Tvia merges TV and the Internet via its own chips. The fabless semiconductor company designs and markets streaming media gateway integrated circuits -- specialized chips that are used in digital set-top boxes, digital TVs, and related devices. Tvia's customers include Micro Network Korea, Mitsubishi Electric, and Universal Technology. The company outsources manufacturing of its chips to silicon foundries Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics and United Microelectronics. Tvia formed strategic alliances with several other companies, including Microsoft and NEC. The company gets most of its sales in China.

Polar Semiconductor, Inc. company is a silicon foundry (contract semiconductor manufacturer) that makes specialized analog and mixed-signal chips using BiCMOS designs. These chips are used primarily in communications applications by customers such as Maxim Integrated Products. Besides handling manufacturing chores, Polar Semi offers services such as prototyping and testing. The company took its current form in 1999 when Agere Systems (then part of Lucent, later acquired by LSI Corp.) bought the disk drive chip designs (and the name) of VTC, Polar Semi's predecessor. Sanken Electric acquired Polar Semi in mid-2005 for around $83 million.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation company, part of the Mitsubishi network of businesses that dates back to a shipping firm founded in 1870, has five primary sectors: energy and electric systems (power generation plants, monitoring systems, and escalators); home appliances (air conditioning systems, projection TVs, and monitors); information and communication systems (automotive multimedia systems, satellites, and networking equipment); industrial automation systems (logic controllers, circuit breakers, and robotics); and electronic devices (semiconductors and interposers).

Benthos was founded in 1962 by Samuel O. Raymond in North Falmouth, Massachusetts, a few miles from the research faciliites at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. During its first three decades, the company placed particular emphasis on supplying underwater equipment to military and governement markets.Early in the 1990's, in response to a decline in these markets, the company shifted its priorities to meet the growing needs of commercial markets. These markets include the geophysical industry where Benthos products and systems are used in the search for offshore oil and gas deposits, as well as scientific research and environmental markets.In 2006, Benthos was acquired by Teledyne Technologies Incorporated and is now a proud member of the Teledyne Marine group of companies. The company is now know as Teledyne Benthos.

Zygo Corporation designs, develops, and manufactures ultra-high precision measurement solutions to enhance its customersâ manufacturing yields; and optical sub-systems and components for original equipment manufacturers and end-user applications in the United States and internationally. The companyâ's Metrology Solutions division provides process control for surface shape, roughness, and film thickness through its product offerings that measure surface and material characteristics, such as roughness, figure, film thickness, and transmitted wave front of flat, spherical, and aspheric components. This division offers semiconductor metrology tools, OEM solutions, in-line automated yield improvement systems for flat panel displays and advanced integrated circuit packaging manufacturing, and technology development projects for the semiconductor capital equipment industry. It also provides measurement-based process control systems to defense and aerospace customers; and measurement-based process control and yield-enhancement systems to automotive, consumer electronics, and commercial optical customers. The companyâ's Optical Systems division produces high precision integrated optical systems and system-critical optical components for medical laser delivery systems, the U.S. Department of Defense applications, 3D medical imaging, and semiconductor lithography. This division also assembles and integrates devices, such as medical laser delivery systems, 3D dental imaging, and opto-electronic surveillance; and designs and manufactures prototypes utilizing multi-axis alignment, optical contact assembly, custom tooling, single point diamond turning, and the companyâ's proprietary metrology equipment. In addition, it manufactures laser fusion optics and meter-class plano optics, including advanced materials, such as sapphire, as well as operates an optical fabrication and coating center. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Middlefield, Connecticut.

SAES Getters products have been to Jupiter (on the Galileo spacecraft) and Saturn (on the Cassini probes). The company operates two divisions: components (which makes getters, mechanisms used in display devices, light sources, and electronic devices and flat panels) and equipment (purifiers, analyzers, and analytical services mainly for companies in the semiconductor industry). The components division also makes metal dispensers used in fluorescent lamps, night vision devices, and plasma displays. SAES Getters is controlled by Italian holding company S.G.G. Holding, which in turn counts the della Porta, Canale, and Baldi families as stakeholders.

WinSpec Manufacturing distributes semiconductors and provides assembly, manufacturing, and testing services for customers worldwide. WinSpec Manufacturing Inc. company was founded in 1997 and is owned by its officers. WinSpec Manufacturing has facilities in Canada, France, Germany, Taiwan, and the US. To cover the South American market, WinSpec Manufacturing Inc. opened an office in Miami in 2003.

Sunplus Technology Company Limited was founded in 1990. Sunplus Technology Company Limited engages in the research, development, design, testing, and sale of consumer integrated circuits (ICs). The company's products are based on technology in such areas as multimedia audio/video, single-chip microcontroller and digital signal processors. These technologies are used to develop various products, including various ICs: liquid crystal display, microcontroller, multimedia, voice/music, and application-specific. Product Lines Multimedia IC: Products include IC solutions for multimedia home applications, such as DVD/VCD, LCD TV, Digital TV, pocket TV, and set-top-box. Others: Products include ASIC and intellectual properties. The company also offers Highly-integrated digital TV solution; HDMI DVD player IC; Blue-ray Disc player IC; Portable and Car DVD IC; Set-top-box; DTV IC solutions; Pocket TV IC; Digital photo frame IC; and GPS IC. The company delivers IC solutions for multimedia home applications, including DVD/VCD player, LCD TV, digital TV, and DVB-Terrestrial set-top-box. It primarily delivers DVB-T/ATSC/DTMB DTV IC solutions. It is mainly supported by the Home Entertainment Business Unit, which includes the IC design center and system development center. In the product development flow, the company focuses on IC design, system design, wafer testing and sales services and out-sources majority of the manufacturing, including mask making, wafer fabrication, wafer sawing, packaging, and final testing.

Broadley-James manufactures measurement and control instruments and accessories for use in bioprocess and fermentation applications. The company's BioNet product line includes a bioreactor, a controller, a motor controller, and a utility tower. Each controller can network and control several dozen bioreactors. Broadley-James was established in 1967 by Leighton Broadley (CFO), Marcile Broadley, and Richard James. James left the business in 1976. The company has operations in California and Pennsylvania, and overseas in the UK. Broadley-James is owned by its senior officers.

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.

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