KLA Corporation

KLA Corporation is a capital equipment company based in Milpitas, California. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other related nanoelectronics industries. The company's products and services are intended for all phases of wafer, reticle, integrated circuit (IC) and packaging production, from research and development to final volume manufacturing.[2]

KLA Corporation
FormerlyKLA-Tencor Corporation
TypePublic
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded1997 (merger of KLA and Tencor)
HeadquartersMilpitas, California, United States
Key people
Edward W. Barnholt, Chairman
Richard P. Wallace, CEO and President
ProductsProcess control systems and solutions that support semiconductor, wafer, reticle and other related industries
Revenue
  • US$ 4,036.701 million (2018) [1]
  • US$ 3,480.014 million (2017) [1]
  • US$ 802.265 million (2018) [1]
  • US$ 926.076 million (2017) [1]
Total assets
  • US$ 5,619.356 million (2018) [1]
  • US$ 5,532.173 million (2017) [1]
Total equity
  • US$ 1,620.511 million (2018) [1]
  • US$ 1,326.417 million (2017) [1]
Number of employees
10,000 (2019)
Websitekla.com

History
Former logo

KLA-Tencor was formed in 1997 through the merger of KLA Instruments and Tencor Instruments, two companies in the semiconductor equipment and yield management systems industry. KLA Instruments was founded in 1975 by Ken Levy and Bob Anderson, and focused on defect inspection solutions. Karel Urbanek established Tencor Instruments in 1977 with an emphasis on metrology solutions, later adding John Schwabacher as cofounder.[3]

Since the merger, which was valued at $1.3 billion, KLA-Tencor, now KLA Corporation, has acquired 27 additional companies:[4]

  • 1998: • Amray, Inc.[5] • Nanopro GmbH[6] • Quantox product line from Keithley Instruments, Inc. • VARS • The Ultrapointe subsidiary of Uniphase Corporation
  • 1999: • ACME Systems, Inc.
  • 2000: • Fab Solutions, from ObjectSpace Inc. • FINLE Technologies, Inc.[7]
  • 2001: • Phase Metrics, Inc.[8]
  • 2004: • Candela Instruments, Inc.[9] • Wafer Inspection Systems business of Inspex, Inc.
  • 2006: • ADE Corporation
  • 2007: • OnWafer Technologies[10] • SensArray Corporation[10] • Therma-Wave Corporation[11][12]
  • 2008: • ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV[13] • Microelectronic Inspection Equipment (MIE) business unit of Vistec Semiconductor Systems, Inc.[12]
  • 2010: • Ambios Technology, Inc.[12]
  • 2014: • Luminescent Technologies, Inc.[12]
  • 2017: • Zeta Technologies Co. Ltd.[12]
  • 2018: • Nano Indenter product line from Keysight Technologies • Nanomechanics Inc. • MicroVision[12]
  • 2019: • Orbotech, Ltd.[12] • CAPRES A/S • MicroSense, LLC • Filmetrics, Inc. • Qoniac GmbH[14]

On January 10, 2019, KLA-Tencor announced that they will be changing their name to KLA Corporation, and that they will adopt the tagline "Keep Looking Ahead". The name change took effect in July 2019.[15]

Facilities

KLA's facilities include their global headquarters in Milpitas, California, as well as manufacturing, support and R&D facilities at multiple locations in the United States, India, Europe, Israel, Japan, and Asia/Pacific.

In June 2019, KLA announced plans to open a second US headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The facility is scheduled to open in summer 2021, and will host 500-600 new hires, around 50% of whom will be engineers.[16]

KLA Foundation

KLA Foundation (originally KLA-Tencor Foundation) is the company's philanthropic arm, and was founded in 2000.[17] KLA Foundation supports and benefits the global communities in which KLA employees live and work.

References
  1. "KLA-Tencor Corporation 2018 Annual Report Form (10-K)". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. August 6, 2018.
  2. "KLA CORP (KLAC:NASDAQ GS): Company Description - Bloomberg". bloomberg.com. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  3. "KLA-Tencor". Silicon Valley Historical Association. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  4. "KLA-Tencor History".
  5. "Amray was acquired by KLA-Tencor on April 7, 1998". Mergr. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  6. "Nanopro, Acquired by KLA-Tencor Corp. on February 18th, 1998". Mergr. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  7. "KLA-Tencor to Acquire Finle for lithography modeling, analysis capabilities". February 1, 2000.
  8. "Phase Metrics was acquired by KLA-Tencor on April 11, 2001". Mergr. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  9. "Candela Instruments". Crunchbase. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  10. "OnWafer Technologies, Inc". Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances. Regents of the University of California / UC Berkeley. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  11. "KLA-Tencor Completes Acquisition of Therma-Wave". May 25, 2007.
  12. Krejca, David (February 1, 2019). "KLA-Tencor: A New Acquisition To Add To The Company's Revenues - KLA Corporation (NASDAQ_KLAC)". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  13. "KLA-Tencor to acquire Belgium's ICOS Vision Systems". Vision Systems Design. February 26, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  14. "Qoniac: About us". Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  15. "KLA-Tencor Corporation to change name to KLA Corporation". January 11, 2019.
  16. "KLA to open $150M second headquarters in Ann Arbor". June 11, 2019.
  17. "KLA-Tencor Foundation".
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