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| Type | Public KK (TYO: 8035) |
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| Industry | Semiconductor |
| Predecessor | Sakura Yoko KK (桜洋行株式会社）founded on April 6, 1951 |
| Founded | November 11, 1963 (as Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc.) |
| Founder(s) | Tokuo Kubo and Toshio Kodaka |
| Headquarters |
Akasaka Biz Tower |
| Area served | Japan, U.S., Europe, and other countries in Asia |
| Key people | Tetsuro Higashi, Chairman Hiroshi Takenaka, President |
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| Operating income | ¥14.7 billion (2009) |
| Net income | ¥7.5 billion (2009) |
| Total assets | ¥668.9 billion (2009) |
| Total equity | ¥518.3 billion (2009) |
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| Employees | 10,204 (as of Apr. 1, 2010) |
| Subsidiaries | 32 Group companies |
| Website | Tokyo Electron Group Global Websites |
Tokyo Electron Limited (東京エレクトロン株式会社 Tokyo Electron Kabushiki-gaisha, TYO: 8035[1]), or TEL, is a supplier of semiconductor fabrication equipment and flat panel display (FPD) production equipment. It is headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
As of 2009, TEL is the largest manufacturer of such equipment in Japan and the second largest in the world.[2] The company was founded as Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc. in 1963.
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On November 11, 1963, Tokyo Electron Laboratories Incorporated was founded by Tokuo Kubo and Toshio Kodaka, largely funded by the TBS or the Tokyo Broadcast System, 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.[3]
In 1965, the company approached a rapidly growing business in the market, Farchild 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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
TEL's Leading-edge Process Development Center is located in Nirasaki, Yamanashi (the company is also an official sponsor of the Japanese football club Ventforet Kofu based in Kofu, which is the capital city of Yamanashi prefecture). 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.[7]
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