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- Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes and services wafer fabrication equipment and related solutions for the global semiconductor industry. The company provides deposition, etch, wafer-cleaning, dry-resist and advanced-packaging technologies used by semiconductor memory manufacturers, foundries and integrated device manufacturers to produce logic, DRAM, NAND and other non-volatile memory devices, as well as complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor image sensors, micro-electromechanical systems and related specialty semiconductor products. Its deposition portfolio includes SABRE electrochemical deposition systems for copper and other metal interconnects and advanced packaging; ALTUS chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition systems for tungsten and molybdenum metallization; VECTOR plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition systems and Striker atomic layer deposition systems for dielectric films. Its etch portfolio includes Kiyo, Versys Metal and Akara conductor-etch systems; Flex and Vantex dielectric-etch systems; Syndion deep silicon-etch systems; and Argos, Prevos and Selis selective-etch platforms. Its cleaning portfolio includes EOS, DV-Prime, Da Vinci and SP Series wet-clean systems, as well as Coronus dry-plasma bevel-cleaning systems. The company also offers the Aether dry-resist platform for extreme-ultraviolet and high-numerical-aperture EUV lithography pattern transfer; fan-out panel-level packaging and high-bandwidth-memory 3D-stacking solutions; and customer-support offerings comprising equipment service, spare parts, process and performance upgrades, equipment-intelligence software and analytics, and Reliant new and refurbished non-leading-edge deposition, etch and clean equipment. Lam Research operates facilities across Asia, Europe and the United States and serves customers globally, with principal operating and research-and-development locations in Fremont and Livermore, California; Tualatin, Oregon; Yongin, South Korea; Bengaluru, India; Salzburg and Villach, Austria. Incorporated in 1980, the Delaware corporation is headquartered in Fremont, California. Recent strategic developments include a five-year collaboration with International Business Machines Corp. announced in March 2026 to develop novel materials, advanced etch and deposition processes, and High-NA EUV lithography capabilities for sub-1-nanometer logic scaling, utilizing Lam’s Aether, Kiyo, Akara, Striker and ALTUS Halo platforms and advanced-packaging technologies; and the September 2025 launch of the VECTOR TEOS 3D dielectric-deposition tool, which expands the company’s advanced-packaging portfolio for 3D integration and chiplet applications.