Intel Corporation became a client of and investor in Nova in 1997.[7][8] In 1999 Nova announced the establishment of a subsidiary in Japan, Nova Measuring Instruments K.K., and that it was opening offices in Singapore in order to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific market.[9] Nova executed its initial public offering on the NASDAQ exchange in April 2000.[10] In 2006 Nova acquired HyperNex Inc., a Pennsylvania-based developer of microstructure analysis tools.[11] In 2021 Nova acquired ancosys GmbH, a privately held German company, specializing in chemical metrology[12]
^Offer Danon, Ariel Karmeli (September 2008). "Becoming a trusted supplier to fabs and foundries"(PDF). Israel Venture Capital & Private Equity. 8 (3): 11. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 5 October 2011. The company was established in 1993 by Giora Dishon and Moshe Finarov, formerly of Orbotech, to develop an advanced concept of integrating metrology and inspection tasks into the semiconductor process line.
^Finarov, Moshe (June 1999). "Specifying and evaluating thin-film metrology tools". Solid State Technology. 42 (6): 111. Retrieved 5 October 2011. Moshe Finarov received his PhD in semiconductor physics from the Technical University in Moscow.
^Feldman, Batya (11 November 2010). "'במקום נובה חדשה אני עוזר לחברות אנרגיה מתחדשת'" [Instead of a new Nova I'm helping renewable energy companies]. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 October 2011. בשנת 1997 אינטל השקיעה בנובה והפכה גם ללקוחה שלה.
^"Nova Measuring Instruments". Teuza. Retrieved 7 October 2011. In April 2000 Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd., in which Teuza's original investment was $900,000, issued its shares on the USA NASDAQ stock exchange (at a post money valuation of $285M).
