Divestitures

9 Months Ended

Sep. 28, 2024


Note 9 :			Divestitures

NAND Memory Business

We sold our NAND memory technology and manufacturing business (the NAND OpCo Business) to SK hynix Inc. (SK hynix) which we deconsolidated upon closing the first phase of the transaction on December 29, 2021. We have a receivable within other current assets for the transaction's remaining proceeds of $2.0 billion, which remains outstanding as of September 28, 2024 and will be received upon the second closing of the transaction, expected to be in March 2025.

In connection with the transaction, we have a wafer manufacturing and sale agreement that includes incentives and penalties that are contingent on the cost of operation and output of the NAND OpCo Business. These incentives and penalties present a maximum exposure of up to $500 million annually, and $1.5 billion in the aggregate. We are currently in negotiations with SK hynix to update the operating plan of the NAND OpCo Business, which may impact the metrics associated with the incentives and penalties and our expectations of the performance of the NAND OpCo Business against those metrics.

We were reimbursed for costs that we incurred on behalf of the NAND OpCo Business for corporate function services, which include human resources, information technology, finance, supply chain, and other compliance requirements. We recorded a receivable related to these reimbursable costs due from the NAND OpCo Business, a deconsolidated entity, of $92 million within other current assets as of September 28, 2024 ($145 million recorded as of December 30, 2023).