vitesse has beaten estimates every quarter for at least two years. annual earnings for last 12 months about .90. expectd to grow to 1.28 for this fiscal year and 1.72 in fiscal sep 2001. as i've said, it's not cheap (76), but i understand that they have leading edge technology. i see the word fibre in the description below and i've heard that is a hot area.
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp designs, develops, manufactures and markets technologically advanced digital integrated circuits. The company's H-GaAs technology provides significant advantages over silicon-based integrated circuits. Its products address the needs of high-performance system providers by providing high speed, complexity & low power dissipation. Vitesse's telecommunications products (about 50% of sales) are primarily for SONET/SDH applications. For data communications, it makes a wide variety of products used for the transmission and reception of data over a fiber optic network. For the Automated Test Equipment industry, Vitesse supplies a variety of gate arrays and custom products. Some major customers are Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, IBM, Lucent, NEC and Seagate.
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