Founded 11 November 1963 | Founders Tokuo Kubo, Toshio Kodaka | |
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Traded as TYO: 8035TOPIX 100 ComponentNikkei 225 Component Industry ElectronicsSemiconductors Predecessor Sakura Yoko KK founded on April 6, 1951 Area served Japan, Taiwan, North America, South Korea, Europe, Southeast Asia, and China Stock price 8035 (TYO) JP¥ 12,155 -30.00 (-0.25%)31 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer CEO Toshiki Kawai (1 Jan 2016–) Subsidiaries TEL Solar, Tokyo Electron America, Inc. | ||
Semiconductor companies applied materials and tokyo electron call off merger
Tokyo Electron Limited (東京エレクトロン株式会社, Tokyo Electron Kabushiki-gaisha), or TEL, is a Japanese electronics and semiconductor company headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Contents
- Semiconductor companies applied materials and tokyo electron call off merger
- Applied materials tokyo electron to merge
- Origins
- Semiconductor Production Equipment SPE
- Group companies
- Research and development
- Sponsorships
- References
TEL is best known as a supplier of equipment to fabricate integrated circuits (IC), flat panel displays (FPD), and photovoltaic cells (PV). Tokyo Electron Device (東京エレクトロンデバイス株式会社, Tokyo Electron Device Kabushiki-gaisha, TYO: 2760), or TED, is a subsidiary of TEL specializing in semiconductor devices, electronic components, and networking devices.
As of 2011, TEL is the largest manufacturer of IC and FPD production equipment in Japan and the third largest in the world. The company was founded as Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc. in 1963.
On September 24, 2013 Tokyo Electron and Applied Materials announced a merger. If approved by government regulators, the combined company, to be called Eteris, would be the world's largest supplier of semiconductor processing equipment, with a total market value of approximately $29 billion. On April 26, 2015 the merger was cancelled to due anti-trust concerns in the United States.
Applied materials tokyo electron to merge
Origins
On November 11, 1963, Tokyo Electron Laboratories Incorporated was founded by Tokuo Kubo and Toshio Kodaka, largely funded by Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), with a capital of over five million yen. Later that year, their office opened in the TBS main building and began manufacturing thousands of quality-control and importing diffusion furnaces made by Thermco and selling Japanese-made car radios.
In 1965, the company approached a rapidly growing business in the market, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation and agreed to serve as a sales agency for them, increasing their capital to twenty million yen and began exporting IC testers, IC sockets, IC connectors, and other similar computer components.
They opened a new office in San Francisco, California and their new branch, Pan Electron in 1968 establishing themselves as the only stocking distributor of imported electronic components in the region.
One year later, they opened their still-functioning Yokohama office and established Teltron, a major manufacturer and distributor of car stereos, expanding their headquarters to fill the entire TBS-2 building and raising their capital to 100 million yen.
Semiconductor Production Equipment (SPE)
TEL produces Semiconductor Production Equipment (SPE) for the following purposes:
Group companies
The Tokyo Electron Group consists of TEL and the following subsidiaries:
Research and development
TEL's Leading-edge Process Development Center is located in Nirasaki, Yamanashi. TEL also has the Kansai Technology Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture and the Sendai Design and Development Center in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. TEL Technology Center, America, LLC in Albany, New York is the R&D center in the United States. TEL is one of the partners of IMEC, a microelectronics and nanoelectronics research center in Leuven, Belgium.
In July 2014, TEL announced the establishment of joint assembly lab with Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore. The lab is focused on the research and development of Wafer Level Packaging and assembly, to address the need of Internet of Things with devices of high performance and low power consumption.
Sponsorships
TEL supports association football in Japan by sponsoring the J. League as a whole and the football club Ventforet Kofu based in Kofu and Nirasaki as well as the rest of Yamanashi Prefecture.
The company has acquired naming rights of two multipurpose halls: