Mark A. Downing

Micrel, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets analog power integrated circuits (ICs), mixed-signal ICs and digital ICs. It also manufactures custom analog and mixed-signal circuits and provides wafer foundry services for customers that produce electronic systems for communications, consumer and military applications. The company operates through one segment: Semiconductor Products. It also offers radio frequency data communication products. Micrel was founded by Raymond D. Zinn in July 1978 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Enpirion, Inc. operates as an analog semiconductor company, which offers integrated power management solutions. It develops power systems-on-a-chip DC-DC converters featuring integrated inductors, that enables the combination of efficiency, footprint and low-noise performance. The company was founded by Robert Filas, Trifon Liakopolous, Ashraf Lotfi, Troutman William and Jain Tan in 2001 and is headquartered in Hampton, NJ.

Pericom Semiconductor Corp. designs, manufactures and develops semiconductor interface integrated circuits. It specializes in integrated connectivity, advanced timing, and signal integrity solutions for the computing, communications, and consumer market segments. Pericom technology offers system design solutions to the challenges presented by high-bandwidth, high-speed serial protocols. The company designs and sells semiconductor chips that connect components inside products such as high-definition TVs, smart phones, notebooks, servers, networking and telecom products, and many other applications within the consumer, computing and communication markets. Its ICs, crystals and crystal oscillators are designed to connect, time and condition high speed serial signals like PCI Express, HDMI/DVI, DisplayPort, SATA/SAS, USB, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Pericom's product line includes SiliconConnect, SiliconSwitch, SiliconInterface and SiliconClock. The company was founded by Chi-Ming Hui and John Chi-Hung Hui in June 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of ON Semiconductor Corp., Power Management Business is an American company that manufactures offline power switchers, low power battery management, video filters, and bus terminators. Power Management Business was acquired by Fairchild Semiconductor International LLC, a SUB of ON Semiconductor Corp. from Micro Linear Corp. on September 11, 2000 for $10 million.

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.

Intersil Corp. designs and manufactures analog semiconductors. The company offers a portfolio of application specific standard products and general purpose proprietary products for the industrial, computing, consumer, and communications markets. The company was founded in August 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Central Texas Food Bank, Inc. provides food and grocery products. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.