UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

Commission File Number 0-18548

Xilinx, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such requirements for the past 90 days. YES ý    NO o

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 12b-2). YES ý    NO o

The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant based upon the closing sale price of the Common Stock on September 27, 2003 as reported on the NASDAQ National Market was approximately $8,614,001,000. Shares of Common Stock held by each executive officer and director and by each person who owns 5% or more of the outstanding Common Stock have been excluded in that such persons may be deemed affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.

At May 19, 2004, the registrant had 347,107,731 shares of Common Stock outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Parts of the Proxy Statement for the Registrant's Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on August 5, 2004 are incorporated by reference in Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

XILINX, INC.
Form 10-K
For the Fiscal Year Ended April 3, 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PART I

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements in Items 1.—"Business" and 3.—"Legal Proceedings" concerning our development efforts, strategy, new product introductions, backlog and litigation. These statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties including those discussed throughout this document as well as under the caption "Factors Affecting Future Results" in Item 7.—"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations." Forward looking statements can often be identified by the use of forward looking words, such as "may," "will," "could," "should," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "plan," "intend," "project" or other similar words.

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

Xilinx, Inc. (Xilinx or the Company) designs, develops and markets complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits (ICs), software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as intellectual property (IP) cores, design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support. The programmable logic devices (PLDs) include field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs). These devices are standard products that our customers program to perform desired logic functions. Our products are designed to provide high integration and quick time-to-market for electronic equipment manufacturers primarily in the communications, storage, server, consumer, industrial and other markets. We sell our products globally through independent domestic and foreign distributors, through direct sales to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by a network of independent sales representative firms and through a direct sales management organization.

Xilinx was founded in California in February 1984. In April 1990, the Company reincorporated in Delaware. Our corporate facilities and executive offices are located at 2100 Logic Drive, San Jose, California 95124, and our website address is www.xilinx.com.

Industry Overview

There are three principal types of ICs used in most digital electronic systems: processors, which generally are utilized for control and computing tasks; memory devices, which are used for storing program instructions and data; and logic devices, which generally are used to manage the interchange and manipulation of digital signals within a system. Almost every electronic system contains application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which include custom gate arrays, standard cells and programmable logic. These devices all compete with each other since they may be utilized in the same types of applications within electronic systems. However, variables in pricing, product performance, reliability, power consumption, density, adaptability, ease of use and time-to-market determine the degree to which the devices compete for specific applications.

Programmable logic has a primary advantage over custom gate arrays and standard cells in that it enables faster time-to-market with shorter design cycles. Users of PLDs can program their design directly into the PLD, using software, thereby allowing customers to revise their designs relatively quickly with lower development costs. Since PLDs are programmable, they typically have a larger die size resulting in higher costs per unit compared to custom gate arrays and standard cells, which are customized with a fixed function during wafer fabrication. Custom gate arrays and standard cells, however, generally require longer fabrication lead times and higher up-front costs than PLDs.

PLDs are standard components. This means that the same device type can be sold to many different customers for many different applications. As a result, the development cost of PLDs can be spread over a large number of customers. Custom gate arrays and standard cells, on the other hand, are custom chips for an individual customer for use in a specific application. This involves a high up-front cost to customers. Technology advances are enabling PLD companies to reduce costs considerably, making PLDs an increasingly attractive alternative to custom gate arrays and standard cells.

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An overview of typical PLD end market applications for our products is shown in the following table:

Products

Integral to the future success of our business is the timely introduction of new products that address customer requirements and compete effectively with respect to price, functionality and performance. Software design tools, IP cores, technical support and design services are also critical components that enable our customers to implement their design specifications into our PLDs. Altogether, these products form a comprehensive programmable logic solution. A brief overview of these products follows. Our product families mentioned in the table below are not all inclusive but they comprise the majority of revenues. They are our newest product families and are currently being designed into our customers' next generation products. Some of our more mature product families have been excluded from the table although they continue to generate revenue.

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Product Families

Virtex FPGAs

The Virtex-II Pro FPGA family consists of nine members. The family has up to two IBM PowerPC™ processors, up to 20 Rocket I/O™ multi-gigabit transceivers, up to eight megabits of embedded memory, embedded software design tools and operating system support. Virtex-II Pro devices are delivered on 300mm wafers employing 130-nanometer copper process technology. The Virtex-II Pro solution enables ultra-high bandwidth system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs that were previously the exclusive domain of custom ASICs. This family enables leading-edge system architectures in networking applications, storage systems, wireless base stations, embedded systems, professional broadcast and digital signal processing (DSP) systems.

In addition, the Virtex-II Pro family is available as Virtex-II Pro™ EasyPath devices, which provide customers up to 80% cost reduction when compared to the standard FPGA device with no conversion risk. This enables customers to move to lower cost, higher unit volumes without any conversion issues, engineering effort or additional time required to move to a structured ASIC. Virtex-II Pro EasyPath devices are FPGAs that have been custom tested for a specific customer application and are available for the higher density members of the Virtex-II Pro family. Customers purchasing these devices must meet certain minimum order requirements.

The Virtex-II FPGA family is a complete platform for programmable logic that allows digital system designers to rapidly implement a single-chip solution. The Virtex-II FPGA family currently has eleven devices, all on 300mm wafers. In March 2002, the Virtex™-II EasyPath solution was introduced. Virtex-II EasyPath devices enable up to an 80% cost reduction compared to the standard FPGA device with no conversion risk to the customer. As with Virtex-II Pro EasyPath devices, these are available only for the highest density members of the Virtex-II FPGA family and customers purchasing them must meet certain minimum order requirements.

The first generation of the Virtex™ architecture includes the Virtex-E FPGA family and Virtex FPGA family. The Virtex-E FPGA family consists of 11 members and is delivered on 180-nanometer process

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technology. The original Virtex FPGA family, introduced in October 1998, includes nine 2.5-volt Virtex devices that are currently in production on 220-nanometer process technology with densities ranging from 50,000 to 1 million system gates.

Spartan FPGAs

The Spartan-3 FPGA family was the first PLD family shipping on 90-nanometer process technology. This family consists of eight devices and is one of the lowest cost FPGAs in the marketplace. These devices are programmable alternatives to ASICs that address customer demand for low cost solutions. The Spartan-3 family addresses a larger range of cost-sensitive high volume applications than prior Spartan family generations and enables new consumer electronic market opportunities for programmable logic.

The Spartan-IIE family has seven members shipping and is delivered on 150-nanometer process technology. The Spartan-II family has seven members shipping on 180-nanometer process technology.

The Spartan™-XL family consists of five members with up to 40,000 system gates on 250-nanometer process technology operating at 3.3 volts. The original Spartan™ family was introduced in early 2000. It has five members shipping with densities up to 40,000 system gates on 350-nanometer process technology operating at 3.5 volts.

XC4000 FPGAs

The XC4000 family, introduced in 1990, was the first FPGA offering on-board distributed RAM. The XC4000 became an industry standard and was the Company's fastest growing programmable logic family until the Virtex family was introduced in October 1998. The XC4000 family consists of a number of generations manufactured on 250 to 600-nanometer process technologies.

CPLDs

The XC9500, XC9500XL and XC9500XV product families offer low cost, high speed and in-system programmability for 5.0-volt, 3.3-volt and 2.5-volt systems, respectively.

In August 1999, we acquired Philips Semiconductors' line of low power CPLDs called the CoolRunner family. The CoolRunner "XPLA3" line was the first family of CPLD products to combine very low power with high speed, high density and high I/O counts in a single device. This family has six devices shipping on 350-nanometer process technology. CoolRunner CPLDs also use far less dynamic power during actual operation compared to conventional CPLDs, an important feature for today's mobile computing applications.

The CoolRunner-II family is a next-generation family with six devices shipping on 180-nanometer process technology. CoolRunner-II CPLDs contain enhanced power management and system features at no performance or cost penalty to the customer. We believe that this new class of devices is ideal for both performance-intensive applications as well as power conscious designs targeting the growing consumer electronics markets.

Support Products

Software Solutions

We offer complete software solutions that enable customers to implement their design specifications into our PLDs. These software design tools combine a powerful technology with a flexible, easy-to-use graphical interface to help achieve the best possible designs within each customer's project schedule, regardless of the designer's experience level. Our software design tools operate on personal computers running Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Linux operating systems, and on workstations from Sun Microsystems running Solaris.

The Xilinx ISE™ (Integrated Software Environment) family is available in four configurations to fit a wide range of customer needs. ISE also integrates with a wide range of third-party electronic design automation (EDA) software offerings and point-tool solutions to deliver the most flexible design environment available. The four ISE configurations are listed below:

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ISE Alliance™ is tailored for customers who want maximum design flexibility by integrating ISE into their existing EDA environment and methodology.

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ISE Foundation™ offers the most complete logic design environment for the customer who desires one logic solution from a single vendor.



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ISE BaseX™ targets a smaller device range at a lower price point for the cost-conscious customer who does not require the full power of ISE Foundation.



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ISE WebPACK™ free downloadable design and implementation modules are available for customers who use only smaller devices and a minimal set of design tools.

All Xilinx FPGA and CPLD device families are supported by ISE, including the newest CoolRunner-II, Spartan-3 and Virtex-II Pro device families.

IP Cores

We also offer IP cores for commonly used complex functions such as DSP, bus interfaces, processors and processor peripherals. Our IP core products are listed below:

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LogiCORE™ products, which are developed and supported by Xilinx, together with AllianceCORE™ IP cores from third-party participants, enable customers to shorten development time, reduce design risk and obtain superior performance for their designs. LogiCORE products include solutions for designers building products in the areas of DSP, network line cards and backplanes, PCI Express™ and advanced switching, Rapid IO, ethernet, and embedded processing with both PowerPC and MicroBlaze™, a 32-bit soft processor core.



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The Xilinx CORE Generator™ system allows customers to implement various IP cores into our PLDs with predictable and repeatable performance.



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The Xilinx System Generator™ for DSP tool allows system architects to quickly model and implement DSP functions, and features an interface to third-party system level DSP design tools.



