But the Santa Clara, California company has always been its mother's child, with Dai supplying a majority of the company's cultural DNA. Marvell, which makes high-speed chips for disk drives and communications gear, has great designs that outperform older chips made by giants like Intel, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.

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Automated functions are intended to be linked with small electric drives attached to the main landing gear, which would provide power to move planes instead of relying on engines that burn expensive jet fuel.

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Two others, somewhat less well known: Kyocera, which makes telecom gear and various electronic components, and Nidec, which manufactures things like spindle motors for computer hard drives.

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The van's imaging gear is snapping away, accumulating a gigabyte and a half of digital photos and information for every mile that it drives.

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