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The principal factors and uncertainties that make investing in our company risky include, among others:
−Removed: • The success of our business depends on sustaining or growing our licensing revenue and the failure to achieve such revenue would lead to a material decline in our results of operations.
−Removed: • Our licensing cycle is lengthy and costly, and our marketing and licensing efforts may be unsuccessful.
−Removed: • Some of our license agreements may convert to fully paid-up licenses at the expiration of their terms, or upon certain milestones, and we may not receive royalties after that time.
−Removed: • Future revenue is difficult to predict for several reasons, and our failure to predict revenue accurately may result in our stock price declining.
+Added: • We have traditionally operated in, and may enter other, industries that are highly cyclical and competitive.
• Our revenue is concentrated in a few customers, and if we lose any of these customers through contract terminations or acquisitions, our revenue may decrease substantially.
• Some of our revenue is subject to the pricing policies of our customers over which we have no control.
−Removed: • We have traditionally operated in, and may enter other, industries that are highly cyclical and competitive.
−Removed: • We face risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which could significantly disrupt our research and development, operations, sales and financial results.
• Our customers often require our products to undergo a lengthy and expensive qualification process which does not assure product sales.
If we are unsuccessful or delayed in qualifying any of our products with a customer, our business and operating results would suffer.
−Removed: • We may have to invest more resources in research and development than anticipated, which could increase our operating expenses and negatively impact our operating results.
−Removed: • Our business and operations could suffer in the event of security breaches.
−Removed: • Failures in our products and services or in the products of our customers, including those resulting from security vulnerabilities, defects, bugs or errors, could harm our business.
+Added: • We may not be able to enhance our existing products and develop new products in a timely manner.
+Added: • Our future revenue depends in meaningful part on sustaining or growing our licensing revenue and the failure to achieve such revenue would lead to a material decline in our results of operations.
+Added: • Our licensing cycle is lengthy and costly, and our marketing and licensing efforts may be unsuccessful.
+Added: • Some of our license agreements may convert to fully paid-up licenses at the expiration of their terms, or upon certain milestones, and we may not receive royalties after that time.
+Added: • Future revenue is difficult to predict for several reasons, and our failure to predict revenue accurately may result in our stock price declining.
• We may fail to meet our publicly announced guidance or other expectations about our business, which would likely cause our stock price to decline.
−Removed: • Changes in accounting principles and guidance could result in unfavorable accounting charges or effects.
−Removed: • We have in the past made and may in the future make acquisitions or enter into mergers, strategic investments, sales of assets, divestitures or other arrangements that may not produce expected operating and financial results.
• A substantial portion of our revenue is derived from sources outside of the United States and this revenue and our business generally are subject to risks related to international operations that are often beyond our control.
• Weak global economic conditions may adversely affect demand for the products and services of our customers.
−Removed: • If our counterparties are unable to fulfill their financial and other obligations to us, our business and results of operations may be affected adversely.
−Removed: • If we are unable to attract and retain qualified personnel, our business and operations could suffer.
−Removed: • We are subject to various government restrictions and regulations, including on the sale of products and services that use encryption technology and those related to privacy and other consumer protection matters.
−Removed: • Participation in standards setting organizations may subject us to IP licensing requirements or limitations that could adversely affect our business and prospects.
−Removed: • Our operations are subject to risks of natural disasters, acts of war, terrorism, widespread illness or security breach at our domestic and international locations, any one of which could result in a business stoppage and negatively affect our operating results.
−Removed: • We do not have extensive experience in manufacturing and marketing products and, as a result, may be unable to sustain and grow a profitable commercial market for new and existing products.
−Removed: • We rely upon the accuracy of our customers’ recordkeeping, and any inaccuracies or payment disputes for amounts owed to us under our licensing agreements may harm our results of operations.
−Removed: • We rely on a number of third-party providers for data center hosting facilities, equipment, maintenance and other services, and the loss of, or problems with, one or more of these providers may impede our growth or cause us to lose customers.
−Removed: • We rely on third parties for a variety of services, including manufacturing, and these third parties’ failure to perform these services adequately could materially and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: • Warranty, service level agreement and product liability claims brought against us could cause us to incur significant costs and adversely affect our operating results as well as our reputation and relationships with customers.
+Added: • We may have to invest more resources in research and development than anticipated, which could increase our operating expenses and negatively impact our operating results.
• Any failure in our delivery of high-quality technical support services may adversely affect our relationships with our customers and our financial results.
−Removed: • Certain software that we use in certain of our products is licensed from third parties and, for that reason, may not be available to us in the future, which has the potential to delay product development and production or cause us to incur additional expense, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
−Removed: • Certain software we use is from open source code sources, which, under certain circumstances, may lead to unintended consequences and, therefore, could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
−Removed: • Our business and operating results could be harmed if we undertake any restructuring activities.
−Removed: • Problems with our information systems could interfere with our business and could adversely impact our operations.
−Removed: • We are leveraged financially, which could adversely affect our ability to adjust our business to respond to competitive pressures and to obtain sufficient funds to satisfy our future research and development needs, to protect and enforce our intellectual property, and to meet other needs.
−Removed: • Adverse litigation results could affect our business.
−Removed: • We have in the past, and may in the future, become engaged in litigation stemming from our efforts to protect and enforce our patents and intellectual property and make other claims, which could adversely affect our intellectual property rights, distract our management and cause substantial expenses and declines in our revenue and stock price.
−Removed: • From time to time, we are subject to proceedings by government agencies that may result in adverse determinations against us and could cause our revenue to decline substantially.
−Removed: • Litigation or other third-party claims of intellectual property infringement could require us to expend substantial resources and could prevent us from developing or licensing our technology on a cost-effective basis.
+Added: • Our operations are subject to the effects of a rising rate of inflation.
+Added: • We rely on third parties for a variety of services, including manufacturing, and these third parties’ failure to perform these services adequately or change the allocation of their services/capacity due to industry or other pressures could materially and adversely affect our business.
+Added: • We rely on a number of third-party providers for data center hosting facilities, equipment, maintenance and other services, and the loss of, or problems with, one or more of these providers may impede our growth or cause us to lose customers.
+Added: • We face risks related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent variants, which could significantly disrupt our research and development, operations, sales and financial results.
+Added: • Our business and operations could suffer in the event of physical and cyber security breaches and incidents.
+Added: • Failures in our products and services or in the products of our customers, including those resulting from security vulnerabilities, defects, bugs or errors, could harm our business.
+Added: • We have in the past made and may in the future make acquisitions or enter into mergers, strategic investments, sales of assets, divestitures or other arrangements that may not produce expected operating and financial results.
+Added: • If we are unable to attract and retain qualified personnel globally, especially in light of a hyper-competitive compensation environment, our business and operations could suffer.
+Added: • Our operations are subject to risks of natural disasters, acts of war, terrorism, widespread illness or security breaches or incidents at our domestic and international locations, any one of which could result in a business stoppage and negatively affect our operating results.
+Added: • In the future, we may fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting or adequate disclosure controls and procedures, which may result in material misstatements of our consolidated financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our periodic reporting obligations.
+Added: • Unanticipated changes in our tax rates or in the tax laws, treaties and regulations could expose us to additional income tax liabilities, which could affect our operating results and financial condition.
+Added: • We are subject to various government restrictions and regulations, including on the sale of products and services that use encryption technology and those related to privacy and other consumer protection matters.
+Added: • Litigation and government proceedings could affect our business in materially negative ways.
• If we are unable to protect our inventions successfully through the issuance and enforcement of patents, our operating results could be adversely affected.
−Removed: • Our inability to protect and own the intellectual property we create would cause our business to suffer.
• Third parties may claim that our products or services infringe on their intellectual property rights, exposing us to litigation that, regardless of merit, may be costly to defend.
−Removed: • Any dispute regarding our intellectual property may require us to indemnify certain customers, the cost of which could severely hamper our business operations and financial condition.
−Removed: • We have been party to, and may in the future be subject to, lawsuits relating to securities law matters which may result in unfavorable outcomes and significant judgments, settlements and legal expenses which could cause our business, financial condition and results of operations to suffer.
+Added: • Warranty, service level agreement and product liability claims brought against us could cause us to incur significant costs and adversely affect our operating results, as well as our reputation and relationships with customers.
• The price of our common stock may continue to fluctuate.
+Added: • We are leveraged financially, which could adversely affect our ability to adjust our business to respond to competitive pressures and to obtain sufficient funds to satisfy our future research and development needs, to protect and enforce our intellectual property, and to meet other needs.
• Compliance with changing regulation of corporate governance and public disclosure may result in additional expenses.
• Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, Delaware law, our outstanding convertible notes and certain other agreements contain provisions that could discourage transactions resulting in a change in control, which may negatively affect the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: • Unanticipated changes in our tax rates or in the tax laws and regulations could expose us to additional income tax liabilities which could affect our operating results and financial condition.
Risks Associated with Our Business, Industry and Market Conditions
−Removed: The success of our business depends on sustaining or growing our licensing revenue and the failure to achieve such revenue would lead to a material decline in our results of operations.
−Removed: A significant portion of our revenue consists of patent and technology license fees paid for access to our patented technologies, existing technology and other development and support services we provide to our customers.
−Removed: Our ability to secure and renew the licenses from which our revenues are derived depends on our customers adopting our technology and using it in the products they sell.
−Removed: Once secured, license revenue may be negatively affected by factors within and outside our control, including reductions in our customers’ sales prices, sales volumes, our failure to timely complete engineering deliverables, and the actual terms of such licenses themselves.
−Removed: In addition, our licensing cycle for new licensees as well as for renewals for existing licensees is lengthy, costly and unpredictable.
−Removed: We cannot provide any assurance that we will be successful in signing new license agreements or renewing existing license agreements on equal or favorable terms or at all.
−Removed: If we do not achieve our revenue goals, our results of operations could decline.
−Removed: Our licensing cycle is lengthy and costly, and our marketing and licensing efforts may be unsuccessful.
−Removed: The process of persuading customers to adopt and license our Chip interface, data Security IP, and other technologies can be lengthy.
−Removed: Even if successful, there can be no assurance that our technologies will be used in a product that is ultimately brought to market, achieves commercial acceptance or results in significant royalties to us.
−Removed: We generally incur significant marketing and sales expenses prior to entering into our license agreements, generating a license fee and establishing a royalty stream from each customer.
−Removed: The length of time it takes to establish a new licensing relationship can take many months or even years.
−Removed: We may incur costs in any particular period before any associated revenue stream begins, if at all.
−Removed: If our marketing and sales efforts are very lengthy or unsuccessful, then we may face a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations as a result of failure to obtain or an undue delay in obtaining royalties.
−Removed: Some of our license agreements may convert to fully paid-up licenses at the expiration of their terms, or upon certain milestones, and we may not receive royalties after that time.
−Removed: From time to time, we enter into license agreements that automatically convert to fully paid-up licenses upon expiration or upon reaching certain milestones.
