Veeco Instruments Inc. Common Stock

Veeco Instruments, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and support of semiconductor process equipment. The company is headquartered in Plainview, New York and currently employs 1,265 full-time employees. The firm's laser annealing, ion beam, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), single wafer etch & clean and lithography technologies are used in the fabrication and packaging of advanced semiconductor devices. Such devices include advanced node application processors for artificial intelligence (AI) chips, high-performance computing, mobile devices, high-speed data communications, and radio frequency (RF) filters and power amplifiers for fifth generation (5G) networks and mobile electronics, photonics devices for 3D sensing, advanced displays, and thin film magnetic heads for hard disk drives in data storage. The firm has comprehensive sales and service operations across the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America regions. Its products are purchased by customers in four end-markets: semiconductor, compound semiconductor, data storage, and scientific & other.