Alan P. Hale

Dallas Semiconductor Corp. designs and manufactures electronic chips and chip based subsystems. Its communications products include analog, silicon oscillators, digital potentiometers, and mixed signal semiconductors. It is a subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. The company was founded in 1984 by C. Vincent Prothro and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Its products include integrated power circuits, amplifiers, data converters, analog filters, transceivers, expanders, level translators, broadband switches, powerline communications, microcontrollers, data loggers, solar energy, and automotive. The company was founded by Jack F. Gifford in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Celestron LLC designs and manufactures telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and microscopes. It provides logistical support to retailers such as Discovery Channel, The Natural World, Costco, Canadian Tire, American Express, LL Bean, EMS, Amazon.com and B&H Photo. The firm’s products include telescopes, optical tubes, mounts and tripods, astronomy binoculars, solar observing, astroimaging cameras, binoculars, monoculars, spotting scopes, solar observing, outdoor electronics, digital, biological and stereo microscopes. The company was founded by Tom Johnson in 1960 and is headquartered in Torrance, CA.