−Removed: We may not receive further royalties from customers for any licensed technology under those agreements if they convert to fully paid-up licenses because such customers will be entitled to continue using some, if not all, of the relevant intellectual property (“IP”) or technology under the terms of the license agreements without further payment, even if relevant patents or technologies are still in effect.
−Removed: If we cannot find another source of royalties to replace the royalties from these license agreements converting to fully paid-up licenses, our results of operations following such conversion could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Future revenue is difficult to predict for several reasons, and our failure to predict revenue accurately may result in our stock price declining.
−Removed: Our lengthy license negotiation cycles could make our future revenue difficult to predict because we may not be successful in entering into or renewing licenses with our customers on our anticipated timelines.
−Removed: As we commercially launch each of our products, the sales volume of and resulting revenue from such products in any given period will be difficult to predict.
−Removed: In addition, while some of our license agreements provide for fixed, quarterly royalty payments, many of our license agreements provide for volume-based royalties and may also be subject to caps on royalties in a given period.
−Removed: The sales volume and prices of our customers’ products in any given period can be difficult to predict.
−Removed: In addition, we began applying the new revenue recognition standard (“ASC 606”) during the first quarter of 2018, as required, and we anticipate that our revenue will vary greatly from quarter to quarter.
−Removed: As a result of the foregoing items, our actual results may differ substantially from analyst estimates or our forecasts in any given quarter.
−Removed: Also, a portion of our revenue comes from development and support services provided to our customers.
−Removed: Depending upon the nature of the services, a portion of the related revenue may be recognized ratably over the support period, or may be recognized according to contract revenue accounting.
−Removed: Contract revenue accounting may result in deferral of the service fees to the completion of the contract, or may result in the recognition of service fees over the period in which services are performed on a percentage-of-completion basis.
+Added: We have traditionally operated in, and may enter other, industries that are highly cyclical and competitive.
+Added: Our target customers are companies that develop and market high volume business and consumer products in semiconductors, computing, data centers, networks, tablets, handheld devices, mobile applications, gaming and graphics, high-definition televisions, cryptography and data security.
+Added: The electronics industry is intensely competitive and has been impacted by rapid technological change, short product life cycles, cyclical market patterns, price erosion and increasing foreign and domestic competition.
+Added: We are subject to many risks beyond our control that influence whether or not we are successful in winning target customers or retaining existing customers, including, primarily, competition in a particular industry, market acceptance of such customers’ products and the financial resources of such customers.
+Added: In particular, DRAM manufacturers, which such customers make up a significant part of our revenue, are prone to significant business cycles and have suffered material losses and other adverse effects to their businesses, leading to industry consolidation from time-to-time that may result in loss of revenues under our existing license agreements or loss of target customers.
+Added: As a result of ongoing competition in the industries in which we operate and volatility in various economies around the world, we may achieve reduced market share, a reduced number of licenses or may experience tightening of customers’ operating budgets, difficulty or inability of our customers to pay our licensing fees, lengthening of the approval process for new products and licenses and consolidation among our customers.
+Added: All of these factors may adversely affect the demand for our products and technologies and may cause us to experience substantial fluctuations in our operating results.
+Added: We face competition from semiconductor and digital electronics products and systems companies, and other semiconductor IP companies that provide security cores that are available to the market.
+Added: We believe some of the competition for our technologies may come from our prospective customers, some of which are internally evaluating and developing products based on technologies that they contend or may contend will not require a license from us.
+Added: Many of these companies are larger and may have better access to financial, technical and other resources than we possess.
+Added: To the extent that alternative technologies might provide comparable system performance at lower or similar cost to our technologies, or are perceived to require the payment of no or lower fees and/or royalties, or to the extent other factors influence the industry, our customers and prospective customers may adopt and promote such alternative technologies.
+Added: Even to the extent we determine that such alternative technologies infringe our patents, there can be no assurance that we would be able to negotiate agreements that would result in royalties being paid to us without litigation, which could be costly and the results of which would be uncertain.
+Added: In addition, our efforts to expand into new markets subject us to additional risks.
+Added: We may have limited or no experience in new products and markets, and our customers may not adopt our new offerings.
+Added: These and other new offerings may present new and difficult challenges, which could negatively affect our operating results.
Our revenue is concentrated in a few customers, and if we lose any of these customers through contract terminations or acquisitions, our revenue may decrease substantially.
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Our top five customers for each reporting period represented approximately 56%, 46% and 45% of our revenue for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: For 2021, revenue from Micron, Samsung and SK hynix each accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue.
For 2020, revenue from Micron and SK hynix each accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue.
For 2019, revenue from Broadcom and SK hynix each accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue.
−Removed: For 2018, revenue from Broadcom and NVIDIA each accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue.
We expect to continue to experience significant revenue concentration for the foreseeable future.
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In particular, under our license agreement with Samsung, the license fees payable by Samsung are subject to certain adjustments and conditions, and we therefore cannot provide assurances that the revenues generated by this license will not decline in the future.
+Added: the license agreement with Samsung is currently set to expire on September 30, 2023, and we cannot provide assurances that this license will be renewed.
+Added: If we are unable to renew the Samsung license, then the licensing billings generated by the license will cease, and we will not recognize any revenue associated with a potential renewal.
In addition, some of our material license agreements may contain rights by the customer to terminate for convenience, or upon certain other events, such as change of control, material breach, insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings.
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If the benefits of our technology do not match the price premium charged by our customers, the resulting decline in sales of products incorporating our technology could harm our operating results.
−Removed: We have traditionally operated in, and may enter other, industries that are highly cyclical and competitive.
−Removed: Our target customers are companies that develop and market high volume business and consumer products in semiconductors, computing, data centers, networks, tablets, handheld devices, mobile applications, gaming and graphics, high-definition televisions, cryptography and data security.
−Removed: The electronics industry is intensely competitive and has been impacted by rapid technological change, short product life cycles, cyclical market patterns, price erosion and increasing foreign and domestic competition.
−Removed: We are subject to many risks beyond our control that influence whether or not we are successful in winning target customers or retaining existing customers, including, primarily, competition in a particular industry, market acceptance of such customers’ products and the financial resources of such customers.
−Removed: In particular, DRAM manufacturers, which such customers make up a significant part of our revenue, are prone to significant business cycles and have suffered material losses and other adverse effects to their businesses, leading to industry consolidation from time-to-time that may result in loss of revenues under our existing license agreements or loss of target customers.
−Removed: As a result of ongoing competition in the industries in which we operate and volatility in various economies around the world, we may achieve a reduced number of licenses or may experience tightening of customers’ operating budgets, difficulty or inability of our customers to pay our licensing fees, lengthening of the approval process for new licenses and consolidation among our customers.
−Removed: All of these factors may adversely affect the demand for our technology and may cause us to experience substantial fluctuations in our operating results.
−Removed: We face competition from semiconductor and digital electronics products and systems companies, and other semiconductor IP companies that provide security cores that are available to the market.
−Removed: We believe the principal competition for our
−Removed: technologies may come from our prospective customers, some of which are evaluating and developing products based on technologies that they contend or may contend will not require a license from us.
−Removed: Some of our competitors use a system-level design approach similar to ours, including activities such as board and package design, power and signal integrity analysis, and thermal management.
−Removed: Many of these companies are larger and may have better access to financial, technical and other resources than we possess.
−Removed: To the extent that alternative technologies might provide comparable system performance at lower or similar cost to our technologies, or are perceived to require the payment of no or lower royalties, or to the extent other factors influence the industry, our customers and prospective customers may adopt and promote such alternative technologies.
−Removed: Even to the extent we determine that such alternative technologies infringe our patents, there can be no assurance that we would be able to negotiate agreements that would result in royalties being paid to us without litigation, which could be costly and the results of which would be uncertain.
−Removed: In addition, our expansion into new markets subjects us to additional risks.
−Removed: We may have limited or no experience in new products and markets, and our customers may not adopt our new offerings.
−Removed: These and other new offerings may present new and difficult challenges, which could negatively affect our operating results.
−Removed: We face risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which could significantly disrupt our research and development, operations, sales and financial results.
−Removed: Our business may be adversely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: In addition to global macroeconomic effects, the COVID-19 pandemic and any other related adverse public health developments may cause disruption to our domestic and international operations and sales activities.
−Removed: Our third-party manufacturers, suppliers, third-party distributors, sub-contractors and customers have been and will be disrupted by worker absenteeism, quarantines and restrictions on our employees’ ability to work, office and factory closures, disruptions to ports and other shipping infrastructure, border closures, or other travel or health-related restrictions.
−Removed: For example, government-mandated shelter-in-place and other restrictions on movement may impact our planned headquarters relocation, the ability of our employees to perform their jobs, and our ability to develop and design our products in a timely manner or meet required milestones or customer commitments.
−Removed: Depending on the magnitude of such effects on the operations of our suppliers, third-party distributors, or sub-contractors, our supply chain and product shipments may be delayed, which could adversely affect our business, operations and customer relationships.
−Removed: In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic or other disease outbreak will in the short-run and may over the longer term adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries, resulting in an economic downturn that may affect demand for our products and impact our operating results.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that any decrease in sales resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic will be offset by increased sales in subsequent periods.
−Removed: Although the magnitude of the impact of the Novel COVID-19 pandemic on our business and operations remains uncertain, the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic or the occurrence of other epidemics and the imposition of related public health measures and travel and business restrictions could adversely impact our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows.
Our customers often require our products to undergo a lengthy and expensive qualification process which does not assure product sales.
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If we are unsuccessful or delayed in qualifying any of our products with a customer, sales of those products to the customer may be precluded or delayed, which may impede our growth and cause our business to suffer.
+Added: We may not be able to enhance our existing products and develop new products in a timely manner.
+Added: Our future operating results will depend to a significant extent on our ability to continue to offer products that compare favorably with alternative solutions on the basis of time to introduction, cost, performance, and end user preferences.
+Added: Our product offerings may present new and difficult challenges, and we may be subject to claims if customers of our offerings experience delays, failures, non-performance or other quality issues.
+Added: In particular, we may experience difficulties with product design, qualification, manufacturing, including supply chain shortages that might lead to an inability to meet customer demand, marketing or certification that could delay or prevent our development, introduction or marketing and sales of products.
+Added: Although we intend to design our products to be fully compliant with applicable industry standards, proprietary enhancements may not in the future result in full conformance with existing industry standards under all circumstances.
+Added: Further, our business model continues to transform towards greater reliance on product revenue.
+Added: In particular, we are relying on our memory interface chips to result in significant growth in fiscal 2022.
+Added: If sales of our memory interface chips do not grow as anticipated, then our business could suffer as a result.
+Added: Our future revenue depends in meaningful part on sustaining or growing our licensing revenue and the failure to achieve such revenue would lead to a material decline in our results of operations.
+Added: A large portion of our revenue consists of patent and technology license fees paid for access to our patented technologies, existing technology and other development and support services we provide to our customers.
