Rood Testhouse International N.V. (RoodMicrotec) is a Netherlands-based company, engaged in the development, production and service provision to the semiconductor industry. The Company has three subsidiaries; Rood Technology Service GmbH Noerdinge, Germany; Rood Technology Dresden GmbH, Germany; and Rood Technology International B.V. Zwolle, the Netherlands. RoodMicrotec is the result of a merger between Rood Technology and Microtec effected in July 2008. The range of services include testing semiconductors (microchips), supplying end-of-line manufacture and service, developing test software for semiconductors, qualifying semiconductors, qualifying production processes, analyzing failures in products and facilitating the purchasing, testing and acceptance of semiconductors from Asia for sale in Europe. The Company is active in the automotive sector, the telecom sector and the industry/medical sector.

Altera Corporation company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Altera Corporation (Altera) is a semiconductor company. The Company designs, manufactures and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs), HardCopy application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), pre-defined design building blocks, known as intellectual property (IP) cores, and associated development tools. Altera is a supplier of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) PLDs. The Company’s PLDs consist of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), which are semiconductor integrated circuits, or chips, that its customers program to perform logic functions in their electronic systems. Its HardCopy ASICs enables its customer transition designs from FPGAs to non-programmable implementations. Altera’s IP cores can be licensed by customers to add functions to their PLD designs.

Maurice Electrical Supply distributes electrical supplies and lighting equipment from a wide variety of manufacturers. It also provides recycling services for lamps and ballasts. The firm has locations in Florida, Maryland, and Washington, DC. The company, founded in 1922, is named for Maurice Abraham, who established the business with his brother-in-law. CEO Bruce Kogod is the grandson of Maurice Abraham, who died in 1955. US Electrical Services (USESI), a subsidiary of Consolidated Electrical Distributors, acquired Maurice Electrical Supply in 2008.

Smiths designs sensors to identify biological and chemical agents, narcotics, weapons, and other illegal contraband, for use in banks, prisons, and industrial facilities, as well as in military, first response, transportation, and homeland security applications. Some of its detection and screening technologies utilize spectroscopy (gamma ray, ion mobility, Raman, and infra-red). Smiths company makes X-ray inspection units to scan mail, luggage, and freight, as well as to detect explosives. Smiths company manufactures metal detectors and makes systems for scanning trucks and freight containers. It is one of five subsidiaries of its parent company Smiths Group Plc.

Sierra Monolithics, Inc. designs and manufactures analog and mixed signal integrated circuits for broadband wireless, optical communication, and microwave/millimeter wave applications. It offers wireless transceiver integrated circuits(IC), microwave transponders, millimeter wave ICs and modules, communication ICs, mixed signal, and RFIC custom designs. The company also provides custom integrated circuits and design services. Its products are used in wireless and wireline, and military applications. Sierra Monolithics, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Redondo Beach, California. As of December 9, 2009, Sierra Monolithics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Semtech Corp.

Elcoteq SE is a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company in the communications technology field. Elcoteq’s global service offering covers the entire lifecycle of products, from product development to after-market services. By further combining mechanics expertise into its service offering, Elcoteq’s vision is to be a leading integrated electronics manufacturing services (IEMS) company.Elcoteq provides global end-to-end solutions consisting of product development services, supply chain management, NPI, manufacturing, and after market services for the whole lifecycle of its customers' products. These products include Consumer Electronics products such as mobile and wireless phones, their parts and accessories, set-top boxes, flat panel TVs and other consumer products as well as System Solutions products such as wireless and wireline infrastructure systems and modules, enterprise network products and other industrial segment products.

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.

Sonic Manufacturing Technologies provides contract printed circuit board (PCB) design and assembly services. Sonic company also offers prototyping, cable and connector assembly, box build (complete system) integration, materials management, and testing services. Its manufacturing facility has more than 68,000 sq. ft. of space and boasts six PCB production lines. Sonic Manufacturing was established in 1996 by Ken Raab (president), Robert Pereyda (VP), and Henry Woo (senior process engineer). Sonic company's management together holds the majority ownership in Sonic Manufacturing.

Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

Semitool, Inc. (Semitool) designs, manufactures, installs and services engineered equipment for use in the fabrication of semiconductor devices. The Company’s products are focused on the wet chemical process steps in integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing and include systems for wafer surface preparation and electrochemical deposition (ECD) applications. The Company’s surface preparation systems are designed for Front End of Line (FEOL), Back End of Line (BEOL) and wafer level packaging of ICs processes. The Company’s single-wafer FEOL surface preparation systems are used for photoresist stripping, post etch and pre-diffusion cleans. The Company’s ECD systems are used to plate copper and other metals, which are used for the IC’s internal wiring, or interconnects; to plate solder and lead free solder bumps, and to plate other metals for a range of semiconductor and related applications. In December 2009, Applied Materials, Inc. acquired Semitool, Inc.

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