Joseph Martin

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. designs, develops and markets analog discrete, logic, and non-volatile memory semiconductors. The company was founded by Gordon E. Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert N. Noyce, Victor H. Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean A. Hoerni and Jay T. Last on October 1, 1957 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Collectors Universe, Inc. engages in the provision of authentication and grading services for collectibles. It serves dealers and collectors of coins, trading cards, event tickets, autographs, and historical and sports memorabilia. The firm operates through the following segments: Coins, Trading Cards and Autographs, and Other Collectibles. The Other Collectibles segment comprises of certified coin exchange (CCE), coinflation.com, collectors.com, and expos and product sales. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

ChipPAC, Inc. principal activity is to provide semiconductor packaging, testing and distribution test services. It offers a portfolio of leaded and laminate packages for integrated circuits. It supplies packaging solutions to the semiconductor companies. It provides all packaging, test and distribution services from its facilities in Ichon and Chungju, South Korea, Shanghai, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Atmel, IBM, Intel, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments are the major customers of the Group

VTC, Inc. was a supplier of semiconductor components to computer hard disk drive manufacturers. The company was acquired by Lucent Technologies. The company was located in Bloomington, MN.