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Region: The Western Isles

Gaillimh ciarrai wrote:Well, basically electronics. A budget version of a smartphone. And with my Country having weird laws and no infrastructure for electronic products the inventors need to outsource.

If you want a single large manufacturer, try Omega Electronics, since they specialize in low-cost gear. Since Ioudaia's electronics industry is large, there are small design shops I haven't listed that would contract everything out, sourcing parts and arranging for manfacturing from other companies.

Contents

Integrated Electronics Products Companies

Technical, Scientific, and Industrial Products and Components

Electronics Components

Electrical Engineering Products and Services

Integrated Circuit Fabrication Capabilities

Avazi

Avazi designs and manufactures consumer electronics, as well as many of its own components. Avazi also has a small entertainment division. In the consumer electronics area, Avazi makes a broad range of medium- to high-performance devices, including computer game consoles, laptop computers, smart phones, still and video cameras, and OLED TVs and displays. Avazi's top of the line camera and display monitors are used for professional streaming and movie-making.

The company is known as a leader in visible light image sensors, producing many of sensors used by other companies as well as itself. It produces other components as well, especially GPUs, memory modules, batteries, and wireless transceivers and modems for 4G and 5G cellular communications and WiFi.

Avazi's entertainment division, Avazi Studio, specializes in computer games, mainly for its own consoles, but sometimes for other platforms as well. As a result of developing the expertise in the sophisticated graphics many current games require, the company has started to produce feature-length animated movies as well.

Avazi Avionics manufactures aircraft instruments and displays. Their products include glass panel displays, navigation equipment, radios, engine instruments, and transponders. Most of their output is for the civilian market, but they do some military work as well.

Avazi's administrative offices are in Shariyath, and it has fabs and factories there and in Eiresion. Avazi Studio is in Ornemion.

Omega Electronics

Omega Electronics sells and makes last-generation and low-end consumer, commercial, and industrial electronics. Their product range is huge, everything from feature phones to microwave ovens to factory control systems. Many of these products are simply sold from stockpiles bought when they were discontinued, but Omega also manufactures some of its own low-end goods as well. The company also sells outdated software as well, at least in cases where older versions are available.

Hadar Cheiron ben Medon founded Omega Electronics on two simple premises. First, not everybody wants or needs the most advanced gadget on the market. Some people can't afford them, and others are just cheap, hence Omega's slogan, "The last word in low prices!". Second, many people are happier with older gadgets or the software that runs on them because the older stuff has features that replacements don't have.

Omega Electronics operates three subsidiaries, Omega Data Recovery, Omega Industrial, and Omega Foundries to support the use and manufacture of trailing edge or outdated electronics as well.

Omega Data Recovery specializes in recovering data from obsolete media, especially obsolete removable media. Many companies and individuals know the importance of backing data up routinely, but they sometimes discover that their only back-up copy of older, but still important, information is years old, and they lack the ability to read the media containing the back-up. Omega keeps old back-up systems running, so they usually can read "orphaned" media. They're also familiar with older disk architectures, and can often recover information from them.

Omega Industrial provides equipment, support, and services to technical and industrial companies with obsolete electronic equipment. Like its parent company, Omega Industrial buys up equipment as it goes out of production, but unlike its parent, it does not sell cheaply, as companies unable to switch away from old gear will pay well for parts and repairs. On the other hand, Omega Industrial does offer services to help those companies migrate to newer equipment.

Omega Foundries makes integrated circuits using obsolete or outdated processes. They also emulate their parent company and make obsolete chips themselves. Hadar was offered the contents of an out-of-date fab when it was being upgraded to the state of the art, and he acquired the equipment, realizing that some of his own low-end products were dependent on chips that would go out of production soon. He was surprised to to discover that other companies also had use for older or low performance integrated circuits made cheaply. Omega Foundries thus produces parts with relatively large feature sizes, but does so very inexpensively.

Omega Electronics and its Foundries are based in Zeteomos, where land and labor are cheap. Omega's other subsidiaries are based in Chyrtiros, close that city's customers.

Zephyr

Zephyr is Ioudaia's largest electronics company. Zephyr Lamp Company started in 1921 as a light bulb manufacturer before branching out to vacuum tubes and then entire radios. They adopted new technologies as they were developed, making some of Ioudaia's first transistor radios, and making early use of integrated circuits in consumer electronics.

As Zephyr made heavier and heavier use of integrated circuits, they began to make their own. By 1982, they were one of Ioudaia's largest IC manufacturers, producing chips for themselves and other companies. And as electronics became more capable, they entered new product areas to make use of the components they could make.

