APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 23, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Feb 23, 2024
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Item 2. Properties
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We maintain manufacturing, research and development, sales and administrative offices in the U.S., China and Taiwan. Our corporate headquarters is located at our facility in Sugar Land, Texas. The table below provides information regarding our facilities.
| Owned or Lease · Approximate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Expiration Date | Square Footage | Use |
| Sugar Land, Texas | Owned (1) | 139,450 | Administration, sales, manufacturing, research and development |
| Duluth, Georgia | Leased (2) | 10,459 | Sales, research and development |
| Ningbo, China | Owned (3) | 458,849 | Administration, sales, manufacturing, research and development |
| Taipei, Taiwan | May 31, 2029 (4) | 268,797 | Administration, sales, manufacturing, research and development |
| (1) | We manufacture laser chips (utilizing our MBE and MOCVD process), subassemblies and components in our Sugar Land, Texas facility. |
| (2) | In our Georgia facility, we have sales and research and development for CATV market, and the lease covering the 2,932 square feet facility will expire October 31, 2024 and the lease covering the 7,527 square feet will expire December 31, 2025. |
| (3) | In our China facility, we manufacture certain more labor intensive components and optical equipment systems, such as optical subassemblies and transceivers for the CATV transmitters (at the headend), CATV outdoor equipment (at the node) and internet data center market. Our China subsidiary acquired the land use rights to the real property on which our current facility is located from the Chinese government. Such land use rights expire on October 7, 2054. Our China subsidiary owns the facility located on such real property. Our China subsidiary also obtained from the Chinese government the land use rights to a second real property located within a close proximity to our current facility. The land use rights for the second real property expire on December 28, 2067. |
| (4) | In our Taiwan location, we manufacture optical components, such as our butterfly lasers, which incorporate laser chips, subassemblies and components manufactured within our Sugar Land facility. In addition, in our Taiwan location, we manufacture transceivers for the internet data center market, telecom, FTTH and other markets. The lease covering the Taiwan facility commenced on June 1, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2029. |
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