Esec (formerly Oerlikon Assembly Equipment) makes manufacturing equipment used to assemble finished semiconductors. Its core business is making the die bonders, wire bonders, and flip chip bonders needed to lay down the itty bitty pathways on microchips. The company also makes equipment for assembling components and the packaging technology for smart cards. Oerlikon merged the formerly publicly traded ESEC into its Assembly Equipment division in 2004. The company has seven service centers located strategically in select Asian markets, as well as in Europe and the US. In 2009 Oerlikon sold Oerlikon Esec to rival BE Semiconductor Industries in a stock-swap transaction.

Sypris Solutions, Inc. provides outsourced services and specialty products in North America. It offers manufacturing, engineering, design, testing, and other technical services under multi-year contracts with corporations and government agencies in the markets for aerospace and defense electronics, truck components and assemblies, and for users of test and measurement equipment. The company provides industrial manufacturing services, such as automated forging, extruding, machining, induction hardening, heat-treating, testing, production tooling and prototype products, and other value-added services; and electronic manufacturing services, such as prototype assembly, turnkey manufacturing, system assembly, testing, and final system configuration. It also provides calibration, repair, and certification of the test and measurement equipment that is used to maintain wireless communication equipment, control tower radar and direction beacons, NEXRAD Doppler advanced warning weather service radar systems, digital oscilloscopes, microwave equipment, and fiber optic measuring equipment, as well as testing services, including radio frequency, microwave and mixed signal component testing, environmental testing, dynamics testing, and failure analysis. The company's products include axle shafts, drive train components, differential cases, gear sets, float tubes, and steer axle components for light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks; axle beams for trailers; circuit cards for color display systems in military aircrafts; encryption devices, communications equipment, and recording systems; and circuit cards for use in missile guidance system and integrated air defense network. In addition, it provides digital and analog data systems, analog data systems; magnetic meters and sensors for commercial and laboratory environments; and high-pressure closures and joints in pipeline and chemical systems. The company was founded in 1954 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Samwha Electronics was founded in 1976 and operates a network of sales offices located in China, Hong Kong, Germany, Hungary, India, and Poland. Samwha Electronics Co., Ltd. is a Korea-based manufacturer engaged in the provision of soft ferrite cores and related products. The Company produces two kinds of products: soft ferrite cores, including E cores, rod, bar and screw cores, drum cores, low profile cores, planar cores, ferrite absorbers, flyback transformer cores and others, which are used in household electronics, computers, computer peripherals, communication devices, digital versatile disc (DVD) players and others, and chips, including chip ferrite beads, chip ferrite bead arrays, chip ferrite inductors, chip power inductors and common mode filters.

Holders Technology plc is principally engaged in the provision of specialized materials, equipment and services for the electronics and telecommunications industries. The Company’s products are used in a range of applications. It supplies laminates and materials to make printed circuit boards for a range of industries, including the telecommunications, aerospace, medical and automotive sectors. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiaries include Holders Technology GmbH, Holders Technology BV, Holders Technology AB, Holders Technology UK Limited, Holders Marketing Co Limited and Holders Property GmbH. In January 2010, the Company announced that it has acquired J K Components Limited, a distributor of components to the electronics industry.

MAST Distributors sells a wide variety of electronic components to clients in the aerospace, commercial, industrial, and military industries. Products include semiconductors, oscillators, crystals, inductors, resistors, switches, keyboards, connectors, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and acoustical components.

e2v technologies plc is engaged in the design and supply of specialist components and sub-systems. The Company operates through four divisions. The electron devices and sub-systems division includes electron devices and sub-systems for applications, including defense electronic countermeasures, radiotherapy cancer treatment and radar systems. The imaging devices division includes advanced charge-coupled device and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor imaging sensors and cameras for applications, including industrial process control and dental x-ray systems. The specialist semiconductors division includes logic, memory and microprocessors for mission-critical programs in avionics, defense and telecommunications. The sensor division includes a range of professional sensing products for applications, including fire, rescue and security thermal imaging, x-ray spectroscopy, and military surveillance, targeting and guidance. On October 10, 2008, the Company acquired QP Semiconductor Inc.

Oki Electric Industry had this to say to its semiconductor operations: "Go find a new owner. ROHM, if you want to." The Japanese computer, office equipment, and telecom conglomerate spun off its microchip business in late 2008, selling 95% of the spinoff's shares to semiconductor manufacturer ROHM and keeping an equity stake of 5%. Oki Semiconductor makes a wide variety of chips, including communications ICs, display drivers, memory devices, microcontrollers, and optical components. Oki began fabricating transistors in 1961 and set up a Semiconductor Business Group in 2005, in preparation for the spinoff.

Toppan Photomasks, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Round Rock, Texas. Toppan Photomasks, Inc. company’s photomasks are quartz or glass plates that contain precision images of integrated circuits and are used as masters by semiconductor manufacturers to optically transfer these images onto semiconductor wafers. The company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, BindKey Technologies, Inc., develops electronic design automation software that is used by integrated circuit (IC) design engineers to design an IC, which can then be transferred onto photomasks. Its customers include integrated device manufacturers, semiconductor foundries, and fabless semiconductor companies. The company has collaboration with Applied Materials, Inc. for the joint development of advanced photomasks supporting 90nm and 65nm technology.

NMB Technologies manufactures miniature ball bearings (radial bearings, steel and chrome bearings, and shielded bearings), electric motors (hybrid, permanent magnet, and spindle motors), cooling products (axial fans and blowers), computer keyboards (for wireless, notebook, and PDA platforms), audio speakers (for the automotive, PC, and consumer industries), and other mechanical and electrical components.

Ultratech, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Ultratech, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets photolithography and laser thermal processing equipment. It offers step-and-repeat photolithography systems based on one-to-one imaging technology to semiconductor device manufacturers for applications involving line geometries of 0.75 microns or greater and to nanotechnology manufacturers. The company's steppers are also used to manufacture semiconductors that are used in various applications, such as telecommunications, automotive control systems, power systems, and consumer electronics. In addition, it offers LSA100, a laser-based thermal annealing tool used by the semiconductor industry for various process steps, including activation of implanted impurities, dielectric film formation, formation of silicides, and stabilization of copper grain structure. Ultratech sells its products to advanced packaging, thin film head, ink jet printer/accelerometer, semiconductor, and various other nanotechnology manufacturers in North America, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and the rest of Asia.

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