Document:

Exhibit 10.1

 

GSI TECHNOLOGY, INC.

2020 VARIABLE COMPENSATION PLAN

(Effective as of April 1, 2019)

 

1.                                            Introduction.  The Company hereby adopts the Plan, effective as of April 1, 2019.  The purpose of the Plan is to encourage performance and achieve retention of a select group of executive employees of GSI Technology, Inc.  This document constitutes the written instrument under which the Plan is maintained.

 

2.                                            Definitions.

 

“Cause” means (i) conviction of a felony or a crime of moral turpitude; (ii) misconduct that results in harm to the Company; (iii) material failure to perform assigned duties; or (iv) willful disregard of lawful instructions from the chief executive officer of the Company or the Board of Directors relating to the business of the Company or any of its affiliates.

 

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations issued with respect thereof.

 

“Committee” means the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors.

 

“Company” means GSI Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

“Disability” means that a Participant (i)  is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, or (ii)  is, by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, receiving income replacement benefits for a period of not less than 3 months under an accident and health plan covering employees of the Participant’s employer.

 

“Eligible Employee” means each employee who is eligible for the Plan as designated by the Committee as set forth in approved minutes.

 

“Operating Income” means the Company’s operating income for fiscal 2020, excluding (1) share based compensation, (2) acquisition-related costs and/or the impact of any completed acquisition, (3) patent/IP related litigation costs, (4) purchased intellectual property and (5) any adjustments as deemed necessary by the Committee for 2020.

 

“Normal Retirement Age” means age sixty (60).

 

“Participant” means each Eligible Employee who is designated from time to time by the Committee in writing.

 

“Plan” means the GSI Technology, Inc. 2020 Variable Compensation Plan, as set forth in this document and as hereafter amended.

 

 

“Retirement” means the termination of employment after Normal Retirement Age.

 

3.                                            Variable Compensation Award.

 

(a)                                 Variable Compensation Award and Calculation of Payable Amount. Each Participant will receive an award, entitling the Participant to earn variable compensation, the payment of which will be based upon (i) the achievement of performance criteria based on Associative Processing Unit (APU) milestones, operating income, net revenues and RadHard/RadTolerant net revenues determined in accordance with US GAAP, or a combination of the four and (ii) continued employment by the Participant through the vesting dates set forth in Section 4 hereof (the “Variable Compensation Award”).  The Committee shall designate in writing the amount payable under the Variable Compensation Award and, if applicable, the percentage of the amount payable under the Variable Compensation Award that is allocable to each of the criteria.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum amount payable under a Variable Compensation Award granted to any Participant shall not exceed two times the Participant’s target Variable Compensation Award for 2020, unless the Committee, in its sole discretion, decides to permit a greater amount with respect to such Participant based on the performance and condition of the Company’s business. Also, at any time prior to April 1, 2020, the Committee or the CEO, in his, her, or its sole discretion, may reduce the amount payable under any Participant’s Variable Compensation Award.  The amount of the Variable Compensation Award that may become payable to the extent it becomes vested in accordance with the schedule set forth in Section 4 hereof shall be calculated as soon as reasonably practicable following April 1, 2020 based on the extent to which the performance criteria set forth in this Section 3(a) have been achieved (the “Award Payment Amount”).

 

4.                                            Payment of Variable Compensation Award.

 

(a)                                 Vesting, Timing and Form of Payment. Subject to Sections 4(b), 4(c), 4(d) and 7, each Participant’s Award Payment Amount shall vest and be paid as follows:

 

(i)                                     Sixty percent (60%) of the Participant’s Award Payment Amount shall vest and be payable to the Participant on the last business day in April 2020; and

 

(ii)                                  Twenty percent (20%) of the Participant’s Award Payment Amount (i.e. fifty percent (50%) of the Award Payment Amount then remaining) shall vest and be payable to the Participant on the last business day in April 2021; and

 

(iii)                               Twenty percent (20%) of the Participant’s Award Payment Amount (i.e. one-hundred percent (100%) of the Award Payment Amount then remaining) shall vest and be payable to the Participant on the last business day in April 2022.

