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Part of Intel Corp., Chips & Technologies, Inc. is a company that designs, develops, and markets very large-scale integrated circuit devices. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Gordon A. Campbell, Diosdado P. Banatao. Chips & Technologies was acquired by Intel Corp. on February 02, 1998 for $393.26 million.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Founded in 2008, Odeon Capital Group LLC is an independent full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides advice and execution on fundamental value and catalyst-driven situations through sales and trading, research, investment banking and asset management services. Odeon Capital Group provides services related to fixed-income securities including corporate securities, ABS, RMBS, Auction Rate securities and other structured products. The firm serves institutional clients. Odeon Capital Group is a member of FINRA, the SIPC and the MSRB. Odeon Capital Group has expertise in both traditional and esoteric assets. The firm has placed both large and small volume transactions in every asset class. They seek to maximize value for their clients through in-depth analyses of sectors, asset classes and individual securities that are hard to value or trade. The firm's Structured Products and Corporate Groups focus on institutional sales, trading and analytics of secondary structured products, esoteric assets and special situations.

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

Detwiler Fenton & Co., formerly Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boston. The firm traces its origins to 1962 with the founding of Fechtor, Detwiler & Co., which merged with JMC Group in August 1999. Detwiler Fenton & Co. is a subsidiary of Detwiler Fenton Group, Inc. (DMCD.PK). The firm's 2 major divisions are the capital markets group and the private client group. Detwiler Fenton Capital Markets provides insightful, timely and focused research across a variety of technology and consumer industry verticals. All of the firm's research is published by licensed analysts. Their research team seeks to generate value-added investment ideas through in-depth research, using a mosaic approach to identify, analyze and understand changing business and market dynamics that can be translated into investment strategy. The firm's research notes are distributed daily to clients. Detwiler Fenton Capital Markets provides investment and brokerage services to institutional investors. Detwiler Fenton & Co.'s private client group provides wealth management services to high net-worth individuals. Their services include: portfolio management, brokerage services, alternative investments, retirement planning, mutual funds and corporate trustee services through NFS.

Part of MiTAC Holdings Corp., TYAN Computer Corp. is a provider of servers for various applications such as HPC, GPU, AI, cloud, data center, storage, 5G, and embedded systems. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan. TYAN's 1U and 4U dual-socket server barebones support the latest Intel processors for various applications such as HPC, GPU, IoT, data center, storage, and cloud computing. The Taiwanese company was founded in 1994 and offers Intel-based server barebones and embedded motherboards for IoT applications.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Industrial Technology Research Institute engages in applied research and technical services. It offers technology services, talent training, incubation, and industry consultancy. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a non-profit organization based in Santa Clara, CA. SNIA is a trusted authority for storage leadership, standards, and technology expertise worldwide. The private company's mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information. SNIA is committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. The company provides education, best practices, and technology guides on all matters related to the protection and privacy of data. SNIA embraces open source development and standards in a variety of ways and defines recommended behavior for hardware and software that supports computational storage. The company also defines a standard interface that applications can use to perform iscsi management independent of the vendor of the iscsi hba.