+Added: Our ability to secure and renew the licenses from which our revenues are derived depends on our customers adopting our technology and using it in the products they sell.
+Added: If customers reduce the need to upgrade or enhance their product offerings to include such technologies, our revenue and operating results may be adversely affected.
+Added: Once secured, license revenue may be negatively affected by factors within and outside our control, including reductions in our customers’ sales prices, sales volumes, our failure to timely complete engineering deliverables, and the actual terms of such licenses themselves.
+Added: In addition, our licensing cycle for new licensees, as well as for renewals for existing licensees is lengthy, costly and unpredictable.
+Added: We cannot provide any assurance that we will be successful in signing new license agreements or renewing existing license agreements on equal or favorable terms or at all.
+Added: If we do not achieve our revenue goals, our results of operations could decline.
+Added: Our licensing cycle is lengthy and costly, and our marketing and licensing efforts may be unsuccessful.
+Added: The process of persuading customers to adopt and license our Chip interface, data Security IP, and other technologies can be lengthy.
+Added: Even if successful, there can be no assurance that our technologies will be used in a product that is ultimately brought to market, achieves commercial acceptance or results in significant royalties to us.
+Added: We generally incur significant marketing and sales expenses prior to entering into our license agreements, generating a license fee and establishing a royalty stream from each customer.
+Added: The length of time it takes to establish a new licensing relationship can take many months or even years.
+Added: We may incur costs in any particular period before any associated revenue stream begins, if at all.
+Added: If our marketing and sales efforts are very lengthy or unsuccessful, then we may face a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations as a result of failure to obtain or an undue delay in obtaining royalties.
+Added: Some of our license agreements may convert to fully paid-up licenses at the expiration of their terms, or upon certain milestones, and we may not receive royalties after that time.
+Added: From time to time, we enter into license agreements that automatically convert to fully paid-up licenses upon expiration or upon reaching certain milestones.
+Added: We may not receive further royalties from customers for any licensed technology under those agreements if they convert to fully paid-up licenses because such customers will be entitled to continue using some, if not all, of the relevant intellectual property (“IP”) or technology under the terms of the license agreements without further payment, even if relevant patents or technologies are still in effect.
+Added: If we cannot find another source of royalties to replace the royalties from these license agreements converting to fully paid-up licenses, our results of operations following such conversion could be adversely affected.
+Added: Future revenue is difficult to predict for several reasons, and our failure to predict revenue accurately may result in our stock price declining.
+Added: As we commercially launch each of our products, the sales volume of and resulting revenue from such products in any given period will be difficult to predict.
+Added: Our lengthy license negotiation cycles could make a considerable portion of our future revenue difficult to predict because we may not be successful in entering into or renewing licenses with our customers on our anticipated timelines.
+Added: In addition, while some of our license agreements provide for fixed, quarterly royalty payments, many of our license agreements provide for volume-based royalties and may also be subject to caps on royalties in a given period.
+Added: The sales volume and prices of our customers’ products in any given period can be difficult to predict.
+Added: In addition, we began applying the new revenue recognition standard (“ASC 606”) during the first quarter of 2018, as required, and we anticipate that our revenue will vary greatly from quarter to quarter.
+Added: As a result of the foregoing items, our actual results may differ substantially from analyst estimates or our forecasts in any given quarter.
+Added: Also, a portion of our revenue comes from development and support services provided to our customers.
+Added: Depending upon the nature of the services, a portion of the related revenue may be recognized ratably over the support period, or may be recognized according to contract revenue accounting.
+Added: Contract revenue accounting may result in deferral of the service fees to the completion of the contract, or may result in the recognition of service fees over the period in which services are performed on a percentage-of-completion basis.
+Added: We may fail to meet our publicly announced guidance or other expectations about our business, which would likely cause our stock price to decline.
+Added: We provide guidance regarding our expected financial and business performance including our anticipated future revenues, operating expenses and other financial and operation metrics.
+Added: Correctly identifying the key factors affecting business conditions and predicting future events is an inherently uncertain process.
+Added: Any guidance that we provide may not always be accurate, or may vary from actual results, due to our inability to correctly identify and quantify risks and uncertainties to our business and to quantify their impact on our financial performance.
+Added: We offer no assurance that such guidance will ultimately be accurate, and investors should treat any such guidance with appropriate caution.
+Added: If we fail to meet our guidance or if we find it necessary to revise such guidance, even if such failure or revision is seemingly insignificant, investors and analysts may lose confidence in us and the market value of our common stock could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: A substantial portion of our revenue is derived from sources outside of the United States and this revenue and our business generally are subject to risks related to international operations that are often beyond our control.
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, revenues received from our international customers constituted approximately 36%, 44% and 41%, respectively, of our total revenue.
+Added: We expect that future revenue derived from international sources will continue to represent a significant portion of our total revenue.
+Added: To the extent that customer sales are not denominated in U.S.
+Added: dollars, any royalties which are based on a percentage of the customers’ sales that we receive as a result of such sales could be subject to fluctuations in currency exchange rates.
+Added: In addition, if the effective price of licensed products sold by our foreign customers were to increase as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of the relevant currencies, demand for licensed products could fall, which in turn would reduce our royalties.
+Added: We do not use financial instruments to hedge foreign exchange rate risk.
+Added: Trade-related government actions, whether implemented by the U.S.
+Added: government, China or other countries, that impose barriers or restrictions that would impact our ability to sell or ship products to certain customers may have a negative impact on our financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: We cannot predict the actions government entities may take in this context and may be unable to quickly offset or effectively react to government actions that restrict our ability to sell to certain customers or in certain jurisdictions.
+Added: Government actions that affect our customers’ ability to sell products or access critical elements of their supply chains may result in a decreased demand for their products, which may consequently reduce their demand for our products.
+Added: We currently have international business operations in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Bulgaria, international design operations in Canada, India, Finland, France and Bulgaria, and business development operations in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
+Added: Our international operations and revenue are subject to a variety of risks which are beyond our control, including:
+Added: • hiring, maintaining and managing a workforce and facilities remotely and under various legal systems, including compliance with local labor and employment laws;
+Added: • non-compliance with our code of conduct or other corporate policies;
+Added: • natural disasters, acts of war, terrorism, widespread global pandemics or illness, such as COVID-19 and its variants, or security breaches or incidents;
+Added: • export controls, tariffs, import and licensing restrictions, climate-change regulations and other trade barriers;
+Added: • profits, if any, earned abroad being subject to local tax laws and not being repatriated to the United States or, if repatriation is possible, limited in amount;
+Added: • adverse tax treatment of revenue from international sources and changes to tax codes, including being subject to foreign tax laws and being liable for paying withholding, income or other taxes in foreign jurisdictions;
+Added: • unanticipated changes in foreign government laws and regulations;
+Added: • increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;
+Added: • lack of protection of our IP and other contract rights by jurisdictions in which we may do business to the same extent as the laws of the United States;
+Added: • potential vulnerability to computer system, internet or other systemic attacks, such as denial of service, viruses or other malware which may be caused by criminals, terrorists or other sophisticated organizations;
+Added: • social, political and economic instability;
+Added: • geopolitical issues, including changes in diplomatic and trade relationships, in particular with China;
+Added: • cultural differences in the conduct of business both with customers and in conducting business in our international facilities and international sales offices.
+Added: We and our customers are subject to many of the risks described above with respect to companies which are located in different countries.
+Added: There can be no assurance that one or more of the risks associated with our international operations will not result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Weak global economic conditions may adversely affect demand for the products and services of our customers.
+Added: Our operations and performance depend significantly on worldwide economic conditions.
+Added: Future uncertainty about global or regional economic and political conditions poses a risk as consumers and businesses may postpone spending in response to tighter credit, negative financial news and declines in income or asset values, which could have a material negative effect on the demand for the products of our customers in the foreseeable future.
+Added: If our customers experience reduced demand for their products as a result of global or regional economic conditions or otherwise, this could result in reduced royalty revenue and our business and results of operations could be harmed.
We may have to invest more resources in research and development than anticipated, which could increase our operating expenses and negatively impact our operating results.
−Removed: If new competitors, technological advances by existing competitors, and/or development of new technologies or other competitive factors require us to invest significantly greater resources than anticipated in our research and development efforts,
−Removed: our operating expenses could increase.
+Added: If new competitors, technological advances by existing competitors, and/or development of new technologies in the digital electronics or semiconductor industries or other competitive factors require us to invest significantly greater resources than
+Added: anticipated in our research and development efforts, our operating expenses could increase.
If we are required to invest significantly greater resources than anticipated in research and development efforts without an increase in revenue, our operating results would decline.
We expect these expenses to increase in the foreseeable future as our technology development efforts continue.
−Removed: Our business and operations could suffer in the event of security breaches.
−Removed: Attempts by others to gain unauthorized access to our information technology systems are becoming more sophisticated.
−Removed: These attempts, which might be related to industrial or other espionage, include covertly introducing malware to our computers and networks and impersonating authorized users, among others.
−Removed: We seek to detect and investigate all security incidents and to prevent their recurrence, but in some cases, we might be unaware of an incident or its magnitude and effects.
−Removed: While we have not identified any material incidents of unauthorized access to date, the theft, unauthorized use or publication of our IP and/or confidential business information could harm our competitive position and reputation, reduce the value of our investment in research and development and other strategic initiatives or otherwise adversely affect our business.
−Removed: To the extent that any future security breach results in inappropriate disclosure of our customers’ confidential information or any personally-identifiable information of our employees, we may incur liability.
+Added: Additionally, there can be no guarantee that our research and development investments will result in products that create additional revenue.
+Added: If we fail to introduce products that meet the demand of our customers, penetrate new markets in which we expend significant resources, or our marketing and sales cycles are longer than we anticipate, our revenues will be difficult to predict, may decrease over time and our financial condition could suffer.
+Added: Additionally, if we concentrate resources on a new market that does not prove profitable or sustainable, it could damage our reputation and limit our growth, and our financial condition could decline.
+Added: In addition, new products that we develop may not adequately address the changing needs of the marketplace.
+Added: The new products that we develop may contain undetected errors, defects, or vulnerabilities.
+Added: The occurrence of any defects or errors in our products could result in lost or delayed market acceptance and sales of our products, delays in payment by customers, loss of customers or market share, product returns, damage to our reputation, diversion of our resources, increased service and warranty expenses or financial concessions, increased insurance costs and potential liability for damages.
+Added: Any failure in our delivery of high-quality technical support services may adversely affect our relationships with our customers and our financial results.
+Added: Our customers depend on our support organization to resolve technical issues and provide ongoing maintenance relating to our products and services.
+Added: We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for support services.
+Added: Increased customer demand for these services, without corresponding revenues, could increase costs and adversely affect our operating results.
+Added: In addition, our sales process is highly dependent on our offerings and business reputation and on positive recommendations from our existing customers.