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The IP Center Internet Portal offers customers the ability to purchase a license online for the latest intellectual property cores and reference designs.

Configuration Solutions

Through our Configuration Solutions Group, Xilinx offers a range of one-time programmable and in-system programmable storage devices to configure Xilinx FPGAs. The PlatformFlash PROM (programmable read only memory) family is our newest offering. This family ranges in density from 1 to 32 megabits and offers full in-system programmability at the lowest cost per megabit of any Xilinx configuration solution. Older solutions include our XC1700 family (one-time programmable with density up to 16 megabits), and the XC1800 family (flash programmable with density up to 4 megabits). Our PROM solutions continue to offer higher densities at lower costs, and target all FPGA designs.

Global Services

To extend our customers' technical capabilities and shorten their design times, we offer a portfolio of global services, which includes Education, Design and Support Services, in addition to www.mysupport.xilinx.com, a personalized online technical resource.

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Education Services consist of hands-on, lab-based, multi-day courses from fundamental to expert skill levels, designed to make our customers proficient at high-speed logic and system design.



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Design Services help shorten customers' time-to-market by augmenting their design teams with Xilinx industry experts in FPGA design techniques and solutions.



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Support Services enable our customers' calls to get top priority from senior application engineers who have extensive design experience, including solutions to complex problems. Customers can personalize their experience with www.support.xilinx.com, through the MySupport feature. They can access training courses, an answer database, and forums with access to an experienced Xilinx team for assistance in troubleshooting and design issues.

Please see information under the caption "Results of Operations—Net Revenues" in Item 7.—"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" for information about our revenues from our classes of products.

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Research and Development

Our research and development activities are primarily directed towards the design of new ICs, the development of new software design tools for hardware and embedded software, cores of logic, advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes, ongoing cost reductions and performance improvements in existing products. Our primary areas of focus have been to: obtain density and performance leadership (Virtex-II and Virtex-II Pro FPGA devices); tightly integrate PowerPC microprocessors and multi-gigabit transceivers (Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-II Pro X); design a low-cost ASIC alternative FPGA solution (Spartan-3 devices); develop CPLD products (CoolRunner-II families); provide a cost reduction path for FPGA volume production (EasyPath Virtex-II and EasyPath Virtex-II Pro devices); and extend leadership in serial connectivity solutions (RocketPHY and Virtex-II Pro X). In software and IP cores, we focused on maximum design performance and ease of use by introducing new versions of design tools (Foundation Series ISE software), as well as embedded software development tools (Embedded Systems Development Kit) cores of logic and a system level design environment for high performance DSP (System Generator for DSP). We collaborated with our foundry suppliers in the development of 130 and 90-nanometer complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing technology and we believe we are one of the first companies in the industry to move aggressively to 300mm wafer technology for cost reduction.

Our research and development challenge is to continue to develop new products that create cost-effective solutions for customers. In fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002, our research and development expenses were $247.6 million, $222.1 million and $204.8 million, respectively. These amounts include $3.8 million, $6.4 million and $8.5 million of non-cash deferred stock compensation associated with the November 2000 acquisition of RocketChips. We expect to continue to make substantial investments in research and development. We believe technical leadership is essential to our future success and we are committed to continuing a significant level of research and development effort. However, there can be no assurance that any of our research and development efforts will be successful, timely or cost-effective.

Acquisition

In March 2004, Xilinx completed the acquisition of Triscend Corporation (Triscend), a privately held fabless semiconductor company with expertise in configurable embedded microcontroller technology. The total purchase price for Triscend was $30 million in cash plus $1.2 million of acquisition related costs. The acquisition brings to Xilinx both talent and technology expertise in the microcontroller space. Many of Triscend's 37 employees are or will be deployed to work on future embedded solution projects.

The Triscend team is comprised of a hardware engineering team, a software development team and individuals focused on sales and administration, such as marketing, finance, operations and IT. Triscend's family of configurable system-on-chip devices and software solutions will be phased out, freeing most of the team to work on other projects.

Sales and Distribution

We sell our products to OEMs and to electronic components distributors who resell these products to OEMs, or their subcontract manufacturers.

Xilinx also uses a dedicated global sales and marketing organization as well as independent sales representatives to generate sales. In general, Xilinx focuses its direct demand creation efforts on a limited number of key accounts while independent sales representatives generally address a defined territory or defined set of customers. Distributors generally provide vendor managed inventory and logistics for large OEM customers and also create demand within the balance of our customer base.

Regardless of whether Xilinx, the independent sales representative, or the distributor generate the sale, a local distributor will process and fulfill over 90% of all orders from customers. Distributors are the legal sellers of the products and as such they bear all risks generally related to the sale of commercial goods, such as credit loss, inventory shrinkage and theft as well as foreign currency fluctuations.

In accordance with our distribution agreements and industry practice, we have granted the distributors the contractual right to return certain amounts of unsold product on a periodic basis and also receive price concessions for unsold product in the case of a subsequent decrease in list prices. Revenue recognition on shipments to distributors worldwide is deferred until the products are sold to the end customer.

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The Memec Group (Memec) and Avnet, Inc. (Avnet) distribute our products worldwide. No end customer accounted for more than 10% of net revenues in fiscal year 2004, 2003 or 2002. As of April 3, 2004, two distributors (Memec and Avnet) accounted for 59% and 22% of total accounts receivable, respectively. As of March 29, 2003, Memec and Avnet accounted for 49% and 34% of total accounts receivable, respectively. Memec accounted for 47%, 45% and 44% of worldwide net revenues in fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. Avnet accounted for 31%, 32% and 30% of worldwide net revenues in fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. We also use other regional distributors throughout the world. From time to time, we may add or terminate distributors, as we deem appropriate given the level of business and their performance. We believe distributors provide a cost-effective means of reaching a broad range of customers while providing efficient logistics services. Since PLDs are standard products, they do not present many of the inventory risks to distributors posed by custom gate arrays, and they simplify the requirements for distributor technical support. See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements, included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data," for information about concentrations of credit risk. Please also see Note 12 to our consolidated financial statements, included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data," for financial information about our revenues from external customers and domestic and international operations.

Please see our consolidated statements of operations, included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data," for financial information about our net income (loss) for fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002. Please see Item 6. "Selected Financial Data" for information about our total assets for fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002.

Backlog

As of April 3, 2004, our backlog from OEM customers and backlog from end customers reported by our distributors scheduled for delivery within the next three months was $215 million. As of March 29, 2003, our backlog from OEM customers and end customers was $145 million. Orders from end customers to our distributors are subject to changes in delivery schedules or to cancellation without significant penalty. As a result, end customer backlog to distributors as of any particular period may not be a reliable indicator of revenue for any future period.

Wafer Fabrication

As a fabless semiconductor company, we do not manufacture wafers used for our products. Rather, we purchase wafers from multiple foundry partners including United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko). Currently, UMC manufactures the majority of our wafers. Precise terms with respect to the volume and timing of wafer production and the pricing of wafers produced by the semiconductor foundries are determined by periodic negotiations between Xilinx and the wafer foundries.

Our strategy is to focus our resources on market development and creating new ICs and software design tools rather than on wafer fabrication. We continuously evaluate opportunities to enhance foundry relationships and/or obtain additional capacity from both our main suppliers as well as other suppliers of leading-edge process technologies. As a result, we have entered into agreements with UMC, Seiko and IBM as discussed below.

In September 1995, Xilinx, UMC and other parties entered into a joint venture to construct a wafer fabrication facility in Taiwan, known as United Silicon Inc. (USIC) (see Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data"). In January 2000, as a result of the merger of USIC into UMC, our equity position in USIC was converted into shares of UMC, which are publicly traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. We retain monthly guaranteed wafer capacity rights in UMC as long as we retain a certain percentage of our original UMC shares.

In fiscal 1997, we signed a wafer purchasing agreement with Seiko that was amended in fiscal years 1998, 1999 and 2000. Seiko manufactures wafers for our older, more mature product lines.

In fiscal 2002, we signed a Custom Sales Agreement with IBM, giving us the right to purchase wafers from IBM.

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Sort, Assembly and Test

Wafers purchased are sorted by the foundry, independent sort subcontractors, or by Xilinx. Sorted wafers are assembled by subcontractors. During the assembly process, the wafers are separated into individual die, which are then assembled into various package types. Following assembly, the packaged units are tested by Xilinx personnel at our San Jose, California or Dublin, Ireland facilities or by independent test subcontractors. We purchase most of our assembly and some of our testing services from Siliconware Precision Industries Ltd. (SPIL) in Taiwan and from Amkor Technology, Inc. in Korea and the Philippines. Xilinx achieved ISO9001 quality certification in 1995 in San Jose, California and in 2001 in Dublin, Ireland and both locations achieved TL9000 quality certification in 2003.

Patents and Licenses

While the Company's various proprietary intellectual property rights are important to its success, Xilinx believes its business as a whole is not materially dependent on any particular patent or license, or any particular group of patents or licenses. Through April 3, 2004, we held 962 issued United States patents, which vary in duration, relating to our products. We maintain an active program of filing for additional patents in the areas of, but not limited to, software, IC architecture, system design, testing methodologies and other technologies relating to PLDs. Because of the fast pace of innovation and product development, our products are often obsolete before the patents related to them expire. As a result, we believe that the duration of the applicable patents is adequate relative to the expected lives of our products. We intend to vigorously protect our intellectual property. We believe that failure to enforce our intellectual property rights (for example, patents, copyrights and trademarks) or to effectively protect our trade secrets could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. In the future, we may incur litigation expenses to enforce our intellectual property rights against third parties. Any such litigation may not be successful. Please see Item 3. "Legal Proceedings" and Note 13 to our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data."

We have acquired various software licenses that permit us to grant object code sublicenses to our customers for certain third party software programs licensed with our software design tools. In addition, we have licensed certain software for internal use in product design.

Employees

As of April 3, 2004, Xilinx had 2,770 employees compared to 2,612 at the end of the prior year. None of our employees are represented by a labor union. We have not experienced any work stoppages and believe we maintain good employee relations.

