Its strengths include diversification by global geography, as well as by end-market. It recently purchased a third fab and has ample production capacity. More significantly, it recently announced plans to acquire TelCom Semiconductor, an analog chipmaker, which will vastly improve Microchip's emerging standalone analog business. The merger will therefore boost MCHP's addressable market considerably. Its new Virtex product line is finding exceptionally good customer acceptance.
Design wins for new products imply several years of sales.
They are complex, relatively expensive chips. They allow the customer, typically an original equipment manufacturer with tight production schedules, to be able to perform final programming on the chips at their own plant, thus speeding time to market. This company is a leading maker of discrete semiconductors and a broad line of components used in conjunction with semiconductors in a wide variety of electronics products. The cell phone craze has helped put Vishay's commodity and non-commodity products in short supply, and the company has experienced strong earnings growth in recent quarters. With an aim toward customer service and cost control, the company locates operations both in the countries in which they sell, as well as in low-cost production centers around the world.