SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced fourth quarter fiscal 2016 sales of $571 million, up 1% sequentially, and up 1% from the fourth quarter of the prior fiscal year. Fourth quarter net income was $145 million, or $0.54 per diluted share. Fiscal 2016 sales were $2.21 billion, down 7% from the prior fiscal year. Fiscal 2016 net income was $551 million, or $2.05 per diluted share.

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The Xilinx Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.33 per outstanding share of common stock, an increase from the current dividend of $0.31 per share. The quarterly dividend increase will be effective in the June quarter, payable on June 8, 2016 to all stockholders of record at the close of business on May 18, 2016.

Additional fourth quarter comparisons are represented in the charts below:



    GAAP Results

    (In millions, except EPS)


                                Q4            Q3            Q4
                              FY 2016       FY 2016       FY 2015
                                                                         Q-T-Q      Y-T-Y
                                                                        -----      -----

    Net
     revenues                          $571          $566          $567         1%         1%

     Operating
     income                            $178          $160          $159        11%        12%

    Net
     income                            $145          $131          $135        11%         8%

    Diluted
     earnings
     per
     share                            $0.54         $0.49         $0.50        10%         8%

"Momentum from our new products continued in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2016 with sales from 20nm products significantly exceeding $25 million and sales from the 28nm product family achieving record levels," said Moshe Gavrielov, Xilinx President and Chief Executive Officer. "Although fiscal 2016 experienced volatility from the wireless communications segment, Xilinx delivered its third consecutive generation of products to market ahead of the competition, enabling substantial PLD share gains. Additionally, our consistent and robust profitability enabled Xilinx to increase its dividend for the eleventh time since initiating the program in 2004."



    Net Revenues by Geography:


                               Percentages                 Growth Rates

                                   Q4            Q3             Q4

                                 FY 2016       FY 2016        FY 2015       Q-T-Q     Y-T-Y
                                 -------       -------        -------       -----     -----

     North
     America                               32%         32%              32%        2%        0%

     Asia
     Pacific                               38%         41%              37%       -5%        3%

    Europe                                 21%         17%              21%       18%        0%

    Japan                                   9%         10%              10%       -8%       -4%



    Net Revenues by End Market:


                                     Percentages         Growth Rates

                                          Q4        Q3        Q4

                                       FY 2016   FY 2016    FY 2015   Q-T-Q Y-T-Y
                                       -------   -------    -------   ----- -----

    Communications & Data Center             43%     43%          41%    0%    5%

    Industrial, Aerospace & Defense          40%     41%          42%   -1%   -3%

    Broadcast, Consumer & Automotive         17%     16%          17%    6%    1%



    Net Revenues by Product:


                             Percentages                Growth
                                                        Rates

                                 Q4          Q3          Q4

                               FY 2016     FY 2016     FY 2015     Q-T-Q     Y-T-Y
                               -------     -------     -------     -----     -----

    New                                49%         47%         41%        3%        21%

    Mainstream                         23%         23%         25%        4%        -7%

    Base                               24%         26%         30%       -6%       -20%

    Support                             4%          4%          4%       -1%         5%

Products are classified as follows:

New products: UltraScale+,Ultrascale, 7-series and Spartan-6 products.
Mainstream products: Virtex-6, Virtex 5, and CoolRunner II products.
Base products: Virtex 4, Virtex II, Virtex E, Spartan-3, Spartan-II, Spartan, CoolRunner and XC9500 products.
Support products: Configuration solutions, Software & Support/Services.



    Key Statistics:

    (Dollars in millions)


                                   Q4          Q3           Q4

                                 FY 2016     FY 2016      FY 2015
                                 -------     -------      -------


    Annual Return on Equity (%)*          21           21           24


    Operating Cash Flow                 $123         $290         $166


    Depreciation Expense                 $12          $13          $14


    Capital Expenditures                 $15           $6           $6


    Combined Inventory Days              102          119          136


    Revenue Turns (%)                    49           49           51



    *Return on equity calculation:
     Annualized net income/average
     stockholders' equity

Product and Financial Highlights - Fiscal 2016


    --  Xilinx commenced shipments of several of its unique versions of its 16nm
        UltraScale+ portfolio covering all three families:  Virtex, Kintex and
        Zynq.  These products closely follow the delivery of our 20nm UltraScale
        family, which includes the industry's only 20nm high-end FPGA.  Three
        consecutive generations of leadership technology at 28nm, 20nm and 16nm
        showcase the execution of our world class development in collaboration
        with our foundry partner, TSMC.
    --  The Company's highly successful 20nm Ultrascale family approached $100M
        in sales in fiscal 2016, surpassing the Company's forecasts in every
        quarter of the fiscal year.   This family, which includes the PLD
        industry's only high-end family, is receiving adoption in a broad base
        of applications including wired and wireless communications, test &
        measurement, industrial and defense applications.
    --  The 28nm product family continues on the path to be the PLD industry's
        most successful product family in history.  Sales from these products
        reached a record level as Xilinx exited the fiscal year, driven by the
        Zynq product family which contributed more to incremental sales growth
        than any other new product in fiscal 2016. Zynq continues to drive new
        market adoption in areas such as augmented reality, driver assist and
        machine vision.
    --  During fiscal 2016, Xilinx paid its shareholders a record $319 million
        in dividends and repurchased 9.7 million shares for $443 million. 
        Additionally, Xilinx increased its quarterly dividend by $0.02 per share
        to $0.33 per share, the 11(th) consecutive year of dividend increases
        since initiating its first dividend in 2004.  Xilinx has returned 100%
        of operating cash flow to stockholders in the form of dividend and share
        repurchase over the past ten years.
    --  Xilinx announced strategic collaborations with Qualcomm Technologies,
        Inc. and IBM to accelerate data center applications. These
        collaborations are expected to enable higher performance and
        energy-efficient data center applications through Xilinx FPGA-enabled
        workload acceleration.  Target applications include machine learning,
        network functions virtualization (NFV), genomics, high performance
        computing and big data analytics.
    --  In the last year, Xilinx completed rollout of its SDx family of software
        defined development environments, significantly expanding its target
        user base to a much larger community of systems and software engineers.

Business Outlook - June Quarter Fiscal 2017


    --  Sales are expected to be approximately flat sequentially.
    --  Gross margin is expected to be 69% to 70%.
    --  Operating expenses are expected to be approximately $220 million
        including $1 million of amortization of acquisition-related intangibles.
    --  Other income and expenses are expected to be a net expense of
        approximately $5 million.
    --  Fully diluted share count is expected to be approximately 266 million.
    --  June quarter tax rate is expected to be approximately 14%.

Conference Call

A conference call will be held today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the March quarter financial results and management's outlook for the June 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 (855) 859-2056 and referencing confirmation code 84718595. The telephonic replay will be available for two weeks following the live call.

This release contains forward-looking statements and projections. Forward-looking statements and projections can often be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "expect," "believe," "may," "will," "could," "anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "plan," "intend," "project" or other similar expressions. Statements that refer to or are based on projections, uncertain events or assumptions also identify forward-looking statements. Such forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the semiconductor market, the growth and acceptance of our products, expected revenue growth, the demand and growth in the markets we serve, opportunity for expansion into new markets, and our expectations regarding our business outlook for the June quarter of fiscal 2017. Undue reliance should not be placed on such forward-looking statements and projections, which speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to update such forward-looking statements. Actual events and results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties including customer acceptance of our new products, current global economic conditions, the health of our customers and the end markets in which they participate, our ability to forecast end customer demand, a high dependence on turns business, more customer volume discounts than expected, greater product mix changes than anticipated, fluctuations in manufacturing yields, our ability to deliver product in a timely manner, our ability to successfully manage production at multiple foundries, variability in wafer pricing, costs and liabilities associated with current and future litigation, and other risk factors listed in our most recent Forms 10-Q and 10-K.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software defined and hardware optimized - powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing, Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

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    XILINX, INC.

    CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

    (Unaudited)

    (In thousands, except per share amounts)

                                                    Three Months Ended                             Twelve Months Ended
                                                    ------------------                             -------------------

                                                April 2, 2016             January 2, 2016                              March 28, 2015          April 2, 2016            March 28, 2015
                                                -------------             ---------------                              --------------          -------------            --------------

    Net revenues                                                 $571,066                 $566,235                                    $566,900               $2,213,881                 $2,377,344

    Cost of revenues                                              175,799                  178,514                                     170,379                  671,907                    708,823
                                                                  -------                                                             -------                  -------                    -------

    Gross margin                                                  395,267                  387,721                                     396,521                1,541,974                  1,668,521
                                                                  -------                  -------                                     -------                ---------                  ---------

    Operating expenses:

    Research and development                                      135,645                  141,378                                     131,942                  533,891                    525,745

    Selling, general and
     administrative                                                80,277                   84,470                                      79,198                  331,652                    353,670

    Amortization of
     acquisition-related
     intangibles                                                    1,244                    1,769                                       2,370                    6,550                      9,537

    Restructuring charges                                               -                       -                                     24,491                        -                    24,491
                                                                      ---                     ---                                     ------                      ---                    ------

    Total operating expenses                                      217,166                  227,617                                     238,001                  872,093                    913,443
                                                                  -------                  -------                                     -------                  -------                    -------


