Intevac, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the designing, developing, and manufacturing thin-film processing systems in the United States, Europe, and Asia. It designs, develops, and markets vacuum process equipment solutions for manufacturing small substrates with precise thin-film properties, such as hard disk drive and other adjacent thin-film markets. The company sells its products primarily through its direct sales force, as well as through distributors in Japan. Intevac, Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.