Nova Ltd. (formerly Nova Measuring Instruments) is a publicly traded company, headquartered in
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, a provider of
metrology
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devices for
advanced process control
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used in
semiconductor manufacturing. Shares of the company are traded on the
NASDAQ Global Market and on the
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
History
Nova Ltd. was founded in May 1993 by Giora Dishon and Moshe Finarov. Dishon graduated from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
with a Ph.D in
materials science. Finarov earned a Ph.D in semiconductor physics from the
Technical University in Moscow.
Intel Corporation
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became a client of and investor in Nova in 1997. In 1999 Nova announced the establishment of a subsidiary in
Japan
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, Nova Measuring Instruments K.K., and that it was opening offices in
Singapore
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in order to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific market. Nova executed its
initial public offering
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on the NASDAQ exchange in April 2000. In 2006 Nova acquired HyperNex Inc., a
Pennsylvania
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-based developer of
microstructure analysis tools.
See also
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Metrology
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Semiconductor device fabrication
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TA BlueTech Index
The TA BlueTech Index is a stock market index all capitalised information technology and biotechnology companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). The index was launched on 3 April 2011 as the TA BlueTech-50 Index and replaced by the Te ...
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List of Israeli companies quoted on the Nasdaq
References
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