 

(b)                                 Distribution in the Event of Retirement, Termination as a result of Disability or without Cause. If a Participant terminates employment because of Retirement or Disability, or the Company terminates a Participant’s employment without Cause, the Participant shall be entitled to payment of all of his or her Award Payment Amount according to the schedule in Section 4(a), provided that if termination under these conditions occurs prior to April 1, 2020, the amount of the Variable Compensation Award

 

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payable will be the Award Payment Amount calculated pursuant to Section 3(a), multiplied by the number of days employee was employed in Fiscal 2020 by the Company and then divided by 365 days, and all remaining amounts payable under Variable Compensation Award for 2020 shall be forfeited.

 

(c)                                  Forfeiture. If the Company terminates a Participant’s employment for Cause or if the Participant’s employment is terminated for any reason other than as a result of Retirement or Disability, he or she shall forfeit all or any portion of his or her entire Award Payment Amount for 2020 (as set forth in Section 3(a)) which is not yet vested and payable under the schedule set forth in Section 4(a) as of the date of termination.

 

(d)                                 Timing of Distribution to a Beneficiary. If a Participant dies while still employed by the Company or after termination due to Retirement, Disability, or termination by the Company without Cause but before receiving a distribution of all of his or her Award Payment Amount according to the schedule in Section 4(a), then the vesting of the Participant’s Award Payment Amount shall be fully accelerated such that one-hundred percent (100%) of the Award Payment Amount, as calculated pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof (with the amount prorated to the date of death in the event death occurs prior to April 1, 2020), will be distributed to his or her beneficiary as a lump sum distribution on the April 30 following the Participant’s death.

 

(e)                                  Beneficiary Designation. Each Participant must designate a beneficiary to receive a distribution of his or her Variable Compensation Award if the Participant dies before such amount is fully distributed to him or her. To be effective, a beneficiary designation must be signed, dated and delivered to the Committee. In the absence of a valid or effective beneficiary designation, the Participant’s surviving spouse will be his or her beneficiary or, if there is no surviving spouse, the Participant’s estate will be his or her beneficiary. If a married Participant designates anyone other than his or her spouse as his or her beneficiary, such designation will be void unless it is signed and dated by the Participant’s spouse.

 

5.                                            Withholding. The Company will withhold from any Plan distribution all required federal, state, local and other taxes and any other payroll deductions that may be required.

 

6.                                            Administration.  The Committee has the full and exclusive discretion to interpret and administer the Plan. All actions, interpretations and decisions of the Committee are conclusive and binding on all persons, and will be given the maximum possible deference allowed by law.  Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall have full authority to select, in its sole discretion the Participants to whom Variable Compensation Awards will be granted.

 

7.                                            Amendment or Termination. Through March 31, 2020, the Committee, in its sole and unlimited discretion, may amend or terminate the Plan at any time, without prior notice to any Participant. After April 1, 2020, the Committee may amend or terminate the Plan provided that any such amendment does not reduce or increase any benefit to which a Participant has accrued and is otherwise entitled to under the terms of the Plan, nor accelerate the timing of any payment under the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing to the contrary, the Company reserves the right to the extent it deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion, to unilaterally alter

 

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or modify the Plan and any Variable Compensation Awards made thereunder to ensure that the Plan and Variable Compensation Awards provided to Participants who are U.S. taxpayers are made in such a manner that either qualify for exemption from or comply with Code Section 409A; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations that the Plan or any Variable Compensation Awards made thereunder will be exempt from or comply with Code Section 409A and makes no undertaking to preclude Code Section 409A from applying to the Plan or any Variable Compensation Awards made thereunder. The Plan shall automatically terminate on the date when no Participant (or beneficiary) has any right to or expectation of payment of further benefits under the Plan.

 

8.                                            Source of Payments. All payments under the Plan will be paid in cash from the general funds of the Company. No separate fund will be established under the Plan, and the Plan will have no assets. Any right of any person to receive any payment under the Plan is no greater than the right of any other general unsecured creditor of the Company.  The Plan shall be binding upon the Company’s successors and assigns.

 

9.                                            Inalienability. A Participant’s rights to benefits under the Plan are not subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, attachment, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary.

 

10.                                     Applicable Law. The provisions of the Plan will be construed, administered and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of California without reference to its principles of conflicts-of-laws.

