Barry Kitazumi

Aquest Systems Corporation supplies automation equipment to the semiconductor manufacturing industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2004 by a group of seasoned semiconductor capital equipment industry veterans and a leading Silicon Valley venture capital investor. Aquest is privately owned and maintains a network of global operations in Sunnyvale, California; Tokyo, Japan; Taichung, Taiwan; and Bangalore, India.

Mattson Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and supports semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs) worldwide. The firm supplies dry strip and rapid thermal processing equipment to the global semiconductor industry. The company was founded by Brad Mattson in 1988 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

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.

Novellus Systems, Inc. manufactures and services advanced automated wafer fabrication systems. The company was founded by Brad Mattson on April 11, 1984 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.