Ramtron International Corporation company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ramtron International Corporation engages in the design, development, and marketing of specialized semiconductor memory, microcontrollers, and integrated semiconductor solutions. It primarily offers integrated products and microcontroller devices. The company’s ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) product line includes interfaces and densities, such as industry-standard serial and parallel interfaces; industry standard package types; and 4-kilobit, 16-kilobit, 64-kilobit, 256-kilobit, 1-megabit, 2-megabit, and 4-megabit densities. Its serial F-RAM devices allow more frequent data transfers over the serial bus to the processor; parallel F-RAM products are drop-in replacements for battery-backed SRAM products; and integrated F-RAM products, also known as processor companions, are single-chip solutions that replace a number of individual system components to reduce cost and board space. The company serves various customers for a range of applications, including metering, computing and information systems, automotive, communications, consumer and industrial, scientific, and medical markets. Ramtron International sells its products through direct sales force, manufacturer’s representatives, and distributors in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Taiwan, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Czech Republic, Finland, Singapore, Slovenia, Mexico, Korea, Thailand, and rest of the world.

The Honeywell International unit develops and manufactures chemicals and specialty materials used in the production of semiconductors and flat-panel displays. Its offerings include dielectric and metal thin films, interconnect and optoelectronic materials, and processing chemicals (such as etchants, acids, and solvents) used at various points in the chip manufacturing cycle. HEM is part of Honeywell's Specialty Materials segment, one of the industrial conglomerate's smaller operating groups.

ALSTOM is India-based company is counted on to win business in developing markets. APIL's power operations, its largest segment, manufactures power generation equipment and constructs plants and add-ons, such as combined cycle, conventional steam, and hydro power plants, and nuclear conventional islands. A slate of services is also supplied by APIL power, from repair to on-site field tasks. APIL's transport segment produces and installs rail vehicles, along with network infrastructure.

ZiLOG, Inc. (ZiLOG) is a fabless semiconductor supplier of microprocessor and microcontroller semiconductor products. A microcontroller includes a central processing unit, non-volatile program memory, random access memory for data storage and various peripheral capabilities. The microcontroller is offered as a complete solution because it incorporates application-specific software provided by the customer and may include specialized peripheral device controllers and internal or external non-volatile memory components to enable the storage and access of additional program software. The Company designs, develops, tests and markets a portfolio of devices for a variety of applications used in consumer electronics, home appliances, security systems, point-of-sale terminals, personal computer peripherals, personal health and medical products. In February 2010, IXYS Corporation acquired the Company.

Elec & Eltek International makes double-sided and multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs), LCDs, and magnetic component modules. The company also offers services, including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, and supply chain management, to customers in China. Clients come from the computers and peripherals, communications and networking, consumer electronics, and automotive industries. E&E, with manufacturing facilities in China, Hong Kong, and Thailand, was purchased in 2005 by fellow PCB manufacturer Kingboard Chemical Holdings, which plans to take the company private for more than $63 million in 2009.

AuthenTec, Inc. company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida. AuthenTec, Inc. is a mixed-signal semiconductor company providing fingerprint authentication sensors and solutions to the high-volume personal computer (PC), wireless device, access control and other markets. The Company offers a range of fingerprint sensors that enable users to access and control multiple functions on an electronic device by touching or sliding their finger across the sensor. Its fingerprint sensors utilize information in fingerprints to verify both the identity of the individual, as well as the individual fingers on the same person. Its solutions capture an image of the fingerprint, extract information from it and save it as a template, a mathematical representation of the fingerprint image. Subsequently, the information is compared to that from a future template to determine if it is the same finger.

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.

Dakota Supply Group (DSG) distributes electrical, communications, and mechanical equipment to customers through more than a dozen branch locations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The company stocks approximately 25,000 products. DSG carries products from 3Com, 3M, A. O. Smith, Buckingham Manufacturing, Corning, Emerson Electric, Ferraz Shawmut, General Electric, Honeywell, Hubbell, Moen, Schneider Electric, and Zurn Industries, among other manufacturers.

VIA found viable businesses both inside and outside the PC. VIA Technologies took on Intel for market leadership in PC chipsets -- clusters of components that connect a computer's microprocessor to its other parts. VIA's chipsets work with microprocessors made by both Intel and AMD, and can be configured to work with various types of memory chips. Meanwhile, VIA's graphics chip venture took it into the market for core logic chipsets used in graphics applications. The fabless semiconductor company also entered the networking chip niche with its introduction of Ethernet controllers and other devices, and it continues to develop low-budget microprocessors for use in inexpensive PCs.

AmberWave Systems Corporation engages in the research, development, and licensing of technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. It provides Strained Silicon, a technology that is used in microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption; and Aspect Ratio Trapping, a technology, which is used to make chips for silicon-based photonics and photovoltaic cells. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire. AmberWave Systems Corporation is a former subsidiary of U.S. Robotics Corp.

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