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Aavid Thermal Technologies
Provider of thermal management solutions for dissipating potentially damaging heat from digital and industrial electronics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, which permits computer modeling and flow analysis of products and processes that would otherwise require time-consuming and expensive physical models and the facilities to test them.
Airgo Networks, Inc.
(Acq. by Qualcom)
Airgo Networks, Inc. is a developer of innovative wireless technology and products that vastly improve the quality and convenience of the wireless experience. Airgo offers chipsets, product designs, and software that enable mainstream adoption and new applications by greatly increasing the range, speed, reliability, security, and ease-of-use of WLAN systems.
Artimi Ltd.
Artimi Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company developing silicon solutions for high bandwidth wireless connectivity based on UWB technologies. Artimi will offer customers high data rate, low power consumption, complete system solutions at the lowest possible cost. In addition, Artimi UWB solutions will materially extend range, performance, and Quality of Service, and provide customers with extra functionality such as mesh networking, making Artimi the ideal choice for next generation Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) applications.
Celestica, Inc.
Delivers innovative electronics manufacturing services (EMS). Celestica provides competitive advantage to its customers by improving time-to-market, scalability and manufacturing efficiency.
CommQuest Technologies, Inc.
Develops and supplies innovative solutions for sophisticated satellite and terrestrial based wireless communications systems.
Compaq
(Acq. by HP)
A global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to all.
CoreTek, Inc.
(Acq. by Nortel Networks)
Supplies its service provider and enterprise customers with communications technology and infrastructure to enable value-added IP data, voice and multimedia services spanning Wireless Networks, Wireline Networks, Enterprise Networks, and Optical Networks.
CoVi Technologies, Inc.
CoVi Technologies designs, develops, manufactures and sells end-to-end solutions that dramatically improve the quality, manageability, accessibility and scalability of video surveillance. CoVi's products include HDTV quality fixed and PTZ cameras with distributed video processing and storage, network-video servers/recorders, management/monitoring applications, and API's for running third-party security applications such as facial recognition, advanced motion detection and object tracking.
Cyrano Sciences, Inc.
Provider of chemical sensors and software solutions for the defense, homeland security, industrial, medical and commercial markets. These solutions allow customers to protect and monitor their people, products, with "train of awareness" that combines detection, interpretation, and action.
Dallas Semiconductor
Design, develop, and manufacture linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). "Connect" the real world and digital world by detecting, measuring, amplifying, and converting real-world signals, such as temperature, pressure, or sound, into the digital signals necessary for computer processing.
Endwave Corporation
Endwave is a leading provider of high frequency RF modules (RF Subsystems 10 to 100 GHz). The Company designs, manufactures, and markets RF modules that enable the transmission, reception and processing of high-frequency signals in telecommunications networks, defense electronics and homeland security systems. These RF modules include high-frequency integrated transceivers, amplifiers, synthesizers, oscillators, up and down converters, frequency multipliers and microwave switch arrays. Endwave has 38 issued patents covering its core technologies including semiconductor and proprietary circuit designs.
Genoa
(Acq. by Finisar Corporation)
An optical semiconductor company that has made breakthroughs in the design and manufacture of single-chip linear optical amplifiers.
Kenet Inc.
Kenet is a fabless semiconductor company that is developing advanced technology with broad application to portable consumer and communication products. Their intellectual property has foundations in technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Their products offer leading edge performance along with substantial improvement in silicon area and power.
Level 5 Networks
(Acq. by Solarflare Communications)
Level 5 Networks is a fabless semiconductor and software company focused on high performance Ethernet connectivity. Based in Cambridge, England and Santa Clara, CA, Level 5 Networks has assembled a world class management and technical team to address the host connection to Ethernet networks with a unique new approach that delivers extraordinary improvements in performance and efficiency. Products from Level 5 Networks will transform the way the world uses Ethernet.
LumaSense Technologies, Inc.
LumaSense Technologies is a sensor company serving global markets in the Energy, Medical and Industrial sectors. Lumasense seeks to attain market leadership by acquiring and investing in companies with superior sensing solutions. By focusing on specific vertical markets, Lumasense aims to capitalize on sales and marketing synergies to accelerate growth within each market and increase market share by providing access to channels in new market segments.
Mojix, Inc.
MOJIX is presently engaged in developing the next generation of advanced signal processing products for wireless applications. MOJIX is founded by a group of seasoned scientists and engineers with extensive experience in wireless communication. Founded in 2003, Mojix is located in Los Angeles, California.
