Photronics
Photronics is a leader in the Materials segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain, headquartered in Brookfield. Its key customers include TSMC, Samsung Electronics, United Microelectronics (UMC).
Largest merchant photomask manufacturer.
- Ticker
- NASDAQ: PLAB
- Headquarters
- Brookfield
- Founded
- 1969
- Revenue
- $849M (FY2025) · -2.0% YoY
- Net income
- $136M
- Operating margin
- 24.5%
- Market position
- leader
- Value-chain segment
- Photomasks & Mask Blanks
- Key products
- photomasks, reticles
About Photronics
Photronics, headquartered in United States, operates in the Photomasks & Mask Blanks segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain and is positioned as a market leader there. Its key products include photomasks, reticles. wafergraph maps 8 tracked customers for Photronics across the value chain. It has a supply-chain criticality score of 83/100, with 242 companies downstream of it.
Photronics, Inc. is an American photomask manufacturer for integrated circuits and flat-panel displays. It was the third largest photomask supplier globally as of 2009. It is a member of the eBeam Initiative.
Role in the chain
Photronics is a market leader in Materials (Photomasks & Mask Blanks), headquartered in United States. Largest merchant photomask manufacturer.
Diligence questions
- The dataset names 8 tracked customers for Photronics. How concentrated is demand among those names, and which of them have a documented second source in this graph?
- Photronics is positioned as a leader in Materials. How replaceable is this vendor on the process step you are buying?
- Photronics is headquartered in United States. What jurisdiction, export-control or logistics risk sits at that HQ, versus at the fabs or plants the filings actually name?
- Photronics trades as NASDAQ:PLAB. What does the latest reported period say about capacity and backlog versus the graph position above?
- Before treating any edge as a verified relationship, check the provenance labels on the company page and the method note at /methodology.
Key products
- photomasks
- reticles
Customers
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Sources
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Cite as: wafergraph, “Photronics — supply chain, financials & market position”, https://wafergraph.com/company/photronics (data as of 2026-09-05).
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