Advanced Photonix, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of optoelectronic devices and sub-systems, and systems. It offers optical receivers, which include Avalanche Photodiode technology and PIN photodiode technology based upon III-V materials, including InP, InAlAs, and GaAs; custom optoelectronic subsystems; and terahertz instrumentation. The company's optoelectronic subsystems are based on its silicon Large Area Avalanche Photodiode, PIN (positive-intrinsic-negative) photodiode, FILTRODE detectors, and LED assemblies. Its Terahertz sensor product line is targeted to the industrial non-destructive testing (NDT), quality control, homeland security, and military markets. The company serves original equipment manufacturers in industrial sensing/NDT, military/aerospace, telecom, medical, and homeland security industries. It markets its products through independent sales representatives, technical sales engineers, Internet, industry trade shows, and trade journals in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. Advanced Photonix, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

KEMET Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures tantalum, multilayer ceramic, film, electrolytic, paper, and solid aluminum capacitors. It supplies its products to electronics original equipment manufacturers, electronics manufacturing services providers, and electronics distributors. The companys products are used in audio systems, tire pressure monitoring systems, power train electronics, instrumentation, airbag systems, anti-lock braking systems, electronic engine controls, air conditioning controls, and security systems in automotive industry; and copiers, point-of-sale terminals, and fax machines in business equipment industry. Its products are also used in cellular phones, telephones, switching equipment, relays, base stations, and wireless infrastructure in communications industry; and personal computers, workstations, mainframes, computer peripheral equipment, power supplies, disk drives, printers, and local area networks in computer-related industry. In addition, the company offers its products for use in electronic controls, measurement equipment, instrumentation, solar and wind energy generation, and medical electronics to industrial market; DVD players, MP3 players, game consoles, LCD televisions, global positioning systems, and digital still cameras to consumer industry; avionics, radar, guidance systems, and satellite communications to military/aerospace industry; and wind generation systems, solar generation systems, geothermal generation systems, tidal generation systems, and electric drive vehicles to alternative energy industry.

i2a Technologies (i2a) typifies the burn and rebirth cycle of a semiconductor design, assembly, and packaging manufacturer. Founded by Victor Batinovich in 1992 as Integrated Packaging Assembly Corp. (IPAC), the company was acquired in 1999 to serve as Orient Semiconductor's US chip packaging arm. Named OSE USA in 2001, its manufacturing unit was scored by a group led by Batinovich in 2003 and renamed IPAC. IPAC joined with Malaysia's Twin Advance and formed i2a in 2005. i2a drives a slate of manufacturing services to semiconductor and electronics industries including consumer, auto, medical, and aerospace.

Nissin Electric makes electrical power equipment, including gas circuit breakers, gas-insulated switchgear, power distribution equipment, and power transformers. The company, established in 1910, also makes photovoltaic arrays and power converters for solar power installations. While power systems account for most of sales, Nissin is also a leader in ion implantation equipment for manufacturing semiconductors and LCDs. Most of the company's sales are in Japan, although Nissin has been growing its exports.

Alco Holdings is a consumer electronics contract manufacturer specializing in audio, video, telephone, and computer products. Products include portable DVD players, DVD home theater systems, LCD TVs, CD changers, multidisc (MD) recorders, CD clock radios, car stereos, cordless phones, and karaoke machines. The company, which also sells products under its own Venturer brand, provides additional manufacturing services, such as design and engineering, prototyping, product packaging, and supply chain management.

SpaceAge Control makes miniature position transducers (position sensors, displacement sensors, string pots) and air data products (air data booms, air direction vanes, temperature sensors, trailing bombs). The company has more than 900 customers worldwide in a variety of industries, such as aerospace and automotive manufacturing, including BAE SYSTEMS, Boeing, Ford Motor, General Motors, Honeywell International, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. SpaceAge Control was established in 1968 (the year of the first manned Apollo space mission, Apollo 7).

Viking Modular Solutions (formerly Viking InterWorks) designs and builds memory and flash modules for PCs and other products that optimize the performance of its customers' applications. The company supplies OEMs in the computer server, data storage, embedded electronics, and telecom markets. In addition to memory modules, Viking supplies processor modules, with digital signal processors or microprocessors, and its "Office-in-a-Box" module with a Mindspeed Technologies processor. A division of Sanmina-SCI, Viking Modular Solutions took its present form and name when Viking InterWorks merged with that company in 2008.

Eltek never gets bored with printed circuit boards (PCBs). The company makes custom PCBs, including rigid multilayered boards with up to 30 layers. PCBs, which are used to connect devices such as microprocessors and memory chips, are found in most types of modern electronic gear. Eltek also makes flexible and flex-rigid boards out of high-performance substrates and glass epoxies. The company's PCBs are used in a variety of electronic devices, including components of aerospace, computer, industrial, medical, military, and telecommunications systems. Eltek manufactures PCBs in Israel and Germany, while importing PCBs from Asia for high-volume production runs.

PMC-Sierra Israel (formerly Passave) develops semiconductors for broadband fiber access networks. PMC-Sierra Israel, Ltd. company designs system-on-a-chip devices for networking equipment that will bring "fiber to the home," providing broadband access to residences for voice, video, and high-speed Internet services. This market is often called the "first mile" in broadband fiber access, since it represents the initial step in building fiber-optic networks across the US and in other developed countries. All of PMC-Israel's customers are in Asia, with most located in Japan. PMC-Sierra acquired Passave in 2006 for about $300 million in stock.

MediaTek Inc. is principally engaged in the design, research, development, manufacture and sale, as well as the testing and maintenance of multimedia chipsets. The Company offers optical storage chipsets, digital versatile disc (DVD) player single chip solutions, mobile communication equipment chipsets, Bluetooth and mobile phone peripheral chips, wireless local area network (WLAN) chips, digital television(TV) control chips, TV decoder/demodulator chipsets, global positioning system (GPS) receiver chips and digital camera control chips, among others. The Company's products are applied for personal computer systems, digital home appliances, mobile phones and digital televisions (TVs). During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company obtained 98.91% of its total revenue from its multimedia chipset business.

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