Analog Devices
Grant in 2025
Analog Devices specializes in designing and manufacturing analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits (ICs). These ICs convert, condition, and process real-world phenomena like light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals for use in various electronic equipment. The company serves a wide range of industries, with over half of its chip sales going to industrial and automotive markets.
Texas Instruments
Grant in 2024
Texas Instruments is a Dallas-based company that specializes in the development and commercialization of semiconductor technology and computer components. It is the world's largest manufacturer of analog chips, which are essential for processing real-world signals such as sound and power. In addition to analog semiconductors, Texas Instruments produces digital signal processors and microcontrollers that serve a variety of electronic applications. The company also focuses on emerging sectors, providing solutions for medical electronics, telecommunications infrastructure, and energy technologies, including low power and solar applications. While the majority of its revenue is derived from semiconductor products, Texas Instruments also generates income from its well-known line of calculators.
JMA Wireless
Grant in 2024
JMA Wireless specializes in mobile wireless connectivity solutions, ensuring reliable infrastructure, efficient operations, and optimal performance for coverage and high-speed data. Their product portfolio includes macro infrastructure, outdoor/indoor distributed antenna systems, and small cell solutions, serving diverse industries such as telecommunications, sports venues, hospitality, manufacturing, and real estate.
Wolfspeed is a leading manufacturer specializing in wide bandgap semiconductors, particularly silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) materials and devices. The company plays a crucial role in the transformation of the semiconductor industry, supporting the transition to electric vehicles, the deployment of faster 5G networks, and advancements in renewable energy and energy storage systems. Wolfspeed offers a range of products designed for power and radio-frequency applications, including use in transportation, power supplies, inverters, and wireless systems. With a workforce of over 550 skilled employees, the company boasts a robust intellectual property portfolio of approximately 2,000 patents and patent applications. Its operations are primarily based in Europe, with additional revenue derived from the United States, China, Hong Kong, and other regions.
Micron Technology
Grant in 2024
Micron Technology is a leading global semiconductor company that specializes in memory and storage solutions. It designs, manufactures, and sells DRAM components and modules as well as NAND flash memory used in data centers, mobile devices, consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and embedded applications. The company bases its strategy on core memory technology while pursuing innovations to improve performance, reliability, and energy efficiency, supported by extensive patent activity. Micron operates with a vertically integrated model and draws growth from diversified products and markets that leverage its memory expertise. Its global customer base includes computing, networking, and enterprise applications, as well as mobile and embedded platforms. Through ongoing research and development, Micron advances next-generation memory technologies to enable new applications and extend the reach of memory across computing and infrastructure workloads.
Samsung Electronics
Grant in 2024
Samsung Electronics, a global technology company based in South Korea, operates in various sectors of the electronics industry. It develops, manufactures, and sells a wide array of consumer products, including mobile phones, tablets, televisions, home appliances, and digital cameras. Additionally, it offers PCs, printers, memory and storage products, healthcare equipment, telecommunications infrastructure, and LED lighting solutions. Samsung is also a major player in semiconductor manufacturing and provides services such as repair and consultation for electronic devices. The company operates globally, with a presence in regions like Korea, China, North and Latin America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Africa. Its product portfolio ranges from consumer electronics to high-tech components, catering to both individual consumers and enterprise needs.
BAE Systems is a British multinational defense, security, and aerospace company, recognized as the largest defense contractor in Europe and a key supplier to the US Department of Defense. The company specializes in the design, development, manufacture, and support of a wide range of defense and aerospace systems utilized across air, land, sea, and space. Its offerings include electronic systems for military and commercial use, security products for law enforcement, armored combat vehicles, artillery systems, and intelligent munitions. BAE Systems operates through five main segments: electronics systems, cyber, security and intelligence, platforms and services, and air, each focusing on specific aspects of defense technology and support solutions. Additionally, BAE Systems provides through-life support, logistics, and systems integration services, catering to the needs of the Australian Defence Force and other security customers.
Founded in 2003, Kajeet is a U.S.-based wireless service provider specializing in pay-as-you-go cell phone services for children and their parents. The company offers mobile broadband solutions, including the SmartSpot portable Wi-Fi hotspot, to connect disadvantaged students to educational resources outside of school hours. It also provides prepaid smartphones and cell phones with various no-contract service plans.