MathStar, Inc. company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon. MathStar, Inc. (MathStar) was a fabless semiconductor company engaged in the development, marketing and selling of its programmable platform field programmable object arrays (FPOA) chips and design tools required to program its chips. On May 20, 2008, the Company suspended research and development activities. As of September 30, 2008, the Company had ceased all operations in Minnesota. As of December 31, 2008, MathStar had engaged a third party investment banking firm to explore the sale of intellectual property and patents and potential merger and acquisition alternatives.

Esec (formerly Oerlikon Assembly Equipment) makes manufacturing equipment used to assemble finished semiconductors. Its core business is making the die bonders, wire bonders, and flip chip bonders needed to lay down the itty bitty pathways on microchips. The company also makes equipment for assembling components and the packaging technology for smart cards. Oerlikon merged the formerly publicly traded ESEC into its Assembly Equipment division in 2004. The company has seven service centers located strategically in select Asian markets, as well as in Europe and the US. In 2009 Oerlikon sold Oerlikon Esec to rival BE Semiconductor Industries in a stock-swap transaction.

Xelerated is going fast into the future of networking. The fabless semiconductor company, which was founded in 2000, designs programmable network processors that incorporate the efficiency of application-specific integrated circuits. These hybrid devices are used in high-speed networking equipment. The Xelerator line of network processors is supported by reference design kits, software development kits, co-processors, and engineering services. The company's investors include Accel Partners, Alta Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, and Sjätte AP-fonden.

AsteelFlash company provides contract electronics manufacturing services, such as printed circuit board assembly, prototyping, custom packaging, systems integration, logistics management, and testing. AsteelFlash's target industries include telecommunications, Internet, computers, automation, and instrumentation. The company partners with distributors such as Arrow Electronics and Future Electronics. Nokia, Occam, 3Com, and Pinnacle Systems are among its roster of OEMs. AsteelFlash Group was created in 2008 when ASTEEL, a contract electronics manufacturer based in France, acquired Flash Electronics.

Aehr Test Systems was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Aehr Test Systems (Aehr Test) develops, manufactures and sells systems, which are designed to reduce the cost of testing flash, dynamic random access memory (DRAM), and other memory devices, and to perform reliability screening or burn-in of complex logic and memory devices. These systems can be used to perform parallel testing and burn-in of packaged integrated circuits (ICs), singulated bare die, or ICs still in wafer form. The Company has developed and introduced several product families, including the ABTS, FOX, MTX and MAX systems, the WaferPak cartridge and the DiePakR carrier. The Company manufactures and markets full wafer contact systems, monitored burn-in systems, massively parallel test systems, test fixtures, die carriers and related accessories. The Company markets and sells its products to semiconductor manufacturers, semiconductor contract assemblers, electronics manufacturers and burn-in and test service companies.

Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. (K&S) designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment and expendable tools used to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits, high and low powered discrete devices, LEDs, and power modules. It also services, maintains, repairs and upgrades its equipment. The Company’s customers primarily consist of semiconductor device manufacturers, their subcontract assembly suppliers, other electronics manufacturers and automotive electronics suppliers. K&S operates two main business segments: Equipment and Expendable Tools. On October 3, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Orthodyne Electronics Corporation (Orthodyne). Orthodyne is the supplier of both heavy wire wedge bonders and heavy wire wedges (the expendable tools used in wedge bonding) for the power semiconductor and hybrid module markets.

ABB Holdings Ltd. company, the UK division of Swiss firm ABB, makes electrical distribution components and builds power plants and substations through its power products and power systems divisions, respectively. Its automation products group makes drives, motors, and generators, shipping more than 1 million components daily. Optimizing operations for oil, gas, power, chemical, and pharmaceutical plants falls under the banner of process automation. The robotics division has the world's largest installation of industrial robots. It provides robot software, peripheral equipment, and components.

Bay Microsystems, Inc. designs and develops network solutions that include network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. The company offers ABEx, a network appliance for optical transport and packet switched networks including synchronous optical networking and synchronous digital hierarchy, Ethernet, Internet protocol and multiprotocol label switching, pseudowires, ATM, and InfiniBand. It also designs and develops network processors that include Chesapeake, a single-chip programmable network processor and traffic manager; Montego, a single-chip programmable Internetworking processor; and Biscayne, a programmable classification processor with policing. Additionally, the company offers Lighthouse Tool Suite, a hardware and software development platform for designing network processor based networking equipment and BayPort, a demonstration and evaluation platform for company’s network processors. Bay Microsystems was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with an additional office in Germantown, Maryland.

Tegal Corporation company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California. Tegal Corporation (Tegal) designs, manufactures, markets and services plasma etch and deposition systems that enable the production of micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS), power integrated circuits (ICs) and optoelectronic devices found in products like smart phones, networking gear, solid-state lighting and digital imaging. The Company’s plasma etch and deposition tools enable manufacturing techniques, such as three dimensional (3-D) interconnect structures formed by intricate silicon etch, also known as Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE). Etching and deposition constitute two of the principal device production process steps and each must be performed numerous times in the production of such devices. In May 2009, the Company established Tegal France, a wholly owned subsidiary. On September 16, 2008, the Company acquired certain assets from Alcatel Micro Machining Systems (AMMS) and Alcatel Lucent.

Electrium offers a complete range of Low Voltage installation products from a simple light switch to the main switchgear in an industrial installation. The company employs around 700 people in manufacturing operations in the UK and throughout the world, with its UK commercial centre in Cannock, Staffordshire at the heart of the UK’s motorway network.Electrium aims to capitalise on its strong market position, focusing on key strategies to increase market share with opportunities for growth multiplied through access to Siemens’ resources for research and development, logistics, and global sales and marketing.

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