Jenoptik now focuses on some very specific markets. With the sale of M&W Zander, which made up the company's Clean Systems Technologies unit (and the majority of its sales at one time), Jenoptik reorganized into three segments -- Lasers and Optical Systems, Metrology, and Defense & Civil Systems -- and five product divisions under those segments. Users of the company's offerings include chip makers, such as IBM, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Texas Instruments, as well as chip equipment manufacturers, including ASML. Jenoptik gets more than half of its sales outside Germany.

Kyocera International, the holding company for the North American operations of Japan's Kyocera Corporation, makes products ranging from semiconductor casings to knives and utensils. Having expanded through acquisitions beyond its origins in specialty ceramics, Kyocera International also makes LCD panels, thin-film devices, printers, industrial cutting tools, and solar energy systems. Its Kyocera Communications unit provides sales, marketing, and customer support for Kyocera and SANYO brand wireless phones in the US. Kyocera International's Kyocera Solar subsidiary is one of the world's largest producers of photovoltaic solar cells.

Silicon Valley Microelectronics (SVM) provides silicon wafers and services to Silicon Valley -- and the rest of the world. SVM distributes wafers to the semiconductor and solar industries. The company makes standard silicon products and wafers made from specialty materials, such as gallium arsenide, indium phosphide, and silicon carbide. SVM offers grinding, polishing, film deposition, and other related wafer-processing services. Its solar business includes SV Solar (solar module manufacturing) and Vista Solar (installation and monitoring services). SVM sells its products in Asia, Europe, and the US. Owner and CEO Patrick Callinan founded SVM in 1990 as a distributor of ceramic packages for electronic devices.

Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

StockerYale, Inc. was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire. StockerYale, Inc. engages in the design, development, and manufacture of low power laser modules and related optics. It also distributes laser diodes for diode manufacturers, as well as develops and manufactures LED systems and specialty optical fiber. The company operates in three segments: Laser Products, Photonic Products, and Optical Components. The Laser Products segment designs and manufactures structured light lasers, LED systems, and related optics for machine vision, industrial inspection, medical, commercial, and defense and security applications. The Photonic Products segment manufactures thermo-electrically cooled laser modules, laser alignment systems, circular beam laser diode modules and elliptical beam modules, receptacle packaged laser diodes, and pigtailed laser diodes. These products are used in medical, commercial, and other industrial applications. The Optical Components segment engages in the design and manufacture of specialty optical fiber, fiber assemblies, and phase masks primarily used by manufacturers of fiber optic sensors, fiber optic gyroscopes, fiber lasers, and optical amplifiers in industrial, defense, medical, and telecommunications markets. The company sells its products directly, as well as through distributors and integrators to original equipment manufacturers primarily in Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Polar Semiconductor, Inc. company is a silicon foundry (contract semiconductor manufacturer) that makes specialized analog and mixed-signal chips using BiCMOS designs. These chips are used primarily in communications applications by customers such as Maxim Integrated Products. Besides handling manufacturing chores, Polar Semi offers services such as prototyping and testing. The company took its current form in 1999 when Agere Systems (then part of Lucent, later acquired by LSI Corp.) bought the disk drive chip designs (and the name) of VTC, Polar Semi's predecessor. Sanken Electric acquired Polar Semi in mid-2005 for around $83 million.

Corning Incorporated, the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics, has worked closely with customers to understand their problems, explore possible solutions, and then bring those solutions to life through our world-class scientific and manufacturing capabilities.Corning Japan unique collaborative culture paired with more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering continue to drive us forward -- as we look at the toughest problems, imagine the possibilities, then turn those possibilities into breakthrough realities.

Avago Technologies Limited company was founded in 2005 and is based in Singapore, Singapore. Avago Technologies Limited engages in the design, development, and supply of analog semiconductor devices worldwide. The company offers RF amplifiers, RF filters, RF front end modules, ambient light sensors, light emitting diodes, low noise amplifiers, mm-wave mixers, optical finger navigation, diodes, fiber optic transceivers, serializer/deserializer ASICs, motion control encoders and subsystems, optocouplers, and optical mouse sensors. Its products are used in various applications, such as voice and data communications, camera phone, keypad and display backlighting, backlighting control, base stations, data communications, storage area networking, servers, in-car infotainment, displays, lighting, factory automation, motor controls, power supplies, optical mice, printers, and optical disk drives. The company offers its products to wireless communications, wired infrastructure, industrial and automotive electronics, and consumer and computing peripherals markets. Avago Technologies Limited sells its products through a network of distributors and direct sales force.

Trek Equipment was started in 1996. Founder and CEO Mike Creazzi owns the company. Stardate 4729.4 -- Chief engineer Montgomery Scott informs me that the Enterprise needs to return to the 21st century to procure some rare test equipment. We've set a course for the San Francisco Bay area, where Starfleet makes its headquarters, and a computer review of historical records shows we can obtain such valuable instruments at...Trek Equipment distributes test and measurement equipment, such as amplifiers, attenuators, couplers, generators, oscilloscopes, and sensors. The company sells instruments made by a deep roster of suppliers, such as Agilent, Keithley, Rohde & Schwarz, and Tektronix.

Sypris Solutions, Inc. provides outsourced services and specialty products in North America. It offers manufacturing, engineering, design, testing, and other technical services under multi-year contracts with corporations and government agencies in the markets for aerospace and defense electronics, truck components and assemblies, and for users of test and measurement equipment. The company provides industrial manufacturing services, such as automated forging, extruding, machining, induction hardening, heat-treating, testing, production tooling and prototype products, and other value-added services; and electronic manufacturing services, such as prototype assembly, turnkey manufacturing, system assembly, testing, and final system configuration. It also provides calibration, repair, and certification of the test and measurement equipment that is used to maintain wireless communication equipment, control tower radar and direction beacons, NEXRAD Doppler advanced warning weather service radar systems, digital oscilloscopes, microwave equipment, and fiber optic measuring equipment, as well as testing services, including radio frequency, microwave and mixed signal component testing, environmental testing, dynamics testing, and failure analysis. The company's products include axle shafts, drive train components, differential cases, gear sets, float tubes, and steer axle components for light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks; axle beams for trailers; circuit cards for color display systems in military aircrafts; encryption devices, communications equipment, and recording systems; and circuit cards for use in missile guidance system and integrated air defense network. In addition, it provides digital and analog data systems, analog data systems; magnetic meters and sensors for commercial and laboratory environments; and high-pressure closures and joints in pipeline and chemical systems. The company was founded in 1954 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

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