Competition

Our PLDs compete in the logic industry, an industry that is intensely competitive and characterized by rapid technological change, increasing levels of integration, product obsolescence and continuous price erosion. We expect increased competition from our primary PLD competitors, Altera Corporation (Altera) and Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Lattice), from the ASIC market, which has been an ongoing competitor since the inception of FPGAs, and from new companies that may enter the traditional programmable logic market segment. We believe that important competitive factors in the logic industry include:

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product pricing;

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time-to-market;

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product performance, reliability, power consumption and density;

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field upgradability;

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adaptability of products to specific applications;

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ease of use and functionality of software design tools;

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functionality of predefined cores of logic;

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inventory management;

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access to leading-edge process technology; and,

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ability to provide timely customer service and support.

Our strategy for expansion in the logic market segment includes continued introduction of new product architectures that address high-volume, low-cost applications as well as high-performance, high-density

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applications. In addition, we anticipate continued price reductions proportionate with our ability to lower the cost for established products. However, we may not be successful in achieving these strategies.

Other competitors include manufacturers of:

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high-density programmable logic products characterized by FPGA-type architectures;

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high-volume and low-cost FPGAs as programmable replacements for standard cell or custom gate array based ASICs and application specific standard products (ASSPs);

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ASICs and ASSPs that are beginning to embed incremental amounts of programmable logic within their products;

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high-speed, low-density CPLDs;

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standard cell and custom gate arrays;

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products with embedded multi-gigabit transceivers; and,

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other new or emerging programmable logic products.

Several companies, both large and small, have introduced products that compete with ours or have announced their intention to enter the PLD segment. To the extent that our efforts to compete are not successful, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

The benefits of programmable logic have attracted a number of competitors to the logic market segment. We recognize that different applications require different programmable technologies, and we are developing architectures, processes and products to meet these varying customer needs. Recognizing the increasing importance of standard software solutions, we have developed common software design tools that support the full range of Xilinx IC products. We believe that automation and ease of design are significant competitive factors in the PLD segment.

We could also face competition from our licensees. Under a license from us, Lucent Technologies (Lucent) had rights to manufacture and market our XC3000 FPGA products and to employ that technology to provide additional high-density FPGA products. In 2001, Lucent assigned its rights to Agere Systems Inc. (Agere). Agere has subsequently sold a portion of its programmable logic business to Lattice. Under the terms of the Xilinx license grant, no rights of Agere are transferable to Lattice.

Seiko has rights to manufacture some of our older products and market them in Japan and Europe, but is not currently doing so. We granted a license to use some of our patents to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). AMD produced certain PLDs under that license through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vantis. In June 1999, AMD sold the Vantis subsidiary to Lattice.

In conjunction with Xilinx's settlement of the patent litigation with Altera in July 2001, both companies entered into a royalty-free patent cross license agreement for many of each company's patents.

Executive Officers of the Registrant

Certain information regarding each of Xilinx's executive officers is set forth below:

There are no family relationships among the executive officers of the Company or the Board of Directors.

Willem P. "Wim" Roelandts joined the Company in January 1996 as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Company's Board of Directors. In April 1996, Mr. Roelandts was appointed to the additional position of President of the Company and was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in August 2003. Prior to joining the Company, he served at Hewlett-Packard Company, a computer manufacturer, as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Computer Systems Organizations from August 1992

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through January 1996 and as Vice President and General Manager of the Network Systems Group from December 1990 through August 1992. Mr. Roelandts also serves as a director of Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT)

Kris Chellam joined the Company in July 1998 as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, he served at Atmel Corporation as Senior Vice President and General Manager of a product group from March to July 1998 and as Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Chief Financial Officer from September 1991 through March 1998. Mr. Chellam also serves as a director of At Road Inc. (NASDAQ: ARDI)

Steven D. Haynes joined the Company in March 1987 as the Regional Sales Manager of the Northeast region, was promoted to Area Sales Director in 1988, and was appointed Vice President, North American Sales in 1995. In November 1998, Mr. Haynes was promoted to Vice President, Worldwide Sales and in April 2004, he was promoted to his current position of Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services.

Thomas R. Lavelle joined the Company in August 1999 as Vice President and General Counsel. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Lavelle spent more than 15 years at Intel Corporation serving in a variety of positions, including group counsel for a number of Intel organizations. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Lavelle served as Vice President and General Counsel for NeXT Inc.

Boon C. Ooi joined the Company in December 2003 as Vice President, Worldwide Operations. He has overall responsibility for worldwide manufacturing, testing and package development for Xilinx programmable logic devices. Mr. Ooi also oversees strategic management of the Company's semiconductor foundry and packaging suppliers. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Ooi spent more than 25 years at Intel Corporation serving in a variety of positions, including Vice President of the Corporate Technology Group and Director of Operations.

Richard W. Sevcik joined the Company in April 1997 as Senior Vice President and General Manager. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Company in 2000. Mr. Sevcik assumed his current position of Executive Vice President and General Manager in January 2004. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sevcik worked at Hewlett-Packard Company for ten years where, from 1994 through 1996, he served as Group General Manager of its Systems Technology Group and oversaw five divisions involved with product development for servers, workstations, operating systems, microprocessors, networking and security. In 1995, he was named Vice President at Hewlett-Packard.

Sandeep S. Vij joined the Company in April 1996 as Director, FPGA Marketing and was promoted to Vice President, Marketing and General Manager in October 1996. Mr. Vij assumed his current position of Vice President, Worldwide Marketing in July 2001. From 1990 until April 1996, he served at Altera Corporation, a semiconductor company, in a variety of marketing roles.

Corporate Governance

The Board of Directors is the ultimate decision-making body of the Company except with respect to those matters reserved for decision of stockholders. The Board is responsible for selection of the executive management team, providing oversight responsibility and direction to management, and evaluating the performance of this team on behalf of the stockholders. Responsibility for day-to-day management of operations is delegated to the executive management team.

The Board of Directors is composed primarily of independent directors (currently six of eight are independent as defined by the NASDAQ National Marketplace Rules). There is a formal calendar of board meetings throughout the year. The Board of Directors has appointed three committees to support it in its mandate—the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. The Board reviews the responsibilities of these committees periodically.

The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities to the stockholders relating to the Company's financial statements and the financial reporting process, the systems of internal controls, and the audit process. In addition to each of the members of the Audit Committee being independent, the Board of Directors has determined that at least one member of the Committee—Harold E. Hughes, Jr.—qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" as defined by SEC rules. Stockholders should understand that this designation is a disclosure requirement of the SEC related to Mr. Hughes's experience and understanding with respect to certain accounting and auditing matters.

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The designation does not impose upon Mr. Hughes, any duties, obligations or liability that are greater than are generally imposed on him as a member of the Audit Committee and the Board, and his designation as an audit committee financial expert pursuant to this SEC requirement does not affect the duties, obligations or liability of any other member of the Audit Committee or the Board.

The Compensation Committee has responsibility for establishing the compensation policies of the Company. The Committee determines the compensation of the Company's Board of Directors and its executive officers and has exclusive authority to grant options to directors and executive officers under the 1997 Stock Plan.

The Nominating and Governance Committee has responsibility for nominating individuals to serve as members of the Board of Directors, and to establish policies affecting corporate governance. The Nominating and Governance Committee, among other things, determines the size and composition of the Company's Board of Directors and nominates directors and executive officers for election.

As a leader in our business segment and underlining our commitment to quality, we believe in strong corporate governance principles and practices. Our corporate governance principles are reviewed by the Board, executive management and General Counsel and are periodically revised in response to changing legal and regulatory requirements and evolving best practices. The Company has taken a number of steps in recent years designed to improve its corporate governance process. Among the steps taken, the Company:

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determined that a substantial majority of the Board of Directors will be independent directors. Currently six of eight directors are independent;

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has adopted and implemented a self-evaluation process for the Board of Directors;

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requires compliance with the NASDAQ National Marketplace issuer requirements for independent directors;

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requires that directors or employees asked to serve on the Board of Directors of other companies seek a determination from the CEO and the General Counsel of Xilinx as to whether such board participation would be problematic to Xilinx;

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determined that all directors are to be elected annually at the annual stockholder meeting;

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adopted a retirement policy for directors under which directors may not stand for re-election after age 75;

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appointed a lead independent director to serve when the Chairman of the Board is also the Chief Executive Officer;

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restricts participation on the Audit Committee, Nominating and Governance Committee and Compensation Committee to independent directors;

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requires that independent directors are given an opportunity to meet on a regular basis outside the presence of other Board members and management representatives, and the lead independent director is responsible for setting the agenda and running the meetings;

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requires that the Board of Directors and its committees have authority to engage independent advisors and consultants;

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updated its Codes of Conduct applicable to employees and directors and its significant corporate governance principles and published these on the Company's website;

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introduced a code of ethics for senior financial officers and the finance function;

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issued procedures and guidelines governing securities trades by employees, including limitations on the ability of senior officers to trade other than in the period following the announcement of the Company's quarterly earnings;

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closely monitors the auditing and services provided by the outside auditor and requires pre-approval of all non-audit services to ensure auditor independence; and,

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introduced a formal "whistle blowing" process for employees that includes anonymous reporting, if desired.

Xilinx's success is founded on its reputation of integrity and ethical business practices and has built this reputation over time through the efforts of its employees. The Company has adopted eight Corporate Values (Customer Focus, Respect, Excellence, Accountability, Teamwork, Integrity, Very Open Communications and Enjoying Our Work) to provide a framework for all employees in pursuit of high standards of integrity and ethical behavior.

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The Xilinx Code of Conduct and Business Ethics contains the Company's core expectations of the manner in which employees will conduct business on behalf of Xilinx. All of our employees are required to abide by our long-standing standards of Business Ethics and Conduct to ensure that Xilinx operates in a consistent legal and ethical manner. The Board of Directors has adopted a Code of Ethics pertaining to the Board, which covers topics including insider trading, conflicts of interest, financial reporting and compliance with other laws.

