantially all of our ceramic chip packages. We also rely on ImPac, our equity investee, for our plastic chip packages. We rely on XinTec, another investee company, and China Wafer Level CSP, Ltd. for chip scale packages, which are generally used in our products designed for the smallest form factor applications. We currently have plans to expand color filter processing capacity and our chip scale packaging with these service providers. If for any reason one or more of these service providers becomes unable or unwilling to continue to provide color filter processing or packaging services of acceptable quality, at acceptable costs and in a timely manner, our ability to deliver our products to our customers could be severely impaired. We would have to identify and qualify substitute service providers, which could be time consuming and difficult and could result in unforeseen operational problems. Substitute service providers might not be available or, if available, might be unwilling or unable to offer services on acceptable terms.
     In addition, if competition for color filter processing or packaging capacity increases, we may be required to pay or invest significant amounts to secure access to these services, which could adversely impact our operating results. The number of companies that provide these services is limited and some of them have limited operating histories and financial resources. In the event our current providers refuse or are unable to continue to provide these services to us, we may be unable to procure services from alternate service providers. Furthermore, if customer demand for our products increases, we may be unable to secure sufficient additional capacity from our current service providers on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. Moreover, our reliance on a limited number of third party service providers to provide color filter processing services subjects us to reduced control over delivery schedules, quality assurance and costs. This lack of control may cause unforeseen product shortages or may increase our costs of manufacturing, assembling or testing of our products, which would adversely affect our operating results.
Fluctuations in our quarterly operating results make it difficult to predict our future performance and may result in volatility in the market price of our common stock.
     Our quarterly operating results have varied significantly from quarter-to-quarter in the past and are likely to vary significantly in the future based on a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control. These factors and other industry risks, many of which are more fully discussed in our other risk factors, include:
    the volume and mix of our product sales;
 
    competitive pricing pressures;
 
    our ability to accurately forecast demand for our products;
 
    our ability to achieve acceptable wafer manufacturing or back-end processing yields;
 
    our gain or loss of a large customer;
 
    our ability to manage our product transitions;
 
    the availability of production capacity at the suppliers that manufacture our products or components of our products;
 
    the growth of the market for products and applications using CMOS image sensors;
 
    the timing and size of orders from our customers;

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    the volume of our product returns;
 
    the seasonal nature of customer demand for our products;
 
    the deferral of customer orders in anticipation of new products, product designs or enhancements;
 
    the announcement and introduction of products and technologies by our competitors; and
 
    the level of our operating expenses.
     Our introduction of new products and our product mix have affected and may continue to affect our quarterly operating results. Changes in our product mix could adversely affect our operating results, because some products provide higher margins than others. We typically experience lower yields when manufacturing new products through the initial production phase, and consequently our gross margins on new products have historically been lower than our gross margins on our more established products. We also anticipate that the rate of orders from our customers may vary significantly from quarter to quarter. Our operating expenses are relatively fixed, and our inventory levels are based on our expectations of future revenues. Consequently, if we do not achieve the revenues we expect in any quarter, expenses and inventory levels could be disproportionately high, and our operating results for that quarter, and potentially future quarters, may be harmed.
     All of these factors are difficult to forecast and could result in fluctuations in our quarterly operating results. Our operating results in a given quarter could be substantially less than anticipated, and, if we fail to meet market analysts’ expectations, a substantial decline in our stock price could result. Fluctuations in our quarterly operating results could adversely affect the price of our common stock in a manner unrelated to our long-term operating performance.
Problems with wafer manufacturing and/or back-end processing yields could result in higher product costs and could impair our ability to meet customer demand for our products.
     If the foundries manufacturing the wafers used in our products cannot achieve the yields we expect, we will incur higher per unit costs and reduced product availability. Foundries that supply our wafers have experienced problems in the past achieving acceptable wafer manufacturing yields. Wafer yields are a function both of our design technology and the particular foundry’s manufacturing process technology. Certain risks are inherent in the introduction of such new products and technology. Low yields may result from design errors or manufacturing failures in new or existing products. During the early stages of production, production yields for new products are typically lower than those of established products. Unlike many other semiconductor products, optical products can be effectively tested only when they are complete. Accordingly, we perform final testing of our products only after they are assembled. As a result, yield problems may not be identified until our products are well into the production process. The risks associated with low yields could be increased because we rely on third party offshore foundries for our wafers, which can increase the effort and time required to identify, communicate and resolve manufacturing yield problems. In addition to wafer manufacturing yields, our products are subject to yield loss in subsequent manufacturing steps, often referred to as back-end processing, such as the application of color filters and micro-lenses, dicing (cutting the wafer into individual devices, or die) and packaging. Any of these potential problems with wafer manufacturing and/or back-end processing yields could result in a reduction in our gross margins and/or our ability to timely deliver products to customers, which could adversely affect our customer relations and make it more difficult to sustain and grow our business. For example, lower back-end yields on two of our products adversely impacted our gross margins for the fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2005, July 31, 2005 and October 31, 2005.
     If we do not forecast customer demand correctly, our business could be impaired and our stock price may decline.
     Our sales are generally made on the basis of purchase orders rather than long-term purchase commitments; however, we manufacture products and build inventory based on our estimates of customer demand. Accordingly, we must rely on multiple assumptions about forecasted customer demand. We are continually working to improve our sales forecasting procedures. If we overestimate customer demand, we may manufacture products that we may be unable to sell, or we may have to sell to other customers at lower prices. This could materially and adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. In addition, our customers may cancel or defer orders at any time. We have experienced problems with accurately forecasting customer demand in the past. For example, beginning in the third quarter of fiscal 2001, major demand for our image-sensor products for use in PC cameras

