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Published Date: March 19, 1999
Company Name: Giga-tronics Inc.
Address: 4650 Norris Canyon Road
San Ramon, Calif. 94583
Main Telephone
Number: 925/328-4650
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL): www.gigatronics.com
Chief Executive
Officer: George H. Bruns Jr.
Chief Financial
Officer: Mark H. Cosmez II
Investor Relations
Contact: Mark H. Cosmez II
Public Relations
Contact: Mark H. Cosmez II
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: GIGA/Nasdaq NMS
Industry: High Technology -- Communications/Hardware
Company description: Giga-tronics Inc. (Nasdaq NMS See NetWare Management System. :GIGA) was founded in 1980. It became a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. in 1983, and is listed on the Nasdaq market under the symbol GIGA. Giga-tronics Inc. had revenues of about $45,000,000 in fiscal 1998 and consists of five separate operating companies. The Giga-tronics Instrument Division supplies RF and microwave frequency synthesizers and power measurement instruments in bench top, rack mount and VXIbus configurations for use in cellular, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , radar, electronic warfare Noun 1. electronic warfare - military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum EW military action, action - a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea" , satellite and telecommunications systems test applications. ASCOR designs and manufactures switching equipment in the VXI (VME EXtensions for Instrumentation) A peripheral bus specialized for data acquisition and real time control systems. Introduced in 1987, VXI uses all Eurocard form factors and adds trigger lines, a local bus and other functions suited for measurement applications. and PXI (PCI EXtensions for Instrumentation) A peripheral bus specialized for data acquisition and real time control systems. Introduced in 1997, PXI uses the CompactPCI 3U and 6U form factors and adds trigger lines, a local bus and other functions suited for measurement formats for the commercial aircraft, military flight systems and automatic test systems markets. Microsource is a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of leading-edge microwave circuits, components, and sub-systems. The company's product line includes a broad range of YIG YIG Yttrium-Iron-Garnet (bandwidth filter) YIG Youth in Government based signal sources and peripheral devices such as oscillators, filters, multipliers, band reject and band pass filters See bandpass filter. , and broad band signal synthesizers. Ultracision designs and manufactures wafer test probers, robotic wafer handlers, bright light wafer inspection equipment, and defect review systems for semiconductor manufacturing handling and inspection operations. Viking designs and manufactures automatic chip sorting machines, automatic tape and reel equipment, automatic furnace loaders, and wafer inspection equipment for semiconductor manufacturing handling and testing operations. |
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