Lam Research on FORTUNE's List of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies
October 1, 2006

FORTUNE Magazine has released its annual ranking of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in the country. California-based Lam Research Corporation, a supplier of wafer-processing equipment to the semiconductor industry ranks #54.

To compute the rankings, FORTUNE uses data from Zacks Investment Research and gives equal weight to three factors: profit and sales growth (for three years through the first quarter of 2006) and three-year total return (through June).