Chance For Safe Gains In ISSI Came Early On.(THE SMART INVESTOR)(WINNING WAYS)

Publication: Investor's Business Daily

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Byline: KEN HOOVER

Integrated Silicon Solutions was one of the hot new issues of 1995. On the opening day of trading, it vaulted 46%, creating quite a buzz.

No wonder. The chipmaker was in the forefront of one of the hottest industries in techdom, making static random access memory, or SRAM.

Personal computers were getting faster. Intel's new Pentium and 486 chips were selling faster than expected as users were upgrading so their PCs could handle bigger, more sophisticated software.

The old way of speeding up computers, dynamic random memory access chips,...

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