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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 11-K
 
(Mark One)
     
þ   ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2005
OR
     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from                     to                     
Commission file number 0-12933
A.   Full title of the plan and the address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below:
SAVINGS PLUS PLAN,
LAM RESEARCH 401(k)
B.   Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office:
LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
4650 Cushing Parkway
Fremont, California 94538
 
 

 


 

SAVINGS PLUS PLAN,
LAM RESEARCH 401(k)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
     
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Financial Statements:
   
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Supplemental Schedule as of December 31, 2005:
   
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 EXHIBIT 23.1

 


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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Plan Administrator of the
Savings Plus Plan,
Lam Research 401(k)
We have audited the financial statements of the Savings Plus Plan, Lam Research 401(k) (the Plan) as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and for the year ended December 31, 2005, as listed in the accompanying table of contents. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by the Plan’s management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2005, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Our audits were performed for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole. The supplemental schedule, as listed in the accompanying table of contents, is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management. The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audits of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole.
/s/ Mohler, Nixon & Williams
MOHLER, NIXON & WILLIAMS
Accountancy Corporation
Campbell, California
May 31, 2006

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SAVINGS PLUS PLAN,
LAM RESEARCH 401(k)
STATEMENTS OF NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS
                 
    December 31,  
    2005     2004  
Assets:
               
Investments, at fair value
  $ 190,327,702     $ 172,568,527  
Participant loans
    2,288,875       2,143,521  
 
           
 
               
Assets held for investment purposes
    192,616,577       174,712,048  
 
               
Liabilities:
               
Other liabilities
    4,466       739  
 
           
 
               
Net assets available for benefits
  $ 192,612,111     $ 174,711,309  
 
           
See notes to financial statements.

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SAVINGS PLUS PLAN,
LAM RESEARCH 401(k)
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS
For the year ended December 31, 2005
         
Additions to net assets attributed to:
       
Investment income:
       
Dividends and interest
  $ 7,683,371  
Net realized and unrealized appreciation in fair value of investments
    4,893,990  
 
     
 
       
 
    12,577,361  
 
     
 
       
Contributions:
       
Participants’
    11,645,010  
Employer’s
    3,316,982  
 
     
 
       
 
    14,961,992  
 
     
 
       
Total additions
    27,539,353  
 
     
 
       
Deductions from net assets attributed to:
       
Withdrawals and distributions
    9,440,740  
Administrative expenses
    197,811  
 
     
 
       
Total deductions
    9,638,551  
 
     
 
       
Net increase in net assets
    17,900,802  
 
       
Net assets available for benefits:
       
Beginning of year
    174,711,309  
 
     
 
       
End of year
  $ 192,612,111  
 
     
See notes to financial statements.

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SAVINGS PLUS PLAN,
LAM RESEARCH 401(k)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 2005 AND 2004
NOTE 1 — THE PLAN AND ITS SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General — The following description of the Savings Plus Plan, Lam Research 401(k) (the Plan) provides only general information. Participants should refer to the Plan document for a more complete description of the Plan’s provisions.
The Plan is a defined contribution plan that was established in 1985 by Lam Research Corporation (the Company) to provide benefits to eligible employees, as defined in the Plan document. The Plan is currently designed to be qualified under the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA).
Administration - The Company and the Plan Committee (the Committee) manage the operation and administration of the Plan. A third-party administrator processes and maintains the records of participant data. During 2005 and 2004, American Stock Transfer and Trust Company (AST) acted as the trustee and custodian. Substantially all expenses incurred for administering the Plan are paid by the Plan, unless paid by the Company.
Estimates — The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and changes therein, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Basis of accounting - The financial statements of the Plan are prepared on the accrual method of accounting in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Investments - Investments of the Plan are held by AST and are invested based solely upon instructions received from participants.
The Plan’s investments are valued at fair value as of the last day of the Plan year, as measured by quoted market prices. Participant loans are valued at cost, which approximates fair value.
Cash and cash equivalents — All highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less (generally money market funds) are considered to be cash equivalents. These investments are usually held for a short period of time, pending long-term investment.