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decreased significantly and one of our OEM customers unexpectedly canceled its purchase orders. We are required to accurately predict customer demand because we must often make commitments to have products manufactured before we receive firm purchase orders from our customers. If we underestimate customer demand, we may be unable to manufacture sufficient products quickly enough to meet actual demand, causing us to lose customers and impairing our ability to grow our business. In preparation for new product introductions, we gradually ramp down production of established products. With our 12-14 week production cycle, it is extremely difficult to predict precisely how many units of established products we will need. The length of our production cycle required that we increase work-in-process inventory during the second quarter of fiscal 2007 to support our anticipated increase in unit volume sales in the next two quarters, to prepare for new packaging capacity expected to come on-line at XinTec and a shift in demand towards VGA products late in the quarter, which precluded wafer production schedule adjustments. It is also difficult to accurately predict the speed of the ramp of our new products and the impact on inventory levels presented by the shorter life cycles of end-user products. The shorter product life cycle is a result of an increase in competition and the growth of various consumer-product applications for image sensors. For example, although in the security and surveillance market we continue to sell image-sensor products introduced more than four years ago, in the camera cell phone market, the product life cycle of image sensors can be as little as six months. Under these circumstances, it is possible that we could suffer from shortages for certain products and, if we underestimate market demand, we face the risk of being unable to fulfill customer orders. We also face the risk of excess inventory and product obsolescence if we overestimate market demand for our products and build inventories in excess of demand. Our ability to accurately forecast sales is also a critical factor in our ability to meet analyst expectations for our quarterly and annual operating results. Any failure to meet these expectations would likely lead to a substantial decline in our stock price.
We depend on the increased acceptance of mass-market image sensor applications to grow our business and increase our revenues.
     Our business strategy depends in large part on the continued growth of various markets into which we sell our image-sensor products, including the markets for camera cell phones, digital still and video cameras, commercial and security and surveillance applications and toys and games, including interactive video games. Our ability to sustain and grow our business also depends on the continued development of new markets for our products such as cameras for embedded applications for personal computers, automotive applications and medical imaging devices. If these current and new markets do not grow and develop as anticipated, we may be unable to sustain or grow the sales of our products.
     In addition, the market price of our common stock may be adversely affected if certain of these new markets do not emerge or develop as expected. Securities analysts may already factor revenue from such new markets into their future estimates of our financial performance and should such markets not develop as expected by such securities analysts the trading price of our common stock could be adversely affected.
Our lengthy manufacturing, packaging and assembly cycle, in addition to our customers’ design cycle, may result in uncertainty and delays in generating revenues.
     The production of our image sensors requires a lengthy manufacturing, packaging and assembly process, typically lasting approximately 12-14 weeks. Additional time may pass before a customer commences volume shipments of products that incorporate our image sensors. Even when a manufacturer decides to design our image sensors into its products, the manufacturer may never ship final products incorporating our image sensors. Given this lengthy cycle, we experience a delay between the time we incur expenditures for research and development and sales and marketing efforts and the time we generate revenue, if any, from these expenditures. This delay makes it more difficult to forecast customer demand, which adds uncertainty to the manufacturing planning process and could adversely affect our operating results. In addition, the product life cycle for certain of our image-sensor products designed for use in certain applications can be relatively short. If we fail to appropriately manage the manufacturing, packaging and assembly process, our products may become obsolete before they can be incorporated into our customers’ products and we may never realize a return on investment for the expenditures we incur in developing and producing these products.

