CiDRA company now offers the SONARtrac line of process measuring instruments, used in oil and gas wells monitoring, mineral processing, paper and pulp manufacturing, and other industrial applications. SONARtrac can keep track of gases, liquids, slurries, and various fluids. CiDRA was founded by president and CEO Kevin Didden in 1996. In 2003 the company spun off a supplier of instruments for the biosciences, CyVera, that was acquired in 2005 by Illumina. In mid-2008 CiDRA sold its oil and gas metering business to Expro International Group for $60.5 million in cash.

Numonyx B.V. designs and manufactures integrated NAND, NOR, RAM, and phase change non-volatile memory technologies and products for customers in the cellular, data, and embedded markets. It offers various system solutions, such as embedded, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, PCs and peripherals, and wired communications solutions; various storage solutions; and wireless solutions, including high-end, mainstream, and basic solutions. The company also provides various memory products, such as automotive-grade flash memory products for automotive applications; multi-chip packages; NAND flash memory products for various wireless and embedded applications; NOR parallel flash memory products; NOR serial flash memory products; a portfolio of security solutions that enable system manufacturers to protect data from accidental or intentional corruption, as well as unauthorized IP copying or cloning; phase change memory products, which blend the attributes associated with NOR flash, NAND flash, EEpROM, and RAM in a device; and flash software to increase the performance of memory subsystem. It offers its products through a network of distributors and manufacturer's representatives in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Rolle, Switzerland with sales offices in Folsom, California; and Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. Numonyx B.V. is a former subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

Trident Microsystems, Inc. company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Trident) designs, develops and markets integrated circuits (ICs) for digital media applications, such as digital television and liquid crystal display (LCD). The Company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC), semiconductors provide the intelligence for these types of displays by processing and optimizing video and computer graphic signals to produce high-quality and realistic images. Trident’s discrete products include frame rate converter (FRC), demodulator (DRX) and audio decoder products. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the digital media segment accounted for all of its revenues. In February 2010, the Company acquired NXP Semiconductor's television systems and set-top box business lines.

FEI Company, together with its subsidiaries, supplies instruments for nanoscale imaging, analysis, and prototyping that enable research, development, and manufacturing in industrial, academic, and research institutional applications. Its products include focused ion beam systems, scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and DualBeam systems. The company's products facilitate laboratories to enhance new product development and yields by enabling 3D wafer metrology, defect analysis, root cause failure analysis, and circuit edit for modifying device structures; provide data storage market with thin film head processing and root cause failure analysis services; enable researchers and manufacturers to develop, analyze, and produce products through its atomic-level resolution images; and create 3D reconstructions of complex biological structures, through its ultra-high resolution imaging in the life sciences market. The company serves universities and research institutes engaged in biotech and life sciences applications; pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies and hospitals; semiconductor, data storage, and related industries, such as printers and microelectromechanical systems; and a range of industrial customers, including automobiles, aerospace, metals, mining, and petrochemicals. FEI Company sells its products through direct sales personnel, as well as through independent agents, distributors, and representatives in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited (BCD Semi) is a leading analog integrated device manufacturer, or IDM, based in Greater China, specializing in the design, manufacture and sale of power management integrated circuits, or ICs. The company's broad portfolio of power management ICs primarily targets rapidly growing, high volume markets such as mobile phones, portable media players, LCD televisions and monitors, personal computers, adapters and chargers and other electronics products. As an IDM, BCD Semi integrates product design and process technology to optimize product performance and cost. The company offers system-level solutions with the quality, performance and reliability required by customers. Greater China-based operations provide proximity to the rapidly growing electronics industry in Asia, enabling to align product development effort with customers and market trends and to provide timely and effective technical support. The company currently employs more than 1,000 full-time staff, including more than 250 in design and engineering. The BCD Semi 6" fab has a clean-room floor area of over 3556 square meters for wafer processing. BCD Semi provides system customers with superior products that are developed with analog IC design and R&D, and manufactured with advanced process technologies such as Bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS and BCDMOS, etc. The company has sales offices in Shenzhen, Taiwan and USA and has established distribution channels world-wide. The BCD Headquarters has relocated to Shanghai Zizhu Science-based Industrial Park; next to Intel and Microsoft. BCD Semi strives to become a world leading analog/mixed-signal IC solution provider. The company is dedicated to achieving the goal of providing customers in the global market with most reliable products of the highest quality/price ratio.

ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) is a holding company, which operates through its subsidiaries. The Company is a provider of advanced technology systems for the semiconductor industry. It offers an integrated portfolio of lithography systems mainly for manufacturing complex integrated circuits (semiconductors, ICs or chips). The Company supplies lithography systems to IC manufacturers throughout Asia, the United States and Europe and also provides its customers with a range of support services from advanced process and product applications knowledge to complete round-the-clock service support. ASML’s wholly owned operating subsidiaries include ASML Netherlands B.V., ASML Hong Kong Limited and ASML IS, Inc. In July 2009, ASML introduced FlexRay programmable illumination and BaseLiner scanner matching technology, which offer scanner stability optimization and stabilize manufacturing process windows.

ROHM simply took the standard unit of electrical resistance, the ohm, and added the letter "R," for resistors, its original product line, to create a name. ROHM company manufactures semiconductor and electronic components, from integrated circuits to discrete devices (diodes and transistors), opto electronics, such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and LCDs, passive components (resistors and capacitors) and power modules. Its lineup is used in car instruments, DVD recorders, flat-panel displays, PCs, and mobile handsets, among many high-tech gizmos. ROHM competes primarily in Asia (more than 90% of sales) through both established regional offices and wholly owned subsidiaries.

Generac has earned a reputation as the company home and business owners turn to when the power goes out. The first to engineer affordable home standby generators, along with the first engine developed specifically for the rigors of generator use, we now sell more home standby generators than all of our competitors combined. We then revolutionized the commercial market with the first cost effective product line meeting the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. Unlike other generator manufacturers, power generation is our sole focus, with the widest range of power products in the marketplace including portable, RV, residential, commercial and industrial generators. At Generac, we protect the things that power your life by providing quality, affordable power solutions.

Corning Incorporated, the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics, has worked closely with customers to understand their problems, explore possible solutions, and then bring those solutions to life through our world-class scientific and manufacturing capabilities.Corning Japan unique collaborative culture paired with more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering continue to drive us forward -- as we look at the toughest problems, imagine the possibilities, then turn those possibilities into breakthrough realities.

Actel Corporation company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Actel Corporation (Actel) designs, develops and markets flash, antifuse-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and mixed-signal FPGAs for a range of applications within the aerospace, automotive, avionics, communications, consumer, industrial, medical and military markets. In support of its FPGA devices, the Company also offers design and development software, intellectual property (IP) cores, programming hardware, debugging tool kits and demonstration boards, design services, field engineering and technical support. The Company sells its products globally through a worldwide, multi-tiered sales and distribution network. In July 2008, Actel acquired Pigeon Point Systems, a provider of telecommunications computer architecture (TCA) management components.

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