10KSB 1 a05-22206_110ksb.htm ANNUAL AND TRANSITION REPORTS OF SMALL BUSINESS ISSUERS

 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Form 10-KSB

(Mark One)

x                              ANNUAL REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005

o                                 TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                to

Commission File No. 1-6635

Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.
(Name of small business issuer in its charter)

Delaware

 

95-1950506

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

Identification No.)

 

75 Robin Hill Road, Goleta, California  93117
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Issuer’s telephone number: (805) 681-2800

Securities registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act: None

Securities registered under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act:

Common Stock, $.0001 par value
(Title of Class)

Check whether the issuer is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. o

Check whether the issuer (1) filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the past 12 months (or for such 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 o   No x

Check if there is no disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-B contained in this form, and no disclosure will be contained, to the best of the registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-KSB or in any amendment to this Form 10-KSB. o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o   No x

The issuer’s revenues for its most recently completed fiscal year were $10,298,000

There is no public market for the registrant’s Common Stock. As of October 29, 2005, the aggregate book value of the registrant’s Common Stock held by non-affiliates was $2,599,000.

(ISSUERS INVOLVED IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS)

Check whether the issuer has filed all documents and reports required to be filed by Sections 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court. Yes x   No o

As of December 22, 2005, there were 6,953,880 shares of the Company's common stock outstanding.

 




 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement relating to its 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A within 120 days of the close of the registrant’s last fiscal year, are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.

In this Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, the words “believe,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. All of the forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by management of the Company, which, although believed to be reasonable, are inherently uncertain and difficult to predict. Therefore, undue reliance should not be placed upon such estimates. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties inherent in the Company’s business that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed under the caption “Risk Factors Affecting the Company’s Business” and elsewhere in this report and our other documents filed with the SEC, and, the following: the Company’s ability to make the transition to volume production of MEMS products; the Company’s history of losses and bankruptcy; changing technology; competition; the company’s ability to protect intellectual property; fluctuations in the Company’s quarterly and annual operating results; lack of an active trading market; risks related to international transactions; environmental laws and regulations; supplies of raw materials; anti-takeover provisions of the Company’s charter and Delaware law; and general economic and political uncertainty. The Company does not assume any obligation to update or correct forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or actual results.

 

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PART I

ITEM 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Innovative Micro Technology, Inc (“the Company”) designs and manufactures MEMS devices. MEMS is an acronym for micro-electro-mechanical system. The Company’s headquarters are located in Goleta, California.

History

The Company was incorporated in California in 1957 and was reincorporated in Delaware in 1987 under the name “Applied Magnetics Corporation.” The Company was an independent manufacturer of head gimbal assemblies (“HGAs”) and head stack assemblies (which consist of multiple HGAs assembled together with other components) to the disk drive industry. The Company filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on January 7, 2000. The Company exited Chapter 11 on November 16, 2001 under a court approved plan of reorganization (the “Reorganization Plan”) and changed its name to Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.

The Company’s MEMS Business

The Company used the Chapter 11 reorganization process to reposition its operations in the MEMS business. MEMS devices were first developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. MEMS devices are made using modern wafer-processing technology, similar to that used in making silicon electronic devices or thin-film recording heads for magnetic storage devices. What distinguishes MEMS devices is that they include moving components, hence the “mechanical” part of the name. By using wafer techniques, the performance of mechanical systems can be enhanced due to their smaller size and/or complexity. MEMS devices can be manufactured at a lower cost due to the large number of devices that can be made on a single wafer.

Common uses for MEMS devices are automotive air-bag sensors (accelerometers), pressure and airflow sensors, and ink­jet printer heads. Future uses for MEMS devices are expected to be numerous, in that many small-scale mechanical systems such as electromagnetic relays, which today are built using assembly techniques, could be made using MEMS. In addition, many electrical systems may be replaced by MEMS. An example of this is optical fiber switching, used in telecommunications. MEMS versions of these switches are now beginning to find their way into the marketplace. Another example is components for wireless communication technology. High performance inductors, variable capacitors and transmit/receive switches could be replaced by MEMS devices at lower cost, using less space and providing higher performance. The Company’s business activity is at the product development phase for most of its customers. The Company has one customer’s product that is in low-volume production. The Company fabricates MEMS products on a six-inch silicon wafer which, depending upon the size of the individual part, is cut into multiple finished parts referred to as dies.

Other Lines of Business

The Company’s three additional lines of business are:  “Santa Barbara Tool & Die,” “IMT Analytical” and leasing of excess space in its owned facility under long-term lease contracts.

Santa Barbara Tool & Die is a precision machining and tooling service that provides customers with prototyping, development and production tool and die manufacturing. Santa Barbara Tool & Die’s technology permits high precision manufacturing of tooling, featuring electron-discharge machining (EDM), which includes metals and ceramics capabilities.

IMT Analytical is a precision semiconductor and MEMS analysis service provider. IMT Analytical’s laboratory technology includes electron microscopy in a variety of forms and a focused ion beam tool

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which can precisely make three-dimensional cuts in samples to reveal detailed information as to dimension, material makeup, and material crystal properties.

Santa Barbara Tool & Die and IMT Analytical are both strategic parts of the core company in that their services are used to make the core business more competitive, and both also provide service to outside customers using the portion of their capacity that is in excess of that required by the Company. In addition, the Company has approximately 51,000 square feet of building space available to lease. As of October 1, 2005, approximately 31,000 square feet were under long term lease arrangements with annual rental income of approximately $0.5 million. An existing tenant using a 3,000 square foot portion of the facility transitioned to a month to month rental basis as of November 3, 2005.

Employees

Highly trained engineers and technicians maintain and operate the sophisticated equipment used in the fabrication of MEMS devices. Most of these individuals play a dual role in operations as well as in process development. The employees cover the following technical areas:

·        photolithography, including resist application, resist development, and patterned exposure;

·        deposition, including sputtering, ion beam deposition, plating;

·        etching, including wet-etching and dry (vacuum) processing;

·        planarization, including chemical-mechanical polishing;

·        wafer slicing;

·        assembly, including die bonding, electrical bonding, precision alignment; and

·        testing, including mechanical and electrical testing.

·        The Santa Barbara Tool & Die employees have extensive tool and die experience and the IMT Analytical employees are trained to operate sophisticated analytical tools.

As of October 1, 2005, the Company had 136 employees at its headquarters in Goleta, California.

Technology

The Company has three main forms of technology: manufacturing, design, and service.

The manufacturing technology encompasses photolithography, material deposition, and material removal, which are the essential methods of producing integrated wafers. Additional manufacturing technology includes wafer bonding, assembly and testing procedures, including precision alignment and assembly, ceramic bonding, wire attachment, and testing algorithms. The Company’s techniques in this area have been developed over several years of manufacturing.

Design technology the Company possesses comes from years of recording head manufacturing experience, which afforded the Company special skills in the art of making magnetic materials and finding uses for them. To that end, some of the Company’s intended products surround magnetic MEMS devices. Specifically, the Company has skill and experience with generating high magnetic fields efficiently using thin-film coils coupled with high saturation magnetization materials capable of carrying magnetic flux. Coupled with MEMS concepts, this allows the Company to design and manufacture magnetic actuators of various types.

The Company’s service technology comes in the form of the specialized tool fabrication business offered by Santa Barbara Tool & Die and the specialized test services offered by IMT Analytical (See—Other Lines of Business).

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Intellectual Property

The Company regards elements of its manufacturing processes, product designs and equipment as proprietary and seeks to protect its proprietary rights through a combination of employee and third party nondisclosure agreements, internal procedures and patent protection. The Company has filed 17 patent applications with the United States Patent Office since January 2000, and more are in preparation related to the MEMS business. Seven of these patents have been issued by the U.S. Patent Office to the Company.

The Company believes that its success depends on the innovative skills and technological competence of its employees and upon proper protection of its intellectual properties. The Company has, from time to time, been notified of claims that it may be infringing on patents owned by others. If it appears necessary or desirable, the Company may seek licenses under patents that it is allegedly infringing. Although patent holders commonly offer such licenses, no assurance can be given that licenses will be offered or that the terms of any offered licenses will be acceptable to the Company. The failure to obtain a key patent license from a third party could cause the Company to incur substantial liabilities or to suspend the manufacture of the products using the patented invention.

In the future, the Company may face costly damages or litigation costs if a third party claims that the Company infringed on its intellectual property. Advanced technology products such as the Company’s are increasingly subject to third-party infringement claims. In addition, former employers of the Company’s current and future employees may assert that its employees have disclosed confidential or proprietary information to the Company. Any of these claims, even if they are without merit, could be expensive and time consuming to defend.

In addition, intellectual property claims against the Company, with or without merit, could require it to enter into royalty or licensing agreements. These royalty or licensing agreements, if required, may not be available on terms acceptable to the Company or at all, which could seriously harm its business. A successful claim of infringement against the Company or its failure or inability to license the infringed or similar technology could adversely affect its business because the Company would not be able to sell the affected product without redeveloping the product or its manufacturing process, incurring significant additional expenses.

Research and Development

Research and development expenses (“R&D”) were $0.2 million in fiscal 2005 compared to $0.5 million in fiscal 2004. The R&D expenses represented 2.1% and 5.2% of net revenue in fiscal 2005 and 2004, respectively.

R&D expenditures for the Company focus on development of new MEMS devices and the associated production processes for the telecommunication, inertial navigation, wireless communication, and the biomedical product areas. The reduction in R&D expenditures in fiscal 2005 compared to fiscal 2004 was due to the transfer of a portion of the groups effort in fiscal 2005 to support customer projects. R&D expenditures are expected to grow as the Company continues to diversify into new product areas. The Company had two employees focused on the development of new products and manufacturing processes at the end of fiscal 2005 compared to four at the end of fiscal 2004.

Vendors

The Company purchases materials from a variety of vendors, including providers of manufacturing supplies, office supplies, and raw materials. The Company is not solely dependent on any of its vendors, and in the majority of the cases there is a general market for the required products.

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Industry Segments

The Company analyzes its business results based on its four lines of business:  MEMS, Santa Barbara Tool & Die, IMT Analytical and Rental Income. The following table shows the percentages of revenue from each segment during both fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004.

Revenue by Segment

 

 

 

 

For the Periods:

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

October 1,

 

October 2,

 

(As a percentage of revenue)

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

MEMS

 

 

81

%

 

 

82

%

 

Santa Barbara Tool & Die

 

 

13

%

 

 

12

%

 

IMT Analytical

 

 

1

%

 

 

1

%

 

Rental Income

 

 

5

%

 

 

5

%

 

Total

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

Customers

The Company’s customers are in four categories representing its four business segments: MEMS and wafer customers, machine shop tool and die customers, tenants of excess building space and analytical lab service customers.

The MEMS business customers are in the inertial navigation, telecommunication, RF wireless, and the biomedical industries. Inertial navigation MEMS refers to MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers. The Company has been a subcontractor to L-3 Communications Corporation (“L-3”) to produce gyroscopes and accelerometers for use in inertial navigation. At the end of fiscal 2005, L-3 cancelled its most recent contract with the Company, because L-3’s contract with the Army for the production of gyroscopes and accelerometers for use in inertial navigation was cancelled. On March 15, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement for a Secured Promissory Note (the “Note”) in the original principal amount of $1.5 million with L-3, a principal stockholder of the Company. On January 25, 2005, the Company used approximately $1.6 million of the net proceeds from its $17.0 million private equity sale to an investor group, consisting of Investor Growth Capital Limited, BA Venture Partners and Miramar Venture Partners (together the “Investor Group”), to repay the Note, including all accrued interest. The Company’s revenue derived from Customer A was for the manufacture of a display used in small electronic devices, which was completed in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005. The Company’s revenue derived from Customer B was for the development of a telecommunications switch. The Company leases approximately 34,000 square feet of excess space within its owned facility to tenants under long-term contracts, of which OCCAM Networks, Inc., an unrelated party, leases approximately 31,000 square feet. The Company’s revenue derived from Marubeni was for the development of a telecommunications switch, which was completed in the third quarter of fiscal 2005. Biomedical MEMS includes the Company’s assistance agreement from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (“DARPA”) for prototype development for rapid and efficient isolation of human hematopoietic stem cells for medical and defense applications. The Company finished Phase I of its DARPA assistance agreement in fiscal 2004 and is currently under agreement for Phase II of the project. The Company’s revenue derived from Galaxy Scientific Corp. was funded by a contract from the U.S. Army to support the development of the inertial navigation device that the Company was developing for L-3. The Galaxy contract was completed in the first quarter of fiscal 2004. The Company currently has contracts with customers in the RF wireless industry, which includes RF switching and phase-shifting electronics. The Company’s revenue by significant customer for both fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004 are displayed on the following chart.

 

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Revenue by Customer

 

For the Periods:

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

October 1,

 

October 2,

 

(As a percentage of revenue)

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

L-3

 

 

18

%

 

 

40

%

 

Customer A

 

 

13

%

 

 

0

%

 

Customer B

 

 

11

%

 

 

3

%

 

OCCAM Networks, Inc.

 

 

5

%

 

 

5

%

 

Marubeni Solutions

 

 

3

%

 

 

4

%

 

DARPA assistance agreement

 

 

0

%

 

 

11

%

 

Galaxy Scientific

 

 

0

%

 

 

1

%

 

Spectra

 

 

0

%

 

 

1

%

 

All Others

 

 

50

%

 

 

35

%

 

Total

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

The Company’s products and services are sold in the United States, Canada and Japan by its direct sales personnel.

Government Approval

The Company is a subcontractor to DARPA and L-3 in certain long-term contracts. At the end of fiscal 2005, L-3 cancelled its most recent contract with the Company, because L-3’s contract with the Army for the production of gyroscopes and accelerometers for use in inertial navigation was cancelled.  However, the Company has a long-term contract directly with the Army for the production of gyroscopes and accelerometers for use in inertial navigation. The Company’s status as a subcontractor, and the products it produces in that capacity, are subject to substantial government regulation and continuing agency approval.