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Income taxes - The Plan has been amended since receiving its favorable determination letter dated January 21, 2004. The Plan is operated in accordance with, and is intended to qualify under, the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and related state statutes, and the trust, which forms a part of the Plan, is intended to be exempt from federal income and state franchise taxes.
Reconciliation of financial statements to Form 5500 - The differences between the information reported in the financial statements and the information reported in the Form 5500 arise primarily from the reporting of benefits payable in the Form 5500 of approximately $11,000 and $54,000 at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
Risks and uncertainties - The Plan provides for various investment options in any combination of investment securities offered by the Plan. In addition, Company common stock is included as an investment under the Plan. Investment securities are exposed to various risks, such as interest rate, market fluctuations and credit risks. Due to the risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in market values, interest rates or other factors in the near term would materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statements of net assets available for benefits and the statement of changes in net assets available for benefits.
NOTE 2 — RELATED PARTY AND PARTY-IN-INTEREST TRANSACTIONS
Participants may elect to invest a portion of their accounts in the common stock of the Company. The aggregate investment in Company common stock at December 31, 2005 and 2004 was as follows:
                 
    2005   2004
Number of shares
    204,518       297,932  
Fair value
    7,297,202       8,613,214  
NOTE 3 — PARTICIPATION AND BENEFITS
Participant contributions – During 2005 and 2004, participants could elect to contribute from 2% to 20% of their Eligible Compensation, as defined by the Plan, per payroll period not to exceed the amount allowable under current income tax regulations. Participants who elect to contribute a portion of their eligible compensation to the Plan agree to accept an equivalent reduction in taxable compensation. Contributions withheld are invested in accordance with the participants’ direction.
Participants are also allowed to make rollover contributions of amounts received from other tax-qualified employer-sponsored retirement plans. Such contributions are deposited in the appropriate investment funds in accordance with the participants’ direction and the Plan’s provisions.

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Employer contributions — The Company may make matching contributions as defined in the Plan and as approved by the Board of Directors. In 2005, the Company matched 50% of each eligible participant’s salary deferral contribution (excluding catch-up contributions) up to a maximum of the first 6% of the participant’s eligible compensation on a per payroll period basis. The Plan also allows for a discretionary profit sharing contribution. No discretionary contribution was made for the year ended December 31, 2005.
Vesting - Participants are immediately vested in their entire account, including employer matching and discretionary profit sharing contributions (if any).
Participant accounts — Each participant’s account is credited with the participant’s contribution, Plan earnings or losses in funds selected by the participant, and an allocation of the Company’s contribution, if any. Allocation of the Company’s contribution is based on participant contributions and / or compensation, as defined in the Plan.
Payment of benefits — Upon termination, each participant (or beneficiary) may elect to leave his or her account balance in the Plan until age 70 ½ or receive his or her total benefits in a lump sum amount equal to the value of the participant’s account, in installments over a period of years, or over a term certain under a non-transferable annuity contract. The Plan requires lump sum distribution of participant account balances that do not exceed $1,000.
Loans to participants — The Plan allows participants to borrow not less than $1,000 and up to the lesser of $50,000 or 50% of their account balance. The loans are secured by the participant’s balance reduced by certain balances of outstanding or defaulted loans. Such loans bear interest at the available market financing rates and must be repaid to the Plan within a five-year period, unless the loan is used for the purchase of a principal residence in which case the maximum repayment period is 15 years. The specific terms and conditions of such loans are established by the Committee. Outstanding loans at December 31, 2005 carry interest rates ranging from 5.0% to 10.5%.

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NOTE 4 — INVESTMENTS
The following table presents the fair values of investments and investment funds that include 5% or more of the Plan’s net assets at December 31:
                 
    2005     2004  
Fidelity Advisor Funds:
               
Value Strategies Fund
    20,159,193       22,054,892  
Overseas Fund
    14,318,856       10,720,424  
MFS Value Fund
    24,581,875       21,601,008  
Franklin Small Mid Cap Growth Fund
    19,451,357       16,393,818  
Metlife Stable Value Account
    26,076,225       22,197,547  
Vanguard Institutional Index Fund
    21,899,851       19,892,577  
American Funds Amcap Fund
    17,187,200       15,841,558  
Other Funds individually less than 5% of net assets*
    48,942,020       46,010,224  
 
           
 
