Bel Fuse Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells electronic products used in networking, telecommunications, high speed data transmission, and consumer electronics. Its magnetics products comprise discrete components, including transformers and common mode chokes that are used in networking, telecommunications, and broadband applications; diplexer and triplexer filters, which are used in high speed and home networking applications; power transformer products that are used in alarm, security, and medical products; and MagJack integrated connector modules used in signal conditioning, electromagnetic interference suppression, and signal isolation applications.The company’s power conversion products comprise isolated and non-isolated DC-DC converters, which are used in power low voltage silicon devices, data networking equipment, distributed power architecture, and telecommunication devices, as well as computers and peripherals; and integrated modules to support data transmission over existing power lines. Its circuit protection products include miniature, micro, and surface mount fuses; polymeric positive temperature coefficient devices, which are used in electronic and telecommunication markets; and circuit protection devices that are used in televisions, consumer electronics, power supplies, computers, telephones, and networking equipment.The company’s modular connectors comprise RJ45 and RJ11 passive jacks, plugs, and cable assemblies that are used in networking equipment, such as routers, hubs, switches, and patch panels. The company sells its products through direct strategic account managers, regional sales managers working with sales representative organizations, and authorized distributors to customers in North America, Europe, and Asia.

MRL Industries, Inc. established in 1979, was acquired in 1998 by Sandvik. MRL Industries, Inc. company's products include heating elements, furnace systems, insulation materials, gas systems, and cantilever loading systems. It also provides support services, including installation and repair. Thermal processing is used in semiconductor manufacturing for annealing, deposition, oxidation, and silicide formation. The Swedish manufacturer bought the company a few months after Selas Corporation of America (now IntriCon) agreed to acquire MRL for nearly $17 million in stock, then backed out of the deal.

Leviton Manufacturing company makes switches, plugs, connectors, and integrated networks designed for home, commercial, and industrial uses. The company's divisions also produce lighting controls and voice and data equipment. Its Wiring Device division makes everything from basic switches to receptacles, including the designer Decora and Acenti collections. Its products are sold in North America to distributors, manufacturers, and retail outlets, such as Home Depot, Sears, and Wal-Mart. The Leviton family owns the company, which started out making tip mantles for gaslights in 1906.

Vitesse Semiconductor was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Camarillo, California. Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Vitesse) is a provider of advanced integrated circuits (ICs) that are utilized primarily by manufacturers of networking systems for Carrier, Enterprise and Storage communications applications. Vitesse designs, develops and markets a portfolio of high-performance semiconductor products. The Company’s customers include communications and enterprise original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., IBM, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi, Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., H3C Technologies Co., Limited, Nortel Networks Corp., Nokia Siemens Networks B.V., Tellabs, Inc. and ZTE Corporation. As of September 30, 2009, the Company operated four domestic design centers in the United States, in California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Texas, and four international design centers in Taiwan, Denmark, Germany and India.

Pericom Semiconductor Corporation company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Pericom Semiconductor Corporation (Pericom) designs, develops and markets integrated circuits (ICs) and frequency control products (FCPs) used in the electronic systems. The IC products include functions, which support the connectivity, timing and signal conditioning of parallel and serial protocols that transfer data among a system's microprocessor, memory and various peripherals, such as displays and monitors, and between interconnected systems. The FCPs are electronic components, which provide frequency references, such as crystals and oscillators for computer, communication, and consumer electronic products. The Company’s subsidiaries include Pericom Semiconductor (HK) Limited, Pericom Taiwan Limited Corporation (PTL), Pericom Asia Limited (PAL) and SaRonix-eCERA Corporation (SRe). On October 27, 2008, the Company purchased the remaining 12.1% interest in PTL.

Yaskawa Electric America (YEA), a subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric, manufactures industrial automation equipment. Its products include industrial AC drives, commercial HVAC drives, spindle drives and motors, servo amplifier systems and motion controls, low-voltage industrial control switches, and medium-voltage switches, breakers, and contactors. The company's products are used in automotive, building automation, chemical and petrochemical, food and beverage, machine tool, material handling, metal forming, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastics and rubber, and textile applications. Its Motoman subsidiary makes industrial robots that can weld, assemble, cut, and handle goods for manufacturers.

Xilinx, Inc. company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Xilinx, Inc. (Xilinx designs, develops and markets complete programmable logic solutions. These solutions have components, such as integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs); software design tools to program the PLDs; predefined system functions delivered as intellectual property (IP) cores; design services; customer training, and field engineering and technical support. Xilinx’s PLDs include field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) that its customers program to perform desired logic functions. Its solutions are designed to provide high integration and quick time-to-market for electronic equipment manufacturers in end markets, such as wired and wireless communications, industrial, scientific and medical, aerospace and defense, audio, video and broadcast, consumer, automotive and data processing.

PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG develops technology for making integrated circuits (ICs) that are printed on flexible polymer films rather than etched into traditional rigid wafers of silicon. Flexible microchips stand to have many applications, for example in radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips used to track goods in transit. If PolyIC meets its stated goal, it will develop equipment that makes it as easy to print semiconductors as it is to print newspapers today. The company was formed late in 2003 as a joint venture between industrial titan Siemens and printing and stamping specialty company LEONHARD KURZ.

Akustica lets your cell phone tell you it feels used. The fabless semiconductor company develops audio system-on-a-chip products used in sound capture and reproduction for automotive, cell phone, computer, imaging, and medical applications. Its Sensory Silicon chips -- based on MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology licensed from Carnegie Mellon University -- allow electronic devices to hear, speak, and sense through acoustic membranes and other sensor structures. The company touts its digital microphones as immune to radio-frequency and electromagnetic interference, an important consideration as wireless communications products proliferate. Bosch's North American unit acquired Akustica in 2009.

Tanisys Technology, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tanisys Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ATESUB, Inc. Tanisys Technology, Inc. engages in the design, deployment, and support of semiconductor test equipment for engineering and production applications in North America and internationally. The company offers test solutions for volatile and non-volatile memory products, including NAND, embedded NAND, NOR, MultiChip package, MultiMedia card, secure digital, CompactFlash, memory stick, USB, and DDR/DDR2 DRAM modules. Its products include solid state drive test systems, DRAM and flash module test equipment, and flash memory test systems. The company also provides technical support services to production facilities, which include sales and distribution, applications engineering, and spares through strategic partnerships in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Europe.

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