Nova Measuring Instruments

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Nova Ltd.
Company typePublic
NasdaqNVMI
TASENVMI
IndustrySemiconductor
FoundedMay 1993; 33 years ago (1993-05)
FounderGiora Dishon,
Moshe Finarov
Headquarters,
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
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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] Dishon 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]

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