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Other Payables and Accrued Liabilities

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Payables and Accruals [Abstract]

Other Payables and Accrued Liabilities

12. OTHER PAYABLES AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES

Other payables and accrued liabilities consisted of the following:

		December 31, 2014				December 31, 2013
Employee related liabilities			273				383
Employee compensated absences			114				128
Taxes other than income taxes			68				85
Advances			33				32
Payables to equity-method investments			50				81
Obligations for capacity rights			2				3
Derivative instruments			73				4
Provision for restructuring			32				65
Current portion of pension			9				12
Royalties			26				37
Others			161				107
Total			841				937

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, 2014 and 2013 the value of such rights totaled $3 million and $6 million respectively, of which $2 million and $3 million respectively were reported as current liabilities.

Derivative instruments are further described in Note 23.

Other payables and accrued liabilities also include individually insignificant amounts as of December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013.

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