Headway Technologies Fabs

Headway Technologies, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TDK Corporation (acquired in 2000 for $122 million), operating independently under its own brand from its Milpitas, California headquarters since 1994. Alongside TDK group company SAE Magnetics, Headway is one of the world's few remaining independent thin-film magnetic recording head manufacturers, producing read/write heads for hard disk drives in a Class 100 cleanroom wafer fab.