Amid rapidly falling Flash-memory prices, Spansion made it to Deloitte
Here are the final 10 fastest growing Silicon Valley companies part of Deloitte’s Billion Dollar VIP Club as reported in the consulting firm latest annual Silicon Valley Fast 50 survey.
As much as the first part of the list was a fair representation of what Silicon Valley does best (software, hardware, networking, biotech, Internet), nearly half of the next 10 companies are doing semiconductors you consider, with only one hardware firm (Trimble makes GPS and navigation systems), 2 software vendors and 3 networking companies.
Here are the next 10 companies with their location and their 5-year growth:
Lam Research, Fremont, 240 percent
NetApp, Sunnyvale, 214 percent
Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale, 162 percent
Adobe, San Jose, 144 percent
Brocade, San Jose, 135 percent
Autodesk, San Rafael, 123 percent
Applied Materials, Santa Clara, 117 percent
Spansion, Sunnyvale, 110 percent
KLA-Tencor, San Jose, 107 percent
JDS Uniphase, Milpitas, 107 percent
Jean-Baptiste Su
Mark Boslet