 

11.                                     Severability. If any provision of the Plan is held invalid or unenforceable, its invalidity or unenforceability will not affect any other provision of the Plan, and the Plan will be construed and enforced as if such provision had not been included.

 

12.                                     No Right of Continued Employment.  THE PLAN DOES NOT GIVE ANY ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE OR PARTICIPANT THE RIGHT TO BE RETAINED AS AN EMPLOYEE. SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF ANY WRITTEN EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT TO THE CONTRARY, THE COMPANY SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE OR CHANGE THE TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT OF AN ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE OR A PARTICIPANT AT ANY TIME AND FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE.

 

13.                                     Bindings on Successor.  The liabilities and obligations of the Company under the Plan will be binding upon any successor corporation or entity which succeeds to all or substantially all of the assets and business of the Company by merger or other transaction.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, GSI Technology, Inc., by its duly authorized officer, has executed the Plan on the date indicated below.

 

	
GSI   TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    
	
 
    
	
/s/   Lee-Lean Shu
    	
 
    
	
Name:   Lee-Lean Shu
    	
 
    
	
Title:   Chief Executive Officer
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Date:
    	
 
    	
 
    
			

 

5PROMISSORY NOTE

 

	$7.600.00	December 4, 2018

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
the undersigned, Magna-Lab Inc., a New York corporation (“Borrower”), HEREBY PROMISES TO PAY to
the order of Magna Acquisition LLC or its registered assigns ( “Lender”), in lawful money of the United
States of America, in the manner and at the times provided hereinafter, the principal sum of Seven Thousand Six Hundred Dollars
(US$7,600), together with Interest (as hereinafter defined) and Default Interest (as hereinafter defined) and all other amounts
due and payable pursuant to and in accordance with terms of this Note.

 

Interest shall accrue
on the unpaid principal amount of this Note from the date hereof until such principal amount is paid in full. “Interest”
shall mean twelve percent (12%) per annum. Interest shall be computed on the actual number of days elapsed, predicated on a year
consisting of three hundred and sixty (360) days.

 

Default Interest, if
any, shall be payable on demand. “Default Interest” shall mean interest computed at fifteen percent (15%) per
annum, on (i) the entire principal balance of this Note from time to time unpaid from and after such amounts becomes due and payable
(whether upon maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), and (ii) any and all other unpaid amounts due pursuant to the terms and
provisions of this Note (including, but not limited to, accrued and unpaid Interest) from and after the respective date(s) on which
those amounts become due and payable, whether upon maturity, by acceleration or otherwise; in each case from and after the expiration
of any applicable grace period. Default Interest shall be computed on the actual number of days elapsed, predicated on a year consisting
of three hundred and sixty (360) days. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, for any period in which Default
Interest is accruing on the entire unpaid principal balance hereunder, Interest shall not accrue. Default Interest shall compound
on an annual basis.

 

Unless otherwise accelerated
pursuant to the terms hereof, this Note shall mature and all outstanding and unpaid principal and Interest shall be due and payable
on the date that is 120 days from and after the date hereof.

 

This Note may be prepaid,
in whole or in part, at any time by Borrower without premium or penalty. Any prepayment of this Note shall be accompanied by payment
of any Interest accrued and unpaid through the date of such prepayment, and all Default Interest, if any, accrued and unpaid through
the date of such prepayment.

 

Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained herein, upon the occurrence of any one or more of: (i) a default in the payment of any amounts due hereunder
and a failure to cure such default within five (5) business days, or (ii) a default hereunder, and the expiration of any grace
period applicable to any default as set forth herein, then at the sole option and discretion of Lender, and without further demand
or notice of any kind, the following shall become immediately due and payable:

 

		1.	the aggregate principal amount of this Note outstanding and remaining unpaid hereunder;

 

		2.	unpaid Interest;

 

		3.	Default Interest; and

 

		4.	all other indebtedness evidence by this Note.