+Added: Any failure to maintain high-quality technical support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could adversely affect our reputation, our ability to sell our solutions to existing and prospective customers, and our business, operating results and financial position.
+Added: Our operations are subject to the effects of a rising rate of inflation.
+Added: The United States has recently experienced historically high levels of inflation.
+Added: According to the U.S.
+Added: Department of Labor, the annual inflation rate for the United States was approximately 7.0% for the 12 months ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: If the inflation rate continues to increase, such as increases in the costs of labor and supplies, it will affect our expenses, such as employee compensation and research and development charges.
+Added: Research and development expenses account for a significant portion of our operating expenses.
+Added: Additionally, the United States is experiencing an acute workforce shortage, which in turn, has created a hyper-competitive wage environment that may increase the Company’s operating costs.
+Added: To the extent inflation results in rising interest rates and has other adverse effects on the market, it may adversely affect our consolidated financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Risks Associated with Our Supply and Third Party Manufacturing
+Added: We rely on third parties for a variety of services, including manufacturing, and these third parties’ failure to perform these services adequately or change the allocation of their services/capacity due to industry or other pressures could materially and adversely affect our business.
+Added: We rely on third parties for a variety of services, including our manufacturing supply chain partners and third parties within our sales and distribution channels.
+Added: Certain of these third parties are, and may be, our sole manufacturer or sole source of certain production materials.
+Added: If we fail to manage our relationships with these manufacturers and suppliers effectively, or if they experience delays, disruptions, capacity constraints/allocation pressures or quality control problems in their operations, our ability to ship products to our customers could be impaired and our competitive position and reputation could be harmed.
+Added: In addition, any adverse change in any of our manufacturers and suppliers’ financial or business condition could disrupt our ability to supply quality products to our customers.
+Added: If we are required to change our manufacturers, we may lose revenue, incur increased costs and damage our end-customer relationships.
+Added: In addition, qualifying a new manufacturer and commencing production can be an expensive and lengthy process.
+Added: If our third-party manufacturers or suppliers are unable to provide us with adequate supplies of high-quality products for any other reason, we could experience a delay in our order fulfillment, and our business, operating results and financial condition would be adversely affected.
+Added: In the event these and other third parties we rely on fail to provide their services adequately, including as a result of errors in their systems, industry pressures or events beyond their control, or refuse to provide these services on terms acceptable to us or at all, and we are not able to find suitable alternatives, our business may be materially and adversely affected.
+Added: In addition, our orders may represent a relatively small percentage of the overall orders received by our manufacturers from their customers.
+Added: As a result, fulfilling our orders may not
+Added: be considered a priority in the event our manufacturers are constrained in their ability to fulfill all of their customer obligations in a timely manner.
+Added: If our manufacturers are unable to provide us with adequate supplies of high-quality products, or if we or our manufacturers are unable to obtain adequate quantities of components, it could cause a delay in our order fulfillment, in which case our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
+Added: Semiconductor supply chain disruptions have been well publicized recently given high demand and lower supply.
+Added: We believe that we will continue to experience various supply constraints related to our memory interface chip business in the near term.
+Added: In particular, to the extent we do not have sufficient wafer and packaging substrate firm commitments from our third-party suppliers, we may not obtain the materials needed on our desired timelines or at reasonable prices.
+Added: Large swings in demand may exceed our contracted supply and/or our suppliers’ capacity to meet those demand changes resulting in a shortage of parts, materials, or capacity needed to manufacture our products.
+Added: While we continually work with our suppliers to mitigate the impact of the supply constraints to our customer deliveries, in the event of a shortage or supply interruption from suppliers of related components, we may not be able to develop alternate sources quickly, cost-effectively, or at all.
+Added: An extended period of global supply chain and economic disruption as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic could have a material negative impact on our business, results of operations, access to sources of liquidity and financial condition, though the full extent and duration is uncertain.
+Added: Additionally, various sources of supply-chain risk, including strikes or shutdowns at delivery ports or loss of or damage to our products while they are in transit or storage, intellectual property theft, losses due to tampering, third-party vendor issues with quality or sourcing control, failure by our suppliers to comply with applicable laws and regulations, potential tariffs or other trade restrictions, or other similar problems could limit or delay the supply of our products or harm our reputation.
+Added: Any interruption or delay in manufacturing or component supply, any increases in manufacturing or component costs, or the inability to obtain these services or components from alternate sources at acceptable prices and within a reasonable amount of time would harm our ability to provide our products to customers on a timely basis.
+Added: This could harm our relationships with our customers, prevent us from acquiring new customers, and materially and adversely affect our business.
+Added: We rely on a number of third-party providers for data center hosting facilities, equipment, maintenance and other services, and the loss of, or problems with, one or more of these providers may impede our growth or cause us to lose customers.
+Added: We rely on third-party providers to supply data center hosting facilities, equipment, maintenance and other services in order to enable us to provide some of our services, and have entered into various agreements for such services.
+Added: The continuous availability of our services depends on the operations of those facilities, on a variety of network service providers and on third-party vendors.
+Added: In addition, we depend on our third-party facility providers’ ability to protect these facilities against damage or interruption from natural disasters, power or telecommunications failures, criminal acts, cyber-attacks and similar events.
+Added: If there are any lapses of service or damage to a facility, we could experience lengthy interruptions in our service, as well as delays and additional expenses in arranging new facilities and services.
+Added: Even with current and planned disaster recovery arrangements, our business could be harmed.
+Added: Any interruptions or delays in our service, whether as a result of third-party error, our own error, natural disasters, criminal acts, security breaches or other causes, whether accidental or willful, could harm our relationships with customers, harm our reputation and cause our revenue to decrease and/or our expenses to increase.
+Added: Also, in the event of damage or interruption, our insurance policies may not adequately compensate us for any losses that we may incur.
+Added: These factors in turn could further reduce our revenue, subject us to liability and cause us to issue credits or cause us to lose customers, any of which could materially adversely affect our business.
+Added: Certain software that we use in certain of our products is licensed from third parties and, for that reason, may not be available to us in the future, which has the potential to delay product development and production or cause us to incur additional expense, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
+Added: Some of our products and services contain software licensed from third parties.
+Added: Some of these licenses may not be available to us in the future on terms that are acceptable to us or allow our products to remain competitive.
+Added: The loss of these licenses or the inability to maintain any of them on commercially acceptable terms could delay development of future offerings or the enhancement of existing products and services.
+Added: We may also choose to pay a premium price for such a license in certain circumstances where continuity of the licensed product would outweigh the premium cost of the license.
+Added: The unavailability of these licenses or the necessity of agreeing to commercially unreasonable terms for such licenses could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
+Added: Risks Associated with Our Business Operations
+Added: We face risks related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent variants, which could significantly disrupt our research and development, operations, sales and financial results.
+Added: Our business may continue to be adversely impacted by the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent variants that continue to spread through the world and has adversely impacted global commercial activity.
+Added: In addition to global
+Added: macroeconomic effects, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused minor disruption to our domestic and international operations and sales activities.
+Added: Our third-party manufacturers, suppliers, third-party distributors, sub-contractors and customers have been and will continue to be disrupted by worker absenteeism, quarantines and restrictions on our employees’ ability to work, office and factory closures, disruptions to ports and other shipping infrastructure, border closures, or other travel or health-related restrictions.
+Added: The spread of COVID-19 has caused us to modify our business practices (including employee travel, mandatory work-from-home policies, vaccine mandates, and cancellation of physical participation in meetings, events, and conferences), and we may take further actions as required by government authorities and regulations or that we determine are in the best interests of our employees, customers, partners, and suppliers.
+Added: Some regions are easing COVID-19 related restrictions;
+Added: however, most of our employees continue to work remotely and we continue to temporarily prohibit most business travel.
+Added: There is no certainty that such measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks posed by the disease, and our ability to perform critical functions could be harmed.
+Added: As our offices begin to reopen, we expect to incur incremental expenses as we resume onsite services and related in-office costs, which could adversely impact our results of operations.
+Added: Such restrictions may also impact the ability of our employees to perform their jobs and our ability to develop and design our products in a timely manner or meet required milestones or customer commitments.
+Added: Depending on the magnitude of such effects on the operations of our suppliers, third-party distributors, or sub-contractors, our supply chain and product shipments may be delayed, which could adversely affect our business, operations and customer relationships.
+Added: Further, we rely on third-party suppliers and manufacturers throughout the globe.
+Added: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the extended shutdown of certain businesses and the closure of international borders throughout the world, which may result in disruptions to our supply chain and critical logistics providers.
+Added: These may include disruptions from temporary closure of third-party supplier and manufacturer facilities, interruptions in product supply or restrictions on the export or shipment of our products, as well as the import of products into countries in which we operate.
+Added: Although we have attempted to minimize the effects of these disruptions, it is possible that these attempts will be insufficient and that these disruptions will likely have an adverse effect on our revenues and operating results.
+Added: In some regions, markets, or industries where COVID-19 and its variants have driven an increase in sales for our products, the demand may not be sustainable if conditions change.
+Added: The reopening of offices may also generate demand for our products that may be temporary.
+Added: Additionally, stronger demand globally has limited the availability of capacity and components in our supply chain, which could cause us to order an excess amount if demand changes, pay higher prices, or limit our ability to obtain supply at necessary levels or at all.
+Added: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the timing and overall demand from customers and the availability of supply chain, logistical services, component supply and increases in inflation rates may have a material net negative impact on our business and financial results.
+Added: In addition, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic or other disease outbreak may continue to adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries, resulting in an economic downturn that may impact overall technology spending, adversely affecting demand for our products and impacting our operating results.
+Added: There can be no assurance that any decrease in sales resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will be offset by increased sales in subsequent periods.
+Added: Furthermore, such disruption in the global financial markets may reduce our ability to access capital or our customers’ ability to pay us for past or future purchases, which could negatively affect our liquidity.
+Added: In addition, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve rapidly, with localized surges in COVID-19 cases and the status of operations and government restrictions evolving weekly.
+Added: Although the magnitude of the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on our business and operations remains uncertain, the extent to which the outbreak impacts our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, such as the duration, severity and continued spread of the pandemic, the emergence and spread of new and more contagious or deadly variants or mutant strains of the COVID-19 virus that may render vaccines ineffective or decrease their efficacy, travel restrictions and social distancing in the United States and other countries, business closures or business disruptions, the duration, timing and severity of the impact on customer spending, and the effectiveness of actions taken in the United States and other countries to contain and treat the disease.
+Added: We may also suffer from any of the foregoing disruptions if COVID-19 experiences a resurgence in any particular country or region in the future.
+Added: Our business and operations could suffer in the event of physical and cyber security breaches and incidents.
+Added: Attempts by others to gain unauthorized access to and disrupt our information technology systems are becoming more sophisticated.
+Added: These attempts, which might be related to industrial or other espionage, may include covertly introducing malware to our computers and networks and impersonating authorized users, phishing attempts and other forms of social engineering, employee or contractor malfeasance, denial of service attacks and ransomware attacks, among others.
