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KLA

KLAC

Hardware

Semiconductor process-control and yield-management equipment maker; DefectWise deep-learning defect classification is built into its Voyager wafer inspection systems.

Total funding—

Market cap$244.2B

Employees17,200

Founded1997

HeadquartersMilpitas, USA

StatusPublic

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Voyager 1035 Hardware

  Laser-scanning patterned-wafer inspection system for advanced logic and memory fabs, built around DefectWise, a deep-learning algorithm that separates defects of interest from pattern noise and nuisance defects inline to speed up process-excursion diagnosis.

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Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Market cap

Third-party database · 25 Sep 2026

stockanalysis.com market cap, re-read on the audit date.

Employees

Regulatory filing · 30 Jun 2026

Same 10-K, Human Capital section: "As of June 30, 2026, we had approximately 17,000 regular full-time employees and approximately 200 part-time and temporary employees in facilities located in 18 major regions." 17,000 + 200 = 17,200.

Founded

Wikipedia · 22 Sep 2026

Formed 1997 as KLA-Tencor Corporation, a merger of KLA Instruments (founded 1975) and Tencor Instruments (founded 1976); renamed KLA Corporation in 2019. Confirmed against SEC EDGAR's own former-name history for CIK 0000319201 ("formerly: KLA INSTRUMENTS CORP" through 1997-02-11, "formerly: KLA TENCOR CORP" through 2019-07-03).

Revenue (TTM)

Regulatory filing · 30 Jun 2026

KLA CORP Form 10-K, SEC, filed 2026-08-06, for fiscal year ended 2026-06-30. us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax per XBRL, $13,579,476,000, audited. CIK 0000319201.

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