Actel Corp. Added to S&P SmallCap 600 Index.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2000 Standard & Poor's will replace Visio Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :VSIO) in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index with Actel Corp. (NASDAQ:ACTL ACTL American College of Trial Lawyers (Irvine, California) ACTL Access Carrier Terminal Location ACTL Activation Library ACTL Automated Compatibility Test Laboratory ACTL Association Cultural Turkey-Luxembourg ) after the close of trading on Friday, January 7, 2000. S&P 500 component Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) is acquiring Visio Corp. in a transaction anticipated to close on that date. The transaction is still subject to certain closing conditions. Actel Corp. designs, develops, and markets field programmable gate arrays (FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. ) and associated development system software and programming hardware. The company, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , will be added to the S&P SmallCap 600 Electronics (Semiconductors) industry group. Following is a summary of the announced changes:
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S&P SMALLCAP 600 INDEX--January 7, 2000
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COMPANY ECONOMIC SECTOR INDUSTRY GROUP
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ADDED Actel Corp. Technology Electronics
(Semiconductors)
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DROPPED Visio Corp. Technology Computers
(Software & Services)
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