Wellex was founded in 1983 by Jackson Wang (CEO), Chern Lee (former CEO), and Danny Lee (former chairman). Wellex provides a welcome break from manufacturing chores. As a contract electronics manufacturer, Wellex makes printed circuit boards (PCBs) for OEMs in the computer, data storage, industrial equipment, medical equipment, networking, security systems, and telecommunications industries. The company offers surface-mount and pin-through-hole PCB assemblies, along with design, testing, and repair services, to such diverse customers as Eastman Kodak, Ingersoll-Rand, St. Jude Medical, and Sun Microsystems, with plants in China and the US.

ClearSpeed Technology hopes customers find a clear advantage in its chips. The fabless semiconductor company offers specialized microprocessors designed to handle math-intensive computing functions more rapidly -- and with less energy consumption -- than standard processors. ClearSpeed's chips are programmable and process data in parallel; the company also offers related software and development tools. The company touts its products for heavy-duty number-crunching chores in areas such as biomedical research and sonar equipment. Its ClearSpeed Federal Systems subsidiary targets the US government and defense contractors market. Founded in 1997 as PixelFusion, ClearSpeed went private in 2009.

Douglas Battery makes electricity possible in places where wires would be inconvenient. The company's products include motive power and stationary batteries for forklifts, wheelchairs, portable medical equipment, and even Arctic-condition backup power supplies. Its stationary racking system stacks batteries safely. Pushed by rising costs for fuel and steel and overseas competition, Douglas Battery sold its auto division to rival East Penn Manufacturing in 2005. In early 2010 the company sold its remaining industrial batteries business to EnerSys.

Nanosolar technology start-up company's design and product innovations produce solar cells that can be as efficient and last as long as conventional silicon solar cells. The key part of the company's technology is that it can "print" (coat with a chemical solution) the most expensive layers of a solar cell. Founded in 2002, Nanosolar received financial backing from leading technology investors, including Benchmark Capital, Stanford University, and Mitsui & Co.

VIA found viable businesses both inside and outside the PC. VIA Technologies took on Intel for market leadership in PC chipsets -- clusters of components that connect a computer's microprocessor to its other parts. VIA's chipsets work with microprocessors made by both Intel and AMD, and can be configured to work with various types of memory chips. Meanwhile, VIA's graphics chip venture took it into the market for core logic chipsets used in graphics applications. The fabless semiconductor company also entered the networking chip niche with its introduction of Ethernet controllers and other devices, and it continues to develop low-budget microprocessors for use in inexpensive PCs.

Leviton Manufacturing company makes switches, plugs, connectors, and integrated networks designed for home, commercial, and industrial uses. The company's divisions also produce lighting controls and voice and data equipment. Its Wiring Device division makes everything from basic switches to receptacles, including the designer Decora and Acenti collections. Its products are sold in North America to distributors, manufacturers, and retail outlets, such as Home Depot, Sears, and Wal-Mart. The Leviton family owns the company, which started out making tip mantles for gaslights in 1906.

Coherent, Inc. provides photonics-based solutions for commercial and scientific research applications worldwide. It engages in the design, manufacture, servicing, and marketing of lasers, precision optics, and related accessories. The company's products are used in a range of applications, including microelectronics, scientific research and government programs, OEM components and instrumentation, and materials processing markets. It markets its products primarily through a direct sales force, as well as through independent representatives. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Affymetrix, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and servicing of consumables and systems for genetic analysis in the life sciences and clinical healthcare markets. The company offers integrated GeneChip microarray platform that includes disposable DNA probe arrays (chips) consisting of nucleic acid sequences, certain reagents for use with the probe arrays, a scanner and other instruments used to process the probe arrays, and software to analyze and manage genomic or genetic information obtained from the probe arrays. Its products are used in various applications, including the monitoring of gene or exon expression levels and investigation of genetic variation. The company sells its products directly to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrichemical, diagnostics, and consumer products companies; academic research centers; government research laboratories; private foundation laboratories; and clinical reference laboratories in North America and Europe, as well as through life science supply specialists acting as authorized distributors in Latin America, India, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific regions, including the People's Republic of China. It has collaboration partnerships with Caliper Life Sciences, CapitalBio Corporation, Life Technologies, Pathwork Diagnostics, PreAnalutiX GmbH, and Qiagen GmbH. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. provides communication products. The Company operates its business through four business divisions: digital media division, information and communication division, semiconductor division and liquid crystal display (LCD) division. Its digital media division provides televisions (TVs), videocassette recorders (VCRs), camcorders, digital versatile disc players, digital audio players, digital set top boxes (STBs), home theaters, audios and home appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens and others. Its information and communication division provides computers, moving picture experts group audio layer 3 (MP3) players, mobile phones and others. Its semiconductor division offers memory chips, hard disc drives (HDDs) and others. Its LCD division offers thin film transistor (TFT) LCD modules and others. It also provides visual security systems (VSSs). On January 1, 2010, Samsung TechWin Co., Ltd. acquired its VSS business.

Coulomb Technologies products and services may get you charged up. The start-up company designs and builds charging stations for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. The company's branded Smartlet stations are targeted to parking lot owners and municipalities and can be installed in public and private areas like apartment and workplace parking lots and along public streets. The stations are linked together on a network and are tied into municipal electrical grids; drivers pay for access to Coulomb's stations through subscription-based memberships.

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