Spansion - Milliardenfirma und Pennystock
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 9:34 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
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Spansion Inc., the chipmaker whose only factory is in Austin, said Friday that it expects to emerge from bankruptcy in February.
The Sunnyvale, Calif. -based company, which makes flash memory chips for a variety of electronics products, reported a profit of $4.3 million on revenue of $307.1 million for the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 27. It was the second quarterly profit in a row and compared with a loss of $2.1 billion on sales of $468 million in the same quarter a year earlier.
"Spansion's core markets showed strength this quarter and helped the company easily surpass our expectations for revenue in 2009," CEO John Kispert said. "With our restructuring and reorganization activities largely behind us, we look forward to continued strong results in 2010."
The company also had $325 million in cash on hand at the end of 2009, up $100 million from the end of the first quarter.
A hearing is set for Feb. 11 in federal bankruptcy court to give final approval to the company's reorganization plan.
For Spansion, getting healthier has meant getting smaller. The company largely exited one market — cell phones — that had accounted for about half of its sales. Executives said the cell phone market required heavy research and development spending but did not provide the profit margins the company needed.
Spansion went through a dramatic downsizing shortly before it filed for bankruptcy last March. The company cut 3,000 jobs around the world in February, including more than 160 in Austin.
The company now employs 4,130 people worldwide, including 940 in Austin. Most of its Austin operations center on Fab 25 on East Ben White Boulevard, which is Spansion's only remaining chip factory. Some of its older products are produced in factories that it formerly owned in Japan. Those factories are owned by Spansion Japan Ltd., which is going through its own bankruptcy reorganization as a stand-alone company.
The company also has an agreement with China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. to make future generations of chips using more advanced processes.
Spansion now concentrates on the embedded electronics market, which involves memory chips for telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics devices, gaming equipment, TV set-top control boxes, automotive equipment, personal computer peripherals and networking gear.
Spansion says it can serve those markets well while spending less on cutting-edge chip manufacturing technology.
kladendorf@statesman.com; 445-3622
Das dem Reorg. Antrag statt gegeben wird, dürfte m.E. nach außer Frage stehn - bloß mit oder OHNE Uns ist hier die alles entscheidende Frage !
"...A hearing is set for Feb. 11 in federal bankruptcy court to give final approval to the company's reorganization plan."
http://www.ariva.de/...rma_und_Pennystock_t373146?page=49#jumppos1247
werden Seiten 40-42 angeführt. In welchem Dokument lassen diese sich finden?
Danke, St. JCF
Gruss, St, JCF
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lander: aus dem AMI BOARD (Ablehnung...)
18.12.09 23:01
It is official now - Equity Committee denied
13 minutes ago See docket 2046
http://chap11.epiqsystems.com/docket/doc...
We are done now, unless some kind of miraculuous buyout happen. Like what happend to Pilgrims Pride:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries...
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ich lese schon graume Zeit in diversen Foren mit und habe mich entschlossen auch meinen Teil beizutragen.
Folgende Meldung müsste Einfluss auf Spsnq haben, da ein vergleichbarer Streit mit Samsung im Gange ist:
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2256402/samsung-settles-rambus-case
Samsung settles Rambus case for $900m
Long running case settled out of court
Iain Thomson in San Francisco
V3.co.uk, 20 Jan 2010
Samsung has settled its long-running patent dispute with chip designer Rambus for $900m.
Under the terms of the deal, announced today, Samsung will invest $200m in Rambus stock, make an interim payment of $200m and pay $25m a quarter for the next five years. In return Rambus is dropping its legal action against Samsung and licence the company to use some of its DRAM designs.
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"We have a tremendous opportunity to renew a partnership which has created solutions that have benefited consumers worldwide," said Harold Hughes, president of Rambus.
"Bringing together Samsung's market and technology leadership with our innovations for high-performance and high-efficiency memory architectures will make possible an exciting new generation of mobile, computing and consumer electronics products."
The two companies also signed a memorandum of understanding for Samsung to licence Rambus’ chip designs for new graphics and mobile memory and may also collaborate on server and high-speed NAND Flash memories in the future.
The settlement leaves Rambus free to concentrate on its current patent disputes with Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor, the former of which is giving the company problems.
kommt noch was oder wird es noch weiter auf diese höeher bleibe??
lass laufen bis kurz vor 11.02.2010 (Anhörung) und hol den Einsatz raus und den rest zocken ....
wäre eine mögliche Variante von vielen :)
Allen Investierten weiterhin viel Erfolg,
Hummel
http://ih.advfn.com/...hart&s=NO^spsnq&p=0&t=19&vol=1
Hummel
Hummel, dir gratuliere ich erstmal zu deinen Gewinnen.
Da befrag ich lieber das Orakel oder lass ein Pendel schwingen :-p
Was glaubt ihr, wie hoch gehts in diesem Schwung bevor es wieder auf 6 Cent crasht?!
Ich habe mir in der letzten Woche mal alles genau angeschaut - Bilanzen, Umsatz, Margin, Restruktuierung ect. -
ich halte die Wahrscheinlichkeit ( und das ist nur meine Meinung) für so etwas von gering das so ein CEO einfach die Altaktionäre enteignen kann. Wenn so eine Nummer Geschichte machen würde ist die Aktienkultur völlig im A... , ohne Abfindung läuft hier nach meiner Meinung gar nichts. Und die wird im Bereich von Assets - minus Verbindlichkeiten und plus einer Prämie (zukünftige Gewinnerwartung ect.) liegen.
Das ist ein Long-Investment für mich.
Wenn ich mal rumspinne - wäre es nicht möglich das der CEO nur auf die Tour macht damit der Kurs schön unten bleibt, damit seine ganzen Kumpels hier lecker einkaufen können ;)
Wünsche hier jedem ein dickes Schmerzensgeld
Hummel