Competition

The Company competes with other independent MEMS manufacturers. They are generally private entities, and information about their financial status is unavailable to the Company. The names of some of these firms are Micralyne, Colibrys, Applied MEMS, Tronics, XFab and Issys. One publicly held company that directly competes is MEMScap. Some of these companies operate wafer fabrication (“wafer fab”) facilities using a four-inch diameter wafer compared to the six-inch format used by the Company. The larger wafer used by the Company has approximately twice the physical useable area, which provides approximately twice as many die per wafer compared to the smaller four-inch wafer. This feature provides the Company with certain cost advantages.

The Company also competes with large integrated circuit manufacturers with six-inch wafer fab facilities. These firms include Honeywell, Dalsa, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and Motorola. These competitors are all significantly larger than the Company with greater financial, technical and marketing resources than the Company. In some cases, these firms operate wafer fabs based on Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (“CMOS”) technology which limits their use compared to the Company’s equipment capabilities.

The principal competitive factors in the Company’s markets are price, product performance, quality, product availability and responsiveness to customers and technological sophistication. See “Customers.”

Environmental Compliance

The Company uses hazardous chemicals in its manufacturing and is subject to a variety of environmental and land use regulations related to their use, storage and disposal. If the Company fails to

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comply with present or future regulations, liability for the cost of remediation, damages or penalties, and production suspension or delay could result. In addition, environmental or land use regulations could restrict the Company’s ability to expand its current production facilities or establish additional facilities in other locations, or could require the Company to acquire costly equipment, or to incur other significant expenses for compliance with environmental regulations or to clean up prior discharges.

The Company has been subject to regulatory and legal proceedings related to past environmental contamination, and other similar proceedings could arise in the future. In fiscal 2002, the Company was advised by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it may be required to pay for part of the remediation of a solvent and refrigerant recycling and treatment facility formerly operated by the Omega Chemical Company in Whittier, California. The EPA alleges that the Company, along with a number of other companies, provided solvent and refrigerant waste to this facility for recycling and disposal. The Company is still exploring legal defenses, including defenses arising out of the bankruptcy proceedings. At this time, the Company intends to defend this matter vigorously. If these legal defenses are unsuccessful, the Company could be required to pay an amount of less than $0.1 million. The Company is also remediating and monitoring ground water contaminated with volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”) at a former site leased by the Company in Goleta, California under an order of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (“CRWQCB”). VOC contamination at the site has been reduced and the Company does not expect future expenditures related to the site to be material.

In fiscal 2003, the Company sold its Hollister facility. The environmental testing performed by the Company in support of this sale determined that the soil at that site showed no metal or VOC contamination. However, ground water samples showed low levels of VOC contamination. The CRWQCB required the Company to install one monitoring well, and test results confirmed the low level VOC concentration. The Company has been asked by the CRWQCB to submit semi-annual sample results from its well. One property adjacent to the site is conducting a remediation project on its site for this same VOC and the CRWQCB required this property to place monitoring wells between the two properties. Their testing detected the presence of breakdown products of the same VOC. The owners of the adjacent property have been asked to conduct semi-annual sampling of the wells. A second property adjacent to the site is conducting site characterization under the guidance of the CRWQCB related to the same VOC found on the Company’s site. In the fourth fiscal quarter of 2004, the CRWQCB issued a letter to the Company indicating that their investigation of the adjacent properties led them to the conclusion that the VOC present on the site was the Company’s responsibility. The CRWQCB has requested that the Company continue to submit results from the semi-annual monitoring of its well. The Company is unable to make a determination of potential future costs for this situation. The Company has a $5.0 million environmental insurance policy covering potential liability relating to this property. The Company’s accumulated cost to date for these matters related to the Hollister facility has been less than $0.1 million.

The Company believes it conducts its business in a manner that complies with environmental laws and regulations. While the Company’s known environmental liabilities have largely been resolved and are not, either individually or taken together, material to its business and financial condition, there can be no assurance that material environmental claims will not arise in the future. If such claims arise, they could be extremely expensive to contest or to resolve if the Company is found responsible and does not have applicable insurance coverage, which would result in material harm to its business.

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Executive Officers of the Registrant

The following table sets forth information as to the name, age, and office(s) held by each executive officer of the Company as of December 16, 2005:

Name

 

 

 

Age

 

Position or Office

Dr. John S. Foster

 

47

 

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
of the Board

Peter T. Altavilla

 

52

 

Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller
and Secretary

 

Dr. Foster has over 18 years of experience in technology and operations management. He joined the Company in 1993. He has held a variety of senior management positions including two years as the Company’s Managing Director of its former operation in Penang, Malaysia and as the Vice President of Worldwide Operations. Dr. Foster holds a doctorate in Applied Physics from Stanford University. He was elected to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Company on November 16, 2001 and to the position of Chairman of the Board on November 19, 2001.

Mr. Altavilla has been employed by the Company since 1987. He served as Assistant Controller until August 1, 1994, when he was elected to the position of Corporate Controller. Mr. Altavilla was elected Secretary on February 9, 1996. He was elected to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company on November 16, 2001.

ITEM 2.                DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY

The Company owns its headquarters, office, plant and warehouse located in Goleta, California. The facility, used for marketing, manufacturing and engineering, is 130,000 square feet, and includes a 30,000 square foot wafer fabrication plant.

At the end of the third fiscal quarter, the Company secured a new mortgage of $9.9 million with an annual interest rate of 5.65% associated with this property. The loan is due on July 1, 2015 and the monthly payment of $64.8 thousand includes principal amortization computed using a 22.5 year life. Related to this transaction, the Company created Robin Hill Business Park LLC (“RHBP”) as a wholly owned subsidiary. The Company transferred the mortgaged property to RHBP and this same entity entered into the loan agreement with the lender. The lender required this structure in order for the Company to secure the loan.

As of October 1, 2005, approximately 31,000 square feet of this facility were under long term lease arrangements with annual rental income of approximately $0.5 million. An existing tenant using a 3,000 square foot portion of the facility transitioned to a month to month rental basis as of November 3, 2005.

The Company believes its existing manufacturing facilities are in good repair and adequate to support customer requirements during fiscal 2006.

ITEM 3.                LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

The Company is involved in ongoing compliance activities with local environmental agencies. See “Item 1—Description of Business—Environmental Compliance.”

Neal Feay Company (“Neal Feay”), a neighbor of the Company’s former 6300 Hollister facility, filed an environmental related complaint against the Company and several other neighboring properties in August 2004, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Barbara, Anacapa Division, The claim stems from environmental monitoring activity that the claimant was caused to perform by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). The Company believes that the Neal Feay complaint is an attempt to avoid or minimize its alleged liability associated with responding to soil and

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groundwater contamination orders from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board. The Company, along with other defendants, has filed a cross-complaint against Neal Feay. The Company’s cross-complaint alleges that Neal Feay’s criminal discharge of hazardous wastes into the city sewer system led to the contamination of the site formerly owned by the Company. The Company seeks damages for lost property value as a result of Neal Feay’s criminal conduct. The Company has a $5.0 million environmental insurance policy covering potential liability relating to this property, including legal defense, and the insurer has accepted the claim. The current status of the case is that it has been stayed by the Court and the Court has found that the RWQCB has primary jurisdiction in this matter. The Company continues to attend Case Management Conferences, as required by the Court. The next Case Management Conference is schedule for February 2006.

ITEM 4.                SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

None.

PART II

ITEM 5.                MARKET FOR COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND SMALL BUSINESS ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.

The Company’s Common Stock is not traded on any exchange or quoted on NASDAQ.

As of December 16, 2005, there were approximately 972 holders of record of the Company’s Common Stock.

The Company has not paid dividends at any time since its emergence from Chapter 11. Because the Company is not yet profitable and because it intends to reinvest any earnings in the expansion of its business, the Company does not expect to pay dividends on its Common Stock for the foreseeable future.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

None.

For information related to securities authorized for issuance under the Company’s equity compensation plans, refer to item 11 below.

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ITEM 6.                MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OR PLAN OF OPERATIONS

Selected Financial Data

The following selected financial data should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements provided in this report and with Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

 

 

Year Ended
October 1, 2005

 

Year Ended
October 2, 2004

 

 

 

(In thousands, except per share
and employment amounts)

 

OPERATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net revenue

 

 

$

10,298

 

 

 

$

10,114

 

 

Gross Loss

 

 

(1,809

)

 

 

(879

)

 

Research and development

 

 

217

 

 

 

530

 

 

Selling, general and administrative

 

 

1,753

 

 

 

1,790

 

 

Interest expense

 

 

(1,005

)

 

 

(1,159

)

 

Other income, net

 

 

31

 

 

 

103

 

 

Net loss available to common stockholders

 

 

$

(5,206

)

 

 

$

(4,264

)

 

Loss per common share—basic and diluted

 

 

$

(.48

)

 

 

$

(.62

)

 

Weighted average number of common shares outstanding—basic and diluted

 

 

10,838

 

 

 

6,888

 

 

BALANCE SHEET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working capital (deficit)

 

 

$

9,082

 

 

 

$

(2,746

)

 

Total assets

 

 

29,337

 

 

 

19,499

 

 

Long term debt, net of current portion

 

 

9,622

 

 

 

9,112

 

 

Shareholders’ equity

 

 

3,017

 

 

 

5,524

 

 

OTHER DATA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Period-end employment

 

 

136

 

 

 

72

 

 

 

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The following discussion should be read together with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-KSB. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those described under “Risk Factors Affecting Our Business” and elsewhere in this report.

Overview

The Company has incurred net losses and losses from operations for each quarter since 1999. The Company filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in January 2000 and, upon emergence from bankruptcy, all of the previously issued and outstanding common stock was canceled without consideration to the holders. The Company has incurred substantial cumulative losses since its emergence from bankruptcy, including a net loss of $4.6 million for the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005. The Company expects to incur increasing sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative expenses. As a result, it will need to significantly increase its revenues to achieve and sustain profitability. In order to fund that growth, on January 25, 2005, the Investor Group invested a total of $17.0 million in the Company in a private placement of equity securities. The net proceeds to the Company were approximately $16.0 million. In exchange for the investment, the Investor Group received 1,000,000 shares of Series A redeemable preferred stock (“Series A”), 1,000,000 shares of Series A-1 convertible preferred stock (“Series A-1”) and a warrant for the purchase of up to 500,000 shares of common stock. The Company used approximately $1.6 million of the net proceeds to pay off the Note due to L-3. The remainder of the net proceeds are being used for general working capital needs and other corporate purposes.

The Company has reorganized itself from a manufacturer of magnetic recording heads for the disk drive industry to a manufacturer of micro-electro-mechanical systems (“MEMS”) operating in a number of industry segments. MEMS devices were first developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Generally speaking, MEMS devices are made using modern wafer-processing technology, similar to that used in making silicon electronic devices or thin-film recording heads for magnetic storage devices. However, what distinguishes MEMS devices is that they are designed to include moving parts, hence the “mechanical” part of the name. By using modern wafer techniques, device complexity and performance is enhanced, and cost is lowered owing to the large number of devices that can be made on a single wafer.

Common uses for MEMS devices are automotive air-bag sensors (accelerometers), pressure and airflow sensors, and ink­jet printer heads. Future uses for MEMS devices are expected to be numerous, in that many mechanical systems currently built using conventional techniques could be replaced and improved with MEMS. Examples of this include electromagnetic relays. In addition, many electrical systems may be replaced by MEMS. An example of this is optical fiber switching, used in telecommunications. In the future, it is possible that it can be done mechanically using MEMS. Another example is components for wireless communication technology. High-Q inductors, variable capacitors and transmit/receive switches could be replaced by MEMS devices at lower cost, using less space and providing higher performance. The Company fabricates MEMS products on a six-inch silicon wafer, which, depending upon the size of the individual part, is cut into multiple finished parts referred to as dies.

The Company’s three additional lines of business are:  “Santa Barbara Tool & Die,” “IMT Analytical” and leasing of excess space in its owned facility under long-term lease contracts (see Item 1—Description of Business—Other Lines of Business).

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Annual Results of Operations

The following table sets forth certain consolidated financial data for the Company for the last two fiscal years and provides a presentation of this information as a percentage of net revenue.

 

 

Year Ended:
October 1, 2005

 

Year Ended:
October 2, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

% of Revenue

 

 

 

% of Revenue

 

 

 

(in thousands except % of revenue)

 

Net revenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMS and other

 

$

9,745

 

 

94.6

%

 

 

$

9,579

 

 

 

94.7

%

 

Rental income

 

553

 

 

5.4

%

 

 

535

 

 

 

5.3

%

 

Total

 

10,298

 

 

100.0

%

 

 

10,114

 

 

 

100.0

%

 

Cost of revenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMS and other

 

11,967

 

 

116.2

%

 

 

10,858

 

 

 

107.4

%

 

Rental income

 

140

 

 

1.4

%

 

 

135

 

 

 

1.3

%

 

Total

 

12,107

 

 

117.6

%

 

 

10,993

 

 

 

108.7

%

 

Gross loss

 

(1,809

)

 

(17.6

)%

 

 

(879

)

 

 

(8.7

)%

 

Research and development

 

217

 

 

2.

