Keithley Instruments, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets electronic instruments and systems for use in production testing, process monitoring, product development, and research. The company offers approximately 500 products to source, measure, connect, control, or communicate direct current, radio frequency (RF), or optical signals. Its products include integrated systems solutions comprising instruments and personal computer plug-in boards that could be used as system components or stand-alone solutions; parametric test systems; and semiconductor characterization system. The company also offers characterization and curve tracer software for component test applications, parametric test system, arbitrary waveform/function generator, system switch/multimeter and plug-in card family, and SourceMeter instrument line. Its customers include engineers, technicians, and scientists in manufacturing, product development, and research functions. Keithley Instruments markets its products through its sales personnel and through direct marketing and catalog mailings in the United States, as well as directly, and through distributors and manufacturer representatives internationally. The company was founded in 1946 and is based in Solon, Ohio.

Established in 1983, Samsung Semi has sales offices throughout Latin America, Mexico, and the US. Samsung Semiconductor is the North American subsidiary of silicon powerhouse Samsung Electronics. The company markets Samsung's many semiconductor product lines, including its DRAM and SRAM memory chips, flash memory components, thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels and screens, and system LSI products (digital technologies for home and mobile applications). Samsung Semiconductor's components are used in a wide range of applications, including computers, consumer electronics, and industrial equipment.

Itron, Inc. provides products and services to utilities for the energy and water markets worldwide. It produces electricity, gas, water, and heat meters; and various other associated metering products for residential, commercial and industrial (C&I), and transmission and distribution customers. The company offers electronic electricity meters with and without automated meter reading (AMR); gas and water AMR modules; handheld, mobile, and network AMR data collection technologies; advanced metering infrastructure technologies; electromechanical electricity meters; mechanical and ultrasonic water and heat meters; diaphragm, turbine, and rotary gas meters; one-way and two-way electricity prepayment systems, including smart key, keypad, and smart card; and two-way gas prepayment systems using smart card. It also provides solutions for residential and C&I meter data management; consulting and analysis services; professional services that assist customers in installing and maintaining meter reading systems; managed services that include the issuing of prepayment devices, automated processing of transaction details, customer account management, maintenance of historical financial transactions, business to business call centers, and personalized mailing services. In addition, the company offers software knowledge applications, including modules for C&I complex billing; Web-based usage analysis for customers with advanced metering data; distribution asset analysis; load research and management; revenue protection, including theft detection and identification of unbilled revenue; and central market data collection and load settlement. Itron sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, representative agencies, partners, and meter manufacturer representatives, as well as through original equipment manufacturer arrangements with various meter manufacturers. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington.

Established in 1988, Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation Limited operates two wafer fabrication plants, or fabs, located in Shanghai. Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (ASMC) operates as an independent silicon foundry, manufacturing analog semiconductors and higher bipolar content-based mixed-signal semiconductors on a contract basis for other chip companies. Its customers include both fabless semiconductor companies and integrated device manufacturers; the latter have their own factories, but often contract out work. NXP owns nearly 27% of the company; Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park Development owns another quarter of ASMC.

Rumsey Electric distributes electrical construction equipment, utility products and services, and systems for relay and power, and lighting for retailers. Operating through one central distribution facility and 12 branches, the company caters to construction and industrial businesses, and utilities, as well as OEMs, institutions, and commercial Mid-Atlantic markets. Six of its branches are in Delaware, where Rumsey operates as Tecot Electric Supply (acquired in 1997). It continues to gain territories for authorized distribution of equipment by such companies as Rockwell Automation.

ASM International N.V. is a leading supplier of semiconductor process equipment in both front- and back-end markets. The Company possesses a strong technological base, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, a competent and qualified workforce and a highly trained, strategically distributed support network. Each of ASM International's major products are qualified for 300mm wafer processing. This and other leading-edge process and equipment developments ensure ASM International a position of strength and growth for many years. ASM International and its subsidiaries provide production solutions for wafer processing, assembly and packaging of semiconductor devices through their facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. The Company is headquartered in Almere, The Netherlands.

Shell Hydrogen knows that you can fuel some of the people some of the time -- with alternative fuels. Founded in 1999, the company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, promotes and markets the use of fuel cells as an alternative power source. Shell Hydrogen works in conjunction with partners such as General Motors (developing fuel cells for automobiles), California Fuel Cell Partnership (developing fuel cell technologies) and QuestAir Technologies (hydrogen purification).

Nuvera Fuel Cells company is developing clean-burning fuel processors and fuel cell systems for cars, buses, telecommunications backup systems, and consumers' homes. Its fuel processors extract hydrogen from common fuels such as gasoline, methanol, kerosene, and propane. This hydrogen can be used in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells to produce electricity. Nuvera was formed in 2000 when Italy's De Nora Fuel Cells merged with Epyx Corp. (a subsidiary of Arthur D. Little). De Nora owns 37% of Nuvera and energy giant Hess owns 53%. Automaker Renault holds 10% of Nuvera Fuel Cells.

Intermark Industries, Inc. is a wholesale distributor and manufacturer serving the world markets with the finest in electronic equipment, accessories, replacement parts, professional audio products, and more. The proud manufacturer of BK Electronics and Blast King speakers, Intermark prides itself on providing exceptional quality at great prices. Additionally, Intermark is also the preferred distributor of over 40 prestigious product lines in the electronics, audio, communications, test equipment, accessories, cable, and tools fields.

Bay Microsystems, Inc. designs and develops network solutions that include network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. The company offers ABEx, a network appliance for optical transport and packet switched networks including synchronous optical networking and synchronous digital hierarchy, Ethernet, Internet protocol and multiprotocol label switching, pseudowires, ATM, and InfiniBand. It also designs and develops network processors that include Chesapeake, a single-chip programmable network processor and traffic manager; Montego, a single-chip programmable Internetworking processor; and Biscayne, a programmable classification processor with policing. Additionally, the company offers Lighthouse Tool Suite, a hardware and software development platform for designing network processor based networking equipment and BayPort, a demonstration and evaluation platform for company’s network processors. Bay Microsystems was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with an additional office in Germantown, Maryland.

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