American Superconductor Corporation provides megawatt-scale wind turbine designs and electrical control systems. It also offers a host of smart grid technologies, including superconductor power cable systems, grid-level surge protectors, and power electronics-based voltage stabilization systems for power grid operators. It operates through two segments, AMSC Power Systems and AMSC Superconductors. The AMSC Power Systems segment produces a range of products to enhance electrical grid capacity and reliability; supplies electrical systems used in wind turbines; and sells power electronic products that regulate wind farm voltage to enable interconnection to the power grid. This segment also licenses proprietary wind turbine designs to manufacturers of such systems; provides consulting services to the wind industry; and offers power quality enhancement products for industrial operations. This segment offers its products to transmission and distribution, wind power, and manufacturing industries through a sales force. The AMSC Superconductors segment manufactures HTS wire and coils; and designs and develops superconductor products, such as power cables, fault current limiters, and motors. This segment also manages large-scale superconductor projects, such as HTS power cable system design, manufacturing, and installation. This segment sells HTS wire to original equipment manufacturers. The company has a strategic alliance with LS Cable Ltd. to advance commercial sales of superconductor cables.

Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of marine instruments for measurement of salinity, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen, and related oceanographic variables. Major products include Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD) profilers, multi-bottle in-situ water samplers, moored CT recorders, wave/tide recorders, dissolved oxygen sensors, and thermosalinographs. Customers include research institutes, ocean observing programs, national and local government agencies, engineering firms, and navies throughout the world. As part of our commitment to advancing the science of ocean measurement, we are deeply invested in engineering, metrology, calibration, software development, scientific analysis, and other essential technologies that make our products more accurate, reliable, and broadly useful.

Firan Technology Group (FTG) is all fired up about making high-reliability electronic components for critical applications in military and aerospace equipment. The company's FTG Circuits unit makes complex printed circuit boards from advanced materials; these components are used in applications such as avionics that call for high reliability. FTG Circuits also offers related manufacturing services. Meanwhile, the company makes luminescent cockpit display panels and keyboards through its FTG Aerospace division. In late 2007 the company bought the assets of Filtran Microcircuits from Merrimac Industries for about C$1.8 million.

Silicon Mountain Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Silicon Mountain Holdings, Inc. (Silicon Mountain) is engaged in developing, assembling and marketing branded computer products directly to end-users, including computer systems, computer memory products, gaming laptop and desktop computers, and peripherals through its wholly owned subsidiary, Silicon Mountain Memory, Incorporated (SMM), and its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, VCI Systems, Inc. (VCI Systems). The Company offers a product line, including computer systems, computer memory solutions and peripherals used by large enterprise buyers, small and medium businesses and consumers. Its customers range from the Fortune 1000 Companies to individual consumers in the United States. Its computer systems include rack mount servers, workstation, storage systems and related components. Its specific market can be divided into two categories: computer memory products and branded computer systems.

Kyocera Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes fine ceramic components, electronics devices, and equipment to individuals, corporations, and governments and governmental agencies worldwide. Its Fine Ceramic Parts segment offers information and telecommunication components, sapphire substrates, components for semiconductor process equipment components, components for liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturing equipment, automotive components, and general industrial ceramic components.The company's Semiconductor Parts segment provides ceramic packages for crystal and SAW devices, CCD/CMOS sensor ceramic packages, LSI ceramic packages, wireless and optical communication device packages, and organic multilayer packages and substrates. Its Applied Ceramic Products segment offers residential and industrial solar power generating systems, solar cells/modules, cutting tools, micro drills, medical and dental implants, jewelry, and applied products.The companys Electronic Device segment provides ceramic and tantalum capacitors, timing devices, surface acoustic wave devices, RF modules, EMI filters, connectors, thermal and inkjet print heads, amorphous silicon photoreceptor drums, and LCDs. Its Telecommunications Equipment segment offers CDMA mobile phone handsets and personal handy phone system related products. The company's Information Equipment segment provides ECOSYS printers, copying machines, and multifunctional peripherals. Its Other segment involves in telecommunications engineering; integration business on information systems and network infrastructures; data center; management consulting; and hotel business, as well as chemical materials for electronic components, electrical insulators, and molded products. The company was formerly known as Kyoto Ceramic Kabushiki Kaisha and changed its name to Kyocera Corporation.

ASM International N.V. is a leading supplier of semiconductor process equipment in both front- and back-end markets. The Company possesses a strong technological base, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, a competent and qualified workforce and a highly trained, strategically distributed support network. Each of ASM International's major products are qualified for 300mm wafer processing. This and other leading-edge process and equipment developments ensure ASM International a position of strength and growth for many years. ASM International and its subsidiaries provide production solutions for wafer processing, assembly and packaging of semiconductor devices through their facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. The Company is headquartered in Almere, The Netherlands.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is principally engaged in the manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs) for customers based on their own or third parties' IC designs. The Company offers a range of wafer fabrication processes, including embedded non-volatile memory process, embedded dynamic random access memory (DRAM) process, mixed signal/ radio frequency (RF) process, high voltage process, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor process, color filter process, micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) process and silicon germanium process, among others. The Company's chips are used in computer products, communications products and consumer electronic products. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had seven wafer plants.

Established in 1993, ZBOE has grown into one of the largest VFD manufacturers in China, and sells its products globally. ZBOE is following the path of its patron BOE Technology Group, it just operates on a smaller scale. Zhejiang BOE Display Technology (ZBOE) provides research and development as well as manufacturing of small size displays, specializing in Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFDs). An affiliate of BOE Technology Group, the company also manufactures VFC cover glass and LED (light emitting diode) displays, as well as control boards and modules used in household appliances, instruments, car displays, and industrial products.

LEA International, a subsidiary of Smiths Group plc, makes surge suppression equipment. Its products range from large-scale equipment for telecom and utilities applications to protectors for home electronics. Other applications include broadcast, data center, medical, and manufacturing operations.

Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG, an international semiconductor group, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of integrated circuits and sensors for applications particularly in consumer and automotive electronics. The company markets its products in Germany (Freiburg, Munich, and Nuremberg), China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Europe, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and in the U.S. The company operates in two divisions: the consumer business division and automotive business division. The Consumer Division The consumer division develops, manufactures, and markets IC’s for audio, video, text, and graphics used in consumer electronics and multimedia products. The principal product offerings in the company’s consumer division include LCS, plasma-display TV’s, and DVD recorders. The company also offers Ngene a family of new multimedia controllers is offered through its consumer TV segment with the PC technology. Micronas' consumer division supplies integrated circuits (ICs) for processing images, sound, and data in consumer electronics and multimedia products. The company's customers include all the manufacturers of TV equipment around the world, as well as producers of radios, satellite receivers, PCs, active loudspeakers, and other consumer goods, and PC peripherals. Another focus is on products for the converging PC and consumer markets for which Micronas supplies tailor-made solutions based on the company's proven know-how in compressed audio (p.e. MP3, AAC), video, and multimedia applications. The Automotive Division The automotive division develops, manufactures, and markets IC’s and sensor used in the automotive industry. The portfolio of the automotive division comprises microchips that are used for automotive applications. These chips are increasingly replacing mechanical components and create the option to integrate new functions into the vehicle. Micronas' customers in this area are mainly companies that supply systems to the automotive industry. The automotive division has two product lines: Controllers for use in electronic car instrumentation; and Hall-effect sensors for engine management, drive regulation, and security and comfort systems.

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