%

 

 

530

 

 

 

5.2

%

 

Selling, general andadministrative

 

1,753

 

 

17.0

%

 

 

1,790

 

 

 

17.7

%

 

Loss from operations

 

(3,779

)

 

(36.7

)%

 

 

(3,199

)

 

 

(31.6

)%

 

Interest income

 

211

 

 

2.0

%

 

 

4

 

 

 

0.0

%

 

Interest expense

 

(1,005

)

 

(9.8

)%

 

 

(1,159

)

 

 

(11.5

)%

 

Other income, net

 

31

 

 

0.3

%

 

 

103

 

 

 

1.0

%

 

Other expense

 

(763

)

 

(7.5

)%

 

 

(1,052

)

 

 

(10.4

)%

 

Loss before income taxes

 

(4,542

)

 

(44.2

)%

 

 

(4,251

)

 

 

(42.0

)%

 

Provision for income taxes

 

21

 

 

0.2

%

 

 

13

 

 

 

0.2

%

 

Net loss

 

$

(4,563

)

 

(44.4

%

 

 

$

(4,264

)

 

 

(42.2

)%

 

Preferred stock dividends

 

(643

)

 

(6.2

)%

 

 

 

 

 

0

%

 

Net loss available to common stockholders

 

$

(5,206

)

 

(50.6

)%

 

 

$

(4,264

)

 

 

(42.2

)%

 

 

Net Revenue:   Net revenue increased slightly to $10.3 million in fiscal 2005 compared to net revenue of $10.1 million in fiscal 2004. The revenue increase was due to growth in revenue for the Santa Barbara Tool & Die, and Rental Income portions of the business, while the MEMS portion of the business was basically flat year to year with revenue of $8.3 million for both fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004. The Company has added new MEMS customers through its marketing efforts and believes it will see a resulting growth in future revenue. Santa Barbara Tool & Die revenue increased to $1.3 million in fiscal 2005, compared to $1.2 million in fiscal 2004. The increase in net revenue for Santa Barbara Tool & Die is due to a combination of unit shipments increase and addition of customers. IMT Analytical had revenue of $0.1 million for both fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004. Rental Income generated $0.6 million of revenue in fiscal 2005 compared to $0.5 million in fiscal 2004. The increase in Rental Income is from an increase in unit price for the square footage occupied by the tenants due to the cost of living adjustments provided for in the contracts. The Company expects its revenue to grow, but it is uncertain of the future growth rate.

Gross Loss:   Gross loss, which is the amount by which costs of revenue exceeded revenue, was $1.8 million or 17.6% of revenue for fiscal 2005 compared to $0.9 million or 8.7% of revenue for fiscal 2004. The Company has more than doubled its production employee headcount in fiscal 2005 compared to fiscal 2004 in order to prepare for volume production on one of its customer’s products, which is anticipated to occur in fiscal 2006. As the Company migrates toward high volume production it expects to be able to increase the absorption of its fixed costs (e.g. depreciation and utilities). The MEMS portion of the business had a gross loss of $2.7 million or a negative 32.6% in fiscal 2004 and a $1.6 million gross loss or a

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negative 18.8% in fiscal 2004. Santa Barbara Tool & Die had a $0.3 million gross profit in fiscal 2005 compared to $0.2 million in fiscal 2004. IMT Analytical generated a $0.2 million gross profit in fiscal 2005 and $0.1 million of gross profit in fiscal 2004. Rental Income generated a gross profit of $0.4 million in both fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004. The Company had 125 production employees at the end of fiscal 2005, compared to 61 at the end of fiscal 2004.

Research and Development:   Research and development expenses (“R&D”) were $0.2 million in fiscal 2005 compared to $0.5 million in fiscal 2004. The R&D expenses represented 2.1% and 5.2% of net revenue in fiscal 2005 and 2004, respectively.

R&D expenditures for the Company focus on development of new MEMS devices and the associated production processes for the telecommunication, inertial navigation, wireless communication, and the biomedical product areas. The reduction in R&D expenditures in fiscal 2005 compared to fiscal 2004 was due to the transfer of a portion of the group’s effort in fiscal 2005 to support customer projects. R&D expenditures are expected to grow as the Company continues to diversify into new product areas. The Company had two employees focused on the development of new products and manufacturing processes at the end of fiscal 2005 compared to four at the end of fiscal 2004.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses:   Selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) expenses were $1.8 million in both fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004. SG&A expenses included $0.1 million in bad debt expenses in fiscal 2005 and $0.1 million in amortization of employee stock incentives in fiscal 2004.

The total SG&A expenses decreased as a percentage of revenue from 17.7% to 17.0%, respectively, for such periods. The Company currently has nine employees providing the services reported as SG&A compared to seven at the end of fiscal 2004.

Interest Expense:   Interest expense was $1.0 million and $1.2 million in fiscal 2005 and 2004, respectively.  At the end of the third fiscal quarter of 2005, the Company secured a new mortgage of $9.9 million with an annual interest rate of 5.65%. The loan is due on July 1, 2015 and the monthly payment of $64.8 thousand includes principal amortization computed using a 22.5 year life. The reduction in interest rate from 12% on the previous mortgage to 5.65% on the new mortgage provides the Company with an annual interest cost savings of approximately $0.5 million.

Other Income.   The Company recognized minimal other income in fiscal 2005 compared to $0.1 million in fiscal 2004, which was the result of the receipt of a final payment associated with the sale of a minority ownership position in Magnetic Data Technologies, LLC, a former subsidiary of the Company.

Provision for Income Taxes:   The fiscal 2005 and 2004 provision for income taxes included minimum state income taxes.

Due to the change in control as a result of the bankruptcy, the Company may not be able to receive the full benefit from net operating loss carryforwards accumulated prior to the bankruptcy. Portions of the Company’s pre-bankruptcy tax losses, however, may be eligible for use in future periods. The Company is currently evaluating these amounts. From the commencement of the Chapter 11 Reorganization through October 1, 2005, the Company has accumulated net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $40.9 million for federal tax purposes and $20.4 million for state tax purposes. Once the Company has utilized these remaining net operating loss carry forwards, future U.S. earnings will be taxed at the U.S. statutory rates less available tax credits, if any. To the extent not used, the net operating loss carryforwards expire in varying amounts beginning in 2021 for federal purposes and 2011 for state purposes. At October 1, 2005, all identified deferred tax assets are offset by a valuation allowance due to the uncertainty of future realization of those additional operating loss carryforwards; therefore, recognizing any additional operating loss carryforwards would not result in a benefit in the provision for income taxes.

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If future taxable income enables the Company to realize its deferred tax assets, the valuation allowance will be reversed in whole or in part, and the Company will recognize an income tax benefit.

Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

None.

Backlog and Billings

As of October 1, 2005, the Company had $4.4 million in sales order backlog and $6.3 million in billings on uncompleted contracts. These amounts are substantially related to contracts the Company has with Customer B and DARPA. The Company’s development project with DARPA had $2.7 million in billings and $2.4 million in capitalized costs resulting in $0.3 million in billings in excess of costs. The Company’s development project with Simpler Networks, had $2.6 million in billings and $2.5 million in capitalized costs resulting in $0.1 million in billings in excess of costs. The Company expects to complete the Customer B contract for a value of $2.8 million in its first fiscal quarter of 2006. The Company presents the billings in excess of costs on uncompleted contracts as a net figure in accordance with ARB45.

At October 2, 2004, the Company had $2.9 million in sales order backlog and $4.1 million in billings on uncompleted contracts. These amounts were substantially related to contracts the Company had with L-3 and DARPA. The Company’s development project with DARPA had $0.9 million in billings and $0.8 million in capitalized costs resulting in $0.1 million in billings in excess of costs. The Company’s development project with L-3 had $1.6 million in billings and $0.9 million in capitalized costs resulting in $0.7 million in billings in excess of costs. The Company completed the L-3 contract for a value of $1.6 million in its first fiscal quarter of 2005.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The Company’s principal funding need is for working capital to fund continuing operations, research and development and expansion of the business. The Company expects to meet the needs for liquidity during fiscal 2006 with funds from operations. The Company’s ability to generate revenue from operations in the future will depend heavily on its ability to achieve volume production of its MEMS products on a timely basis. Although the Company is devoting substantial engineering and manufacturing resources to its production goals, there can be no assurances that the Company will achieve planned production levels. Accordingly, in the future, the Company may need to obtain additional funds for operations by the sale of equity securities or borrowing, but it can give no assurance that debt or equity financing will be available on terms that are acceptable to the Company, or at all.

The Company’s cash balance was $9.3 million at October 1, 2005 compared to $0.4 million at October 2, 2004. The increase in cash was primarily due to the private placement of equity securities by the Company with the Investor Group for a total of $17.0 million, which was completed on January 25, 2005. The net proceeds to the Company were approximately $15.7 million. In exchange for the investment, the Investor Group received 1,000,000 shares of Series A, 1,000,000 shares of Series A-1 and a warrant for the purchase of up to 500,000 shares of common stock. The Company used approximately $1.6 million of the net proceeds to pay off the Note due to L-3. On June 30 2005, the Company secured a new mortgage of $9.9 million with an annual interest rate of 5.65% and used the net proceeds of approximately $9.7 million to pay off its original mortgage of approximately $8.8 million and delinquent property taxes of approximately $0.3 million, which provided the Company with a net increase in cash of approximately $0.6 million. Investors of the Company exercised warrants in the second fiscal quarter of 2005, which resulted in an increase in cash for the Company of approximately $0.1 million. The investment and mortgage proceeds were offset by the use of cash by operations of $5.0 million and the use of $0.9 million for the purchase of capital equipment.

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At the end of the third fiscal quarter, the Company secured a new mortgage of $9.9 million with an annual interest rate of 5.65%. The loan is due on July 1, 2015 and the monthly payment of $64.8 thousand includes principal amortization computed using a 22.5 year life. Related to this transaction, the Company created Robin Hill Business Park LLC (“RHBP”) as a wholly owned subsidiary. The Company transferred the mortgaged property to RHBP and this same entity entered into the loan agreement with the lender. The lender required this structure in order for the Company to secure the loan.

The MEMS industry is capital intensive and requires expenditures for manufacturing equipment and research and development in order to develop and take advantage of technological improvements and new technologies. In fiscal 2006, the Company plans approximately $3.5 million in capital expenditures primarily to continue development and production of new MEMS technologies and products and to increase overall production capacity. The Company plans to pursue lease financing in fiscal 2006 to support the purchase of its capital equipment requirements. Capital equipment purchase commitments were approximately $0.4 million at October 1, 2005. If the Company is unable to achieve its production goals or obtain additional financing on acceptable terms, on a timely basis, there will be a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and competitive position.

The Company has incurred net losses and losses from operations for each quarter since 1999. The Company filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in January 2000 and, upon emergence from bankruptcy, all of the previously issued and outstanding common stock was canceled without consideration to the holders. The Company incurred a net loss of $4.6 million for the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005 and has incurred substantial cumulative losses since its emergence from bankruptcy. The Company expects to incur increasing sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative expenses. As a result, it will need to significantly increase its revenues to achieve profitability. The Company expects its revenue to grow, but it is uncertain of the future growth rate.

The Company’s principal remaining indebtedness is the mortgage on its headquarters and operating facility. The Company has not been in default under this indebtedness.

Commitments and Contingencies

The Company’s use of hazardous chemicals in its manufacturing subjects it to a variety of environmental and land use regulations related to their use, storage and disposal. The Company is currently engaged in efforts to remedy soil and water contamination under the supervision of government agencies. If the Company fails to comply with present or future regulations, liability for the cost of remediation, damages and penalties, and production suspension or delay could result.

The Company believes it conducts its business in a manner that complies with environmental laws and regulations. While the Company’s known environmental liabilities have largely been resolved and are not, either individually or taken together, material to its business and financial condition, there can be no assurance that material environmental claims will not arise in the future. If such claims arise, they could be extremely expensive to contest or to resolve if the Company is found responsible and does not have applicable insurance coverage, which would result in material harm to its business. See “Item 1. Business-Environmental Compliance.”

Purchase commitments associated with capital expenditures were approximately $0.4 million at October 1, 2005

The Company has no leases under which it is the lessee.

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The Company is required to comply with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act during its fiscal year ending September 30, 2007. This process will involve the design, documentation and testing of the company’s internal financial reporting controls. The ultimate cost of this process cannot be determined at this time.

The following summarizes the Company’s significant contractual obligations at October 1, 2005 and the effects such obligations are expected to have on liquidity and cash flow in future periods.

 

 

Payments Due by Period

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Significant Contractual Obligations

 

 

 

Total

 

Less than 1 Year

 

1-3 Years

 

4-5 Years

 

After 5 Years

 

Property mortgage principal

 

$

9,843

 

 

$

221

 

 

 

$

477

 

 

 

$

537

 

 

 

$

8,608

 

 

Property mortgage interest

 

$

4,897

 

 

$

557

 

 

 

$

1,079

 

 

 

$

1,019

 

 

 

$

2,242

 

 

Purchase Commitments

 

$

356

 

 

$

356

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

$

 

 

Total

 

$

15,096

 

 

$

1,134

 

 

 

$

1,556

 

 

 

$

1,556

 

 

 

$

10,850

 

 

 

Critical Accounting Policies

Application of the Company’s accounting policies requires management to make judgments and estimates about the amounts reflected in the financial statements. Management uses historical experience and all available information to make these estimates and judgments, although differing amounts would be reported if the assumptions and estimates changed. Estimates are used for, but not limited to, the accounting for the allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory allowances, impairment costs and other special charges, depreciation and amortization, warranty costs and contingencies. Management has identified the following accounting policies as critical to an understanding of its financial statements and as areas most dependent on management’s judgment and estimates.

Revenue Recognition and Warranty Policies:   The Company uses the completed contract method of accounting for its product development projects due to the inability to accurately estimate percentage of completion during performance of the contract. Costs are capitalized during the project and recorded as cost of revenue at its completion along with the recognition of revenue. Losses on projects are recognized as they are determined. The Company’s MEMS development contracts include milestones that require delivery of engineering reports, wafers and/or dies. The Company’s MEMS development contracts are determined to be complete and the revenue is recognized after all contract milestones have been completed, reviewed and accepted by the customer. Santa Barbara Tool & Die delivers a finished product to the customer and revenue is recognized after both the product is shipped and title passes. IMT Analytical has service related revenue and this revenue is recognized upon completion of the service for the customer. The Company’s MEMS development contracts do not have any rights of return. Santa Barbara Tool & Die and IMT Analytical did not have any sales returns in fiscal 2005 or 2004. The Company’s warranty policy provides for the replacement of defective parts when the customer’s return request is approved within 30 days of the original shipment date. To date, warranty costs have not been significant.

