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Technology Stocks : Actel [ACTL] -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William Grady who wrote (545)	6/30/1998 12:18:00 AM
From: William Grady	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 674

The Top Ten Reasons To Buy Actel: 1. 52 week range is 10 1/4 to 25 1/8; downside appears limited. 2. Actel is the only company that has been able to successfully compete with Altera and Xilinx in any significant way in a industry with no foreign competition. 3. Actel has 10% of the valuation of Altera and Xilinx, but had 25% of their revenues in 1997. 4. With the introduction of the MX family Actel is no longer solely dependent on anti-fuse devices. 5. Cross-licensing agreement with Xilinx gave Actel Xilinx's SRAM technology , while Xilinx got Actel's anti-fuse technology. 6. Xilinx spent a lot of money developing anti-fuse devices, sold them for awhile and then exited leaving Actel to dominate the anti-fuse FPGA market. 7. Actel introduced their SRAM based MX family last October and Carl Burrow, vice president of marketing, Actel Corp. said on June 22nd that "Actel's MX family has been experiencing dramatic market acceptance since it's October 1997 introduction." 8. Actel is the only FPGA company that I am aware of that makes radiation hardened devices for space applications. 9. Due to its low valuation Actel could become a possible takeover candidate in the future. 10. Last year Actel had 50% of the profit of Altera and Xilinx, but it's stock price is only 35% of Altera's and 29% of Xilinx's.