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JEOL: The Electron Microscopes That See Atoms
A global leader in electron microscopes, holding around 35% of the TEM market, with tools that image matter down to individual atoms
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A global leader in electron microscopes, holding around 35% of the TEM market, with tools that image matter down to individual atoms
A world leader in the light-sensitive photoresist that prints circuit patterns onto silicon — including the most advanced EUV and ArF resists
With Shin-Etsu, one of two Japanese firms that supply most of the silicon wafers the entire chip industry is built on
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
The former Toshiba Memory invented NAND flash — and now, newly listed, finds its entire 2026 output sold out to the AI boom
One of the world's top automotive-microcontroller makers — when its chips ran short, car factories around the world stopped
The world leader in chip test equipment with about 58% share — a direct beneficiary of every AI and HBM chip shipped
A near-monopoly in EUV mask blanks and a top global eyeglass-lens maker — Hoya spans both ends of the optics world
One of only three makers of chip-lithography systems, Nikon is far more than a camera brand — it is a precision-optics giant
Japan's most valuable chemical company is the world's number one in both silicon wafers and PVC — two foundations of the modern economy