Advanced Energy (AE) offers a comprehensive suite of focused technologies critical to high-technology manufacturing processes worldwide. AE's suite of products is critical to the production of semiconductors, flat panel displays, data storage products, compact discs, digital video discs, architectural glass, and other advanced product applications. Leveraging its diverse product portfolio, AE offers solutions that maximize process impact, improve productivity, and lower cost of ownership for its customers. This portfolio includes solutions in power, flow and thermal management, plasma and ion beam sources, and integrated process monitoring and control for original equipment manufacturers and end-users around the world.

AE operates in regional centers in North America, Asia, and Europe and offers global sales and support through direct offices, representatives, and distributors. Founded in 1981, AE is publicly held and traded on NASDAQ as AEIS. AE continues to enter new markets through strategic acquisitions and partnerships, as well as to internally develop proprietary, process-focused technologies—all key elements that further strengthen the company's position in process-critical, scalable, highly-patented technologies.

For the semiconductor and related industries, AE is the market-share leader for process power and a market leader in thermal management and gas flow. AE continually develops proprietary technology for process power, thermal management, source technology, and gas flow. In fact, our development efforts for the gas flow market were rewarded with our PrimAera digital mass flow controller being named one of MICRO magazine's Top 25 Product All-Stars for 2002.

For the very large-scale integration (VLSI) markets, AE is expanding our proprietary development of high-end power supply technologies for computing, data communications, and automated test equipment.