Volterra Semiconductor Corporation company was founded in 1996 and is based in Fremont, California. Volterra Semiconductor Corporation (Volterra) designs, develops and markets, high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking and consumer markets. The Company's core products are integrated voltage regulator semiconductors and scalable voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver, and monitor the power consumed by digital semiconductors. Through its power system architecture and mixed-signal design techniques, Volterra has integrated power, analog, and digital circuits onto a single complementary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) semiconductor, eliminating the need for a large number of discrete components required by conventional power management solutions.

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. The company, under its semiconductor licensing program, licenses to the DRAM market. It has signed a license agreement with Etron Technology, Inc., a DRAM vendor based in Taiwan. Under its telecommunications licensing program, it granted wireless patents to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). Panasonic was granted a six-and-a-half year license under its patents for its Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-enabled notebook personal computers (PCs) and other products sold globally, with the exception of mobile handsets.

Acal is a leading value-added distributor providing specialist design-in, sales and marketing services for international suppliers in the fields of Electronic Components and Medical and Scientific products. In addition, the Supply Chain Division provides parts and services for the IT industry. Founded in 1986 Acal has, through a combination of acquisition and organic growth, developed into a major player in these product groupings.Acal employs approximately 750 people, offering particularly strong sales and marketing expertise. It is through these skills that Acal can focus on the demand creation and high standards of technical support which differentiate it from other distributors. The business provides opportunities for growth, a high return on capital employed and a positive cash-flow. Acal plans to continue investing cash-flow in organic growth and complementary business opportunities.

Nanosys develops nanomaterials for use in many different systems. These tiny structures are engineered on a nanometer scale. (To get an idea of how small a nanometer is, consider this: If a human hair were the width of the US, one nanometer would be as long as three railway locomotives.) Nanosys company's patented materials enable enhanced function in a variety of applications, including solar cells, biological sensors, flash memory devices, specialized coatings, and flexible electronics. Nanosys company's customers include Matsushita Electric Works, SAIC, and agencies of the US government.

Gewiss company manufactures home automation (domotics) electrical parts and low-voltage equipment for residential and commercial electrical, appliance, and industrial markets worldwide. Its eight facilities produce fuse boxes to outlets, and switches. Lighting, such as indoor and outdoor floodlights, and road lighting is offered. Moreover, Gewiss touts lamps created by Italian design firm Pininfarina. Gewiss also makes industrial socket outlets resistant to harsh UV rays, salt water, chemicals, and grease. Customers are commercial resellers, builders, and automation service providers.

Mirae Corporation is engaged in the manufacture of semiconductor testing equipment parts. The Company operates its business under two segments: assembly test equipment (ATE) and surface mount technology (SMT) segments. Its ATE segment provides test handler products including memory component test handlers, memory module test handlers, burn-in sorter solutions and logic pick and place test handlers. Its SMT segment provides chip mounters and SMT software. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company had an annual production capacity of 180 test handlers and its actual production output was 54 test handlers.

Megapulse is a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced navigation and communication products. Megapulse is the market leader in Loran-C and eLoran technology and is the sole source supplier of solid state transmitters for the Loran system. Loran is a terrestrial radionavigation system that can determine the position of a ship or aircraft or land mobile vehicle through the use of low frequency radio signals broadcast from transmitters located across the globe. Loran signals can be used to measure position, velocity, time, orientation and for the broadcast of data. Megapulse eLoran equipment incorporates technologies that substantially enhance and extend the capability of the Loran system. eLoran is being adopted worldwide as the most cost effective and necessary complement to satellites for aviation, timing and maritime applications. Significantly, Megapulse invented and developed the H-field antenna technology needed for eLoran. Other examples of breakthrough technologies include Loran-as-pseudolite operation, a Loran data channel for the wide-area broadcast of Differential GPS (“DGPS”) corrections and coded Loran signals for jamming resistance. Megapulse also specializes in developing other products and systems based on high power, low frequency solid-state technology including prototype systems for control of aquatic nuisance species and advance material finishing techniques.

Lauterbach Datentechnik makes hardware and software modules used to test electronic embedded systems. The company's products consist of modular microprcessor development tools including debuggers, in-circuit emulators, tracers, logic analyzers for systems integration, and simulators for software applications. Lauterbach sells to customers in the automotive, aerospace, control equipment, navigation, and telecommunications industries.

Leica Geosystems company develops, manufactures and distributes civil engineering and industrial process equipment and software products for surveying, mapping, machine guidance, metrology, navigation, and image processing. Its products include laser-based measuring devices, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, handheld measuring devices (DISTO), machine vision systems, and 3-D scanning systems. Leica Geosystems, part of Sweden-based Hexagon AB, is enriching its software development to process and model spatial information.

Guide Technology makes time interval analyzer (TIA) instruments used to test semiconductor chips as they are being produced. Customers include Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, ChipMOS, Siliconware Precision Industries, STATS ChipPAC, Unisem, and VIKO Test Lab. The company works cooperatively with the leading vendors of automated test equipment for semiconductors, including Advantest, Credence Systems, LTX, and Teradyne. Guide Technology was founded in 1988. In mid-2008 the company was acquired by GuideTech Inc., a company headed by Ron Sigura, one of the original founders of Guide Technology.

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