 

     

     

    

 

The following shall constitute events of
default hereunder: (i) the assignment for the benefit of creditors by Borrower; (ii) the application for the appointment of a receiver
for Borrower or for the property of Borrower; (iii) the filing of a petition in bankruptcy by or against Borrower; (iv) the issuance
of an attachment or the entry of a judgment against Borrower; (v) a default by Borrower with respect to any other indebtedness
due to Lender; (vi) the making or sending of a notice of an intended bulk sale by Borrower; (vii) the merger, consolidation, termination
of existence, dissolution or insolvency of Borrower; (viii) the good faith determination by Lender that it deems itself insecure
or that a material adverse change in the financial condition of Borrower has occurred since the date hereof and that Lender’s
prospect of payment hereunder has been impaired; or (ix) any breach or default under any indebtedness of Borrower to any banking
or financial institution, and the expiration of any grace period applicable to such breach or default.

 

If Borrower fails to
pay any amounts when due hereunder, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, or if there occurs any event which entitles
Lender to accelerate the indebtedness due under this Note and any grace period applicable to any such failure to pay or event as
set forth herein expires, then Lender shall have all of the rights and remedies provided to it hereunder, and at law or in equity.
The remedies of Lender, as provided herein, shall be cumulative and concurrent, and may be pursued singularly, successively, or
otherwise, at the sole discretion of Lender, and may be exercised as often as occasion therefor shall arise. Lender may resort
for payment hereunder to any of security for, or any guaranty of, this Note whether or not Lender shall have resorted for payment
hereunder to any other security for or guaranty of this Note. No act or omission of Lender, including specifically any failure
to exercise any right, remedy or recourse, shall be deemed to be a waiver or release of the same, such waiver or release to be
effected only through a written document executed by Lender and then only to the extent specifically recited therein. A waiver
or release with reference to any one event shall not be construed as continuing, as a bar to, or as a waiver or release of, any
subsequent right, remedy, or recourse as to a subsequent event. If this Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection
or is collected on advice of counsel or through any legal proceeding, Borrower promises to pay, to the extent permitted by law,
court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by Lender. Borrower hereby waives presentment, demand, notice of dishonor
or nonpayment, protest and notice of protest in connection therewith.

 

If any provision of
this Note is unenforceable, invalid or contrary to law, or its inclusion herein would affect the validity, legality or enforcement
of this Note, such provision shall be limited to the extent necessary to render the same valid or shall be excised from this Note,
as the circumstances require, and this Note shall be construed as if said provision had been incorporated herein as so limited
or as if said provision had not been included herein, as the case may be.

 

Time is of the essence
of this Note.

 

Upon maturity or following
the occurrence of any event which entitles Lender to accelerate the indebtedness evidenced hereby, all payments received on account
of the indebtedness evidenced hereby shall be applied, in whatever order, combination and amounts as Lender, in its sole and absolute
discretion, decides, to all costs, expenses and other indebtedness, if any, owing to Lender by reason of this Note; Default Interest,
Interest; and principal.

 

This Note, and the
terms and provisions hereof, shall be binding upon Borrower and its successors, administrators, and assigns, and shall inure to
the benefit of any holder hereof.

 

All amounts due hereunder
shall be paid without deduction, set-off or counterclaim, Borrower expressly waiving any such rights to deduction, set-off or counterclaim.

 

     

     

    

 

Notwithstanding any
provisions to the contrary contained in this Note or in any of the other documents or instruments referred to in this Note, if
at any time or times the interest and any sums considered for such purposes to be interest, payable under or by reason of this
Note or any such other documents or instruments, should exceed the maximum which, by the laws of the State having jurisdiction,
may be charged with respect to the loan evidenced hereby, given the nature and all of the pertinent circumstances of such loan,
than all such sums in excess of such maximum shall be deemed not to be interest, but rather to be payments on account of principal,
and without further agreement of the parties shall be so applied without regard to any other provision of this Note, provided that
Lender may elect instead that no sums shall be payable in excess of such maximum, whereupon this Note, and such other documents
and instruments hall be deemed amended accordingly without further action by any party.

 

This Note shall inure
to the benefit of Lender and its successors and assigns and shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of
the State of Delaware.

 

	 	MAGNA-LAB INC., a New York corporation
	 	 
	 	By /s/Lawrence A Minkoff
	 	      Name: Lawrence A. Minkoff
	 	      Title: Chairman and President

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