Kirk W. Johnson

AG Associates, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and supports advanced single-wafer rapid thermal processing (RTP) equipment used in manufacturing integrated circuits. The company's products, marketed under the Heatpulse(R) and Starfire(TM) names, utilize high-intensity light to precisely heat a single silicon wafer, causing a chemical process needed to produce an integrated circuit. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Integrated Materials, Inc. was manufactured poly silicon furnaceware products. The company was founded by Raanan Y. Zehavi in 1998 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Applied Materials, Inc., Torrex Equipment Corp is a company that manufactures multi-wafer processing systems. The company is based in Livermore, CA. Torrex Equipment was acquired by Applied Materials, Inc. on June 14, 2004.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. engages in designing, development, manufacturing, and marketing of a broad range of high-performance solutions for embedded systems, from automotive, industrial and networking platforms to highly interactive consumer devices. Its programmable systems-on-chip, general-purpose microcontrollers, analog ICs, wireless and USB-C based connectivity solutions and memories help engineers design differentiated products. The firm operates through the following segments: The Microcontroller and Connectivity Division (MCD), and the Memory Products Division (MPD). The company was founded by Thurman John Rodgers in December 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

QBotix, Inc. manufactures robot-enabled dual-axis solar tracking systems. The company is an optimized solar PV tracker company that delivers innovative robotic and tracking solutions in the commercial and utility-scale solar sectors. Its products include solbot is a mobile robot that automatically travels to trackers to make adjustments; manages PV array; and provides real-time information to optimize solar arrays. In addition, it offers trackers; and tracks that provide the travel path for the robot and robotic tracking system is an optimized, dual-axis tracking system that maximizes energy production. QBotix was founded by Wasiq Bokhari and Thomas Currier in August 2010 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

SCIFINITI, Inc. is a crystalline silicon technology company focused on delivering customers in solar, semiconductor and related industries, wafers at one-half of the cost of conventional wafer manufacturing. The company was founded by Raanan Y. Zehavi in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Atonarp, Inc. provides chemical analysis solutions and systems. The firm develops the Smart Spectrometer technology that focus on industrial gas process analytics applications in the energy, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and semiconductor industries. The company was founded by Tomoyoshi Sato and Prakash S. Murthy in November 2009 and is headquartered in Minato-Ku, Japan.