Zephyr has remained true to their roots, and continues to make lighting products. LEDs can be used in more places and in more ways that traditional incandescent and fluorescent lamps: Zephyr makes not only LED light bulbs, but also LED signs ranging from small retail signs to immense LED screens for stadium use, LED displays (and some LCD ones as well), and now sophisticated LED walls, which are beginning to replace green screens for movie and TV backgrounds.

They also have an active consumer electronics division, specializing in appliances: microwave ovens, induction ranges, refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers, and other "white goods". They have a reputation for reliability, and at the high end of their product line, they are known for sophisticated, elegant, and easy-to-use products. Their highest-end line of kitchen appliances have stainless steel cases, made and marketed as a joint venture with T. L. Madozhad Industries.

Zephyr is also Ioudaia's leading maker of smartphones, though they don't compete at the high end of the market, preferring to use economies of scale and internal parts production to serve mid-range and value-conscious customers.

The company also makes a wide variety of integrated circuits, including ASICs, 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers, and low-end FPGAs, for their own use and to sell to other OEMs.

Zephyr's subsidiary, Iapys Defense Systems, designs and manufactures military electronics, including avionics, sensors, precision guidance systems. Iapys is partially owned by Zephyr, with Zephyr being the largest shareholdered, with one-third of the company's stock, and controlling a third of its board. The remainder of the shares are in private hands.

Zephyr's administrative and research campus is located in Ornemion, adjacent to a subway station. The company has factories in Ornemion, Eireson, Chyrtiros, and Shariyath.

Koria Precision Instruments (KPI)

Koria Precision Instruments began as a manufacturer of scientific instruments, but now produces speciality semiconductors as well. It's a leader in precision instruments, and makes among the most accurate clocks, multimeters, and oscilloscopes in the Western Isles; it also produces electron microscopes.

KPI's specialty semiconductors find their way into many products. They include real-time clocks, analog ICs, power electronics – battery controllers and power regulators – and accelerometers. In addition, KPI makes a large fraction of Ioudaia's discrete components, especially tantalum capacitors. Because of the unusual nature of many of KPI's integrated circuits, it has its own fabs.

Their line of low-cost, 8-bit microcontrollers is popular with appliance makers who need "smarter" equipment to meet consumer demand, as well as automakers and others with a small need for general-purpose embedded processing power. The new very low power variants are making inroads into battery-powered "internet of things" devices as well.

KPI's facilities are located in Cypharisseis and Thyron.

Radio Corporation of Shariyath

Radio Corporation of Shariyath produces a wide variety of systems for transmitting, receiving, and interpreting radio signals. They produce radio receivers and transceivers for civilian, civil government, and military use; civil and military radars; RF front ends for embedded radios; broadband wireless transceivers and modems; traveling wave tubes for high-power radio transmissions in broadcast radio, radar systems, and military transmitters; and support equipment for commercial radio broadcasting from low-power FM systems to 100kW AM and shortwave systems for region-wide broadcasting.

In addition, they produce a number of specialized military products, including electronic warfare (EW) systems, signals and electronics intelligence (SIGINT/ELINT) gathering equipment, and related radio equipment. These products led to RCS developing a line of rugged user interface equipment, including displays, keyboards, trackballs, and joysticks.

RCS produces some related lines of equipment as well. They're Ioudaia's only manufacturer of discrete transistors, from tiny surface mount devices to huge MOSFETs meant for radio broadcasting. They also produce superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), extremely sensitive magnetometers, useful for detecting tiny electromagnetic fields for scientific, civil, and military uses, along with superconducting wire.

Radio Corporation of Shariyath was one of the first companies spun off from the Electromagnetism Laboratory. It was formed in 1948, as the Imperial War was winding down, and EML got out of the business of directly manufacturing and supervising the production of electronics equipment.

Shariyath Ekfantoros

Shariyath Ekfantoros manufactures x-ray and IR image sensors, ultrasound transducers and decoders, and X-ray, IR, and ultrasound instruments and services for medical and technical use, including digital X-ray machines, CAT scanners, and medical ultrasound imaging and therapy equipment. They do some military business as well.

The company has most of its facilities in Shariyath, and it has a research and development campus located adjacent to Tagaris Medical School in Ornemion, in order to work with the School's clinicians to develop the instruments they need for next-generation treatments.

Thermorasi

Thermorasi is Ioudaia's leading producer of IR image sensors and support equipment (optics and electronics) as well as IR instruments, systems, and services for consumer, industrial, scientific, and military use. Their products include everything from sensitive infrared spectrometers for laboratory use to rugged thermal imagers for armored vehicles, as well as consumer-grade thermal cameras and non-contact thermometers. They've also made most of the infrared telescopes and spectrometers used by the Space Exploration Agency's satellites.

Thermorasi is located in Shariyath.

AMK

AMK manufactures batteries, everything from tiny zinc-air cells for hearing aids to massive arrays of vanadium flow cells for bulk electrical power storage. They produce every chemistry and every size of battery, gaining customers in every industry and every country.

