Samsung Electronics America sells everything from computer monitors to microwave ovens, from sea to shining sea. Formed in 1977 as a subsidiary of electronics giant Samsung Electronics, the company markets consumer electronics and household appliances, including TVs, DVD and audio players, video cameras, refrigerators, and air conditioners. Other products include large-screen plasma displays, printers, monitors, hard-disk drives, and optical drives. The company also manages the North American operations of Samsung Semiconductor Inc. (consumer device chip manufacturing), Samsung Telecommunications America (mobile phones and telephony equipment), Samsung Electronics Canada, and Samsung Electronics Mexico.

American Technical Ceramics Corp. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of radio frequency/microwave/millimeter-wave ceramic capacitors, thin film products, and other passive components worldwide. It offers multilayer capacitors, single layer ceramic capacitors, and passive resistive products, as well as provides resistors, terminations, attenuators, and other customized products. The company’s products are primarily used in ultra-high frequency and microwave applications, including wireless electronics, medical electronics, semiconductor equipment, satellite equipment, and fiber optics. It sells its products primarily to the manufacturers of microwave, high frequency, and fiber optic systems, including original equipment manufacturers, and electronics manufacturing services companies and suppliers. American Technical Ceramics was founded in 1966. It was formerly known as Phase Industries, Inc. and changed its name to American Technical Ceramics Corp. in 1984. The company is headquartered in Huntington Station, New York.

Nippon company, which also does business as Avio, designs and manufactures electronic components and equipment for use in aviation, data communications, and medicine. The company's products include digital projectors, infrared thermographs, precision machining systems, printed circuit boards, software, and telecom equipment. Subsidiaries include Yamanashi Avionics, Avionics Fukushima, NEC San-ei Instruments, and Avio Sales.

ChipWrights can't improve your golf game, but could improve your image. The fabless semiconductor company develops visual signal processors (ViSPs), a type of digital signal processor designed for imaging applications. ViSPs are used in products such as cell phones, digital still cameras, printers, and video editing systems. ChipWrights outsources manufacturing of its chips, and also licenses its designs. The company was founded in 2000 by Brian Fitzgerald (former CEO), John Redford (CTO), and other executives of the company. ChipWrights Design's investors included Axiom Venture Partners, BancBoston Ventures, and Rock Maple Ventures. AD Group of the UK acquired the company's assets and business in 2005.

MATECH Corporation engages in the research and development of metal fatigue detection, measurement, and monitoring technologies in the United States and internationally. The company develops devices and systems that indicate the true status of fatigue damage in a metal component. It produces Fatigue Fuse, a device that integrates the effect of fatigue loading in a structural member. The Fatigue Fuse is designed to be affixed to a structure to give warnings at pre-selected percentages of the fatigue life that has been used up. It also develops Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor, an instrument that detects very small growing fatigue cracks in metals. MATECH Corporation's technology is applicable to various market sectors, such as bridges and aerospace, as well as ships, cranes, railways, power plants, nuclear facilities, chemical plants, mining equipment, piping systems, and heavy iron. The company was formerly known as Material Technologies, Inc and changed its name to MATECH Corporation in October 2008. MATECH Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Sierra Monitor Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets hazardous gas monitoring devices for the protection of personnel and facilities in industrial workplaces. It offers gas detection safety systems for safety applications ranging from oil and gas processing and chemical plants to wastewater treatment, alternate fuel vehicle programs, and other users or producers of hazardous gases. The company also provides microprocessor-based environment control products to the telecommunications industry, which are used to monitor temperature, gas, smoke, and other environmental and security conditions in remote structures, such as DSL distribution nodes, fiber optic booster stations, and cell-tower site buildings. In addition, it offers software-based industrial communications bridge products comprising machine to machine protocol translation devices sold under the FieldServer and ProtoCessor trade names to equipment manufacturers and systems integrators in the building automation industry. The company offers its products through a network of independent sales representatives to oil and gas drilling and refining companies, chemical plants, waste-water treatment plants, telecommunications companies, parking garages, landfill rehabilitation projects, and building automation projects in the United States and internationally. Sierra Monitor Corporation was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

TranSwitch Corporation company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut. Transwitch Corporation (Transwitch) designs, develops and supplies integrated semiconductor solutions that provide core functionality for voice, data and video communications network equipment. Its system-on-a-chip (SoC) products incorporate digital and mixed-signal semiconductor technology and related embedded software. In addition to its system-on-a-chip products, the Company is in the business of licensing intellectual property cores to both OEMs, as well as other semiconductor companies. In addition to a portfolio of standard integrated circuit products addressing voice, data, wireless and video markets, TranSwitch supplies a number of intellectual property core products for Ethernet and high definition video (HDMI protocol) applications, as well as custom design services. On October 24, 2008, the Company acquired Centillium Communications, Inc. (Centillium).

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.

Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation engages in the development, production, and commercialization of polycrystalline silicon for semiconductor and photovoltaic applications. The company offers various product forms, including cut rods, chunks, and chips that have applications in cellular phones, PDAs, computers, MP3 players, video games, car electronics, home electronics, satellite and cable televisions, digital cameras, environmental control systems, and medical devices; solar-grade polycrystalline silicon for the manufacture of solar products; and semiconductor-grade chemicals for the needs of semiconductor fabrication. Its products are used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, and solar cells and modules. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Hemlock, Michigan with sales offices in Wiesbaden, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, the Republic of Korea. It has manufacturing facilities in Michigan; and Clarksville, Tennessee. Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Dow Corning Corporation.

Opnext, Inc. founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Opnext, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of subsystems, optical modules, and components that transmit and receive data delivered via light in telecommunications, data communication, industrial, and commercial applications. The company offers 10Gbps and 40Gbps transceiver modules, including tunable transceivers; a line of 2.5Gbps and lower speed SFP transceiver modules; products for product platforms, such as SFP+, 40GbE, 100Gbps, XLMD, and XMD; communications laser diode products, including DFB lasers and EA-DFB lasers; positive-intrinsic-negative and avalanche photodiodes; and photodetectors. It also provides transmit and receive optical modules and components; transport and routers; multi-service switches and access multiplexers; routers; servers; and hubs. In addition, the company offers lasers and infrared LEDs for industrial and commercial applications comprising visible lasers for applications, such as mini-projectors, laser printing, industrial barcode scanning, medical imaging, and professional contractor tools; lasers for scientific measurement, night vision, and other infrared applications; and infrared LEDs for sensors used in robotics and other industrial applications. It serves telecommunications and data communications markets, which include network systems vendors; and companies that design and manufacture laser-based products comprising medical and scientific systems, industrial bar code scanners, professional grade construction and surveying tools, gun sights and other security equipment, sensors for robotics and industrial automation, and printing engines for high-speed laser printers and plain paper copiers.

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