United States
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Description
The company's comprehensive portfolio of products, software,
analysis, services and expertise is designed to help IC manufacturers manage
yield throughout the entire wafer fabrication process-from R & D to final yield
analysis. Since yield improvements are key to increasing manufacturing
productivity and profitability, the yield management market that KLA-Tencor
leads has outperformed the semiconductor capital equipment market segment as a
whole.
Ranked among the world's top ten semiconductor equipment manufacturers,
KLA-Tencor offers a broad spectrum of products and yield management services
that are used by every major semiconductor manufacturer in the world. These
customers turn to KLA-Tencor for in-line wafer defect monitoring; reticle and
photomask defect inspection; CD SEM metrology; wafer overlay; film and surface
measurement; and overall yield and fab-wide data analysis. These advanced
products, coupled with the company's unique yield management consulting,
planning and services, allow KLA-Tencor to deliver the complete yield management
solutions customers need to accelerate their yield learning rates, reduce their
yield excursion risks and adopt industry-leading yield management practices.
Competing in rapidly expanding yield management markets where its leading-edge
technology and comprehensive solutions provide a significant competitive edge,
KLA-Tencor's primary market remains the semiconductor industry. In recent years,
the company has also increased its focus on the rapidly growing data storage
industry.
To support its growing, global customer base, KLA-Tencor maintains a significant
presence throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, with local sales and
applications engineers, customer and field service engineers and yield
management service consultants. The company counts among its top customers
leading semiconductor manufacturers from each of these regions, and derived
approximately 76 percent of its 2007 revenues from outside the U.S.
Company Profile
Corporate History
KLA-Tencor was formed in May 1997 through the merger of KLA Instruments and
Tencor Instruments, two long-time leaders in the semiconductor equipment
industry, each with over 20 years of experience. With combined revenues of $2.7
billion and a global workforce of over 6,000, KLA-Tencor offers a breadth and
depth of process control and yield management solutions unmatched in the
industry.
Founded in 1976 and credited with pioneering the yield management market, KLA
started its inspection legacy in 1978 with an automated inspection system that
reduced photomask inspection time from eight hours to 15 minutes. The company
went public in 1980...
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Defect Inspection Reticle, Monitor Wafer, Optical/e-Beam
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