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KLAC vs LRCX

Side-by-side comparison of KLA Corporation (KLAC) and Lam Research Corporation (LRCX): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both companies sit in the Technology sector. KLAC focuses on Electronic Components, while LRCX focuses on Industrial Machinery/Components.
  • LRCX is the larger of the two at $294.65B, about 1.4x KLAC ($209.79B).
  • LRCX has been more active in the news (19 items in the past 4 weeks vs 15 for KLAC).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
MetricKLACLRCX
Company
KLA Corporation
Lam Research Corporation
Price
-
-
Market cap
$209.79B
$294.65B
1M return
-
-21.76%
1Y return
-
+46.07%
Industry
Electronic Components
Industrial Machinery/Components
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
1980
1984
News (4w)
15
19
Recent ratings
25
25
KLAC

KLA Corporation

KLA Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries worldwide. The company offers chip and wafer manufacturing products, including defect inspection and review systems, metrology solutions, in situ process monitoring products, computational lithography software, and data analytics systems for chip manufacturers to manage yield throughout the semiconductor fabrication process. It also provides reticle manufacturing products, such as reticle inspection, metrology, and data analytics systems for mask shops; and packaging manufacturing products comprising wafer inspection and metrology, die sorting and inspection, IC component inspection and metrology, data analytics, wafer processing systems, and IC substrate production processes. In addition, the company offers compound semiconductor, power device, light emitting diode, and microelectromechanical system manufacturing products; data storage media/head manufacturing products; general purpose/lab applications; and previous-generation KLA systems. Further, it provides wafer processing solutions; printed circuit boards, and display and inspection components; and other services. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

LRCX

Lam Research Corporation

Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The company offers ALTUS systems to deposit conformal films for tungsten metallization applications; SABRE electrochemical deposition products for copper interconnect transition that offers copper damascene manufacturing; SOLA ultraviolet thermal processing products for film treatments; and VECTOR plasma-enhanced CVD ALD products. It also provides SPEED gapfill high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition products; and Striker single-wafer atomic layer deposition products for dielectric film solutions. In addition, the company offers Flex for dielectric etch applications; Kiyo for conductor etch applications; Syndion for through-silicon via etch applications; and Versys metal products for metal etch processes. Further, it provides Coronus bevel clean products to enhance die yield; Da Vinci, DV-Prime, EOS, and SP series products to address various wafer cleaning applications; and Metryx mass metrology systems for high precision in-line mass measurement in semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The company sells its products and services to semiconductors industry in the United States, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and internationally. Lam Research Corporation was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

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