Knowles Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells products and components to the mobile consumer electronics, medical technology, telecommunications infrastructure, military/space, and other industrial markets. The company operates in two segments, Mobile Consumer Electronics and Specialty Components. The Mobile Consumer Electronics segment designs and manufactures acoustic products, including microphones, speakers, and receivers for the handset, tablet, and other consumer electronic markets. The acoustic components comprise analog and digital microphones, micro electro mechanical systems microphones, surface mounted device microphones, receivers, speakers, speaker modules, multi-functional devices, ultrasonic sensors, and integrated audio sub-systems. The Specialty Components segment designs and manufactures electronic components used in medical and life science applications; and solutions and components used in communications infrastructure and various other markets. This segment offers transducer products used primarily in hearing aid applications in the commercial audiology markets; oscillator products primarily for the telecom infrastructure market; and capacitor products used in various applications, such as radio, radar, satellite, power supplies, transceivers, and medical implants for the defense, aerospace, telecommunication, and life sciences markets. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers; and to its contract manufacturers and suppliers, as well as through distributors worldwide. Knowles Corporation was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. Knowles Corporation (NYSE:KN) operates independently of Dover Corporation as of February 28, 2014.