Long-lived Assets:   The Company reviews long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that an asset’s carrying value may exceed the undiscounted expected future cash flows to be derived from that asset. Whenever undiscounted expected future cash flows are less than the carrying value, the asset will be reduced to an amount equal to the net present value of the expected future cash flows and an impairment loss will be recognized.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued SFAS 123(R), “Share-Based Payment,” which addresses the accounting for employee stock options. SFAS 123(R) revises

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the disclosure provisions of SFAS 123 and supersedes APB 25. SFAS 123(R) requires that the cost of all employee stock options, as well as other equity-based compensation arrangements, be reflected in the financial statements based on the estimated fair value of the awards. In March 2005, the Securities & Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107, “Share-Based Payment”, which summarizes the views of the SEC staff regarding the interaction between SFAS 123(R) and certain SEC rules and regulations, and is intended to assist in the initial implementation. SFAS 123(R) is effective for all public companies that file as of the beginning of the first annual reporting period that begins after June 15, 2005. The Company is currently evaluating the provisions of SFAS 123(R) and its effect on its financial statements. The effect of adopting this statement will be to increase the Company’s compensation expense in the future.

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS 153, “Exchanges of Nonmonetary Assets, an amendment of APB 29, Accounting for Nonmonetary Transactions.” This Statement’s amendments are based on the principle that exchanges of nonmonetary assets should be measured based on the fair value of the assets exchanged. Further, SFAS 153 eliminates the narrow exception for nonmonetary exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a broader exception for exchanges of nonmonetary assets that do not have commercial substance. Provisions of this statement are effective for fiscal periods beginning after June 15, 2005. The adoption of this statement is not expected to have a material impact on its financial statements.

In March 2005, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 47, “Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations” (“FIN 47”), which is an interpretation of SFAS 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations.” FIN47 clarifies terminology within SFAS 143 and requires an entity to recognize a liability for the fair value of a conditional asset retirement obligation when incurred if the liability’s fair value can be reasonably estimated. FIN 47 is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2005. The Company does not expect the adoption of this statement to have a material impact on its financial statements.

In May 2005, the FASB issued SFAS 154, “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections.”   SFAS 154 replaces APB 20, “Accounting Changes” and SFAS 3, “Reporting Accounting Changes in Interim Financial Statements” and establishes retrospective application as the required method for reporting a change in accounting principle. SFAS 154 provides guidance for determining whether retrospective application of a change in accounting principle is impracticable and for reporting a change when retrospective application is impracticable. The reporting of a correction of an error by restating previously issued financial statements is also addressed. SFAS 154 is effective for accounting changes and corrections of errors made in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. The Company does not expect the adoption of this statement to have a material impact on its financial statements.

Risk Factors Affecting the Company’s Business

In addition to the factors discussed elsewhere in this report, the following are important factors that could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, competitive position and earnings, and that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the Company.

The Company has incurred losses since 1999; it emerged from bankruptcy in 2001, and expects to incur losses for the foreseeable future.

The Company has incurred net losses and losses from operations for each quarter since 1999. The Company filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in January 2000 and, upon emergence from bankruptcy, all of the previously issued and outstanding common stock was canceled without consideration to the holders. The Company incurred a net loss of $4.6 million for the year ended

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October 1, 2005. The Company expects to incur increasing sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative expenses. As a result, it will need to significantly increase its revenues to achieve profitability. The Company expects its revenue to grow, but it is uncertain of the future growth rate.

The Company operates in the MEMS industry, which is capital intensive.

The MEMS industry is capital intensive and requires expenditures for facilities, equipment and research and development to develop and keep pace with technological improvements. The Company believes that to achieve its objectives, it will need additional resources over the next several years for capital expenditures, working capital and research and development. The Company had $0.9 million in purchases of property, plant and equipment in fiscal 2005. During fiscal 2006, the Company plans to make approximately $3.5 million in purchases of property, plant and equipment. The Company believes that it will be able to fund future expenditures from a combination of new capital infusion, existing cash balances, including the $15.7 million net proceeds of the Private Equity Transaction, and cash flow from operations. The Company may need additional sources of capital to meet requirements in future years. There is no assurance that additional funds will be available to the Company or, if available, that the terms and conditions will be acceptable to the Company. If the Company cannot obtain sufficient capital, it would need to curtail its operating and capital expenditures, which would adversely affect the Company’s future operating results and could prevent the Company from competing successfully in the MEMS industry.

The Company has high fixed costs and excess capacity due to its current low production volumes.

The fixed costs of operating and maintaining the Company’s 30,000 square foot wafer fabrication facility and other elements of its production capacity are high. Most of its current production consists of prototypes and new product development. These are low-volume projects, which leave the Company’s facilities underutilized and unable to absorb all of its fixed costs. As a result the Company experiences operating losses. The Company plans to shift from low-volume production and development orders to high-volume production for its customers as their development programs mature into production contracts, which will make fuller use of the Company’s excess capacity. However, making this shift depends on the success of the Company’s engineers in developing efficient high-volume production technology, the success of its customers in developing marketable uses for MEMS technology, and the general growth and acceptance of MEMS technology. If the Company cannot successfully make the transition to high-volume production, it will continue to experience losses and suffer material harm to its operating results and liquidity.

If the Company fails to respond to technological changes in the MEMS business, its future operating results may be adversely affected.

The MEMS business has been characterized by rapidly changing technology. The demand for greater capability will cause competitors to continue to build greater performance into their respective products. There can be no assurance that the Company’s products will achieve such performance. There can be no assurance that the Company will not experience manufacturing and product quality problems in the future. The Company’s future success depends in large part on its ability to develop and qualify new products on a timely basis and to manufacture them in sufficient quantities to compete effectively on the basis of price and performance.

Because certain competitors have significantly greater resources, it may be difficult for the Company to compete.

The Company competes with other independent MEMS manufacturers, with large integrated circuit manufacturers, and with captive wafer fabs owned by vertically integrated MEMS users. Many of these

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competitors are larger than the Company and have greater financial resources. If the Company is unable to equal or surpass its competitors in the area of price, performance, quality or customer responsiveness, then the business will be unsuccessful.

The Company’s success depends in part upon the ability to protect its intellectual property.

The Company’s success depends in large part upon its proprietary technology. The Company relies on a combination of patents, trade secret protection, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and licensing arrangements to establish and protect its intellectual property rights. The Company’s patents may be successfully challenged or may not provide it with the intended competitive advantages. Important technology developed by the Company may not be patentable. Despite the Company’s efforts to protect its proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of its products or to obtain and use information that is regarded as proprietary. Policing unauthorized use of the Company’s proprietary technology is difficult and costly. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect these proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States. The Company’s means of protecting its proprietary rights may not be adequate and its competitors may independently develop similar technology, duplicate its products, or design around its proprietary intellectual property.

The Company may face costly damages or litigation costs if a third party claims that the Company infringed on its intellectual property. Advanced technology products such as the Company’s are increasingly subject to third-party infringement claims. In addition, former employers of the Company’s current and future employees may assert that its employees have disclosed confidential or proprietary information to the Company. Any of these claims even if they are without merit, could be expensive and time consuming to defend.

In addition, intellectual property claims against the Company, with or without merit, could require it to enter into royalty or licensing agreements. These royalty or licensing agreements, if required, may not be available on terms acceptable to the Company or at all, which could seriously harm its business. A successful claim of infringement against the Company or its failure or inability to license the infringed or similar technology could adversely affect its business because the Company would not be able to sell the affected product without redeveloping the product or its manufacturing process, incurring significant additional expenses.

Fluctuations in quarterly and annual operating results may adversely affect the Company’s business.

The Company’s operating results have fluctuated and may continue to fluctuate from quarter to quarter and year to year. The Company’s sales are generally made pursuant to individual purchase orders and production is scheduled on the basis of such purchase orders. Because the market for MEMS products is new, and the Company is constantly introducing new designs ordered by customers, the sales cycles are long and unpredictable. The sales cycle for the Company’s products typically ranges from three to six months. Moreover, as customer programs mature, the Company may have to write down the value of inventory and equipment. In addition, the Company must qualify on future programs to sell its products. The Company has an assistance agreement with an agency of the U.S. Government and is a subcontractor for a defense-related Government contract. Changes in U.S. Government spending could have an adverse affect on the Company. Cancellation, rescheduling and reductions of orders in the future could result in inventory losses, under-utilization of production capacity and write-downs of tooling and equipment which would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s future operating results. In particular, in the past the Company’s operating results have been adversely affected when production capacity was underutilized, and they will likely be so affected in the future.

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The Company’s common stock may be illiquid and suffer from price volatility because it has not been publicly traded.

There has not been a public market for the Company’s common stock since January, 2000. The Company’s outstanding common stock, which was issued after the emergence of the Company from bankruptcy, is not listed for trading on any stock market or quotation on the Nasdaq. The Company believes that an effort to list it’s stock would be unsuccessful until the Company’s financial performance improves. Even if eventually listed, it is likely that the stock would initially be thinly traded. The Company cannot predict when or if investor interest in the Company will lead to the development of an active, liquid trading market. Active trading markets generally result in lower price volatility and more efficient execution of buy and sell orders for investors. A thin trading market in the Company’s stock will likely depress the trading price, make it more difficult for investors to buy or sell its common stock, and result in price volatility.

International sales expose the Company to risk.

The Company sells its products to foreign customers and expects this to be an important part of its ongoing business. Accordingly, the Company faces risks inherent in conducting business internationally, such as:

·       difficulties in collecting accounts receivable and longer collection periods;

·       seasonal business activity in certain parts of the world;

·       potentially adverse tax consequences;

·       fluctuations in revenue expressed in dollars due to changes in currency exchange rates;

·       political and economic instability; and

·       trade barriers.

Any of these factors could seriously harm the Company’s international sales.

The Company is subject to certain environmental laws and regulations and if it fails to comply, its future operating results may be adversely affected.

The Company’s manufacturing processes employ hazardous substances and are subject to regulation pursuant to various federal and state laws governing the environment. In the past, the Company has been subject to claims by government agencies and individuals related to disposal of hazardous materials and it has an outstanding environmental claim pending. The Company believes it conducts its business in a manner that complies with environmental laws and regulations. Nevertheless, material environmental claims could arise in the future, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company.

Interruptions in the Company’s supply of raw materials could adversely affect its business.

The Company’s operations require raw materials that meet exacting standards. The Company generally has multiple sources of supply for its raw materials; however, only a limited number of suppliers are capable of delivering certain raw materials that meet its standards. Various factors could reduce the availability of raw materials such as silicon wafers, photomasks, chemicals, and gases. In addition, any transportation problems could delay the Company’s receipt of raw materials. Although raw materials shortages or transportation problems have not interrupted its operations in the past, shortages may occur from time to time in the future. Also, lead times for the supply of raw materials have been extended in the past. If the Company’s supply of raw materials is interrupted or its lead times extended, then its cash flow

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would be reduced, orders may be cancelled or diverted to competitors, and its business would suffer significant harm.

A small group of stockholders can exercise control over the Company.

A small group of stockholders holds most of the Company’s voting power. Several of these holders are parties to a voting agreement giving them, as of January 25, 2005, control over approximately 60% of the Company’s voting stock. The Company’s outstanding voting stock consists of 6,453,880 shares of common stock and 1,000,000 shares of Series A-1. The three beneficial holders of the Series A-1 shares are entitled to an aggregate of 5,666,700 votes on all matters presented to the stockholders other than the election of directors, and are entitled, voting as a separate class, to elect three of the Company’s eight directors. Accordingly, in matters other than the election of directors, the holders of Series A-1 shares hold approximately 46.8% of the outstanding voting power. L-3 holds common stock representing 13.0% of the Company’s outstanding voting power. Under a Voting Agreement dated January 25, 2005, L-3 and certain members of management agreed to vote their shares with the Series A-1 shares on certain matters. Because this group currently holds approximately 60% of the Company’s voting power it could determine the outcome in any matter presented to the stockholders.

The Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws could delay or prevent an acquisition or sale of the Company.

The Company’s Certificate of Incorporation empowers the Board of Directors to establish and issue a class of preferred stock, and to determine the rights, preferences and privileges of the preferred stock. This gives the Board of Directors the ability to deter, discourage or make more difficult a change in control of the Company, even if such a change in control would be in the interest of a significant number of the Company’s stockholders or if such a change in control would provide stockholders with a substantial premium for their shares over the then prevailing market price for the common stock.

Anti-takeover provisions of Delaware law could delay or prevent an acquisition of the Company.

The Company is subject to the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which regulates corporate acquisitions. These provisions could discourage potential acquisition proposals and could delay or prevent a change in control transaction. They could also have the effect of discouraging others from making tender offers for the Company’s common stock or preventing changes in its management.

Current economic and political uncertainties may harm the Company’s business.

Deteriorating global economic conditions and the effects of ongoing military actions against terrorists may cause significant disruptions to commerce throughout the world. To the extent that such disruptions result in delays or cancellations of customer orders, a general decrease in corporate spending on advanced technology, or the Company’s inability to effectively market, manufacture or ship its products, its business, results of operations and financial conditions could suffer harm. In addition, the Company’s ability to raise capital for purposes of research and development, capital expenditures and ongoing operations depends on access to financing. During times of adverse global economic and political conditions, general investor confidence could decrease and make it more difficult for the Company to find potential investors. If the Company does not have access to financing, it could be unable to fund operations, invest in capital expenditures and fully carry out its research and development efforts, which could adversely affect the business, results of operations and financial conditions.

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Standards for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are uncertain, and if the Company fails to comply in a timely manner, investor confidence could be harmed.

Rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 require annual assessment of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, and attestation of the assessment by our independent registered public accountants. This requirement will first apply to the Company’s annual report for the period ending September 30, 2007. The standards that must be met for management to assess the internal control over financial reporting as effective are new and complex, and require significant documentation, testing, and possible remediation to meet the detailed standards. The Company may encounter problems or delays in completing activities necessary to make an assessment of its internal control over financial reporting. In addition, the attestation process by the Company’s independent registered public accountants is new and the Company may encounter problems or delays in completing the implementation and requested improvements and receiving an attestation of the assessment by its independent registered public accountants. If the Company cannot assess its internal control over financial reporting as effective, or the Company’s independent registered public accountants are unable to provide an unqualified attestation report on such assessment, investor confidence may be negatively impacted.

ITEM 7.                CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

Refer to consolidated financial statements found at pages F-1 through F-26.

ITEM 8.                CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

None.

ITEM 8A.        CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures.   Under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s management, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, have carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined under Rule 13a-15(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report.

Limitations on the effectiveness of disclosure controls and procedures.   Disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and implemented, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving an entity’s disclosure objectives. The likelihood of achieving such objectives is affected by limitations inherent in disclosure controls and procedures. These include the fact that human judgment in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns in internal control can occur because of human failures such as simple errors or mistakes or intentional circumvention of the established process. Notwithstanding these limitations, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives. The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are, in fact, effective at the “reasonable assurance” level.

Changes in internal controls over financial reporting.   The Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, with the participation of the Company’s management, also conducted an evaluation of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting to determine whether any changes occurred during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially

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affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Based on that evaluation, there has been no such change during the period covered by this report.

ITEM 8B.       OTHER INFORMATION

None.

PART III

ITEM 9.                DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL PERSONS; COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16(a) OF THE EXCHANGE ACT

The information required in this item is incorporated herein by reference to portions of the Proxy Statement for Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005.

ITEM 10.         EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The information required in this item is incorporated herein by reference to portions of the Proxy Statement for Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005.

ITEM 11.         SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.

The information required in this item is incorporated herein by reference to portions of the Proxy Statement for Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005.

ITEM 12.         CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

The information required in this item is incorporated herein by reference to portions of the Proxy Statement for Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005.

ITEM 14.         PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The information required in this item is incorporated herein by reference to portions of the Proxy Statement for Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year ended October 1, 2005.

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ITEM 13. EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

Exhibit
Number

 

Description

2.1

 

Debtor’s Third Amended Plan of Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code Dated as of September 24, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed November 20, 2001).

3.1

 

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended to date (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

3.2

 

Amended and Restated Bylaws of Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

3.3

 

Amended and Restated Bylaws of Innovative Micro Technology, Inc., as amended on January 25, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 31, 2005).

4.1

 

Form of Warrant Agreement between the Company and Certain Claimants Under the Plan of Reorganization (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

4.2

 

Warrant Agreement between the Company and L-3 Communications Corporation, dated August 1, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 13, 2003).

4.3

 

Warrant Agreement between the Company and L-3 Communications Corporation, dated September 3, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 26, 2004).

4.4

 

Warrant Agreement between the Company and Stutman Treister & Glatt, Professional Corporation, dated September 30, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 26, 2004).

4.5

 

Certificate of Designation of Series A Redeemable Preferred Stock and Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock, dated January 24, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8 K filed on January 31, 2005).

4.6

 

Warrants issued by the Company to the Investors listed on Schedule I to the Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement of the Company, dated as of January 25, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8 K filed on January 31, 2005).

4.7

 

Warrant Agreement between the Company and W.R. Hambrecht + Co., LLC, dated as of January 25, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8 K filed on January 31, 2005).

10.1

 

Change in Control Agreement between the Company and John Foster, dated April 15, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

10.2

 

Change in Control Agreement between the Company and Peter T. Altavilla, dated April 15, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

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10.3

 

Form of Indemnification Agreement for directors and officers (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

10.4

 

Stock Purchase Agreement between the Company and L-3 Communications Corporation, dated August 1, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 13, 2003).

10.5

 

2001 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (incorporated by reference to Appendix B to the Company’s Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on January 28, 2004).

10.6

 

Form of Stock Option Agreement under 2001 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

10.7

 

Form of Restricted Stock Agreement under 2001 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

10.8

 

Fixed Rate Note of the Company, payable to Owens Financial Group, Inc., dated December 20, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

10.9

 

Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and Assignment of Leases and Rents, between the Company, Owens Financial Group, Inc. and Investors Yield, Inc., dated December 20, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2001).

10.10

 

Worldwide Cash Profit Sharing Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Report on Form 10-Q filed March 4, 1996).

10.11

 

Stock Purchase Agreement between the Company and L-3 Communications Corporation, dated September 3, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended October 2, 2004).

10.12

 

Letter Agreement between Stutman Treister & Glatt, Professional Corporation, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP and the Company for the settlement of the Professional Persons Notes, dated as of September 22, 2003.

10.13

 

Promissory Note dated March 15, 2004 by Innovative Micro Technology in favor of L-3 Communications Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 30, 2004).

10.14

 

Security Agreement dated March 15, 2004 by and between the Company and L-3 Communications Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 30, 2004).

10.15

 

Supplemental Agreement dated March 15, 2004 by and between the Company and L-3 Communications Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 30, 2004).

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10.16

 

Deed of Trust and Security Agreement between Robin Hill Business Park, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, and Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital, Inc., dated as of June 30, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Report on Form 10-QSB filed on August 16, 2005).

10.17

 

Promissory Note between Robin Hill Business Park, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, and Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital, Inc., dated as of June 30, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Report on Form 10-QSB filed on August 16, 2005).

31.1

 

Certification Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2003.

31.2

 

Certification Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2003.

32

 

Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2003.

 

 

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SIGNATURES

In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

INNOVATIVE MICRO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

By:

/s/ JOHN S. FOSTER

 

 

Dr. John S. Foster

 

 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Principal Executive Officer

 

 

Date: December 23, 2005

 

In accordance with the Exchange Act, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By:

/s/ JOHN S. FOSTER

 

By:

/s/ PETER T. ALTAVILLA

 

Dr. John S. Foster

 

 

Peter T. Altavilla

 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Principal Executive Officer

 

 

Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller and Secretary, Principal Financial Officer

 

Date: December 23, 2005

 

 

Date: December 23, 2005

By:

/s/ SCOTT  AVILA

 

By:

/s/ JOSE  SUAREZ

 

Scott Avila

 

 

Jose F. Suarez

 

Director

 

 

Director

 

Date: December 23, 2005

 

 

Date: December 23, 2005

By:

/s/ MALCOLM  CURRIE

 

By:

/s/ BARRY  WAITE

 

Dr. Malcolm Currie

 

 

Barry Waite

 

Director

 

 

Director

 

Date: December 23, 2005

 

 

Date: December 23, 2005

By:

/s/ CALVIN  QUATE

 

By:

/s/ JILL  WITTELS

 

Dr. Calvin Quate

 

 

Dr. Jill Wittels

 

Director

 

 

Director

 

Date: December 23, 2005

 

 

Date: December 23, 2005

By:

/s/ ERIC M. SIGLER

 

 

 

 

Eric M. Sigler

 

 

 

 

Director

 

 

 

 

Date: December 23, 2005

 

 

 

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. as of October 1, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of operations, consolidated shareholders’ equity, and consolidated cash flows for the years ended October 1, 2005 and October 2, 2004. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal controls over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. as of October 1, 2005, and the results of its consolidated operations and its consolidated cash flows for the years ended October 1, 2005 and October 2, 2004 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

/s/ BDO Seidman, LLP

Los Angeles, California

November 23, 2005

F-2




Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
(In thousands, except share and par value data)

 

 

As of

 

 

 

October 1, 2005

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

Cash

 

 

$

9,321

 

 

Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $34

 

 

2,106

 

 

Costs in excess of billings on development projects

 

 

45

 

 

Costs in excess of billings on development projects- related party

 

 

24

 

 

Prepaid expenses and other

 

 

525

 

 

Total current assets

 

 

12,021

 

 

Property, plant and equipment, at cost:

 

 

 

 

 

Land

 

 

8,750

 

 

Buildings

 

 

9,451

 

 

Manufacturing equipment

 

 

3,080

 

 

Total property, plant and equipment, at cost

 

 

21,281

 

 

Less-accumulated depreciation and amortization

 

 

(4,376

)

 

Total property, plant and equipment

 

 

16,905

 

 

Other assets

 

 

411

 

 

Total assets

 

 

$

29,337

 

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

Current portion of long-term debt

 

 

$

221

 

 

Accounts payable

 

 

627

 

 

Accrued payroll and benefits

 

 

1,004

 

 

Accrued audit and legal

 

 

87

 

 

Billings in excess of costs for development projects

 

 

852

 

 

Other current liabilities

 

 

148

 

 

Total current liabilities

 

 

2,939

 

 

Long-term debt

 

 

9,622

 

 

Other long-term liabilities

 

 

48

 

 

Preferred stock, $.0001 par value, authorized 2,500,000 shares, Series A redeemable preferred stock, 1,000,000 shares issued and outstanding (aggregate liquidation value of $14,621, including accrued and unpaid dividends of $454)

 

 

13,711 

 

 

Shareholders’ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $.0001 par value, authorized 2,500,000 shares, Series A-1 convertible preferred stock, 1,000,000 shares issued and outstanding (aggregate liquidation value of $2,833)

 

 

2,614

 

 

Common stock, $.0001 par value, 25,000,000 shares authorized, 6,953,880 shares issued and outstanding at October 1, 2005

 

 

1

 

 

Paid-in capital

 

 

23,141

 

 

Accumulated deficit

 

 

(22,739

)

 

Total shareholders’ equity

 

 

3,017

 

 

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

 

 

$

29,337

 

 

 

The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.

F-3




Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except per share data)

 

 

Year Ended

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

October 1,

 

October 2,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

Net revenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMS and Other

 

 

$

9,745

 

 

 

$

9,579

 

 

Rental income

 

 

553

 

 

 

535

 

 

Total

 

 

10,298

 

 

 

10,114

 

 

Cost of revenues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of MEMS and Other revenue (including stock-based compensation of
$47 for the year ended October 2, 2004)

 

 

11,967

 

 

 

10,858

 

 

Expenses applicable to rental income

 

 

140

 

 

 

135

 

 

Total

 

 

12,107

 

 

 

10,993

 

 

Gross loss

 

 

(1,809

)

 

 

(879

)

 

Research and development expenses (including stock-based compensation of
$40 for the year ended October 2, 2004)

 

 

217

 

 

 

530

 

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses (including stock-based
compensation of $70 for the year ended October 2, 2004)

 

 

1,753

 

 

 

1,790

 

 

Loss from operations

 

 

(3,779

)

 

 

(3,199

)

 

Interest income

 

 

211

 

 

 

4

 

 

Interest expense

 

 

(1,005

)

 

 

(1,159

)

 

Other income, net

 

 

31

 

 

 

103

 

 

Other expense

 

 

(763

)

 

 

(1,052

)

 

Loss before provision for income taxes

 

 

(4,542

)

 

 

(4,251

)

 

Provision for income taxes

 

 

21

 

 

 

13

 

 

Net loss

 

 

(4,563

)

 

 

(4,264

)

 

Preferred stock dividends

 

 

(643

)

 

 

 

 

Net loss available to common stockholders

 

 

$

(5,206

)

 

 

$

(4,264

)

 

Net loss per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss per common share—basic and diluted

 

 

$

(0.48

)

 

 

$

(0.62

)

 

Weighted average number of common shares outstanding:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common shares—basic and diluted

 

 

10,838

 

 

 

6,888

 

 

 

The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.

F-4




Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(In thousands, except share amounts)

 

 

Common Stock

 

Preferred Stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of
Shares

 

Amount

 

Number of
Shares

 

Amount

 

Paid-in
Capital

 

Accumulated
Deficit

 

Restricted
Stock

 

Shareholders’
Equity

 

Balance, September 27, 2003 

 

 

6,152,498

 

 

 

$

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

$

19,202

 

 

$

(13,269

)

 

 

$

(157

)

 

 

$

5,777

 

 

Private equity sale

 

 

167,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

894

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

894

 

 

Cancellation of shares

 

 

(168

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conversion of professional notes payable to common stock

 

 

368,113

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,960

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,960

 

 

Amortization and deemed issuance of restricted stock

 

 

250,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

157

 

 

 

157

 

 

Net loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4,264

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4,264

)

 

Balance, October 2, 2004

 

 

6,937,443

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23,056

 

 

(17,533

)

 

 

 

 

 

5,524

 

 

Exercise of warrants to purchase common stock

 

 

16,437

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

85

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

85

 

 

Sale of convertible preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,000,000

 

 

 

2,614

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,614

 

 

Preferred stock dividends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(643

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(643

)

 

Net loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4,563

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4,563

)

 

Balance, October 1, 2005

 

 

6,953,880

 

 

 

$

1

 

 

 

1,000,000

 

 

 

$

2,614

 

 

$

23,141

 

 

$

(22,739

)

 

 

$

 

 

 

$

3,017

 

 

 

The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.

