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"If you use a mobile phone with a camera, thank Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA)," says Mike Cintolo in the Cabot Top Ten Report. "When it comes to miniaturization, Tessera is the go-to company."

"Tessera is one of the companies that drove the price of camera components down by miniaturizing them and combining them on a single chip.

"You'll find its technology in MP3 players, video games, wireless phones, computers and numerous other products where companies are forever working to design products smaller and manufacture them more cheaply.

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Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ: TSRA) is a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry. The firm develops and licenses a range of advanced chip packaging, interconnect, and optics solutions for the consumer, computing, communications, medical and defense electronics markets.

There was good news for Tessera investors late last month, when the U.S. International Trade Commission overturned a stay on a company patent infringement case against Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Qualcomm (NYSE: QCOM) and others. Tessera collects royalties on its chip packaging technologies from such companies as Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Sony (NYSE: SNE), but the defendants in this case have refused to pay the same. The case may now proceed, but an out-of-court settlement is possible. Tessera came to such an agreement in 2002, for example, with current customer Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN). TSRA shares fell sharply in late February, when the stay was originally announced. Once it was lifted, Davenport upgraded the stock to "strong buy" status and declared a $35 price target.

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Each year Steven Halpern, editor of TheStockAdvisors.com, surveys the leading financial newsletter advisors asking for their favorite stocks for the coming year. This article is part of his 24th annual Top Picks Report.

Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ: TSRA) is a favorite speculative idea for 2007 from Jim Oberweis, editor of The Oberweis Report. The small-cap growth advisor explains, "We screen for companies that are delivering accelerating earnings and sales growth rates -- and ideally those that are not widely followed by Wall Street.

"Tessera develops semiconductor packaging technology that allows semiconductor manufacturers to miniaturize the chip and to improve performance. The San Jose, California, company has signed license agreements with manufacturers representing 80% of the worldwide dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, including Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics.

"DRAM in personal computers is shifting to DDR2 DRAM, which utilizes TSRA's packaging technology, and DDR2 is expected to represent roughly 75% of DRAM shipments in 2007. TSRA receives a per unit royalty for each DDR2 DRAM shipped by their licensees.

"For the quarter ended September 30, 2006, Tessera posted an 841% jump in earnings per share on a 460% rise in revenue. I believe that Wall Street's consensus estimate for revenue ($198.8MM) and earnings per share ($1.08) for 2007 are too low. Lower litigation expenses in 2007 as patent litigation subsides should drive operating margin expansion as well."

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