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Photronics
US maker of photomasks: the quartz plates carrying a chip's circuit pattern that lithography machines project onto wafers, for both chips and flat-panel displays.
US maker of photomasks: the quartz plates carrying a chip's circuit pattern that lithography machines project onto wafers, for both chips and flat-panel displays.
Every chip design needs its own set of masks, and Photronics' annual report describes AI as shaping its technology roadmap. Most of its business is in mainstream and mature-node chips and display masks rather than leading-edge AI processors, so AI is an indirect driver.
Sells custom photomasks to chipmakers and display-panel makers from 11 plants in Asia, Europe and North America.
United States (Brookfield, Connecticut)
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The highly specialized machines and design software used to create advanced chips in the first place. Without these tools, no chip maker in the world — including the ones building NVIDIA's chips — could produce anything.
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Source: 2024-12-26 · reviewed 2026-09-26
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating through fiscal 2024
Limits: Historical revenue shares through fiscal 2024; the fiscal 2025 report does not name customers, so this does not establish the current share or which Samsung products the masks serve.
Photronics 2024 Annual Report and Form 10-K ↗Source: 2024-12-26 · reviewed 2026-09-26
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating through fiscal 2024
Limits: Historical revenue shares through fiscal 2024; does not establish the current share, exclusivity or which UMC nodes the masks serve.
Photronics 2024 Annual Report and Form 10-K ↗Inclusion in this database is not an endorsement of a company or its securities. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and none of it is individualized investment advice. See the disclosures. Data: AI Map v3.24, released .