KLA Tencor

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KLA Tencor

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US4824801009
founding May 1997
Seat Milpitas , California
management Richard P. (Rick) Wallace ( CEO )
Number of employees 5,990 (as of June 30, 2017)
sales 3.48 billion US $ (2017)
Branch Machine builder for the semiconductor industry
Website www.kla-tencor.com

KLA-Tencor is a global company from the United States that manufactures equipment for wafer inspection and production monitoring . The company's headquarters are in Milpitas , California . The company is listed on the American NASDAQ under the symbol KLAC.

The devices manufactured by KLA-Tencor measure, for example, wafer curvature, wafer roughness, surface defects, the overlay offset or properties of thin films that have been applied to the wafer (e.g. thickness and refractive index ). Development and production take place in Milpitas and the branches in Germany ( Weilburg ), Singapore, Israel, Hong Kong and China (Shanghai and Shenzhen).

Its largest customers include the semiconductor manufacturers TSMC , Samsung , Intel and Micron Technology .

history

KLA-Tencor was created in 1997 through the merger of KLA Instruments and Tencor Instruments. Both companies had manufactured devices to improve semiconductor production: KLA Instruments had been producing machines for the automatic inspection of photo masks since 1977, while Tencor Instruments, founded in 1977, manufactured machines for improving yields.

A takeover bid made in 2015 by competitor Lam Research was withdrawn a year later due to competition concerns by the United States Department of Justice.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2017. (PDF) KLA-Tencor, September 21, 2017, accessed on January 9, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Factsheet. KLA-Tencor, accessed on January 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Company Overview. KLA-Tencor, accessed on January 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ Marc Sauter: Lithography: KLA-Tencor and Lam Research merge to become the largest supplier. In: Golem.de . October 26, 2015, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ Chip equipment maker Lam Research calls off KLA-Tencor deal. Reuters , October 6, 2016, accessed January 9, 2018 .