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KLA Corporation removed pandemic-related risks while adding a new risk focused on U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for China sales, reflecting a shift from acute health concerns to sustained geopolitical trade restrictions. Seven risks were substantively modified, with notable updates to cybersecurity threat disclosures, receivables factoring arrangements, and intellectual property dispute language, suggesting KLA strengthened its disclosure of operational vulnerabilities and financial exposures. The net effect is a modest expansion of risk factors from 41 to 40, with the portfolio reoriented toward regulatory and geopolitical challenges rather than pandemic-driven business interruptions.
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🟢 New in Current Filing
Over the past several years, there have been a variety of rules and regulations issued by BIS that have had an impact on our ability to sell certain products and provide certain services to certain customers in China. These rules and regulations may significantly harm our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows in future periods, unless we are able to obtain required licenses.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Risks
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🔴 No Match in Current Filing
The current COVID-19 pandemic and the potential aftereffects from it could materially harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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🟡 Modified
We depend on secure information technology for our business and are exposed to risks related to cybersecurity threats and cyber incidents affecting our, our customers’, suppliers’ and other service providers’ systems and networks.
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🟡 Modified
We are exposed to risks related to our receivables factoring and banking arrangements.
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🟡 Modified
We might be involved in claims or disputes related to IP or other confidential information that may be costly to resolve, prevent us from selling or using the challenged technology and seriously harm our operating results and financial condition.
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🟡 Modified
Industry Risks
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🟡 Modified
We are predominantly uninsured for losses and interruptions caused by terrorist acts and acts of war. If international political instability or geopolitical tensions continue or increase, our business and results of operations could be harmed.
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🟡 Modified
Disruption of our manufacturing facilities or other operations or those of our suppliers, or in the operations of our customers, due to climate change, earthquake, flood, other natural catastrophic events, public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic or terrorism could result in cancellation of orders, delays in deliveries or other business activities, or loss of customers and could seriously harm our business.
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🟡 Modified
A majority of our annual revenues are derived from outside the US, and we maintain significant operations outside the US. We are exposed to numerous risks as a result of the international nature of our business and operations. We expect these conditions to continue in the foreseeable future.
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