Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 27, 2014

Components Of Income (Loss) Before Income Taxes


	Year Ended
	December 27, 2014		December 28, 2013		December 29, 2012
Domestic	$	(926)	$	(30,038)	$	(301,764)
Foreign		15,420		23,540		18,806
	$	14,494	$	(6,498)	$	(282,958)

Components Of The Provision For Income Taxes


	Year Ended
	December 27, 2014		December 28, 2013		December 29, 2012
Current:
Domestic	$	846	$	9,528	$	42,710
State		102		99		(3,630)
Foreign		14,736		13,910		11,743
	$	15,684	$	23,537	$	50,823
Deferred:
Domestic	$	5,055	$	1,361	$	2,856
State		1,482		—		(718)
Foreign		(7,809)		858		(15,660)
	$	(1,272)	$	2,219	$	(13,522)
Provision for income taxes	$	14,412	$	25,756	$	37,301

Reconciliation Between The Effective Tax Rate And The U.S. Federal Statutory Rate


	Year Ended
	December 27, 2014			December 28, 2013		December 29, 2012
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes	$	14,494		$	(6,498)	$	(282,958)
Federal statutory tax rate		35%			35%		35%
Income taxes at U.S. Federal statutory rate		5,073			(2,274)		(99,035)
Tax on intercompany transactions		1,510			18,135		104,757
Change in liability for unrecognized tax benefit		10,255			6,748		938
Non-deductible intangible asset amortization and impairment of goodwill and purchased intangible assets		6,666			10,603		104,421
Non-deductible stock-based compensation		3,892			5,487		5,370
Non-deductible items and other		583			852		6,283
Utilization of stock option related loss carry-forwards recorded in equity		—			—		17,622
State taxes		132			(1,332)		(50)
True-up of prior year taxes and tax credits		12,016	(1)		(4,230)		(12,259)
Federal credits		(1,232)			(6,344)		(23,689)
Investment tax credits, net		(10,268)			(23,276)		(19,193)
Foreign and other rate differential		(2,812)			(10,208)		(6,599)
Change in valuation allowance		(6,348)	(1)		36,346		(40,311)
Other changes to deferred taxes		(5,055)			(4,751)		(954)
Provision for income taxes	$	14,412		$	25,756	$	37,301

Components Of Deferred Tax Assets And Liabilities


	Year Ended
	December 27, 2014		December 28, 2013
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards	$	16,609	$	30,549
Credit carryforwards		49,638		88,854
Reserves and accrued expenses		10,088		6,008
Stock-based compensation		11,643		11,688
Other		471		358
Capitalized technology & other		4,637		3,290
Capital loss		—		1,208
Depreciation and amortization		18,721		15,903
Total gross deferred tax assets	$	111,807	$	157,858
Valuation allowance		(86,948)		(92,525)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance	$	24,859	$	65,333
Deferred tax liabilities:
Deferred income tax on credits		(10,687)		(8,864)
Goodwill amortization		(52,001)		(44,946)
Federal benefits		(4,454)		(10,300)
Total deferred tax (liabilities) assets, net of valuation allowance	$	(42,283)	$	1,223

Reconciliation Of Gross Unrecognized Tax Benefits


	Year Ended
	December 27, 2014		December 28, 2013		December 29, 2012
Gross unrecognized benefit at beginning of the year	$	82.1	$	91.5	$	106.0
Increase (decrease) in tax positions for prior years		1.7		(9.5)		(19.0)
Increase in tax positions for current year		6.9		4.0		4.3
Lapse in statute of limitations		—		(0.5)		(1.3)
Effect on foreign currency remeasurement (gain) loss		(5.3)		(3.4)		1.5
Ending balance	$	85.4	$	82.1	$	91.5

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of tax positions taken in the tax returns filed or to be filed for which it is more likely than not that the tax position will not be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities (i.e., uncertain tax positions) and other types of income tax contingencies, including: (1) the policy on classification of interest and penalties; (2) a tabular reconciliation of the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits at the beginning and end of the period; the total amount(s) of: (3) unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate, and (4) interest and penalties recognized in each of the income statement and balance sheet; (5) for positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts unrecognized will significantly change within 12 months of the reporting date the: (i) nature of the uncertainty, (ii) nature of the event that could occur that would cause the change, and (iii) an estimate of the range of the reasonably possible change or a statement that an estimate of the range cannot be made; and (6) a description of tax years that remain subject to examination by major tax jurisdictions.

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