Shares of MIPSTechnologies fell more than 25 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the processor designer posted results short of its earlier guidance on sharply lower revenues.
Silicon Graphics ( SGIC - news - people ) in 1992 after nearly running out of money, then spun back out to the public market as MIPSTechnologies in 1998.
Consulting the income statement shows that MIPSTechnologies managed to streamline operations by minimizing cost of goods sold, increasing necessary costs like research and development, and still being able to boost the bottom line.
The top 10 also includes American Superconductor (47.5%), which provides power grid technologies, solid-state drive maker STEC (34.4%), and MIPSTechnologies (32.5%), which has a 3-year EPS growth rate of 71%.
UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.