KLA

(NASDAQ: KLAC · $145.61 ▼ 1.5%) KLA develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging and printed circuit boards. In close collaboration with leading customers across the globe, our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that move the world forward. KLA's portfolio covers defect inspection and review, metrology, in situ process management, reticle qualification, direct imaging for printed circuit boards, inkjet and additive printing, and software for semiconductor and PCB production. The company also serves hard disk drive manufacturing, solar manufacturing, and university and industry research, and it supplies capacitive sensors and process control products to OEMs.

KLA traces its history to a mask inspection tool introduced in 1975, and its technology work spans electron and photon optics, sensors, machine learning and data analytics, including broadband plasma defect detection. The company reported about 16,000 employees across 18 regions at the end of 2025, with locations in the United States, Mainland China, Europe, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, plus a campus in Ann Arbor. Its philanthropic arm, KLA Foundation, supports education with a focus on STEM in the communities where KLA operates.

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