Amendment Three to Annex 1 of Technology License Agreement between ARM Limited and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation

Summary

This amendment, effective December 1, 2011, is between ARM Limited and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. It modifies certain terms of Annex 1 to their existing Technology License Agreement, specifically updating clauses related to the ARMv8-A Architecture and ARMv7-A Interprocessing Requirements. It also classifies specific information provided by Veloce Technologies, Inc. as confidential under the agreement. All other terms of the original agreement remain unchanged.

EX-10.74 11 d238010dex1074.htm AMENDMENT THREE TO THE TLA ANNEX 1 Amendment Three to the TLA Annex 1

Exhibit 10.74

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Confidential Treatment Requested

Under 17 C.F.R. §§ 200.80(b)(4)

and 240.24b-2

1 December 2011

CONFIDENTIAL

LES-LTR-21008

SP-Version: 1.0

This amendment (“Amendment Three”) is effective from the 1st day of December 2011 (“Effective Date”)

BETWEEN

ARM LIMITED whose registered office is situated at 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, England (“ARM”);

and

APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION whose principal place of business is situated at 215 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 (“AMCC”).

WHEREAS

This Amendment Three refers to and amends the terms and conditions of the Annex 1 for the ARM v8-A Architecture, document number LEC-ANX-02052 effective July 14, 2010 between ARM and AMCC, as amended (the “Annex”), which forms part of and is incorporated into the Technology License Agreement document number LEC-TLA-00606-V6.0 entered into between the parties on March 31, 2009, as amended (the “TLA”).

B.	The parties wish to (i) classify certain information provided by Veloce Technologies, Inc. to ARM as Confidential Information under the TLA; and (ii) amend the ARMv7-A Interprocessing Requirements.

NOW THEREFORE for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:

All definitions contained in the Agreement shall have the same meanings and apply to this Amendment Three.

In Section 2 of the Annex, Clause A.16(a)(i) in its entirety and replace it with the following:

[…***…] ;

In Section 2 of the Annex, replace the period at the end of Clause A.16(b)(viii) with “; and” and add the following new subclause (ix):

[…***…]

Add the following new Clause K.3 in Section 2 of the Annex:

K.3

The parties agree that the following information provided directly to ARM by LICENSEE’s Designer identified as Veloce Technologies, Inc. (“Veloce”) in connection with Veloce’s work as a Designer of LICENSEE under the Annex will be deemed to be Confidential Information of LICENSEE under the TLA: […***…]

Except as specifically modified herein, all the terms and conditions of the Annex shall remain in full force and effect.


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