The stock market just finished another choppy and largely negative trading week. The three most popular market indexes all dropped a couple of percent.
But some tech stocks paid no mind to the negative market winds, and delivered strong gains instead.
Microcontroller designer Atmel (NASDAQ: ATML) soared on an opportunistic buyout bid from Dialog Semiconductor (DLGNF +0.00%) and Apple (AAPL 0.45%) iPhone supplier Cirrus Logic (CRUS +0.02%) raced 14% higher on Friday alone, thanks to fresh iPhone insights. Meanwhile, radio spectrum wrangler StraightPath (NYSEMKT: STRP) jumped 20% higher just because that's what volatile micro-caps do sometimes. Reasons? We don't need no stinkin' reasons!
Want to dig deeper into these market-beating tech stocks? Start with the following slideshow.
