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Marvell told us that when the senior executive visited Lasertec in December, Lasertec offered an arrangement... Marvell was one of several customers we interviewed who recently visited Lasertec's headquarters and reported seeing an unusual level of machine inventory... Marvell indicated that Lasertec's existing inventory has little value, given the offer Lasertec recently made to take back the A150 and then give is an A300 at a reduced price.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "bullet", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "45757d2f-18b5-47fe-bfbb-27d0ed9c6737", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "they made a multitude of offers to try to get us to basically purchase more equipment. — Marvell executive; other concessions were made like extended warranty service...at no additional cost...even guaranteeing service time like 60-70%...if not then we could take some kind of reimbursement...for the lost time of use — Marvell executive; they would actually swap out the A150 that we have with an A300 at a discounted price...because they wanted to try to get early purchase volume. — Marvell executive; we haven't seen real proof of concept and enough case studies to actually show the real-world application of it versus the A150. — Marvell executive; I can tell you right off the bat...they haven't taken any impairments against their balance sheet, so they're probably over-valuing their inventory far greater than it's actually worth...a lot of these companies are sitting on so much inventory.... — Marvell executive; is a common thing, unfortunately, that I've seen across multiple companies in the space...to manipulate earnings: they defer out...that impairment...because they don't want to record a hit on their gross margin. — Marvell executive", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Authority citation", "toolSlug": "authority-citation", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd953-25b2-736e-8e5d-9470220830dd", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.03, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.07, "y": 0.12 }, "kind": "title", "text": "6C. 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