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Skyworks Solutions produces semiconductors for wireless handsets and other devices that are used to enable wireless connectivity. Its main products include power amplifiers, filters, switches, and integrated front-end modules that support wireless transmissions. Skyworks' customers are mostly large smartphone manufacturers, but the firm also has a growing presence in nonhandset applications such as wireless routers, medical devices, and automobiles.

NXP Semiconductors NV provides a wide range of semiconductor products. The company's portfolio includes microcontrollers; application and communication processors; wireless connectivity solutions, such as near-field communications, ultra-wideband, Bluetooth low-energy, ZigBee, and Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth integrated SoCs; analog and interface devices; radio frequency power amplifiers; security controllers; and semiconductor-based environmental and inertial sensors. Its products are used in a range of applications, including automotive, industrial, internet of things, mobile, and communications infrastructure. The company markets its products globally to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and distributors. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It has 34,000 employees. The shares are a component of the S&P 500.

Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment and services that are vital to the production of semiconductors. It offers a range of products used in thin film deposition, plasma etch, photoresist strip, and wafer cleaning processes. Lam has grown its addressable market to about 34% of total industry spending on wafer fabrication equipment, partly by merging with Novellus Systems in 2012. The customer base includes makers of memory and logic chips, with system shipments representing 75%-85% of revenue and services the remaining 15%-25%.

Celestica, formerly a captive manufacturing division of IBM, became a separate electronic manufacturing services (EMS) company in 1996. Celestica provides end-to-end product lifecycle solutions for a range of technology markets, including communications, servers, storage, and consumer electronics. It also serves diversified nontechnology markets, including industrial, automotive, capital equipment, and medical. Based in Toronto, the company has over 23,000 employees.