Pericom Semiconductor Corporation

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.pericom.com
Employees: 689
Employee growth: 15.4%

Interface chips are hardly peripheral to Pericom Semiconductor's business. The fabless company provides high-performance digital, analog, and mixed-signal interface integrated circuits, which control the routing and transfer of data among a system's microprocessor, memory, and peripherals. Targeting the notebook computing, networking, and telecom markets, Pericom offers various chip product lines: interfaces for data transfer, switches for digital and analog signals, clock management chips, and telecommunications switches and component bridges. The company gets about three-quarters of its sales from customers in the Asia/Pacific region.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending June, 2008:
Sales: $163.7M
One year growth: 32.7%
Net income: $17.0M
Income growth: 97.1%

Officers:
Chairman, President, and CEO: Alex Chi-Ming Hui
VP Finance, Asia: Angela Chen
VP, Operations: Networking Chips

Competitors:
Fairchild Semiconductor
Integrated Device Technology
Raltron Electronics