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SUMCO: The Other Half of the World’s Silicon Wafers
With Shin-Etsu, one of two Japanese firms that supply most of the silicon wafers the entire chip industry is built on
Companies
With Shin-Etsu, one of two Japanese firms that supply most of the silicon wafers the entire chip industry is built on
Alongside Koito, the Japanese maker that lights the world's cars — and uniquely makes its own LED chips
The Japanese company that lets engineers order millions of made-to-spec factory components online and receive them fast
One of the world's top bearing makers — the low-friction components inside almost everything that rotates, from cars to wind turbines
A top-five global maker of the distributed control systems that safely run oil, gas, chemical, and power plants worldwide
A world leader in automotive airbag inflators and cellulose acetate — chemistry that both protects passengers and films displays
A Japanese specialist in the fine-pitch connectors inside phones and devices — and one of the highest-margin component makers anywhere
From a 1915 Aichi workshop to a global power-tool brand — the instantly recognisable teal tools on construction sites worldwide
The world leader in single-wafer cleaning equipment — an unavoidable step repeated dozens of times in making every semiconductor
A 110-year-old maker of the world's industrial pumps that is also a key supplier of CMP and vacuum equipment to semiconductor fabs
A top global maker of the multilayer ceramic capacitors that fill every smartphone and car by the hundreds and thousands
From the windows of skyscrapers to display substrates and semiconductor photomask glass — inside the world's biggest glass company