National Semiconductor (UK) Ltd. company, which is a subsidiary of big analog chip maker National Semiconductor, began producing microchips in 1970. Through its wafer fabrication facility in Greenock, Scotland, it produces analog semiconductors, power management chips, LED drivers, and other devices used in mobile consumer electronics, medical imaging instruments, sensing and detection equipment, and communications gear. A lawsuit brought by employees of the Greenock fab, claiming that toxic chemicals used in the facility had harmed unborn children, was settled in early 2006. The United Kingdom is National Semi's second largest European market, after Germany.

Volterra Semiconductor Corporation company was founded in 1996 and is based in Fremont, California. Volterra Semiconductor Corporation (Volterra) designs, develops and markets, high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking and consumer markets. The Company's core products are integrated voltage regulator semiconductors and scalable voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver, and monitor the power consumed by digital semiconductors. Through its power system architecture and mixed-signal design techniques, Volterra has integrated power, analog, and digital circuits onto a single complementary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) semiconductor, eliminating the need for a large number of discrete components required by conventional power management solutions.

Cubic Wafer, Inc. company, founded in 2000 and formerly known as Xanoptix and Xan3D Technologies, previously made the XTM line of optical transmission components and is now focusing on 3-D packaging technology. Its products combine lasers, detectors, and integrated circuits into a single device to speed fiber-optic transmission in telecom, data communications, corporate networking, and data storage applications. Cubic Wafer's components include transmitters, receivers, and transceivers designed to be integrated into devices, such as network interface cards, made by other equipment makers.

newAX company sold its assets to RAD Electronics in mid-2005 and changed its name to newAX. Astrex distributed connectors and electromechanical components. The company also designed and made cable and connector assemblies, and offered packaging, bar coding, and inventory management services. Astrex was established in 1960. RAD Electronics began doing business as Astrex Electronics.

Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Company, Ltd. manufactures semiconductors in Mainland China. It offers IC foundry services. It provides embedded non-volatile memory platforms in various applications, such as microprocessors, communications, consumer products, and smart cards, as well as offers design support, chip manufacturing, and testing services. The company also offers optional capacitors, high resistance poly resistors, and native transistors for designs. In addition, it provides mixed-signal analog CMOS platform that enables integration of less demanding RF circuit blocks with multi-million gate digital CMOS logic functions for wireless, multimedia, and PC products applications. Further, the company offers nvSOC prototype platform, which helps customers to create SOC and ASIC prototype, as well as used in the development of smartcard, MCU, USB Key, and other related products. Furthermore, it provides technology support and services, including various IP, foundry mainstream process design, layout, wafer sort, parametric test, reliability test, and failure analysis, as well as develops various after processes, including embedded non-volatile memories, HVCMOS, and RFCMOS. The company focuses on embedded NVM, LCD driver, analog/power management, RF technology field, and customer electronics.

Founded in 2002, Ahura Scientific develops rugged, ultra-compact, field-enabled optical systems for the immediate identification and verification of liquid and solid chemicals. The company brings together technical expertise in miniature optics and electronics, high-performance semiconductor laser fabrication and advanced chemometric algorithms to enable novel solutions for a range of markets. This technical excellence, coupled with first-class customer insight and support, ensures that Ahura Scientific is a trusted partner for customers worldwide. Ahura Scientific has been honored with numerous prestigious awards including multiple Cygnus Innovation awards, the Frost & Sullivan 2008 Product of the Year, the American Business Awards Most Innovative Company 2008, the Ernst and Young 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year award; an R&D Magazine R&D 100; the Industrial Design Society of America Award for Excellence in Industrial Design; the SBANE 2007 Innovation Award; and the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Chemical Detection Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year.

SiGe Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada with additional offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, and San Diego. SiGe Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and offers radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits and multi-chip modules for wireless consumer electronics market. It offers wireless LAN front end modules, dual band front end modules, and discrete power amplifiers; WiMAX power amplifiers/front end modules and transceivers; GPS radio ICs and GPS receivers; and Bluetooth power amplifiers. The company, through a network of distributors, offers its RF solutions to computing, home entertainment, and mobile device applications in the consumer electronics markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East, and North America.

Dialight company changed its name from Roxboro to Dialight in 2005, after it sold off one of its main subsidiaries. That unit, called Solartron, made analytical equipment used to measure level, pressure, flow, viscosity, and temperature for applications in the energy and manufacturing industries. It was the company's second big divestment; it had earlier sold off its Weston Group subsidiary, a maker of aerospace sensors, to Esterline Technologies. After hiving off these units, the company renamed itself after its remaining Dialight unit, which makes LED indicators used in airport, bus, rail, and traffic signal applications.

Tanisys Technology, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tanisys Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ATESUB, Inc. Tanisys Technology, Inc. engages in the design, deployment, and support of semiconductor test equipment for engineering and production applications in North America and internationally. The company offers test solutions for volatile and non-volatile memory products, including NAND, embedded NAND, NOR, MultiChip package, MultiMedia card, secure digital, CompactFlash, memory stick, USB, and DDR/DDR2 DRAM modules. Its products include solid state drive test systems, DRAM and flash module test equipment, and flash memory test systems. The company also provides technical support services to production facilities, which include sales and distribution, applications engineering, and spares through strategic partnerships in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Europe.

Standard Electric and its affiliates distribute electrical and electronic products and supplies to customers through about 30 locations in Michigan. Standard Electric Company was founded in 1929 by Samuel Cohen and brothers Morris and Max Blumberg. The Blumberg brothers earlier established another Michigan-based electrical distributor, Madison Electric, an affiliate of Standard Electric with 10 Michigan locations. Another affiliated firm, U.P. Electric/Wittock Supply Co., is a distributor of electrical and mechanical products with four locations on the upper Michigan peninsula. Standard Electric Company is owned by its directors and their families.

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