KLA Corporation

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KLA Corporation
FormerlyKLA-Tencor Corporation
TypePublic
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded1997 (merger of KLA and Tencor)
HeadquartersMilpitas, California, United States
Key people
Edward W. Barnholt, Chairman
Richard P. Wallace, CEO and President
ProductsProcess control systems and solutions that support semiconductor, wafer, reticle and other related industries
RevenueIncrease US$ 5.806 billion (2020) [1]
Decrease US$ 1.217 billion (2020) [2]
Total assetsIncrease US$ 9.815 billion (2020) [3]
Total equityIncrease US$ 2.681.01 billion (Q3 2020) [4]
Number of employees
10,600 [5] (2020)
Websitekla.com

KLA Corporation is a capital equipment company based in Milpitas, California. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other related nanoelectronics industries. The company's products and services are intended for all phases of wafer, reticle, integrated circuit (IC) and packaging production, from research and development to final volume manufacturing.[6]

History[]

KLA-Tencor was formed in 1997 through the merger of KLA Instruments and Tencor Instruments, two companies in the semiconductor equipment and yield management systems industry. KLA Instruments was founded in 1975 by Ken Levy and Bob Anderson, and focused on defect inspection solutions. Karel Urbanek established Tencor Instruments in 1977 with an emphasis on metrology solutions, later adding John Schwabacher as cofounder.[7]

Since the merger, which was valued at $1.3 billion, KLA-Tencor, now KLA Corporation, has acquired 27 additional companies:[8]

  • 1998: • Amray, Inc.[9] • Nanopro GmbH[10] • Quantox product line from Keithley Instruments, Inc. • VARS • The Ultrapointe subsidiary of Uniphase Corporation
  • 1999: • ACME Systems, Inc.
  • 2000: • Fab Solutions, from ObjectSpace Inc. • FINLE Technologies, Inc.[11]
  • 2001: • Phase Metrics, Inc.[12]
  • 2004: • Candela Instruments, Inc.[citation needed] • Wafer Inspection Systems business of Inspex, Inc.
  • 2006: • ADE Corporation
  • 2007: • OnWafer Technologies[13] • SensArray Corporation[13] • Therma-Wave Corporation[14][15]
  • 2008: • ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV[16] • Microelectronic Inspection Equipment (MIE) business unit of Vistec Semiconductor Systems, Inc.[15]
  • 2010: • Ambios Technology, Inc.[15]
  • 2014: • Luminescent Technologies, Inc.[15]
  • 2017: • Zeta Technologies Co. Ltd.[15]
  • 2018: • Nano Indenter product line from Keysight Technologies • Nanomechanics Inc. • MicroVision[15]
  • 2019: • Orbotech, Ltd.[15] • CAPRES A/S • MicroSense, LLC • Filmetrics, Inc. • Qoniac GmbH[17]

On January 10, 2019, KLA-Tencor announced that they will be changing their name to KLA Corporation, and that they will adopt the tagline "Keep Looking Ahead". The name change took effect in July 2019.[18]

Facilities[]

KLA's facilities include their global headquarters in Milpitas, California, as well as manufacturing, support and R&D facilities at multiple locations in the United States, India, Europe, Israel, Japan, and Asia/Pacific.

In June 2019, KLA announced plans to open a second US headquarter in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The facility is scheduled to open in summer 2021, and will host 500-600 new hires, around 50% of whom will be engineers.[19] This facility will have a relationship with the University of Michigan and support partnerships across the automotive ecosystem.

KLA Foundation[]

KLA Foundation (originally KLA-Tencor Foundation) is the company's philanthropic arm, and was founded in 2000.[20] KLA Foundation supports and benefits the global communities in which KLA employees live and work.

References[]

  1. ^ "KLA Revenue 2006-2021 | KLAC".
  2. ^ "KLA Net Income 2006-2021 | KLAC".
  3. ^ "KLA Total Assets 2006-2021 | KLAC".
  4. ^ "KLA Balance Sheet 2005-2021 | KLAC".
  5. ^ "KLA: Number of Employees 2006-2021 | KLAC".
  6. ^ "KLA CORP (KLAC:NASDAQ GS): Company Description - Bloomberg". bloomberg.com. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  7. ^ "KLA-Tencor". Silicon Valley Historical Association. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  8. ^ "KLA-Tencor History".
  9. ^ "Amray was acquired by KLA-Tencor on April 7, 1998". Mergr. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  10. ^ "Nanopro, Acquired by KLA-Tencor Corp. on February 18th, 1998". Mergr. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  11. ^ "KLA-Tencor to Acquire Finle for lithography modeling, analysis capabilities". February 1, 2000.
  12. ^ "Phase Metrics was acquired by KLA-Tencor on April 11, 2001". Mergr. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b "OnWafer Technologies, Inc". Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances. Regents of the University of California / UC Berkeley. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  14. ^ "KLA-Tencor Completes Acquisition of Therma-Wave". May 25, 2007.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Krejca, David (February 1, 2019). "KLA-Tencor: A New Acquisition To Add To The Company's Revenues - KLA Corporation (NASDAQ_KLAC)". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  16. ^ "KLA-Tencor to acquire Belgium's ICOS Vision Systems". Vision Systems Design. February 26, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  17. ^ "Qoniac: About us". Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  18. ^ "KLA-Tencor Corporation to change name to KLA Corporation". January 11, 2019.
  19. ^ "KLA to open $150M second headquarters in Ann Arbor". June 11, 2019.
  20. ^ "KLA-Tencor Foundation".

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