               
Assets held for investment purposes
    192,616,577     $ 174,712,048  
 
           
 
*   Included in “Other Funds individually less than 5% of net assets” are investments in the TCW Investment Management Company Large-Cap Growth Fund and the Renaissance Investment Management, Inc. Balanced Investment Option Fund. These funds are unitized funds which consist of a number of investments managed by the investment manager specifically for the Plan, none of which individually account for more than 5% of net assets.
The Plan’s investments (including gains and losses on investments bought and sold, as well as held during the year) appreciated (depreciated) in value as follows for the year ended December 31, 2005:
         
Mutual funds
  $ 1,588,140  
Common stock
    3,379,768  
Bonds
    (73,918 )
 
     
 
       
 
  $ 4,893,990  
 
     
NOTE 5 — PLAN TERMINATION OR MODIFICATION
The Company intends to continue the Plan indefinitely for the benefit of its participants; however, it reserves the right to terminate or modify the Plan at any time by resolution of its Board of Directors (or other authorized party) and subject to the provisions of ERISA.

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NOTE 6 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On April 1, 2006 MG Trust Company, LLC replaced American Stock Transfer and Trust Company as the custodian and trustee of the Plan. Concurrent with the change in custodian and trustee, the Plan was also amended to limit the percentage of each individual participant’s future contributions in Lam common stock not to exceed 25%.

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SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE

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SAVINGS PLUS PLAN,
  EIN: 94-2634797
LAM RESEARCH 401(k)
  PLAN #001
SCHEDULE H, LINE 4i — SCHEDULE OF ASSETS (HELD AT END OF YEAR) DECEMBER 31, 2005
             
Identity of issue, borrower,   Description of investment including maturity date,   Current  
lessor or similar party   rate of interest, collateral, par or maturity value   value  
Fidelity Advisor Balanced Fund
  Mutual Fund   $ 7,772,725  
Fidelity Advisor Intermediate Bond Fund
  Mutual Fund     4,055,883  
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund
  Mutual Fund     14,318,856  
Fidelity Advisor Value Strategies Fund
  Mutual Fund     20,159,193  
Franklin Small Mid Cap Growth Fund
  Mutual Fund     19,451,357  
American Funds Amcap Fund
  Mutual Fund     17,187,200  
MFS Value Fund
  Mutual Fund     24,581,875  
Metlife Stable Value Account
  Fixed Income Fund     26,076,225  
Vanguard Institutional Index Fund
  Mutual Fund     21,899,851  
TCW Investment Management Company
           
Large Cap Growth Fund: **
           
Adobe Systems Inc.
  Common Stock     253,767  
Aflac Inc.
  Common Stock     105,420  
Amazon Com Inc
  Common Stock     921,829  
American Intern’l Grp
  Common Stock     179,308  
Amgen Inc.
  Common Stock     257,951  
Apollo Group Cl A
  Common Stock     338,878  
Cisco Systems Inc.
  Common Stock     132,954  
Commerce Bancorp Nj
  Common Stock     350,775  
Dell Inc.
  Common Stock     302,645  
Ebay Inc.
  Common Stock     841,364  
Electronic Arts
  Common Stock     335,935  
Genentech Inc. New
  Common Stock     679,782  
General Electric Co.
  Common Stock     183,592  
Google Inc Cl A
  Common Stock     525,628  
Maxim Integrated Prods Inc.
  Common Stock     272,489  
Network Appl. Inc.
  Common Stock     468,450  
Pixar Com
  Common Stock     426,821  
Progressive Corp.
  Common Stock     1,257,020  
Qualcomm
  Common Stock     621,300  
Salesforce.Com Inc
  Common Stock     202,236  
Starbucks Corp.
  Common Stock     351,447  
Varian Medical Systems
  Common Stock     283,314  
Walgreen Co.
  Common Stock     229,134  
Xilinx Inc.
  Common Stock     209,092  
Xm Satellite Radio Hldgs A
  Common Stock     285,431  
Yahoo Inc.
  Common Stock     817,373  
Wheat First/Evergreen US Govt
  Money Market     272,955  

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Identity of issue, borrower,   Description of investment including maturity date,   Current  
lessor or similar party   rate of interest, collateral, par or maturity value   value  
Renaissance Investment Management, Inc.
           
