KLAC 📈 KLA-Tencor - Overview

KLA Corporation is a leading provider of process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. The company's product portfolio includes a range of inspection and review tools that enable the identification, location, characterization, review, and analysis of defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers. Additionally, KLA Corporation offers metrology systems that measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers, providing critical data for semiconductor manufacturing processes.

The company operates through three primary segments: Semiconductor Process Control, Specialty Semiconductor Process, and PCB and Component Inspection. In the Semiconductor Process Control segment, KLA Corporation provides chemical process control equipment, wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles, wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems, as well as reticle inspection and metrology systems. These solutions are designed to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk in semiconductor manufacturing. The company also offers semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification.

In addition to its semiconductor-focused solutions, KLA Corporation provides a range of technologies and solutions for the PCB market, including direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions. For the display market, the company offers inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects. Furthermore, KLA Corporation provides inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets, supporting the production of complex semiconductor packages.

KLA Corporation's history dates back to 1975, when it was incorporated in California. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, KLA Corporation is a key player in the semiconductor and related electronics industries, with a global presence and a reputation for delivering innovative solutions that support the development of advanced semiconductor devices and packaging technologies. The company's common stock is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol KLAC, and its ISIN is US4824801009, classified under the GICS Sub Industry: Semiconductor Materials & Equipment.