Date updated:06-22-2009
OK OK Semis I am so clueless on, even though I built the computer I am working on...so in Four Portfolios I am going to break them down and try to understand the Semiconductor. First up is the Memory Chip...you know it appears it is just your Memory Stick...my favs that I would buy are all private names...figures.

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SNDK
Sandisk Corporati - $20.24
- +0.60%
- $19.90
No Analysis added

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SSTI
Silicon Storage T - $2.48
- +3.33%
- $2.37
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RMTR
Ramtron Internati - $2.06
- +17.05%
- $1.90
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RMBS
Rambus - $18.10
- -1.36%
- $18.24
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NETL
Netlogic Microsys - $41.61
- -2.23%
- $42.35
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NLST
Netlist - $7.27
- +28.22%
- $6.22
delisted notice....forty cent stock.

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MIPS
Mips Technologies - $3.88
- -0.51%
- $3.96
Missed last qtr, loves to issue PR's, sold off one of it's units..Financial Results Highlighting Continued Positive Cash Flow MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS - News), a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today reported consolidated financial results for its third quarter fiscal 2009 ended March 31, 2009. All financial results are reported in U.S. GAAP unless otherwise noted. Revenue for the third quarter was $22.7 million, a 14% decline compared with the prior quarter revenue of $26.4 million and a 17% decline from the $27.3 million reported in the third fiscal quarter a year ago. The Q3 sequential revenue decrease was anticipated and reflects the softness in the consumer electronics and semiconductor industry. Revenue from royalties was $10.9 million, a decrease of $2.1 million or 16 percent from the prior quarter and $1.7 million or 13 percent from the $12.6 million reported in the third quarter a year ago. The sequential decrease in royalty revenue was a result of lower licensee unit volumes compared with the prior quarter and is consistent with lower consumer electronics spending. Licensee units declined 15 percent sequentially to 107 million units and also declined 7 percent on a year to year basis. Contract and license revenue was $11.8 million, a decrease of 12 percent from the $13.4 million reported in the prior quarter and a 20 percent decrease from the $14.8 million reported in the third quarter a year ago. Total costs of sales and operating expense, excluding restructuring charges, increased $0.2 million to $21.1 million from $20.9 million in the previous quarter mainly reflecting the absence of certain one-time credits incurred in Q2 fiscal 2009. The Company's fiscal Q3 2009 GAAP net loss was $0.8 million or $0.02 per share on a diluted basis. This compares with a net income of $5.0 million or $0.11 per basic and diluted share in the prior quarter and a net loss of $4.3 million or $0.10 per share in the third quarter a year ago. Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2009, which excludes the effect of equity based compensation expense, restructuring costs, and certain costs related to the acquisition of Chipidea, was $2.8 million or $0.06 per diluted share. This compares to the non-GAAP net income of $8.5 million or $0.19 per diluted share in the prior quarter and a net income of $2.4 million or $0.05 per diluted share in the third quarter a year ago. The tables below provide a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures reported in this release to the corresponding GAAP results. The Company's Q3 2009 ending cash balance was $21.1 million, an improvement of $0.6 million and $5.9 million from the previous quarter and the period ending one year ago respectively. Included in the positive net cash inflows were certain net liability and debt repayments of $3.4 million and outflows related to restructurings of $1.1 million. "Q3 marks the third quarter in a row of positive cash flow for MIPS as we continue strengthening our financial position despite a weakening market," said John Bourgoin, president and CEO. "MIPS is well positioned with an excellent and unique product line leveraging advanced multi-threading, multicore, and high performance single core products that are generating good profits," said Bourgoin. MIPS Technologies invites you to listen in a live conference call to management's discussion of Q3 fiscal 2009 results, as well as guidance for Q4 fiscal 2009. The conference call number is 210-839-8502 and the replay number is 203-369-0164. The password for both calls is MIPS. The replay will be available for 30 days shortly following the end of the conference call. An audio replay of the conference call will also be posted on the company's website at: www.mips.com/company/investor-relations/. About MIPS Technologies, Inc. MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS - News) is the world's second largest semiconductor design IP company and the number one analog IP company worldwide. With more than 250 customers around the globe, MIPS Technologies is the only company that provides a combined portfolio of processors, analog IP and software tools for the embedded market. The company powers some of the world's most popular products for the digital entertainment, home networking, wireless, and portable media markets--including broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer devices from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, contact (650) 567-5000 or visit www.mips.com. Forward Looking Statements

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MU
Micron Technology - $7.26
- +1.97%
- $7.05
They report this Thursday 6/25...they have missed all their past qtrs...will read cc when it post...this is profile from Yahoo Finance...Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR, DDR2, DDR3, synchronous DRAM, and other specialty DRAM memory products, such as mobile DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain memory content when power is turned off; and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor image sensors that capture and process images into pictures or video for various consumer and industrial applications. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as Web-based customer direct sales division. Micron Technology has joint ventures with Intel Corp. to develop and manufacture NAND flash memory products; Singapore Economic Development Board, Canon, Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company to manufacture memory products in Singapore; Nanya Technology Corporation to manufacture stack DRAM products; and Photronics, Inc. to produce photomasks for advanced next generation semiconductors. It also has strategic technology collaboration with Infineon Technologies AG for the development of high-density subscriber identity module cards reaching beyond 128 megabytes. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
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hours.
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