Of these 85 US Semiconductor Companies, 70 of them also had their common stocks trading on each of the following three dates:
- On December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second term
- On March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was their lowest point due to the spillover effects resulting from the 2008 financial meltdown, and
- also on the most recent date February 10, 2014.
The historical common stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 70 largest US Semiconductor Companies having their common stocks trading on each of the above three dates had their average stock prices drop by a huge 50% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, to March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was the very lowest point for the overall stock market due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.
But in the slightly less than five years since March 6, 2009, the average stock prices of these same 70 largest US Semiconductor Companies have increased by a very respectable 220% through February 10, 2014.
The Semiconductor Memory Chips Subsector had by far the highest average stock price growth since March 6, 2009.....up 491%, led by Boise, ID-based Micron Technology (up 755%) and by Milpitas, CA-based Integrated Silicon Solution (up 707%).
There were two Semiconductor Companies which experienced stock price growth above 1,000% since March 6, 2009.....San Jose, CA-based Pixelworks (up 1,276%) and Hayward, CA-based Ultra Clean Holdings (up 1,077%).
Of the 70 Companies, only 3 of them had stock price declines since March 6, 2009.
Clearly, the investors in and employees of a clear majority of these 70 largest US Semiconductor Companies must be pleased with the impact of actions taken by both the Obama Administration and the US Fed to successfully rescue the US economy from its extremely weakened state.
Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 70 largest US Semiconductor Companies having their stocks trading on February 10, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and also on December 31, 2007, sorted by Semiconductor Subsector:
| Market | Market | ||||||
| Price | Price | ||||||
| % | % | ||||||
| Change | Change | ||||||
| Market | Market | Market | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | |||
| Price | Price | Price | to | to | |||
| Semiconductor Companies | HQs | 2-10-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 2-10-14 | 3-6-09 | |
| Semiconductor-Memory Chips | |||||||
| Micron Technology | Boise | ID | 24.87 | 2.91 | 7.25 | 755% | -60% |
| Integrated Silicon Solution | Milpitas | CA | 11.14 | 1.38 | 6.62 | 707% | -79% |
| Rambus | Sunnyvale | CA | 8.77 | 7.84 | 20.94 | 12% | -63% |
| Average % Change all 3 Memory Chips | 491% | -67% | |||||
| Semiconductor-Specialized | |||||||
| Ultra Clean Holdings | Hayward | CA | 11.42 | 0.97 | 12.20 | 1077% | -92% |
| Cirrus Logic | Austin | TX | 19.83 | 3.14 | 6.88 | 532% | -54% |
| Lattice Semiconductor | Hillsboro | OR | 6.87 | 1.13 | 3.25 | 508% | -65% |
| LSI Corp | San Jose | CA | 11.00 | 2.64 | 9.00 | 317% | -71% |
| CEVA Inc | Mountain View | CA | 16.66 | 5.23 | 12.21 | 219% | -57% |
| Monolithic Power Systems | San Jose | CA | 34.39 | 12.91 | 11.11 | 166% | 16% |
| Microchip Technology | Chandler | AZ | 46.20 | 18.24 | 32.70 | 153% | -44% |
