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Axcelis Technologies, headquartered in Beverly, Mass., provides innovative, high-productivity solutions for the semiconductor industry. The company is dedicated to developing enabling process applications through the design, manufacture and complete life cycle support of ion implantation, rapid thermal processing, and cleaning and curing systems. Axcelis Technologies has key product development centers in Beverly, Mass., as well as in Toyo, Japan through its joint venture, SEN.

Analog Devices is a world-leading semiconductor company specializing in high performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits. The company was founded in 1965. Its products play a fundamental role in converting real-world phenomena such as temperature, motion, pressure, light and sound into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of applications ranging from industrial process control, factory automation, radar systems and CAT scanners to cellular base stations and telephones, broadband networking, computers, cars and digital cameras. The company s unique value to its customers is its ability to overcome the seemingly insurmountable barriers of speed, accuracy and cost, to solve intricate engineering challenges and to create ICs that enable portability, connectivity, and multimedia. Analog designs, manufactures and markets the high-performance, high-precision signal processing ICs that make pictures vibrant, voices clear, connections continuous and products portable. Jerald G. Fishman has been the chief executive officer of Analog Devices from more than 10 years. He has been with the semiconductor manufacturer for over 35 years. Fishman earned a BSEE from CUNY City, and a MBA from Boston University. The company is headquartered in Norwood, Mass.

M/A-COM is a subsidiary of Tyco Electronics Corporation, which specializes in the manufacture of passive electronic components. The company has expertise in wireless technologies, fiber-optic active components and complete power systems. M/A-COM is a developer and high-volume manufacturer of radio frequency, microwave and millimeter wave semiconductors, components and Internet protocol network technologies that serve as critical components for wireless telecommunications solutions. The company develops, manufactures and supplies advanced two-way land mobile radio products, networks and services to public safety, utility, industrial, business and government markets. M/A-COM also develops IP-based networks for private radio applications. The company is the supplier of various brands, such as EDACS, OpenSky and ProVoice. It also has network installations in facilities, states, counties and municipalities throughout the United States and in various locations throughout the world. M/A-COM has hundreds of patents and serves the wireless telecommunications, automotive, aerospace and defense industries. M/A-COM maintains a location in Lowell, Mass.