F-5




Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)

 

 

Twelve Months
Ended

 

Twelve Months
Ended

 

 

 

October 1, 2005

 

October 2, 2004

 

Cash Flows from Operating Activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

 

$

(4,563

)

 

 

$

(4,264

)

 

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

1,213

 

 

 

1,155

 

 

Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

Employee restricted stock amortization

 

 

 

 

 

157

 

 

Induced conversion of professional notes

 

 

 

 

 

203

 

 

Non-cash interest

 

 

 

 

 

574

 

 

Changes in assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable

 

 

(947

)

 

 

(525

)

 

Accounts receivable—related party

 

 

128

 

 

 

308

 

 

Costs in excess of billings on development projects

 

 

(12

)

 

 

(33

)

 

Costs in excess of billings on development projects—related party

 

 

(24

)

 

 

 

 

Prepaid expenses and other

 

 

(247

)

 

 

(6

)

 

Other assets

 

 

(118

)

 

 

155

 

 

Accounts payable

 

 

(156

)

 

 

156

 

 

Accrued payroll and benefits

 

 

428

 

 

 

190

 

 

Accrued property taxes

 

 

(34

)

 

 

1

 

 

Accrued audit and legal

 

 

(46

)

 

 

79

 

 

Billings in excess of costs for development projects

 

 

257

 

 

 

289

 

 

Billings in excess of costs for development projects—related party

 

 

(693

)

 

 

157

 

 

Other current liabilities

 

 

(123

)

 

 

(392

)

 

Other long-term liabilities

 

 

(42

)

 

 

(42

)

 

Net cash used in operating activities

 

 

(4,975

)

 

 

(1,838

)

 

Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property, plant and equipment

 

 

(943

)

 

 

(14

)

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(943

)

 

 

(14

)

 

Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sale of redeemable preferred stock

 

 

17,000

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sale of common stock

 

 

88

 

 

 

894

 

 

Equity issuance costs

 

 

(1,321

)

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from loan

 

 

9,895

 

 

 

1,500

 

 

Repayment of debt

 

 

(10,852

)

 

 

(2,576

)

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

 

14,810

 

 

 

(182

)

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash

 

 

8,892

 

 

 

(2,034

)

 

Cash at beginning of year

 

 

429

 

 

 

2,463

 

 

Cash at end of year

 

 

$

9,321

 

 

 

$

429

 

 

Supplemental Cash Flow Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest paid

 

 

$

1,000

 

 

 

$

1,113

 

 

Income taxes paid

 

 

$

27

 

 

 

$

25

 

 

Supplemental disclosure on non-cash financing activity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conversion of professional notes payable to common stock

 

 

$

 

 

 

$

2,757

 

 

 

The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.

F-6




Innovative Micro Technology, Inc

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1.   Reorganization, Basis of Presentation

Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in California in 1957 and was reincorporated in Delaware in 1987. The Company is engaged in the business of the design and manufacture of MEMS devices. MEMS is an acronym for micro-electro-mechanical system. To date these operations have consisted of product development contracts. The Company’s business plan is to transition itself to a high volume manufacturer. MEMS devices were first developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Generally, MEMS devices are made using modern wafer-processing technology, similar to that used in making silicon electronic devices or thin-film recording heads for magnetic storage devices. MEMS devices, however, are distinguished in that they are designed to include moving parts, hence the “mechanical” part of the name. By using modern wafer techniques, device complexity and performance is enhanced, and cost is lowered due to the large number of devices that can be made on a single wafer. Common uses for MEMS devices are automotive air-bag sensors (accelerometers), pressure and airflow sensors, and ink­jet printer heads.

The Company used the Chapter 11 reorganization discussed below to reposition itself in the MEMS business. The core competency of the Company is wafer manufacturing and assembly. To that end, the Company has determined that the MEMS business allows use of the manufacturing facility, many of the manufacturing techniques, and the skills of its employees obtained while manufacturing magnetic recording heads in the past.

The Company’s three additional lines of business are:  “Santa Barbara Tool & Die,” “IMT Analytical” and leasing of excess space in its owned facility under long-term lease contracts. Santa Barbara Tool & Die’s technology permits high precision manufacturing of tooling, and the business features electron-discharge machining (EDM) which includes metals and ceramics capabilities. IMT Analytical’s laboratory technology includes electron microscopy in a variety of forms and features operation of a focused ion beam tool which can precisely make three-dimensional cuts in samples and reveal detailed information as to dimension, material makeup, and material crystal properties. Santa Barbara Tool & Die and IMT Analytical are strategic parts of the core company in that their services are used to make the core business more competitive; and both use the capacity that exceeds internal Company needs to provide services to outside customers. In addition, the Company has approximately 51,000 square feet of building space available to lease. As of October 1, 2005, approximately 31,000 square feet were under long term lease arrangements with annual rental income of approximately $0.5 million. An existing tenant using a 3,000 square foot portion of the facility transitioned to a month to month rental basis as of November 3, 2005.

The Company has incurred net losses and losses from operations for each quarter since 1999. The Company filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in January 2000 and, upon emergence from bankruptcy, all of the previously issued and outstanding common stock was canceled without consideration to the holders. The Company incurred a net loss of $4.6 million for the year ended October 1, 2005. The Company expects to have increasing sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative expenses. As a result, it will need to significantly increase its revenues to achieve profitability. The Company expects its revenue to grow, but it is uncertain of the future growth rate.

On January 25, 2005, the Company privately sold equity securities to an investor group made up of Investor Growth Capital Limited, BA Venture Partners and Miramar Venture Partners (“Investor Group”). The Investor Group invested a total of $17.0 million in the Company in exchange for 1,000,000 shares of Series A redeemable preferred stock (“Series A”), 1,000,000 shares of Series A-1 convertible preferred stock (“Series A-1”) and a warrant for the purchase of up to 500,000 shares of common stock.

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The net proceeds to the Company were approximately $15.7 million. The Company used approximately $1.6 million of the net proceeds to pay off the Note due to L-3 Communications Corporation (“L-3”). The remainder of the net proceeds are being used for general working capital needs and other corporate purposes. (See Note 8).

On June 30 2005, the Company secured a new mortgage of $9.9 million with an annual interest rate of 5.65%. The loan is due on July 1, 2015 and the monthly payment of $64.8 thousand includes principal amortization computed using a 22.5 year life. The mortgage provided net proceeds to the Company of approximately $9.7 million. The Company used $8.8 million of the proceeds to retire its previous mortgage, $0.3 million to retire its delinquent property taxes and the balance of $0.6 million was be used for general working capital needs and other corporate purposes. The reduction in interest rate from 12% on the previous mortgage to 5.65% on the new mortgage provides the Company with an annual interest cost savings of approximately $0.5 million.

The Company exited Chapter 11 on November 16, 2001 (“Effective Date”). The Company adopted the fresh start reporting requirements of Statement of Position 90-7, “Financial Reporting by Entities in Reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code” during the first quarter of fiscal 2002. In accordance with the fresh start reporting requirements, the reorganization value of the Company was allocated to the Company’s assets in conformity with the procedures specified by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.” As provided for under the Company’s reorganization plan (the “Reorganization Plan”), the Company converted approximately $12 million of its secured liabilities to debt and $304 million of unsecured liabilities to equity in the reorganized entity.

A provision of the Reorganization Plan related to the treatment of subordinated note claims. The Company’s former Malaysian subsidiary had credit facilities with five Malaysian Banks (“Malaysian Banks”) that were guaranteed by the Company, and that provided them with a credit position that was senior to the Company’s note holders. The Company’s 14% Note, 2% Notes and 7% Notes each contained subordination provisions. Pursuant to these provisions the Malaysian Banks, the holder of the 14% Note, the holders of the 2% Notes, and the holders of the 7% Notes have certain subordinated rights and claims. A Warrant Agreement was included in the Reorganization Plan to provide a method for the subordinated claimants to participate in the anticipated future growth in value of the Company’s Common Stock that was issued pursuant to the Reorganization Plan (“New Common Stock”). The Company has no remaining guaranties. The Warrant Agreement expired on December 16, 2004 and all warrants were cancelled.

2.   Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

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 and 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. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Management believes that these estimates and assumptions provide a reasonable basis for the fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements.

Depreciation and Amortization Policies:   In accordance with the fresh start reporting requirements, property, plant, and equipment are stated at fair value at the Effective Date and are depreciated or amortized over their estimated useful lives using the straight-line method, except for leasehold improvements which are amortized over the shorter of the estimated useful life or the life of the lease.

F-8




Estimated useful lives are as follows:

 

 

Average Useful Life

 

Buildings

 

 

25 Years

 

 

Manufacturing equipment

 

 

3 - 5 Years

 

 

Other equipment

 

 

1 - 5 Years

 

 

Building improvements

 

 

10 Years

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization expense amounted to $1.2 million for fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004.

Long-lived Assets:   The Company reviews long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that an asset’s carrying value may exceed the undiscounted expected future cash flows to be derived from that asset. Whenever undiscounted expected future cash flows are less than the carrying value, the asset will be reduced to an amount equal to the net present value of the expected future cash flows and an impairment loss will be recognized.

Billings in excess of costs on development projects:   These amounts reflect the excess of billings over the accumulated costs as defined in the completed contract method of accounting for long-term contracts. Billings in excess of costs at October 1, 2005 were $0.9 million related to capitalized costs under the completed contract method of accounting, as described below. Contracts with L-3 (a related party) account for a minimal portion of this billings in excess of costs on development projects balance.

Revenue Recognition and Warranty Policies:   The Company uses the completed contract method of accounting for its product development projects due to the inability to accurately estimate percentage of completion during performance of the contract. Costs are capitalized during the project and recorded as cost of revenue at its completion along with the recognition of revenue. Losses on projects are recognized as they are determined. The Company’s MEMS development contracts include milestones that require delivery of engineering reports, wafers and/or dies. The Company’s MEMS development contracts are determined to be complete and the revenue is recognized after all contract milestones have been completed, reviewed and accepted by the customer. Santa Barbara Tool & Die delivers a finished product to the customer and revenue is recognized after both the product is shipped and title passes. IMT Analytical has service related revenue and this revenue is recognized upon completion of the service for the customer. The Company’s MEMS development contracts do not have any rights of return. Santa Barbara Tool & Die and IMT Analytical did not have any sales returns in fiscal 2005 or 2004. The Company’s warranty policy provides for the replacement of defective parts when the customers return request is approved within thirty days of the original shipment date. To date, warranty costs have not been significant.

A portion of the Company’s facilities are leased to tenants under long-term contracts. The terms of the leases expire within the next year with renewal at the option of the tenants. Future minimum lease income for these agreements, as of October 1, 2005, are as follows (in thousands):

Fiscal Year

 

 

 

Rental
Income

 

2006

 

 

$

462

 

 

Total minimum income

 

 

$

462

 

 

 

Fair Value of Financial Instruments:   The carrying amounts of cash, customer receivables, trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities approximate their fair value because of the short maturity of these financial instruments. The carrying amount of approximately $9.8 million of the Company’s mortgage indebtedness at October 1, 2005 has an interest rate of 5.65% and is carried at its full value.

F-9




Net Loss per Common Share:   Basic loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by the sum of the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period plus the assumed exercise of all dilutive securities. However, in the case of a loss per share, dilutive securities outstanding would be antidilutive and would, therefore, be excluded from the computation of diluted loss per share.

The following dilutive securities were outstanding at October 2, 2004: 500,000 shares of restricted Common Stock issuable in accordance with the Reorganization Plan, options to purchase 1,723,652 common shares at prices ranging from $5.00 to $5.35, warrants to purchase 700,000 common shares at a price of $7.29 per share with a term of thirty-six months ending August 1, 2005, warrants to purchase 83,500 common shares at a price of $5.35 per share with a term of eighteen months ending March 3, 2005, warrants to purchase 350,000 common shares at a price of $7.29 per share with a term of thirty-six months ending September 3, 2006, warrants to purchase 16,437 common shares at a price of $5.35 with a term of eighteen months ending March 30, 2005 and warrants to purchase 68,777 common shares at a price of $7.29 per share with a term of thirty-six months ending September 30, 2006. The Warrants issuable to the subordinated note claimants pursuant to the Reorganization Plan, which were exercisable for 1,880,564 common shares as of October 1, 2005, are not considered dilutive as the Company had an offsetting right to repurchase an equal number of shares at the same prices. The warrants issued to the subordinated note claimants expired on December 16, 2004, along with all related repurchase rights of the Company.

The following dilutive securities were outstanding at October 1, 2005: 500,000 shares of restricted Common Stock issuable in accordance with the Reorganization Plan, options to purchase 767,596 common shares at prices ranging from $0.30 to $5.35, warrants to purchase 350,000 common shares at a price of $7.29 per share with a term of thirty-six months ending September 3, 2006 and warrants to purchase 68,777 common shares at a price of $7.29 per share with a term of thirty-six months ending September 30, 2006. Additionally, in connection with the January 25, 2005 Investor Group transaction, the Company issued warrants for the purchase of up to 500,000 shares of common stock, exercisable only if the Company fails to meet certain performance targets in 2005, at a purchase price of $0.30 per share and a warrant to WRH to purchase up to 113,333 shares of common stock at a price of $3.00 per share. The value of these warrants provided to WRH were determined to be $2.0 thousand using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions: a risk-free interest rate of 3.55%, an expected volatility of 63%, a warrant term of 3 years, and no expected dividends. The warrants were determined to have de minimus value, but were recorded within common stock.

In the second fiscal quarter of 2005, the Company offered its employees the opportunity to exchange outstanding stock options issued under the Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. 2001 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and having an exercise price in excess of $0.30 for new options with an exercise price to be determined on the date they are granted, which it expects to be on the first business day that is at least six months and one day following the date the exchange offer closed of April 27, 2005. Pursuant to the offer, the Company accepted for exchange and cancelled 1,623,648 options to purchase its common stock. On October 31, 2005, the first business day at least six months and one day following the date of the exchange offer, the Company granted the replacement of the 1,609,252 options to purchase its common stock at a price of $0.30 per share. (See Note 11).

F-10




Stock Based Compensation:   The Company accounts for its equity compensation  plans in accordance with Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25. As stock options granted in the current period were granted at or above fair market value, no compensation expense has been recorded. Had the Company instead determined compensation cost on the basis of fair value pursuant to SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,” net loss and basic and diluted EPS would have been as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):

 

 

Year Ended

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

October 1, 2005

 

October 2, 2004

 

Net loss—as reported

 

 

$

(4,563

)

 

 

$

(4,264

)

 

Less—fair value of stock-based employee compensation expense, net of tax

 

 

(6

)

 

 

(1,135

)

 

Net loss—pro forma

 

 

$

(4,569

)

 

 

$

(5,399

)

 

Net loss per share (basic and diluted)—as reported

 

 

$

(.48

)

 

 

$

(.62

)

 

Net loss per share (basic and diluted)—pro forma

 

 

$

(.48

)

 

 

$

(.78

)

 

 

In assessing the effect had the fair value method been used, the fair value of each option is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions for the year ended October 1, 2005: weighted average risk-free interest rate of 3.80%, expected volatility of 61%, an expected option life of 4.7 years, and no expected dividends. The assumptions for the fiscal 2004 period are as follows: weighted average risk-free interest rate of 3.71%, expected volatility of 66%, an expected option life of 4 years, and no expected dividends. The fair value of the option grants was $0.1 million for the year ended October 1, 2005 and $4.7 million for the year ended October 2, 2004.

