Cree, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. Cree, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor materials and devices based on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN) and related compounds. The Company focuses its expertise in SiC and GaN on light emitting diodes (LEDs), which consist of LED chips, LED components and LED lighting products. It also develops power and radio frequency (RF) products, including power switching and RF devices. The majority of Cree, Inc. products are manufactured at its main production facility in North Carolina. It also operates research and development facilities in North Carolina, California, Hong Kong and China. In February 2008, the Company acquired LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc. (Cree LED Lighting Solutions, Inc.).

Milford Manufacturing Services is a highly-flexible, experienced and fully-equipped EMS contract manufacturer. The company specializes in low-volume, high-mix projects for companies of all sizes and stages of production. Milford Manufacturing Services boasts a 20-year EMS heritage and an ISO 9001:2000-certified, 110,000 square-foot facility designed and equipped with $50 million in state-of-the-art production equipment for global manufacturing. The company has developed and deployed a flexible, virtual, extended manufacturing environment called The Looking GlassTM, which enables OEMs to make on-the-spot decisions to remove costs from the manufacturing and supply chain process.

President Oscar Torres, Jr., son of the company founder, owns Torres Electrical Supply, which was founded in 1971. Oscar Torres Sr. died in 1992; his son has been working at the company since 1976. Torres Electrical has two locations on the Atlantic coast of Florida. Supply and demand is what Torres Electrical Supply is all about. Torres Electrical Supply Company, Inc. distributes electrical supplies and industrial products made by manufacturers such as Cooper Bussmann, Gardner Bender, Littelfuse, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Thomas & Betts, and Yuasa. Customers include contractors, industry, and consumers.

Elektron company provides electronic components to industrial, utility, transport, mechanical, and commercial customers worldwide. The company's US-based Arcolectric unit manufactures and sells appliance switches, fuseholders, and indicator lights. Elektron's UK-based subsidiary, Bulgin Components, offers products including industrial connecters, fuseholders, switches, mains filters, and battery holders. Elektron has divested several other units to focus on these core operations.

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) makes optoelectronic display components used in TFT-LCD (thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display) and CRT (cathode ray tube) applications. The company makes large, medium, and small display panels used in LCD televisions, monitors, notebooks, netbooks, and other products such as smartphones. Samsung Electronics and Sony are among its largest customers. CPT also partners with companies such as PC maker Compal Electronics. Chunghwa Picture Tubes, which was established in 1971, also makes color picture tubes and electron guns.

His Company, which operates as Hisco, distributes electrical supplies to the contract electronics manufacturing, industrial, and injection molding industries. Products include adhesives, solder, flux, tape, polymers, wire, and cable. Hisco stocks more than 55,000 products from such manufacturers as 3M, Brady, Cookson, GE Silicones, and Loctite. The employee-owned company also provides custom fabrication, warehousing, and inventory management services from more than 20 locations in the US and six in Mexico.

Hittite Microwave Corporation company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Hittite Microwave Corporation designs and develops integrated circuits (ICs), modules and subsystems for radio frequency (RF) microwave and millimeterwave applications. The Company offers a range of standard and custom ICs, modules and subsystems that perform a range of functions across the RF, microwave and millimeterwave frequency bands. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had approximately 730 standard products spanning 20 product lines. The products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications, such as cellular telephone base stations, microwave and millimeterwave radio systems, broadband wireless access systems, and direct broadcast satellite systems. They are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications including military communication, targeting, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific and military spacecraft, automotive collision avoidance systems, medical imaging systems and industrial test equipment.

Duchossois Industries company, pronounced "deshy-swa," focuses its investment interests in the consumer products, technology and services sectors. The Chamberlain Group, a subsidiary, is the world's top maker of residential and commercial door openers and a leading maker of access control products. AMX Corporation performs systems integration, while other companies offer AV equipment, Internet-based access control, and lighting products. DII also owns an early-stage IT venture capital fund and holds a minority stake in horse racetrack Churchill Downs.

Sypris Electronics, LLC, an aerospace and defense electronics company, provides electronics manufacturing and engineering services. It offers design, manufacturing, testing, and supply chain services. The company’s services include new product introduction, automated manufacturing, prototype and manual manufacturing, engineering design and development, electrical engineering, systems and software engineering, mechanical design and drafting, and information security and testing solutions. Its products include SECURE DTD2000 SYSTEM, a secure crypto fill system that receives data from various tier-two workstations and tier-three fill devices; DATA TRANSFER DEVICE, a rugged and compact fill device that manages and transfers cryptographic keys to secure communications and information handling systems; KIV-19A and KIV-19M, ruggedized trunk encryption devices, which perform digital data encryption and decryption; Integrated Central Office of Record, an electronic key management system that generates, manages, and distributes electronic key material; and Automated Communications Engineering System, which allows military users to perform fully automated cryptonet, SOI, CEOI, JCEOI, and EP planning, management, validation, and generation distribution. The company also offers rack mounts and ancillary devises; and biometric technology that enables secure tokens, as well as offers real-time identity capture, management, and authentication. It serves aerospace, avionics, defense, and intelligence industries, as well as government agencies and defense prime contractors.

Aviza Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and supports semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets. The Company’s systems are used in a variety of segments of the semiconductor market, including silicon processing for memory devices, advanced three-dimensional packaging and power integrated circuits for communications. It focuses on designing systems that enable device manufacturers to meet technological and manufacturing requirements. Aviza Technology, Inc. offers both front-end-of-line and back-end-of-line systems and process technologies used for the aforementioned markets addressing critical thin film formation technologies, including atomic layer deposition, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, plasma etch and thermal processing systems. In June 2009, the Company and its subsidiaries filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

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