X-FAB Sarawak (formerly 1st Silicon) marks the spot for semiconductor contract manufacturing in Malaysia. X-FAB Sarawak Sdn. Bhd. company, which was founded in 1998, offers semiconductor foundry (contract manufacturing) services, including design, mask making, fabrication, sorting, packaging, and testing. It expanded its operations into Japan in 2005 with a sales office in Yokohama. X-FAB Sarawak Sdn. Bhd. company's wafer fabrication facility (or fab) makes semiconductors on silicon wafers measuring 200mm (about 8 inches) across, and can produce more than 27,000 wafers per month. Customers include Atmel and Sharp. Multinational chip maker X-FAB Silicon Foundries acquired 1st Silicon in September 2006 and renamed the company.

LEA International, a subsidiary of Smiths Group plc, makes surge suppression equipment. Its products range from large-scale equipment for telecom and utilities applications to protectors for home electronics. Other applications include broadcast, data center, medical, and manufacturing operations.

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.

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.

Express Manufacturing, Inc., (EMI), now recognized as a World Class Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider, has established a dual foot-print, entering the International market by storm. EMI's formidable reputation for excellent service combined with nearly thirty (30) years at the same locations in Santa Ana, California and highly dedicated long-term employees, has earned them accolades as the largest privately held EMS provider in Southern California. This has provided the impetus for EMI to add EMI Asia Limited, a 120,000 sq. ft. factory in Dong Guan City, China. Its manufacturing facility was intentionally laid out to duplicate the same production processes that are currently utilized at EMI which promotes another form of cost savings for the customers.The ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485 certified, financially stable company is well-recognized for high-mix, low-to-medium volume as well as high volume, low mix printed circuit board assembly and system integration having built its reputation on three principles: total customer satisfaction, rapid response and streamlined efficiency.EMI serves a wide range of industrial markets including but not limited to medical, telecom, aerospace, semiconductor, instrumentation, test equipment, irrigation, commercial gaming, process control and oilfield products. Today, EMI serves customers all over the world throughout the US, N. America, S. America, Europe, Israel, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and anticipates this growth to continue.EMI also provides its customers with complete vertical integration -- from specialized Engineering Services (such as printed circuit board lay-out, proto-typing and test development) to Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Fulfillment Programs, Service and Refurbishment Depot Services -- this allows EMI to capture efficiencies, maintain cost advantages and deliver turnkey solutions to its customer base, first in the US and optionally, transitioning to China when the volume reaches an optimum threshold.

Founded in 1999, Canesta, Inc. has received investments from Carlyle Growth Partners (an affiliate of The Carlyle Group), Hotung, and Venrock Associates. Canesta, Inc. company develops microchips and accompanying software that enable the input of data into wireless devices and other products using infrared technology. The system functions by transmitting light from a known source, which bounces off an object and back onto a sensor array chip. Its technology has been licensed for use in touch-free television controls made by Hitachi and automobile safety systems made by Honda. Canesta is also developing products for use in video game controllers and security systems.

ABB Holdings Ltd. company, the UK division of Swiss firm ABB, makes electrical distribution components and builds power plants and substations through its power products and power systems divisions, respectively. Its automation products group makes drives, motors, and generators, shipping more than 1 million components daily. Optimizing operations for oil, gas, power, chemical, and pharmaceutical plants falls under the banner of process automation. The robotics division has the world's largest installation of industrial robots. It provides robot software, peripheral equipment, and components.

Tensilica, Inc. offers controllers, CPU, multimedia, and specialty DSP processor cores for system-on-chip design. Its products include configurable and pre-configured standard microprocessor cores, development tools, and integrated suite of software development tools. The company offers Diamond Standard processors, a synthesizable core that range from area-efficient and low-power controllers to an audio processor, high-performance DSP, and video processor; and Xtensa processors, which are designed for high volume and embedded applications. It also offers XPRES Compiler, which automatically creates customized Xtensa processors from standard C/C++ algorithms; and Xtensa Processor Developers Toolkit, an integrated design environment that delivers automation tools to desktop. The company’s solutions allow designers to create lower power, foundry-independent hardware, and software specific to applications. It offers its solutions for embedded applications, such as set-top boxes, network protocol processing, consumer electronics, wireless communications, and audio and video processing markets.

TriGem Computer, Inc. company was founded by Yong-The Lee in 1980 and is headquartered in Ansan, South Korea. TriGem Computer, Inc. engages in the manufacture and export of personal computers (PCs) worldwide. Its products include notebook PCs, desktop PCs, monitors, multifunction devices, printers and scanners, and digital devices. The company provides its products and services for mobile networking, computing, and related sectors. TriGem Computer operates in the United States, Japan, China, Europe, Australia, and Mexico.

CPS Technologies Corporation provides advanced material solutions to the electronics, power generation, automotive, and other industries. It offers metal matrix composites that are a combination of metal and ceramic to electronics end markets, including integrated circuits and circuit boards used in Internet switches and routers; and motor controllers used in high-speed electric trains, subway cars, and wind turbines. The company also assembles housings and packages for hybrid circuits. Its housings and packages include components made of metal-matrix composites, aluminum, and copper-tungsten. In addition, the company offers components for structural applications, including robotic arms for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, components for specialty internal combustion engines, and hybrid armor. Further, it offers lids and heat spreaders for microprocessors, application-specific integrated circuits, and other integrated circuits; substrates and heat spreaders for wireless communications infrastructure applications; and substrates, baseplates, and heat spreaders on which power semiconductors are mounted to produce modules for motor control. The company's products are used in mass transit, hybrid and electric cars, and wind-turbines for electricity generation, as well as in routers and switches for the Internet that in turn allows telecommuting. It sells its products primarily to microelectronics systems houses in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company was formerly known as Ceramics Process Systems Corporation and changed its name to CPS Technologies Corporation in March 2007.

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