KLA Tencor

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KLA-Tencor Corporation
Type Public company
Founded 1997
Headquarters San Jose, California
Key people Kenneth Levy, Chairman
Richard P. (Rick) Wallace, CEO
John Kispert, President and COO
Jeffrey Hall, CFO
Industry SemiconductorEquipment & Materials
Products Inline Wafer Defect Monitoring; Reticle and Photomask Defect Inspection; Critical Dimension (CD) Metrology; Wafer Overlay; Film and Surface Measurement, and overall Yield and Fab-wide Data Analysis.
Revenue $2.085 billion USD (2005)
Operating income $582.562 million USD (2005)
Net income $466.695 million USD (2005)
Employees 5,500 (2005)
Slogan Accelerating Yield
Website www.kla-tencor.com

KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC) is a semiconductor company which manufactures inspection equipment for wafers and reticles. KLA-Tencor headquarters is in San Jose and offices are in Milpitas. KLA-Tencor was formed in May 1997 when KLA Instruments and Tencor Instruments merged.

KLA-Tencor has developed several fundamental techniques for semiconductor inspection and metrology. For example, the company has patented the idea of using a curved reflector to focus light onto a sample.[1]

  1. ^ U.S. Patent 5,608,526 [1]
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