Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX)

Its PLDs consist of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLD)

Xilinx and Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) have a virtual duopoly when it comes to the PLD market.

SmartMoney likes it.

EXTREMELY short term. Dollar or two drop.

Well run company with niche product.

CEO Moshe Gavrielov has made company profitable by cutting jobs. Better to grow the business. Xilinx is facing stiff competition from MicroChips.

Zacks and Lynch style

Sticking with my strategy of doing the opposite of what Jim Cramer suggests.

According to Next Inning, programmable logic will outperform semis in general -- and I agree. Besides, these guys always make money!

High developer in new tech

it's a steal below 17

Solid company, good products. Not much to go wrong.

Xilinx Platform Studio is a bug-ridden piece of software that I've unfortunately had the experience using. You can't save your project on a network drive, you can't have spaces in the directory you save the product, and one time I had Xilinx delete my main C source code file (!) for a project I was working on -- luckily, the the code was open in the editor already, so I could save it and create a new file. The existence of these bugs indicate poor programming. Xilinx is, however, a major contender in programmable logic, and it will take some time to unseat this beast but unless they improve their products, this Goliath will fall to a David in the distant future.

things are looking good

Extraordinary sales, beating growth in the industry and its sector. Currently pursuing business opportunities internationally that I believe will result in strong performance and additional growth of this company.

The stock market is largely ignoring the recent oil spike as something that cannot persist in the current stage of the business cycle but this is in turn feeding higher oil prices. The stock market is about to realize where oil is going and fall; and most affected will be today's leading IT sectors.

While Xilinx was mostly into communications, as that revenue stream slips, they are moving into other other end markets such as consumer, automotive, industrial, and defense

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The current valuation is the most attractive in over five years. Coming into the holiday shopping season XLNX sales will be boosted from the demand for electronics and PLD in many devices.