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Nova Measuring Instruments

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Nova Ltd.
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: NVMI
TASE: NVMI
IndustrySemiconductor
FoundedMay 1993; 31 years ago (1993-05)
FounderGiora Dishon,
Moshe Finarov
Headquarters
Rehovot
,
Israel
Key people
Gaby Waisman (president & CEO)
ServicesSemiconductor equipment
RevenueIncrease US$148.54 million (2015)
Increase US$11.58 million (2015)
Increase US$15.75 million (2015)
Number of employees
750
Websitenovami.com
Footnotes / references
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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.

History

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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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "NVMI Income Statement". Yahoo! Finance. 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd (NVMI.O) Company Profile". Reuters. Archived from the original on 17 April 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2011. Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (Nova), incorporated in May 1993, is a designer, developer and producer of integrated process control metrology systems.
  3. ^ Offer Danon, Ariel Karmeli (September 2008). "Becoming a trusted supplier to fabs and foundries" (PDF). Israel Venture Capital & Private Equity. 8 (3): 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 5 October 2011. The company was established in 1993 by Giora Dishon and Moshe Finarov, formerly of Orbotech, to develop an advanced concept of integrating metrology and inspection tasks into the semiconductor process line.
  4. ^ "Giora Dishon: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 5 October 2011.[dead link‍]
  5. ^ Pinkas, Gitit (18 March 2011). "גיורא דישון, מנכ"ל נובה: 'מנענו פיטורים ע"י קיצוצים שהעובדים קיבלו בהבנה'" [Giora Dishon, CEO of Nova: 'We avoided layoffs by cutbacks that employees accepted understandingly']. TheMarker (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 October 2011. לד"ר דישון דוקטורט בחקר חומרים מהאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים.
  6. ^ Finarov, Moshe (June 1999). "Specifying and evaluating thin-film metrology tools". Solid State Technology. 42 (6): 111. Retrieved 5 October 2011. Moshe Finarov received his PhD in semiconductor physics from the Technical University in Moscow.
  7. ^ "Intel Acquires 8% of Nova Measuring Instruments for $3 Mln". Globes. Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 5 October 2011. Intel has invested $3 million in Israeli company Nova Measuring Instruments, in exchange for 7.9% of its share capital.
  8. ^ Feldman, Batya (11 November 2010). "'במקום נובה חדשה אני עוזר לחברות אנרגיה מתחדשת'" [Instead of a new Nova I'm helping renewable energy companies]. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 October 2011. בשנת 1997 אינטל השקיעה בנובה והפכה גם ללקוחה שלה.
  9. ^ "Nova Opens Subsidiary Offices in Tokyo and Singapore". FindArticles. Rehovoth. Business Wire. 9 November 1999. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  10. ^ "Nova Measuring Instruments". Teuza. Retrieved 7 October 2011. In April 2000 Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd., in which Teuza's original investment was $900,000, issued its shares on the USA NASDAQ stock exchange (at a post money valuation of $285M).
  11. ^ "HyperNex, Inc.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on December 3, 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2011. As of August 9, 2006, HyperNex, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd.
  12. ^ "Nova buys German chemical metrology co ancosys for $100m". Globes. 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
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