Additional Information

Our Internet address is www.xilinx.com. We make available, via a link through our investor relations website located at www.investor.xilinx.com, access to our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All such filings on our investor relations website are available free of charge.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

Our corporate offices, which include the administrative, sales, customer support, marketing, research and development and final testing groups are located in San Jose, California. The site consists of adjacent buildings providing 588,000 square feet of space, which we own. We purchased 87 acres of land in South San Jose near our corporate facility in February 2000. Plans for infrastructure and the future development of this land have not been finalized. In July 2000, due to the anticipated rapid growth of the Company, we purchased two adjacent buildings near downtown San Jose providing 200,000 square feet of office space. These buildings were renovated, but the Company never took occupancy. During fiscal 2004 and 2003, the Company recognized impairment losses on excess facilities related to the vacant property in San Jose. In March 2004, the Company sold this facility. See Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data."

In addition, we own a 228,000 square foot administrative, research and development and final testing facility in the metropolitan area of Dublin, Ireland. The Irish facility is primarily used to service our customer base outside of North America.

We also own a 130,000 square foot facility in Longmont, Colorado. The Longmont facility serves as the primary location for our software efforts in the areas of research and development, manufacturing and quality control. In July 2000, the Company also purchased a 200,000 square foot facility and 40 acres of land adjacent to the Longmont facility for future expansion. The facility is being partially leased to tenants under short-term lease agreements and partially used by the Company.

We own a 45,000 square foot facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico used for the development of our CoolRunner CPLD product families as well as IP cores. We lease office facilities for our engineering design centers in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Austin, Texas and our subsidiary, Triscend Corporation in Mountain View, California.

We also lease North American sales offices in various locations which include the metropolitan areas of Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashua, Ottawa, Raleigh, San Diego, San Jose and Toronto as well as international sales offices located in the metropolitan areas of Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Munich, Osaka, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Stockholm, Taipei, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

In April 2004, we entered into a sublease on a 15,000 square foot facility in Singapore. The Singapore facility will serve as our regional headquarters in Asia and will support our customers in Asia Pacific and Japan.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has audited and issued proposed adjustments to the Company for fiscal years 1996 through 2001. To date, several issues have been settled with the Appeals Office of the IRS. As of April 3, 2004, unresolved issues asserted by the IRS total $19.0 million in additional taxes due, including penalties and a reduction of future net operating losses of $31.2 million.

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We filed a petition with the U.S. Tax Court on March 26, 2001, in response to assertions by the IRS that the Company owed additional tax for fiscal years 1996 through 1998. Several issues, including the arm's length royalty issue discussed below, have been settled with the Appeals Office of the IRS.

In October 2002, the IRS issued a notice of deficiency for fiscal year 1999. The notice of deficiency was based on issues that were also asserted in the previous notice of deficiency for fiscal years 1996 through 1998. On January 14, 2003, the Company filed a petition with the U.S. Tax Court in response to the October 2002 notice of deficiency.

In October 2003, the IRS issued a notice of deficiency for fiscal year 2000. The notice of deficiency was based on issues that were also asserted in the previous notices of deficiency for fiscal years 1996 through 1999. In addition, the IRS disallowed a carryback of general business credits from fiscal year 2000 to fiscal year 1995. The Company filed a petition with the U.S. Tax Court on January 16, 2004, in response to the October 2003 notice of deficiency.

On April 6, 2004, we filed a settlement stipulation concerning the arm's length royalty for the license between the Company and Xilinx Ireland for fiscal years 1996 through 1999. On April 29, 2004, we filed a settlement stipulation concerning the arm's length royalty for the license between the Company and Xilinx Ireland for fiscal year 2000. The IRS agreed not to increase Xilinx's taxable income for this issue. The IRS had asserted increased taxable income of $242 million for fiscal years 1996 through 1999 and $57 million for fiscal year 2000.

One of the unresolved issues relates to whether the value of compensatory stock options must be included in the cost sharing agreement with Xilinx Ireland. The Company and the IRS filed cross motions for summary judgment in 2002 relating to this stock option cost sharing issue. In March 2003, the IRS changed its position concerning the treatment of stock options in cost sharing agreements. The IRS now excludes stock options granted prior to the beginning of the cost sharing agreement with Xilinx Ireland. The IRS change in position reduced the amount originally at issue on the treatment of stock options in cost sharing agreements, which was the subject of the summary judgment motions. On October 28, 2003, the Tax Court issued an order denying both Xilinx's and the IRS's cross motions for summary judgment on the stock option cost sharing issue. The order stated that evidence is necessary to establish whether the stock options are a cost related to research and development and to determine whether unrelated parties would share the cost of stock options in a cost sharing agreement. The Court has granted an IRS motion to amend its answer to assert an alternative deficiency based on the Black-Scholes value of stock options on grant. The trial for this issue has been set for July 14, 2004, and fiscal year 1999 has been combined with the fiscal years 1997 to 1998.

We are in discussions with the Appeals Office to resolve and settle the remaining issues, other than the stock option cost sharing issue discussed above. It is premature to comment further on the likely outcome of any issues that have not been settled to date. We believe we have meritorious defenses to the remaining adjustments and sufficient taxes have been provided.

Other than as stated above, we know of no legal proceedings contemplated by any governmental authority or agency against the Company.

In March 2002, Aldec, Inc (Aldec) filed a complaint in the United States District Court, Northern District of California, alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract by the Company arising from the expiration of a license agreement for certain Aldec software. Aldec sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) simultaneous with the filing of its complaint. The Court denied the request for a TRO.

On September 2, 2003, the Company settled all outstanding litigation with Aldec, for an amount that was immaterial to the Company's results of operations or its financial condition.

In fiscal year 2004, the Company allowed sales representative agreements with three related European entities, Rep'tronic S.A., Rep'tronic España, and Acsis S.r.l., a Rep'tronic Company (collectively Rep'tronic) to expire pursuant to their terms. In May 2003, Rep'tronic filed lawsuits in the High Court of Ireland against the Company claiming compensation arising from termination of an alleged commercial agency between Rep'tronic and the Company. On March 31, 2004, Rep'tronic amended each of its statements of claim to include an additional claim related to the termination of the alleged commercial agency. The Company has not yet been required to file its defense and no significant discovery has occurred.

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On January 21, 2004, Rep'tronic S.A. joined Xilinx SARL into a lawsuit before the Labor Court of Versailles brought by five former Rep'tronic S.A. employees against Rep'tronic S.A. for unfair dismissal. Rep'tronic S.A. is seeking indemnification from Xilinx SARL on the theory that the employees of Rep'tronic S.A. became the employees of Xilinx SARL or Xilinx Ireland upon the expiration of the sales representative agreement. Xilinx SARL will file its evidence on July 14, 2004. A hearing has been set for September 20, 2004.

On February 10, 2004, Rep'tronic S.A. filed a lawsuit against Xilinx SARL in the Commercial Court of Versailles. The lawsuit is pled as an unfair competition matter but the claims and the facts upon which they are based are essentially the same as the commercial agency claims being addressed before the High Court of Ireland. Xilinx SARL has filed its defense. No hearing has been set.

The Company has accrued amounts that represent anticipated payments for liability for the Rep'tronic litigation under the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 5 (SFAS 5), "Accounting for Contingencies."

Except as stated above, there are no pending legal proceedings of a material nature to which we are a party or of which any of our property is the subject.

ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders during the fourth quarter of the fiscal year covered by this report.

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PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Our Common Stock is listed on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol XLNX. As of April 3, 2004, there were approximately 1,231 stockholders of record. Since many holders' shares are listed under their brokerage firms' names, the actual number of stockholders is estimated by the Company to be over 180,000.

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices, for the periods indicated, for our common stock as reported by the NASDAQ National Market System:

No cash dividends were paid on our common stock in fiscal 2004 or fiscal 2003.

5(c) Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

On June 14, 2002, the Company announced a repurchase program of up to $100 million of common stock and, on April 22, 2004, announced a repurchase program of up to an additional $250 million of common stock. Through April 3, 2004, the Company had repurchased $91.7 million of the $100 million approved for repurchase under the current program. These share repurchase programs have no stated expiration date.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

Consolidated Statement of Operations Data
Five years ended April 3, 2004
(In thousands, except per share amounts)

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Net income includes pre-tax capital gain of $674,728 ($398,089 net of tax) from UMC/USIC merger.

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Net income includes pre-tax write-down of $362,124 ($219,085 net of tax) on UMC investment.

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Net loss includes pre-tax write-down of $191,852 ($116,070 net of tax) on UMC investment, $25,336 impairment loss on intangibles and other assets and lawsuit settlement gain of $19,400. The change in operating income (loss) compared to the number shown in the fiscal 2003 Form 10-K of $19,400 is due to a reclassification of the Altera Corporation lawsuit settlement on the consolidated statement of operations from a separate line after operating income (loss) to be included within operating income (loss).

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Net income includes impairment loss on excess facilities and equipment of $54,691 and impairment loss on investments of $10,425.

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Net income includes a $34,418 reduction in taxes associated with an IRS tax settlement, impairment loss on excess facilities of $3,376, litigation settlement and contingency of $6,400 and write-off of acquired in-process research and development of $6,969 related to the acquisition of Triscend.

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data
Five Years Ended April 3, 2004
(In thousands)

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

This discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the Company's consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data."

Cautionary Statement

The statements in this Management's Discussion and Analysis that are forward looking involve numerous risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations. The reader should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including those risks discussed under "Factors Affecting Future Results" and elsewhere in this document. Forward looking statements can often be identified by the use of forward looking words, such as "may," "will," "could," "should," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "plan," "intend," "project," or other similar words.

Nature of Operations

Xilinx designs, develops and markets complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced ICs, software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as IP cores, design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support. Our PLDs include FPGAs and CPLDs. These devices are standard products that our customers program to perform desired logic functions. Our products are designed to provide high integration and quick time-to-market for electronic equipment manufacturers primarily in the communications, storage, server, consumer, industrial and other markets. We sell our products globally through independent domestic and foreign distributors, through direct sales to OEMs by a network of independent sales representative firms and through a direct sales management organization.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The methods, estimates and judgments we use in applying our most critical accounting policies have a significant impact on the results we report in our financial statements. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has defined critical accounting policies as those that are most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and require us to make our most difficult and subjective judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates of matters that are inherently uncertain. Based on this definition, our critical policies include: valuation of financial instruments, which impacts gains (losses) on equity securities when we record impairments; revenue recognition, which impacts the recording of revenues; valuation of inventories, which impacts cost of revenues and gross margin; the assessment of impairment of long-lived assets including goodwill and other intangible assets, which impacts their valuation, and accounting for income taxes, which impacts the provision (benefit) recognized for income taxes, as well as the classification and valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities recorded on our consolidated balance sheet. Below, we discuss these policies further, as well as the estimates and judgments involved. We also have other key accounting policies that are not as subjective, and therefore, their application would not require us to make estimates or judgments that are as difficult.

Valuation of Financial Instruments

The Company's short-term and long-term investments include marketable and non-marketable equity and debt securities. At April 3, 2004, the Company had an equity investment in UMC, a public Taiwanese semiconductor wafer manufacturing company, of $324.0 million and strategic investments in non-marketable equity securities of $22.9 million. In determining if and when a decline in market value below cost of these investments is other-than-temporary, the Company evaluates the market conditions, offering prices, trends of earnings, price multiples, and other key measures for our investments. When a decline in value is deemed to be other-than-temporary, the Company recognizes an impairment loss in the current period operating results to the extent of the decline.

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Revenue Recognition

Sales to distributors are made under agreements providing distributor price adjustments and rights of return under certain circumstances. Revenue and costs relating to distributor sales are deferred until products are sold by the distributors to customers. Revenue recognition depends on notification from the distributor that product has been sold to the end customer. Reported information includes product resale price, quantity and end customer shipment information, as well as inventory on hand. Distributor inventory on hand is reconciled to deferred revenue balances monthly. Xilinx maintains system controls to validate the data and verify that the reported information is accurate. The effects of distributor price adjustments are recorded as a reduction to deferred income on shipments to distributors reflecting the amount of gross margin expected to be realized when distributors sell through product purchased from Xilinx. Accounts receivable from distributors are recognized and inventory is relieved when title to inventories transfers, typically upon shipment from Xilinx at which point we have a legally enforceable right to collection under normal payment terms.

Revenue from sales to our direct customers is recognized upon shipment provided that persuasive evidence of a sales arrangement exists, the price is fixed, title has transferred, collection of resulting receivables is reasonably assured, there are no customer acceptance requirements and there are no remaining significant obligations. For each of the periods presented, there were no formal acceptance provisions with our direct customers.

Revenue from software term licenses is deferred and recognized as revenue over the term of the licenses of one year. Revenue from support services is recognized when the service is provided. Revenue from support products, which includes software and services sales, was less than 10% of net revenues for all of the periods presented.

Allowances for end customer sales returns are recorded based on historical experience and for known pending customer returns or allowances.

Valuation of Inventories

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (determined using the first-in, first-out method) or market (estimated net realizable value). The Company reviews and sets standard costs quarterly at current manufacturing costs. The Company's manufacturing overhead standards for product costs are calculated assuming full absorption of forecasted spending over projected volumes. Given the cyclicality of the market, the obsolescence of technology and product life cycles, the Company writes down inventory based on backlog, forecasted demand and technological obsolescence. These factors are impacted by market and economic conditions, technology changes, new product introductions and changes in strategic direction and require estimates that may include uncertain elements. In addition, backlog is subject to revisions, cancellations and rescheduling. Actual demand may differ from forecasted demand and such differences may have a material effect on the Company's gross margins.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets Including Goodwill and Other Intangibles

We adopted SFAS No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets" (SFAS 142) effective the beginning of the first quarter of fiscal 2003. Accordingly, for fiscal 2003 and future years, we no longer amortized goodwill from acquisitions, but we continued to amortize other acquisition-related intangibles. We expect amortization of other intangibles to be approximately $5.0 million for fiscal 2005 compared with $9.8 million for fiscal 2004 and down from $15.3 million of amortization of goodwill and other acquisition related intangibles in fiscal 2003.

At April 3, 2004, the net book value of acquisition related intangibles totaled $128.4 million, comprised of unamortized goodwill of $111.6 million and other acquisition related intangibles of $16.8 million. We completed the annual goodwill impairment review during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, and found no impairment. Unless there are indicators of impairment, our next impairment review will be completed in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005. To date, no impairment indicators have been identified.

We are required to test goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level for which purpose we have previously determined that we operate in one reportable segment containing one reporting unit. If we fail

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to deliver new products, if the products fail to gain expected market acceptance, or if market conditions fail to continue to improve, our revenue and cost forecasts may not be achieved, and we may incur charges for impairment of goodwill. We also consider whether long-lived assets are impaired. When indicators of impairment exist and assets are held for use, we estimate future undiscounted cash flows attributable to the assets. In the event such cash flows are not expected to be sufficient to recover the recorded value of the assets, the assets are written down to their estimated fair values based on the expected discounted future cash flows attributable to the assets. When assets are removed from operations and held for sale, we estimate impairment losses as the excess of the carrying value of the assets over their fair value. Factors affecting impairment of assets held for use include the overall profitability of the Company's business and our ability to generate positive cash flows. Changes in any of these factors could necessitate impairment recognition in future periods for assets held for use or assets held for sale.

Accounting for Income Taxes

Xilinx is a multinational corporation operating in multiple tax jurisdictions. Xilinx must determine the allocation of income to each of these jurisdictions based on estimates and assumptions, and apply the appropriate tax rates for these jurisdictions. Xilinx undergoes routine audits by taxing authorities regarding the timing and amount of deductions and the allocation of income among various tax jurisdictions. Tax audits often require an extended period of time to resolve and may result in income tax adjustments if changes to the allocation are required between jurisdictions with different tax rates.

In determining income for financial statement purposes, we must make certain estimates and judgments. These estimates and judgments occur in the calculation of certain tax liabilities and in the determination of the recoverability of certain deferred tax assets, which arise from temporary differences between the tax and financial statement recognition of revenue and expense. Additionally, we must estimate the amount and likelihood of potential losses arising from audits or deficiency notices issued by taxing authorities. The taxing authorities' positions and our assessment can change over time resulting in material impacts on the provision for income taxes in periods where these changes occur.

We must also assess the likelihood that we will be able to recover our deferred tax assets. If recovery is not likely, we must increase our provision for taxes by recording a reserve, in the form of a valuation allowance, for the deferred tax assets that we estimate will not ultimately be recoverable. As of April 3, 2004, we believe that all of our recorded deferred tax assets will ultimately be recovered. However, should there be a change in our ability to recover our deferred tax assets, our tax provision would increase in the period in which we determine that it is "more likely than not," under the provisions of SFAS 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes," that the tax benefit associated with the deferred tax assets will not be realized.

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Results of Operations

The following table summarizes the results of Xilinx's operations as a percentage of net revenues for the three years ended April 3, 2004:

Net Revenues

We classify our product offerings into four categories: New, Mainstream, Base and Support Products. These product categories, excluding Support Products, are adjusted on a periodic basis to better reflect advances in technology. The most recent adjustment was on March 30, 2003, which was the beginning of our fiscal 2004. Amounts for the prior periods presented have been reclassified to conform to this latest categorization. New Products include our most recent product offerings and include the Spartan-IIE, Spartan-3, Virtex-II, Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-II EasyPath and CoolRunner-II product lines. Mainstream Products include the XC4000XL, XC4000XLA, XC4000XV, Spartan-II, SpartanXL, XC9500XL, XC9500XV, CoolRunner, Virtex-E and Virtex product lines. Base Products consist of our mature product families and include the XC3000, XC3100, XC4000, XC5200, XC9500, XC4000E, XC4000EX and Spartan families. Support Products make up the remainder of our product offerings and include configuration solutions (serial PROMs), software, IP cores, customer training, design services and support.

Xilinx's net revenues increased 21% in fiscal 2004 compared to fiscal 2003. The increase was primarily due to strong customer demand for our New Products and continued growth in our Consumer, Industrial and Other end market segment. Xilinx's net revenues increased 14% in fiscal 2003 compared to fiscal 2002. The increase was primarily due to the growth in the Storage and Consumer, Industrial and Other market segments.

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Net Revenues by Product

Net revenues by product categories for the three years ended April 3, 2004 were as follows:

The increase in revenues of New Products for both fiscal 2004 and 2003 compared to their respective prior fiscal years was due to the strong market acceptance of these products across a broad base of end markets including storage, communications and consumer-based applications.

The improved market conditions in the second half of fiscal 2004 were not enough to offset weakness in the first half of 2004 thus leading to relatively flat performance for Mainstream Products compared to fiscal 2003. After an economic downturn in fiscal 2002, a gradual improvement led to small growth in fiscal 2003 for Mainstream Products.

The small revenue growth in Base Products from fiscal 2003 to fiscal 2004 was due to improved market conditions. Revenue decline in Base Products in fiscal 2003 compared to fiscal 2002 was mainly due to the weak overall economic environment. Lastly, both configuration solutions (serial PROMs) and software contributed to the strong fiscal 2004 for Support Products compared to 2003.

In order to compete effectively, we pass manufacturing cost reductions on to our customers in the form of reduced prices to the extent that we can maintain acceptable margins. Price erosion is common in the semiconductor industry, as advances in both product architecture and manufacturing process technology permit continual reductions in unit cost. We have historically been able to offset much of the revenue decline in our mature products with increased revenues from newer products.

Net Revenues by Geography

Net revenues by geography for the three years ended April 3, 2004 were as follows:

The improvement of North America revenue in fiscal 2004 compared to 2003 was primarily due to the growth in the Communications and Storage and Servers markets, which benefited from an improved economy and healthier end market demand.

International revenues grew 35% and 21% in fiscal 2004 and 2003, respectively, and represented approximately 58%, 52% and 48% of total net revenues for fiscal years 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. Europe grew in fiscal 2004 compared to fiscal 2003 primarily due to strength in industrial, automotive and wireless communication applications. Japan and Asia Pacific/Rest of World (APAC/ROW) grew in fiscal 2004 compared to fiscal 2003 mainly due to consumer-based applications. APAC/ROW also benefited from the transfer of manufacturing by North American and European OEMs to Asia Pacific.

