Taiyo Yuden engages in making and marketing electronic components, including ceramic capacitors, inductors, functional modules, SAW/FBAR devices, energy devices and optical recording media. The company mainly operates in two business segments: Electronic Component segment and Recording Product segment.
Founded in 1950, Taiyo Yuden, with employees of over ten thousand people, has 36 subsidiaries worldwide and factories in Japan, Singapore, Korea, China, the Philippines, China’s Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand. In terms of high-frequency multilayer chip inductors used in cell phones, Taiyo Yuden accounts for approximately 50% of the total market.