PSi Technologies Holdings makes packages that hold power semiconductors in the silicon equivalent of a full nelson. The company provides packaging and assembly services to top chip makers, such as Infineon (about 49% of sales), ON Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics (22%), and Texas Instruments. PSi Technologies takes customers' semiconductors and embeds them into protective casings in preparation for use; it specializes in working with power management semiconductors, such as field-effect transistors and voltage regulators -- devices that are built to handle high power levels and that require heavy-duty packaging techniques. Customers in Europe account for about three-quarters of sales.

GE Energy is an electrifying descendant of Edison's light bulb and a global leader in the design, manufacture, installation, and maintenance of gas, nuclear, wind, and steam-driven power generation plants. One of General Electric's largest divisions, GE Energy serves utility, industrial, and governmental customers worldwide, supplying products such as compressors, turbines, generators, and nuclear reactors. It also provides equipment that supports oil and gas distribution, and services ranging from consulting and field engineering to environmental monitoring and product lifecycle management.

Altera Corporation company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Altera Corporation (Altera) is a semiconductor company. The Company designs, manufactures and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs), HardCopy application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), pre-defined design building blocks, known as intellectual property (IP) cores, and associated development tools. Altera is a supplier of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) PLDs. The Company’s PLDs consist of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), which are semiconductor integrated circuits, or chips, that its customers program to perform logic functions in their electronic systems. Its HardCopy ASICs enables its customer transition designs from FPGAs to non-programmable implementations. Altera’s IP cores can be licensed by customers to add functions to their PLD designs.

Veeco Instruments Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Plainview, New York. Veeco Instruments Inc. (Veeco) designs, manufactures, markets and services enabling solutions for customers in the high brightness light emitting diode (HB LED), solar, data storage, scientific research, semiconductor and industrial markets. In its LED and Solar segment, Veeco designs and manufactures metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems that are used to make HB LEDs or solar cells made of III-V compound semiconductors. In its Data Storage segment, Veeco designs and manufactures equipment used in the production of thin film magnetic heads (TFMHs) that read and write data on hard disk drives. In its Metrology segment, the Company designs and manufactures atomic force microscopes (AFMs), scanning probe microscopes (SPMs), stylus profilers and fast three-dimensional (3D) optical microscopes, used to provide critical surface measurements in research and production environments.

Tokyo Seimitsu was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipments and measuring instruments. Its semiconductor manufacturing equipments include wafer probing machines, wafer dicing machines, wafer inspection system, polish grinders, chemical mechanical planarizers, wire slicing machine, wafer slicing machines, and wafer edge grinding machines. Its measuring instruments include three dimensional coordinate measuring machine; sensors and electric/air micrometers; surface texture and contour measuring instruments; roundness and cylindrical profile measuring instruments; high precisions digital measurement instruments; laser interferometer/built-in measuring instruments; automatic measuring systems; and machine control gauges control processing machines. The company sells its products under the brand name `ACCRETECH' in Japan, Europe, the United States, the South East Asia, Taiwan, and China.

Coherent, Inc. provides photonics-based solutions for commercial and scientific research applications worldwide. It engages in the design, manufacture, servicing, and marketing of lasers, precision optics, and related accessories. The company's products are used in a range of applications, including microelectronics, scientific research and government programs, OEM components and instrumentation, and materials processing markets. It markets its products primarily through a direct sales force, as well as through independent representatives. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Efore electronics group manufactures and markets power supplies and electronics for the telecommunications, industrial automation, and health care industries. The group offers both custom-designed power conversion products and standard power supplies. It provides AC/DC power systems, DC/DC power supplies, and electronics design and manufacturing services (EDMS), as well as related service and maintenance. Efore operates production facilities in China, Estonia, and the US and supplies customers in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Sutron Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets products and solutions for the collection and monitoring of hydrological, meteorological, and oceanic data for the management of critical water resources, for the optimization of hydropower plants, and for warning of disastrous floods, storms, or tsunamis. It operates in three divisions: Hydromet Products, Integrated Systems, and Hydrological Services. The Hydromet Products division manufactures real-time data collection and control products consisting of dataloggers, satellite transmitters/loggers, water level and meteorological sensors, and tides monitoring systems. The Integrated Systems division provides system integration services consisting of the design, integration, installation, and commissioning of customer-specific configurations and software applications for hydrological and meteorological monitoring and control systems. It also sells XConnect database systems software, as well as offers software support for XConnect users. In addition, this division integrates and installs airport weather systems. The Hydrological Services division offers hydrologic services, including data interpretation and analysis, flow modeling, field studies, hydrologic studies, environmental permitting, legal or expert witness and equipment integration, installation, commissioning, and maintenance services. The company primarily serves federal, state, local, and foreign governments; engineering companies; universities; and hydropower companies. Sutron Corporation markets its products through direct sales force in the United States, as well as through resellers and agents in Canada, Latin and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Sterling, Virginia.

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.

Shimadzu presently offers a multitude of products, encompassing analytical and measuring instruments, medical systems and equipment, aircraft equipment, and industrial equipment, across a wide range of fields, as well as meticulous, responsive service. In addition to these core businesses, Shimadzu continue to explore new ventures that will positively impact society in the future. Acknowledging the realities of an aging society and heightened interest in the well-being of individuals, and in response to the goals of ultra-early diagnosis and treatment in the field of next-generation medicine, they are focusing on the development of “molecular imaging technology” to enable detection of subtle symptoms before the onset of full-blown diseases. For example, in the environmental field, the company is developing cleanup technologies which will not require the removal of existing buildings to rehabilitate polluted underground soil. In the field of industrial measurements, they are developing combustion measurement technology for automobile engines, an innovation that will further reduce fuel consumption. Looking forward, the company will continue to cultivate new business opportunities in such fields as the global environment, energy, automotives, and IT, by promoting leading-edge seed technology development.In addition to R&D objectives, Shimadzu is keenly aware that the 21st century is an age of explosive globalization in which barriers are tumbling, and the world is steadily becoming a single vast marketplace. Therefore, in addition to networks in the United States, Europe, Asia, and China, Shimadzu is now expanding into Brazil, India, Russia, and other regions. Shimadzu are setting up production, sales, and service bases throughout the world, striving to become a truly global business by perfecting an organizational structure which ensures that the various needs of customers in all regions are swiftly addressed.

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