Giga-tronics Incorporated engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of various test and measurement equipment used in the development, test, and maintenance of wireless communications products and systems, flight navigational equipment, electronic defense systems, and automatic testing systems. These products are used in the design, production, repair, and maintenance of commercial telecommunications, radar, and electronic warfare equipment. The company operates in two segments, Giga-tronics and Microsource. The Giga-tronics segment produces signal sources, generators and sweepers, and power measurement instruments for use in the microwave and radio frequency range from 10 kilohertz to 50 gigahertz. This segment also manufactures switch modules and interface adapters that operate with a bandwidth from direct current to optical frequencies for defense, aeronautics, communications, satellite, and electronic warfare markets. The Microsource segment develops and manufactures various YIG tuned oscillators, filters, and microwave synthesizers, which are used in manufacturing various microwave instruments or devices. The company markets its products through various independent distributors and representatives to commercial and government customers. Giga-tronics Incorporated was founded in 1980 and is based in San Ramon, California.

Varta, once one of the biggest names in the battery market, has lost its buzz. After selling its consumer battery business to Rayovac (now known as Spectrum Brands), and its automotive battery division to Johnson Controls in 2002, Varta in 2006 divested its micro-battery business, VARTA Microbatterie, a subsidiary the company created in 2001. Global Equity Partners Beteiligungs-Management, an Austrian buyout firm, bought VARTA Microbatterie in late 2006. Since 2007, the company has been in the process of selling the assets and equity previously part of the manufacture and sale of the VARTA lineup. Deutsche Bank's industrial and private equity holding company, DB Investor, is the majority owner of Varta.

Faraday Technology Corporation is a Taiwan-based company engaged in design, manufacture and distribution of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and relevant components. The Company provides ASICs, wafers and silicon intellectual property (SIP) components. The Company also involves in non-recurring engineering (NRE) business, providing customer-tailored ASIC and SIP products. Its products are applied in manufacture of communication equipment, information appliances, liquid crystal display (LCD) products, computers and consumer electronics, among others. The Company distributes its products in Taiwan, Japan and the United States.

Medler Electric Company is a distributor of electrical parts and supplies; it gets the majority of its business from companies in the construction market. Medler Electric carries products (ranging from motors and heaters to lighting and much more) from such manufacturers as 3M, Cooper Lighting, Daniel Woodhead, Ferraz Shawmut, Littelfuse, and Square D Company.

CPU Technology, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Pleasanton, California with business development offices in Reston, Virginia. CPU Technology, Inc. develops and supplies system-on-a-chip (SOC) solutions for electronic systems in finance, defense and aerospace, industrial controls, and high end computing industries. It provides field programmable multicore chips; SystemLab PS that allows engineers and programmers to see inside the electronics of a platform in real time during actual software execution; SystemLab IntegrationStation, a system design and development tool suite; and Defense Line Replaceable Units, such as Position Interface Box used on the M2A3/M3A3 Bradley fighting vehicle. The company also offers system design/development services, such as initial architecture/trade study, system architecture modeling, design implementation, behavioral verification, physical implementation, and productization/commercialization; and system modernization solutions, including board, box, and kit product solutions for embedded compute and control systems. Its products are used in desktop boxes, fighter jets, and armored vehicles.

CML Microsystems Plc (CML) is a United Kingdom-based company. The Company, and its subsidiaries, design, manufacture and market a range of integrated circuits (IC) for global industrial, professional and consumer applications within wireless communication, wireline communication, storage and networking market areas. The Company has eight operating subsidiaries located in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan. The Company operates a fabless semiconductor model (outsources silicon wafer fabrication) and performs IC assembly and test functions. It operates in two segments: semiconductor components and equipment. The Company’s semiconductor products focus on four segments: wireless, storage, wireline telecom and networking. Its subsidiaries include CML Microsystems Inc., CML Microcircuits (UK) Ltd, Applied Technology (UK) Ltd and Hyperstone Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA projects big things in the US. The subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric makes and markets a diverse line of consumer, commercial, and industrial electronics products. Mitsubishi Electric US's product lines include automation equipment (motion controllers, servo systems, and uninterruptible power supplies), automotive (electrical components), elevators and escalators, heating and air conditioning (air purifiers and compressors), home theater (audio-video systems and stadium displays), power products (air-, hydrogen-, and water-cooled generators, along with photovoltaic solar cells), semiconductors, and wireless communications devices.

Adaptive Networks keeps communication down-to-the-wire. It researches, develops, and sells chipsets and modules that helps transmit data at high speeds over ordinary electrical power lines. The technology has been adapted for commercial and industrial data networks -- hospitals, hotels, utility companies -- and also has applications in home networking. The company was founded in 1983 by the Propp brothers, Michael (president) and David (EVP), and applied for its first patent in 1986. Products include PowerStream (used for streaming multimedia including video and audio) and PowerConnect (powerline communications chipset). Outside investors own about three-quarters of the company, with officers holding one-quarter.

Toshiba Semiconductor (TSW) is the microchip arm of electronics titan Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba makes many kinds of discrete devices and integrated circuits (ICs), including application-specific standard products (ASSPs), diodes, linear devices, logic chips, microcontrollers, sensors, and transistors. Toshiba's semiconductor operations also make optical components, as well as many kinds of memory chips, including DRAMs, static RAMs (SRAMs), flash memory devices, and electrically erasable programmable read-only memories (EEPROMs). The company works cooperatively with other chip makers and manufacturers of consumer electronics to advance the functionality of its products.

Power Integrations, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in San Jose, California. Power Integrations, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-voltage, analog integrated circuits (ICs). The Company’s ICs are used in electronic power supplies, also known as switched-mode power supplies or switchers. The Company’s products include TOPSwitch, TinySwitch, LinkSwitch, HiperPLC and DPA-Switch. The vast majority of the Company’s ICs are used in alternate current (AC)-direct current (DC) switchers, although it also targets certain high-voltage DC-DC applications, such as power over Ethernet (PoE). It generally targets power supply applications in markets, such as the communications market, the consumer market, the computer market and the industrial market. On December 31, 2007, the Company acquired Potentia Semiconductor Corporation.

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