+Added: We seek to detect and investigate all security incidents impacting our systems and to prevent their recurrence, but in some cases, we might be unaware of an incident or its magnitude and effects.
+Added: We also utilize third-party service providers to host, transmit or otherwise process electronic data in connection with our business activities, including our supply chain processes, operations
+Added: and communications.
+Added: We and/or our third-party service providers have faced and may continue to face security threats and attacks from a variety of sources.
+Added: Our data, corporate systems, third-party systems and security measures may be subject to breaches or intrusions due to the actions of outside parties, employee error, malfeasance, a combination of these, or otherwise, including social engineering and employee and contractor error or malfeasance, especially as certain of our employees engage in work from home arrangements because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and, as a result, an unauthorized party may obtain access to our systems, networks, or data, including IP and confidential business information of ourselves and our customers.
+Added: There have been and may continue to be significant supply chain attacks, and we cannot guarantee that our or our third-party service providers’ systems and networks have not been breached or that they do not contain exploitable defects or bugs that could result in a breach of or disruption to our systems and networks or the systems and networks of third parties that support us and our services.
+Added: We and our service providers may face difficulties or delays in identifying or responding to any actual or perceived security breach or incident.
+Added: While we have not identified any material incidents of unauthorized access to date, the theft or other unauthorized acquisition of, unauthorized use or publication of, or access to our IP and/or confidential business information could harm our competitive position and reputation, reduce the value of our investment in research and development and other strategic initiatives or otherwise adversely affect our business.
+Added: In the event of any security breach or incident, including any breach or incident that results in inappropriate access to, or loss, corruption, unavailability, or unauthorized acquisition, disclosure or other processing of our or our customers’ confidential information or any personally-identifiable information we or our third-party service providers maintain, including that of our employees, we could suffer a loss of intellectual property or loss of data, may be subject to claims, liability and proceedings, and may incur liability and otherwise suffer financial harm.
+Added: Any actual, alleged or perceived breach of security in our systems or networks, or any other actual, alleged or perceived data security incident we or our third-party service providers suffer, could result in damage to our reputation, negative publicity, loss of customers and sales, harm to our market position, increased costs to remedy any problems and otherwise respond to any incident, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, claims, litigation, proceedings and other liability.
+Added: In addition, we may incur significant costs and operational consequences of investigating, remediating, eliminating and putting in place additional tools and devices designed to prevent actual or perceived security breaches and other security incidents, as well as the costs to comply with any notification or other legal obligations resulting from any security incidents.
+Added: Any of these negative outcomes could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources, distract management and technical personnel, adversely impact our sales and reputation and seriously harm our business or operating results.
+Added: Although we maintain insurance coverage that may cover certain liabilities in connection with some security breaches and other security incidents, we cannot be certain our insurance coverage will be adequate for liabilities actually incurred, that insurance will continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable terms (if at all) or that any insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim.
+Added: The successful assertion of one or more large claims against us that exceed available insurance coverage, the occurrence of changes in our insurance policies, including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements, or denials of coverage, could have a material adverse effect on our business, including our financial condition, results of operations and reputation.
Failures in our products and services or in the products of our customers, including those resulting from security vulnerabilities, defects, bugs or errors, could harm our business.
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• litigation, regulatory inquiries or investigations that would be costly and harm our reputation.
−Removed: We may fail to meet our publicly announced guidance or other expectations about our business, which would likely cause our stock price to decline.
−Removed: We provide guidance regarding our expected financial and business performance including our anticipated future revenues, operating expenses and other financial and operation metrics.
−Removed: We enhanced our guidance following implementation of Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.
−Removed: 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606 (“ASC 606”, “the New Revenue Standard”) in the first quarter of 2018.
−Removed: Correctly identifying the key factors affecting business conditions and predicting future events is an inherently uncertain process.
−Removed: Any guidance that we provide may not always be accurate, or may vary from actual results, due to our inability to correctly identify and quantify risks and uncertainties to our business and to quantify their impact on our financial performance.
−Removed: We offer no assurance that such guidance will ultimately be accurate, and investors should treat any such guidance with appropriate caution.
−Removed: If we fail to meet our guidance or if we find it necessary to revise such guidance, even if such failure or revision is seemingly insignificant, investors and analysts may lose confidence in us and the market value of our common stock could be materially adversely affected.
Changes in accounting principles and guidance could result in unfavorable accounting charges or effects.
−Removed: We prepare our financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States and these principles are subject to interpretation by the SEC and various bodies.
+Added: We prepare our financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States and these principles are subject to interpretation by the SEC, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and various bodies formed to interpret and create appropriate accounting principles and guidance.
A change in these principles or application guidance, or in their interpretations, may have a material effect on our reported results, as well as our processes and related controls, and may retroactively affect previously reported results.
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The impact of the adoption of the New Revenue Standard did not have a material impact on our other revenue streams.
−Removed: We have also enhanced the form and content of some of our guidance metrics that we provide following implementation of the New Revenue Standard.
+Added: We also have enhanced the form and content of some of our guidance metrics that we provide following implementation of the New Revenue Standard.
We expect that any change to current revenue recognition practices may significantly increase volatility in our quarterly revenue, financial results and trends, and may impact our stock price.
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For example, in 2019, we acquired Northwest Logic and the Secure Silicon IP and Protocols business from Verimatrix, formerly Inside Secure.
+Added: Further, we acquired AnalogX Inc.
+Added: (“AnalogX”) in July 2021 and PLDA Group (“PLDA”) in August 2021.
Many of our acquisitions or strategic investments entail a high degree of risk, including those involving new areas of technology and such investments may not become liquid for several years after the date of the investment, if at all.
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For example, for any pending or completed acquisitions, we may discover unidentified issues not discovered in due diligence, and we may be subject to regulatory approvals or liabilities that are not covered by indemnification protection or become subject to litigation.
−Removed: Achieving the anticipated benefits of business acquisitions depends in part upon our ability to integrate the acquired businesses in an efficient and effective manner.
−Removed: The integration of companies that have previously operated independently may result in significant challenges, including, among others:
+Added: Achieving the anticipated benefits of business acquisitions depends in part upon our ability to integrate the acquired businesses in an efficient and effective manner and achieve anticipated synergies, and we may not be successful in these efforts.
+Added: The integration of companies that have previously operated independently is complex and time consuming and may result in significant challenges, including, among others:
retaining key employees;
−Removed: successfully integrating new employees, business systems and technology;
−Removed: retaining customers of the acquired business;
+Added: successfully integrating new employees, facilities, products, processes, operations, business models and systems, technology, and sales and distribution channels;
+Added: retaining customers and suppliers of the acquired business;
minimizing the diversion of management’s and other employees’ attention from ongoing business matters;
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consolidating research and development operations;
−Removed: and consolidating corporate and administrative infrastructures.
+Added: consolidating corporate and administrative infrastructures;
+Added: implementing controls, processes and policies appropriate for a public company at acquired companies that may have previously lacked such controls, processes and policies;
+Added: and managing the increased scale, complexity and globalization of our business, operations and employee base.
+Added: We do not currently foresee any significant risks in the operational integration of either AnalogX or PLDA.
+Added: Additional risks related to the AnalogX and PLDA acquisitions and other acquisitions or strategic investments include, but are not limited to:
+Added: • difficulty in combining the technology, products, or operations of the acquired business with our business;
+Added: • difficulty in integrating and retaining the acquired workforce, including key employees;
+Added: • diversion of capital and other resources, including management’s attention;
+Added: • assumption of liabilities and incurring amortization expenses, impairment charges to goodwill or write-downs of acquired assets;
+Added: • integrating financial forecasting and controls, procedures and reporting cycles;
+Added: • coordinating and integrating operations in countries in which we have not previously operated;
+Added: • acquiring business challenges and risks, including, but not limited to, disputes with management and integrating international operations and joint ventures;
+Added: • difficulty in realizing a satisfactory return, if any return at all;
+Added: • difficulty in obtaining or inability to obtain governmental and regulatory consents and approvals, other approvals or financing;
+Added: • the potential impact of complying with governmental or other regulatory restrictions placed on an acquisition;
+Added: • the potential impact on our stock price and financial results if we are unable to obtain regulatory approval for an acquisition, are required to pay reverse breakup fees or are otherwise unable to close an acquisition;
+Added: • failure and costs associated with the failure to consummate a proposed acquisition or other strategic investment;
+Added: • legal proceedings initiated as a result of an acquisition or investment;
+Added: • the potential for our acquisitions to result in dilutive issuances of our equity securities;
+Added: • the potential variability of the amount and form of any performance-based consideration;
+Added: • uncertainties and time needed to realize the benefits of an acquisition or strategic investment, if at all;
+Added: • negative changes in general economic conditions in the regions or the industries in which we or our target operate;
+Added: • the need to determine an alternative strategy if an acquisition does not meet our expectations;
+Added: • potential failure of our due diligence processes to identify significant issues with the acquired assets or company;
+Added: • impairment of relationships with, or loss of our or our target’s employees, vendors and customers, as a result of our acquisition or investment.
Our strategic investments in new areas of technology may involve significant risks and uncertainties, including distraction of management from current operations, greater than expected liabilities and expenses, inadequate return of capital, and unidentified issues not discovered in due diligence.
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While we would seek to ensure the accuracy of such representations and warranties and fulfillment of any ongoing obligations, we may not be completely successful and consequently may be subject to claims by a purchaser of such assets.
−Removed: A substantial portion of our revenue is derived from sources outside of the United States and this revenue and our business generally are subject to risks related to international operations that are often beyond our control.
−Removed: For the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, revenues received from our international customers constituted approximately 43%, 40% and 44%, respectively, of our total revenue.
−Removed: We expect that future revenue derived from international sources will continue to represent a significant portion of our total revenue.
−Removed: To the extent that customer sales are not denominated in U.S.
−Removed: dollars, any royalties which are based on a percentage of the customers’ sales that we receive as a result of such sales could be subject to fluctuations in currency exchange rates.
−Removed: In addition, if the effective price of licensed products sold by our foreign customers were to increase as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of the relevant currencies, demand for licensed products could fall, which in turn would reduce our royalties.
−Removed: We do not use financial instruments to hedge foreign exchange rate risk.
−Removed: Trade-related government actions, whether implemented by the US government, China or other countries, that impose barriers or restrictions that would impact our ability to sell or ship products to certain customers may have a negative impact on our financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We cannot predict the actions government entities may take in this context and may be unable to quickly offset or effectively react to government actions that restrict our ability to sell to certain customers or in certain jurisdictions.
−Removed: Government actions that affect our customers’ ability to sell products or access critical elements of their supply chains may result in a decreased demand for their products, which may consequently reduce their demand for our products.
