Microchip Technology Incorporated (Microchip) is engaged in developing and manufacturing specialized semiconductor products used by its customers for a variety of embedded control applications. The Company's product portfolio consists of eight-bit, 16-bit and 32 bit peripheral interface controller (PIC) microcontrollers, and 16-bit dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs), which feature on-board Flash (reprogrammable) memory technology. Microchip also offers a range of high-performance linear, mixed signal, power management, thermal management, battery management and interface devices. It also makes serial electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROMs). Its products also include microcontrollers, development tools, analog and interface products, and memory products. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, it acquired Hampshire Company, HI-TECH Software and R&E International. In January 2010, the Company announced that it has acquired ZeroG Wireless, Inc.

Oki Electric Industry had this to say to its semiconductor operations: "Go find a new owner. ROHM, if you want to." The Japanese computer, office equipment, and telecom conglomerate spun off its microchip business in late 2008, selling 95% of the spinoff's shares to semiconductor manufacturer ROHM and keeping an equity stake of 5%. Oki Semiconductor makes a wide variety of chips, including communications ICs, display drivers, memory devices, microcontrollers, and optical components. Oki began fabricating transistors in 1961 and set up a Semiconductor Business Group in 2005, in preparation for the spinoff.

Kinetic Systems, Inc. has been at the forefront of vibration isolation and control since its inception in 1968. Through continuing research of vibration effects on equipment and structures, Kinetic Systems, Inc. has pioneered many state-of-the-art developments in vibration isolation, damping, and structural design. KSI engineers routinely solve a wide variety of complex vibration isolation problems for customers in applications as diverse as aerospace, medical research, laser R&D, and semiconductor equipment. By continually striving for and producing a superior product, KSI has become a trusted name in academic, industrial, and government research facilities worldwide. Kinetic Systems are totally committed to offering the very finest advanced vibration isolation and control systems and optical tables. The company provide to a continually evolving range of precision applications in metrology, interferometry, laser research, semiconductor manufacturing, and virtually anywhere external vibrations adversely affect the operation of precision equipment.

IPG Photonics Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Oxford, Massachusetts. IPG Photonics Corporation (IPG) is a developer and manufacturer of a line of fiber lasers for diverse applications in numerous markets. The Company’s lines of low, mid and high-power lasers and amplifiers are used in materials processing, advanced, communications and medical applications. It sells its products globally to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators and end users. It markets its products internationally primarily through its direct sales force, and also through agreements with independent sales representatives and distributors. IPG designs and manufactures components used in its finished products, from semiconductor diodes to optical fiber preforms, finished fiber lasers and amplifiers. It also makes packaged diodes, direct diode laser systems and communications systems that utilize its optical fiber-based products. In January 2010, the Company announced the acquisition of Photonics Innovations, Inc.

ZF Electronics Corporation company was founded in 1953 and is based in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. ZF Electronics Corporation engages in the design, development, and manufacture of computer keyboards, snap-action and rocker switches, magnetic sensors and controls, and automotive modules. It offers subminiature, miniature, general purpose, splash-proof/sealed, interlock, waterproof rocker/pushbuttons, push wheel, and key switches; and speed and speed/direction sensors, as well as proximity and rotary sensors. The company provides point of sale keyboards, integrated security devices, industrial/medical keyboards, and desktop products; smart card readers, biometric keyboards, magnetic card readers, and compact keyboards; and cleanable keyboards for various applications in diagnostic equipment, medical carts, laboratories, factories, and schools, as well as offers contract electronic manufacturing services. It serves automotive, computer, and consumer/commercial OEM markets, as well as auto powertrain, carbody, medical, non-auto vehicle, point-of-sale, and security markets in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Premier Farnell plc is a leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally. Premier Farnell markets and distributes a comprehensive range of products and services throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific with operations in 24 countries and trading in over 100, with approximately 4,100 employees worldwide. Serving a global customer base of more than 2 million customer contacts worldwide, the Group stocks in excess of 400,000 electronic products, has access to 4 million more and represents 3,500 manufacturer brands. The Group's multi-channel approach includes fully transactional websites, contact centres, field sales force, trade counters, branch network, catalogues and direct mail. Companies within the Premier Farnell Group include Farnell, Newark, CPC, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark, MCM, Akron Brass and TPC Wire & Cable.

Entegris, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is based in Chaska, Minnesota. Entegris, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells material integrity management products and services in the semiconductor and data storage markets worldwide. It provides a range of products for purifying, protecting, and transporting critical materials used in processing and manufacturing in the semiconductor and other high-technology industries. The company's product portfolio includes contamination control products, such as liquid filtration products, components and systems, and gas filtration products that purify, monitor, and deliver critical liquids and gases to the semiconductor manufacturing process; microenvironment products comprising wafer handling products, wafer shipping products, and data storage products, which preserve the integrity of wafers, reticles, and electronic components at various stages of transport, processing, and storage; and specialty materials products consisting of poco graphite products, specialty coating products, and polymer composites used in semiconductor equipment and low-temperature plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition coating of critical components of semiconductor manufacturing equipment used in various stages of the manufacturing process.

Jaco Electronics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes active and passive electronic components used in the manufacture and assembly of electronic products to various industrial original equipment manufacturers. Its active products comprise a range of semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, memory devices, microprocessors, micro controllers, other integrated circuits, active matrix displays, and various board-level products; and passive products include capacitors, resistors, and electromechanical devices, such as power supplies, relays, switches, connectors, and printer heads. The companys products are used in the manufacture and assembly of a range of electronic products, including telecommunications equipment, medical devices and instrumentation, military/aerospace systems, voting and gaming machines, computers and office equipment, industrial equipment and controls, automotive electronics, and home entertainment and other consumer electronics. Jaco Electronics also provides flat panel display, and supporting technology products and services. It has operations in western Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the Far East. The company serves a range of customers in computer, computer-related, telecommunications, data transmission, defense, aerospace, and medical equipment industries.

Nordex develops, manufactures, and sells a series of large wind-powered turbines used to generate electricity around the world. The company boasts more than 3,735 multi-megawatt wind turbines in use. Specializing in onshore power applications, Nordex engineers the wind turbine's overall technical design, its rotor blades, which can extend up to 45 meters long, and the integrated electrical and control systems. The company also designs and installs wind farms, connecting them to a grid, and provides maintenance services

Galco Industrial Electronics stocks and distributes electric and electronic component parts and supplies, including connectors and terminals, drives, inverters, sensors, motors, power converters, relays, switches, and test equipment. The company also provides on-site calibration and repair, in-house warranty repair services, engineered systems integration and retrofits, custom cable assemblies, and other value-added services. Galco carries products from ABB, Fluke, General Cable, Heinemann Electric, Toshiba, Vishay, and Yaskawa Electric America, among others.

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