is a Japanese

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping level ...

and electronics company, headquartered in

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

, engaged in the manufacture and sale of equipment for the manufacturing of semiconductors, flat panel displays, storage media (such as optical discs) and precision technology manufacturing equipment. SCREEN Holdings has several sites in Japan, with offices in

, Kudanminami, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Etchūjima, Koto, Tokyo and manufacturing plants in

, Yasu, Shiga, Hikone, and Taga, Shiga, The SCREEN Holdings Group has many subsidiaries in Japan, the United States, the UK, Germany, the

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, China,

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

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and Australia. On August 5, 2014, the company announced a change of its corporate name from its name at the time, , to Screen Holdings, as it restructured to become a

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. Korea's largest semiconductor manufacturer SEMES Co. Ltd. was made as a joint venture with SCREEN using the latter's technology. Currently they have no capital relationship but SEMES continues to use technology from SCREEN and gets all its revenue with orders from Samsung's cleaning equipment.

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