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Our ability to deliver products that meet customer demand is dependent upon our ability to meet new and changing requirements for color filter application and sensor packaging.
     We expect that as we develop new products to meet technological advances and new and changing industry and customer demands, our color filter application and ceramic, plastic and chip-scale packaging requirements will also evolve. Our ability to continue to profitably deliver products that meet customer demand is dependent upon our ability to obtain third party services that meet these new requirements on a cost-effective basis. We have historically relied exclusively on third parties, and more recently, on one of our joint ventures, to provide these services. There can be no assurances that any of these parties will be able to develop enhancements to the services they provide to us to meet these new and changing industry and customer requirements. Furthermore, even if these service providers are able to develop their services to meet new and evolving requirements, these services may not be available at a cost that enables us to sustain our profitability.
The high level of complexity and integration of our products increases the risk of latent defects, which could damage customer relationships and increase our costs.
     Because we integrate many functions on a single chip, our products are complex and are based upon evolving technology. The integration of additional functions into the complex operations of our products could result in a greater risk that customers or end users could discover latent defects or subtle faults after volumes of product have already been shipped. Although we test our products, we have in the past and may in the future encounter defects or errors. For example, in the third quarter of fiscal 2005, we made a provision of $2.7 million related to the possible replacement of products that did not meet a particular customer’s standards. Delivery of products with defects or reliability, quality or compatibility problems may damage our reputation and ability to retain existing customers and attract new customers. In addition, product defects and errors could result in additional development costs, diversion of technical resources, delayed product shipments, increased product returns, product warranty costs for recall and replacement and product liability claims against us which may not be fully covered by insurance.
Historically, our revenues have been dependent upon a few key customers, the loss of one or more of which could significantly reduce our revenues.
     Historically, a relatively small number of OEMs, VARs and distributors have accounted for a significant portion of our revenues. Any material delay, cancellation or reduction of purchase orders from one or more of our major customers or distributors could result in our failure to achieve anticipated revenue for a particular period. In addition, if we are unable to retain one or more of our largest OEM, distributor or VAR customers, or if we are unable to maintain our current level of revenues from one or more of these significant customers, our business and results of operation would be impaired and our stock price could decrease, potentially significantly. In the six months ended October 31, 2006, one OEM customer accounted for approximately 15.5% of our revenues, and two distributors accounted for approximately 13.2% and 10.7% of our revenues. In the six months ended October 31, 2005, two OEMs accounted for approximately 16.4% and 10.0% of our revenues, respectively, and one distributor accounted for approximately 15.4% of our revenues. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows will continue to depend significantly on our ability to retain our current key customers and attract new customers, as well as on the financial condition and success of our OEMs, VARs and distributors.
Changes in accounting rules for stock-based compensation adversely affect our reported operating results, and may adversely affect our stock price and our competitiveness in the employee marketplace.
     Since our founding, we have used employee stock options and other stock-based compensation to attract, motivate and retain our employees. In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), “Share-Based Payment.” We adopted SFAS No. 123(R) on May 1, 2006 and accordingly, we began to measure compensation costs for all stock-based compensation at fair value and recognized these costs as expenses in our condensed consolidated statements of income. The recognition of these expenses in our statements of income has had a negative effect on our earnings per share, which could negatively impact our future stock price. In addition, if we reduce or alter our use of stock-based compensation to minimize the recognition of these expenses, our ability to attract, motivate and retain employees may be impaired, which could put us at a competitive disadvantage in the employee marketplace.

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We may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets become impaired.
     Under generally accepted accounting principles, we are required to review our amortizable intangible assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. We are required to test goodwill for impairment at least annually. Factors that may be considered a change in circumstances indicating that the carrying value of our amortizable intangible assets may not be recoverable include a decline in stock price and market capitalization, and slower growth rates in our industry. We may be required to record a significant charge to earnings in our financial statements during the period in which we determine that our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets have been impaired. Any such charge would adversely impact our results of operations. As of October 31, 2006, our net goodwill and amortizable intangible assets totaled approximately $33.0 million.
We maintain a backlog of customer orders that is subject to cancellation or delay in delivery schedules, and any cancellation or delay may result in lower than anticipated revenues.
     Our sales are generally made pursuant to standard purchase orders. We include in our backlog only those customer orders for which we have accepted purchase orders and assigned shipment dates within the upcoming 12 months. Orders constituting our current backlog are subject to cancellation or changes in delivery schedules, and backlog may not necessarily be an indication of future revenue. Any cancellation or delay in orders which constitute our current or future backlog may result in lower than expected revenues.
If we are unable to maintain processes and procedures to sustain effective internal control over our financial reporting, our ability to provide reliable and timely financial reports could be harmed and this could have a material adverse effect on our stock price.
     We are required to comply with the rules promulgated under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Section 404 requires that we prepare an annual management report assessing the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, and requires a report by our independent registered public accounting firm addressing this assessment and the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
     We have in the past discovered, and may in the future discover, areas of our internal control that need improvement. For example, we restated our financial statements for the first, second and third quarters of fiscal 2004. If these or similar types of issues were to arise with respect to our internal controls in future periods, they could impair our ability to produce accurate and timely financial reports.
     As our business expands, ongoing compliance with the provisions of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and maintenance of effective internal control over financial reporting will require that we hire additional qualified finance and accounting personnel. Because other businesses face similar challenges, there is significant competition for such personnel, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to attract and/or retain suitably qualified employees.
Corporate governance regulations have recently increased our compliance costs and could further increase our expenses if changes occur within our business.
     Changes in laws and regulations affecting public companies, including the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, have imposed new requirements on us and on our officers, directors, attorneys and independent registered public accounting firm. In order to comply with these new rules, we added internal resources and have utilized additional outside legal, accounting and advisory services, which increased our operating expenses in fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2006 as compared to prior fiscal years. We expect to incur ongoing operating expenses as we maintain compliance with Section 404. In addition, if we undergo significant modifications to our structure through personnel or system changes, acquisitions, or otherwise, it may be increasingly difficult to maintain compliance with the existing and evolving corporate governance regulations.
There are risks associated with our operations in China.
     In December 2000, we established Hua Wei Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., or HWSC, as part of our efforts to streamline our manufacturing process and reduce the costs and working capital associated with the testing of our image-sensor products, and relocated our automated image testing equipment from the United States to

