- Headquarters
- Osaka, Japan · East Asia
- Value chain
- Components & subsystems(Inputs); also Advanced materials
- What that means
- Makes the parts others build into products: chips, sensors, optics, modules, engines and subsystems.
- Founded
- 1897
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- TSE:5802 on Google Finance
- Website
- sumitomoelectric.com
- Relevance
- High at its strongest, in Superconducting, Magnetic & Photonic Materials
Osaka, JapanIn 4 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Manufacture · listed #8 of 50
Sole volume producer of DI-BSCCO (Bi-2223) HTS wire, and a major maker of optical fibre and compound-semiconductor (GaAs, InP) substrates.
Relevance: Leading HTS wire and optical fibre producer
Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies · Manufacture · listed #11 of 50
Producer of ultra-low-loss and multicore fibres, InP laser and photodiode devices and transceiver components; third-largest international patent applicant here.
Relevance: Major fibre and InP device producer, top patent applicant
- Compound & Power SemiconductorsModerate
Semiconductors & Advanced Computing · Manufacture · listed #30 of 50
Leading GaN-on-SiC HEMT supplier for base stations (via Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations) and producer of GaAs/InP substrates and SiC epitaxial wafers.
Relevance: Leading GaN-on-SiC HEMT supplier for base stations
Quantum Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #29 of 50
Sumitomo Electric grows high-purity synthetic diamond with controlled NV centres for quantum magnetic sensors and works with Japanese universities on diamond sensing.
Relevance: NV diamond material grower; narrower role