Flextronics International

Cypress solutions are used in various systems, including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Its product portfolio includes wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions, and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. The company has several subsidiaries, such as, Silicon Valley Technology Center, Silicon Light Machines and SunPower. Cypress has headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and manufacturing locations in San Jose, Round Rock, Texas; Bloomington, Minn; and the Philippines.

Established in 1983, Maxim Integrated Products designs, develops and manufactures linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The company s mission is to continuously invent analog engineering solutions that add value to its customers microprocessor-based electronics systems. Its products include memory and thermal management products, sensors, digital potentiometers, amplifiers and analog switches. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the trading symbol MXIM. Maxim Integrated Products is located in Sunnyvale, Calif., and it employs approximately 8,000 people.

Lam Research Corporation, founded in 1980, is one of the leading suppliers of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the world's semiconductor industry. The company provides various types of etch systems, including dielectric etch, conductor etch, resist strip and Synergy cleaning products. Its etch and chemical mechanical planarization products selectively remove portions of various films from the wafer to create semiconductors. The company also develops intellectual property for integrated processing solutions. Its Synergy standalone clean system is used to clean wafers both before and after a range of semiconductor processing steps. Lam Research Corporation is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., and maintains a network of facilities throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and Asia.