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.

SynTest Technologies provides software-based testing systems used by chip designers to analyze and debug designs for integrated circuits. A spinoff, Simantix Systems, offers functional verification software based on Lisp, an artificial intelligence language originally developed in the 1960s. Established in 1990, SynTest has offices in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the US, with distributors in other countries. SynTest Technologies company is mostly owned by its officers.

Numonyx B.V. designs and manufactures integrated NAND, NOR, RAM, and phase change non-volatile memory technologies and products for customers in the cellular, data, and embedded markets. It offers various system solutions, such as embedded, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, PCs and peripherals, and wired communications solutions; various storage solutions; and wireless solutions, including high-end, mainstream, and basic solutions. The company also provides various memory products, such as automotive-grade flash memory products for automotive applications; multi-chip packages; NAND flash memory products for various wireless and embedded applications; NOR parallel flash memory products; NOR serial flash memory products; a portfolio of security solutions that enable system manufacturers to protect data from accidental or intentional corruption, as well as unauthorized IP copying or cloning; phase change memory products, which blend the attributes associated with NOR flash, NAND flash, EEpROM, and RAM in a device; and flash software to increase the performance of memory subsystem. It offers its products through a network of distributors and manufacturer's representatives in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Rolle, Switzerland with sales offices in Folsom, California; and Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. Numonyx B.V. is a former subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

Chi Mei company is one of the world's largest makers of TFT-LCD (thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display) flat-panel displays. TFT-LCD panels -- small, lightweight, low-power, and high-resolution -- are used in notebook, desktop monitor, and TV applications. CMO also makes color filters, and is developing OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays. The company was launched in 1998, but really took off when it purchased a TFT-LCD fab (and licensed the related intellectual property) from IBM in 2001. Exports, primarily to Asia, make up about two-thirds of CMO's sales.

Advanced Power Components (APC) has an electronic component to meet just about every need. APC's Hi-Rel division sells components, such as semiconductors, optoelectronic devices, power supplies, and high-voltage capacitors, primarily to aerospace and military customers. Its SBM division operates as a manufacturers' representative to sell specialty industrial and commercial components, including displays, fuses, cables, power semiconductors, touch memory, and connectors. APC's Go! Technology division offers kitting and materials procurement and management services.

Alps Electric makes a wide array of electronic components, including connectors, sensors, switches, magnetic heads, and potentiometers. The company also makes peripheral products (color LCDs, printers, remote controls); automotive electronics (keyless entry systems, steering switches); and communications components (optical modules, transceivers, tuners for satellite systems and televisions).

Analogic Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of medical imaging and security systems and subsystems to original equipment manufacturers and end users in the healthcare and homeland security markets. Its medical imaging products include electronic systems and subsystems for medical imaging, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound equipment. The company provides computed tomography detectors and data acquisition systems that convert X-ray energy to digital signals for the generation of anatomical images in medical diagnostics and disease treatment; radio frequency and gradient amplifiers; ultrasound transducers and probes for various clinical applications; and ultrasound systems and probes for end-user markets in urology, surgery, and radiology for prostate cancer treatment. Analogic Corporation also offers Flex Focus, an ultrasound scanner used for multiple applications in various settings. The company's ultrasound scanners generate real-time images, using acoustic waves of the internal anatomy that are used for medical diagnostic and interventional procedures. In addition, it provides digital radiography products, including X-ray detectors for diagnostic and interventional applications in mammography to convert X-ray signals into digital images. Further, the company offers security technology products comprising explosives detection systems, and weapon and threat detection aviation security systems and subsystems for aviation security applications at airline checkpoints to generate data for three-dimensional images of objects contained within a piece of baggage. Additionally, it involves in hotel business. Analogic Corporation sells its products in the United States, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Canada. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Peabody, Massachusetts.

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.

GigOptix, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides electronic engines for the optically connected digital world and other advanced radio frequency (RF) applications. The company focuses on the specification, design, development, and sale of analog semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs), multi-chip module solutions (MCMs), and polymer modulators, as well as offers products in the laser and modulator driver ICs and MCMs, transimpedance and limiting amplifier ICs, optical modulators, and broadband RF amplifiers categories. Its portfolio comprises high speed electronic devices, including polymer electro-optic modulators, modulator drivers, laser drivers, and transimpedance amplifiers for telecom, datacom, Infiniband, and consumer optical systems, covering serial and parallel laser technologies from 1G to 100G. The company serves optical communication networks, consumer electronics, military/defense, instrumentation, and wireless communications markets.

Evolve company provides turnkey, contract manufacturing services for companies in the semiconductor, biotech and medical device, and telecom industries. Founded in 1999, EMT began by manufacturing parts for machines that make computer chips. When Asian rivals began luring away Silicon Valley work, EMT shifted its sights to biotech and medical markets. EMT touts product assembly from electro-mechanical devices to the highly complex. Services include a swath of competencies: manufacturing engineering, supply chain management, product reliability and continuous improvement, and cost reduction solutions.

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