KLA Corporation is an American capital equipment company based in Milpitas, California.
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14 Facts About KLA Corporation
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KLA Corporation Instruments was founded in 1975 by Ken Levy and Bob Anderson, and focused on photomask detection to identify chip defects.
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KLA Corporation later broadened its product line to include wafer inspection, wafer metrology and integrated inspection and analysis software.
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KLA Corporation initially focused on making precise measurements of semiconductor film layer thickness, and in 1984, developed laser-scanning technology to detect particle and other contamination.
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In February 1998, KLA Corporation-Tencor acquired Freiburg, Germany-based Nanopro GmbH, a company that used advanced interferometric technology for wafer shape and thickness measurements.
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In February 2000, KLA Corporation-Tencor acquired Austin, Texas-based Finle Technologies, Inc, a developer of lithography modeling and analysis software.
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In 2004, KLA Corporation-Tencor acquired surface inspection system manufacturer Candela Instruments, Inc and the Wafer Inspection Systems business of Inspex, Inc.
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In 2010, KLA Corporation-Tencor acquired technology hardware company Ambios Technology, Inc.
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In 2018, KLA Corporation-Tencor acquired the Nano Indenter product line from Keysight Technologies.
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In March 2018, KLA Corporation-Tencor announced an agreement to acquire Yavne, Israel-based automated optical inspection equipment vendor Orbotech for approximately $3.
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KLA Corporation develops a range of advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, and computational analytics software used to improve manufacturing yields for a variety of standard and specialty semiconductors; printed circuit boards ; and flat panel displays.
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KLA Corporation operates a second North American headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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On January 2008, KLA Corporation paid $65 million to settle allegations that the company and certain executives had illegally backdated stock option grants.
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KLA Corporation Foundation is the company's philanthropic arm, and was founded in 2000.
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