Corporate Profile for Tencor Instruments, dated June 21, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy An online information service that provides access to the Internet, e-mail and a variety of databases. Launched in 1988, Prodigy was the first consumer-oriented online service in the U.S. , Comtex and many others. -0- Published Date: June 21, 1996 Company Name: Tencor Instruments
Address: 2400 Charleston Road
Mountain View, Calif. 94043
Main Telephone Number: 415/969-6767 Chief Executive Officer: Jon D. Tompkins Chief Financial Officer: Bruce Wright Investor Relations Contact: Roberta Emerson Business number: 408/970-9500 Public Relations Contact: Roberta Emerson Business number: 408/970-9500 URL Address: http://www.tencor.com Trading Symbol: TNCR (Nasdaq) Industry: Semiconductor Equipment Company description: Tencor Instruments, founded in 1976, is a recognized leader in the design and manufacture of innovative wafer defect inspection, software-based yield management, thin film measurement and metrology systems for the semiconductor industry. Tencor systems are used to control, monitor and refine the manufacturing process to increase the yield of acceptable integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. and to transition new integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for designs from engineering to manufacturing. In addition to its systems' use in the semiconductor industry, Tencor manufactures and markets metrology systems for use in the data storage and flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time (FPD (1) (Flat Panel Display) See LCD, plasma display, EL display, FED and flat panel display. (2) (Field Programmable Device) An umbrella term for all chips that can be programmed by the customer including SPLDs, CPLDs and FPGAs. See PLD. ) industries. Applying its technical expertise and understanding of customer requirements, Tencor has created one of the broadest lines of high-performance, in-line process control systems in the semiconductor industry. Over 85 different products have been introduced in the company's nearly 20-year history, and well over 10,500 systems have been shipped, ranging from benchtop instruments to complex automated systems. Tencor products are used by all of the world's top 25 semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. With over 61 percent of the company's 1995 revenues coming from outside the U.S., Tencor's international presence is driven by nearly 1,400 employees supporting its products through offices worldwide. For the year ended Dec. 31, 1995, Tencor posted a net income of $65.3 million on record revenues of $330.2 million, up more than 168 percent from the previous year. CONTACT: Tencor Instruments |
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