| Linear Technology | Milpitas | CA | 46.00 | 21.60 | 30.32 | 113% | -29% |
| Altera | San Jose | CA | 32.40 | 15.77 | 19.68 | 105% | -20% |
| NVIDIA | Santa Clara | CA | 15.99 | 8.39 | 24.67 | 91% | -66% |
| NVE Corp | Eden Prairie | MN | 54.25 | 28.98 | 24.60 | 87% | 18% |
| IXYS Corp | Milpitas | CA | 11.43 | 6.52 | 8.02 | 75% | -19% |
| SunPower Corp | San Jose | CA | 33.99 | 23.39 | 37.17 | 45% | -37% |
| First Solar | Tempe | AZ | 51.88 | 108.49 | 29.84 | -52% | 264% |
| Sigma Designs | Milpitas | CA | 4.70 | 15.10 | 55.20 | -69% | -73% |
| Average % Change all 15 Specialized | 224% | -22% | |||||
| Semiconductor-Broad Line | |||||||
| Entropic Communications | San Diego | CA | 3.95 | 0.49 | 7.28 | 706% | -93% |
| Vishay Intertechnology | Malvern | PA | 13.58 | 1.82 | 9.23 | 646% | -80% |
| M/A-Com Technology Solutions | Lowell | MA | 17.44 | 2.85 | 13.21 | 512% | -78% |
| Cavium | San Jose | CA | 38.30 | 10.59 | 23.02 | 262% | -54% |
| GSI Technology | Sunnyvale | CA | 6.71 | 2.25 | 2.55 | 198% | -12% |
| Texas Instruments | Dallas | TX | 42.36 | 14.71 | 33.40 | 188% | -56% |
| Silicon Image | Sunnyvale | CA | 5.83 | 2.11 | 4.52 | 176% | -53% |
| Maxim Integrated Products | San Jose | CA | 30.27 | 11.49 | 26.48 | 163% | -57% |
| ON Semiconductor | Phoenix | AZ | 8.88 | 3.46 | 8.88 | 157% | -61% |
| Integrated Device Technology | San Jose | CA | 10.56 | 4.21 | 11.31 | 151% | -63% |
| Atmel Corp | San Jose | CA | 7.64 | 3.11 | 4.32 | 146% | -28% |
| Kopin | Westboro | MA | 3.80 | 1.57 | 3.16 | 142% | -50% |
| Intel | Santa Clara | CA | 24.29 | 12.41 | 26.66 | 96% | -53% |
| Advanced Micro Devices | Sunnyvale | CA | 3.63 | 2.14 | 7.50 | 70% | -71% |
| Intersil | Milpitas | CA | 11.16 | 9.99 | 24.48 | 12% | -59% |
| FormFactor | Livermore | CA | 6.34 | 13.87 | 33.10 | -54% | -58% |
| Average % Change all 16 Broad Line | 223% | -58% | |||||
| Semiconductor-Integrated Circuits | |||||||
| Pixelworks | San Jose | CA | 5.09 | 0.37 | 2.28 | 1276% | -84% |
| RF Micro Devices | Greensboro | NC | 5.59 | 0.76 | 5.71 | 636% | -87% |
| QuickLogic | Sunnyvale | CA | 4.58 | 0.75 | 3.30 | 511% | -77% |
| Fairchild Semiconductor | San Jose | CA | 13.05 | 2.89 | 14.43 | 352% | -80% |
| Skyworks Solutions | Wobum | MA | 30.70 | 6.94 | 8.50 | 342% | -18% |
| TriQuint Semiconductor | Hillsboro | OR | 8.43 | 2.05 | 6.63 | 311% | -69% |
| MoSys | Santa Clara | CA | 4.65 | 1.36 | 4.85 | 242% | -72% |
| Diodes | Plano | TX | 22.73 | 7.00 | 30.07 | 225% | -77% |
| Power Integrations | San Jose | CA | 58.70 | 18.40 | 34.43 | 219% | -47% |
| Applied Micro Circuits | Sunnyvale | CA | 10.40 | 3.47 | 8.74 | 200% | -60% |
| Amkor Technology | Chandler | AZ | 5.32 | 1.78 | 8.53 | 199% | -79% |
| Parkervision | Jacksonville | FL | 4.67 | 1.62 | 15.82 | 188% | -90% |
| Oplink Communications | Fremont | CA | 16.85 | 6.24 | 15.35 | 170% | -59% |
| Analog Devices | Norwood | MA | 49.22 | 18.48 | 31.70 | 166% | -42% |
| Xilinx | San Jose | CA | 46.48 | 17.82 | 21.87 | 161% | -19% |
| Microsemi | Aliso Viejo | CA | 22.86 | 9.29 | 22.14 | 146% | -58% |
| PLX Technology | Sunnyvale | CA | 5.86 | 2.39 | 9.30 | 145% | -74% |
| OmniVision Technologies | Santa Clara | CA | 15.52 | 6.65 | 15.65 | 133% | -58% |
| EMCORE | Albuquerque | NM | 4.92 | 2.16 | 61.20 | 128% | -96% |
