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GEOGRAPHIC AND SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMER INFORMATION | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 30, 2011
Geographic Information [Abstract] |
GEOGRAPHIC AND SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMER INFORMATION | NOTE 17 - GEOGRAPHIC AND SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMER 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 IC's and FPDs. Geographic net sales are based primarily on where the Company's manufacturing facility is located. The Company's 2011, 2010 and 2009 net sales by geographic area and for ICs and FPDs, and total long-lived assets by geographic area were as follows:
|  | Year Ended |
|  | October 30, 2011 |  |  | October 31, 2010 |  |  | November 1, 2009 |
Net sales |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Asia |  | $ | 307,402 |  |  | $ | 259,951 |  |  | $ | 223,138 |
Europe |  |  | 46,613 |  |  |  | 41,850 |  |  |  | 38,344 |
North America |  |  | 158,005 |  |  |  | 123,753 |  |  |  | 99,871 |
|  | $ | 512,020 |  |  | $ | 425,554 |  |  | $ | 361,353 |
IC |  | $ | 391,158 |  |  | $ | 329,767 |  |  | $ | 272,866 |
FPD |  |  | 120,862 |  |  |  | 95,787 |  |  |  | 88,487 |
|  | $ | 512,020 |  |  | $ | 425,554 |  |  | $ | 361,353 |
|  | October 30, 2011 |  |  | October 31, 2010 |  |  | November 1, 2009 |
Long-lived assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Asia |  | $ | 197,956 |  |  | $ | 221,283 |  |  | $ | 199,179 |
Europe |  |  | 10,879 |  |  |  | 14,182 |  |  |  | 9,579 |
North America |  |  | 159,845 |  |  |  | 134,349 |  |  |  | 139,131 |
|  | $ | 368,680 |  |  | $ | 369,814 |  |  | $ | 347,889 |
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. accounted for approximately 20%, 19% and 19% of the Company's net sales in fiscal years 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

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- Definition The entire disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries. + References No definition available. + Details
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