InsideChips.com Ranks Financial Performance of Publicly Held Chip Companies.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BELLINGHAM, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2002

InsideChips.com, publishers of the monthly InsideChips.Ventures newsletter, has released its Q2 2002 Scoreboard, a quarterly feature that details the financial performance of publicly held semiconductor companies.

Usually available only to InsideChips' members, Scoreboard is available during the month of October for general download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at www.insidechips.com.

InsideChips' Scoreboard includes current-, previous-, and year-ago-quarter revenues and earnings; year-to-date revenues and earnings; and year-ago year-to-date revenues and earnings. Companies are ranked in the Scoreboard by percent gain in revenue compared to the year-ago-quarter.

For the second quarter in a row, Ramtron International Ramtron International is the main vendor of FRAM chips.

creator of ESDRAM: Ramtron Ships World's Fastest Synchronous DRAM

"frequently used in place of fast SRAM in high performance embedded systems such as communications, DSP, and computer boards."

led the top-five-performing companies with a Q2'02 revenue gain of 277% over the year-ago-quarter. Tripath Technology was next at 239%, then Silicon Laboratories at 155%, Echelon at 125%, and Genesis Microchip Genesis Microchip Inc. is a leading edge world wide supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for video processors in flat panel LCD TVs and Monitors. Founded in 1987 by Paul Russo [9] in Markham, Ontario, Canada and it became a public company in 1998 [10] and now at 95%. The bottom-five performers were TVIA TVIA Tasmanian Vine Improvement Association (Australia) at -71%, MOSAID Technologies at -65%, Alliance Semiconductor at -64%, JDS Uniphase JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU) NASDAQ: JDSU is a company that manufactures and designs products for fiber optic communication and test equipment. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California, USA. at -63%, and Transwitch at -59%. In total, the Scoreboard lists the financial performance of 116 semiconductor companies.

InsideChips' Q2'02 Scoreboard is available now at www.insidechips.com. Simply follow the directions for downloading downloading - download the PDF file See PDF. containing the October 2002 issue at the bottom of the home page; the Scoreboard begins on page 4.

About InsideChips.com

InsideChips is a B-2-B Internet venture that provides semiconductor industry business/marketing information and analysis, with a particular focus on new startups. InsideChips.com, which will ultimately feature 13 modules with business information, proprietary databases, forecast snapshots and financial information, is positioning itself as a "virtual market-research department" for the semiconductor industry. Headquartered in Bellingham, Wash., the company is the publisher of InsideChips.Ventures, a monthly print- and Internet-based report that focuses on emerging semiconductor companies and technologies.

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