Investors acquire Leica semi unit.Wetzlar, Germany -- Golden Gate Capital has acquired the semiconductor equipment division of Leica Microsystems. Terms were not disclosed. In 2004, the division's revenues were approximately $120 million. Leica Microsystems SED (1) (Stream EDitor) A Unix text editor that processes an entire file. It is the stream-oriented version of ed, an earlier text editor. Sed executes ed commands, but instead of editing one line at a time, sed applies the commands to the whole file. will continue to be led by the current management team, with manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. in Germany and the U.K. The company will be called Leica Microsystems SED for a short transition period until a new name has been established. Golden Gate (goldengatecap.com) also owns TDK TDK Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Council) TDK The Dark Knights (gaming clan) TDK Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd. Semiconductor, now named Teridian Semiconductor Teridian Semiconductor or TSC is a fabless semiconductor company designing and selling mixed-signal ICs, located in Irvine, California. Products Teridian makes network products, especially Ethernet physical-layer integrated circuits, and single-chip telephone . Leica Microsystems (leica-microsystems. com) makes quality control and defect analysis solutions and E-beam lithography systems for semiconductor manufacture. Edited by Mike Buetow |
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