Actelis Networks allows carriers to deploy fiber-quality transport services rapidly and inexpensively over existing local loop copper. Its patented spatial division multiplexing (SDM) technology optimizes transmission over multiple copper pairs while complying with telecom standards. As the industry leader, Actelis has deployed solutions in more than 30 countries, on six continents. Actelis is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.

Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) has developed a portfolio of proprietary wafer fabrication solutions designed to increase productivity and reduce manufacturing costs for semiconductor manufacturers. AMEC's etch systems combine unique technology solutions with economic innovations for the 65/45-nm nodes and beyond. AMEC's global infrastructure includes R&D, manufacturing, business and support operations in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.

Beceem Communications Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on WiMAX wireless chipset solutions. Beceem has been first to market with both WiMAX Wave 1 and Wave 2 chipsets, found at the core of computing devices, mobile devices, modules, routers, and gateways. Beceem is an active leader in developing industry standards, and co-chairs the WiMAX Forum Certification Group. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Beceem has additional facilities in Irvine, California, and Bangalore, India.

Greenfield Networks developed semiconductors to improve Ethernet packet processing for the metro Ethernet market. The Packetry™ family of Ethernet switching solutions provided the scalability to address a broad range of system architectures and applications. Based in Sunnyvale, California, with facilities in Bangalore, India, Greenfield Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems in December 2006.

iKoa Corporation, formerly Arithmosys, Inc., is developing a disruptive method for cost-effectively building low-power, high-performance silicon systems at 65nm and below. The technology is broadly applicable to multiple domains, including high-volume consumer markets (e.g., mobile devices for the communications, entertainment, and personal computers). iKoa's technology team has strong ties to research programs at Stanford University, University of Illinois and University of California, Berkeley. The company has operations in Menlo Park, California, and Hyderabad, India.

KargoCard has developed a retail pre-paid card switch/process network that has already integrated with the largest payment network in Asia which enables KargoCard to cover all key Asian countries. KargoCard also provides the distribution services for Asian retailers to expedite gift card deployment to consumers and the corporate markets.

Melodis Corporation's sound recognition and search technologies are "Breaking the Silence" in human-computer interaction. The technologies have been applied to music search, text search and speech recognition, with additional applications under development. Its online community, www.Midomi.com, is building the world's most comprehensive database of music—searchable by singing or humming in more ten different languages. Melodis is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops highly integrated solutions for emerging digital audio and mobile TV broadcast standards. Recognizing an opportunity when technologies in wireless handsets and digital set-top boxes converged, Newport developed broadcast multimedia architectures and IC implementations that offer unprecedented advantages in performance, power consumption, size and cost. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California, Newport has facilities in Egypt and Korea.

P-cube developed application and subscriber-aware IP service control solutions that allow service providers to classify applications, identify subscribers, improve service performance and charge for multiple IP services. Previously, IP networks could not differentiate between services such as voice-over-IP, Web browsing, music downloads, video streaming and P2P traffic. P-Cube was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel, and offices in the United Kingdom, China, and Argentina. P-Cube was acquired by Cisco Systems in August 2004.

SliceX is a high performance analog company. SliceX headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah, with additional facilities in San Jose, California.

Teranetics is a mixed-signal IC company developing silicon solutions that enable significantly higher data rates over structured copper cabling than currently available. The products enable data centers and enterprise networks to cost-effectively scale their networking bandwidth. Teranetics was the first company to ship a production-ready 10GBASE-T semiconductor designed for next-generation network appliances. Teranetics headquarters are in Santa Clara, California.

Velio Communications, Inc., developed semiconductor solutions for the scaling and evolution of telecom, storage, and enterprise networks. Velio's products included high-speed interconnect and switch fabric application specific standard products (ASSPs). Based in Palo Alto, California, Velio was acquired by LSI Logic, Corp. in 2004.

Verient develops technologies and products that enable financial institutions (FIs) and merchants to customize payment choices for their customers, thereby offering more convenient and more secure transactions for both Internet and in store purchases. This capability results in the capture of additional customer payments, thus increasing revenue, while at the same time reducing fraud losses. Verient is located in San Jose, California.