X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG operates as a foundry for mixed-signal semiconductor applications. It offers technical support, online support, technical documentation, process design kits, electronic design automation, design support, prototyping support, and manufacturing support solutions, as well as e-business services. The company serves automotive, communication, industrial, consumer electronics, and medical applications. X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG was founded in 1999 and is based in Erfurt, Germany with manufacturing sites in Erfurt and Dresden, Germany; Kuching, Malaysia; Plymouth, the United Kingdom; and Lubbock, Texas. X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG operates as a subsidiary of Elex N.V.

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.

Tokyo Electron America (TEA) is the North American sales and field engineering arm of Tokyo Electron (TEL), the world's second largest supplier of semiconductor production equipment (behind Applied Materials). TEA sells and services the equipment made by its parent company, which also includes machines for probing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), semiconductor production equipment, electronic components, wafers, and flat-panel display fabrication equipment. TEL/TEA is also delving into the new market of nanotechnology equipment. Tokyo Electron's sales to customers in the US account for about 12% of its total global business.

Newark InOne offers all sorts of electronic goods in one place, and not just for customers in Newark. The company stocks and distributes a vast array of electronic components and supplies. Its catalog includes semiconductors, passive devices, electrical equipment, test and measurement instruments, office supplies, and tools. Newark InOne is a subsidiary of Premier Farnell, a major international electronic and industrial parts supplier. In 2005 the company expanded its operations by purchasing the assets of R&R Instrumentation, which distributed and calibrated electronic test equipment; R&R was renamed Newark InOne Services.

Akrion Systems LLC company makes surface preparation equipment that readies semiconductor wafers for high-precision processes during manufacturing of microchips and other high-tech components. Akrion's tools are used in producing logic and memory parts, microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices, photovoltaic solar cells, flat-panel displays, and photomasks. Its customers include Analog Devices, BAE SYSTEMS, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, MEMC Electronic Materials, Micron Technology, and Samsung Electronics. In 2008 Akrion's assets were acquired by Bayside Capital, an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital.

Paradigm Works provides technical consulting services to help semiconductor companies and other parties design new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices for use in CPU, LAN, SOC, analog, testing, storage, graphics, and telecommunications applications. The company also offers semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores, chip-design elements that can be added piecemeal and integrated into a new device, protocol verification, chip construction, and foundry support. Branded software products include SystemVerilog FrameWorks (released in 2009), ReleaseWorks, and RegWorks Spec2Reg. Employee-owned Paradigm was founded in 2000 and has offices in the US.

Finmek provides contract electronics design and manufacturing services offering products ranging from printed circuit board assemblies, peripherals, and networking equipment to complete systems for the communications, industrial, medical, and multimedia markets. Finmek also provides integration, logistics, maintenance, and testing services. Customers include Alcatel, Ericsson, and Telecom Italia. The troubled company was declared insolvent in 2004, and later announced plans to close some plants.

SIONEX Corporation company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Sionex Corporation is a former subsidiary of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. Sionex Corporation develops and sells sensor hardware and software products for threat detection, medical diagnostics, process control, and monitoring markets. The company provides chemical and biological sensor chips and subsystems based on microDMx detection technology. It provides microAnalyzer, an integrated system that detects, identifies, and measures minute quantities of chemicals in air and vaporized liquids at the point of collection; sensor and board kits, which are designed to be integrated by customers who possess engineering, design, and computer engineering resources; and mass spectrometry pre-filters that have applications in homeland security and defense. The company also provides The Sionex Value Added Component SVAC that contains detector and electronic boards, as well as sample pumps, flow controllers, and operational software; and differential mobility spectroscopy and ion mobility spectroscopy detectors that enable identifying and confirming compounds in the presence of interferences and complex matrices in seconds. In addition, it provides customized software development services, including Expert software, which is designed as a tool to facilitate and support application development, production, diagnostics/troubleshooting, and data capture; and Total Ion Flow software, which is designed as a tool to facilitate and support ionization optimization projects, radioactive, and non-radioactive. Further, the company provides evaluation systems, which allow basic testing and discovery of technology for various applications. It offers its solutions for various commercial applications, including monitoring of industrial and petrochemical compounds, chemical and biological warfare agents, explosives, and narcotics, as well as for automobile engines and consumer products.

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of high-technology manufacturing equipment to the semiconductor and micro-electronics markets. It offers semiconductor memory-yield equipment, which is primarily used in the manufacture of DRAMs and NAND flash memory devices; Model 2100 thin-film-on-silicon trimming system that helps manufacturers in trimming performance parameters to specific values for applications in wireless, instrumentation, and precision analog devices to improve the components precision; sapphire wafer scribing tools, which are used for etching the wafer during the manufacture of high-brightness blue LEDs; and laser LCD repair systems that help in the manufacture of flat panel displays. The company also produces high-capacity test and optical inspection equipment that helps in the quality control process during the production of multi-layer ceramic capacitors; laser microvia engineering systems for electrical interconnect applications between layers in high-density circuit boards, flexible circuits, and IC packages; and UV laser processing systems. Electro Scientific Industries primarily serves manufacturers of semiconductors, passive components, electronic interconnect devices, and other components used in various end products in the computer, consumer electronics, communications, and other industries worldwide.

The Honeywell International unit develops and manufactures chemicals and specialty materials used in the production of semiconductors and flat-panel displays. Its offerings include dielectric and metal thin films, interconnect and optoelectronic materials, and processing chemicals (such as etchants, acids, and solvents) used at various points in the chip manufacturing cycle. HEM is part of Honeywell's Specialty Materials segment, one of the industrial conglomerate's smaller operating groups.

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