GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2011

NOTE 11 – GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

The Company operates as a single operating segment as a manufacturer of photomasks, which are high precision quartz plates containing microscopic images of electronic circuits for use in the fabrication of ICs and FPDs. Geographic net sales are based primarily on where the Company's manufacturing facility is located. The Company's net sales by geographic area and for ICs and FPDs for the three and nine month periods ended July 31, 2011 and August 1, 2010 and its long-lived assets by geographic area as of July 31, 2011, and October 31, 2010, are presented below.

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	July 31, 2011		August 1, 2010		July 31, 2011		August 1, 2010
Net sales
Asia	$	80,051	$	70,349	$	238,224	$	192,977
Europe		11,833		11,116		35,643		31,298
North America		44,051		30,786		115,994		91,243
	$	135,935	$	112,251	$	389,861	$	315,518

IC	$	104,891	$	86,001	$	294,691	$	244,489
FPD		31,044		26,250		95,170		71,029
	$	135,935	$	112,251	$	389,861	$	315,518

	As of
	July 31, 2011		October 31, 2010
Long-lived assets
Asia	$	216,502	$	221,283
Europe		11,338		14,182
North America		169,863		134,349
	$	397,703	$	369,814