Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. designs mixed-signal semiconductor products for a range of communications, optical and medical applications. Mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) combine both analog and digital circuits on a single semiconductor chip. The Company’s core capabilities are in communication network timing and synchronization, voice telephony, telecom networking, optical interconnect and ultra low-power wireless communications. As of March 27, 2009, Zarlink had shipped more than one billion chips, and offered over 900 active products to its global customers. Its integrated IC, chipsets, system-on-chip (SoC) and module solutions address design concerns for telecom and medical equipment manufacturers, data center operators and system integrators. The Company’s products are grouped into three main categories: communication products, optical products and medical products.

MOSAID Technologies Incorporated engages in the licensing of patented semiconductor and telecommunications intellectual property (IP), complemented by the development of memory and other technologies. The company has right to license approximately 50 patents and foreign counterparts relating to digital signal processors (DSPs), reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), application specific standard products (ASSPs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and semiconductor memory and processing technologies. The company also owns a portfolio of 400 patents relating to DRAM, Flash memory and semiconductor process technology. It also owns patents relate to technologies, including power over Ethernet (PoE), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), IP private branch exchanges (IP-PBXs), wireless access points (WAP), IP digital subscriber line access multiplexers (IP-DSLAMs), cable modems, and asynchronous DSL (ADSL) modems. Licensing Programs The company has two major licensing programs, including the semiconductor licensing program and the telecommunications licensing program. The semiconductor licensing program focuses on licensing its memory patent portfolio, which includes patents related primarily to DRAM, Flash memory and PSRAM, and its microcomponents patent portfolio. The telecommunications licensing program focuses on licensing the company’s wireless patent portfolio, and on licensing the communications portfolio. As of April 30, 2008, the company had granted 33 patent licenses to companies headquartered in Asia, Europe and North America. The company, under its semiconductor licensing program, licenses to the DRAM market. It has signed a license agreement with Etron Technology, Inc., a DRAM vendor based in Taiwan. Under its telecommunications licensing program, it granted wireless patents to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). Panasonic was granted a six-and-a-half year license under its patents for its Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-enabled notebook personal computers (PCs) and other products sold globally, with the exception of mobile handsets.

Madison company has grown from pushing light bulbs, fuses, wire, and conduit, to rival the top 200 electrical and electronics distributors in the US. Joined by affiliate Standard Electric Co., Madison Electric distributes electrical supplies, industrial automation, commercial lighting, and network communication components. Branches dotting Michigan cater to a swath of commercial, industrial, utility, and defense activities. Supply options tout brands by 3M, Brady, Federal Signal, Leviton, Panduit, Square D/Schneider Electric, and Thomas & Betts.

Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. company makes a variety of power management products -- including DC/DC converter modules, diodes, rectifiers, solenoids, and varistors -- used in automobiles, construction equipment, consumer electronics, industrial machinery, networking equipment, and terrestrial broadcasting systems. Shindengen sells primarily to OEM customers, including BMW, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM Japan, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nokia, NTT, Panasonic, SANYO Electric, Sony, Tokyo Electric Power, and Toshiba. Most of Shindengen's sales are made in Japan.

Metara Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Metara Inc. manufactures chemical metrology tools for semiconductor industry that are used in monitoring and controlling chemical processes. Its products include sentry trace contamination metrology system, which monitors benign chemistries for trace contaminants; and sentry chemical composition metrology system, which monitors copper electroplating and cobalt bath chemistries. The company also offers sentry harsh chemistry metrology system, an analysis solution for harsh chemistries used in semiconductor manufacturing processes; and inline mass spectrometer, a chemical metrology solution that determines chemical composition and potential yield-or process-limiting contaminants.

Kyocera International, the holding company for the North American operations of Japan's Kyocera Corporation, makes products ranging from semiconductor casings to knives and utensils. Having expanded through acquisitions beyond its origins in specialty ceramics, Kyocera International also makes LCD panels, thin-film devices, printers, industrial cutting tools, and solar energy systems. Its Kyocera Communications unit provides sales, marketing, and customer support for Kyocera and SANYO brand wireless phones in the US. Kyocera International's Kyocera Solar subsidiary is one of the world's largest producers of photovoltaic solar cells.

Centaur Technology's processors is a breed apart. An independent subsidiary and design house of chipset stalwart VIA Technologies, Centaur makes low-cost microprocessors for use in mobile PCs and other portable electronics. Centaur Technology company designed VIA's C7-M processor, one of the world's smallest, lowest-power, and most secure x86-architecture processors. Centaur was established in Austin, Texas, in 1995 and prides itself on its employee-friendly work environment with free breakfasts and lunches and an onsite fitness facility. VIA purchased Centaur in 1999. Centaur Technology company has no management hierarchy, save for founder and president Glenn Henry.

Elliptic Technologies (formerly Elliptic Semiconductor) takes a direct approach to enabling secure communications links. The company creates designs for secure embedded processors and other microchips used in Ethernet, WAN, and wireless networking gear. Elliptic sells some of its security designs as modular building blocks; chip makers can choose just the design elements they need for incorporation into their own chips. Elliptic also offers related software for implementing and optimizing its designs. Customers include austriamicrosystems, Micronas, Mindspeed, Oki Electric, picoChip, PMC-Sierra, and Wavesat. Elliptic Technologies company's investors include Axis Capital and Venture Coaches.

America II Electronics, Inc. took its model of independent distribution overseas in response. Since January 2000, America II Europe has addressed these and other concerns of the European electronics community by staffing 14 sales and logistics professionals, stocking inventory to support customers' schedules, and connecting customers with the benefits of being an America II customer - including access to one of the industry's largest inventories, global product sourcing, an unparalleled commitment to quality, and solutions and service like you've never seen.

BYD Company Limited is a Hong Kong listed company with private enterprise background (SEHK: 1211). It is a key high-tech enterprise in China specializing in IT, automobile and new energy, with integrated research, development, manufacturing and sales. By the end of 2008, the company’s total assets approached RMB32.9 billion with its net assets surpassing RMB13.3 billion.BYD’s employees and industrial parks have increased drastically during the BYD's rapid development. BYD has developed from 20 employees in 1995 to a corporation with more than 150,000 employees and 10 industrial parks across China in 2009, including sites in Guangdong, Beijing, Shaanxi, Shanghai, and Changsha, totaling nearly 16,000,000 sq. m. It also has offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other regions.BYD has earned a large and stable customer base owing to its reliable product quality. Currently, its IT Business Unit’s customers include international cell phone giants Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Kyocera, Phillips, prominent domestic cell phone companies Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo, as well as cordless phone experts Vtech, Panasonic, and Sony.BYD purchased Xi’an Tsinchuan Auto Co., Ltd. (now BYD Auto Co., Ltd.) and officially entered the auto industry. As a rapidly growing and innovative auto company, BYD’s auto products and services include fuel and electric vehicles as well as auto molding and auto parts manufacturing. Its selection of vehicles include traditional high quality fuel vehicles F3, F3R, F6, F0, G3, hardtop convertible S8, and dual mode electric vehicles F3DM. In the near future, BYD will build up its various product lines including F series, S series, M series, G series and L series, become a leader in the market with its excellent quality and reasonable price, and commercialize dual mode and pure electric vehicles in order to lead the world into a new era of electric vehicles.BYD is committed to developing new green energy. It has developed electric vehicles, energy storage stations, solar power stations and other green energy projects. In the future, BYD will continue to lead the new energy revolution and help more countries in the world to get rid of oil pollution problems and relevant economic problems. All the people in the world will benefit from China's technological innovation!

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