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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.

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.

Supertex designs, develops, manufactures and markets integrated circuits utilizing high-voltage diffusion metal oxide semiconductor, high-voltage complementary metal oxide semiconductor and high-voltage bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor. The company supplies standard and custom interface products to use in medical electronics, imaging, light-emitting diode lighting and telecommunications markets. Supertex also provides custom processing services for the manufacture of integrated circuits using customer-owned designs and mask toolings. The company generates most of its product revenues from its product groups, Medical Electronics Group, Imaging Group and the Telecommunications and Broadband Group, which includes the light-emitting diode circuits for lighting. Supertex markets its products in the United States, Europe and Asia to electronic original equipment manufacturers. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.