Our Purpose –To advance the science and business of lithography as the key enabler of semiconductor device manufacturing thereby empowering our customers to deliver products and solutions that ultimately drive the “information age.”

Our Commitment – To deliver smart solutions that improve our customer’s competitiveness and guarantee high returns on their lithography investments.

Our Aim - Already number one in cameras, business copiers, and ink-jet printers, Canon is now aiming for market leadership in all major businesses worldwide – including lithography.

Our Strategy – In support of our aim and commitment towards market leadership our strategies will focus around the following areas.
- Maintain strong investments in advanced products and technology
- Increased focus on delivering integrated lithography solutions
- Expanding partnerships and industry alliances
- Delivering superior service and support

Our Mission – “To position Canon Semiconductor Group as the foremost partner for our customers by providing compelling leading-edge technology, products and solutions for the advancement of semiconductor lithography.

Positioning ourselves from others and setting the framework and inspiration for our actions, our mission statement pulls together our goals, strategies and objectives and becomes our unique calling card and identity.

Enlightened Lithography – Making technology pay its way.

Canon’s success in lithography has come from both its advanced technology and the unique way it applied that technology…

For Canon, it is not enough to just develop and integrate new lithography technology. Adding extra “bells and whistles” can sometimes increase a user’s costs without a sufficient payback in performance.

So for Canon, the real question is, how can we do the job more intelligently, more efficiently, more elegantly? How can we give our users more usable performance per unit of technology and per unit of cost?

Canon calls this approach Enlightened Lithography.