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The "STAR" ranking system looks at the financial performance of 136 chip makers and ranks them by percent gain in revenues for the current quarter compared to the previous quarter. From this pool, only those which were consistently profitable make it to the final InsideChips financial performance STAR category. Often, many semiconductor companies achieve good revenue gains but are not generating those sales profitably.
The InsideChips semiconductor financial performance STARs for Q3-2006 are:
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# Company # STARS President/CEO
1 Microchip Technology 3-STAR Steve Sanghi
2 Supertex 2-STAR Henry Pao
3 Micrel 2-STAR Raymond Zinn
4 Diodes (acquired by APD Semi) 1-STAR Keh-Shew Lu
5 Hittite Microwave 1-STAR Stephen Daly
6 Techwell 1-STAR Hiro Kozato
7 NVIDIA 1-STAR Jen-Hsun Huang
8 SMART Modular Technologies 1-STAR Iain MacKenzie
9 Altera 1-STAR John Daane
10 DSP Group 1-STAR Tal Simchony
11 STMicroelectronics 1-STAR Carlo Bozotti
12 Actel 1-STAR John East
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Source: InsideChips.com
The number of "STARs" designated refers to the number of quarters in which the company was on the STAR list since InsideChips initiated the STAR rating system for chip companies (January 1, 2006). The rankings are sorted primarily by the number of STARs and, secondarily, by the percentage gain in revenues since the year-ago quarter.
InsideChips members have access to complete financial performance details of 136 public semiconductor firms including being able to download an Excel table of all chip companies measured.
About InsideChips:
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