Tokyo Electron

Tokyo Electron Limited

People. Technology. Commitment.
Type	Public KK
Traded as	: TOPIX 100 Component Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Electronics Semiconductors
Predecessor	Sakura Yoko KK founded on April 6, 1951
Founded	November 11, 1963; 53 years ago (1963-11-11) (as Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc.)
Founder	Tokuo Kubo and Toshio Kodaka
Headquarters	Akasaka Biz Tower 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6325, Japan
Area served	Japan, Taiwan, North America, South Korea, Europe, Southeast Asia, and China
Key people	Tetsuro Higashi (CEO, President and Chairman)
Products	Production equipment for integrated circuits Production equipment for flat panel displays and photovoltaic cells Networking devices and electronic components
Operating income	¥97.8 billion (2011)
Net income	¥71.9 billion (2011)
Total assets	¥809.2 billion (2011)
Total equity	¥572.7 billion (2011)
Owner	The Master Trust Bank of Japan（trust account） 10.68% Japan Trustee Services Bank（trust account） 7.71% Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc 4.3% Mellon Bank Treaty Clients Omnibus 2.92% State Street Bank and Trust Company 2.44%
Number of employees	11,355 (as of April 1, 2014)
Subsidiaries	26 Group companies, including Tokyo Electron Device (: )
Website	tel.com
Footnotes / references

Tokyo Electron Limited (東京エレクトロン株式会社^?, Tokyo Electron Kabushiki-gaisha), or TEL, is a Japanese electronics and semiconductor company headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

TEL is best known as a supplier of equipment to fabricate integrated circuits (IC), flat panel displays (FPD), and photovoltaic cells (PV).Tokyo Electron Device (東京エレクトロンデバイス株式会社^?, Tokyo Electron Device Kabushiki-gaisha, : ), or TED, is a subsidiary of TEL specializing in semiconductor devices, electronic components, and networking devices.

As of 2011, TEL is the largest manufacturer of IC and FPD production equipment in Japan and the third largest in the world. The company was founded as Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc. in 1963.

On September 24, 2013 Tokyo Electron and Applied Materials announced a merger. If approved by government regulators, the combined company, to be called Eteris, would be the world's largest supplier of semiconductor processing equipment, with a total market value of approximately $29 billion. On April 26, 2015 the merger was cancelled to due anti-trust concerns in the United States.