KLA Location Spotlight: High-Tech Packaging Solutions in Medieval Leuven, Belgium

Historic Leuven, a small city in central Belgium, is the next stop on our virtual tour of KLA’s global locations. The 9^th century town, dotted with spectacular medieval and Renaissance architecture, has the country’s oldest university – and a major technology hub where, for 40 years, KLA’s ICOS division has been helping to transform our future.

Since it’s spin-out from the renowned KU Leuven University in 1982, the Leuven site has been the main location for the ICOS division, a market leader in developing component inspection, die sorting and other packaging solutions used by global chip makers to improve yields in the wafer-level packaging process and perform critical quality control on finished packages. Component inspection, for example, is a critical step during the final manufacturing stages of a semiconductor package before it is integrated on a printed circuit board in the final product assembly.