Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Commitments and Guarantees

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Commitments and Guarantees
12 Months Ended
Dec. 29, 2012
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Guarantees
Commitments and Guarantees
Operating Leases
As of December 29, 2012, the Company's future non-cancelable operating lease commitments, including those for facilities vacated in connection with restructuring activities, were as follows:
 
Year
Operating
leases
 
(In millions)
2013
$
37

2014
34

2015
28

2016
21

2017
18

2018 and thereafter
22

 Total non-cancelable operating lease commitments
$
160


The Company leases certain of its facilities and in some jurisdictions the Company leases the land on which these facilities are built, under non-cancelable lease agreements that expire at various dates through 2022. The Company also leases certain manufacturing and office equipment for terms ranging from 1 to 5 years. Rent expense was approximately $49 million, $48 million and $44 million in 2012, 2011 and 2010.
In December 1998, the Company arranged for the sale of its marketing, general and administrative facility in Sunnyvale, California and leased it back for a period of 20 years. The Company recorded a deferred gain of $37 million on the sale and is amortizing it over the life of the lease. The lease expires in December 2018. At the beginning of the fourth lease year and every three years thereafter, the rent is adjusted by 200% of the cumulative increase in the consumer price index over the prior three-year period, up to a maximum of 6.9%. Certain other operating leases contain provisions for escalating lease payments subject to changes in the consumer price index. Total future lease obligations as of December 29, 2012, were approximately $160 million.
Purchase Obligations
The Company’s purchase obligations primarily include the Company’s obligations to purchase wafers and substrates from third parties. As of December 29, 2012, total non-cancelable purchase obligations, excluding the Company's wafer purchase commitments to GF under the WSA, were $299 million for 2013.
Obligations to GF
The Company's obligations to GF for wafer purchases are approximately $1.15 billion for 2013 and $250 million for the first quarter of 2014.
Warranties and Indemnities
The Company generally warrants that its products sold to its customers will conform to the Company’s approved specifications and be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service for one year. Subject to certain exceptions, the Company also offers a three-year limited warranty to end users for only those CPU and AMD A-Series APU products that are commonly referred to as “processors in a box” and has also offered extended limited warranties to certain customers of “tray” microprocessor products and/or workstation graphics products who have written agreements with the Company and target their computer systems at the commercial and/or embedded markets.
Changes in the Company’s estimated liability for product warranty during the years ended December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011 are as follows:
 
December 29,
2012
 
December 31,
2011
 
(In millions)
Beginning balance
$
20

 
$
19

New warranties issued during the period
28

 
35

Settlements during the period
(30
)
 
(36
)
Changes in liability for pre-existing warranties during the period, including expirations
(2
)
 
2

Ending balance
$
16

 
$
20


In addition to product warranties, the Company, from time to time in its normal course of business, indemnifies other parties, with whom it enters into contractual relationships, including customers, lessors and parties to other transactions with the Company, with respect to certain matters. In these limited matters, the Company has agreed to hold certain third parties harmless against specific types of claims or losses, such as those arising from a breach of representations or covenants, third-party claims that the Company’s products when used for their intended purpose(s) and under specific conditions infringe the intellectual property rights of a third party, or other specified claims made against the indemnified party. It is not possible to determine the maximum potential amount of liability under these indemnification obligations due to the unique facts and circumstances that are likely to be involved in each particular claim and indemnification provision. Historically, payments made by the Company under these obligations have not been material.