North America, Europe, Japan, and APAC/ROW all experienced revenue increases in fiscal 2003 as compared to fiscal 2002 due to the strength in the storage and consumer sectors. APAC/ROW revenue increase also benefited from the transfer of manufacturing by North American OEMs to Asia.

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Net Revenues by End Markets

Our end market revenue data is derived from our understanding of our end customers' primary markets. We classify our revenue by end market in three categories: Communications; Storage and Servers; and Consumer, Industrial and Other. Net revenues by end markets for the three years ended April 3, 2004 were as follows:

In the latter part of fiscal 2004, the Communications market began to recover driven by wireless and networking applications. The decline in fiscal 2003 compared to fiscal 2002 reflects overall economic decline. Storage and Servers revenues increased in fiscal 2004 and 2003 compared to their respective prior fiscal years largely due to several customer designs entering production. Storage and Servers business as a percentage of total revenues is expected to decline going forward as the other end markets gain strength and several large customer programs migrate to newer products. The strong growth in the Consumer, Industrial and Other in fiscal 2004 and 2003 compared to their respective prior fiscal years was due to increasing acceptance of programmable logic solutions in digital consumer, defense, instrumentation and automotive applications.

Gross Margin

The gross margin improvements in fiscal 2004 compared to 2003, and 2003 compared to 2002 was largely due to higher revenue, improved yields and lower manufacturing costs due to the migration to 300-milimeter wafer production.

Gross margin may be adversely affected in the future due to product mix shifts, competitive pricing pressure, manufacturing yield issues and wafer pricing. We expect to mitigate this risk by migrating wafer technology from 200-milimeter to 300-milimeter, developing 90-nanometer process technology and improving yields.

Sales of inventory previously written off were not material during fiscal 2004, 2003 or 2002.

Research and Development

Research and development (R&D) expenses for fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002 include non-cash deferred stock compensation of $3.8 million, $6.4 million and $8.5 million, respectively, associated with the November 2000 acquisition of RocketChips. The increase in R&D expenses from fiscal 2003 to 2004 was primarily related to process technology and development of next generation products. The increase in R&D expenses from fiscal 2002 to 2003 was primarily related to process development of new products, an increase in employee compensation expenses from reinstatement of full pay for fiscal 2003 and profit sharing expenses.

We will continue to invest in R&D efforts in a wide variety of areas such as 90-nanometer and more advanced process technologies, IP cores and the development of new design and layout software.

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Selling, General and Administrative

The increase in SG&A expenses from fiscal 2003 to 2004 was primarily related to increased commissions associated with higher revenues, expenses related to increased sales resources in key markets and increased marketing activities. The increase in SG&A expenses from fiscal 2002 to 2003 was primarily related to higher sales commissions, higher employee compensation expenses due to the reinstatement of full pay for fiscal 2003 and profit sharing expenses, partially offset by a reduction in legal expenses due to the settlement of the Altera litigation in July 2001 (see "Altera Corporation Lawsuit Settlement" in this Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Results of Operations).

Amortization of Goodwill and Other Intangibles

Amortization expense for all intangible assets for fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002 was $9.8 million, $15.3 million and $49.0 million, respectively. Of these amounts, $9.6 million, $14.6 million and $43.0 million for fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively, related to the RocketChips acquisition and the remaining amounts related to other technology acquisitions. Amortization expense for these intangible assets has declined due to the complete amortization of certain intangibles associated with the RocketChips' acquisition and the cessation of goodwill amortization after fiscal 2002.

Goodwill and acquired intangibles were amortized through fiscal year 2002 using an estimated useful life of four to seven years. Under the provisions of SFAS 142, as of the beginning of fiscal 2003, we no longer amortized goodwill which instead is subject to periodic impairment tests, but we continued to amortize other intangible assets.

Impairment Losses

The impairment loss on excess facilities and equipment recognized during the third quarter of fiscal 2003 of $54.7 million related primarily to excess facilities owned in San Jose, California. The Company lost a potential long-term arrangement to lease the facilities during the third quarter of fiscal 2003, leaving the Company with no near-term leasing alternatives or prospects for sale. The amount of the impairment was based on management's evaluation of future cash flows and an independent appraisal obtained during the third quarter of fiscal 2003.

During the third quarter of fiscal 2004, the Company received a purchase offer from a prospective buyer for an amount less than the facilities' net book value of $35.4 million. In accordance with the provisions of SFAS 144, an additional impairment charge of $3.4 million was recognized in the third quarter of fiscal 2004. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, the Company sold the facilities for $33.8 million ($32.0 million, net of selling costs), resulting in no additional loss or gain.

The impairment loss on investments of $10.4 million and $4.3 million recognized during fiscal years 2003 and 2002, respectively, related to non-marketable equity securities in private companies. Of the $4.3 million of impairment losses on investments in fiscal 2002, $2.8 million is separately disclosed and $1.5 million was included in research and development expenses on the Company's consolidated statements of operations.

We recognized an impairment loss on intangible assets and equipment of $25.3 million during the second quarter of fiscal 2002 consisting of $14.9 million relating to goodwill and other intangible assets associated with a number of technology acquisitions completed during fiscal 2001 and 2000 and $10.4 million for the write-down of excess testers that were acquired in anticipation of higher unit growth.

Write-Off of Acquired In-Process Research and Development

In connection with the acquisition of Triscend in fiscal 2004, approximately $7.0 million of in-process research and development costs were written off. The projects identified as in-process would have required additional effort in order to establish technological feasibility. These projects had identifiable technological

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risk factors that indicated that even though successful completion was expected, it was not assured. If an identified project is not successfully completed, there is no alternative future use for the project and the expected future income will not be realized. The acquired in-process research and development represented the fair value of technologies in the development stage that had not yet reached technological feasibility and did not have alternative future uses.

The acquired in-process research and development components consist of a graphical user interface and design implementation software. We do not plan to sell or provide these products to Xilinx or Triscend customers, however they will be integrated into Xilinx's product set. These products were approximately 60% complete at the time of acquisition. We expect to complete the development project by the end of fiscal 2005 with an estimated cost to complete of $2 million.

To determine the value of the in-process research and development, the expected future cash flow attributable to the in-process technology was discounted, taking into account the percentage of completion, utilization of pre-existing "core" technology, risks related to the characteristics and applications of the technology, existing and future markets, and technological risk associated with completing the development of the technology. We expensed these non-recurring charges in the period of acquisition. See Note 14 to our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data."

Investment in United Microelectronics Corporation

In September 1995, Xilinx, UMC and other parties entered into a joint venture to construct a wafer fabrication facility in Taiwan, known as USIC. The Company made a total cumulative cash investment of $107.1 million in USIC. The investment entitled Xilinx to receive up to 31.25% of USIC's wafer capacity.

In January 2000, USIC merged into UMC and Xilinx's equity position in USIC converted into shares of UMC, which are publicly traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. As a result of this merger, we received approximately 222 million shares of UMC common stock, which represent approximately 2% of the combined UMC Group, and we recognized a non-cash gain of $674.7 million ($398.1 million net of taxes) in fiscal 2000. Since the merger, Xilinx has received a total of approximately 145 million UMC shares in four separate annual stock dividend distributions increasing our investment holdings to approximately 367 million shares. We retain wafer capacity rights in UMC equivalent to those we previously had in USIC, so long as we retain a certain percentage of our original UMC shares. If our holdings fall below the specified level, our wafer capacity rights would be prorated in accordance with the UMC shares we hold.

Restrictions on the sale of these shares, imposed by UMC and the Taiwan Stock Exchange, began to expire in July 2000 and fully expired in January 2004. As of April 3, 2004, the entire UMC investment was unrestricted.

We account for our investment in UMC as available-for-sale marketable securities in accordance with SFAS 115, "Accounting for Certain Debt and Equity Securities." At March 29, 2003, the restricted portion of the investment in UMC was accounted for as a cost method investment.

The fair value of our UMC shares declined to $239.0 million as of September 29, 2001. Because of the continued downturn in the global economy, in general, and in the technology sector in particular, we believed that the decline in the market value of our investment in UMC as of September 29, 2001 was other than temporary. Accordingly, during this second quarter of fiscal 2002, we recognized a pre-tax impairment loss on our investment in UMC of $191.9 million ($113.2 million, net of tax) to reflect this other-than-temporary decline in market value. The fair value of our unrestricted UMC shares subsequently increased by $141.4 million during the third and fourth quarters of fiscal 2002, increasing the total value of our UMC investment to $380.4 million at March 30, 2002. Under the provisions of SFAS 115, we increased the value of the UMC investment by $141.4 million, recognized deferred tax liabilities of $58.0 million and increased accumulated other comprehensive income by $83.4 million.

At March 29, 2003, our equity investment in UMC shares was valued at $209.3 million on the Company's consolidated balance sheet reflecting a $171.1 million decrease in value during fiscal 2003. Under SFAS 115, we decreased the value of our UMC investment by $171.1 million, recognized a deferred tax benefit of $70.2 million and decreased accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by $100.9 million. As of March 29, 2003, the market value of our total UMC investment was $29.7 million below its adjusted

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cost of $239.0 million. We deemed the decline in value of our total investment in UMC to be temporary in nature.

The following table summarizes the cost basis and carrying values of the restricted and unrestricted portions of our investment in UMC:

Under SFAS 115, since March 29, 2003, we have increased the value of our UMC investment by $114.7 million, recognized a deferred tax liability of $47.0 million and increased accumulated other comprehensive income by $67.7 million.

Altera Corporation Lawsuit Settlement

On July 18, 2001, the Company settled all of its outstanding patent litigation with Altera, under which Altera paid Xilinx $20 million and both parties exchanged limited patent licenses and executed agreements not to sue under any patent for at least five years. During fiscal 2002 we recorded the lawsuit settlement received of $19.4 million, net of settlement costs of approximately $600 thousand.

