Venkel was founded in 1986 by Anil Venkatrao, the company's president, and CFO Ravi Venkatrao. Venkel is active in manufacturing passive components used in products, such as automotive electronics, computers, consumer and industrial electronics, and telecommunications equipment. The company's passives are placed on printed circuit boards incorporating surface-mount technology, which saves space compared with through-hole boards. Venkel's products, which it sells directly, through distributors, or from its catalog, includes chip capacitors (multilayer ceramic capacitors, or MLCCs, and tantalum caps), chip inductors, chip resistors, chip resistor networks, choke coils, ferrite beads, and engineering kits.

VIA found viable businesses both inside and outside the PC. VIA Technologies took on Intel for market leadership in PC chipsets -- clusters of components that connect a computer's microprocessor to its other parts. VIA's chipsets work with microprocessors made by both Intel and AMD, and can be configured to work with various types of memory chips. Meanwhile, VIA's graphics chip venture took it into the market for core logic chipsets used in graphics applications. The fabless semiconductor company also entered the networking chip niche with its introduction of Ethernet controllers and other devices, and it continues to develop low-budget microprocessors for use in inexpensive PCs.

ViaLogy LLC company was founded in 1999 and is based in Altadena, California. ViaLogy LLC operates as a subsidiary of ViaLogy plc. ViaLogy LLC provides network-centric real-time signal processing platforms for sensor applications in life sciences, public safety and security, surveillance, defense, and geoseismology. It offers Quantum Resonance Interferometry, a technology that uses software algorithms for signal processing; Sensor Policy Manager, an Internet protocol based software framework for the event detection, analysis, and response management and notification; and QuantumRD, a technology for the discovery, validation, and recovery of oil and gas reservoirs. The company also provides QSUB, a solution package that enables geolocation of buried oil and gas pipelines; and QDM, a solution package that enables geolocation of disturbed earth and to identify specific man-made objects. Its customers include enterprise operations, oil and gas organizations, and governments in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.

VisionTek Products LLC was founded in 1988 and is based in Inverness, Illinois. VisionTek Products, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Hartford Computer Group, Inc. VisionTek Products, LLC supplies three dimensional (3D) graphic cards and personal computer enhancement products to retailers and consumers. The company provides graphic cards, including Xtreme Gamer Edition graphics cards; heat dispersion systems; dual DVI-I monitor that provides digital output enhancement for personal computers; SilenCool, a heat dispersion system that draws heat away from the GPU core; and Radeon 2600XT x2 dual processor quad cards. The company’s graphic cards also includes television tuners; MediaXchange DSC keyboard that combines auto-synch and charge docking station, and a removable 10-in-1 flash reader for iPods; MediaXchange LANPAD, a mouse pad with 4 USB 2.0 ports, a universal cell phone charger, and custom LED backlighting for low-light environments; 6DOF 3D laser gaming mouse products; and XG6 3D laser mouse products. VisionTek Products, LLC offers products through retailers, distributors, systems, and e-commerce sites in North America.

Vitesse Semiconductor was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Camarillo, California. Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Vitesse) is a provider of advanced integrated circuits (ICs) that are utilized primarily by manufacturers of networking systems for Carrier, Enterprise and Storage communications applications. Vitesse designs, develops and markets a portfolio of high-performance semiconductor products. The Company’s customers include communications and enterprise original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., IBM, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi, Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., H3C Technologies Co., Limited, Nortel Networks Corp., Nokia Siemens Networks B.V., Tellabs, Inc. and ZTE Corporation. As of September 30, 2009, the Company operated four domestic design centers in the United States, in California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Texas, and four international design centers in Taiwan, Denmark, Germany and India.

ViXS Systems, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Toronto, Canada with operations and offices in Europe, Asia, and North America. ViXS Systems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, develops audio and video processing solutions for consumer electronic and personal computer platforms in Canada and internationally. It offers technologies for processing, managing, securing, and distributing video and audio allowing multimedia control, conversion, and connectivity between various digital entertainment devices; and Xtensiv Broadcast software solution that allows broadcast and professional OEMs to develop encoder/transcoder products for cable, satellite, IPTV, or enterprise encoder applications. The company supplies system-on-a-chip semiconductors, software solutions, and hardware reference designs for the manufacturers of digital TVs, DVDs, set-top boxes, personal video recorders, PCs, network attached storage devices, residential/home gateways, and Blu-Ray players/recorders. Its products are used in various applications, such as embedded systems, HD DVD players, broadcast networking, terrestrial television, and broadcast distribution and professional encoder applications.

White Electronic Designs Corporation is a defense electronics manufacturer and supplier that designs, develops and manufactures electronic components and systems for inclusion for the defense and aerospace markets. The Company’s defense electronic solutions include semiconductor and multi-chip packaged components, circuit card assemblies and electromechanical assemblies, as well as the Company’s process for incorporating anti-tamper protection to mission critical semiconductor components. The Company’s customers, which include military prime contractors, and the contract manufacturers who work for them, in the United States, Europe and Asia, outsource many of their defense electronic components and systems to the Company as a result of the combination of its design, development and manufacturing expertise. The Company operates in only one segment, Defense Segment.

Wintegra, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor and software company that enables communications companies to build access networks. It engages in the design, development, and marketing of single-chip solutions. The company provides silicon and software solutions focused on the access infrastructure. It offers WinPath access packet processor solutions, which are used by various telecom and networking equipment manufacturers in a range of communications equipment that allows service providers to deploy the voice, video, data, and wireless services to their end customers. These include WIN777, an access packet processor that includes a MIPS 64-bit 5Kc core for control path operations and proprietary RISC engines for data path operations; WIN770, which rely on an external PowerPC for control plane operations; WIN737, a device for DSLAMs; and WIN787, which integrates dual Gigabit Ethernet MACs.Wintegra company also offers a reference board, known as Wintegra Development System, which has a PowerPC daughtercard for PPC-based control plane development. Wintegra targets access infrastructure equipment used in markets, such as wireless infrastructure, digital subscriber line, optical access, multiservice access, and voice over Internet protocol. The company markets and sells its access processor solutions to OEMs, ODMs, and subsystem manufacturers worldwide. It has partnerships with Altera Corporation; Corelis, Inc.; Green Hills Software, Inc.; SBS Technologies, Inc.; The Telecommunications Industry Association; Tundra Semiconductor Corporation; Abatron AG; Asidua, Ltd.; DSL Forum; Enea; Future Software Limited; Flextronics Software Systems; picoChip Designs Limited; Motorola, Inc.; MontaVista Software, Inc.; and Ikanos Communications, Inc.

Xelerated is going fast into the future of networking. The fabless semiconductor company, which was founded in 2000, designs programmable network processors that incorporate the efficiency of application-specific integrated circuits. These hybrid devices are used in high-speed networking equipment. The Xelerator line of network processors is supported by reference design kits, software development kits, co-processors, and engineering services. The company's investors include Accel Partners, Alta Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, and Sjätte AP-fonden.

ZiLOG, Inc. (ZiLOG) is a fabless semiconductor supplier of microprocessor and microcontroller semiconductor products. A microcontroller includes a central processing unit, non-volatile program memory, random access memory for data storage and various peripheral capabilities. The microcontroller is offered as a complete solution because it incorporates application-specific software provided by the customer and may include specialized peripheral device controllers and internal or external non-volatile memory components to enable the storage and access of additional program software. The Company designs, develops, tests and markets a portfolio of devices for a variety of applications used in consumer electronics, home appliances, security systems, point-of-sale terminals, personal computer peripherals, personal health and medical products. In February 2010, IXYS Corporation acquired the Company.

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