William E. Bendush

Microsemi Corp. engages in the provision of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Its products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

Smartflex Systems Inc., Tustin, Calif., Provider of electronics manufacturing services, has agreed to be acquired by privately held fellow contractor Saturn Electronics & Engineering Inc., Auburn Hills, Mich., through a cash tender offer valued around $70 million

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Blackman Kallick LLP provides accounting firm services. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Silicon Systems, Inc. was a provider of advanced semiconductor solutions for hard disk drives, tape drives, high density floppy disk drives, and optical disk drives. The company was located in Tustin, CA.