| International Rectifier | El Segundo | CA | 24.98 | 11.59 | 33.97 | 116% | -66% |
| Silicon Laboratories | Austin | TX | 46.68 | 21.80 | 37.43 | 114% | -42% |
| Cabot Microelectronics | Aurora | IL | 40.19 | 19.06 | 35.91 | 111% | -47% |
| Exar Corp | Fremont | CA | 11.08 | 5.36 | 7.97 | 107% | -33% |
| DSP Group | San Jose | CA | 8.50 | 4.42 | 12.20 | 92% | -64% |
| Hittite Microwave | Chelmsford | MA | 55.02 | 28.70 | 47.76 | 92% | -40% |
| Semtech | Camarillo | CA | 22.64 | 11.84 | 15.52 | 91% | -24% |
| Marvell Technology | Santa Clara | CA | 14.86 | 8.06 | 13.98 | 84% | -42% |
| Broadcom | Irvine | CA | 30.59 | 16.97 | 26.14 | 80% | -35% |
| Electro Scientific Industries | Portland | OR | 9.04 | 5.11 | 19.85 | 77% | -74% |
| Supertex | Sunnyvale | CA | 32.95 | 18.67 | 31.29 | 76% | -40% |
| Micrel | San Jose | CA | 9.90 | 6.49 | 8.45 | 53% | -23% |
| Pericom Semiconductor | Milpitas | CA | 8.43 | 5.86 | 18.70 | 44% | -69% |
| PMC-Sierra | Sunnyvale | CA | 6.78 | 5.35 | 6.54 | 27% | -18% |
| Anadigics | Warren | NJ | 1.90 | 1.50 | 11.57 | 27% | -87% |
| Qlogic | Aliso Viejo | CA | 11.31 | 9.70 | 14.20 | 17% | -32% |
| SunEdison | St Peters | MO | 14.69 | 13.68 | 88.49 | 7% | -85% |
| Average % Change all 36 Integrated Circuits | 193% | -57% | |||||
| Overall Average % Change all 70 Semiconductor Companies | 220% | -50% | |||||
The chart below has the stock market prices on February 10, 2014 and on the close of the first trading date of the 15 additional US Semiconductor Companies with current Total Market Capitalizations of at least $100 mil each and which didn't have their common stocks trading on December 31, 2007:
| Closing | ||||||||
| Month | Price | |||||||
| Of | On | |||||||
| Market | First | First | ||||||
| Price | Trading | Trading | % | |||||
| Semiconductor Company | HQs | 2-10-14 | Date | Date | Change | |||
| Semiconductor-Broad Line | ||||||||
| Cypress Semiconductor | San Jose | CA | 9.48 | Nov 2009 | 9.07 | 5% | ||
| Freescale Semiconductor | Austin | TX | 18.28 | May 2011 | 18.33 | 0% | ||
| Inphi | Santa Clara | CA | 12.27 | Nov 2010 | 15.30 | -20% | ||
| API Technologies | Orlando | FL | 3.16 | Jan 2011 | 4.40 | -28% | ||
| NeoPhotonics | San Jose | CA | 6.94 | Feb 2011 | 13.25 | -48% | ||
| Semiconductor-Memory Chips | ||||||||
| Spansion | Sunnyvale | CA | 15.45 | May 2010 | 19.01 | -19% | ||
| Semiconductor-Integrated Circuits | ||||||||
| InvenSense | San Jose | CA | 19.58 | Nov 2011 | 8.90 | 120% | ||
| Applied Optoelectronics | Sugar Land | TX | 13.12 | Sep 2013 | 9.96 | 32% | ||
| Vitesse Semiconductor | Camarillo | CA | 3.46 | Mar 2011 | 5.49 | -37% | ||
| Aeroflex Holding | Plainview | NY | 8.18 | Nov 2010 | 13.50 | -39% | ||
| Audience | Mountain View | CA | 10.65 | May 2012 | 19.10 | -44% | ||
| Peregrine Semiconductor | San Diego | CA | 5.27 | Aug 2012 | 14.71 | -64% | ||
| Semiconductor-Specialized | ||||||||
| SolarCity Corp | San Mateo | CA | 72.90 | Dec 2012 | 11.79 | 518% | ||
| GT Advanced Technologies | Merrimack | NH | 11.74 | Jul 2008 | 14.59 | -20% | ||
| Alpha & Omega Semiconductor | Sunnyvale | CA | 7.12 | Apr 2010 | 17.70 | -60% | ||
| Overall Average % Change all 15 Semiconductor Companies | 20% | |||||||
Of the 85 US Semiconductor Companies with Market Capitalizations above $100 mil, 55 of them, or a huge 65% of them are headquartered in California.
