KLA Tencor
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| KLA-Tencor Corporation | |
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| Type | Public company |
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| 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) |
| 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]
