KLA

KLA Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through four segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; PCB, Display and Component Inspection; and Other. The company offers integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing products that comprises wafer inspection and review, and metrology; wafer and substrate defect inspection and metrology; reticle defect inspection and metrology; chemical/materials quality analysis; in situ process management and wafer handling diagnostics for IC and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing; software products to provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification; and refurbished and remanufactured products. It also provides specialty semiconductor manufacturing, benchtop metrology, surface characterization, and electrical property measurement services for general purpose/ lab applications; etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, additive printing, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or LVK in Albanian) was a militant group that sought to gain independence for Kosovo from Yugoslavia and Serbia. The organization was formed in 1994 and its primary operations were carried out from 1996 to 1999, during the Kosovo War. The KLA initially began as a small group of ethnic Albanian insurgents partly influenced by Albanian Kosovo dissidents and Serbian guerrillas. It was initially made up of small groups of former Yugoslav army soldiers and local Kosovars who had formed clandestine cells primarily to protect ethnic Albanian civilians during the turbulent times of the war. The KLA received funding from, among other countries, Albania and Turkey, and were also widely suspected of receiving funds from the Albanian mafia. The KLA was then widely supported, both domestically and internationally, and by 1998, had also gained military support from several Western countries. In May 1998, hostilities had broken out between the Yugoslav security forces and the KLA in Kosovo. By the end of the Kosovo War, the KLA had effectively built a guerrilla force of some 40,000 and become a de facto government in Kosovo. The KLA remained active after the war, and in 2004 disarmed and disbanded as part of a political settlement in the region. In recent years, the KLA have been widely credited as one of the key forces that secured freedom and self-determination for the people of Kosovo.

KLA’s mission is to anticipate, understand and meet customer demands for leading-edge products and services.

KLA’s vision is to be the customers’ first-choice supplier in the markets we serve.