Semiconductors: Pay versus performance

As required by Section 953(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K (the “PVP Rules”), we are providing information about the relationship between our Company performance and executive compensation actually paid to our Principal Executive Officer (our “PEO”) and the other NEOs (the “Reported NEOs”), as calculated in accordance with Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K. For further information concerning our pay-for-performance philosophy and how we align executive compensation with our performance, see our Compensation Discussion and Analysis in this Proxy Statement.

In the below pay versus performance table, we provide information about compensation of our NEOs for each of the last two fiscal years (the “Covered Years”). Additionally, we provide information about the results for certain financial performance measures during the Covered Years. Although the PVP Rules require us to disclose “compensation actually paid” (“CAP”), these amounts do not necessarily reflect compensation that our NEOs actually earned in the Covered Years. Instead, “compensation actually paid” reflects a calculation computed in accordance with the PVP Rules, including adjustments to the values of unvested and vested equity awards during the Covered Years based on either year-end or vesting date stock prices and various accounting valuation assumptions. “Compensation actually paid” generally fluctuates due to stock price performance.