Interest Income and Other, Net

The decrease from fiscal 2003 to 2004 was primarily due to miscellaneous items of other income, net. Additionally, lower interest rates in fiscal 2004 largely offset the benefit of higher average cash and investment balances compared to the prior year. The decrease from fiscal 2002 to 2003 was primarily due to a reduction in capital gains recognized and lower interest rates in fiscal 2003 compared to the prior year. The amount of interest income and other, net in the future will continue to be impacted by the level of our average cash and investment balances, prevailing interest rates, and foreign currency exchange rates.

Provision (Benefit) for Income Taxes

The effective tax rates in all years reflect the impact of foreign income/loss at different rates and tax credits earned in the United States. The fiscal year 2004 effective tax rate reflects the one-time benefit for reversing previously accrued reserves for an IRS audit that disputed the calculation of royalty payments that the Company's Ireland subsidiary paid to license the Company's technology. The IRS agreed to a stipulation in April 2004 concurring with the Company's original royalty calculations. The increase in the Company's fiscal year 2002 effective tax rate resulted from one-time write-offs of impaired assets that were not deductible for tax purposes, and the amortization of nondeductible goodwill.

The Company filed petitions with the U.S. Tax Court on March 26, 2001 and January 14, 2003 in response to assertions by the IRS that the Company owed additional tax for fiscal years 1996 through 1999. The Company filed a petition with the U.S. Tax Court on January 16, 2004, in response to assertions by the IRS that the Company owed additional tax for fiscal year 2000. See Note 11 to our consolidated financial statements, included in Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data."

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Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources

We have historically used a combination of cash flows from operations and equity and debt financing to support ongoing business activities, acquire critical technologies and make investments in complementary technologies, purchase facilities and capital equipment, repurchase our Common Stock under our stock repurchase program and finance working capital. Additionally, our investment in UMC is available for future sale.

Fiscal 2004 Compared to Fiscal 2003

Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-term and Long-term Investments

The combination of cash and cash equivalents and short-term and long-term investments at April 3, 2004 totaled $1.6 billion compared with $1.1 billion at March 29, 2003.

We generated positive cash flows from operations during fiscal 2004. As of April 3, 2004, we had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $799 million and working capital of $920.4 million. Cash provided by operations of $432.5 million for fiscal 2004 was $87.5 million higher than the $345.0 million generated during fiscal 2003. Increases in cash generated by operations resulted primarily from net income adjusted for non-cash related items, and increases in accounts payable and deferred income on shipments to distributors, which were partially offset by an increase in accounts receivable.

Net cash used in investing activities of $354.8 million during fiscal 2004 included net purchases of available-for-sale securities of $325.8 million, $41.0 million for purchases of property, plant and equipment and $20.0 million for the acquisition of Triscend, net of cash acquired, partially offset by $32.0 million of proceeds from the sale of buildings and land.

Net cash provided by financing activities was $45.6 million in fiscal 2004 and consisted of $108.0 million of proceeds from the issuance of common stock under employee stock plans, partially offset by $62.3 million for the acquisition of treasury stock.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable, net of allowances for doubtful accounts, customer returns and distributor pricing adjustments increased 25.9% from $197.7 million at the end of fiscal 2003 to $249.0 million at the end of fiscal 2004. The increase was primarily attributable to the increased level of revenue and an increase in shipments late in the year.

Inventories

Inventories decreased from $111.5 million at March 29, 2003 to $102.5 million at April 3, 2004 due to an increased demand for new products, and our continued focus on supply chain management.

We attempt to maintain sufficient levels of inventory in various product, package and speed configurations in order to keep lead times short and to meet forecasted customer demand. Conversely, we also attempt to minimize the handling costs associated with maintaining higher inventory levels and to fully realize the opportunities for cost reductions associated with architecture and manufacturing process advancements. We continually strive to balance these two objectives to provide excellent customer response at a competitive cost.

Property, Plant and Equipment

During 2004, we invested $41.0 million in property, plant and equipment compared to $46.0 million in 2003. Primary investments in fiscal 2004 were for test equipment, computer equipment, IT equipment and software. Software investments included additional enterprise resource planning software functionality and automation of critical business processes.

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, we sold excess facilities consisting of two buildings and land near downtown San Jose, California for $33.8 million ($32.0 million, net of selling costs). After recognizing previous impairment losses on these excess facilities of $53.8 million in fiscal 2003 and $3.4 million in fiscal 2004, there was no gain or loss on the sale of the buildings and land.

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Current Liabilities

Current liabilities increased from $313.8 million at the end of fiscal 2003 to $381.1 million at the end of fiscal 2004. The increase was primarily attributable to the increase in accounts payable and deferred income on shipments to distributors. The increase in accounts payable was a result of increased purchases and the increase in deferred income on shipments to distributors was due to increased inventory levels at distributors, related to higher revenue levels in 2004 compared to 2003 and an increase in shipments to distributors later in the year.

Stockholders' Equity

Stockholders' equity increased $532.3 million during fiscal 2004, principally as a result of $303.0 million in net income for the year ended April 3, 2004, the issuance of common stock under employee stock plans of $109.2 million, $3.8 million in amortization of deferred compensation related to the RocketChips acquisition, the related tax benefits associated with stock option exercises and the employee stock purchase plan and cumulative translation adjustment totaling $110.7 million and by $68.4 million in unrealized gains on available-for-sale securities, net of deferred taxes, primarily from our investment in UMC stock. The increases were partially offset by the acquisition of treasury stock of $62.8 million.

Fiscal 2003 Compared to Fiscal 2002

Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-term and Long-term Investments

The combination of cash and cash equivalents and short-term and long-term investments at March 29, 2003 totaled $1.1 billion compared with $799 million at March 30, 2002.

We generated positive cash flows from operations during fiscal 2003. As of March 29, 2003, we had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $675.6 million and working capital of $861.4 million. Cash provided by operations of $345.0 million for fiscal 2003 was $64.1 million higher than the $280.9 million generated during fiscal 2002. Increases in cash generated by operations resulted primarily from net income adjusted for receipt of federal income tax refunds of approximately $74.1 million and an increase in deferred income on shipments to distributors, which were partially offset by an increase in accounts receivable.

During fiscal 2003, net cash used in investing activities of $355.1 million included net purchases of available-for-sale securities of $315.6 million and $46.0 million of property, plant and equipment purchases partially offset by $6.5 million of proceeds from the sale of a building.

For fiscal 2003, net cash used in financing activities of $6.2 million included $60.8 million for the acquisition of treasury stock, partially offset by $54.6 million of proceeds from the issuance of common stock under employee stock plans.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable, net of allowances for doubtful accounts, customer returns and distributor pricing adjustments increased 33.2% from $148.4 million at the end of fiscal 2002 to $197.7 million at the end of fiscal 2003. The increase was primarily attributable to the increased level of revenue and an increase in shipments late in the year, which were reflected in the higher levels of inventory at our distributors.

Inventories

Inventories increased from $79.3 million at March 30, 2002 to $111.5 million at March 29, 2003 due to an increased demand for new products, which led to higher levels of inventory production.

Property, Plant and Equipment

During 2003, we invested $46.0 million in property, plant and equipment compared to $94.9 million in 2002. Primary investments in fiscal 2003 were for building expansion, enterprise resources planning software and computer and IT equipment.

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Current Liabilities

Current liabilities increased from $195.8 million at the end of fiscal 2002 to $313.8 million at the end of fiscal 2003. The increase was primarily attributable to the increase in income taxes payable and deferred income on shipments to distributors. The increase in income taxes payable was a result of higher taxable income and the increase in deferred income on shipments to distributors was due to increased inventory levels at distributors, related to higher revenue levels in 2003 compared to 2002.

Stockholders' Equity

Stockholders' equity increased $47.0 million during fiscal 2003, principally as a result of $125.7 million in net income for the year ended March 31, 2003, the issuance of common stock under employee stock plans of $54.6 million, $6.4 million in amortization of deferred compensation related to the RocketChips acquisition, and the related tax benefits associated with stock option exercises and the employee stock purchase plan and cumulative translation adjustment totaling $18.3 million. The increases were partially offset by $97.6 million in unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities, net of deferred taxes, primarily from our investment in UMC stock and the acquisition of treasury stock of $60.4 million.

Contractual Obligations

The following table summarizes our significant contractual obligations at April 3, 2004 and the effect such obligations are expected to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods. This table excludes amounts already recorded on our balance sheet as current liabilities at April 3, 2004.

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We lease some of our facilities and office buildings under operating leases that expire at various dates through December 2014. Rent expense under all operating leases was approximately $4.6 million for 2004.

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Due to the nature of our business, we depend entirely upon subcontractors to manufacture our silicon wafers and provide assembly and some test services. The lengthy subcontractor lead times require us to order the materials and services in advance, and we are obligated to pay for the materials and services when completed. We expect to receive and pay for the materials and services in the next three to six months.

Off-Balance-Sheet Arrangements

As of April 3, 2004, we did not have any significant off-balance-sheet arrangements, as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of SEC Regulation S-K.

Summary of Liquidity and Capital Resources

On April 22, 2004, the Board of Directors declared our first quarterly common stock dividend, of $0.05 per share, which is payable on June 2, 2004 to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 12, 2004. Our dividend policy is impacted by, among other items, our views on potential future capital requirements relating to research and development, investments and acquisitions, legal risks, stock repurchase programs and other strategic investments.

We anticipate that existing sources of liquidity and cash flows from operations will be sufficient to satisfy our cash needs for the foreseeable future. However, the risk factors discussed below could affect our cash positions adversely. We will continue to evaluate opportunities for investments to obtain additional wafer capacity, procurement of additional capital equipment and facilities, development of new products, and potential acquisitions of technologies or businesses that could complement our business. We may use available cash or other sources of funding for such purposes.

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Factors Affecting Future Results

The following risk factors and other information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K should be carefully considered. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones the Company faces. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to the Company or that the Company's management currently deems immaterial also may impair its business operations. If any of the risks described below were to occur, our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows would be materially adversely affected.

