Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was founded in October 1944 and formally established in 1950, with headquarters in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan. It is an electronic-component R&D, production and sales enterprise based on functional ceramics. Its products cover multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC), inductors, EMI noise-suppression filters and TVS diodes, thermistors, timing devices (crystal/ceramic resonators), sound components, transformers and connectivity modules, and it provides power-supply, noise-suppression and thermal-management solutions for AI data centers, automotive electronics and optical modules. Known for its miniaturized, high-reliability component technologies, it has long supplied the smartphone, smart-wearable and automotive-electronics markets.