−Removed: We currently have international business operations in the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands, international design operations in Canada, India and Finland, and business development operations in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
−Removed: Our international operations and revenue are subject to a variety of risks which are beyond our control, including:
−Removed: • hiring, maintaining and managing a workforce and facilities remotely and under various legal systems, including compliance with local labor and employment laws;
−Removed: • non-compliance with our code of conduct or other corporate policies;
−Removed: • natural disasters, acts of war, terrorism, widespread global pandemics or illness, such as the current Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), or security breaches;
−Removed: • export controls, tariffs, import and licensing restrictions and other trade barriers;
−Removed: • profits, if any, earned abroad being subject to local tax laws and not being repatriated to the United States or, if repatriation is possible, limited in amount;
−Removed: • adverse tax treatment of revenue from international sources and changes to tax codes, including being subject to foreign tax laws and being liable for paying withholding, income or other taxes in foreign jurisdictions;
−Removed: • unanticipated changes in foreign government laws and regulations;
−Removed: • increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;
−Removed: • lack of protection of our IP and other contract rights by jurisdictions in which we may do business to the same extent as the laws of the United States;
−Removed: • potential vulnerability to computer system, internet or other systemic attacks, such as denial of service, viruses or other malware which may be caused by criminals, terrorists or other sophisticated organizations;
−Removed: • social, political and economic instability;
−Removed: • geopolitical issues, including changes in diplomatic and trade relationships, in particular with China;
−Removed: • cultural differences in the conduct of business both with customers and in conducting business in our international facilities and international sales offices.
−Removed: We and our customers are subject to many of the risks described above with respect to companies which are located in different countries.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that one or more of the risks associated with our international operations will not result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: Weak global economic conditions may adversely affect demand for the products and services of our customers.
−Removed: Our operations and performance depend significantly on worldwide economic conditions.
−Removed: Future uncertainty about global or regional economic and political conditions poses a risk as consumers and businesses may postpone spending in response to tighter credit, negative financial news and declines in income or asset values, which could have a material negative effect on the demand for the products of our customers in the foreseeable future.
−Removed: If our customers experience reduced demand for their products as a result of global or regional economic conditions or otherwise, this could result in reduced royalty revenue and our business and results of operations could be harmed.
If our counterparties are unable to fulfill their financial and other obligations to us, our business and results of operations may be affected adversely.
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Because bankruptcy courts have the power to modify or cancel contracts of the petitioner which remain subject to future performance and alter or discharge payment obligations related to pre-petition debts, we may receive less than all of the payments that we would otherwise be entitled to receive from any such counterparty as a result of bankruptcy proceedings.
−Removed: If we are unable to attract and retain qualified personnel, our business and operations could suffer.
+Added: If we are unable to attract and retain qualified personnel globally, especially in light of a hyper-competitive compensation environment, our business and operations could suffer.
Our success is dependent upon our ability to identify, attract, compensate, motivate and retain qualified personnel, especially engineers, senior management and other key personnel.
The loss of the services of any key employees could be disruptive to our development efforts, business relationships and strategy, and could cause our business and operations to suffer.
−Removed: Recently, we have experienced significant changes in our management team, including in the role of chief executive officer and other senior executives.
+Added: All of our officers and other U.S.
+Added: employees are at-will employees, which means they may terminate their employment relationship with us at any time, and their knowledge of our business and industry would be extremely difficult to replace.
+Added: Any changes in our senior management team in particular, even in the ordinary course of business, may be disruptive to our business.
+Added: For example, in October 2021, we announced the resignation of our chief financial officer and the appointment of our current chief accounting officer as interim chief financial officer, to be effective as of November 15, 2021.
+Added: We are currently undergoing a search for a new chief financial officer and will likely hire a replacement in the near future.
+Added: While we seek to manage these transitions carefully, including by establishing strong processes and procedures and succession planning, such changes may result in a loss of institutional knowledge and cause disruptions to our business.
+Added: If our senior management team fails to work together effectively or execute our plans and strategies on a timely basis as a result of management turnover or otherwise, our business could be harmed.
Our future success depends in large part upon the continued service and enhancement of our management team and our employees.
If there are further changes in management, such changes could be disruptive and could negatively affect our sales, operations, culture, future recruiting efforts and strategic direction.
−Removed: Competition for qualified executives is intense and if we are unable to compensate our key talent appropriately and continue expanding our management team, or successfully integrate new additions to our management team in a manner that enables us to scale our business and operations effectively, our ability to operate effectively and efficiently could be limited or negatively impacted.
+Added: Competition for qualified executives is intense, especially in light of a hyper-competitive compensation environment, and if we are unable to compensate our key talent appropriately and continue expanding our management team, or successfully integrate new additions to our management team in a manner that enables us to scale our business and operations effectively, our ability to operate effectively and efficiently could be limited or negatively impacted.
In addition, changes in key management positions may temporarily affect our financial performance and results of operations as new management becomes familiar with our business, processes and strategy.
−Removed: The loss of any of our key personnel, or our inability to attract, integrate and retain qualified employees, could require us to dedicate significant financial and other resources to such personnel matters, disrupt our operations and seriously harm our operations and business.
−Removed: We are subject to various government restrictions and regulations, including on the sale of products and services that use encryption technology and those related to privacy and other consumer protection matters.
−Removed: Various countries have adopted controls, license requirements and restrictions on the export, import and use of products or services that contain encryption technology.
−Removed: In addition, governmental agencies have proposed additional requirements for encryption technology, such as requiring the escrow and governmental recovery of private encryption keys.
−Removed: Restrictions on the sale or distribution of products or services containing encryption technology may impact our ability to license data security technologies to the manufacturers and providers of such products and services in certain markets or may require us or our customers to make changes to the licensed data security technology that is embedded in such products to comply with such restrictions.
−Removed: Government restrictions, or changes to the products or services our customers to comply with such restrictions, could delay or prevent the acceptance and use of such customers’ products and services.
−Removed: In addition, the United States and other countries have imposed export controls that prohibit the export of encryption technology to certain countries, entities and individuals.
−Removed: Our failure to comply with export and use regulations concerning encryption technology could subject us to sanctions and penalties, including fines, and suspension or revocation of export or import privileges.
−Removed: We are subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the United States, the European Union and other countries that involve, for example, user privacy, data protection and security, content and consumer protection.
−Removed: A number of proposals are pending before federal, state, and foreign legislative and regulatory bodies that could significantly affect our business.
−Removed: For example, in 2016, a new EU data protection regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was adopted, with it
−Removed: fully effective on May 25, 2018, and California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act as of January 1, 2020 (“CCPA”).
−Removed: The GDPR and CCPA may require us to modify our existing practices with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of data.
−Removed: In particular, the GDPR provides for significant penalties in the case of non-compliance of up to €20 million or four percent of worldwide annual revenues, whichever is greater.
−Removed: The GDPR, CCPA and other existing and proposed laws and regulations can be costly to comply with and can delay or impede the development of new products, result in negative publicity, increase our operating costs and subject us to claims or other remedies.
−Removed: In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the SEC established new disclosure and reporting requirements for those companies that use “conflict” minerals mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo and adjoining countries in their products, whether or not these products are manufactured by third parties.
−Removed: These requirements could affect the sourcing and availability of minerals that are used in the manufacture of our products.
−Removed: We have to date incurred costs and expect to incur significant additional costs associated with complying with the disclosure requirements, including for example, due diligence in regard to the sources of any conflict minerals used in our products, in addition to the cost of remediation and other changes to products, processes, or sources of supply as a consequence of such verification activities.
−Removed: Additionally, we may face reputational challenges with our customers and other stakeholders if we are unable to sufficiently verify the origins of all minerals used in our products through the due diligence procedures that we implement.
−Removed: We may also face challenges with government regulators and our customers and suppliers if we are unable to sufficiently verify that the metals used in our products are conflict free.
−Removed: Participation in standards setting organizations may subject us to IP licensing requirements or limitations that could adversely affect our business and prospects.
−Removed: In the course of our participation in the development of emerging standards for some of our present and future products, we may be obligated to grant to all other participants a license to our patents that are essential to the practice of those standards on reasonable and non-discriminatory, or RAND, terms.
−Removed: If we fail to limit to whom we license our patents, or fail to limit the terms of any such licenses, we may be required to license our patents or other IP to others in the future, which could limit the effectiveness of our patents against competitors.
−Removed: Our operations are subject to risks of natural disasters, acts of war, terrorism, widespread illness or security breach at our domestic and international locations, any one of which could result in a business stoppage and negatively affect our operating results.
−Removed: Our business operations depend on our ability to maintain and protect our facilities, computer systems and personnel, which are primarily located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States, the Netherlands and India.
−Removed: The San Francisco Bay Area is in close proximity to known earthquake fault zones.
−Removed: Our facilities and transportation for our employees are susceptible to damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters such as fires, floods and similar events.
+Added: The loss of any of our key personnel, or our inability to attract, integrate and retain qualified employees who join us organically and through acquisitions, could require us to dedicate significant financial and other resources to such personnel matters, disrupt our operations and seriously harm our operations and business.
+Added: Our operations are subject to risks of natural disasters, acts of war, terrorism, widespread illness or security breaches or incidents at our domestic and international locations, any one of which could result in a business stoppage and negatively affect our operating results.
+Added: Our business operations depend on our ability to maintain and protect our facilities, computer systems and personnel, which are primarily located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Bulgaria, Taiwan and India.
+Added: The San Francisco Bay Area is in close proximity to known earthquake fault zones and sites of recent historic wildfires.
+Added: Our facilities and transportation for our employees are susceptible to damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters such as fires, floods, droughts, extreme temperatures, and similar events.
Should a catastrophe disable our facilities, we do not have readily available alternative facilities from which we could conduct our business, so any resultant work stoppage could have a negative effect on our operating results.
We also rely on our network infrastructure and technology systems for operational support and business activities which are subject to physical and cyber damage, and also susceptible to other related vulnerabilities common to networks and computer systems.
−Removed: Acts of terrorism, widespread illness, or global pandemics, including the current Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, war and any event that causes failures or interruption in our network infrastructure and technology systems could have a negative effect at our international and domestic facilities and could harm our business, financial condition, and operating results.
−Removed: We do not have extensive experience in manufacturing and marketing products and, as a result, may be unable to sustain and grow a profitable commercial market for new and existing products.
−Removed: We do not have extensive experience in creating, manufacturing and marketing products.
−Removed: Our product offerings may present new and difficult challenges, and we may be subject to claims if customers of our offerings experience delays, failures, non-performance or other quality issues.
−Removed: In particular, we may experience difficulties with product design, qualification, manufacturing, marketing or certification that could delay or prevent our development, introduction or marketing and sales of products.
−Removed: Although we intend to design our products to be fully compliant with applicable industry standards, proprietary enhancements may not in the future result in full conformance with existing industry standards under all circumstances.
−Removed: If we fail to introduce products that meet the demand of our customers, penetrate new markets in which we expend significant resources, or our marketing and sales cycles that we experience are longer than we anticipate, our revenues will be difficult to predict, may decrease over time and our financial condition could suffer.
