Nova Measuring Instruments
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Nova Ltd., formerly known as Nova Measuring Instruments, is a publicly traded company, headquartered in Israel, a provider of metrology devices for advanced process control used in semiconductor manufacturing. Shares of the company are traded on the NASDAQ Global Market and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
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| Company type | Public |
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| Nasdaq: NVMI TASE: NVMI | |
| Industry | Semiconductor |
| Founded | May 1993 |
| Founder | Giora Dishon, Moshe Finarov |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Gaby Waisman (president & CEO) |
| Services | Semiconductor equipment |
| Revenue | US$148.54 million (2015) |
| US$11.58 million (2015) | |
| US$15.75 million (2015) | |
Number of employees | 750 |
| Website | novami |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
History
Nova Ltd. was founded in May 1993 by Giora Dishon and Moshe Finarov.[2][3] Disn graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Ph.D in materials science.[4][5] Finarov earned a Ph.D in semiconductor physics from the Technical University in Moscow.[6]
Intel Corporation became a client of and investor in Nova in 1997.[7][8] In 1999 Nova announced the establishment of a subsidiary in Japan, Nova Measuring Instruments K.K., and that it was opening offices in Singapore in order to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific market.[9] Nova executed its initial public offering on the NASDAQ exchange in April 2000.[10] In 2006 Nova acquired HyperNex Inc., a Pennsylvania-based developer of microstructure analysis tools.[11] In 2021 Nova acquired ancosys GmbH, a privately held German company, specializing in chemical metrology[12]
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