Shin-Etsu Handotai is one of the world's leading makers of silicon wafers and ingots used in semiconductor manufacturing. Handotai means "semiconductor" in Japanese. It also makes light-emitting element materials -- gallium phosphide, gallium arsenide phosphide, and aluminum gallium indium phosphide -- used in LEDs and other optoelectronic devices. In addition to manufacturing, the company provides engineering and support services. Customers including Intel, Motorola, TSMC, and Texas Instruments use materials produced by Shin-Etsu to make chips for computers, consumer electronics, and telecommunications devices. The company, a part of the ShinEtsu Group, has facilities in Malaysia, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.

Cooligy makes components and subsystems used to cool computer chips. As chips get smaller and faster, they also get much hotter; Cooligy touts its technology, which is used in some Apple computers, as providing better cooling in a smaller package when compared with traditional cooling methods. Smaller packaging means a larger competitive edge. The company was founded in 2002 and uses packaging technology developed at Stanford University. Emerson Network Power, a division of Emerson Electric, acquired Cooligy in 2005. Cooligy's investors included Granite Ventures, H.I.G. Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Mohr, Davidow Ventures.

i2a Technologies (i2a) typifies the burn and rebirth cycle of a semiconductor design, assembly, and packaging manufacturer. Founded by Victor Batinovich in 1992 as Integrated Packaging Assembly Corp. (IPAC), the company was acquired in 1999 to serve as Orient Semiconductor's US chip packaging arm. Named OSE USA in 2001, its manufacturing unit was scored by a group led by Batinovich in 2003 and renamed IPAC. IPAC joined with Malaysia's Twin Advance and formed i2a in 2005. i2a drives a slate of manufacturing services to semiconductor and electronics industries including consumer, auto, medical, and aerospace.

Torotel, Inc. company was founded in 1956 and is based in Olathe, Kansas. Torotel, Inc. (Torotel) conducts business through two wholly owned subsidiaries, Torotel Products, Inc. (Torotel Products) and Electronika, Inc. (Electronika). Torotel Products specializes in the custom design and manufacture of a variety of precision magnetic components, consisting of transformers, inductors, reactors, chokes and toroidal coils. These components modify and control electrical voltages and currents in electronic devices. Torotel Products sells these magnetic components to original equipment manufacturers, which use them in products, such as aircraft navigational equipment, digital control devices, voice and data secure communications, medical equipment, telephone and avionics equipment, and conventional missile guidance systems. Electronika is a marketing and licensing company selling ballast transformers to the airline industry. These transformers activate and control the lights in airplane cockpits and passenger compartments.

ASE Test Limited company provides integrated circuit (IC) assembly, testing, and packaging services for customers including Atmel, LSI, NVIDIA, and VIA Technologies. ASE Test tests logic, mixed-signal, and memory ICs; performs wafer probing; and packages ICs for end users in the communications, automotive, and consumer electronics industries, among others. The company has long-term alliances with semiconductor foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and with big chip packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), which owns ASE Test.

Victron, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Fremont, California. Victron, Inc. provides electronics manufacturing services for OEMs. It specializes in printed circuit board assembly. The company offers supply chain, new product solutions, manufacturing solutions, test solutions, and repair depot services. It provides its services in new product introduction, prototyping, printed circuit board assembly and test, subsystem assembly and test, final system assembly and test, build to order, configure to order, and product fulfillment and shipping. The company serves wireless/wireline telecom, medical, industrial/commercial, networking, defense/aerospace/security, computing, aviation, automotive, and consumer industries.

Intevac, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment and solutions to the hard disk drive industry; and advanced etch technology systems to the semiconductor industry. It operates in two segments, Equipment and Intevac Photonics. The Equipment segment designs, manufactures, and markets magnetic media sputtering equipment, including 200 Lean Gen II disk sputtering systems; and Intevac DLS-100 and Intevac AccuLuber disk lubrication systems to the hard disk drive industry, as well as Lean Etch, a dielectric etch semiconductor manufacturing system to the semiconductor industry. This segment also provides installation, maintenance, and repair services, as well as technology upgrades, spare parts, and consumables. It sells products through direct sales force and distributors. The Intevac Photonics segment provides digital-optical products for the capture and display of low-light images and the optical analysis of materials. It provides sensors, cameras, and systems for government applications, such as night vision, long-range target identification, and simulation training; and for commercial applications in the inspection, medical, scientific, and security industries, as well as in military and law enforcement markets. Its products include night vision systems, cameras for long-range target identification, intensified photodiodes, near-eye display systems, commercial low-light cameras, and Raman materials identification instruments. This segment sells products through its direct sales force, system integrators, distributors, and value added resellers.

Saifun Semiconductors, Ltd. provides intellectual property solutions for the non-volatile memory (NVM) market. The NROM technology is applied in the design and manufacturing of products in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory (NVM) market. It addresses three primary segments of the NVM market, such as code flash, which is used to store basic operating instructions; data flash that is used to store digital content, such as multimedia files and memory cards for digital cameras; and embedded flash for use in applications, such as consumer electronics, automotive applications, and smart cards. It serves portable markets, such as mobile phones, still and video digital cameras, digital music players, set top boxes, USB flash drives, communication applications, and other electronic applications. The company also provides design and product development services. It licenses its NROM technology to semiconductor manufacturers primarily in Taiwan, Israel, the United States, Germany, Japan, and China. Saifun Semiconductors, Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel. As of March 18, 2008, Saifun Semiconductors, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Spansion Inc.

Cooper Electric Supply, a subsidiary of Sonepar USA, is a wholesale distributor of electrical products, including commercial lighting, generators, and other power systems. The company's Cooper Energy Services department helps customers use technology to get the most from their energy budgets, while its Communications Division offers telecom and datacom equipment. Other services include layout and design assistance for lighting, power, and backup systems, as well as home automation, lighting control systems, and networking equipment for the residential market.

Vestas Wind Systems and its subsidiaries annually manufacture and distribute well over 3,000 on-land and offshore wind turbines used to produce electricity; it offers installation, repair, and maintenance services, as well. Vestas has R&D centers in Denmark, India, Singapore, the UK, and the US. Vestas company's first manufacturing site in the US will begin production in Colorado in 2010. Vestas is teamed up with Boeing on joint research projects. Vestas company, which began manufacturing wind turbines in 1979, operates through a number of business units. The company gets more than half of its sales in Europe.

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