−Removed: Additionally, if we concentrate resources
−Removed: on a new market that does not prove profitable or sustainable, it could damage our reputation and limit our growth, and our financial condition could decline.
+Added: Acts of terrorism, climate-change related risk, widespread illness, or global pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, war and any event that causes failures or interruption in our network infrastructure and technology systems could have a negative effect at our international and domestic facilities and could harm our business, financial condition, and operating results.
We rely upon the accuracy of our customers’ recordkeeping, and any inaccuracies or payment disputes for amounts owed to us under our licensing agreements may harm our results of operations.
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We are subject to increased inventory risks and costs because we build our products based on forecasts provided by customers before receiving purchase orders for the product.
−Removed: We rely on a number of third-party providers for data center hosting facilities, equipment, maintenance and other services, and the loss of, or problems with, one or more of these providers may impede our growth or cause us to lose customers.
−Removed: We rely on third-party providers to supply data center hosting facilities, equipment, maintenance and other services in order to enable us to provide some of our services, and have entered into various agreements for such services.
−Removed: The continuous availability of our services depends on the operations of those facilities, on a variety of network service providers and on third-party vendors.
−Removed: In addition, we depend on our third-party facility providers’ ability to protect these facilities against damage or interruption from natural disasters, power or telecommunications failures, criminal acts, cyber-attacks and similar events.
−Removed: If there are any lapses of service or damage to a facility, we could experience lengthy interruptions in our service as well as delays and additional expenses in arranging new facilities and services.
−Removed: Even with current and planned disaster recovery arrangements, our business could be harmed.
−Removed: Any interruptions or delays in our service, whether as a result of third-party error, our own error, natural disasters, criminal acts, security breaches or other causes, whether accidental or willful, could harm our relationships with customers, harm our reputation and cause our revenue to decrease and/or our expenses to increase.
−Removed: Also, in the event of damage or interruption, our insurance policies may not adequately compensate us for any losses that we may incur.
−Removed: These factors in turn could further reduce our revenue, subject us to liability and cause us to issue credits or cause us to lose customers, any of which could materially adversely affect our business.
−Removed: We rely on third parties for a variety of services, including manufacturing, and these third parties’ failure to perform these services adequately could materially and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: We rely on third parties for a variety of services, including our manufacturing supply chain partners and third parties within our sales and distribution channels.
−Removed: Certain of these third parties are, and may be, our sole manufacturer or sole source of certain production materials.
−Removed: If we fail to manage our relationships with these manufacturers and suppliers effectively, or if they experience delays, disruptions, capacity constraints or quality control problems in their operations, our ability to ship products to our customers could be impaired and our competitive position and reputation could be harmed.
−Removed: In addition, any adverse change in any of our manufacturers and suppliers’ financial or business condition could disrupt our ability to supply quality products to our customers.
−Removed: If we are required to change our manufacturers, we may lose revenue, incur increased costs and damage our end-customer relationships.
−Removed: In addition, qualifying a new manufacturer and commencing production can be an expensive and lengthy process.
−Removed: If our third-party manufacturers or suppliers are unable to provide us with adequate supplies of high-quality products for any other reason, we could experience a delay in our order fulfillment, and our business, operating results and financial condition would be adversely affected.
−Removed: In the event these and other third parties we rely on fail to provide their services adequately, including as a result of errors in their systems or events beyond their control, or refuse to provide these services on terms acceptable to us or at all, and we are not able to find suitable alternatives, our business may be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, our orders may represent a relatively small percentage of the overall orders received by our manufacturers from their customers.
−Removed: As a result, fulfilling our orders may not be considered a priority in the event our manufacturers are constrained in their ability to fulfill all of their customer obligations in a timely manner.
−Removed: If our manufacturers are unable to provide us with adequate supplies of high-quality products, or if we or our manufacturers are unable to obtain adequate quantities of components, it could cause a delay in our order fulfillment, in which case our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Warranty, service level agreement and product liability claims brought against us could cause us to incur significant costs and adversely affect our operating results as well as our reputation and relationships with customers.
−Removed: We may from time to time be subject to warranty, service level agreement and product liability claims with regard to product performance and our services.
−Removed: We could incur material losses as a result of warranty, support, repair or replacement costs in response to customer complaints or in connection with the resolution of contemplated or actual legal proceedings relating to such claims.
−Removed: In addition to potential losses arising from claims and related legal proceedings, warranty and product liability claims could affect our reputation and our relationship with customers.
−Removed: We generally attempt to limit the maximum amount of indemnification or liability that we could be exposed to under our contracts, however, this is not always possible.
−Removed: Any failure in our delivery of high-quality technical support services may adversely affect our relationships with our customers and our financial results.
−Removed: Our customers depend on our support organization to resolve technical issues and provide ongoing maintenance relating to our products and services.
−Removed: We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for support services.
−Removed: Increased customer demand for these services, without corresponding revenues, could increase costs and adversely affect our operating results.
−Removed: In addition, our sales process is highly dependent on our offerings and business reputation and on positive recommendations from our existing customers.
−Removed: Any failure to maintain high-quality technical support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could adversely affect our reputation, our ability to sell our solutions to existing and prospective customers, and our business, operating results and financial position.
−Removed: Certain software that we use in certain of our products is licensed from third parties and, for that reason, may not be available to us in the future, which has the potential to delay product development and production or cause us to incur additional expense, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
−Removed: Some of our products and services contain software licensed from third parties.
−Removed: Some of these licenses may not be available to us in the future on terms that are acceptable to us or allow our products to remain competitive.
−Removed: The loss of these licenses or the inability to maintain any of them on commercially acceptable terms could delay development of future offerings or the enhancement of existing products and services.
−Removed: We may also choose to pay a premium price for such a license in certain circumstances where continuity of the licensed product would outweigh the premium cost of the license.
−Removed: The unavailability of these licenses or the necessity of agreeing to commercially unreasonable terms for such licenses could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
−Removed: Certain software we use is from open source code sources, which, under certain circumstances, may lead to unintended consequences and, therefore, could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
−Removed: We use open source software in our services and we intend to continue to use open source software in the future.
−Removed: From time to time, there have been claims challenging the ownership of open source software against companies that incorporate open source software into their products or alleging that these companies have violated the terms of an open source license.
−Removed: As a result, we could be subject to lawsuits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open source software or alleging that we have violated the terms of an open source license.
−Removed: Litigation could be costly for us to defend, have a negative effect on our operating results and financial condition or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our solutions.
−Removed: In addition, if we were to combine our proprietary software solutions with open source software in certain manners, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to publicly release the source code of our proprietary software solutions.
−Removed: If we inappropriately use open source software, we may be required to re-engineer our solutions, discontinue the sale of our solutions, release the source code of our proprietary software to the public at no cost or take other remedial actions.
−Removed: There is a risk that open source licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our solutions, which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our business and operating results could be harmed if we undertake any restructuring activities.
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If we are unable to successfully implement the information systems enhancements as planned, our operating results could be negatively impacted.
−Removed: We are leveraged financially, which could adversely affect our ability to adjust our business to respond to competitive pressures and to obtain sufficient funds to satisfy our future research and development needs, to protect and enforce our intellectual property, and to meet other needs.
−Removed: We have material indebtedness.
−Removed: In November 2017, we issued $172.5 million aggregate principal amount of our 2023 Notes, the entire amount of which remains outstanding.
−Removed: The degree to which we are leveraged could have negative consequences, including, but not limited to, the following:
−Removed: • we may be more vulnerable to economic downturns, less able to withstand competitive pressures and less flexible in responding to changing business and economic conditions;
−Removed: • our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions, litigation, general corporate or other purposes may be limited;
−Removed: • a substantial portion of our cash flows from operations in the future may be required for the payment of interest and principal when due at maturity in February 2023;
−Removed: • we may be required to make cash payments upon any conversion of the 2023 Notes, which would reduce our cash on hand.
−Removed: A failure to comply with the covenants and other provisions of our debt instruments could result in events of default under such instruments, which could permit acceleration of all of our outstanding 2023 Notes.
−Removed: Any required repurchase of the 2023 Notes as a result of a fundamental change or acceleration of the 2023 Notes would reduce our cash on hand such that we would not have those funds available for use in our business.
+Added: Certain software we use is from open source code sources, which, under certain circumstances, may lead to unintended consequences and, therefore, could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
+Added: We use open source software in our services and we intend to continue to use open source software in the future.
+Added: From time to time, there have been claims challenging the ownership of open source software against companies that incorporate open source software into their products or alleging that these companies have violated the terms of an open source license.
+Added: As a result, we could be subject to lawsuits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open source software or alleging that we have violated the terms of an open source license.
+Added: Litigation could be costly for us to defend, have a negative effect on our operating results and financial condition or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our solutions.
+Added: In addition, if we were to combine our proprietary software solutions with open source software in certain manners, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to publicly release the source code of our proprietary software solutions.
+Added: If we inappropriately use open source software, we may be required to re-engineer our solutions, discontinue the sale of our solutions, release the source code of our proprietary software to the public at no cost or take other remedial actions.
+Added: There is a risk that open source licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our solutions, which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
If we are at any time unable to generate sufficient cash flows from operations to service our indebtedness when payment is due, we may be required to attempt to renegotiate the terms of the instruments relating to the indebtedness, seek to refinance all or a portion of the indebtedness or obtain additional financing.
There can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully renegotiate such terms, that any such refinancing would be possible or that any additional financing could be obtained on terms that are favorable or acceptable to us.
+Added: In the future, we may fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting or adequate disclosure controls and procedures, which may result in material misstatements of our consolidated financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our periodic reporting obligations.
+Added: If we are not able to comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or if we are unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures, we may not be able to produce timely and accurate financial statements or guarantee that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms.
+Added: Any failure of our internal control over financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures could result in material misstatements of our consolidated financial statements, which could cause our investors to lose confidence in our publicly reported information, cause the market price of our stock to decline, expose us to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities, or impact our results of operations.
+Added: Unanticipated changes in our tax rates or in the tax laws, treaties and regulations could expose us to additional income tax liabilities, which could affect our operating results and financial condition.
+Added: We are subject to income taxes in both the United States and various foreign jurisdictions.
+Added: Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes and, in the ordinary course of business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain.
+Added: Our effective tax rate could be adversely affected by several factors, many of which are outside of our control, including changes in the mix of earnings and losses in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, changes in tax laws, rates, treaties and regulations or the interpretation of the same, changes to the financial accounting rules for income taxes, the outcome of current and future tax audits, examinations or administrative appeals and certain non-deductible expenses.
+Added: Our tax determinations are regularly subject to audit by tax authorities and developments in those audits could adversely affect our income tax provision, and we are currently undergoing such audits of certain of our tax returns.
+Added: Although we believe that our tax estimates are reasonable, the final determination of tax audits or tax disputes may be different from what is reflected in our historical income tax provisions, which could affect our operating results.
