Mayer Electric's offerings include over 20,000 products made by leading manufacturers such as 3M, GE, Littelfuse, and Schneider Electric. These products include factory automation systems, controls and switches, fire and safety products, lighting fixtures, motors, power tools, and wire and cable. The company supplies customers in such industries as construction, manufacturing, and utilities.

iWatt, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Los Gatos, California. It has additional offices in Fort Collins, Colorado; Taipei, Taiwan; Shenzhen, China; and Hong Kong. iWatt, Inc., a digital power IC and systems company, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets semiconductor and power system products for the computer, communication, consumer, and industrial market segments. Its products include AC-DC controllers; analog building blocks and analog front ends for use in SOCs and ASICs; IKOR DC-DC converter products for computing, communications, test and measurement, and industrial control markets; DC-DC converter modules, including power solutions for memory and CPU applications, as well as general purpose point-of-load regulators for use in servers and graphics cards; and white papers and application notes. The company’s products enable high bandwidth analog interface and data transfer for flat panel displays, LCD TV, PDAs, digital cameras, video game systems, and wireless appliances.

Advantest established its first representative office in the States in 1973 and founded Advantest America in 1982. Advantest America Corporation manufactures and distributes electronic measuring instruments and semiconductor test equipment used in the development and manufacture of computer and telecommunications products. Products include handlers, interconnect products, and testers. The company is the North American subsidiary of Advantest Corporation and was established to expand the automatic test equipment business (ATE) in the US. It has 13 offices throughout the US and an R&D Center located in California. The Japanese parent company gets about 15% of its annual sales from the Americas.

Hitachi Displays manufactures LCD products in a variety of sizes. Its LCDs are used in a range of applications, including TVs, computer monitors and notebook displays, cell phones, and digital still cameras. The company also produces LCD components, such as drivers, color filters, and back lights. Hitachi has been making LCD modules since 1975. Originally known as the Mobara Works of Hitachi, Hitachi Displays was established in 1943. Hitachi spun off the display business as a separate unit in 2002. The company owns half of IPS Alpha Technology, a maker of LCD TV panels. In 2008 Hitachi sold nearly half of Hitachi Displays to Canon and Panasonic (formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial).

EPCOS AG company is a leading producer of passive electronic components used in telecommunications, automotive, and industrial electronics. The company makes more than 40,000 products -- including capacitors, ferrites, ceramic components, and surface acoustic wave (SAW) components -- for a wide variety of devices such as cellular phones, computers, digital still cameras, refrigerators, air bags, braking systems, and turbines. Europe accounts for nearly two-thirds of sales. TDK acquired EPCOS in 2008 for about E1.2 billion (approximately $1.9 billion) in cash.

Bosch Rexroth company engineers a slew of automated technologies designed to increase productivity and trim waste. Its operations straddle electric drives (servo drives and controls), hydraulic systems (industrial and mobile), bushings and shafts, and pneumatic valves and actuators. The resulting lineup is used in a wide range of equipment, from automobiles to construction tools (backhoes, cranes, and excavators), material handling (conveyors to linear motion systems), and semiconductor manufacturing.

Exar Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Exar Corporation (Exar) is a semiconductor company that designs, sub-contracts manufacturing and sells silicon, software and subsystem solutions for industrial, datacom and storage applications. The Company’s product portfolio includes power management and interface components, datacom products, storage optimization solutions, network security and applied service processors. The Company’s products are deployed in a array of applications, such as portable electronic devices, set top boxes, digital video recorders, telecommunication systems, servers, enterprise storage systems and industrial automation equipment. On April 3, 2009, Exar completed the acquisition of hi/fn, inc. In June 2009, Exar completed the acquisition of Galazar Networks Inc., a fabless semiconductor company based in Ottawa, Canada.

Chromalox company makes switches and electrical components for heaters, grills, hot plates, defrosters, water heaters, and other products. It also makes thermostats, sensors, commercial and industrial cables and controls, and vaporizer systems. Its equipment has been used aboard the Space Shuttle, and on earth in the biopharmaceutical, food services, petrochemical, power generation, and wastewater treatment industries. A part of Emerson Electric for 33 years, Chromalox was sold in 2001 to an investor group led by JPMorgan Partners (now CCMP Capital Advisors) for $165 million.

Maurice Electrical Supply distributes electrical supplies and lighting equipment from a wide variety of manufacturers. It also provides recycling services for lamps and ballasts. The firm has locations in Florida, Maryland, and Washington, DC. The company, founded in 1922, is named for Maurice Abraham, who established the business with his brother-in-law. CEO Bruce Kogod is the grandson of Maurice Abraham, who died in 1955. US Electrical Services (USESI), a subsidiary of Consolidated Electrical Distributors, acquired Maurice Electrical Supply in 2008.

Xilinx, Inc. company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Xilinx, Inc. (Xilinx designs, develops and markets complete programmable logic solutions. These solutions have components, such as integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs); software design tools to program the PLDs; predefined system functions delivered as intellectual property (IP) cores; design services; customer training, and field engineering and technical support. Xilinx’s PLDs include field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) that its customers program to perform desired logic functions. Its solutions are designed to provide high integration and quick time-to-market for electronic equipment manufacturers in end markets, such as wired and wireless communications, industrial, scientific and medical, aerospace and defense, audio, video and broadcast, consumer, automotive and data processing.

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