Note 14 - Related Party Transactions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2018

14.	Related Party Transactions

December 29, 2018

certain of our cash and short-term investments were held and managed by BlackRock, Inc. which owns

14.6%

of our outstanding common stock as reported in its Form

-G filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission on

January 24, 2019.

As part of Xcerra, we gained ownership interests in

two

companies that supply components and provide services to wholly owned subsidiaries of Xcerra. Multitest eS GmbH and ATG-LM GmbH of FTZ Fraes-und Technologiezentrum GmbH Frasdorf (“FTZ”) and ETZ Elektrisches Testzentrum fuer Leiterplatten GmbH (“ETZ”), respectively. FTZ, based in Germany, provides milling services and ETZ, which is also based in Germany, provides certain component parts. These investments are accounted for under the equity method and are

not

material to our consolidated balance sheets. During

2018,

purchases of products from FTZ and ETZ were

not

material.