Research and Development Expenses:   The Company is actively engaged in basic technology and applied research and development programs, which are designed to develop new products and product applications and related manufacturing processes. The costs of these programs are classified as research and development expenses and are charged to operations as incurred.

Income Taxes:   Income taxes are computed using the liability method. The provision for income taxes includes income taxes payable for the current period and the deferred income tax consequences of transactions that have been recognized in the Company’s financial statements or income tax returns. The carrying value of deferred income tax assets is determined based on an evaluation of whether the Company is more likely than not to realize the assets. Temporary differences result primarily from basis differences in property, plant and equipment and net operating loss carryforwards. The valuation allowance is reviewed periodically to determine the amount of deferred tax asset considered realizable.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements:

In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued SFAS 123(R), “Share-Based Payment,” which addresses the accounting for employee stock options. SFAS 123(R) revises the disclosure provisions of SFAS 123 and supersedes APB 25. SFAS 123(R) requires that the cost of all employee stock options, as well as other equity-based compensation arrangements, be reflected in the financial statements based on the estimated fair value of the awards. In March 2005, the Securities & Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107, “Share-Based Payment”, which summarizes the views of the SEC staff regarding the interaction between SFAS 123(R) and certain SEC rules and regulations, and is intended to assist in the initial implementation. SFAS 123(R) is effective for all public companies that file as of the beginning of the first annual reporting period that begins after June 15, 2005. The Company is currently evaluating the provisions of SFAS 123(R) and its effect on its financial statements. The effect of adopting this statement will be to increase the Company’s compensation expense in the future.

F-11




In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS 153, “Exchanges of Nonmonetary Assets, an amendment of APB 29, Accounting for Nonmonetary Transactions.” This Statement’s amendments are based on the principle that exchanges of nonmonetary assets should be measured based on the fair value of the assets exchanged. Further, SFAS 153 eliminates the narrow exception for nonmonetary exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a broader exception for exchanges of nonmonetary assets that do not have commercial substance. Provisions of this statement are effective for fiscal periods beginning after June 15, 2005. The adoption of this statement is not expected to have a material impact on its financial statements.

In March 2005, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 47, “Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations” (“FIN 47”), which is an interpretation of SFAS 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations.” FIN47 clarifies terminology within SFAS 143 and requires an entity to recognize a liability for the fair value of a conditional asset retirement obligation when incurred if the liability’s fair value can be reasonably estimated. FIN 47 is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2005. The Company does not expect the adoption of this statement to have a material impact on its financial statements.

In May 2005, the FASB issued SFAS 154, “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections.”   SFAS 154 replaces APB 20, “Accounting Changes” and SFAS 3, “Reporting Accounting Changes in Interim Financial Statements” and establishes retrospective application as the required method for reporting a change in accounting principle. SFAS 154 provides guidance for determining whether retrospective application of a change in accounting principle is impracticable and for reporting a change when retrospective application is impracticable. The reporting of a correction of an error by restating previously issued financial statements is also addressed. SFAS 154 is effective for accounting changes and corrections of errors made in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. The Company does not expect the adoption of this statement to have a material impact on its financial statements.

Risk Concentrations:   Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of accounts receivable. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers and maintains an allowance for potential credit losses.

The table below shows the revenue by customer and indicates that L-3 represented 18% of the Company’s revenue for the year ended October 1, 2005. The Company had no accounts receivable from this customer at October 1, 2005. Customer A represented 13% of the Company’s revenue for the year ended October 1, 2005. The Company had minimal outstanding accounts receivable from this customer, representing 1% of the Company’s accounts receivable balance at October 1, 2005. Customer B represented 11% of the Company’s revenue for the year ended October 1, 2005. The Company had $0.6 million of outstanding accounts receivable from this customer, representing 27% of the Company’s accounts receivable balance at October 1, 2005.

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The table below shows the revenue by customer and indicates that L-3 represented 40% of the Company’s revenue for the year ended October 2, 2004. The Company had $0.1 million of accounts receivable from this customer, representing 10% of the Company’s accounts receivable balance at October 2, 2004. An assistance agreement from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”) represented 11% of the Company’s revenue for the year ended October 2, 2004. The Company had $0.2 million of outstanding accounts receivable from this customer, representing 17% of the Company’s accounts receivable balance at October 2, 2004.

Revenue by Customer

 

 

For the Periods:

 

(As a percentage of revenue)

 

 

 

Year Ended
October 1,
2005

 

Year Ended
October 2,
2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L-3

 

 

18

%

 

 

40

%

 

Customer A

 

 

13

%

 

 

0

%

 

Customer B

 

 

11

%

 

 

3

%

 

OCCAM Networks, Inc.

 

 

5

%

 

 

5

%

 

Marubeni Solutions

 

 

3

%

 

 

4

%

 

DARPA assistance agreement

 

 

0

%

 

 

11

%

 

Galaxy Scientific

 

 

0

%

 

 

1

%

 

Spectra

 

 

0

%

 

 

1

%

 

All Others

 

 

50

%

 

 

35

%

 

Total

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

Cash Concentration:   The Company places its cash with major financial institutions. At times, cash and cash equivalents balances may be in excess of amounts insured by Federal agencies. At October 1, 2005, uninsured cash balances approximated $9.3 million.

Advertising:   The Company expenses advertising costs when incurred. Advertising expense was immaterial for both fiscal 2005 and 2004.

Fiscal Year:   The Company’s fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to September 30. Fiscal years 2005 and 2004 ended on October 1, 2005 and October 2, 2004, respectively. Fiscal 2005 included 52 weeks and fiscal 2004 included 53 weeks. References to years in these financial statements relate to fiscal years rather than calendar years.

3.  Segments of Business

Indicated below is the information required to comply with SFAS No. 131, “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information.” Under SFAS No. 131, “operating segments” are components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. Generally, financial information is required to be reported on the basis that it is used internally for evaluating segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources to segments.

The Company operates in four business segments. It manufactures MEMS devices for several industries. It also operates a machine, model and die shop, a materials science analytical lab and leases excess space in its owned facility to tenants under long-term lease contracts. The Company’s assets are all located in the United States.

The Company’s management evaluates performance of each segment primarily on net revenue and gross profit (loss), as well as long-lived assets. The information in the following table is derived directly

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from the segments’ internal financial reporting used for corporate management purposes. Research and development and general and administrative expenses are not allocated to or  among the segments.

The following table represents net revenue, gross profit (loss), depreciation expense and long-lived assets by segment (in thousands):

 

 

 

 

Santa Barbara

 

IMT

 

Rental

 

United States

 

 

 

 

MEMS

 

Tool & Die

 

Analytical

 

Income

 

Total

 

 

 

 

($000’s)

 

 

Year Ended:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 1, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net revenue

 

$

8,336

 

 

$

1,299

 

 

 

$

110

 

 

$

553

 

 

$

10,298

 

 

Intercompany Revenue

 

$

20

 

 

$

143

 

 

 

$

295

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

Gross profit (loss)

 

$

(2,714

)

 

$

297

 

 

 

$

195

 

 

$

413

 

 

$

(1,809

)

 

Depreciation and Amortization Expense

 

$

1,006

 

 

$

63

 

 

 

$

23

 

 

$

121

 

 

$

1,213

 

 

Long-Lived Assets

 

$

14,480

 

 

$

134

 

 

 

$

 

 

$

2,291

 

 

$

16,905

 

 

Year Ended:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 2, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net revenue

 

$

8,310

 

 

$

1,200

 

 

 

$

69

 

 

$

535

 

 

$

10,114

 

 

Intercompany Revenue

 

$

12

 

 

$

68

 

 

 

$

361

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

Gross profit (loss)

 

$

(1,560

)

 

$

166

 

 

 

$

115

 

 

$

400

 

 

$

(879

)

 

Depreciation and Amortization Expense

 

$

956

 

 

$

55

 

 

 

$

23

 

 

$

121

 

 

$

1,155

 

 

Cost of Revenues portion of Non-Cash Stock Based Compensation

 

$

47

 

 

$

 

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

47

 

 

Long-Lived Assets

 

$

14,661

 

 

$

83

 

 

 

$

23

 

 

$

2,412

 

 

$

17,179

 

 

 

The MEMS intercompany revenue results from management services provided to IMT Analytical and is charged at the cost of such services. The Santa Barbara Tool & Die and IMT Analytical intercompany revenue provided to the MEMS segment, for the services received, is recorded at market prices for their services.

Capital additions for fiscal 2005 were $0.9 million compared to minimal expenditures in  fiscal 2004. The fiscal 2005 additions were predominantly related to the MEMS portion of the business.

The following table represents the Company’s net revenue for domestic and foreign customers (in thousands):

 

 

Year Ended

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

October 1, 2005

 

October 2, 2004

 

Net revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domestic

 

 

$

8,886

 

 

 

$

9,413

 

 

Foreign

 

 

1,412

 

 

 

701

 

 

Total

 

 

$

10,298

 

 

 

$

10,114

 

 

 

The Company’s products are sold in the United States, Canada and Japan by its direct sales personnel.

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4.  Income Taxes

The provision for income taxes for the following fiscal years consists of (in thousands):

 

 

Year Ended

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

October 1, 2005

 

October 2, 2004

 

Federal Income Taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current

 

 

$

 

 

 

$

 

 

Deferred

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Income Taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current

 

 

21

 

 

 

13

 

 

Deferred

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

$

21

 

 

 

$

13

 

 

 

Reconciliation of the actual provisions for income taxes to the income tax calculated at the United States Federal rates for operations were as follows (in thousands):

 

 

Year Ended

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

October 1, 2005

 

October 2, 2004

 

Expected income tax benefit at the United States federal income tax rate

 

 

$

(1,544

)

 

 

$

(1,446

)

 

State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit

 

 

(259

)

 

 

(246

)

 

Change in valuation allowance

 

 

1,824

 

 

 

1,705

 

 

 

 

 

$

21

 

 

 

$

13

 

 

 

The components of deferred income taxes at October 1, 2005 are as follows (in thousands):

Net operating loss carryforwards

 

$

16,353

 

Basis difference in property, plant and equipment

 

986

 

Total deferred tax asset

 

17,339

 

Valuation allowance

 

(17,339

)

Total net deferred tax asset

 

$

 

 

SFAS 109 requires that all deferred tax balances be determined using the tax rates and limitations expected to be in effect when the taxes will actually be paid or recovered. Consequently, the income tax provision will increase or decrease in the period in which a change in tax rate or limitation is enacted. As of October 1, 2005, the Company had total deferred tax assets of $17.3 million. The Company recorded a valuation allowance in the full amount of $17.3 million at October 1, 2005, against the amount by which deferred tax assets exceed deferred tax liabilities. This represents an increase in the valuation allowance of $1.8 million at year-end 2005 over year-end 2004. The valuation reserve at October 1, 2005 has been provided due to the uncertainty of the amount of future taxable income. The Company provides a valuation allowance in the full amount of its deferred tax assets because under the criteria of SFAS No. 109, the Company does not have a basis to conclude that it is more likely than not that it will realize the deferred tax assets.

Due to the change in control that resulted from the bankruptcy and various subsequent financings, the Company may not be able to receive the full benefit of net operating loss carryforwards accumulated prior to the bankruptcy, which total approximately $283.1 million and $131.1 million for federal and state tax purposes, respectively. Portions of the Company’s pre-bankruptcy tax losses, however, may be eligible for use in future periods. From the commencement of the Chapter 11 reorganization through October 1, 2005, the Company has accumulated net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $40.9 million for federal

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tax purposes and $20.4 million for state tax purposes. Once the Company has utilized these remaining net operating loss carry forwards, future U.S. earnings will be taxed at the U.S. statutory rates less available tax credits, if any. To the extent not used, the net operating loss carryforwards for federal and state purposes expire in varying amounts beginning in 2021 and 2011, respectively. At October 1, 2005, all identified deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance; therefore, any additional operating loss carryforwards not recognized would not result in a benefit in the provision for income taxes due to the uncertainty of future realization of those additional operating loss carryforwards.

5.   Debt

The Company settled two claims during the Chapter 11 reorganization that were secured by its owned properties. One of these claims was a property mortgage of $9.6 million due on November 24, 2005. Upon the sale of the Company’s Hollister facility, in the second quarter of fiscal 2003, a portion of the proceeds were used to reduce this debt to $8.8 million. The balance of the proceeds were used to pay, in full, a separate loan with a balance of $5.4 million. The remaining mortgage required interest-only payments at a 12% annual interest rate. The other claim was for delinquent property taxes of $0.9 million. On June 30 2005, the Company secured a new mortgage of $9.9 million with an annual interest rate of 5.65% and used the net proceeds of approximately $9.7 million to pay off its original mortgage of approximately $8.8 million and its delinquent property taxes of approximately $0.3 million, which provided the Company with a net increase in cash of approximately $0.6 million.

At the end of the third fiscal quarter of 2005, the Company secured a new mortgage of $9.9 million with an annual interest rate of 5.65%. The loan is due on July 1, 2015 and the monthly payment of $64.8 thousand includes principal amortization computed using a 22.5 year life. Related to this transaction, the Company created Robin Hill Business Park LLC (“RHBP”) as a wholly owned subsidiary. The Company transferred the mortgaged property to RHBP and this same entity entered into the loan agreement with the lender. The lender required this structure in order for the Company to secure the loan.

