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.

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.

Tvia merges TV and the Internet via its own chips. The fabless semiconductor company designs and markets streaming media gateway integrated circuits -- specialized chips that are used in digital set-top boxes, digital TVs, and related devices. Tvia's customers include Micro Network Korea, Mitsubishi Electric, and Universal Technology. The company outsources manufacturing of its chips to silicon foundries Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics and United Microelectronics. Tvia formed strategic alliances with several other companies, including Microsoft and NEC. The company gets most of its sales in China.

Isola Group, Sarl, with headquarters in Chandler, Arizona, is a technology-driven, global designer, developer and manufacturer of high performance base materials used in the manufacture of advanced multilayer printed circuit boards worldwide.Isola is a privately held company owned by Texas Pacific Group (TPG), a global private equity firm, and Redfern Partners, a strategic investor in the PCB industry. Both TPG and Redfern have invested significantly in our future growth in the United States, Europe and Asia, providing us with long term stability to benefit Isola customers worldwide.Isola's investment in research and development, technology and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and practices results in superior value to our customers, with innovative solutions to minimize costs and cut manufacturing time. Our commitment is reflected in our global network of sales and distribution offices allowing us to meet evolving customer needs and provide a full spectrum of services.Isola's broad range of products are used in multiple applications including: aerospace, automotive, broadband telecommunications, military, chip packaging and testing, high end computing, high speed digital designs and other specialty markets. Isola operates multiple manufacturing, R&D and sales offices throughout Europe, Asia and the United States.

ParkerVision, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. ParkerVision, Inc. (ParkerVision) is engaged in the business of designing, developing, and selling radio frequency (RF) technologies and products for use in semiconductor circuits for wireless communication products. The Company’s business includes licensing its intellectual property for incorporation into wireless products designed by its customers. ParkerVision has entered into an agreement for the joint development and marketing of wireless radio modules that incorporate its technologies. The Company’s business includes engineering consulting and design services to its customers, to assist them in developing products incorporating its technologies. ParkerVision primarily focuses on incorporating its technologies into mobile handsets and other wireless products that are related to networks serving mobile handsets, such as data cards, pico cells, and femtocells.

Gennum's got the goods to hook you up with the internet, high-definition television, or e-commerce. Gennum company designs, develops and markets high-performance semiconductor products and intellectual property (IP) cores. These optical, analog and mixed-signal devices, and IP, aim to ensure that signals used to transmit video and data maintain their original integrity. Products are used in networking, home entertainment and broadcasting, and data communications. Gennum company primarily caters to video broadcast, data communications, consumer connectivity, and IP markets. Major OEM customers include Avago Technologies, Cisco Systems, Panasonic, and SONY.

Soitec S.A. was founded in 1992 and is based in Bernin, France. Soitec S.A. produces and sells silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers for the semiconductor industry. It offers thick SOI wafers primarily for power management, analog, mixed signal, RF, and discrete power devices; thin SOI wafers for CMOS logic, analog, RF, and memory ICs; GaAS epiwafers for RF and microwave components; and SopSiC wafer, a silicon layer transferred onto a polycrystalline silicon carbide substrate. The company also provides substrates solutions, including III-V epiwafers and gallium nitride wafers for the manufacture of high-frequency electronics and other optoelectronic devices; thin-film layer transfer technologies used to manufacture engineered substrates for power ICs and microsystems, as well as generic circuit transfer technology for image sensors and 3D integration applications. Its products and services are primarily used in automotive, consumer, wireless, computer, medical, communication, military-defense, and industrial applications. The company markets its products in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

LG Display Co., Ltd. manufactures and supplies thin film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD) to original equipment manufacturers and multinational corporations. The company offers TFT-LCD panels in a range of sizes and specifications primarily for use in televisions, notebook computers, and desktop monitors, as well as for handheld application products, such as mobile phones; and medium- and large-size panels for industrial and other applications, including entertainment systems, portable navigation devices, e-paper, digital photo displays, and medical diagnostic equipment. It has a strategic alliance with Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. to develop organic light-emitting diode displays. The company was formerly known as LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. and changed its name to LG Display Co.

Europtronic has grown from a trading company into an integrated manufacturer and distributor of electronic components. The company produces its own brand of film capacitors at two state-of-the art factories located in Shenzhen and Suzhou, in the People’s Republic of China. These products include metallized and non-metallized polypropylene film capacitors, and metallized polypropylene film capacitors for AC circuits (X2). It also produces chip inductors and chip beads via its 82.97% wholly-owned subsidiary Housing Technology Corp. in Hsinchu, Taiwan. the Group distributes other various active and passive components for established international brands, including AVX, Sharp, Micro Crystal, Tyco, JST and Semikron. These include products such as aluminum electrolytic and MLCC capacitors, opto-electronic devices such as transmitters and receivers, flat panel displays, base-band crystals, connectors, and diodes.Europtronic Green Energy, established in 2008, is now one of the leading plantlet propagators in Asia. Using biotechnology, the unit specialises in the tissue culturing of fuel crop seedlings and ornamental plantlets. Based in Singapore, it is also one of the select few companies to start breeding and propogating clonal Jatropha seedlings and plantlets in China for clients across Asia Pacific region.

CEVA, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. CEVA, Inc. (CEVA) is a licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) primarily for the handsets, portable multimedia and consumer electronics markets. CEVA licenses a portfolio of digital signal processor (DSP) cores, subsystems and platforms to semiconductor and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) companies worldwide, which include a family of programmable DSP cores; DSP-based subsystems, and a portfolio of application-specific platforms, including video, audio, voice over Internet protocols (VoIP), Bluetooth and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA). CEVA addresses the requirements of the handsets, portable multimedia and home entertainment markets by designing and licensing programmable DSP cores, DSP-based subsystems, application-specific platforms and a range of software components.

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