TDK offers a comprehensive product portfolio spanning mass production electronics such as capacitors and inductors, as well as customized products including sensors and energy units—all found within the core of the electronics we touch daily. Since its inception in 1935 in Japan, TDK has dedicated itself to creating value that doesn’t yet exist in the world. TDK is continually inventing superior materials, production technologies, and optimal processing techniques. Its history includes achieving the world’s first commercialized ferrite, superior quality magnetic tapes and magnetic recording heads, and multi-layering technology—making possible smartphones and telecommunications base stations; connected cars, including electric/hybrid and self-driving vehicles; renewable energy; and factory automation systems, among other things. Through expansion of sensor technologies via acquisition and technology cooperation and development, TDK is positioning itself to meet the demand for new solutions in the world of IoT that is about to explode. Today’s TDK is a multi-billion-dollar global corporation, with approximately 90 percent of its employees, production and sales revenue outside Japan in more than 30 key countries and regions. TDK closely partners with its customers to jointly develop solutions for the Automotive, Industrial, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industries.