Transition from the Tokyo Electron Corporate Pension Fund to an independently administered defined benefit pension plan

「Effective 1 October 2016, we and our domestic consolidated subsidiaries withdrew from the Tokyo Electron Corporate Pension Fund and transitioned to our own company-specific contractual defined benefit corporate pension plan. In connection with this transition, we transferred the retirement benefit obligations and plan assets relating to beneficiaries to Tokyo Electron Limited and amortized in full the unrecognized actuarial differences corresponding to the beneficiaries' portion.」