About TDK Electronics
This record is best read as the TDK group instead of one company. TDK Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo and founded in 1935 to make ferrite magnetic material, makes passive components, sensors and magnetic products. TDK Electronics AG, formerly EPCOS and based in Munich, is a separate German subsidiary that makes capacitors, inductors, filters and ferrites. The group acquired the sensor maker InvenSense in 2017. These are components used inside computers and phones rather than compute processors.
TDK Electronics was founded in 1935 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It is listed under ASICs, Custom Silicon. Its shares trade as TTDKY on OTC.
Compute Technologies
- MEMS Sensors
- Passive Components
What TDK Electronics works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
Follow the share price on the stocks page (TTDKY).