Balanced Investment Option Fund: **
           
Aflac Inc.
  Common Stock     254,846  
Allstate Corp.
  Common Stock     221,687  
American Express Co.
  Common Stock     262,961  
Amgen Inc.
  Common Stock     248,803  
Automatic Data Processing
  Common Stock     253,689  
Bank of America Corp.
  Common Stock     250,825  
Bausch & Lomb Inc
  Common Stock     203,700  
Best Buy Co.
  Common Stock     253,489  
Black & Decker
  Common Stock     289,142  
Boeing Company
  Common Stock     267,123  
Carlisle Inc.
  Common Stock     269,339  
Centex Corp
  Common Stock     265,228  
Charles Schwab Corporation
  Common Stock     234,060  
Cisco Systems Inc.
  Common Stock     209,720  
Coca-Cola Company
  Common Stock     244,762  
Conocophillips
  Common Stock     237,782  
Constellation Energy
  Common Stock     230,400  
Cvs Corp.
  Common Stock     261,822  
Eaton Corp.
  Common Stock     257,626  
Edison Intl
  Common Stock     251,019  
Federal Express Corp
  Common Stock     307,068  
Franklin Resources Inc.
  Common Stock     296,602  
Goldman Sachs Group Inc
  Common Stock     252,227  
Hartford Financial Services Group
  Common Stock     254,234  
Hewlett Packard Co
  Common Stock     251,114  
Home Depot Incorporated
  Common Stock     218,592  
Ims Health Inc.
  Common Stock     262,507  
Intel Corporation
  Common Stock     261,830  
Intl Business Machines Inc
  Common Stock     253,176  
Johnson & Johnson
  Common Stock     258,190  
Kroger Co
  Common Stock     256,239  
Mcdonalds Corp.
  Common Stock     236,040  
Mckesson Hboc Inc.
  Common Stock     292,773  
Metlife Inc.
  Common Stock     259,700  
Monsanto Company New
  Common Stock     282,597  
Morgan Stanley
  Common Stock     276,608  
Motorola Inc.
  Common Stock     256,961  
National Semiconductor
  Common Stock     256,942  
Nike Inc
  Common Stock     243,012  
Nordstrom Inc.
  Common Stock     236,293  
Nucor Inc.
  Common Stock     260,208  
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
  Common Stock     239,241  
Texas Instruments Inc.
  Common Stock     256,560  
Txu Corp
  Common Stock     250,850  
Tyson Foods, Inc., Cl A
  Common Stock     228,884  
Unitedhealth Group Inc.
  Common Stock     268,258  
Valero Energy Corp New
  Common Stock     241,488  
Wal-Mart Stores Inc
  Common Stock     238,680  
Wellpoint Inc.
  Common Stock     261,711  
Xto Energy Inc.
  Common Stock     236,837  
U.S. Treasury Note, 4.750% due 11-15-08
  Bonds     570,297  
U.S. Treasury Note, 5.500% due 02-15-08
  Bonds     551,981  
U.S. Treasury Note, 4.000% due 03-15-10
  Bonds     2,138,723  
Wheat First/Evergreen US Govt
  Money Market     258,274  
* Lam Research Corporation Common Stock
  Company Stock     7,297,202  
* Cash and cash equivalents
  Money Market     237,725  
* Participant loans
  Interest rates ranging from 5.0% to 10.5%     2,288,875  
 
         
 
           
 
  Total   $ 192,616,577  
 
         
 
*   Party-in-interest
 
**   These funds are unitized funds which consist of a number of investments managed specifically for the Plan, which are listed individually on this Schedule.

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SIGNATURES
The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
             
 
      Lam Research Corporation    
 
      Registrant    
 
           
Date: June 16, 2006
           
 
  By:   /s/ Roch LeBlanc    
 
           
 
      Roch LeBlanc    
 
      Title: Chairman, Savings Plus Plan, Lam Research 401(k) Committee
Lam Research Corporation
   
 
           
 
      On behalf of the administrator of the Savings Plus Plan, Lam Research 401(k)    

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EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit Number   Description
23.1
  Consent of Mohler, Nixon & Williams, Accountancy Corporation, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm