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Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (NASDAQ:KLIC) designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment and expendable tools used to assemble semiconductor devices is trading at a price of $11.45, a dramatic change of +0.80 with Change% 7.51 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 817.61M. Kulicke & Soffa Industries announced that Bruno Guilmart, President and CEO, and Jonathan Chou, Senior Vice President and CFO, will be presenting at the Jefferies Global Technology, Internet, Media & Telecom Conference taking place in New York City at the Four Seasons Hotel.

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Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD) is trading at a price of $32.45, a dramatic change of +0.81 with Change% 2.56 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 1.45B. Diodes is expected to report its first quarter FY 2011 financial results on Monday, May 9. In the last four quarters, the company's EPS exceeded Wall Street consensus estimates by margins in the range of 4.10 percent to 20.70 percent.

Spreadtrum Communications (NASDAQ:SPRD) semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets baseband processor, radio frequency (RF) transceiver is trading at a price of $22.02, a dramatic change of +0.76 with Change% 3.57 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 354.33M. Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. announced the availability of the triple SIM in single chip solution, the SC6600L7, which allows three GSM SIM cards running simultaneously in a single mobile handset. The SC6600L7 allows three GSM SIM cards simultaneously running on stand by with only one set of baseband and RF; it integrates three SIM engine processors and three controllers, triple SIM protocol stack DSP, and has an improved Graphic User Interface to provide unprecedented user experience.

NeoPhotonics Corp (NYSE:NPTN) a designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed communications networks is trading at a price of $10.65, a dramatic change of +0.28 with Change% 2.70 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 262.27M. NeoPhotonics recorded quarterly revenue of $50.9 million in the first quarter of 2011, approximately flat with the fourth quarter of 2010, and an increase of $10.7 million, or 27%, over the first quarter of 2010. Gross margin for the first quarter of 2011 was 24.4%, down from 27.7% in the fourth quarter of 2010 and 31.6% in the first quarter of 2010.

Pericom Semiconductor (NASDAQ:PSEM) designs, develops and markets high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) and frequency control products is trading at a price of $10.32, a dramatic change of +1.44 with Change% 16.22from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 257.56M .

Sequans Communications SA (NYSE:SQNS) Semiconductor – Integrated Circuits business is trading at a price of $9.99, a dramatic change of +0.81 with Change% 8.82 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 344.87M

Novellus Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:NVLS) develops, manufactures, sells and supports equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits is trading at a price of $35.42, a dramatic change of +2.50 with Change% 7.58 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 3.16B.

ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:ONNN) a supplier of silicon solutions for energy electronics is trading at a price of $11.02, a dramatic change of +0.74 with Change% 7.20 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 4.89B.

FSI International Inc. (NASDAQ:FSII) designs, manufactures, markets and supports equipment used in the fabrication of microelectronics, such as advanced semiconductor devices is trading at a price of $4.65, a dramatic change of +0.27 with Change% 6.16 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 179.95M.

AuthenTec Inc. (NASDAQ:AUTH) a provider of security, identity management and touch control technologies for personal computer (PC), wireless device and information technology (IT) markets is trading at a price of $3.02, a dramatic change of +0.15 with Change% 5.23 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 131.79M.


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Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (NASDAQ:NVMI) a designer, developer and producer of integrated process control metrology systems is trading at a price of $10.30, a dramatic change of +0.47 with Change% 4.78 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 240.03M.

Silicon Motion Technology Corp (NASDAQ:SIMO) a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets semiconductor solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics market is trading at a price of $12.00, a dramatic change of +0.45 with Change% 3.90 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 87.68M.

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:CY) is trading at a price of $20.93, a dramatic change of +0.65 with Change% 3.21 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 3.65B.

Hoku Corporation (NASDAQ:HOK) is trading at a price of $1.96, a dramatic change of +0.06 with Change% 3.16 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 105.92M.

Daqo New Energy Corp (NYSE:DQ) a polysilicon manufacturer based in China is trading at a price of $12.32, a dramatic change of +0.31 with Change% 2.58 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 83.64M.

QLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:QLGC) a designer and supplier of network infrastructure products that enhance, manage and support the transmission of data from computer is trading at a price of $18.00, a dramatic change of +0.44 with Change% 2.51 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 1.90B.

Silicon Image Inc. (NASDAQ:SIM) is trading at a price of $8.06, a dramatic change of +0.19 with Change% 2.41 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 630.27M.

Standard Microsystems Corporation (NASDAQ:SMSC) a designer of Smart Mixed-Signal Connectivity solutions. SMSC's silicon-based integrated circuits and systems software is trading at a price of $27.19, a dramatic change of +0.60 with Change% 2.26 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 621.87M.

Avago Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:AVGO) is trading at a price of $33.24, a dramatic change of +0.70 with Change% 2.15 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 8.15B.

Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) provides precision optical, electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers is trading at a price of $23.62, a dramatic change of +0.48 with Change% 2.07 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 800.40M.

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