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Exhibit 10.3




Option Agreement

under the SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc.

Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan




	 	 	 	 
	 	Date of Grant:
	 	_________
	 	 	 
	 	Name of Optionee:
	 	_________
	 	 	 
	 	Number of Shares Subject to the Option:
	 	_________
	 	 	 
	 	Exercise Price:
	 	$___ per share
	 	 	 
	 	Type of Option
	 	Non-Qualified Stock Option






     SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc. (the “Company”), hereby grants as of the date of grant
set forth above (the “Grant Date”) to the above-named optionee (“Optionee”) an option (the
“Option”) to purchase from the Company, for the price per share set forth above, the number of
shares of ordinary share of the Company (“Shares”) set forth above pursuant to the SMART Modular
Technologies (WWH), Inc. Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).



     Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meanings as in the Plan.
The terms and conditions of the Option granted hereby, to the extent not controlled by the terms
and conditions contained in the Plan, are as follows:



     1.     Exercise Price. The price at which each Share subject to this Option may be purchased
shall be the price set forth above.



     2.     Number of Shares, Exercise. The number of Shares for which the Option may be exercised are
set forth above. To the extent the Option has become vested or exercisable in accordance with
Section 3 hereof, the Option may be exercised at any time through the date of expiration of the
Option, as set forth in Section 4 hereof.



     3.     Vesting. The Option shall vest and become exercisable over four years on the following
schedule: 1




     (a)     The Option shall become vested and exercisable as to 25% of the Shares
constituting the Option on the first anniversary of the Grant Date, subject to Optionee’s
continued employment with the Company or one of its subsidiaries on such date.





 




	1	 	This is the standard four-year vesting with
one-year cliff. The Board may decide on different vesting schedules for
awards, which may include performance-based vesting.




 









 











     (b)     Thereafter, the Option shall become vested and exercisable at a rate of 1/48 of
the Shares constituting the Option per month, subject to Optionee’s continued employment
with the Company or one of its subsidiaries on each such date.




     (c)     Vesting shall cease immediately upon termination of Optionee’s employment with the
Company and its subsidiaries for any reason (including death or Disability).



     4.     Term of Option.     The term of the Option commences on the Grant Date and expires upon the
earliest of the following:




     (i)     three months after termination of Optionee’s employment with the Company
and its Affiliates by Participant or by the Company or any of its Affiliates
(other than as a result of death or Disability or termination by the Company for
Cause);




     (ii)     one year after Optionee’s employment with the Company and its Affiliates
is terminated by reason of Optionee’s death or Disability;




     (iii)     immediately upon termination of Optionee’s employment with the Company
and its Affiliates by the Company or any of its Affiliates for Cause;




     (iv)     the day before the tenth (10th) anniversary of the Grant Date;




     (v)     in the event of a Change of Control, to the extent not continued or
assumed in accordance with Section 10(a) of the Plan; or




     (vi)     in accordance with Section 10(b) of the Plan.



     5.     Exercise.




     (a)     Manner of Exercise. During the term of the Option set forth in Section 4 above,
Optionee (or his representative, devisee or heir, as applicable) may exercise any portion
of this Option which has become exercisable in accordance with the terms hereof as to all
or any of the Shares then available for purchase by delivering to the Company written
notice in the form specified by the Company. Payment shall be (i) in cash, by certified or
bank cashier check payable to the order of the Company, free from all collection charges,
(ii) in the discretion of the Committee, in Shares (and provided such shares shall have
been held by Optionee for such period of time as the Committee shall determine necessary so
as not to result in adverse accounting consequences for the Company) having a Fair Market
Value on the date of exercise equal to the full amount of the Exercise Price therefor,
(iii) in the discretion of the Committee, in



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accordance with a cashless exercise program; or (iv) such other form as may be
permitted by the Committee. Only one stock certificate will be issued unless Optionee
otherwise requests in writing. Shares purchased upon exercise of the Option will be issued
in the name of Optionee or Optionee’s permitted transferee. Optionee shall not be entitled
to any rights as a stockholder of the Company in respect of any Shares covered by this
Option until such shares of Stock shall have been paid for in full and issued to Optionee.




