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Other Payables and Accrued Liabilities
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Other Payables and Accrued Liabilities [Abstract]  
OTHER PAYABLES AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES

13. OTHER PAYABLES AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES

Other payables and accrued liabilities consisted of the following:

 

 

                 
    December 31,
2011		     December 31,
2010		  

Employee related liabilities

     370       440  

Employee compensated absences

     113       105  

Taxes other than income taxes

     62       76  

Advances

     73       31  

Payables to equity-method investments

     47       36  

Obligations for capacity rights

     10       12  

Derivative instruments

     75       11  

Provision for restructuring

     42       129  

Current portion of pension and other long-term benefits

     16       21  

Royalties

     35       34  

Obligation related to cash collateral

     —         7  

Others

     133       102  

Total

     976       1,004  

The terms of the agreement for the inception of Numonyx, a company created in 2007 from the Company’s and Intel’s flash memory business key assets and sold in 2010 to Micron Technology Inc., included rights granted to Numonyx to use certain assets retained by the Company. As at December 31, 2011 and 2010 the value of such rights totaled $23 million and $44 million respectively, of which $10 million and $11 million respectively were reported as current liabilities.

Derivative instruments are further described in Note 24.

Other payables and accrued liabilities also include individually insignificant amounts as of December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010.