WD, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. WD applies its storage expertise to consumer products for external, portable and shared storage applications.

WD was founded in 1970 and began designing and manufacturing hard drives in 1988. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California, the company employs approximately 27,000 people worldwide. Manufacturing facilities are in California, Malaysia and Thailand; design facilities are in Southern and Northern California and Thailand; and sales offices are maintained around the world. The company's storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers, select resellers and retailers under the Western Digital and WD brand names. WD's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WDC.

Oryx Advanced Materials is a leading global supplier of thin-film materials for the data storage, architectural glass coatings and photovoltaic industries with high volume manufacturing capabilities and exceptional expertise in multiple metallurgical process which include vacuum casting, powder metallurgy as well as state-of-the-art capabilities in thermal coating, surface treatment and cleaning of PVD chamber/shield parts. We provide quality, technology, service and support from R&D through mass production for your competitive advantage.

Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and its subsidiary companies offer a broad range of electronics, power and industrial equipment and services, automotive products and consumer electronics with operations throughout the Americas.

Seagate Technology has been at the forefront of the storage industry for more than 25 years. With corporate offices in Scotts Valley, California, Seagate employs more than 56,000 people around the world-all contributing to the development of the company's next-generation storage products. From the first 5.25-inch hard drive for the PC to the development of perpendicular recording technology, the company has been pioneering new industry standards that have fueled advancements in the digital information age. Through technology leadership and innovation, Seagate continues to help individuals and businesses maximize the potential of their digital content in an ever-evolving, on-demand world.

Intevac (NASDAQ: IVAC) was founded in 1991. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara (CA) and has a global presence with offices in United States, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. We are the world's leading provider of magnetic media deposition equipment to the hard disk drive industry and offer leading-edge, high-productivity etch systems to the semiconductor industry. We also develop compact, cost-effective, high-sensitivity digital-optical products for the capture and display of low-light images and the optical analysis of materials.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 and was formed as a result of the strategic combination of IBM and Hitachi¡¦s storage technology businesses. Storage is one of Hitachi¡¦s five core businesses; substantial technology and financial resources have been committed to ensure a successful and profitable business. The company¡¦s vision is to enable users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing access to large amounts of storage capacity in formats suitable for the office, on the road and in the home. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is positioned to immediately advance the role of hard disk drives beyond traditional computing environments to consumer electronics and other emerging applications. The company will extend the world-renowned R&D heritage of its founders and build on their combined 80 years of hard disk drive expertise. With substantial and dedicated research and development investments, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is positioned to inspire and lead the future of storage technologies. Hitachi brings a customer-focused and full-service approach to solutions for the hard disk drive marketplace. The company defines the standard for product and service excellence with world-class operations, substantial technical knowledge and a comprehensive customer support infrastructure.

Veeco provides the tools to make, measure and visualize today's world-changing technologies. From data storage, semiconductor, solar, LED, and wireless to the frontiers of life science, materials science and nanotechnology, Veeco drives the tiny changes that change everything.

KLA-Tencor Corporation is the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. The company's comprehensive portfolio of products, software, analysis, services and expertise is designed to help IC manufacturers manage yield throughout the entire wafer fabrication process-from R & D to final yield analysis. Since yield improvements are key to increasing manufacturing productivity and profitability, the yield management market that KLA-Tencor leads has outperformed the semiconductor capital equipment market segment as a whole. Ranked among the world's top ten semiconductor equipment manufacturers, KLA-Tencor offers a broad spectrum of products and services that are used by every major semiconductor manufacturer in the world. These customers turn to KLA-Tencor for in-line wafer defect monitoring; reticle and photomask defect inspection; CD SEM metrology; wafer overlay; film and surface measurement; and overall yield and fab-wide data analysis. These advanced products, coupled with the company's unique yield management consulting, planning and services, allow KLA-Tencor to deliver the complete yield management solutions customers need to accelerate their yield learning rates, reduce their yield excursion risks and adopt industry-leading yield management practices. Competing in rapidly expanding markets where its leading-edge technology and comprehensive solutions provide a significant competitive edge, KLA-Tencor's primary market remains the semiconductor industry. In recent years, the company has also increased its focus on the rapidly growing data storage industry. To support its growing, global customer base, KLA-Tencor maintains a significant presence throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, with local sales and applications engineers, customer and field service engineers and yield management consultants. The company counts among its top customers leading semiconductor manufacturers from each of these regions, and derived approximately 76 percent of its 2007 revenues from outside the U.S.

Nanolab Technologies offers cutting edge technology and expertise for Failure Analysis, Advanced Microscopy and FIB circuit edit services. Comprised of an experienced team of analysts using state of the art equipment equals guaranteed accuracy and results. We are pleased to offer both the expertise and technology that is necessary to provide the solutions to the ever increasing challenges that our customers experience with today's shrinking geometries.

Samsung is guided by a simple philosophy, strong values and high ethical standards that inform our work every day. In everything we do, we strive to help people live better lives. Samsung is dedicated to devel-oping innovative technologies and efficient processes that create new markets, enrich people's lives, and continue to make Samsung a digital leader. For more than 70 years, Samsung has been at the forefront of inno-vation. Our discoveries, inventions and breakthrough products have helped shape the history of the digital revolution.