NemeriX SA
NemeriX is a fabless semiconductor company developing ultra low power RF and baseband solutions for GPS (Global Positioning System) and wireless markets. While their solutions address a broad range of markets and applications, their primary focus is on those markets requiring high energy efficiency - typically battery powered wireless and handheld applications; and within these markets their solutions are unrivalled in energy efficiency. Combining innovative silicon architectures, custom layout techniques, and more efficient software algorithms, NemeriX has developed the world's smallest, lowest power GPS chipsets that enabled the inclusion of GPS functionality in a plethora of battery-powered, mass market, consumer devices where battery life and size are important design considerations. Their innovation in the areas of silicon design (analog/RF and digital), hardware and software partitioning, and advanced packaging have also lowered the overall systems cost and system size for their customers. The company is headquartered in Manno, Switzerland, and has a global distribution and support network.
Newport Media, Inc.
Newport Media, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company developing system solutions for audio and video broadcast to power constrained mobile terminals. The company's initial product is a system solution for the emerging DVB-H standard aiming to provide digital TV reception in mobile devices. Future solutions will also address other mobile audio and video standards such as ISDB-T, T-DMB and DAB. Founded in 2005, Newport Media Inc. is headquartered in Lake Forest, California.
nLight Photonics Corporation
Develops high performance semiconductor lasers that will provide enabling technology in a wide range of industries. Produce both InP and GaAs semiconductor laser diodes in a wide range of packaging options.
Plastic Logic Limited
Plastic Logic is a developer of plastic electronics technology. The company is developing new manufacturing processes that combine the power of electronics with the pervasiveness of printing, allowing new applications by printing electronics on thin and flexible plastic substrates using a process scalable for large areas, at high volumes and at low costs, thus enabling new product concepts in a wide range of markets including displays and sensors. Their initial target markets include active matrix backplanes for flat panel displays and smart electronic labels to replace barcodes and supermarket price tags. The company was spun out of Cambridge University, following years of R&D into the issues surrounding manufacturing of high resolution transistor arrays on flexible plastic substrates. Founded in 2000, Plastic Logic Limited is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Pulsewave RF, Inc.
Pulsewave RF, Inc. (formerly known as PropheSi Technologies) is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed the industry's first digital high-efficiency RF power amplifier module for wireless infrastructure. This technology would enable wireless OEMs to offer RF amplifiers with significantly reduced cost, higher power efficiencies, smaller footprints, and significantly lower ongoing op-ex requirements. By moving the RF transmitter into the digital domain, Pulsewave's proprietary Class M Power Module produces a Multi Carrier Power Amplifier (MCPA) with a 50% reduction in cap-ex, a 60% reduction in size, and a 40-50% increase in power efficiency. The power module consists of a modulator (which itself combines the functions of an up converter, a linearizer, and a digitizer), driver, and switch mode power amplifier (PA).
Qpixel Technology International, Inc.
Qpixel Technology International, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and markets low power consumption, low latency, high quality H.264-based audio and video encoder/decoder solutions for the digital consumer electronics and digital video communication industries. Qpixel Technology's patent-pending video compression algorithms enable a highly optimized implementation of H.264 technology for subjective video quality enhancement and computational complexity reduction. Qpixel Technology achieves significant high-quality and cost advantage and is well-positioned for such next-generation products as digital camcorders, digital still cameras, video phones, IPTV and DVRs.
Resonext Communications, Inc.
(Acq. by RFMD)
Provider of highly integrated two-chip CMOS solutions for 5GHz and dual band WLAN platforms. They provide OEMs, ODMs and enterprise and consumer WLAN system providers with decreased BOM costs, low power consumption, high performance and flexibility.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
Established in 2000, SMIC is China's most advanced pure-play foundry with 0.35, 0.25, 0.18 and 0.13 IC manufacturing capabilities. More than a chip foundry, SMIC provides a full range of services that range from design services and mask manufacturing to testing. The company has a strong network of design service, IP, Library and EDA partners.
Solarflare Communications, Inc.
Solarflare Communications is a developer of high-performance semiconductor solutions for system connectivity. The company is a fabless semiconductor company, whose communications architectures and algorithms seek to improve data rates, costs, and distances and enables existing networks to migrate to next generation speeds without replacing the physical infrastructure.
Stretch, Inc.
Founded in 2002, is a developer of a new processor technology that will help system designers quickly develop and deliver new generations of products for essentially any market.
Synaptics, Inc.
Develops advanced interface solutions for products as diverse as notebook and desktop computers, mobile computing and communications devices, automotive applications and security solutions.
Virata Corporation
Provider of integrated circuits, software and system designs for broadband applications that enable the high-speed transmission of data, voice and video over copper telephone lines.
Vitesse Semiconductor
Designer and supplier of communications integrated circuits (ICs) for manufacturers of core, access, enterprise, and metropolitan area network equipment, as well as storage area network equipment.