The best comm chipheads around

Here is the annual list of honors from our recent chip report:

BEST MARGINS: Qualcomm enjoys the maximum margins among communications chip companies. It spends around 67.5 cents to earn $1 of revenues.

BEST COST CONTROL: Cavium Networks was able to decrease its total operating expenses by 22.34 cents per dollar last calendar year, which was 18.3% less compared to the previous year.

BIGGEST R&D SPEND: Ikanos spends around 47.5% of its revenues on Research and Development. That is an increase of 7.62% compared to previous year.
MOST PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS: Texas Instruments announced the most products in the most recent calendar year, around 78 (new, upgrades, modifications, reference designs, etc)

MOST NEW CUSTOMERS: Texas Instruments signed the maximum of 33 customers for various communications solutions.

SAFEST INVESTMENT: Qualcomm share price deviated the least in 2007. It fluctuated within a range of 15.14% from the average share price of $41.45.

HIGHEST REVENUE: Texas Instruments. Its revenues for the year 2007 were $6.6 billion.

HIGHEST SHIPMENT: Texas Instruments. In the year 2007 its shipments were at 631.6 million units.