Xilinx Announces Q1 Fiscal 2012 Results; Sales Increase 5% Sequentially

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 20, 2011 -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced first quarter fiscal 2012 sales of $615.5 million, up 5% sequentially from the prior quarter and up 3% from the same quarter of the prior year. First quarter net income was $154.4 million, or $0.56 per diluted share.

The Xilinx Board of Directors announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per outstanding share of common stock, payable on August 31, 2011 to all stockholders of record at the close of business on August 10, 2011.

Additional first quarter comparisons are represented in the charts below:

"Sales in the June quarter exceeded our expectations," said Moshe Gavrielov, Xilinx President and Chief Executive Officer. "New product sales were exceptionally strong increasing 17% sequentially. Much of this growth came from strong customer demand for our 40-nm Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 families as well as our 65-nm Virtex-5 family. In addition, we continued to demonstrate our 28-nm technology leadership by shipping our second FPGA family, Virtex-7, during the quarter. With the industry's highest performance, density and bandwidth, Virtex-7 FPGAs achieved design wins in a broad base of applications including wired and wireless communications, broadcast infrastructure, aerospace and defense and high performance computing."

Products are classified as follows:

• New Products: Virtex®-6, Virtex-5, Spartan®-6, Spartan-3A and Spartan-3E product families Mainstream Products: Virtex-4, Spartan-3, Spartan-II and CoolRunner(TM)-II product families
• Base Products: Virtex, Virtex-E, Virtex-II, Spartan, XC4000, CoolRunner and XC9500 product families Support Products: Configuration products, HardWire, Software & Support/Services

Product Highlights

• Xilinx recently released its ISE® Design Suite 13.2, which provides increased designer productivity and improved Quality of Results for our 28-nm 7 series families including the recently shipped Virtex-7 VS485T device. In addition, this latest edition of ISE Design Suite provides an increase in performance of up to 25 percent in designs targeting Virtex-7 2000T devices, the industry's largest density FPGAs built using Stacked Silicon Interconnect technology.
• Sales from 40-nm Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA products were stronger than expected during the quarter representing nearly 10% of total sales. Strength during the quarter was driven by a broad base of applications including wired and wireless communications, defense, test & measurement, audio video broadcast and high performance computing.

Business Outlook - September Quarter Fiscal 2012

• Sales are expected to be up 1% to down 3% sequentially.
• Gross margin is expected to be approximately 63%.
• Operating expenses are expected to be approximately $218 million, including approximately $2 million of amortization of acquisition-related intangibles and approximately $6 million in restructuring charges.
• Other income and expense is expected to be an expense of approximately $7 million.
• Fully diluted share count is expected to be approximately 278 million.
• September quarter tax rate is expected to be approximately 14%.

Financial Tables

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Conference Call

A conference call will be held today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the first quarter financial results and management's outlook for the September quarter. The webcast and subsequent replay will be available in the investor relations section of the Company's web site at www.investor.xilinx.com. A telephonic replay of the call may be accessed later in the day by calling (800) 642-1687 and referencing confirmation code 57880006. The telephonic replay will be available for two weeks following the live call.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the world's leading provider of programmable platforms. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com/.