As noted in Item 5.07 below, amendments to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of KLA-Tencor Corporation (the "Company") to declassify the Company's Board of Directors (collectively, the "Certificate Amendments") were approved by the Company's stockholders at the Company's fiscal year 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on November 7, 2012 (the "2012 Annual Meeting"). The amendments have also been approved by the Company's Board of Directors, effective upon the approval of such amendments by the Company's stockholders at the 2012 Annual Meeting. The Certificate Amendments were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on November 8, 2012 and became effective as of November 8, 2012.

In addition, the Company's Board of Directors approved amendments to Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Article II of the Company's Amended and Restated Bylaws to declassify the Company's Board of Directors consistent with the Certificate Amendments, effective as of the date of approval of the Certificate Amendments by the Company's stockholders at the 2012 Annual Meeting (i.e., November 7, 2012).

The descriptions above are qualified in their entirety by the Certificate Amendments and the Amended and Restated Bylaws, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

As noted in Item 5.03 above, the Company held its 2012 Annual Meeting on November 7, 2012. Of the 166,793,170 shares of the Company's common stock outstanding as of September 18, 2012 (the record date), 149,478,007 shares, or 89.62%, were present or represented by proxy at the 2012 Annual Meeting. Four proposals were considered at the 2012 Annual Meeting.

Proposal One. The stockholders elected the Company's four Class II nominees to the Company's Board of Directors to each serve for a three-year term, each until his successor is duly elected. The table below presents the results of the election:

Name                For      Withheld  Broker Non-Votes
Robert P. Akins 90,752,388  44,658,962    14,066,657
Robert T. Bond  133,234,705 2,176,645     14,066,657
Kiran M. Patel  134,651,026  760,324      14,066,657
David C. Wang   134,673,111  738,239      14,066,657

The Company's Class I directors (Robert M. Calderoni, John T. Dickson and Kevin J. Kennedy) and Class III Directors (Edward W. Barnholt, Emiko Higashi, Stephen P. Kaufman and Richard P. Wallace) were not subject to reelection at the 2012 Annual Meeting, and their respective terms of office as members of the Board of Directors continued after the meeting.

Proposal Two. The stockholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013. The table below presents the voting results on this proposal:
For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 146,530,514 2,686,072 261,421 0

Proposal Three. The stockholders approved a proposal to amend the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to declassify the Company's Board of Directors. The table below presents the voting results on this proposal:

For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 135,012,083 244,741 154,526 14,066,657

Proposal Four. The stockholders approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company's Proxy Statement. The table below presents the voting results on this proposal:

For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 131,115,788 3,597,231 698,331 14,066,657

In its meeting held on November 7, 2012, the Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of Directors approved technical amendments to the Company's 2010 Executive Severance Plan (the "2010 Severance Plan") to bring the provisions of the 2010 Severance Plan into documentary compliance with the applicable requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code and the Treasury regulations issued thereunder (collectively, "Section 409A") and thereby continue to facilitate the administration of the 2010 Severance Plan in compliance with those requirements. In its meeting held on November 8, 2012, the independent members of the Company's Board of Directors approved identical technical amendments to the Company's Executive Severance Plan (the "Original Severance Plan"), a plan under which the Company's Chief Executive Officer participates. The Company does not deem the amendments to either the 2010 Severance Plan or the Original Severance Plan to be material. Specifically, the following amendments to the 2010 Severance Plan and Original Severance Plan were approved:

•            Section 3(a) of each plan was revised to state more explicitly that
             a participant's execution and delivery of a general waiver and
             release (a "Required Release"), within a specified number of days
             set forth in the applicable plan after the date of the participant's
             separation from service, is a pre-condition to receiving severance
             benefits under the applicable plan;


•            Section 3(a) of each plan was further revised to state that the
             effective date of the Required Release must be on or before the date
             that is 60 days following the participant's separation from service;


•            A new Section 3(a)(i) was added to each plan, which states that, if
             a separation from service occurs at a time during the calendar year
             when the Required Release could potentially become effective in the
             calendar year following the calendar year in which the separation
             from service occurs (whether or not it actually becomes effective in
             the following year), then any severance payments and benefits under
             the applicable plan that would constitute an item of deferred
             compensation under Section 409A will be paid on the first normal
             payroll run to occur during the calendar year following the calendar
             year in which such separation from service occurs, or, if later, (A)
             the first normal payroll run

after the Required Release actually becomes effective, or (B) such time as otherwise required by the plan; and

•            Sections 4(b), (c) and (d) of each plan were each revised to state
             that the first payment of benefits under such section will begin on
             the first normal payroll run after the Required Release becomes
             effective, except as required by the new Section 3(a)(i) summarized
             above.

The foregoing description of the amendments to the 2010 Severance Plan and the Original Severance Plan is qualified in its entirety by reference to the 2010 Severance Plan and Original Severance Plan, complete copies of which will be attached as exhibits to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ending December 31, 2012, which the Company expects to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or prior to February 11, 2013.

In its meeting held on November 7, 2012, the Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of Directors also approved a technical amendment to Section 8.3 of the Company's Executive Deferred Savings Plan ("EDSP") to provide that any EDSP participant who makes a hardship withdrawal from the Company's 401(k) plan will not be eligible to make any deferral elections under the EDSP for the then-subsequent plan year. The Company does not deem the amendment to the EDSP to be material.

The foregoing description of the amendment to the EDSP is qualified in its entirety by reference to the EDSP, which will be attached as an exhibit to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ending December 31, 2012, which the Company expects to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or prior to February 11, 2013.

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibits are filed herewith:

Exhibit No.   Description
    3.1       Certificate of Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of
              Incorporation of the Company effective as of November 8, 2012
    3.2       Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company effective as of November
              7, 2012