Altair Advanced Industries, Inc.

Steve Cerar
3765 Alpha Way
Bellingham, WA 98226
E-Mail:   scerar@alpha.com
Web Site: www.alpha.com

Altair Advanced Industries, Inc., a certified Woman-owned Business Enterprise founded by Grace Borsari, produces standby power supplies for the cable TV and communications markets. As cable broadband networks have expanded to carry data, video and voice, in addition to television entertainment, the value of a reliably powered broadband network has become a necessity.

As the sole manufacturer of the industry standard broadband power supply, the Alpha XM2, as well as many other power supplies, enclosures, rectifiers and components, Altair continues to lead the market in communication network powering.

As a member of The Alpha Group, Altair Advanced Industries Inc. is a manufacturing organization serving all Alpha Group companies across the U.S and Canada. Altair's vertically integrated manufacturing facilities in Bellingham, WA and Suwanee, GA provide state of the art technology, including CNC fabrication, PCB assembly, product integration, assembly, testing and distribution.

Nextek Power

Liang Downey
461 Burroughs St.
Detroit, MI 48202
E-Mail:   liang.downey@nextekpower.com
Web Site: www.nextekpower.com

Nextek Power Systems, Inc. is a pioneer in direct current (DC) power networks for buildings. The Nextek Direct Coupling® power distribution platform delivers superior efficiency, flexibility, and reliability to interior electrical circuits and on-site power generation.

• Lowers overall power consumption
• Boosts on-site power generation efficiency by 10% to 50%
• Improves use of on-site stored power by 20% to 30%
• Adapts to changing interiors at zero change over cost
• Renders electrical circuits uninterruptible at low cost

With 12 issued patents and 25 installations in the US and 6 foreign countries, Nextek demonstrates lower cost and higher efficiency benefits to Fortune 100 customers including Frito-Lay and Target Corporation, and top tier manufacturing partners like Philips Lighting and Delta Products Corporation. Nextek partners with sector-leading electrical goods and systems manufacturers to deliver Direct Coupling® technology inside their product offerings.

Nextek promotes the establishment of a DC power standard with global leaders in building products, lighting, and controls as a founding member of the Emerge Alliance®. Nextek is contracted by the US Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to deliver Direct Coupling® DC power innovations for Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems and Vehicle to Grid systems. Nextek collaborates with the Electrical Power Research Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Sandia National Lab on DC Power projects.

Nextek Power Systems Inc. is located in Detroit, Michigan and Hauppauge, New York. In Detroit, as a Lab tenant at the NextEnergy Center, Nextek aims to leverage the existing manufacturing and supply chains to mass-produce Direct Coupling® power servers at lower cost to boost renewable energy use globally while enabling access to reliable electrical power in developing countries. Nextek envisions a hybrid energy economy in which vehicles and buildings optimize and share a variety of energy sources through the development of micro-grid technologies "Made in Detroit."

TowerJazz manufactures integrated circuits for more than 150 customers worldwide. Their vision is to be the world leader in specialty foundry solutions as measured by their customers, employees and investors. TowerJazz is the only foundry to achieve 2009 vs. 2008 growth. By further accelerating their growth rate in 2010, they are in a position to challenge as the #1 specialty foundry.

Their mission is to bring to market specialty foundry solutions that provide unique value to their customers by attentively listening to and proactively providing for their needs, through attracting and retaining the best global talent to serve them. They offer the widest range of customizable CMOS specialty wafer processes, differentiated design enablement capabilities and unmatched customer support solutions delivering leading technologies with the lowest risk and fastest time-to-market.

They understand that fabless companies need a true partner they can count on through every step of the design and manufacturing process. They are dedicated to meeting their customers' specific product needs and business goals. TowerJazz also collaborates with IDMs, offering process transfer and optimization services to expand capacity or provide second sourcing. Their customers are focused on markets including RF, High-Performance Analog, Power, Imaging, Consumer, Automotive, Medical, Industrial, and Aerospace & Defense. TowerJazz is publicly traded on NASDAQ (TSEM) and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TSEM).

TowerJazz also provides an industry recognized design enablement infrastructure of tools and accurate device models for near zero design risk for analog and RF designs. By offering the widest range of specialty process technologies combined with the most complete solution of proven design tools and capabilities, they reduce the number of foundry suppliers needed by their customers.

For global capacity assurance, they offer manufacturing on three continents; two fabs (150mm and 200mm) in Israel, a 200mm fab in the U.S., and access to additional capacity through foundry partnerships in China.

TowerJazz is headquartered in Migdal Haemek, Israel and its U.S subsidiary is located in Newport Beach, California.

Zarlink Semiconductor delivers world-leading, mixed-signal chip technology for a broad range of communications and medical applications. The Company's core capabilities are in network timing, voice over cable and broadband, and ultra low-power wireless communication. Serving the world's largest equipment manufacturers, Zarlink's highly integrated chip solutions help customers simplify design, lower costs and reach market quickly.

Zarlink Semiconductor Key Facts:

• Zarlink is focused on three primarily markets: Line circuits, network timing, and medical wireless
• Their line circuit products enable high-quality voice services over cable and broadband networks
• Zarlink's timing technology manages delay sensitive services over wireless and wired packet networks
• Their low-power radio technology provides a high-speed wireless communications link between
• implanted medical devices, home health monitoring systems and programming equipment
• Zarlink sells products to 3,000 customers in more than 100 countries, with R&D centers in Ottawa (Canada); San Diego, Austin and Reading (U.S.A.); Jarfalla (Sweden); and Caldicot and Plymouth (UK)
• Customers include Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia-Siemens, ZTE, Huawei, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arris, St.Jude Medical, Given Imaging

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