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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November&nbsp;6, 2009
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>QLOGIC CORPORATION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top">Delaware<BR>
(State or Other Jurisdiction of <BR>
Incorporation or Organization)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">33-0537669<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">26650 Aliso Viejo Parkway<BR>
Aliso Viejo, California 92656<BR>
(Address, Including Zip Code, of Principal Executive Offices)</DIV>

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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>QLogic Corporation<BR>
2005 Performance Incentive Plan</B><BR>
(Full Title of the Plan)</DIV>

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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Simon Biddiscombe<BR>
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer<BR>
QLogic Corporation<BR>
26650 Aliso Viejo Parkway<BR>
Aliso Viejo, California 92656<BR>
(949)&nbsp;389-6000<BR>
(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">COPY TO:</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Gary J. Singer, Esq.<BR>
O&#146;Melveny &#038; Myers LLP<BR>
610 Newport Center Drive, 17<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">th</SUP> Floor<BR>
Newport Beach, CA 92660</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the
definitions of &#147;large accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer,&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting
company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
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<TD>Large accelerated filer&nbsp;<FONT face="Wingdings">&#254;</FONT></TD>
<TD align="center">Accelerated filer&nbsp;<FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD align="center">Non-accelerated filer&nbsp;<FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT><BR>(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)</TD>
<TD align="right">Smaller reporting company&nbsp;<FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT></TD>
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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock,
$0.001 par value
per share issuable
under the QLogic
Corporation 2005
Performance
Incentive Plan</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">8,296,941</TD>
    <TD nowrap style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(1)</SUP> Shares</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">17.69</TD>
    <TD nowrap style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(2)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">146,772,887</TD>
    <TD nowrap style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(2)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">8,190</TD>
    <TD nowrap style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(2)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>This Registration Statement covers, in addition to the number of shares of QLogic Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(the &#147;Company&#148; or the &#147;Registrant&#148;), common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the &#147;Common Stock&#148;), stated above, options and other
rights to purchase or acquire the shares of Common Stock covered by this Registration Statement and, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), an additional indeterminate number of shares, options and rights that
may be offered or issued pursuant to the QLogic Corporation 2005 Performance Incentive Plan, as amended (the &#147;Plan&#148;), as a result of
one or more adjustments under the Plan to prevent dilution resulting from one or more stock splits, stock dividends or similar
transactions.</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Securities Act Rule&nbsp;457(h), the maximum offering price, per share and in the aggregate, and the
registration fee were calculated based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on November&nbsp;2, 2009, as
quoted on the NASDAQ Global Market.</TD>
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    <TD>The Exhibit&nbsp;Index for this Registration Statement is at page 7.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Registration Statement is filed by the Company to register additional securities issuable
pursuant to the Plan and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form
S-8.
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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE<BR>
SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

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given to participants as specified by Securities Act Rule&nbsp;428(b)(1).
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following documents of the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&#147;Commission&#148;) are incorporated herein by reference:
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    <TD>The Company&#146;s Registration Statements on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on
June&nbsp;9, 2006 and November&nbsp;7, 2008 (Commission File Nos. 333-134877 and 333-155220);</TD>
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    <TD>The Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended March&nbsp;29,
2009, filed with the Commission on May&nbsp;21, 2009 (Commission File No.&nbsp;000-23298);</TD>
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    <TD>The Company&#146;s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarters ended June
28, 2009, filed with the Commission on July&nbsp;29, 2009, and September&nbsp;27, 2009, filed
with the Commission on October&nbsp;29, 2009 (Commission File No.&nbsp;000-23298);</TD>
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    <TD>The Company&#146;s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on April
30, 2009 (with respect to Item&nbsp;8.01 only), May&nbsp;28, 2009 and August&nbsp;21, 2009 (Commission
File No.&nbsp;000-23298); and</TD>
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    <TD>The description of the Company&#146;s Common Stock contained in its Registration
Statement on Form&nbsp;10/A filed with the Commission on February&nbsp;15, 1994 (Commission File
No.&nbsp;000-23298), and any other amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 and
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or
which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained
herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The validity of the issuance of Common Stock registered hereby is passed on for the Company by
Michael L. Hawkins. Mr.&nbsp;Hawkins is the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the
Company and is compensated by the Company as an employee. Mr.&nbsp;Hawkins owns 9,853 shares of Common
Stock, 44,925 restricted stock units that are payable in an
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">equivalent number of shares of Common Stock, and Company stock options to acquire up to an
additional 405,000 shares of Common Stock. Mr.&nbsp;Hawkins is eligible to receive stock awards by the
Company under the 2005 Plan and is eligible to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See the attached Exhibit&nbsp;Index at page 7, which is incorporated herein by reference.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Aliso Viejo, State of California, on November&nbsp;6, 2009.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">QLOGIC CORPORATION<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>

<TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/
Simon Biddiscombe&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Simon Biddiscombe&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints H.K Desai and Simon
Biddiscombe, and each of them, acting individually and without the other, as his or her true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or
her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them individually, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been
signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ H. K. Desai<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
H. K. Desai
</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
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<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Simon Biddiscombe
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">November&nbsp;5, 2009</TD>
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Joel S. Birnbaum
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
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<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
James R. Fiebiger
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
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Balakrishnan S. Iyer
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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</TD>
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Kathryn B. Lewis
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
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<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
George D. Wells
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">QLogic Corporation 2005 Performance Incentive Plan, Amended and Restated Effective July&nbsp;16,
2009. (Filed as Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 of the Registrant&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K filed with the
Commission on August&nbsp;21, 2009 (Commission File No.&nbsp;000-23298) and incorporated herein by this
reference.)</TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 6, 2009
Registration No.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
QLOGIC CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
33-0537669
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
26650 Aliso Viejo Parkway
Aliso Viejo, California 92656
(Address, Including Zip Code, of Principal Executive Offices)
QLogic Corporation
2005 Performance Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Simon Biddiscombe
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
QLogic Corporation
26650 Aliso Viejo Parkway
Aliso Viejo, California 92656
(949) 389-6000
(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
COPY TO:
Gary J. Singer, Esq.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
610 Newport Center Drive, 17
th
Floor
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the
definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," and "smaller reporting
company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer
þ
Accelerated filer
o
Non-accelerated filer
o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company
o
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
Proposed
Maximum
Maximum
Title Of
Amount
Offering
Aggregate
Amount Of
Securities
To Be
Price
Offering
Registration
To Be Registered
Registered
Per Share
Price
Fee
Common Stock,
$0.001 par value
per share issuable
under the QLogic
Corporation 2005
Performance
Incentive Plan
8,296,941
(1)
Shares
$
17.69
(2)
$
146,772,887
(2)
$
8,190
(2)
(1)
This Registration Statement covers, in addition to the number of shares of QLogic Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(the "Company" or the "Registrant"), common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), stated above, options and other
rights to purchase or acquire the shares of Common Stock covered by this Registration Statement and, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), an additional indeterminate number of shares, options and rights that
may be offered or issued pursuant to the QLogic Corporation 2005 Performance Incentive Plan, as amended (the "Plan"), as a result of
one or more adjustments under the Plan to prevent dilution resulting from one or more stock splits, stock dividends or similar
transactions.
(2)
Pursuant to Securities Act Rule 457(h), the maximum offering price, per share and in the aggregate, and the
registration fee were calculated based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on November 2, 2009, as
quoted on the NASDAQ Global Market.
The Exhibit Index for this Registration Statement is at page 7.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
PART I
PART II
Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Item 8. Exhibits
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement is filed by the Company to register additional securities issuable
pursuant to the Plan and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form
S-8.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or
given to participants as specified by Securities Act Rule 428(b)(1).
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
The following documents of the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") are incorporated herein by reference:
(a)
The Company's Registration Statements on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on
June 9, 2006 and November 7, 2008 (Commission File Nos. 333-134877 and 333-155220);
(b)
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended March 29,
2009, filed with the Commission on May 21, 2009 (Commission File No. 000-23298);
(c)
The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarters ended June
28, 2009, filed with the Commission on July 29, 2009, and September 27, 2009, filed
with the Commission on October 29, 2009 (Commission File No. 000-23298);
(d)
The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on April
30, 2009 (with respect to Item 8.01 only), May 28, 2009 and August 21, 2009 (Commission
File No. 000-23298); and
(e)
The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in its Registration
Statement on Form 10/A filed with the Commission on February 15, 1994 (Commission File
No. 000-23298), and any other amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or
which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained
herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
The validity of the issuance of Common Stock registered hereby is passed on for the Company by
Michael L. Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins is the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the
Company and is compensated by the Company as an employee. Mr. Hawkins owns 9,853 shares of Common
Stock, 44,925 restricted stock units that are payable in an
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equivalent number of shares of Common Stock, and Company stock options to acquire up to an
additional 405,000 shares of Common Stock. Mr. Hawkins is eligible to receive stock awards by the
Company under the 2005 Plan and is eligible to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Item 8. Exhibits
See the attached Exhibit Index at page 7, which is incorporated herein by reference.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Aliso Viejo, State of California, on November 6, 2009.
QLOGIC CORPORATION
By:
/s/
Simon Biddiscombe
Simon Biddiscombe
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints H.K Desai and Simon
Biddiscombe, and each of them, acting individually and without the other, as his or her true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or
her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them individually, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been
signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ H. K. Desai
H. K. Desai
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
November 5, 2009
/s/ Simon Biddiscombe
Simon Biddiscombe
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
November 5, 2009
Joel S. Birnbaum
Director
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Signature
Title
Date
/s/ James R. Fiebiger
James R. Fiebiger
Director
November 5, 2009
/s/ Balakrishnan S. Iyer
Balakrishnan S. Iyer
Director
November 5, 2009
/s/ Kathryn B. Lewis
Kathryn B. Lewis
Director
November 5, 2009
/s/ George D. Wells
George D. Wells
Director
November 5, 2009
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description of Exhibit
4.
QLogic Corporation 2005 Performance Incentive Plan, Amended and Restated Effective July 16,
2009. (Filed as Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
Commission on August 21, 2009 (Commission File No. 000-23298) and incorporated herein by this
reference.)
5.
Opinion of Company Counsel (opinion re: legality).
23.1
Consent of KPMG LLP (consent of independent registered public accounting firm).
23.2
Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5).
24.
Power of Attorney (included in this Registration Statement under "Signatures").