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Certain
confidential information contained in this document, marked by
brackets, has been omitted and filed separately with the Securities
and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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Exhibit 2.3
First Amended and Restated ASIC
Attachment No. 5
To Custom Sales Agreement No.
001006
When signed by the parties where provided below,
this First Amended and Restated Attachment shall be incorporated
into Custom Sales Agreement No. 001006 as First amended and
Restated Attachment No. 5 effective on the Closing Date as defined
in the Asset Purchase Agreement (“APA”). This First
Amended and Restated No. 5 shall replace Attachment No. 5 in its
entirety. Attachments are governed by the terms and conditions of
the Base Agreement. Contemporaneously with the execution of this
Attachment, Customer and IBM or its subsidiaries are executing an
APA, an Intellectual Property Agreement (“IPA”), a
Design Kit License Agreement (“DKLA”), a Patent License
Agreement (“PLA”), a PowerPC License Agreement
(“PPCLA”) and a Core Connect Bus License Agreement
(“CCLA”) and ancillary documents, (collectively, the
“Operative Agreements”). Upon consummation of the
transactions contemplated under the Operative Agreements, IBM will,
among other things, assign or license to Customer certain
technology and certain rights to certain integrated circuits which
have been previously developed or which are currently under
development by IBM or its subsidiaries.
Definitions
“ASIC(s)”
shall mean application specific
integrated circuits, as more fully defined in the Intellectual
Property Agreement, as entered into on the Closing Date.
“ASSP(s)”
shall mean application specific
standard products, as more fully defined in the Intellectual
Property Agreement, as entered into on the Closing Date.
“At Shipment of
Prototypes” (
“ASP” ) shall mean the date of shipment of
Prototypes to Customer.
“IBM
Deliverables” shall
mean the information, materials and tools supplied to Customer by
IBM, as set forth in Part B of this Attachment, including, without
limitation, IBM Design Kits, ASIC tool kits, and Prototype
devices.
“IBM Design
Kits” shall mean
any IBM computer aided design software and data (including
libraries) provided to Customer and supported by IBM for the
purpose of designing or testing ASIC designs, as updated and
enhanced from time to time.
“Initial ASIC Design Review
Checklist” (“IDR”) shall mean a report in form and content as
regularly used by IBM to make a preliminary assessment of the
feasibility of Customer’s proposed Product design.
“Milestones” shall mean completion of the criteria specified
in the (i) initial design review (“IDR Milestone”),
(ii) pre-layout and timing analysis (“RTL Milestone”),
and (iii) the release to manufacturing (“RTM
Milestone”) stages of work and the NRE payment milestones
(“Payment Milestones”) set forth in this
Attachment.
“NRE”
shall mean non-recurring engineering
Services.
“Prototype
Acceptance” shall
mean Customer’s written approval of the
Prototypes.
“Release to Layout
Checklist” (“RTL”) shall mean a performance approval report in
form and content as regularly used by IBM to document completion of
the pre-layout Level Sensitive Scan Design (“LSSD”) and
timing analysis.
“Release to Manufacturing
Checklist” (“RTM”) shall mean a performance approval report in form
and content as regularly used by IBM to document the design review
milestone at the completion of the post-layout timing
analysis.
“Risk
Product” shall mean
Product ordered by Customer prior to Prototype Acceptance. All
terms and conditions for Risk Product are the same as for Product,
except for terms and conditions regarding cancellation and
warranty.
“Speed Binning”,
“Performance Binning” and “Speed
Sorting” are
interchangeable terms used throughout this agreement and shall mean
testing a device to determine its maximum speed performance rating
in megahertz and marking the device or otherwise identifying the
speed to the Customer.
Unique Terms and Conditions
The following terms and conditions are
applicable to this Attachment only. Referring to the Base
Agreement:
(a) Modify the following terms and
conditions:
The Base Agreement to which this
Attachment is made a part contains an incorporation clause, which
shall not be read to preclude the provision of Section 9.2 of the
APA applying to this Agreement.
Delete Section 11.2 in its entirety
and replace with the following:
IBM’s liability for any and
all causes or conditions under this Agreement, regardless of the
basis on which Customer may be entitled to claim damages from IBM
(including, fundamental breach, negligence, misrepresentation, or
any other contract or tort claim, shall be limited as stated in
Section 9.2 of the APA. Nothing contained in this Section 11.2
shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing either party from
asserting any claims such party may have against the other in
equity, including any claims of specific performance.
Delete Section 12.1 in its entirety
and replace it with the following:
12.1 IBM Warranty for Product and
Risk Product
12.1.1 Product:
[ * ]
12.1.2 Risk Product:
[ * ]
Delete Section 17.1 in its entirety
and replace it with the following:
17.1 Either Party hereto shall be
excused from the fulfillment of any obligation, except for payment
obligations under this Agreement for so long as such fulfillment
may be hindered or prevented by any circumstances of force majeure
such as but not limited to acts of God, war, riot, strike, lockout,
labor unrest, fire, flood, other natural catastrophe, national or
local government regulations or any other circumstance outside its
control, provided that the Party seeking to be excused shall make
reasonable efforts to minimize the hindrance of such
non-fulfillment to the other party.
Add the following terms to Section
10:
10.4. Notwithstanding anything in
this Attachment or in the Base Agreement to the contrary, the
intellectual property and materials as assigned and/or licensed to
Customer by IBM on the Closing Date in the IPA, DKLA, PPCLA and
CCLA (collectively, the “IBM IP”) shall not be
considered as being provided by Customer for purposes of Section
10.2.1 of the Base Agreement, and the provisions of Section 10.3 of
the Base Agreement shall not apply to a cause of action based on
such IBM IP as incorporated into any In Scope Product or any other
Product in the event such In Scope Product or other Product becomes
subject to a claim pursuant to Section 10.3 to the extent solely of
such IBM IP.
1.0 Term
The term of this Attachment expires on March 31,
2008.
2.0 Scope of Work
2.1 IBM will provide the Services identified in
Section 8 and manufacture the Product(s) identified in Part A of
this Attachment. This Attachment will include future successor or
derivative Products only as agr