Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. company makes a variety of power management products -- including DC/DC converter modules, diodes, rectifiers, solenoids, and varistors -- used in automobiles, construction equipment, consumer electronics, industrial machinery, networking equipment, and terrestrial broadcasting systems. Shindengen sells primarily to OEM customers, including BMW, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM Japan, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nokia, NTT, Panasonic, SANYO Electric, Sony, Tokyo Electric Power, and Toshiba. Most of Shindengen's sales are made in Japan.

Vimicro International Corporation company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. Vimicro International Corporation (Vimicro) is a multimedia semiconductor and solution provider. The Company designs, develops and markets mixed-signal semiconductor products and system-level solutions that enable multimedia capabilities in a variety of products for the consumer electronics, communications and surveillance markets. It primarily designs, develops and markets mixed-signal multimedia processors for personal computer (PC) and embedded notebook cameras, as well as for mobile phones. The Company provides customers with comprehensive, system-level solutions that include highly integrated semiconductors, customizable firmware and software, software development tools, reference designs and applications support. It conducts most of its operations in China.

Beckman Coulter, Inc. provides biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies for clinical laboratories worldwide. The company manufactures chemistry systems, such as routine chemistry systems that use electrochemical detection, chemical reactions with patient samples to detect and quantify substances of diagnostic interest in blood, urine, and other body fluids; and point of care testing products comprising rapid diagnostic test kits and hematology instruments that give physicians information to manage patients. It also provides immunoassay systems performing tests that assess thyroid function, screen and monitor for cancer and cardiac risk, provide information in fertility and reproductive testing, and monitor factors associated with anemia, blood viruses, and infectious disease; and molecular diagnostics that includes testing for infectious diseases, genetic diseases, and disorders, human cancers, and pharmacogenics. Beckman Coulter offers cellular systems for clinicians, such as hematology systems to study formed elements in blood, such as red and white blood cells and platelets; coagulation systems offering information to diagnose bleeding and clotting disorders and to monitor anticoagulant therapy; and flow cytometry systems used in applications in basic research, clinical research, and drug discovery. The company's life science products and services comprise life sciences automation products, centrifugation, and life science tools. It sells its products through sales organizations and independent distributors to hospitals, physician's offices, reference laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, medical schools, and research institutions. The company was formerly known as Beckman Instruments, Inc. and changed its name to Beckman Coulter, Inc. in April 1998 as of result of acquisition of Coulter Corporation. Beckman Coulter was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Brea, California.

Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company wafer fabricator, or contract manufacturer, produces CMOS-based semiconductors with line widths down to 140 nanometers. It operates as a joint venture owned by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and NXP, 39% and 61% stakeholders, respectively. SSMC is positioned to exclusively offer manufacturing flexibility, fast turnaround, at a low cost to NXP and TSMC, which run wafer fabrication plants (fabs), too. Founded in 1998 by Phillips, TSMC, and Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB), SSMC began churning out product in 2000. Phillips subsequently spun off NXP, with the SSMC stake. NXP and TSMC joined to buy the EDB's stake.

Tokyo Electron America (TEA) is the North American sales and field engineering arm of Tokyo Electron (TEL), the world's second largest supplier of semiconductor production equipment (behind Applied Materials). TEA sells and services the equipment made by its parent company, which also includes machines for probing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), semiconductor production equipment, electronic components, wafers, and flat-panel display fabrication equipment. TEL/TEA is also delving into the new market of nanotechnology equipment. Tokyo Electron's sales to customers in the US account for about 12% of its total global business.

Foxconn International Holdings (FIH)-- a subsidiary of the world's largest and fastest growing multinational company in the fields of manufacturing services providers (including CEM, EMS, ODM and CMMS players) for Computer, Communication and Consumer electronics industries, Hon Hai Precision -- is the global leader in the handset and wireless communications manufacturing and service. From joint design and development to after-sales services, our highly integrated array of capabilities is designed to provide our customers with high speed, high volume, high quality, high flexibility and low cost solutions.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Silicon Laboratories Inc. engages in the design and development of analog-intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). It offers broadcast products, which include broadcast radio receivers and transmitters, video tuners and demodulators, satellite set-top box receivers, and satellite radio tuners; access products that comprise ISOmodem embedded modems, voice over IP products, and power over ethernet devices; broad-based products, including 8-bit microcontroller products, timing products, short-range wireless transceivers, isolators, current sensors and QuickSense portfolio of touch, and proximity and ambient light sensing devices; and mature products comprising silicon DAA for PC modems, DSL analog front end ICs, optical physical layer transceivers, and RF synthesizers. Silicon Laboratories company's products are used in a range of applications, including portable devices, satellite set top boxes, AM/FM radios and other consumer electronics, networking equipment, test and measurement equipment, industrial monitoring and control, central office telephone equipment, and customer premises equipment. Silicon Laboratories markets its products directly, as well as through a network of independent sales representatives, and distributors in the United States, Taiwan, China, South Korea, and the rest of world.

SAES Getters products have been to Jupiter (on the Galileo spacecraft) and Saturn (on the Cassini probes). The company operates two divisions: components (which makes getters, mechanisms used in display devices, light sources, and electronic devices and flat panels) and equipment (purifiers, analyzers, and analytical services mainly for companies in the semiconductor industry). The components division also makes metal dispensers used in fluorescent lamps, night vision devices, and plasma displays. SAES Getters is controlled by Italian holding company S.G.G. Holding, which in turn counts the della Porta, Canale, and Baldi families as stakeholders.

Waters Corporation operates as an analytical instrument manufacturer primarily in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. The company designs, manufactures, sells, and services high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC), and mass spectrometry (MS) instrument systems and support products, including chromatography columns, other consumable products, and post-warranty service plans. It also designs, manufactures, sells, and services thermal analysis, rheometry, and calorimetry instruments, which are used in predicting the suitability of polymers and viscous liquids for various industrial, consumer goods, and health care products. In addition, the company develops and supplies software based products that interface with the company's instruments, as well as other manufacturers instruments. Further, its LC and MS are used in a range of industries to detect, identify, monitor, and measure the chemical, physical, and biological composition of materials, as well as to purify various compounds, which are used in drug discovery and development, including clinical trial testing, the analysis of proteins in disease processes, food safety analysis, and environmental testing. The company offers its products to multi-national pharmaceutical companies, generic drug manufacturers, contract research organizations, biotechnology companies, chemical manufacturers, polymer manufacturers, food and beverage companies, environmental testing laboratories, universities, and government agencies. It has a collaborative research agreement with the University of Warwick, Coventry, and Warwickshire, England to support the growth, development, and adoption of novel mass spectrometry (MS) technologies. Waters Corporation was founded in 1958 and is based in Milford, Massachusetts.

Kopin Corporation produces lightweight, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) that are revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and communicate. Kopin has shipped more than 20 million displays for a variety of consumer and military applications including digital cameras, personal video eyewear, camcorders, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems. The company's unique HBTs, which help to enhance battery life, talk time and signal clarity, have been integrated into billions of wireless handsets as well as into WiFi, VoIP and high-speed Internet data transmission systems. Kopin's proprietary display and HBT technologies are protected by more than 200 global patents and patents pending.

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