The Company’s long-term debt is summarized below (in thousands):

 

 

October 1,
2005

 

Property mortgage

 

 

9,843

 

 

Less—Current portion

 

 

(221

)

 

Total

 

 

$

9,622

 

 

 

The aggregate maturities of long-term debt are as follows (in thousands):

Fiscal Year

 

 

 

 

 

2006

 

$

221

 

2007

 

240

 

2008

 

255

 

2009

 

269

 

2010

 

285

 

thereafter

 

8,573

 

Total

 

$

9,843

 

 

6.  Commitments and Contingencies

The Company uses hazardous chemicals in its manufacturing and is subject to a variety of environmental and land use regulations related to their use, storage and disposal. If the Company fails to comply with present or future regulations, liability, production suspension or delay could result. In

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addition, environmental or land use regulations could restrict the Company’s ability to expand its current production facilities or establish additional facilities in other locations, or could require the Company to acquire costly equipment, or to incur other significant expenses for compliance with environmental regulations or to clean up prior discharges. The Company currently maintains a restricted cash account of $0.1 million in other assets as required by the Department of Toxic Substance Control.

The Company has been subject to regulatory and legal proceedings related to past environmental contamination, and other similar proceedings could arise in the future. The Company has recently been advised by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it may be required to pay for part of the remediation of a solvent and refrigerant recycling and treatment facility formerly operated by the Omega Chemical Company in Whittier, California. The EPA alleges that the Company, along with a number of other companies, provided solvent and refrigerant waste to this facility for recycling and disposal. The Company is still exploring legal defenses, including defenses arising out of the bankruptcy proceedings. At this time, the Company intends to defend this matter vigorously. If these legal defenses are unsuccessful, the Company could be required to pay an amount of less than $0.1 million. The Company is also remediating and monitoring ground water contaminated with volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”) at a former site leased by the Company in Goleta, California, under an order of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (“CRWQCB”). VOC contamination at the site has been reduced and the Company does not expect future expenditures related to the site to be material.

In fiscal 2003, the Company sold its Hollister facility. The environmental testing performed by the Company in support of this sale determined that the soil at that site showed no metal or VOC contamination. However, ground water samples showed low levels of VOC contamination. The CRWQCB required the Company to install one monitoring well, and test results confirmed the low level VOC concentration. The Company has been asked by the CRWQCB to submit semi-annual sample results from its well. One property adjacent to the site is conducting a remediation project on its site for this same VOC and the CRWQCB required this property to place monitoring wells between the two properties. Their testing detected the presence of breakdown products of the same VOC. The owners of the adjacent property have been asked to conduct semi-annual sampling of the wells. A second property adjacent to the site is conducting site characterization under the guidance of the CRWQCB related to the same VOC found on the Company’s site. In the fourth fiscal quarter of 2004, the CRWQCB issued a letter to the Company indicating that their investigation of the adjacent properties led them to the conclusion that the VOC present on the site was the Company’s responsibility. The CRWQCB has requested that the Company continue to submit results from the semi-annual monitoring of its well. The Company is unable to make a determination of potential future costs for this situation. The Company has a $5.0 million environmental insurance policy covering potential liability relating to this property. The Company’s accumulated cost to date for these matters related to the Hollister facility has been less than $0.1 million.

Purchase commitments associated with capital expenditures were approximately $0.4 million at October 1, 2005.

The Company has no leases under which it is the lessee.

The company is required to comply with the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 during its fiscal year ending September 30, 2007. This process will involve the design, documentation and testing of the company’s internal financial reporting controls. The ultimate cost of this process cannot be determined at this time.

Under its bylaws and indemnification agreements, the Company has agreed, subject to certain exceptions, to indemnify its officers and directors for certain events or occurrences arising as a result of the officer and director’s serving in such capacity, to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification agreements is unlimited. However, the Company has a

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directors and officers liability insurance policy that limits its exposure and enables it to recover a portion of any future amounts paid. As a result of its insurance policy coverage, the Company believes the estimated fair value of these indemnification agreements is minimal and has no liabilities recorded for these agreements as of October 1, 2005.

7.  Employee Benefit Plans

The Company has a qualified retirement plan (the “401(k) Plan”) under the provisions of section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code, in which eligible employees may participate. Substantially all participants in this plan are able to defer compensation up to the annual maximum amount allowable under Internal Revenue Service regulations. The Company has a 401(k) cash match program which provides a match of one half of the first five percent of an employee’s contributions. This matching contribution was less than $0.1 million in both fiscal 2005 and 2004. The Company’s 401(k) Plan has a provision that provides management with an option to make a discretionary contribution to the plan. Additionally, the Company has a profit sharing plan, in which all eligible employees participate. There was less than $0.1 million in compensation expense recorded under the cash profit sharing plan in both fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004. The Company made no discretionary 401(k) contributions during either fiscal 2005 or fiscal 2004 under this plan.

8.  Financing Transactions

On January 25, 2005, the Investor Group invested a total of $17.0 million in a private sale of equity securities of the Company. The net proceeds to the Company were approximately $15.7 million. In exchange for the investment, the Investor Group received 1,000,000 shares of Series A, 1,000,000 shares of Series A-1 and a warrant for the purchase of up to 500,000 shares of common stock. The Company used approximately $1.6 million of the net proceeds to pay off the Note due to L-3. The remainder of the net proceeds are being used for general working capital needs and other corporate purposes. The Company recorded $0.5 million in accrued and unpaid dividends related to the Series A shares in fiscal 2005.

On September 30, 2003, the Company reached a settlement with the holders of its Professional Notes, who had provided professional services to the Company during its Chapter 11 reorganization and received convertible promissory notes evidencing the Company’s indebtedness for those services. As partial consideration for the cancellation of the Professional Notes, the Company issued 368,113 shares of Common Stock, eighteen month warrants for the purchase of a total of 16,437 common shares at a price of $5.35 per share, which will expire on March 30, 2005, and thirty-six month warrants for the purchase of a total of 68,777 common shares at a purchase price of $7.29 per share, which will expire on September 30, 2006. In the second fiscal quarter of 2005, these investors exercised warrants for the purchase of 16,437 common shares at a price of $5.35 per share for approximately $0.1 million.

The Company completed a sale of Common Stock and warrants to L-3 on September 3, 2003 for $2.5 million in cash. The Company is a subcontractor to L-3 for a long-term government contract to produce gyroscopes and accelerometers for use in inertial navigation. The Company issued 467,500 shares of Common Stock to L-3 along with two warrants. The first warrant for a term of eighteen months to purchase 83,500 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.35 per share expired on March 3, 2005. The second warrant has a term of thirty-six months to purchase 350,000 shares of Common Stock at a price of $7.29 per share. The value of the warrants is not reflected separately in the accompanying financial statements as it was recorded within Common Stock.

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L-3 made a previous investment in the Company on August 2, 2002 for $5 million in cash. The Company issued 935,000 shares of Common Stock to L-3 along with two warrants. The first warrant had a term of eighteen months to purchase 167,000 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.35 per share. This warrant was exercised by L-3 on October 31, 2003 for an aggregate amount of $0.9 million. The second warrant for a term of thirty-six months to purchase 700,000 shares of Common Stock at a price of $7.29 per share expired on August 2, 2005. The value of the warrants is not reflected separately in the accompanying financial statements as it was recorded within Common Stock.

9.  Restricted Stock and Stock Option Program

The Company’s stock option and long-term incentive plans were cancelled as part of the Reorganization Plan. The Company had approximately 3.8 million options outstanding as of the date of its petition for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy code. The Reorganization Plan provided for future stock incentives for the employees and directors of the Company. Pursuant to the Reorganization Plan the Company, as of the effective date of the Reorganization Plan on November 16, 2001 (“Effective Date”), adopted the 2001 Stock Incentive Plan, authorizing the grant of restricted shares of Common Stock and options to purchase shares of Common Stock to employees. Pursuant to the Reorganization Plan, the Company issued, as of the Effective Date, restricted shares of Common Stock and options allocated and vested as provided for in the 2001 Stock Incentive Plan.

Pursuant to the Reorganization Plan, 2,250,000 shares of New Common Stock were reserved for the grants of restricted shares of Common Stock and options, as follows:

Class

 

 

 

Number Of Shares Of
New Common Stock

 

New Employee Options

 

 

1,000,000

 

 

Employee/DirectorReserved Options

 

 

750,000

 

 

Restricted stock

 

 

500,000

 

 

Total

 

 

2,250,000

 

 

 

Each new employee option provided for an exercise price of $5.00 per share. Each employee/director reserved option provides for a purchase price for each share of Common Stock to be determined by the Board of Directors as the then fair market value of the new Common Stock. Fifty percent of each grant of employee restricted stock vested one year after the Effective Date and the remaining 50% vested two years after the Effective Date. The restricted stock agreement contains additional vesting provisions, which the Company does not intend to enforce. Accordingly, the Company measured the compensation expense associated with the Plan on November 16, 2001 and recognized the expense over two years. The new employee options vest ratably over three years. Upon vesting, the new employee options can be exercised if and only if all of the following conditions have been satisfied: (i) not more than ten (10) years after the issuance of the option has lapsed; and (ii) the recipient of the New Option is employed by the Company at the time the recipient seeks to exercise the option (or not more than ninety (90) days have passed since such employee’s employment has been terminated); provided, however, if the recipient is not employed by the Company at the time of exercise by reason of the recipient’s death, the recipient’s heir (or estate) can exercise the option for a period of eighteen months after the death of a recipient who was employed at the time of his death. The New Employee Restricted Stock and Option Agreement related to each grant provides for accelerated vesting upon certain specified conditions related to a transfer of ownership or sale of the business.

The 500,000 shares of Common Stock issued under the 2001 Incentive Plan, were determined to have a market value of $2.5 million, based on a $5.00 per share price determined by the Board of Directors. The employees received the common stock at a purchase price of $0.0001, subject to a two-year vesting period. The Company recorded no amortization expense for the year ended October 1, 2005 and $0.2 million for

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the year ended October 2, 2004. The combination of Cost of revenue and Research and Development were charged with approximately $0.1 million and Selling, General and Administrative incurred $0.1 million of the amortization expense in fiscal 2004.

The Shareholders approved an amendment to the Company’s 2001 Stock Incentive Plan at its February 27, 2004 Annual Shareholders Meeting, increasing the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance thereunder from 2,250,000 to 3,000,000.

Stock option activity of the Company is as follows:

 

 

Options Outstanding

 

 

 

Number
of Shares

 

Exercise Price
Per Option

 

Weighted Averag
Exercise Pricee

 

Balance September 27, 2003

 

1,664,897

 

$

5.00 - $5.35

 

 

$

5.09

 

 

Granted

 

88,100

 

$5.35

 

 

$

5.35

 

 

Exercised

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancelled

 

(29,345

)

$

5.00 - $5.35

 

 

$

5.17

 

 

Balance October 2, 2004

 

1,723,652

 

$

5.00 - $5.35

 

 

$

5.10

 

 

Granted

 

782,200

 

$0.30

 

 

$

0.30

 

 

Exercised

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancelled

 

(1,738,256

)

$

5.00 - $5.35

 

 

$

5.05

 

 

Balance October 1, 2005

 

767,596

 

$

0.30 - $5.35

 

 

$

0.32

 

 

 

Warrant activity of the Company is as follows:

 

 

Warrants Outstanding

 

 

 

Number
of Shares

 

Exercise Price
Per warrant

 

Weighted Average
Exercise Price

 

Balance September 27, 2003

 

1,300,500

 

$

5.35 - $7.29

 

 

$

6.92

 

 

Granted

 

85,214

 

$

5.35 - $7.29

 

 

$

6.92

 

 

Exercised

 

(167,000

)

$5.35

 

 

$

5.35

 

 

Cancelled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance October 2, 2004

 

1,218,714

 

$

5.35 - $7.29

 

 

$

7.13

 

 

Granted

 

 

$

5.35 - $7.29

 

 

$

6.92

 

 

Exercised

 

(16,437

)

$5.359

 

 

$

5.35

 

 

Cancelled

 

(783,500

)

$

5.35 - $7.29

 

 

$

7.08

 

 

Balance October 1, 2005

 

418,777

 

$7.29

 

 

$

7.29

 

 

 

The weighted average fair value of warrants granted during the year ended October 2, 2004 totaled $0.09. There were no warrants issues in fiscal 2005.

The following table summarizes information regarding options outstanding at October 1, 2005:

 

 

Options
Outstanding

 

Options
Exercisable

 

Range of Exercise Prices

 

 

 

Number
Outstanding

 

Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual Life

 

Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

 

Number
Exercisable

 

Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

 

$5.00

 

 

500

 

 

 

6.13

 

 

 

$

5.00

 

 

 

500

 

 

 

$

5.00

 

 

$5.35

 

 

1,896

 

 

 

7.57

 

 

 

$

5.35

 

 

 

1,264

 

 

 

$

5.35

 

 

$0.30

 

 

765,200

 

 

 

9.83

 

 

 

$

0.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

0.30

 

 

 

 

 

767,596

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,764

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The weighted average fair value of options granted during the years ended October 1, 2005 and October 2, 2004 totaled $0.16 and $2.83, respectively.

10.  Related Party Transactions.

The Company had revenue of $1.8 million, minimal costs in excess of billings on development projects, which includes capitalized costs of approximately $0.1 million, and no accounts receivable from L-3, a stockholder and customer, for the year ended October 1, 2005. The Company had revenue of $4.0 million, billings in excess of costs on development projects of $0.7 million, which includes capitalized costs of $0.9 million, and accounts receivable of $0.1 million from L-3 for the year ended October 2, 2004.

11.  Subsequent Events.

In the second fiscal quarter of 2005, the Company offered its employees the opportunity to exchange outstanding stock options issued under the Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. 2001 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and having an exercise price in excess of $0.30 for new options with an exercise price to be determined on the date they are granted, which it expects to be on the first business day that is at least six months and one day following the date the exchange offer closed of April 27, 2005. Pursuant to the offer, the Company accepted for exchange and cancelled 1,623,648 options to purchase its common stock. On October 31, 2005, the first business day at least six months and one day following the date of the exchange offer, the Company granted the replacement of 1,609,252 options, to the employees continuing to be employed by the Company, to purchase its common stock at a price of $0.30 per share.

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