is a Japanese

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and

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, headquartered in

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the cit ...

, engaged in the manufacture and sale of equipment for the manufacturing of

semiconductors A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...

, flat panel displays,

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(such as

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) and precision technology manufacturing equipment. Dainippon Screen has several sites in Japan, with offices in

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

Yasu, Shiga is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 50,695 in 20695 households and a population density of 630 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Yasu is located in south-central Shig ...

, Hikone, and

Taga, Shiga is a town located in Inukami District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 7,525 in 2900 households and a population density of 940 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . Taga developed as a shrine town ...

, Dainippon Screen Group has many subsidiaries in Japan, the United States, the UK, Germany, the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, China,

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South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

and Australia. On August 5, 2014, Dainippon Screen announced a change of its corporate name 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 Dainippon Screen using the latter's technology. Currently they have no capital relationship but SEMES continues to use technology from Dainippon Screen and gets all its revenue with orders from Samsung's cleaning equipment.

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* Electronics companies of Japan Manufacturing companies based in Kyoto Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Electronics companies established in 1943 Japanese brands Japanese companies established in 1943‎ Semiconductor companies of Japan {{japan-company-stub

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