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Kyocera Corporation
Japanese electronics/ceramics group; crystal devices and oscillators (incl. former AVX/Kyocera Crystal Device line).
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Tantalum Capacitors →
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Inkjet Printhead (Thermal/Piezo MEMS) →
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Temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO/OCXO) →
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ABF Substrate (Ajinomoto Build-up Film) →
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Synthetic Sapphire Watch Crystal →
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Core Components (Capacitors, Oscillators, Connectors)
28%Semiconductor Components (IC Packages & ABF Substrates)
18%Document Solutions (Printers & Copiers)
18%Industrial & Cutting Tools (Fine Ceramics)
18%Medical, Dental & Energy
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Did you know2024
Kyocera Corporation was founded in 1959 as Kyoto Ceramics, making fine ceramic components — and fine ceramics remain the unifying thread across their seemingly unrelated businesses. The same advanced ceramic manufacturing platform (hot-pressing, sintering, precision machining of zirconia, alumina, and silicon nitride) enables: (1) ceramic cutting tool inserts for aerospace titanium and automotive part machining; (2) bioceramic hip and knee joint femoral heads that last 20+ years inside patients; (3) ceramic chamber components for semiconductor etching (SiC, Al2O3 chamber liners in dry etch tools); and (4) potential ceramic armor materials (boron carbide and SiC plate ceramics used in personal body armor share manufacturing process with Kyocera ceramic components). A single Kyoto-based company's fine ceramics expertise simultaneously determines the precision of aerospace machining, the longevity of hip replacements, the yield of semiconductor fabrication, and the protective capability of ceramic body armor — through the same sintered ceramic technology platform.
Kyocera Corporation ↗Concentration2024
Kyocera is one of approximately 5 qualified fabricators that can convert Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF) into the organic IC package substrates used in advanced CPUs and GPUs. The other major ABF substrate makers are Ibiden (Japan), Shinko Electric (Japan), AT&S (Austria), and Unimicron (Taiwan). This small group of companies creates the package substrate layer between silicon chips and system boards — and all of them depend on Ajinomoto's ABF film as the insulating dielectric layer. Kyocera's position in this concentration is doubly interesting: they are simultaneously a substrate fabricator dependent on Ajinomoto's proprietary film AND they compete with Ibiden and Shinko who also supply TSMC, Intel, and AMD. The entire world's advanced computing semiconductor packaging supply chain runs through the fabrication lines of five companies, all sourcing from a single Japanese food company's film division.
Kyocera Corporation ↗