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Effective today, all current employees will transfer to EPIC. The two plants, located in
Johnson City, TN, and South Lebanon, OH, employ a combined 500 workers.
Siemens purchased the Johnson City facility in 1991 from
Texas Instruments, and acquired the South
Lebanon operations from Eaton Corp. in
2000.
"We are highly committed to maintaining the level of quality and customer service that EMC established under the Siemens brand and look forward to bringing a high level of lean manufacturing efficiency and EMS industry expertise to these operations," said John Sammut, president and CEO of EPIC, in a press release.
"We saw significant momentum from our newer, emerging products as we received significant orders in cabling, embedded software, high speed board design and coverage-driven verification," chairman and CEO Wally Rhines said in a press release.
For the quarter bookings rose 35%. All regions performed well with
Japan and Pacific Rim bookings up over 100%, Europe up 45% and North
America up 15% over a year ago. Bookings were up 20% for the year.
Revenue by region was 40% North America, 30%
Europe, 15% Japan and 15% Pacific Rim.
The company took one-time charges of $4.9 million, primarily for acquisitions and
restructuring.
Pro forma gross margins were down slightly, to 86.7%.
"While we see no sign of an upturn for the overall EDA industry, we note that Mentor and other companies like us with young product lines continue to perform well in this environment," said Greg Hinckley, president.
The firm's book-to-bill is at its highest level since 1996 and backlogs are at their highest point since 2000.Separately, Mentor guided for Q1 sales of $177 million and 2005 revenue growth of 7%, to $760 million.
SAN JOSE - Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached a record $213 billion in
2004, a year-on-year increase of 28% from 2003, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported
today. December chip sales declined 3.5% sequentially to
$18.4 billion, in line
with historical seasonality.
It was the first time since 2000 that global
chip sales surpassed $200 billion.
December sales were 14.6% higher
than December 2003. Fourth-quarter sales, at $55.1 billion,
declined 0.8% sequentially.
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