Stock Report: KLA-Tencor Corp. (KLAC) Report Updated: May 20, 2013 | Print This Page

KLA-Tencor Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries. It offers equipment comprising wafer and integrated circuit (IC) defect monitoring, review, and classification; reticle defect inspection and metrology; packaging and interconnect inspection; critical dimension metrology; pattern overlay metrology; film thickness, surface topography, and composition measurements; measurement of in-chamber process conditions, wafer shape, and stress metrology; computational lithography tools; and yield and fab-wide data management and analysis systems. The company also provides products that serve the high brightness light emitting diode, data storage, and photovoltaic industries, as well as general materials research. It primarily offers its products to wafer, IC, lithography reticle, and disk manufacturers in the United States, Taiwan, Japan, Israel, Korea, and the rest of Asia, as well as in Europe. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.