About Lam Research Corporation
Lam Research Corporation is a U.S. manufacturer of semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment, specializing in plasma etch, thin-film deposition, strip, and clean tools used in front-end chip manufacturing. David K. Lam, a Chinese-born engineer, founded the company in 1980 in Santa Clara, California. It went public in 1984 and trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LRCX. Lam Research sells to semiconductor manufacturers producing logic, memory, and other devices. Its revenue falls into two main categories: Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems, covering its equipment platforms, and the Customer Support Business Group, which provides spares, upgrades, and services. Its main product families are dry etch systems, deposition systems, and clean and strip tools. Recent flagship platforms include Sense.i and Vantex, designed for advanced, patterning-intensive manufacturing nodes. The company is one of the major suppliers of wafer fabrication equipment to chipmakers worldwide.
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