They're one of the Western Isles' leaders in electrochemical research, both in-house and sponsored in Ioudaia's universities. They also buy or license battery technology developed elsewhere.

AMK is located in Chyrtiros.

Chyrtiros Dynamics

Chyrtiros Dynamics supplies electric motors and dynamos, including rare earth magnet motors for vehicles, computer disk drives, and specialty applications.

Chyrtiros Dynamics has most of its facilities in its namesake city, but also has factories and research facilities in Shariyath.

Harauvatisnezhad and Triopas Kefir (H&TK)

H&TK is one of the Western Isles' highest-performance GPU manufacturers. They also produce graphics cards and graphics systems for desktop and laptop computers, respectively. H&TK is located in Shariyath.

Mount Alethusos Foundry Services

Mount Alethusos Foundry Services is a contract foundry company, offering IC fabrication to companies throughout Ioudaia and the Western Isles. Their main fab complex is in Eiresion, and they also have fabs in Shariyath.

Nanoscribe

Nanoscribe manufactures photolithography equipment for IC fabrication. They're one of the Western Isles' few companies in this specialized business. They're located in Shariyath.

STKL Neosemi

STKL produces programmable hardware, specifically field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), which are superior to general-purpose CPUs and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for many purposes.

STKL is one of the the government's great success stories that emerged from the 1979 industrial policy. Omid Sanehtajni, Tamir Dardanus, Koroush Noam, and Leodes ben Galal founded their company explicitly to become a leader in programmable electronics.

Their original goal was the develop a new microprocessor architecture to compete with those available on the international market. This proved to be much harder than expected, as Ioudaia's electronics manufacturing industry was not up to producing suitable photolithography equipment, and in any event, many potential customer companies were locked into existing architectures. But along the way, Koroush began to work on configurable hardware to make the company's proposed microprocessors more flexible than foreign designs. Once the company abandoned their original microprocessor goal, FPGAs became their focus.

STKL quickly found customers for their FPGAs in Ioudaia, ranging from consumer electronics makers, through industrial and scientific equipment manufacturers, to military suppliers. The Ioudaian Air Armada and Navy were both very happy with a domestic supplier for their unusual needs, even if they sometimes preferred microprocessors for some military applications.

Today, STKL makes some of the region's most sophisticated programmable devices, including extremely high density FPGAs, mixed-signal FPGAs (analog and digital circuits on the same chip), and PSoCs, which ironically use the standard ARM Cortex M0, M1, and M2 architectures under license, ARM being one of the foreign microprocessors STKL hoped to replace. Some of their devices also include GPUs, USB controllers, ethernet controllers, and other dedicated special-purpose hardware.

STKL sells development systems, design tools, and reference designs for their FPGAs and CPLDs, and provides consulting services for them as well.

STKL's corporate offices and fabs are located in Eireson.

Parsozhad Hydro

Parsozhad Hydro provides one-stop shopping for hydroelectric power. They not only produce hydroelectric turbines and turbo-dynamos, they also design and build hydroelectric power plants. For small plants, they offer a series of standard designs differing only in dam construction for the site, providing turn-key design and construction. For large hydroelectric facilities, Parsozhad acts as an engineering firm and general contractor, farming out work as needed to specialist companies.

Parsozhad Hydro is based in Chyrtiros.

United Electric Products

United Electric Products produces equipment for electrical power generation and distribution. They're Ioudaia's largest producer of step-up and step-down transformers, as well as electrical meters, voltage regulators, high-voltage switching systems, and other gear. They also provide design services for electrical production, transmission, and distribution systems, up to entire power grids.

Like most of Ioudaia's heavy industry, they're in Chyrtiros.

Integrated Circuit Fabrication Capabilities

Foundry Services

Company

Production Scale

Notes

Mount Alethusos Foundry Services

5 nm

One of the most advanced foundries in the Western Isles. Foreign customers may need Ioudaian export advanced technology export licenses.

Omega Foundries

90 nm

Old process for inexpensive, low-performance ICs.

Zephyr

14 nm

ASICs and other simple ICs only to avoid competing with their own products.

Captive Fabs

Owner

Production Scale

Notes

Avazi

7 nm and 10 nm

For producing their own ICs. Memory is produced on the 7 nm process, but all other ICs (image sensors, GPUs, and so on) are produced on the 10 nm process. Avazi sometimes makes use of Mount Alethusos' fabs.

Koria Precision Instruments

14 nm

Produces non-silicon ICs (GaAs, GaInP, etc). Koria uses Mount Alethusos' services for making its silicon ICs.

STKL Neosemi/Harauvatisnezhad and Triopas Kefir joint ownership

5 nm

Zephyr

14 nm

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