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Tokyo Electron (TEL)

Japan's WFE champion — coat/develop track monopoly around lithography

Tokyo Electron is the largest Japanese semiconductor equipment maker and a top-4 global WFE supplier, with dominant share in coater/developer (track) systems that partner directly with ASML scanners in every EUV and DUV litho cell. It also supplies etch, deposition, cleaning, and test tools. Its near-monopoly in advanced coat/develop tracks makes TEL a critical adjunct to the lithography step, and it is subject to Japan's coordinated export controls on advanced tools to China.

Track (coat/develop) share

~90% of advanced market

Rank

Top-4 WFE, #1 in Japan

Also supplies

Etch, deposition, cleaning

How it fits the stack

Tokyo Electron (TEL) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

suppliesdepends onsuppliesdepends onsuppliesdepends onpartners withTokyo Electron (TEL)ToolsDaikin (Fluoropolymers& Etch Gases)chokepointRapidusSamsung FoundrySMIC (SemiconductorManufacturingInternational Corp)TSMC (TaiwanSemiconductorManufacturing Company)chokepointASML Holding
Tokyo Electron (TEL)Depends on ↑Feeds ↓Related

Tokyo Electron (TEL) in the AI stack. Tokyo Electron (TEL) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 7 entities, 7 relationships
  • Tokyo Electron (TEL)suppliesDaikin (Fluoropolymers & Etch Gases)
  • Rapidusdepends onTokyo Electron (TEL)
  • Samsung FoundrysuppliesTokyo Electron (TEL)
  • SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp)depends onTokyo Electron (TEL)
  • TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)suppliesTokyo Electron (TEL)
  • TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)depends onTokyo Electron (TEL)
  • Tokyo Electron (TEL)partners withASML Holding