    Operating income                                              178,101                  160,104                                     158,520                  669,881                    755,078

    Interest and other income
     (expense), net                                               (8,263)                 (5,053)                                        958                 (33,056)                  (15,002)
                                                                   ------                                                                 ---                  -------                    -------

    Income before income taxes                                    169,838                  155,051                                     159,478                  636,825                    740,076

    Provision for income taxes                                     24,803                   24,232                                      24,855                   85,958                     91,860
                                                                   ------                                                              ------                   ------                     ------

    Net income                                                   $145,035                  130,819                                    $134,623                 $550,867                   $648,216
                                                                 ========                  =======                                    ========                 ========                   ========

    Net income per common share:

    Basic                                                           $0.57                    $0.51                                       $0.52                    $2.14                      $2.44
                                                                    =====                    =====                                       =====                    =====                      =====

    Diluted                                                         $0.54                    $0.49                                       $0.50                    $2.05                      $2.35
                                                                    =====                    =====                                       =====                    =====                      =====

    Cash dividends per common
     share                                                          $0.31                    $0.31                                       $0.29                    $1.24                      $1.16
                                                                    =====                    =====                                       =====                    =====                      =====

    Shares used in per share calculations:

    Basic                                                         255,467                  256,450                                     260,857                  257,184                    265,480
                                                                  =======                  =======                                     =======                  =======                    =======

    Diluted                                                       268,462                  269,611                                     269,514                  268,667                    276,123
                                                                  =======                  =======                                     =======                  =======                    =======



    XILINX, INC.

    CONDENSED
     CONSOLIDATED
     BALANCE SHEETS

    (In thousands)

                      April 2, 2016            March 28, 2015 *
                      -------------             ---------------

                       (unaudited)

    ASSETS

    Current assets:

    Cash, cash
     equivalents and
     short-term
     investments                    $3,337,699                  $3,303,061

    Accounts
     receivable, net                   307,458                     246,615

    Inventories                        178,550                     231,328

    Deferred tax
     assets and other
     current assets                     95,226                     154,047

    Total current
     assets                          3,918,933                   3,935,051

    Net property,
     plant and
     equipment                         283,346                     301,038

    Long-term
     investments                       220,807                     266,902

    Other assets                       400,068                     395,074

    Total assets                    $4,823,154                  $4,898,065
                                    ==========                  ==========



    LIABILITIES AND
     STOCKHOLDERS'
     EQUITY

    Current
     liabilities:

    Accounts payable
     and accrued
     liabilities                      $307,222                    $321,082

    Deferred income
     on shipments to
     distributors                       51,758                      66,071

    Current portion
     of long-term
     debt                              587,106                     576,053

    Total current
     liabilities                       946,086                     963,206

    Long-term debt                     995,835                     994,839

    Deferred tax
     liabilities                       261,467                     289,868

    Other long-term
     liabilities                        16,979                      14,611

    Temporary equity                    12,894                      23,947

    Stockholders'
     equity                          2,589,893                   2,611,594

    Total Liabilities
     and
     Stockholders'
     Equity                         $4,823,154                  $4,898,065
                                    ==========                  ==========



    * Derived from audited
     financial statements


    XILINX, INC.

    SUPPLEMENTAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION

    (Unaudited)

    (In thousands)

                                             Three Months Ended                            Twelve Months Ended
                                             ------------------                            -------------------

                                          April 2, 2016            January 2, 2016                             March 28, 2015         April 2, 2016         March 28, 2015
                                          -------------            ---------------                             --------------         -------------         --------------

    SELECTED CASH FLOW INFORMATION:

      Depreciation                                         $12,060                 $13,043                                    $14,409               $50,828                $55,266

      Amortization                                           4,464                   4,441                                      4,092                17,613                 19,648

      Stock-based compensation                              27,520                  31,463                                     19,959               111,984                 99,859

      Net cash provided by
       operating activities                                122,934                 290,285                                    166,039               730,102                790,780

      Purchases of property,
       plant and equipment                                  14,835                   6,118                                      5,937                34,004                 29,619

      Payment of dividends to
       stockholders                                         78,877                  79,709                                     75,608               318,988                306,158

      Repurchases of common stock                          143,183                 100,000                                    174,994               443,181                651,006

      Proceeds from issuance of
       common stock to employees
       and excess tax benefit                               33,201                   8,768                                     36,316                67,247                 72,323


    STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION INCLUDED IN:

       Cost of revenues                                     $2,105                  $2,145                                     $1,692                $7,977                 $8,101

       Research and development                             15,131                  16,935                                      9,941                59,692                 50,185

       Selling, general and
        administrative                                      10,284                  12,383                                      7,747                44,315                 40,994

       Restructuring                                             -                      -                                       579                     -                   579

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