INVENTORIES

6 Months Ended

Dec. 23, 2012

NOTE 5 — INVENTORIES

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out method) or market. Shipments to Japanese customers, to whom title does not transfer until customer acceptance, are classified as finished goods inventory and carried at cost until title transfers. Inventories consist of the following:


	December 23,		June 24,
	2012		2012
	(in thousands)
Raw materials	$	307,806	$	342,283
Work-in-process		78,459		118,566
Finished goods		144,007		172,004

	$	530,272	$	632,853

During the three months and six ended December 23, 2012, the Company incurred charges of $15.5 million and $18.7 million resulting from the write-off of inventory related to the decision to stop future development of certain product configurations and transition them to a sustaining mode with existing customers. These charges were included in cost of goods sold in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for inventory. This may include, but is not limited to, the basis of stating inventory, the method of determining inventory cost, the major classes of inventory, and the nature of the cost elements included in inventory. If inventory is stated above cost, accrued net losses on firm purchase commitments for inventory and losses resulting from valuing inventory at the lower-of-cost-or-market may also be included. For LIFO inventory, may disclose the amount and basis for determining the excess of replacement or current cost over stated LIFO value and the effects of a LIFO quantities liquidation that impacts net income.

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