Murata is a global leading Japan-based company specialized in designing and manufacturing passive electronic components, power supply and wireless module solutions. Its products address monolithic ceramic capacitors, polymer aluminum electrolytic capacitors, , inductors, resistor products, resonators, filters, RF components, communication and wireless module solutions, sensors, thermistors, DC-DC converters, AC-DC power supplies, sound components, piezo actuators, micromechatronics products, and RFID solutions.
Most of its products are made of the ceramic materials that have been a Murata specialty since its founding, and address such applications as consumer, mobile communications, computers and networking equipment, automotive electronics, advanced metering equipment, digital home electronics, lighting and illumination, and healthcare devices. Murata Manufacturing, as a worldwide supplier of electronic components, achieved annual revenue of more than $7 billion dollars; over 80% of which comes from customers in China, Japan, and the rest of Asia, so it also can seen as a heavily Asia-relied company. Currently, Murata has employees and manufacturing facilities throughout the world.