Japan

11/01/1998

Japan

Japan-based Kokusai has merged its Kokusai BTI Corp. and Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corp. units into a single organization known as Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corp. (KSEC), headquartered in San Jose, CA. The move was made in an effort to present a unified face to North American buyers of its CVD and diffusion equipment. KSEC was set up to support Asian chipmakers who were building fabs in the US, while the BTI unit had an existing sales force as well as engineering and manufacturing groups that had been in place at the time of its acquisition about five years ago.