Silterra aims to supply silky-smooth service to chip makers. The silicon foundry company supplies contract manufacturing services: customers send their own designs to Silterra, which then produces finished chips in its wafer fabrication facilities. Approximately half of its products are shipped to the US; Taiwan and South Korea each receive 25%. Silterra's investors include two investment arms of Malaysia's Ministry of Finance, which owns about two-thirds of Silterra, as well as LSI Corp., Seiko, Bank Industri Malaysia, and Walden Holdings. Silterra was founded in 1995 as Wafer Technology (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. and first began producing semiconductors in late 2000.

Trident Microsystems, Inc. company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Trident) designs, develops and markets integrated circuits (ICs) for digital media applications, such as digital television and liquid crystal display (LCD). The Company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC), semiconductors provide the intelligence for these types of displays by processing and optimizing video and computer graphic signals to produce high-quality and realistic images. Trident’s discrete products include frame rate converter (FRC), demodulator (DRX) and audio decoder products. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the digital media segment accounted for all of its revenues. In February 2010, the Company acquired NXP Semiconductor's television systems and set-top box business lines.

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.

Cepheid, a molecular diagnostics company, develops, manufactures, and markets integrated systems for genetic testing in the clinical molecular diagnostic, industrial, and biothreat markets. Its systems enable molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automation. Its SmartCycler system integrates DNA amplification and detection to allow rapid analysis of a sample; and GeneXpert system integrates sample preparation in addition to DNA amplification and detection. GeneXpert is designed for reference laboratories, hospital central laboratories, and satellite testing locations, such as ER and ICU units within hospitals, and doctors offices. In the clinical molecular diagnostic market, Cepheid markets tests for both the GeneXpert and the SmartCycler platforms in the areas of hospital acquired infections, critical infectious disease, immuno-compromised transplantation, women's health, and oncology. These tests include Food and Drug Administration cleared products, such as in-vitro medical devices, CE Marked, analyte specific reagents, and research use only tests. In the industrial market, the company sells its SmartCycler along with general use polymerase chain reaction reagents and reaction tubes. Cepheid has tests available for anthrax, pestis, and tullarensis in the biothreat market. The company sells its products through direct sales and distribution channels worldwide. It has strategic relationship with bioMerieux, Inc. for bioMerieux to develop DNA testing products using nucleic acid sequence-based amplification technology. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

L&S Electric company specializes selling motors, controls, drives, and integrated systems used in power generation, railway, pulp and paper mill, mining, and other industrial applications. It also offers engineering and repair services worldwide through an engineering division and its L&S Electric of Canada subsidiary. L&S Electric has about eight locations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. The company was formed in the 1983 merger of Leverence Electric and Snapp Electric, two motor repair shops that dated back to the 1930s.

Invisa, Inc. manufactures and sells sensors that utilize InvisaShield presence-sensing design and technology for applications in safety market. The company sells a line of SmartGate brand safety sensors, which are life and property safety devices used in or with powered closures-mechanisms, such as parking gates, slide gates, overhead garage doors, and overhead doors. The SmartGate safety sensors are incorporated into powered parking gates that are used for controlling the flow of vehicular traffic, such as parking facilities, vehicle storage facilities, toll booths, and metered entry points for highways. The company also provides InvisaShield sensors that create invisible presence-sensing fields around displays and exhibits, as well as detects persons trying to enter the monitored zone for preventing vandalism or inadvertent damage. Its InvisaShield security sensors are used for museum applications, as well as for retail, industrial, commercial, defense, and government applications. Invisa sells its products to manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and end-users. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.

Waytronx, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon. Waytronx, Inc. engages in commercializing thermal management solutions for the semiconductor and electronic packaging industries. The company commercializes thermal cooling technology under the name WayCool. Its cooling solutions for central and graphics processors, solar energy devices, and power supplies help in the thermal management process in the electronics industry. The company’s solutions are used for cooling applications in graphics processing units, central processing units, power supply units, solar energy, medical monitors, test appliances, and home electronics displays. Waytronx, through its wholly owned subsidiary, CUI, Inc., also provides electronic components, including power supplies, transformers, converters, connectors, and industrial controls for original equipment manufacturers.

Sonic Manufacturing Technologies provides contract printed circuit board (PCB) design and assembly services. Sonic company also offers prototyping, cable and connector assembly, box build (complete system) integration, materials management, and testing services. Its manufacturing facility has more than 68,000 sq. ft. of space and boasts six PCB production lines. Sonic Manufacturing was established in 1996 by Ken Raab (president), Robert Pereyda (VP), and Henry Woo (senior process engineer). Sonic company's management together holds the majority ownership in Sonic Manufacturing.

American Technical Ceramics Corp. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of radio frequency/microwave/millimeter-wave ceramic capacitors, thin film products, and other passive components worldwide. It offers multilayer capacitors, single layer ceramic capacitors, and passive resistive products, as well as provides resistors, terminations, attenuators, and other customized products. The company’s products are primarily used in ultra-high frequency and microwave applications, including wireless electronics, medical electronics, semiconductor equipment, satellite equipment, and fiber optics. It sells its products primarily to the manufacturers of microwave, high frequency, and fiber optic systems, including original equipment manufacturers, and electronics manufacturing services companies and suppliers. American Technical Ceramics was founded in 1966. It was formerly known as Phase Industries, Inc. and changed its name to American Technical Ceramics Corp. in 1984. The company is headquartered in Huntington Station, New York.

Founded in 2002, Ahura Scientific develops rugged, ultra-compact, field-enabled optical systems for the immediate identification and verification of liquid and solid chemicals. The company brings together technical expertise in miniature optics and electronics, high-performance semiconductor laser fabrication and advanced chemometric algorithms to enable novel solutions for a range of markets. This technical excellence, coupled with first-class customer insight and support, ensures that Ahura Scientific is a trusted partner for customers worldwide. Ahura Scientific has been honored with numerous prestigious awards including multiple Cygnus Innovation awards, the Frost & Sullivan 2008 Product of the Year, the American Business Awards Most Innovative Company 2008, the Ernst and Young 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year award; an R&D Magazine R&D 100; the Industrial Design Society of America Award for Excellence in Industrial Design; the SBANE 2007 Innovation Award; and the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Chemical Detection Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year.

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