North Coast offers hundreds of products from wire and pipe to lamps and lighting fixtures. In addition to electrical contractors, the company caters to commercial as well as institutional customers, and provides MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) products to industrial markets. North Coast also serves the factory-automation market with a lineup that includes programmable logic controllers, variable-speed drives, and automation software.

Polar Semiconductor, Inc. company is a silicon foundry (contract semiconductor manufacturer) that makes specialized analog and mixed-signal chips using BiCMOS designs. These chips are used primarily in communications applications by customers such as Maxim Integrated Products. Besides handling manufacturing chores, Polar Semi offers services such as prototyping and testing. The company took its current form in 1999 when Agere Systems (then part of Lucent, later acquired by LSI Corp.) bought the disk drive chip designs (and the name) of VTC, Polar Semi's predecessor. Sanken Electric acquired Polar Semi in mid-2005 for around $83 million.

Zoran Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Canada, China, England, France, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Zoran Corporation is a provider of digital solutions in the digital entertainment and digital imaging market. Zoran has developed high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications and Connect Share Entertain technologies for the digital home. The Company’s products consist of integrated circuits and related products used in digital versatile disc (DVD), players, movie and home theater systems, digital cameras and video editing systems. It provides integrated circuits (ICs), software and platforms for digital television applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television, as well as digital imaging products consisting of semiconductor hardware and software that enable users to print, scan, process and transmit documents to computer peripherals that perform printing functions. On June 12, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Let It Wave, which is a fabless development-stage semiconductor company.

SMA Solar Technology helps its customers harvest the power of the sun. Founded in 1981, SMA Solar Technology AG focuses on making a wide range of photovoltaic inverters, components of solar power systems that help convert sunlight into electricity. SMA Solar Technology, which sells its products to private, commercial, and institutional owners of solar power plants, serves customers such as Airbus, Bayer, Siemens, and Volkswagen. SMA Solar Technology AG company also makes electronics and components, such as battery chargers for railway coaches, through SMA Railway Technology. The firm operates through subsidiaries in eight countries.

GulTech manufactures its high-quality products in its production facilities in Suzhou and Wuxi, China. Through innovative design and prototype expertise, GulTech continues to work in partnership with its multinational customers to provide leading-edge solutions in a highly-dynamic and fast-paced technological environment.

MOSAID Technologies Incorporated engages in the licensing of patented semiconductor and telecommunications intellectual property (IP), complemented by the development of memory and other technologies. The company has right to license approximately 50 patents and foreign counterparts relating to digital signal processors (DSPs), reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), application specific standard products (ASSPs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and semiconductor memory and processing technologies. The company also owns a portfolio of 400 patents relating to DRAM, Flash memory and semiconductor process technology. It also owns patents relate to technologies, including power over Ethernet (PoE), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), IP private branch exchanges (IP-PBXs), wireless access points (WAP), IP digital subscriber line access multiplexers (IP-DSLAMs), cable modems, and asynchronous DSL (ADSL) modems. Licensing Programs The company has two major licensing programs, including the semiconductor licensing program and the telecommunications licensing program. The semiconductor licensing program focuses on licensing its memory patent portfolio, which includes patents related primarily to DRAM, Flash memory and PSRAM, and its microcomponents patent portfolio. The telecommunications licensing program focuses on licensing the company’s wireless patent portfolio, and on licensing the communications portfolio. As of April 30, 2008, the company had granted 33 patent licenses to companies headquartered in Asia, Europe and North America.

Westar Display Technologies (WDT) makes electro-optical inspection instruments and video adapter components used to test the quality of flat-panel displays. The company also offers custom test system development. WDT's customers include BAE SYSTEMS, Dell, HannStar Display, L-3 Communications, LG Display, Planar Systems, RITEK, Samsung SDI, and Sharp. The company was established in 1993. Westar Aerospace and WDT were acquired in 2004 by QinetiQ Group, the UK-based research services firm and military contractor.

Motia, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Burlingame, California with operations in Pasadena, California; and Bristol, England. Motia, Inc. develops and produces wireless semiconductors and wireless system level products for wireless connectivity. The company offers antenna semiconductors to improve the functionality and performance of wireless systems. It serves several wireless markets, including 3G cellular, WiFi, and WiMAX markets, as well as mobile direct broadcast satellite market.

ZBD Displays designs and supplies. Dubbed an epop (electronic point of purchase), the zero-powered, bistable liquid-crystal display (LCD) attaches to a shelf to give product information. The epop interacts with a two-way "Bounce" communications device, which is controlled by the retailer's IT system, to wirelessly update. Customers comprise more than 20 retailers, such as PCC Natural Markets, across Europe and the US. ZBD's technology is also used by wireless communications carriers, like AS EMT, in wireless phones and PDAs, as well as by architectural signage companies. ZBD is owed by venture capital groups, including DFJ Esprit and Dow Chemical.

Ember Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with regional offices in Cambridge, the United Kingdom; and Wanchai, Hong Kong. It operates a radio development center in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. Ember Corporation develops wireless sensor and control network technologies. Its products include system-on-chips; network processor chips; networking stacks; components in making solution for chips, networking software, and tools; low power wireless semiconductors; networking software; and development and debugging tools. The company also offers EM35x InSight Development Kits that include hardware, network development, and debugging software to enable the development and debugging of ZigBee products on the ARM Cortex-M3 based system-on-chips. Its products enable consumers, businesses, and utilities to manage energy resources, as well as focus on developing applications. The company serves building automation, integrated home automation, and metering markets. It sells its products through distributors in France, Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Israel, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Russian Federation, Scandanavia, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, as well as in Ireland, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Brazil.

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