AVA vs SIMO Comparison

Avista Corp is an electric and natural gas utility company. The company has two business segments including Avista Utilities, which provides electric distribution and transmission, and natural gas distribution services in parts of eastern Washington and northern Idaho, and also provides natural gas distribution service in parts of northeastern and southwestern Oregon. Avista Utilities has electric generating facilities in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana. AEL&P is a regulated utility providing electric services in Juneau, Alaska that is a wholly-owned subsidiary and the primary operating subsidiary of AERC.

Silicon Motion Technology Corp is engaged in developing NAND flash controllers for SSDs and other solid state storage devices. Its only operating segment is to develop NAND flash controllers and SSDs solutions. The company derives revenue from product categories such as Mobile Storage, Mobile Communications, and others. Silicon's geographical segments are Taiwan, the United States, Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and others. The company products are used in Personal Computing, Smartphone/Tablet/CE, Flash Card/USB Flash Drive, Industrial and Embedded, Automotive, and Enterprise and Data centers.