Semiconductors

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Robert Herb to the Company's Board of Directors and Compensation Committee. Mr. Herb brings to the Board more than thirty years' experience in the semiconductor and information technology...

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, and Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: LSCC) today announced a multi-year extension of their OEM agreement for Synopsys' Synplify^® FPGA...

Below are the top semiconductor-specialized stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of dividend yield. Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP) has a dividend yield of 3.60%. Microchip's shares closed at $39.29 on Friday. Himax Technologies (NASDAQ: HIMX) has a dividend yield of 3.40%. Himax's shares closed at...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Mark Jensen to the Company's Board of Directors and Audit Committee. For more than thirty years, Mr. Jensen has provided audit and financial consulting services to high technology companies....

Microchip Technology Incorporated (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today revised its financial guidance for its fiscal first quarter of 2014 ending June 30, 2013. Microchip now expects net sales to be up between 4% and 7%...

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, through its Silicon Storage Technology (SST) subsidiary, and Novocell Semiconductor, Inc. (Novocell) today announced that Microchip and SST have signed a definitive...

Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the expansion of its Embedded Code Source (http://www.microchip.com/get/VR4C) application store and embedded user community for PIC® MCU software/firmware code...

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced a new addition to its 16-bit PIC^® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with the low cost PIC24F “KM” family. This family offers up to 16 KB Flash, 2 KB RAM and...

Below are the top mid-cap semiconductor-specialized stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of cash. NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) had $3.73 billion in total cash for the latest quarter. However, NVIDIA had $19.00 million in total debt for the same period. Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) had $1.69 billion in...

Below are the top semiconductor-specialized stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of dividend yield. Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP) has a dividend yield of 3.90%. Microchip's shares closed at $36.74 yesterday. Linear Technology (NASDAQ: LLTC) has a dividend yield of 2.70%. Linear Technology's shares...

Below are the top mid-cap semiconductor-specialized stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Linear Technology (NASDAQ: LLTC) is 56.66%. Linear Technology's revenue for the same period is $1.28 billion. The trailing-twelve-month...

LSI Corporation (NASDAQ: LSI) today announced that the LSI^® Nytro^™ WarpDrive^® family of application acceleration PCIe^® flash cards has been validated for use with NetApp^® Flash Accel software. Together, LSI and NetApp are offering complete server flash caching solutions that speed application...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program pursuant to which up to $20 million of its outstanding common stock may be repurchased from time to time. The duration of the repurchase program is twelve months....