     (b)     Tax Withholding. By exercising the Option, Optionee agrees that, as a condition
to any exercise of the Option, the Company may require Optionee to provide for the payment
by Optionee to the Company of any tax withholding obligation of the Company arising by
reason of (1) the exercise of the Option, (2) the lapse of any substantial risk of
forfeiture to which the Shares are subject at the time of exercise, or (3) the disposition
of Shares acquired upon such exercise. At any time Optionee exercises the Option, in whole
or in part, or at any time as requested by the Company, Optionee hereby authorizes
withholding from payroll and any other amounts payable to Optionee (including from Shares
to be issued to Optionee), any sums required to satisfy the federal, state, local and
foreign tax withholding obligations of the Company, if any, which arise in connection with
the Option.




     (c)     Lock-up Period. By exercising the Option, Optionee agrees that the Company (or a
representative of the underwriter(s)) may, in connection with any underwritten registration
of the offering of any securities of the Company under the Securities Act (including the
Company’s Initial Public Offering), require that Optionee not sell, dispose of, transfer,
make any short sale of, grant any option for the purchase of, or enter into any hedging or
similar transaction with the same economic effect as a sale, any Shares or other securities
of the Company held by Optionee, for a period of time specified by the underwriter(s) (not
to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days) following the effective date of the registration
statement of the Company filed under the Securities Act. Optionee further agrees to
execute and deliver such other agreements as may be reasonably requested by the Company
and/or the underwriter(s) that are consistent with the foregoing or that are necessary to
give further effect thereto. In order to enforce the foregoing covenant, the Company may
impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to Optionee’s Shares until the end of such
period. The underwriters of the Company’s stock are intended third party beneficiaries of
this Subsection and shall have the right, power and authority to enforce the provisions
hereof as though they were a party hereto.



     6.     Certificates. Certificates issued in respect of Shares acquired upon exercise of the Option
shall, unless the Committee otherwise determines, be registered in the name of Optionee or
Optionee’s permitted transferee. So long as Optionee is not bound by any transfer restrictions
herein or in the Plan, the Company shall deliver such certificates to Optionee or Optionee’s
permitted transferee upon request. Such stock certificate shall carry such appropriate legends,
and such written instructions shall be given to the Company transfer agent, as may be deemed
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Company in order to comply with the requirements of the Securities Act, any state securities
laws or any other applicable laws.




     7.     Nontransferability of Option. This Option is personal to Optionee and may be exercised only
by Optionee or his or her representative in the event of Optionee’s Disability or death. Any
Option shall not be transferable other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution.
Following transfer, any such Option shall continue to be subject to the same terms and conditions
as were applicable immediately prior to transfer. The events of termination of employment or death
of Optionee set forth in the Plan shall continue to be applied with respect to Optionee, following
which the transferred Options shall be exercisable by the transferee only to the extent and for the
periods specified in the Plan.



     8.     Employment Rights. This Option does not confer on Optionee any right to continue in the
employ of the Company or any Subsidiary or interfere in any way with the right of the Company or
any Subsidiary to determine the terms of Optionee’s employment.



     9.     Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement. Optionee shall, as a condition precedent
to the exercise or settlement of an Award, have executed and be in compliance with the Company’s
(or its subsidiary’s) standard form of confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement.



     10.     Terms of Plan, Interpretations. This Option and the terms and conditions herein set forth
are subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Plan, which shall be controlling.
All interpretations or determinations of the Committee and/or the Board shall be binding and
conclusive upon Optionee and his legal representatives on any question arising hereunder. Optionee
acknowledges that he has received and reviewed a copy of the Plan.



     11.     Notices. All notices hereunder to the party shall be delivered or mailed to the following
addresses:



     If to the Company:




Smart Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc.

Attn: Stock Plan Administrator

4211 Starboard Drive

Fremont, California 94538




     If to Optionee:




To the person and at the address specified on the signature page or the last
address on the Company’s records for such person.



     Such addresses for the service of notices may be changed at any time provided notice of such
change is furnished in advance to the other party.



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     12.     Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties hereto
in respect of the subject matter contained herein. This Agreement and the Plan supersedes all
prior agreements and understandings between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter
hereof.



     13.     Governing Law. This Option Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the Cayman Islands, without, to the fullest extent permissible thereby,
application of the conflict of law principles thereof.



     14.     Counterparts. This Option Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon
the same instrument.



     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Option Agreement to be duly executed as
of the date first above written.


	 	 	 	 	 
	 	SMART MODULAR TECHNOLOGIES (WWH), INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	OPTIONEE:

 	 
	 	  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 




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