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China. In addition, we also expect to expand testing capabilities with additional automated testing equipment, which will also be located in China. However, there are significant administrative, legal and governmental risks to operating in China that could result in increased operating expenses or that could prevent us from achieving our objectives in operations. The risks from operating in China that could increase our operating expenses and adversely affect our operating results, financial condition and ability to deliver our products and grow our business include, without limitation:
    difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations, particularly in attracting and retaining personnel qualified to design, sell and support CMOS image sensors;
 
    difficulties in coordinating our operations in China with those in California;
 
    diversion of management attention;
 
    difficulties in maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures and policies across our global operations, including inventory management and financial consolidation;
 
    political and economic instability, which could have an adverse impact on foreign exchange rates in Asia and could impair our ability to conduct our business in China; and
 
    inadequacy of the local infrastructure to support our needs.
We may experience integration or other problems with potential future acquisitions, which could have an adverse effect on our business or results of operations. New acquisitions could dilute the interests of existing stockholders, and the announcement of new acquisitions could result in a decline in the price of our common stock.
     We may in the future make acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses that offer products, services and technologies that we believe would complement our products, including CMOS image sensor manufacturers. We may also make acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses that we believe could expand our distribution channels. Even if we were to announce an acquisition, we may not be able to complete it. In addition, any future acquisition or substantial investment could present numerous risks, including:
    difficulty in realizing the potential technological benefits of the transaction;
 
    difficulty in integrating the technology, operations or work force of the acquired business with our existing business;
 
    unanticipated expenses related to technology integration;
 
    disruption of our ongoing business;
 
    difficulty in realizing the potential financial or strategic benefits of the transaction;
 
    difficulty in maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures and policies;
 
    possible impairment of relationships with employees, customers, suppliers and strategic partners as a result of integration of new businesses and management personnel;
 
    reductions in our future operating results from amortization of intangible assets
 
    impairment of resulting goodwill; and
 
    potential unknown or unexpected liabilities associated with acquired businesses.
     We expect that any future acquisitions could include consideration to be paid in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination of cash and our common stock. If and when consideration for a transaction is paid in common stock, it will result in dilution to our existing stockholders.
We may never achieve all of the anticipated benefits from our joint venture with TSMC.
     In October 2003, we entered into an agreement with TSMC to form VisEra, a joint venture in Taiwan, for the purposes of providing manufacturing services and automated final testing services. In August 2005, we amended and restated our agreement with TSMC in part to enable VisEra to acquire approximately 30% of XinTec, a supplier of chip-scale packaging services in which we originally invested in April 2003 and in which we directly hold an approximate eight percent interest. As a result of our step acquisition of VisEra, and in accordance with the

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provisions of FIN 46, we consolidated the results of VisEra beginning in our fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2005. Any loss that VisEra incurs will negatively impact our reported earnings. In January 2006, VisEra acquired certain color filter processing equipment from TSMC and assumed direct responsibility for providing the color filer processing services that had previously been provided by TSMC. We expect that VisEra will be able to provide us with a committed supply of high quality manufacturing services at competitive prices and automated final testing services. However, there are significant legal, governmental and relationship risks to developing VisEra, and we cannot ensure that we will receive the expected benefits from the joint venture. For example, VisEra may not be able to provide manufacturing services or automated testing services that have competitive technology or prices, which could adversely affect our product offerings and our ability to meet customer requirements for our products. In addition, the existence of VisEra may also make it more difficult for us to secure dependable services from competing merchant vendors who provide similar manufacturing services.
We may not achieve all of the anticipated benefits of our alliances with, and strategic investments in, third parties.
     We expect to develop our business partly through forming alliances or joint ventures with and making strategic investments in other companies, some of which may be companies at a relatively early stage of development. For example, in April 2003, we made an investment in XinTec, a chip scale packaging service company, and in June 2003 we made an investment in ImPac, a plastic packaging service company. In December 2005, VisEra, our joint venture with TSMC, completed the acquisition of a further approximately 30% of the issued and outstanding shares of XinTec.
     In May 2004, we entered into an agreement with PSC under which we established SOI, a joint venture as a company incorporated under the laws of Taiwan, and we contributed $2.1 million in exchange for an ownership percentage of approximately 49%. The purpose of the joint venture is to conduct the business of manufacturing, marketing and selling certain of our legacy products. On April 30, 2005, after we appointed a majority of the board of directors, we began to consolidate SOI. In July 2006, SOI declared a cash dividend of $482,000, of which $245,000 was payable to minority shareholders. SOI also issued shares to its employees with an estimated fair value of $459,000. The cash dividend was paid in August 2006. As a result of the issuance of shares by SOI to its employees, our ownership percentage declined from 49% to approximately 47%.
     Our investments in these companies may negatively impact our operating results, because, under certain circumstances, we are required to recognize our portion of any loss recorded by each of these companies or to consolidate them into our operating results. We expect to continue to utilize partnerships, strategic alliances and investments, particularly those that enhance our manufacturing capacity and those that provide manufacturing services and testing capability. These investments and partnering arrangements are crucial to our ability to grow our business and meet the increasing demands of our customers. However, we cannot ensure that we will achieve the benefits expected as a result of these alliances. For example, we may not be able to obtain acceptable quality and/or wafer manufacturing yields from these companies, which could result in higher operating costs and could impair our ability to meet customer demand for our products. In addition, certain of these investments or partnering relationships may place restrictions on the scope of our business, the geographic areas in which we can sell our products and the types of products that we can manufacture and sell. For example, our agreement with TSMC provides that we may not engage in business that will directly compete with the business of VisEra. This type of non-competition provision may impact our ability to grow our business and to meet the demands of our customers.
Changes in our relationships with our joint ventures and/or companies in which we hold less than a majority interest could change the way we account for such interests in the future.
     As part of our strategy, we have formed joint ventures with two of our foundry partners, and we hold a minority interest in two companies from which we purchase certain manufacturing services. Under the applicable provisions of generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, including FIN 46, we currently consolidate the financial statements and results of operations of both joint ventures into our consolidated financial statements and results of operations, and record the equity interests that we do not own as minority interests. For certain of our other investments, accounted for under the equity method, we record as part of other income or expense our share of the increase or decrease in the equity of the companies in which we have invested. It is possible that, in the future, our relationships and/or our interests in or with these joint ventures or equity method investees could change. Such potential future changes could result in deconsolidation or consolidation of such entities, as the case may be, which could result in changes in our reported results.

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We may be unable to adequately protect our intellectual property, and therefore we may lose some of our competitive advantage.
     We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws as well as nondisclosure agreements and other methods to protect our proprietary technologies. We have been issued patents and have a number of pending United States and foreign patent applications. However, we cannot provide assurance that any patent will be issued as a result of any applications or, if issued, that any claims allowed will be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. It is possible that existing or future patents may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented. For example, in August 2002 we initiated a patent infringement action in Taiwan, Republic of China against IC Media Corporation of San Jose, California for infringement of a Taiwanese patent that had been issued to us. In response to our patent infringement action, in October 2002, IC Media Corporation initiated a cancellation proceeding in the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office with respect to our patent. In July 2003, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office made an initial determination to grant the cancellation of the subject patent, which decision was upheld by the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs and the High Administrative Court. We decided not to appeal such decision by the May 31, 2005 deadline. Although we do not believe the cancellation of the Taiwanese patent at issue in the dispute described above has had a material adverse effect on our business or prospects, there may be other situations where our inability to adequately protect our intellectual property rights could materially and adversely affect our competitive position and operating results. If a third party can copy or otherwise obtain and use our products or technology without authorization, develop corresponding technology independently or design around our patents, this could materially adversely affect our business and prospects. Effective patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret protection may be unavailable or limited in foreign countries. Any disputes over our intellectual property rights, whatever the ultimate resolution of such disputes, may result in costly and time-consuming litigation or require the license of additional elements of intellectual property for a fee.
Litigation regarding intellectual property could divert management attention, be costly to defend and prevent us from using or selling the challenged technology.
     In recent years, there has been significant litigation in the United States involving intellectual property rights, including in the semiconductor industry. We have in the past been, and may in the future be, subject to legal proceedings and claims with respect to our intellectual property, including such matters as trade secrets, patents, product liabilities and other actions arising out of the normal course of business. These claims may increase as our intellectual property portfolio becomes larger or more valuable. Intellectual property claims against us, and any resulting lawsuit, may cause us to incur significant expenses, subject us to liability for damages and invalidate our proprietary rights. In fiscal 2002, we paid $3.5 million to settle an intellectual property litigation matter. Any potential intellectual property litigation against us would likely be time-consuming and expensive to resolve and would divert management’s time and attention and could also force us to take actions such as:
    ceasing the sale or use of products or services that incorporate the infringed intellectual property;
 
    obtaining from the holder of the infringed intellectual property a license to sell or use the relevant technology, which license may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all; or
 
    redesigning those products or services that incorporate the disputed intellectual property, which could result in substantial unanticipated development expenses and delay and prevent us from selling the products until the redesign is completed, if at all.
     If we are subject to a successful claim of infringement and we fail to develop non-infringing intellectual property or license the infringed intellectual property on acceptable terms and on a timely basis, we may be unable to sell some or all of our products, and our operating results could be adversely affected. We may in the future initiate claims or litigation against third parties for infringement of our intellectual property rights or to determine the scope and validity of our proprietary rights or the proprietary rights of competitors. These claims could also result in significant expense and the diversion of technical and management attention.

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We have been named as a defendant in certain litigation that could have a material adverse impact on our operating results and financial condition.
     We are currently a defendant in ongoing litigation matters as described in Part II, Item 1 – “Legal Proceedings” of this Quarterly Report. We have reached an agreement in principle to settle the shareholder class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The Company has accrued $3.3 million in litigation settlement expenses for the quarter ended October 31, 2006 to reflect the Company’s share of the settlement, including unreimbursed defense costs. The parties are drafting a written settlement agreement and other customary documentation. Notice of the settlement must be provided to the purported shareholder class and the Court must grant final approval of the settlement. There is no assurance that the settlement will become final. If there is no final settlement of the matters described in Part II, Item 1 – Legal Proceedings,” and we fail to prevail in such matters, such failure could have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows in the future. In addition, the results of litigation are uncertain, and the litigation process may utilize a portion of our cash resources and divert management’s attention from the day-to-day operations of our company, all of which could harm our business.
     If we do not effectively manage our growth, our ability to increase our revenues and improve our earnings could be adversely affected.
     Our growth has placed, and will continue to place, a significant strain on our management and other resources. To manage our growth effectively, we must, among other things:
    significantly improve our operational, financial and accounting systems;
 
    train and manage our existing employee base;
 
    attract and retain qualified personnel with relevant experience; and
 
    effectively manage accounts receivable and inventory.
     For example, our failure to effectively manage our inventory levels could result either in excess inventories, which could adversely affect our gross margins and operating results, or lead to an inability to fill customer orders, which would result in lower sales and could harm our relationships with existing and potential customers.
     We must also manage multiple relationships with customers, business partners and other third parties, such as our foundries and process and assembly vendors. Moreover, our growth may significantly overburden our management and financial systems and other resources. We may not make adequate allowances for the costs and risks associated with our expansion. In addition, our systems, procedures or controls may not be adequate to support our operations, and we may not be able to expand quickly enough to capitalize on potential market opportunities. Our future operating results will also depend, in part, on our ability to expand sales and marketing, research and development, accounting, finance and administrative support.
Our future tax rates could be higher than we anticipate if the proportion of future operating income generated outside the U.S. by our foreign subsidiaries is less than we expect.
     A number of factors will affect our future tax rate, and certain of these factors could increase our effective tax rate in future periods, which could adversely impact our operating results. For example, the complex rules for accounting for the tax effects of stock-based compensation under SFAS No. 123(R) have resulted in an increase in our effective tax rate in the current fiscal year. In addition, our future effective tax rates could be negatively affected by changes in tax laws or the interpretation of tax laws, by unanticipated decreases in the amount of revenue or earnings in countries with low statutory tax rates, or by changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities.
     In common with all multinational companies, we are subject to tax in multiple jurisdictions. The tax authorities in any given jurisdiction may seek to increase the taxes being collected by, for example, asserting that the transfer prices we charge between related entities are either too high or too low depending on which side of the transaction they are looking at. Although we believe we have provided sufficient taxes for all prior periods, adjustments could be proposed that would, in some cases, result in liabilities in excess of such provisions.

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Our sales through distributors increase the complexity of our business and may reduce our ability to forecast revenues.
     During fiscal 2006, approximately 31.1% of our revenues came from sales through distributors. For the six months ended October 31, 2006, approximately 34.6% of our revenues came from sales through distributors. Selling through distributors reduces our ability to accurately forecast sales and increases the complexity of our business, requiring us to, among other matters:
    manage a more complex supply chain;
 
    manage the level of inventory at each distributor;
 
    provide for credits, return rights and price protection;
 
    estimate the impact of credits, return rights, price protection and unsold inventory at distributors; and
 
    monitor the financial condition and creditworthiness of our distributors.
     Any failure to manage these challenges could cause us to inaccurately forecast sales and carry excess or insufficient inventory, thereby adversely affecting our operating results.
We face foreign business, political and economic risks, because a majority of our products and those of our customers are manufactured and sold outside of the United States.
     We face difficulties in managing our third party foundries, color filter application service providers, ceramic and plastic packaging service providers and our foreign distributors, most of whom are located in Asia. Any political and economic instability in Asia might have an adverse impact on foreign exchange rates and could cause service disruptions for our vendors and distributors and adversely affect our customers.
     Sales outside of the United States accounted for substantially all of our revenues for fiscal 2006 and the first six months of fiscal 2007. We anticipate that sales outside of the United States will continue to account for nearly all of our revenues in future periods. Dependence on sales to foreign customers involves certain risks, including:
    longer payment cycles;
 
    the adverse effects of tariffs, duties, price controls or other restrictions that impair trade;
 
    decreased visibility as to future demand;
 
    difficulties in accounts receivable collections; and
 
    burdens of complying with a wide variety of foreign laws and labor practices.
     Sales of our products have to date been denominated principally in U.S. dollars. Over the last several years, the U.S. dollar has weakened against most other currencies. Future increases in the value of the U.S. dollar, if any, would increase the price of our products in the currency of the countries in which our customers are located. This may result in our customers seeking lower-priced suppliers, which could adversely impact our operating results. A larger portion of our international revenues may be denominated in foreign currencies in the future, which would subject us to increased risks associated with fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.
Our business could be harmed if we lose the services of one or more members of our senior management team, or if we are unable to attract and retain qualified personnel.
     The loss of the services of one or more of our executive officers or key employees, or the decision of one or more of these individuals to join a competitor, could adversely affect our business and harm our operating results and financial condition. Our success depends to a significant extent on the continued service of our senior management and certain other key technical personnel. None of our senior management is bound by an employment or non-competition agreement. We do not maintain key man life insurance on any of our employees.
     Our success also depends on our ability to identify, attract and retain qualified sales, marketing, finance, management and technical personnel, particularly analog or mixed signal design engineers. We have experienced, and may continue to experience, difficulty in hiring and retaining candidates with appropriate qualifications. If we do not succeed in hiring and retaining candidates with appropriate qualifications, our revenues and product development efforts could be harmed.

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We need to continue to upgrade our enterprise resource planning and other management information systems.
     As our business grows and becomes more complex, we have to expand and upgrade our ERP system and other management information systems which are critical to the operational, accounting and financial functions of our company. We continue to evaluate alternative solutions, both short term and long-term, to meet the operating, administrative and financial reporting requirements of our business. Failure to properly or adequately address these issues could result in the diversion of management’s attention and resources and could materially adversely affect our operating results and impact our ability to manage our business. At some point, we may outgrow our existing ERP system and need to transition our systems to a new platform. Such a transition would be time consuming and costly, and would require management resources in excess of those we currently have.
Our operations may be impaired as a result of disasters, business interruptions or similar events.
     Disasters and business interruptions such as earthquakes, water, fire, electrical failure, accidents and epidemics affecting our operating activities, major facilities, and employees’ and customers’ health could materially and adversely affect our operating results and financial condition. In particular, our Asian operations and most of our third party manufacturers and service providers involved in the manufacturing of our products are located within relative close proximity. Therefore, any disaster that strikes within close proximity of that geographic area could be extremely disruptive to our business and could materially and adversely affect our operating results and financial condition. We do not currently have a disaster recovery plan.
Acts of war and terrorist acts may seriously harm our business and revenue, costs and expenses and financial condition.
     Acts of war or terrorist acts, wherever they occur around the world, may cause damage or disruption to our business, employees, facilities, suppliers, distributors or customers, which could significantly impact our revenue, costs, expenses and financial condition. In addition, as a company with significant operations and major distributors and customers located in Asia, we may be adversely impacted by heightened tensions and acts of war that occur in locations such as the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and China. The potential for future terrorist attacks, the national and international responses to terrorist attacks or perceived threats to national security, and other acts of war or hostility have created many economic and political uncertainties that could adversely affect our business and results of operations in ways that cannot presently be predicted. We are uninsured for losses and interruptions caused by terrorist acts and acts of war.
Risks Related to the Securities Markets and Ownership of Our Common Stock
Provisions in our charter documents and Delaware law, as well as our stockholders’ rights plan, could prevent or delay a change in control of our company and may reduce the market price of our common stock.
     Provisions of our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may discourage, delay or prevent a merger or acquisition that a stockholder may consider favorable. These provisions include:
    adjusting the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of preferred stock without stockholder approval;
 
    providing for a classified board of directors with staggered, three year terms;
 
    requiring supermajority voting to amend some provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws;
 
    limiting the persons who may call special meetings of stockholders; and
 
    prohibiting stockholder actions by written consent.
     Provisions of Delaware law also may discourage, delay or prevent another company from acquiring or merging with us. Our board of directors adopted a preferred stock rights agreement in August 2001. Pursuant to the rights agreement, our board of directors declared a dividend of one right to purchase one one-thousandth share of our Series A Participating Preferred Stock for each outstanding share of our common stock. The dividend was paid

