Sony Electronics (SEL) is the U.S. sales and marketing arm of Sony’s global electronics business. It is a leading provider of audio/video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Operations include research and development, design, engineering, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service. Sony has played a key role in the development of Blu-ray Disc™, CD, DVD and Super Audio CD technologies, among many others. The Company produces and sells a wide range of consumer products and is an innovator in high-definition professional broadcast and video equipment. Sony also offers a full line of business-to-business products for medical, security, visual imaging and photofinishing applications.

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Sorin CRM SAS designs and manufactures implantable pacemakers and defibrillators. It offers ICDs, leads, holter equipment, and electrophysiology catheters. The company was founded on July 25, 1977 and is headquartered in Clamart, France.

ASML Netherlands BV, a subsidiary of ASML Holding NV, is a company headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. The firm manufactures and supplies chip-making equipment.\nThe company says this about itself: ASML is one of the world's leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment. Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry. ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment. ASML is a multinational company with offices in 60 cities in 16 countries, headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. We employ more than 19,000 people on payroll and flexible contracts (expressed in full time equivalents). ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ under the symbol ASML.

GM Global Technology Operations LLC, part of General Motors Co., is an American company specializing in engineering services.

ADTRAN, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and services network access solutions that enable voice, data, video, and Internet communications across wireline and wireless networks worldwide. The company's Carrier Networks division provides fiber and copper-based solutions for carrier service providers to deliver voice, data, and video services from their equipment to customer's premises. Its products enable various services, such as voice services, VoIP, IP television, RF video, high speed Internet access, and data services based upon Ethernet, frame relay, TDM, and ATM networks, connecting the network with user components, such as switches, routers, gateways, IADs, PBX, and telephone key systems. This division serves incumbent local exchange carriers, independent operating companies, competitive local exchange carriers, utilities, municipalities, cable MSOs, international carriers, and wireless service providers. ADTRAN's Enterprise Networks division specializes in Internetworking solutions to construct voice, data, and video networks over wide and local area networks. These solutions are installed in equipment rooms and wiring closets to connect headquarters, branch offices, and telecommuters to corporate voice and data infrastructure. It also offers multi-service routers, managed layer 2/3 switches, IP business gateways, FTTx ONTs, wireless access points, IP PBXs, IP phones, and unified communications solutions. This division serves retail, food service, healthcare, finance, government, education, manufacturing, military, transportation, hospitality, energy, and utility markets. In addition, the company provides digital data service and integrated services digital network, digital network products, high bit-rate digital subscriber line products, time division multiplexed-symmetrical HDSL products, channel service units/data service units, and fixed wireless products. ADTRAN, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.

Bayerische Motoren Werke manufactures and sells luxury cars and motorcycles worldwide. It produces everything from convertible sports cars to luxury sedans to touring motorcycles with large displacement engines. The special fascination of the BMW Group not only lies in its products and technology, but also in the company’s history, written by inventors, pioneers and brilliant designers. Today, the BMW Group, with its 31 production and assembly facilities in 15 countries as well as a global sales network, is the world’s leading manufacturer of premium automobiles and motorcycles, and provider of premium financial and mobility services. The BMW Group sets trends in production technology and sustainability as an innovation leader with an intelligent material mix, a technological shift towards digitalisation and resource-efficient production. At the same time, flexibility and continuous optimisation of value chains ensure competitiveness. With Efficient Dynamics, the BMW Group consistently implements the principle of sustainable mobility and is steadily reducing its vehicles’ fuel consumption and emissions. At the same time, flexibility and continuous optimisation of value chains ensure competitiveness.

Part of Telecom Italia SpA, Telecom Italia Lab SpA is an Italian company located in Turin. The firm operates in research and development for the information, communication and technology sectorr.

Thales is a global technology leader in the Aerospace, Transportation and Defence & Security markets. In 2013, the company generated revenues of EUR14.2 billion with 65,000 employees in 56 countries. With its 25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers and local partners.

Adobe, Inc. engages in the provision of digital marketing and media solutions. It operates through the following segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising. The Digital Media segment offers creative cloud services, which allow members to download and install the latest versions of products, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe InDesign, as well as utilize other tools, such as Adobe Acrobat. The Digital Experience segment provides solutions, including analytics, social marketing, targeting, media optimization, digital experience management, and cross-channel campaign management, as well as premium video delivery and monetization. The Publishing and Advertising segment includes legacy products and services for eLearning solutions, technical document publishing, web application development, and high-end printing. The company was founded by Charles M. Geschke and John E. Warnock in December 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sony Group Corp. engages in the development, design, manufacture, and sale of electronic equipment, instruments, devices, game consoles, and software for consumers, professionals and industrial markets. It operates through the following segments: Game and Network Services, Music, Pictures, Home Entertainment and Sound, Imaging Products and Solutions, Mobile Communications, Semiconductors, Financial Services, and Others. The Game and Network Services segment deals with gaming machines, software and network services. The Music segment produces and publishes music and provides image media platforms. The Pictures segment handles film production, television program creation, and media networks. The Home Entertainment and Sound segment offers LCD televisions, home audio, Blu-ray Disc players and recorders, and memory-based portable audio devices. The Imaging Products and Solutions segment provides digital imaging products, professional solutions, and medical goods. The Mobile Communications segment deals with mobile phones and Internet services business. The Semiconductors segment provides image sensors and camera modules. The Financial Services segment manages the life insurance and non-life insurance operations and banking business. The Others segment includes personal computer (PC) business, overseas Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD manufacturing, and battery business. The company was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka on May 7, 1946 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Solarflare Communications, Inc. develops server networking solutions. Its products include app acceleration, server security, network capture and network adapters. The firm offers electronic trading, database caching, networked storage, server security, software load balancers and web server solutions. The company was founded by Derek Roberts, Ben Charny, David Riddoch, Ahmet Tuncay, George A. Zimmerman and Pope Steve in 2001 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Xilinx engages in the design, development, and marketing of programmable logic solutions. Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, programmable SoCs, and now, the ACAP. Their highly-flexible programmable silicon, enabled by a suite of advanced software and tools, drives rapid innovation across a wide span of industries and technologies - from consumer to cars to the cloud. Xilinx delivers dynamic processing technology in the industry, enabling rapid innovation with its adaptable, intelligent computing.

Gracenote, Inc. provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide. Gracenote's music recognition technologies compare digital music files to a worldwide database of music information, enabling digital audio devices to identify songs. The company licenses its technologies to developers of consumer electronics devices and online media players, who integrate the technologies into media players, home and car stereos, and digital music devices. The company operates five businesses: Music, Video, Sports, Automotive and Video Personalization. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, the company employs approximately 1,700 people in 20 offices around the world. Gracenote is now a Nielsen company.

As of April 2006, Level 5 Networks, Inc. was acquired by Solarflare Communications. Level 5 Networks, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor and software company. The company focuses on providing ethernet network interface cards. It offers EtherFabric network interface card hardware, which accelerates application performance, and liberates server compute power for optimizing the existing information technology infrastructure. The company also provides EtherFabric applications that communicate directly with the EtherFabric network interface card using the EtherFabric protocol libraries through the sockets, or MPI interfaces. Level 5 Networks, Inc. was formerly known as Cambridge Internetworking Limited. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It has an additional office in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Baidu USA LLC, a subsidiary of Baidu, Inc., is an American company located in Sunnyvale, CA, that provides chinese language internet search services.