The semiconductor industry is characterized by rapid technological change, intense competition and cyclical market patterns which contribute to create factors that may affect our future operating results including:

Market Demand

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limited visibility of demand for products, especially new products;

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fluctuations in demand for our products and services;

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increased dependence on turns orders (orders received and shipped within the same fiscal quarter);

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reduced capital spending by our customers;

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weaker demand for our products or those of our customers due to a prolonged period of economic uncertainty;

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excess inventory within the supply chain including overbuilding of OEM products;

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additional excess and obsolete inventories and corresponding write-downs due to a significant deterioration in demand;

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inability to manufacture sufficient quantities of a given product in a timely manner;

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inability to obtain manufacturing capacity in sufficient volume;

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inability to predict the success of our customers' products in their markets;

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an unexpected increase in demand resulting in longer lead times that causes delays in customer production schedules;

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dependence on the health of the end markets and customers we serve;

Competitive Environment

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price and product competition in the semiconductor industry, which can change rapidly due to technological innovation;

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major customers converting to ASIC designs from Xilinx's PLDs;

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erosion of average selling prices;

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timely introduction of new products;

Technology

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lower gross margins due to product mix shifts and reduced manufacturing efficiency improvements;

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failure to retain or attract specialized technical/management personnel;

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timely implementation of new manufacturing technologies;

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ability to safeguard the Company's products from competitors by means of patents and other intellectual property protections;

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impact of new technologies which result in rapid escalation of demand for some products in the face of equally steep declines in demand for others;

Other

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changes in accounting rules;

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dependence on distributors to generate sales and process customer orders;

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impact of changes to current export/import laws and regulations;

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volatility of the securities market, particularly as it relates to the high technology sector and our investment in UMC;

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global events impacting the world economy or specific regions of the world; and,

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catastrophes that impact the ability of our supply chain partners to operate or deliver product.

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We attempt to identify changes in market conditions as soon as possible; however, the dynamics of the market make prediction of and timely reaction to such events difficult. For example, the overbuilding in the telecommunications industry resulted in a reduction in capital spending causing a slowdown in orders for our products. Due to these and other factors, our past results, including those described in this report, are much less reliable predictors of the future than with companies in many older, more stable and mature industries. Based on the factors noted herein, we may experience substantial fluctuations in future operating results.

Our results of operations are impacted by global economic and political conditions, dependence on new products, dependence on independent manufacturers and subcontractors, competition, intellectual property, and litigation, each of which is discussed in greater detail below.

Potential Effect of Global Economic and Political Conditions

Sales and operations outside of the United States subject us to the risks associated with conducting business in foreign economic and regulatory environments. Our financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected by unfavorable economic conditions in countries in which we do significant business and by changes in foreign currency exchange rates affecting those countries. For example, we have sales and operations in Asia Pacific and Japan. Past economic weakness in these markets adversely affected revenues, and such conditions may occur in the future. Sales to all direct OEMs and distributors are denominated in U.S. dollars. While the recent movement of the Euro and Yen against the U.S. dollar had no material impact to our business, increased volatility could impact our European and Japanese customers. Currency instability may increase credit risks for some of our customers and may impair our customers' ability to repay existing obligations. Increased currency volatility could also positively or negatively impact our foreign currency denominated costs. Any or all of these factors could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations in the future.

Our financial condition and results of operations are becoming increasingly dependent on the global economy. Any instability in worldwide economic environments, such as experienced after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, could lead to a contraction of capital spending by our customers. Additional risks to us include U.S. military actions, economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government, government regulation of exports, imposition of tariffs and other potential trade barriers, reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries and generally longer receivable collection periods. Moreover, our financial condition and results of operations could be affected in the event of political conflicts in Taiwan where our main wafer provider, UMC, as well as a significant number of suppliers to the semiconductor industry, end customers and contract manufacturers who provide manufacturing services worldwide, are located.

Dependence on New Products

Our success depends in large part on our ability to develop and introduce new products that address customer requirements and compete effectively on the basis of price, density, functionality and performance. The success of new product introductions is dependent upon several factors, including:

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timely completion of new product designs;

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ability to generate new design wins;

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ability to engage in key relationships with companies that provide synergistic products and services;

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ability to utilize advanced manufacturing process technologies including a transition to 300 millimeter wafers as well as to circuit geometries on 90 nanometers and smaller;

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achieving acceptable yields;

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ability to obtain adequate production capacity from our wafer foundries and assembly subcontractors;

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ability to obtain advanced packaging;

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availability of supporting software design tools;

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utilization of predefined cores of logic;

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industry acceptance; and,

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successful deployment of systems by our customers.

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We cannot assure you that our product development efforts will be successful, that our new products will achieve industry acceptance or that we will achieve the necessary volume of production that would lead to further per unit cost reductions. Revenues relating to our mature products are expected to decline in the future. As a result, we will be increasingly dependent on revenues derived from design wins for our newer products as well as anticipated cost reductions in the manufacture of our current products. We rely primarily on obtaining yield improvements and corresponding cost reductions in the manufacture of existing products and on introducing new products that incorporate advanced features and other price/performance factors that enable us to increase revenues while maintaining consistent margins. To the extent that such cost reductions and new product introductions do not occur in a timely manner, or to the extent that our products do not achieve market acceptance at prices with higher margins, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

Dependence on Independent Manufacturers and Subcontractors

We do not manufacture our own silicon wafers. During fiscal year 2004, all of our wafers were manufactured in Taiwan by UMC, in Japan by Seiko and in the United States by IBM. Terms with respect to the volume and timing of wafer production and the pricing of wafers produced by the semiconductor foundries are determined by periodic negotiations between Xilinx and these wafer foundries, which usually result in short-term agreements. We are dependent on these foundries, especially UMC, which supplies over 70% of our wafers. We rely on UMC to produce wafers with competitive performance and cost attributes, which include transitioning to advanced manufacturing process technologies, producing wafers at acceptable yields, and delivering them in a timely manner. We cannot guarantee that the foundries that supply our wafers will not experience manufacturing problems, including delays in the realization of advanced manufacturing process technologies. In addition, greater demand for wafers produced by the foundries raises the likelihood of potential wafer price increases.

UMC's foundries in Taiwan and Seiko's foundries in Japan as well as many of our operations in California are centered in areas that have been seismically active in the recent past. Should there be a major earthquake in our suppliers' or our operating locations in the future, our operations, including our manufacturing activities, may be disrupted. This type of disruption could result in our inability to ship products in a timely manner, thereby materially adversely affecting our financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, disruption of operations at these foundries for any reason, including other natural disasters such as fires or floods, as well as disruptions in access to adequate supplies of electricity, natural gas or water could cause delays in shipments of our products, and could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

We are also dependent on subcontractors to provide semiconductor assembly, test and shipment services. Any prolonged inability to obtain wafers or assembly, test or shipment services with competitive performance cost attributes, adequate yields or timely delivery, or any other circumstance that would require us to seek alternative sources of supply, could delay shipments and have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Competition

Our future success depends on our ability to be competitive in the semiconductor industry. See "Competition" in Item 1. "Business."

Intellectual Property

We rely upon patent, copyright, trade secret, mask work and trademark laws to protect our intellectual property. We cannot assure you that such intellectual property rights can be successfully asserted in the future or will not be invalidated, circumvented or challenged. From time to time, third parties, including our competitors, have asserted patent, copyright and other intellectual property rights to technologies that are important to us. We cannot assure you that third parties will not assert infringement claims against us in the future, that assertions by third parties will not result in costly litigation or that we would prevail in such litigation or be able to license any valid and infringed patents from third parties on commercially reasonable terms. Litigation, regardless of its outcome, could result in substantial costs and diversion of our resources. Any infringement claim or other litigation against us or by us could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

Litigation

We are currently engaged in several legal matters. See Item 3. "Legal Proceedings."

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Interest Rate Risk

Our exposure to interest rate risk relates primarily to our investment portfolio. Our primary aim with our investment portfolio is to invest available cash while preserving principal and meeting liquidity needs. The portfolio includes tax-advantaged municipal bonds, tax-advantaged auction rate securities, commercial paper, corporate bonds and U.S. Treasury securities. In accordance with our investment policy, we place investments with high credit quality issuers and limit the amount of credit exposure to any one issuer. These securities are subject to interest rate risk and will decrease in value if market interest rates increase. A hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in market interest rates compared to interest rates at April 3, 2004 and March 29, 2003 would not materially affect the fair value of our available-for-sale securities and the impact on our investment portfolio would be less than $10 million for each fiscal year.

Foreign Currency Risk

Sales to all direct OEMs and distributors are denominated in U.S. dollars.

Gains and losses on foreign currency forward contracts that are designated and effective as hedges of anticipated transactions, for which a firm commitment has been attained, are deferred and included in the basis of the transaction in the same period that the underlying transaction is settled. Gains and losses on any instruments not meeting the above criteria are recognized in income or expenses in the consolidated statement of operations as they are incurred We did not execute material hedge transactions during fiscal 2002, 2003 and 2004.

We will enter into forward currency exchange contracts to hedge our overseas monthly operating expenses when deemed appropriate.

Our investments in several subsidiaries are recorded in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. As these foreign currency denominated investments are translated at each quarter end during consolidation, fluctuations of exchange rates between the foreign currency and the U.S. dollar increase or decrease the value of those investments. These fluctuations are recorded within stockholders' equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). In addition, as our subsidiaries maintain investments denominated in other than local currencies, exchange rate fluctuations will occur. A hypothetical 10% favorable or unfavorable change in foreign currency exchange rates compared to rates at April 3, 2004 and March 29, 2003 would not materially affect our financial position or results of operations.

Our investment in UMC consists of shares, the value of which is determined by the Taiwan Stock Exchange. This value is converted from new Taiwan dollars into U.S. dollars and included in our determination of the change in the fair value of our investment in UMC which is accounted for under the provisions of SFAS 115. The market value of our investment in UMC was approximately $324 million at April 3, 2004 as compared to our adjusted cost basis of approximately $239 million.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

XILINX, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

See notes to consolidated financial statements

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XILINX, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

See notes to consolidated financial statements

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XILINX, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS