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Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A) ("Agilent" for short) is a measurement and instrument company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The spin-off created an $8 billion company with about 47,000 employees, manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, optical networking devices, and electronic test equipment for telecom and wireless R&D and production.

Delta Design, a Cohu company (NASDAQ: COHU) in San Diego, California, is a recognized leader in the design, development, manufacture and sale of semiconductor test handling equipment. We provide process automation solutions to the back end, are the world's largest supplier of IC test handlers for logic devices, and are a major supplier of memory handlers. Delta Design's engineering and manufacturing plant is located in San Diego, CA with sales and service locations throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Our rapid growth over the past decade has made us the largest manufacturer of semiconductor test-handling equipment. Our equipment is used by IC manufacturers around the world, with a significant installation base in the Asia Pacific region.

Edison International (NYSE: EIX) is a public utility holding company based in Rosemead, California. Its subsidiaries include Southern California Edison, and un-regulated non-utility assets Edison Mission Energy, a power producer, and Edison Capital. Edison's roots trace back to Holt & Knupps, a company founded in 1886 as a provider of street lights in Visalia, California.

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), founded in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, provides consulting services and enterprise decision management systems. They developed the FICO scores, a measure of credit risk, that are the most used credit scores in the world. FICO scores are available through all of the major consumer reporting agencies in the United States and Canada: Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and PRBC[1]. (FICO is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation).

General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, an American multinational corporation, is the world's largest auto company by production volume for the first 9 months of 2007, and by sales volume since 1931. [4] However, it ranks second behind Toyota in net worth, revenue and profit.

Hauppauge Computer Works, or just Hauppauge (pronounced /hɔphɔg/) for short, is a United States manufacturer and marketer of electronic video hardware for personal computers. Although it is most widely known for its WinTV line of TV tuner cards for PCs, Hauppauge also produces personal video recorders, digital video editors, digital media players, hybrid video recorders and digital television products for both PC and Apple Macintosh. The company is named after the hamlet of Hauppauge, New York, in which it is based. On the Internet web or groups it is often misspelled as Happage, Happauge, Hauppage.

The Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) (formerly known as Amerada Hess Corporation prior to May 8, 2006) is an integrated oil company based in New York City. The company explores, produces, transports, and refines oil. Vertically completing the logistical chain, over 1,200 filling stations market gas to consumers primarily on the East Coast of the United States. Although towered over in size by enormous global players in the same industry, Hess placed a formidable #75 in the 2007 Fortune 500 rankings.

Honda Motor Company, Limited/Honda Technology Research Institute Company (TYO: 7267, NYSE: HMC), or simply called Honda, is a Japanese multinational corporation, engine manufacturer and engineering corporation. Honda also produces a long list of other products: trucks, scooters, robots, jets and jet engines, ATV, water craft, electrical generators, marine engines, lawn and garden equipment, and aeronautical and other mobile technologies.

Infineon Technologies AG (ISIN: DE0006231004, FWB: IFX, NYSE: IFX) was founded in April 1999 when the semiconductor operations of parent company, Siemens AG, were spun off to form a separate legal entity. As of September 30, 2007 Infineon has about 43,000 employees worldwide, 6000 of them involved in research and development. In the 2007 financial year, the company achieved sales of 11.66 billion US Dollar. In 2007 a 14.6% rise in projected calender year revenues saw Infineon taking 10th place in iSuppli's global semiconductor sales ranking, thus gaining five places from 2006.