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on September 28, 2001 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on that date. Each right entitles the registered holder to purchase from us one one-thousandth of a share of Series A Preferred at an exercise price of $176.00, subject to adjustment. The exercise of the rights could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change of control of our company, including, without limitation, discouraging a proxy contest or making more difficult the acquisition of a substantial block of our common stock. The rights agreement could also limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for our common stock.
Our stock has been and will likely continue to be subject to substantial price and volume fluctuations due to a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, that may prevent our stockholders from selling our common stock at a profit.
     The market price of our common stock has fluctuated substantially, and there can be no assurance that such volatility will not continue. Since the beginning of fiscal 2002 through October 31, 2006, the closing sales price of our common stock has ranged from a high of $33.90 per share to a low of $1.26 per share. The closing sales price of our common stock on December 6, 2006 was $14.17 per share. The securities markets have experienced significant price and volume fluctuations in the past, and the market prices of the securities of semiconductor companies have been especially volatile. This market volatility, as well as general economic, market or political conditions, could reduce the market price of our common stock in spite of our operating performance. The market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly in response to a number of factors, including:
    actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results;
 
    changes in expectations as to our future financial performance;
 
    changes in financial estimates of securities analysts;
 
    release of lock-up or other transfer restrictions on our outstanding shares of common stock or sales of additional shares of common stock;
 
    sales or the perception in the market of possible sales of shares of our common stock by our directors, officers, employees or principal stockholders;
 
    changes in market valuations of other technology companies; and
 
    announcements by us or our competitors of significant technical innovations, design wins, contracts, standards or acquisitions.
     Due to these factors, the price of our stock may decline and investors may be unable to resell their shares of our stock for a profit. In addition, the stock market experiences extreme volatility that often is unrelated to the performance of particular companies. These market fluctuations may cause our stock price to decline regardless of our performance.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
     In April 2005, we completed the acquisition of privately held CDM Optics, Inc., or CDM. The closing consideration for the acquisition consisted of $10.0 million in cash and approximately 515,000 shares of our common stock. Approximately 147,000 of these shares were retained as security for certain indemnities given by the CDM selling stockholders and were retained until final resolution of indemnification claims by the Company or third parties. In October 2006 at the expiration of the 18-month escrow period, we issued the 147,000 escrowed shares to the CDM selling stockholders, and the CDM selling stockholders exercised their put rights and put the shares back to us in exchange for cash totaling $2.8 million.

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     The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, information regarding this purchase of common stock in the second quarter of fiscal 2007:
                                 
                    Total Number of     Approximate Dollar  
                    Shares     Value of Shares  
    Total Number             Purchased as     that May Yet Be  
    of Shares     Average Price     Part of a Publicly     Purchased Under  
Period   Purchased(1)     Paid per Share     Announced Plan     the Plan  
August 1, 2006 - August 31, 2006.
        $           $  
September 1, 2006 - September 30, 2006
        $           $  
October 1, 2006 - October 31, 2006
    145,021     $ 19.42           $  
 
                           
Total
    145,021     $ 19.42                
 
                           
 
(1)   As described above, in October 2006 certain stockholders exercised put rights with respect to previously escrowed shares. The put rights associated with all of the remaining escrowed shares expired unexercised on November 9, 2006.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
     Our annual meeting of stockholders was held at our corporate headquarters at 1341 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, California on September 28, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. local time. The results of the matters voted upon were as follows:
  1.   To elect two Class III directors to serve until the expiration of their three-year term or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
                 
    Vote
    For   Withheld
Joseph Jeng.
    47,438,184       3,234,798  
Dwight Steffensen
    47,444,513       3,228,469  
     The term of office of directors Shaw Hong and Andrew Wang continued after the Annual Meeting.
  2.   To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending April 30, 2007.
                         
For   Against   Abstained   No Vote
50,169,259
    362,047       141,676        
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description
10.13*
  Equipment Procurement Agreement dated as of August 31, 2006, by and between OmniVision Trading (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. and XinTec Inc.
31.1
  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2
  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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  Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
*   Portions of this agreement have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment and the omitted portions have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
         
 
      OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
 
      (Registrant)
 
       
Dated: December 11, 2006
       
 
       
 
  By:   /s/ Shaw Hong
 
       
 
      Shaw Hong
 
      Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
 
      (Principal Executive Officer)
 
       
Dated: December 11, 2006
       
 
       
 
  By:   /s/ Peter V. Leigh
 
       
 
      Peter V. Leigh
 
      Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial
 
      Officer (Principal Financial
 
      and Accounting Officer)

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Exhibit Index
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description
10.13*
  Equipment Procurement Agreement dated as of August 31, 2006, by and between OmniVision Trading (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. and XinTec Inc.
31.1
  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2
  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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  Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
*   Portions of this agreement have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment and the omitted portions have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.