Synergy Microwave Corporation company was founded in 1982. Synergy Microwave is owned by Ulrich Rohde, the company's founder and chairman, and by Meta Rohde, its president. Synergy Microwave makes a host of electronic components, including couplers, filters, mixers, modulators/demodulators, switches, transformers and voltage-controlled oscillators. The company began putting components into surface-mount packaging, which has the advantage of making slimmer printed circuit boards, in 1985.

Cree, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. Cree, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor materials and devices based on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN) and related compounds. The Company focuses its expertise in SiC and GaN on light emitting diodes (LEDs), which consist of LED chips, LED components and LED lighting products. It also develops power and radio frequency (RF) products, including power switching and RF devices. The majority of Cree, Inc. products are manufactured at its main production facility in North Carolina. It also operates research and development facilities in North Carolina, California, Hong Kong and China. In February 2008, the Company acquired LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc. (Cree LED Lighting Solutions, Inc.).

EaglePicher products are small but powerful. Its EaglePicher Technologies subsidiary makes a wide range of batteries and battery storage systems used in aerospace, defense, and commercial applications. Products have been used in the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope, as well as in spacecraft and satellites. EaglePicher Medical Power makes batteries used in pacemakers and other implantable medical devices. Beyond batteries, the company's Wolverine Advanced Materials unit makes gaskets, brake shims, and other parts used to reduce noise and vibration in automotive and industrial products, and its EP Minerals unit produces diatomaceous earth and mineral-based filtration 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.

Surge Components was established in 1981. Surge Components, Inc. is a supplier of electronic products and components. These products include capacitors, which are electrical energy storage devices, and discrete components, such as semiconductor rectifiers, transistors and diodes, which are single-function, low-power semiconductor products that are packaged alone, as compared to integrated circuits (ICs) such as microprocessors. Surge's products are typically utilized in the electronic circuitry of diverse products, including, but not limited to, automobiles, cellular telephones, computers, consumer electronics, garage door openers, household appliances, power supplies and security equipment. Surge's products are sold to both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that incorporate them into their products and to distributors of Surge's product lines that resell these products within their customer base.

Dave Carter & Associates company distributes a diversity of electrical equipment, plumbing supplies, and building materials for the home. For those who call the open road home, Dave Carter also supplies a full slate of recreational vehicle parts and equipment. Its catalog includes air conditioning and heating systems, carpet pad, doors, drywall, fans, lighting fixtures, mini-blinds, plumbing supplies, skylights, and wire. Customers are served through some 20 branch locations crisscrossing the US. Founded in 1977, the company is owned and operated by its founder and chairman David Carter, Sr.

Nanometrics Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports thin film, optical critical dimension, and overlay dimension metrology systems. It offers metrology systems, which include standalone and fully automated systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing process control; integrated systems incorporated onto semiconductor and solar photovoltaics (PV) processing systems that provide real-time measurements and feedback; and standalone manual and semi-automated systems used to monitor material characteristics of various silicon and compound semiconductor devices and substrates. The company's products also include fourier-transform infrared and photoluminescence metrology systems. Its products are used primarily in manufacturing of semiconductors, solar PV, and high-brightness LEDs, as well as by customers in silicon wafer and data storage industries. The company offers its products through direct sales force, distributors, and representatives in Asia, the United States, and Europe. Nanometrics Incorporated was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. company developed Japan's first mobile phone for cars in 1963 and today makes wireless communication and broadcasting equipment -- from radio intercoms, antennas, and cordless phones to TV transmitters and receivers, amplifiers, and surveillance cameras. The company runs four manufacturing facilities in Japan, one of which makes and sells semiconductor machinery to such customers as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. Beyond Japan, Hitachi Kokusai Electric has sales offices in the US, the UK, and Germany.

Founded in 1972, Tatung Company of America, Inc. is a worldwide provider of technologically advanced products, customer solutions and manufacturing services. Based in Long Beach, California, Tatung Company of America distributes a variety of products and offers a full range of manufacturing services & solutions for the world's leading PC & electronics original equipment manufacturers. Tatung Company of America serves the World with Quality People, Quality Products, Quality Services & Solutions.

Omega Engineering company manufactures a line of more than 100,000 products used to measure temperature and humidity, flow and level, and pressure. Products include thermocouple probes and assemblies, pressure gauges and switches, and air velocity measurement systems. Omega also makes data loggers and recorders, as well as electric heaters. With working engineers making up much of its customer base, the company includes a link to Dilbert products on its Web portal. Omega counts among its customers such companies as Celgene Corporation and 3M, as well as universities and other institutions.

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