+Added: Recently, in the United States, the Biden administration proposed to increase the U.S.
+Added: corporate income tax rate, increase U.S.
+Added: taxation of international business operations and impose a global minimum tax.
+Added: Many countries and organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are also actively considering changes to existing tax laws or have proposed or enacted new laws that could increase our tax obligations in countries where we do business or cause us to change the way we operate our business.
+Added: Any of these developments or changes in federal, state, or international tax laws or tax rulings could adversely affect our effective tax rate and our operating results.
Risks Associated with Litigation, Regulation and Our Intellectual Property
−Removed: Adverse litigation results could affect our business.
+Added: We are subject to various government restrictions and regulations, including on the sale of products and services that use encryption technology and those related to privacy and other consumer protection matters.
+Added: Various countries have adopted controls, license requirements and restrictions on the export, import and use of products or services that contain encryption technology.
+Added: In addition, governmental agencies have proposed additional requirements for encryption technology, such as requiring the escrow and governmental recovery of private encryption keys.
+Added: Restrictions on the sale or distribution of products or services containing encryption technology may impact our ability to license data security technologies to the manufacturers and providers of such products and services in certain markets or may require us or our customers to make changes to the licensed data security technology that is embedded in such products to comply with such restrictions.
+Added: Government restrictions, or changes to the products or services of our customers to comply with such restrictions, could delay or prevent the acceptance and use of such customers’ products and services.
+Added: In addition, the United States and other countries have imposed export controls that prohibit the export of encryption technology to certain countries, entities and individuals.
+Added: Our failure to comply with export and use regulations concerning encryption technology could subject us to sanctions and penalties, including fines, and suspension or revocation of export or import privileges.
+Added: Additionally, climate change concerns and the potential resulting environmental impact may result in new environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations that may affect us, our suppliers, and our customers.
+Added: Such laws or regulations could cause us to incur additional direct costs for compliance, as well as increased indirect costs resulting from our customers, suppliers, or both incurring additional compliance costs that are passed on to us.
+Added: These costs may adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We are subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the United States, the European Union and other countries that involve, for example, user privacy, data protection and security, content and consumer protection.
+Added: A number of proposals are pending before federal, state, and foreign legislative and regulatory bodies that could significantly affect our business.
+Added: For example, in 2016, a new EU data protection regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was adopted, with it fully effective on May 25, 2018, and California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act as of January 1, 2020 (“CCPA”).
+Added: Moreover, a new privacy law, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), was approved by California voters in November 2020.
+Added: The CPRA significantly modifies the CCPA when it becomes effective in most material respects on January 1, 2023.
+Added: Further, on March 2, 2021, Virginia enacted the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”), which takes effect January 1, 2023, and on July 7, 2021, Colorado enacted the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”), which takes effect July 1, 2023.
+Added: The CDPA and CPA are comprehensive privacy statutes that share similarities with the CCPA, CPRA and legislation proposed in other states.
+Added: The GDPR and CCPA, and new and evolving laws such as the CPRA, CDPA, CPA and other future changes in laws or regulations relating to privacy, data protection and information security may require us to modify our existing practices with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of data.
+Added: In particular, the GDPR provides for significant penalties in the case of non-compliance of up to €20 million or four percent of worldwide annual revenues, whichever is greater.
+Added: The GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, CDPA, CPA and other existing and proposed laws and regulations can be costly to comply with and can delay or
+Added: impede the development of new products, result in negative publicity, increase our operating costs and subject us to claims or other remedies.
+Added: In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the SEC established new disclosure and reporting requirements for those companies that use “conflict” minerals mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo and adjoining countries in their products, whether or not these products are manufactured by third parties.
+Added: These requirements could affect the sourcing and availability of minerals that are used in the manufacture of our products.
+Added: We have to date incurred costs and expect to incur significant additional costs associated with complying with the disclosure requirements, including for example, due diligence in regard to the sources of any conflict minerals used in our products, in addition to the cost of remediation and other changes to products, processes, or sources of supply as a consequence of such verification activities.
+Added: Additionally, we may face reputational challenges with our customers and other stakeholders if we are unable to sufficiently verify the origins of all minerals used in our products through the due diligence procedures that we implement.
+Added: We may also face challenges with government regulators and our customers and suppliers if we are unable to sufficiently verify that the metals used in our products are conflict free.
+Added: Litigation and government proceedings could affect our business in materially negative ways.
We may be subject to legal claims or regulatory matters involving consumer, stockholder, employment, competition, IP and other issues on a global basis.
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If a sufficient number of such patents are impaired, our ability to enforce or license our IP would be significantly weakened and could cause our revenue to decline substantially.
−Removed: The pendency of any governmental agency acting as described above may impair our ability to enforce or license our patents or collect royalties from existing or potential customers, as any litigation opponents may attempt to use such proceedings to delay or otherwise impair any pending cases and our existing or potential customers may await the final outcome of any proceedings before agreeing to new licenses or to paying royalties.
+Added: The pendency of any governmental agency acting as described above may impair our ability to enforce or license our patents or collect royalties from existing or potential customers, as any litigation opponents may attempt to use such
+Added: proceedings to delay or otherwise impair any pending cases and our existing or potential customers may await the final outcome of any proceedings before agreeing to new licenses or to paying royalties.
Litigation or other third-party claims of intellectual property infringement could require us to expend substantial resources and could prevent us from developing or licensing our technology on a cost-effective basis.
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We rely primarily on a combination of license, development and nondisclosure agreements, trademark, trade secret and copyright law and contractual provisions to protect our non-patentable IP rights.
−Removed: If we fail to protect these IP rights, our customers and others may seek to use our technology without the payment of license fees and royalties, which could weaken our competitive position, reduce our operating results and increase the likelihood of costly litigation.
+Added: If we fail to protect these IP rights, our
+Added: customers and others may seek to use our technology without the payment of license fees and royalties, which could weaken our competitive position, reduce our operating results and increase the likelihood of costly litigation.
The growth of our business depends in part on the use of our IP in the products of third-party manufacturers, and our ability to enforce IP rights against them to obtain appropriate compensation.
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In addition to the time and expense required for us to indemnify or supply such support to our customers, a customer’s development, marketing and sales of licensed semiconductors, mobile communications and data security technologies could be severely disrupted or shut down as a result of litigation, which in turn could severely hamper our business operations and financial condition as a result of lower or no royalty payments.
+Added: Warranty, service level agreement and product liability claims brought against us could cause us to incur significant costs and adversely affect our operating results, as well as our reputation and relationships with customers.
+Added: We may from time to time be subject to warranty, service level agreement and product liability claims with regard to product performance and our services.
+Added: We could incur material losses as a result of warranty, support, repair or replacement costs in response to customer complaints or in connection with the resolution of contemplated or actual legal proceedings relating to such claims.
+Added: In addition to potential losses arising from claims and related legal proceedings, warranty and product liability claims could affect our reputation and our relationship with customers.
+Added: We generally attempt to limit the maximum amount of indemnification or liability that we could be exposed to under our contracts, however, this is not always possible.
We have been party to, and may in the future be subject to, lawsuits relating to securities law matters which may result in unfavorable outcomes and significant judgments, settlements and legal expenses which could cause our business, financial condition and results of operations to suffer.
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Although to date these complaints have either been settled or dismissed, the amount of time to resolve any future lawsuits is uncertain, and these matters could require significant management and financial resources.
−Removed: Unfavorable outcomes and significant judgments, settlements and legal expenses in litigation related to any future securities law claims could have material adverse impacts on our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: General Risks Factors
+Added: Unfavorable outcomes and significant judgments,
+Added: settlements and legal expenses in litigation related to any future securities law claims could have material adverse impacts on our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: Participation in standards setting organizations may subject us to IP licensing requirements or limitations that could adversely affect our business and prospects.
+Added: In the course of our participation in the development of emerging standards for some of our present and future products, we may be obligated to grant to all other participants a license to our patents that are essential to the practice of those standards on reasonable and non-discriminatory, or RAND, terms.
+Added: If we fail to limit to whom we license our patents, or fail to limit the terms of any such licenses, we may be required to license our patents or other IP to others in the future, which could limit the effectiveness of our patents against competitors.
+Added: Risks Associated with Capitalization Matters and Indebtedness
The price of our common stock may continue to fluctuate.
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In addition, the existence of these notes may encourage short selling in our common stock by market participants because the conversion of the notes could depress the price of our common stock.
+Added: We are leveraged financially, which could adversely affect our ability to adjust our business to respond to competitive pressures and to obtain sufficient funds to satisfy our future research and development needs, to protect and enforce our intellectual property, and to meet other needs.
+Added: We have material indebtedness.
+Added: In November 2017, we issued $172.5 million aggregate principal amount of our 2023 Notes, the entire amount of which remains outstanding.
+Added: The degree to which we are leveraged could have negative consequences, including, but not limited to, the following:
+Added: • we may be more vulnerable to economic downturns, less able to withstand competitive pressures and less flexible in responding to changing business and economic conditions;
+Added: • our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions, litigation, general corporate or other purposes may be limited;
+Added: • a substantial portion of our cash flows from operations in the future may be required for the payment of interest and principal when due at maturity in February 2023;
+Added: • we may be required to make cash payments upon any conversion of the 2023 Notes, which would reduce our cash on hand.
+Added: A failure to comply with the covenants and other provisions of our debt instruments could result in events of default under such instruments, which could permit acceleration of all of our outstanding 2023 Notes.
+Added: Any required repurchase of the 2023 Notes as a result of a fundamental change or acceleration of the 2023 Notes would reduce our cash on hand such that we would not have those funds available for use in our business.
+Added: If we are at any time unable to generate sufficient cash flows from operations to service our indebtedness when payment is due, we may be required to attempt to renegotiate the terms of the instruments relating to the indebtedness, seek to refinance all or a portion of the indebtedness or obtain additional financing.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully renegotiate such terms, that any such refinancing would be possible or that any additional financing could be obtained on terms that are favorable or acceptable to us.
Compliance with changing regulation of corporate governance and public disclosure may result in additional expenses.
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We may also be required to increase the conversion rate of such Notes in the event of certain fundamental changes.
−Removed: Unanticipated changes in our tax rates or in the tax laws and regulations could expose us to additional income tax liabilities which could affect our operating results and financial condition.
−Removed: We are subject to income taxes in both the United States and various foreign jurisdictions.
−Removed: Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes and, in the ordinary course of business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain.
−Removed: Our effective tax rate could be adversely affected by changes in the mix of earnings in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, changes in tax laws and regulations as well as other factors.
−Removed: Our tax determinations are regularly subject to audit by tax authorities and developments in those audits could adversely affect our income tax provision, and we are currently undergoing such audits of certain of our tax returns.
−Removed: Although we believe that our tax estimates are reasonable, the final determination of tax audits or tax disputes may be different from what is reflected in our historical income tax provisions which could affect our operating results.
Unresolved Staff Comments
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.