ECS, the Elitegroup Computer Systems (TSE: 2331), has been a pioneer in designing and manufacturing computer motherboards since 1987. It was the first motherboard maker in Taiwan to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1994. Today, the company also designs and manufactures barebone and complete systems, such as notebook computers and high-end servers, for distributors worldwide.ECS has ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certified manufacturing facilities in China, capable of producing over 2.5 million motherboards and 200,000 notebook computers every month. The company currently has branch offices throughout the world in Americas, Europe and the Pacific Rim. To further extend its quality products and services, ECS plans to open additional branch offices in the new emerging markets including Brazil, India and Russia.

CPU Technology, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Pleasanton, California with business development offices in Reston, Virginia. CPU Technology, Inc. develops and supplies system-on-a-chip (SOC) solutions for electronic systems in finance, defense and aerospace, industrial controls, and high end computing industries. It provides field programmable multicore chips; SystemLab PS that allows engineers and programmers to see inside the electronics of a platform in real time during actual software execution; SystemLab IntegrationStation, a system design and development tool suite; and Defense Line Replaceable Units, such as Position Interface Box used on the M2A3/M3A3 Bradley fighting vehicle. The company also offers system design/development services, such as initial architecture/trade study, system architecture modeling, design implementation, behavioral verification, physical implementation, and productization/commercialization; and system modernization solutions, including board, box, and kit product solutions for embedded compute and control systems. Its products are used in desktop boxes, fighter jets, and armored vehicles.

Nuvera Fuel Cells company is developing clean-burning fuel processors and fuel cell systems for cars, buses, telecommunications backup systems, and consumers' homes. Its fuel processors extract hydrogen from common fuels such as gasoline, methanol, kerosene, and propane. This hydrogen can be used in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells to produce electricity. Nuvera was formed in 2000 when Italy's De Nora Fuel Cells merged with Epyx Corp. (a subsidiary of Arthur D. Little). De Nora owns 37% of Nuvera and energy giant Hess owns 53%. Automaker Renault holds 10% of Nuvera Fuel Cells.

Jaco Electronics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes active and passive electronic components used in the manufacture and assembly of electronic products to various industrial original equipment manufacturers. Its active products comprise a range of semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, memory devices, microprocessors, micro controllers, other integrated circuits, active matrix displays, and various board-level products; and passive products include capacitors, resistors, and electromechanical devices, such as power supplies, relays, switches, connectors, and printer heads. The companys products are used in the manufacture and assembly of a range of electronic products, including telecommunications equipment, medical devices and instrumentation, military/aerospace systems, voting and gaming machines, computers and office equipment, industrial equipment and controls, automotive electronics, and home entertainment and other consumer electronics. Jaco Electronics also provides flat panel display, and supporting technology products and services. It has operations in western Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the Far East. The company serves a range of customers in computer, computer-related, telecommunications, data transmission, defense, aerospace, and medical equipment industries.

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.

O.I. Corporation, doing business as OI Analytical, designs, manufactures, markets, and services products, components, and systems for chemical analysis and monitoring in air and water. It offers laboratory products, including gas chromatography (GC) instruments and systems to separate organic compounds based on their physical and chemical properties; sample concentrators for sample introduction into GCs; GC detector devices; and total organic carbon analyzer systems and related accessories to measure organic and inorganic carbon levels in ultrapure, drinking, natural, ground, waste, and process water, as well as soils and solids. The company's laboratory products also include automated chemistry analyzers, such as segmented flow and flow injection analyzers to perform various ion analyses, including the measurement of nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, ammonia, chloride, alkalinity, and sulfate in liquids; sample preparation products and systems to prepare sample matrices for analysis; and refrigerant monitors, which employ infrared based analyzers to monitor and detect low-level refrigerant leaks. The company offers MINICAMS air-monitoring systems to monitor air for toxic chemical compounds, including gaseous chemical-warfare agents to address air-monitoring levels, as well as provides on-site installation and support services. The company serves environmental testing, food and flavors, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, power generation, chemical, and petrochemical industries, as well as military agencies of the U.S. Government, engineering and consulting firms, municipalities, beverage bottlers, and chiller-refrigerant companies. It sells products through a direct sales force, as well as, through a network of independent sales representatives and distributors. The company was formerly known as Oceanography International Corporation and changed its name to O.I. Corporation in July 1980. O.I. Corporation was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in College Station, Texas.

Jabil Circuit takes more than a jab at contract electronics manufacturing. The company is one of the leading providers of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) in the world. Parts made by Jabil on a contract basis are used in communications products, medical instruments, computers and networking gear, and automobiles. Services range from product design and component procurement to product testing, order fulfillment, and supply chain management. Top customers include Cisco Systems, Research in Motion, Hewlett-Packard, EchoStar, and Nokia. The company, which has expanded into Asian and Eastern European markets, gets more than 80% of sales from international operations.

Galil Motion Control company manufactures an array of motion controllers. Whether the job is point-to-point positioning, linear and circular interpolation, or electronic gearing, the company touts the right tool. Its lineup includes single- and multi-axis motion controllers, bus-based or stand-alone, and card- and box-level controllers. A global sales network pushes Galin motion controllers to a diversity of markets, from TomoTherapy's radiation device, to WET Design's fountains, Thermoforming Systems' yogurt cup molder, and the University of California Observatories' spectrograph.

Photronics, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Brookfield, Connecticut. Photronics, Inc. (Photronics) is a manufacturer of photomasks, which are high precision photographic quartz plates containing microscopic images of electronic circuits. Photomasks are a key element in the manufacture of semiconductors and flat panel displays (FPDs), and are used as masters to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers and flat panel substrates during the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs) and a range of FPDs and, to a lesser extent, other types of electrical and optical components. The Company operates principally from nine manufacturing facilities, two of which are located in the Europe, two in Taiwan, one each in Korea and Singapore and three in the United States. During the fiscal year ended November 1, 2009 (fiscal 2009), Photronics closed its manufacturing facilities in Manchester, United Kingdom and Shanghai, China.

Plexus isn't perplexed by even complex contract electronics manufacturing. The company develops and manufactures electronic products for companies in the telecommunications, medical, industrial, and defense markets. Plexus provides product design, engineering, and assembly of printed circuit boards (PCBs), test equipment, and other electronic components. The company also offers prototyping, materials procurement, warehousing and distribution, and other support services. Its customers include networking equipment maker Juniper Networks and General Electric. While Plexus manufactures in China, Malaysia, Mexico, Romania, and the UK, the company gets more than half of its sales from operations in the US.

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