Sharp Electronics company is also a leading maker of electronic components and computer hardware and peripherals. Its flagship components business makes LCDs (used in everything from airplane cockpits to PCs to pinball machines), flash memory, integrated circuits, and laser diodes used in optical data drives. Sharp also makes PCs, printers, and cell phones; consumer audio and video products, such as Blu-ray disc players and LCD TVs; and a variety of appliances, such as air cleaning systems and steam ovens.

Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation engages in the development, production, and commercialization of polycrystalline silicon for semiconductor and photovoltaic applications. The company offers various product forms, including cut rods, chunks, and chips that have applications in cellular phones, PDAs, computers, MP3 players, video games, car electronics, home electronics, satellite and cable televisions, digital cameras, environmental control systems, and medical devices; solar-grade polycrystalline silicon for the manufacture of solar products; and semiconductor-grade chemicals for the needs of semiconductor fabrication. Its products are used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, and solar cells and modules. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Hemlock, Michigan with sales offices in Wiesbaden, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, the Republic of Korea. It has manufacturing facilities in Michigan; and Clarksville, Tennessee. Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Dow Corning Corporation.

Akustica lets your cell phone tell you it feels used. The fabless semiconductor company develops audio system-on-a-chip products used in sound capture and reproduction for automotive, cell phone, computer, imaging, and medical applications. Its Sensory Silicon chips -- based on MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology licensed from Carnegie Mellon University -- allow electronic devices to hear, speak, and sense through acoustic membranes and other sensor structures. The company touts its digital microphones as immune to radio-frequency and electromagnetic interference, an important consideration as wireless communications products proliferate. Bosch's North American unit acquired Akustica in 2009.

Teledyne Monitor Labs, Inc. company supplies continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) products used by industries worldwide. Its instrumentation, systems, and software detect, measure, and report air quality and pollution from industrial stack emissions. Monitor and software brands, including LightHawk, RegPerfect, and sensor-e, use source and ambient measurement processes to analyze such gases as SO2, NOX, CO, CO2, and O2. The company operates facilities in Colorado and Pennsylvania. In 2002 Teledyne Technologies acquired Monitor Labs from Spirent (now Spirent Communications). The company is part of Teledyne's largest business segment, Electronics and Communications.

Inphi Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Westlake Village, California. Inphi Corporation, a fabless electronic components company, designs and develops integrated circuits that deliver signal integrity for processing digital data in computing and communications systems. Its products include an ExacTik memory interface for memory clocking, server, workstation, and notebook applications; optical components, which include modulator drivers, amplifiers, TIA/LIA, TIA/AGC, encoders, and retimers; logic gates that are used in broadband instrumentation and automated test equipment; analog and mixed signals, such as track and hold, latched comparator, and linear differential amplifiers; and prescalers for microwave and millimeter-wave applications. The company also offers differential Mach-Zehnder modulator driver, which delivers differential output voltage and data rates required for 40G DQPSK and 100Goptical communications applications; DDR3 clock reference board that enables memory module and system designers to validate DDR3 RDIMMs and simulate system-level functionality; and a compatible memory buffer to create standards-based memory modules. It serves timing, instrumentation, optical, and microwave communication markets.

Orion Energy Systems, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of lighting and energy management systems, controls, and services. It offers compact modular, a line of high-performance HIF lighting systems, which operates at lower temperatures than HID fixtures and other legacy lighting fixtures in commercial and industrial facilities, as well as includes various fixture configurations and modular power pack. The company also provides intelite wireless control products, which allow customers to remotely communicate with and give commands to individual light fixtures and other peripheral devices through Web-based software; and Apollo solar light pipe, a lens-based device that collects and focuses renewable daylight bringing natural light indoors without consuming electricity. In addition, it offers various HIF fixtures for lighting and energy management needs, including fixtures for agribusinesses, parking lots, roadways, outdoor applications, and private label resale. Further, the company provides comprehensive site assessment, site field verification, utility incentive and government subsidy management, engineering design, project management, recycling in connection with its retrofit installations, and installation services. It sells its products directly to commercial and industrial customers; and indirectly to its customers through electrical contractors and distributors.

SL Industries was founded in 1956 and is based in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. SL Industries, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures and markets power electronics, motion control, power protection and specialized communication equipment that is used in a variety of medical, commercial and military aerospace, computer, datacom, industrial, telecom, transportation and electric power utility equipment applications. The Company’s products are largely sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the electric power utility industry, and to a lesser extent, to commercial distributors. The Company operates through four business segments: SL Power Electronics Corp. (SLPE), the High Power Group, SL Montevideo Technology, Inc. (SL-MTI) and RFL Electronics Inc. (RFL).

Wintegra, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor and software company that enables communications companies to build access networks. It engages in the design, development, and marketing of single-chip solutions. The company provides silicon and software solutions focused on the access infrastructure. It offers WinPath access packet processor solutions, which are used by various telecom and networking equipment manufacturers in a range of communications equipment that allows service providers to deploy the voice, video, data, and wireless services to their end customers. These include WIN777, an access packet processor that includes a MIPS 64-bit 5Kc core for control path operations and proprietary RISC engines for data path operations; WIN770, which rely on an external PowerPC for control plane operations; WIN737, a device for DSLAMs; and WIN787, which integrates dual Gigabit Ethernet MACs.Wintegra company also offers a reference board, known as Wintegra Development System, which has a PowerPC daughtercard for PPC-based control plane development. Wintegra targets access infrastructure equipment used in markets, such as wireless infrastructure, digital subscriber line, optical access, multiservice access, and voice over Internet protocol. The company markets and sells its access processor solutions to OEMs, ODMs, and subsystem manufacturers worldwide. It has partnerships with Altera Corporation; Corelis, Inc.; Green Hills Software, Inc.; SBS Technologies, Inc.; The Telecommunications Industry Association; Tundra Semiconductor Corporation; Abatron AG; Asidua, Ltd.; DSL Forum; Enea; Future Software Limited; Flextronics Software Systems; picoChip Designs Limited; Motorola, Inc.; MontaVista Software, Inc.; and Ikanos Communications, Inc.

Firan Technology Group (FTG) is all fired up about making high-reliability electronic components for critical applications in military and aerospace equipment. The company's FTG Circuits unit makes complex printed circuit boards from advanced materials; these components are used in applications such as avionics that call for high reliability. FTG Circuits also offers related manufacturing services. Meanwhile, the company makes luminescent cockpit display panels and keyboards through its FTG Aerospace division. In late 2007 the company bought the assets of Filtran Microcircuits from Merrimac Industries for about C$1.8 million.

Alps Electric makes a wide array of electronic components, including connectors, sensors, switches, magnetic heads, and potentiometers. The company also makes peripheral products (color LCDs, printers, remote controls); automotive electronics (keyless entry systems, steering switches); and communications components (optical modules, transceivers, tuners for satellite systems and televisions).

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