Tokyo Electron Limited

Tokyo Electron Limited (TSE:8035) lies at the core of the Tokyo Electron Group, one of the world's top manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment, LCD production equipment, computer systems and electronic components. In 1963, a group of young and innovative entrepreneurs established TEL, the first company to introduce American semiconductor production equipment and integrated circuit (IC) testers to Japan. Since then, the company has grown to encompass nearly 80 offices in 16 countries that engineer, manufacture, sell, and service wafer-processing or semiconductor production equipment (SPE), as well as flat panel display (FPD) equipment. As the world market share leader in several product lines, TEL plays a key role in the evolving global semiconductor industry.