Japan Aviation Electronics Industry (JAE) really knows how to make connections. The manufacturer designs and produces electronic connectors that are used in everything from Japan's Shinkansen to miniature video cameras. Its connectors account for the majority of sales, but JAE also makes aerospace components, user interfaces, and optical devices, with sales and manufacturing operations throughout Asia, Europe, and the US. Its devices are used in automotive, aviation, communications, consumer, industrial, and medical electronics, such as flat panel displays, jumper cables, motion sensors, cell phones, notebook PCs, robotics, semiconductors, oil drilling tools, and ultrasound machines.

Venkel was founded in 1986 by Anil Venkatrao, the company's president, and CFO Ravi Venkatrao. Venkel is active in manufacturing passive components used in products, such as automotive electronics, computers, consumer and industrial electronics, and telecommunications equipment. The company's passives are placed on printed circuit boards incorporating surface-mount technology, which saves space compared with through-hole boards. Venkel's products, which it sells directly, through distributors, or from its catalog, includes chip capacitors (multilayer ceramic capacitors, or MLCCs, and tantalum caps), chip inductors, chip resistors, chip resistor networks, choke coils, ferrite beads, and engineering kits.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. provides flash memory products, LCD panels, and microprocessors. It offers DF3S6.8ECT protection diode that provides digital and mobile equipment, such as cell phones, PDAs, notebook PCs, digital cameras, and GPS devices with electromagnetic interference and electrostatic discharge protection from electrostatic discharge energy that is introduced from I/O ports and travels through the connectors onto the system boards; and microcontroller, which is designed for use in AC motor applications, such as washing machines, refrigerators, and air conditioners. The company is based in Irvine, California with additional offices in Richardson, El Paso, and Austin, Texas; Bloomington, Minnesota; Buffalo Grove, Illinois; Duluth, Georgia; Marlborough, Massachusetts; Parsippany, New Jersey; Raleigh, North Carolina; Wixom, Minnesota; and San Diego and San Jose, California. Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Toshiba America, Inc.

Microvision, Inc. engages in the development of miniature display and imaging engines based on its integrated photonics module technology platform. Its technology platform combines bi-axial/two dimensional micro-electrical mechanical system light scanning technologies, lasers, optics, and electronics with its system controls to create a video or still image from a small form factor device. The company’s products include Pico projector displays for portable hand-held devices, including mobile phones, as well as accessory devices that connect to a mobile video source, such as a personal media player, cell phone, or laptop computer. Its products also include vehicle/automotive head-up display for driver safety that reduces the distraction of looking away from the road to read information, such as GPS mapping images, audio controls, and other automobile instrumentation. In addition, the companys products include near-eye wearable display platform to provide personal viewing of information that originates from a mobile device and arrives at the display through a wired or wireless connection. Further, its products include ROV hand held bar code scanners to accommodate mobile workers with the data collection solutions on the mobile platforms of their choosing, as well as bar code scanner enabled enterprise solutions. The company, based on its light scanning technologies, also develops and produces prototype and demonstration units for commercial customers and the United States government. It serves customers in the consumer, automotive, defense, industrial, and medical markets.

Space Micro makes electronics that can withstand the rigors of space. The high technology firm adapts technologies from the commercial sector for space, aerospace, and military applications. The employee-owned company provides research and development, as well as production services. Products include advanced electronic systems and microelectronics designed to resist damage caused by electromagnetic radiation; other products include sensors, computers, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The company operates through three divisions: Space Electronics, Microwave and RF, and Advanced Materials. Clients include NASA, the Missile Defense Agency, and the US Air Force. The company was founded in 2002.

Cree, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. Cree, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor materials and devices based on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN) and related compounds. The Company focuses its expertise in SiC and GaN on light emitting diodes (LEDs), which consist of LED chips, LED components and LED lighting products. It also develops power and radio frequency (RF) products, including power switching and RF devices. The majority of Cree, Inc. products are manufactured at its main production facility in North Carolina. It also operates research and development facilities in North Carolina, California, Hong Kong and China. In February 2008, the Company acquired LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc. (Cree LED Lighting Solutions, Inc.).

PLX Technology, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. PLX Technology, Inc. (PLX) develops and supplies semiconductor devices that accelerate and manage the transfer of data in microprocessor-based systems, including networking and telecommunications, enterprise storage, servers, personal computers (PCs), PC peripherals, consumer electronics, imaging, and industrial products. PLX offers a complete solution consisting of two related types of products: semiconductor devices and development kits. The company markets its products to customers that sell electronic systems in the server, storage, communications, industrial, and consumer markets. On January 2, 2009, PLX completed the acquisition of Oxford Semiconductor, Inc.

Nanomix, Inc. manufactures devices used in respiratory and biomolecule detection applications. It offers biomolecule products used in DNA, protein, and glucose detection; respiratory products used in asthma monitoring, emergency airway management monitoring, sleep apnea screening, waveform capnography, procedural sedation monitoring, and disease diagnostics and metabolic testing; and NANOTECT monitors that detect low levels of industrial gas for environmental monitoring and demand controlled ventilation. The company was formerly known as Covalent Materials, Inc. Nanomix, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Emeryville, California.

Norwin is a wind turbine technology company with a high profile within new technology, research and development; with a strong home base in Denmark able to supply high quality products to specific markets; and with a few selected strong partners located in the global wind centers like China and India. North American market was accelerated for building up network activities within sale, distribution, promotion and O&M partners focusing on distributed energy and small wind farms. In 2007 the first two wind turbines have been sold to be installed in 2008. Norwin started a new line called “special projects” where the advanced knowledge and experience possessed by the company engineers was put into building integrated wind turbines i.e. the Bahrain World Trade Center. Norwin has the ambition to be a technology leader within land based turbines and special applications like building integrated wind technology.

Pacific Aerospace & Electronics company makes a proprietary range of metal, electronic, and ceramic seals and connectors used in harsh environments common to aerospace to defense, medical, and telecommunications industries. Its lineup specializes in light-weight hermetic protective packaging for electronics. Containers are used in buffering satellites in space, connectors for oil rig drilling, to cochlear implants for the hearing impaired. Military subcontracts with giants like Lockheed Martin and Boeing's noncommercial segment account for more than 60% of orders.

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