TDK Electronics

What TDK Electronics does

TDK Electronics AG, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's TDK Corporation and one of Europe's largest manufacturers of passive electronic components and subsystems. The company designs and produces capacitors (aluminum electrolytic, ceramic including MLCC, and film types), sensors (NTC thermistors, pressure, ultrasonic, level, and MEMS inertial sensors via the Tronics brand), inductors, transformers, EMC components, ferrite cores and accessories, permanent magnets (ferrite and neodymium), wireless power transfer Tx/Rx modules, piezoelectric actuators (PowerHap, PiezoHapt) and components, and substrates for high-power semiconductors. The portfolio also includes proprietary differentiated products such as CeraCharge — the world's first rechargeable multilayer ceramic chip — and MediPlas cold plasma technology for medical and surface treatment applications.

The company sells primarily into four vertical solution segments: Automotive (traction inverters, onboard chargers, xEV power electronics, thermal management, sensing), Industrial Automation (variable speed drives, energy storage, railway traction, DC microgrids), Renewable Energies (solar and wind inverters, DC fast charging infrastructure), and Home Appliances. Customers are industrial and automotive OEMs and tier-one suppliers, served through direct field sales with application engineering support, a global distributor network anchored by Digi-Key for sample kits and catalog sales, and active participation at major industry trade shows (PCIM Europe, electronica Munich, electronica Shanghai, SPS, AutoEV Bharat).

Revenue is generated through B2B hardware sales of catalog components and application-specific parts, with pricing negotiated on a per-application, volume, and contract basis — not publicly disclosed. TDK Electronics maintains IATF 16949 automotive quality certification, ISO 9001, RoHS II, and REACH compliance, and supports customers with an extensive design enablement stack including LTspice and PSpice simulation models, sample kits, reference designs co-developed with Infineon, an in-house EMC testing laboratory, and ASIC development services through the ICSense subsidiary. The company benefits from the manufacturing scale, procurement leverage, and R&D investment of the broader TDK Corporation group.

Name

TDK Electronics

Legal name

TDK Electronics AG

Website

https://tdk.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TDK Electronics AG is a Munich-based subsidiary of Japan's TDK Corporation that manufactures passive electronic components — capacitors, sensors, inductors, transformers, magnetics, and EMC devices — for automotive, industrial automation, renewable energy, and home appliance OEMs globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Passive Electronic Components

NAICS

Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing (3359), Electrical Equipment Manufacturing (33531)

SIC

Electronic Components & Accessories (3670), Electronic Coils, Transformers & Other Inductors (3677), Electronic Components, Nec (3679)

akta.pro primary industry

Passive Components (Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Ferrites) (IMAGAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

EMI/EMC & Filtering Components (Common-mode chokes, filters, shielding materials) (IMAGAJAN), RF & Microwave Connectors and Coaxial Assemblies (HDAHAOAD)

Keywords

• Passive electronic components
• Capacitors and inductors
• Sensors and sensor systems
• EMC components
• Wireless power transfer

Headquarters

HQ city

Budapest

HQ country

Hungary

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Electronic Components and Subsystems Sales: TDK Electronics generates the majority of its revenue from the design, manufacture, and sale of passive electronic components and subsystems to industrial and automotive OEM customers. Products include capacitors, sensors, inductors, transformers, EMC components, ferrites, magnets, wireless power transfer systems, and piezo components. Revenue is derived from both standard product catalog sales and application-specific components.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

TDK Electronics designs, manufactures, and sells passive electronic components and subsystems — including capacitors (aluminum electrolytic, ceramic, film), sensors, inductors, transformers, EMC components, ferrites, magnets, wireless power transfer systems, piezo components, CeraCharge, and MEMS inertial sensors (Tronics) — to industrial and automotive OEM customers. The company also provides design support tools, sample kits, reference designs, and an EMC testing laboratory to facilitate customer design-in and adoption.

Product overview

TDK Electronics is a manufacturer of passive electronic components and sensor systems serving the automotive, industrial automation, renewable energy, and home appliance markets. The product portfolio is organized into distinct categories: capacitors (aluminum electrolytic, ceramic, and film types), components for power factor correction and harmonic filtering (PhaseCap, DeltaCap, PhiCap, PQvar, PQSine), power capacitors, RF components and modules (filters, diplexers, baluns, antennas), sensors and sensor systems (NTC thermistors, pressure, ultrasonic, MEMS gyros/accelerometers via Tronics), protection devices (voltage, current, temperature), switching/heating/piezo components (PTC thermistors, PowerHap actuators, microphones), inductors (SMT, power, high current flat wire, transponder coils), transformers (DC-DC, IGBT/FET, automotive ultrasonic), EMC components (filters, chokes, CarXield, LeaXield), ferrites and accessories, magnets (ferrite and neodymium), wireless power transfer (Tx/Rx coils, NFC), substrates (SESUB micro modules), cold plasma technology (MediPlas), and CeraCharge — the world's first rechargeable multilayer ceramic chip. Design enablement is supported through Sample Kits, Design Tools (including LTspice model libraries), Reference Designs, and an EMC Laboratory. The company also offers ASIC development via its icsense subsidiary, and additional products including power supplies (TDK-Lambda), flash storages, solar cells, and anechoic chambers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TDK Europe: European regional operations and sales entity for TDK Electronics products.
• CeraCharge
• CeraLink
• PowerHap
• PiezoHapt
• MediPlas
• LeaXield
• CarXield

Products and services

• Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors Aluminum electrolytic capacitors used in frequency converters, wind power converters, solar inverters, professional power supplies and UPS, medical applications, professional photoflash units, and automotive applications. Available in screw terminal, snap-in, axial, hybrid polymer, and single-ended (radial) variants, with outstanding ripple current capabilities and very long-term reliability. Targeted at industrial and automotive OEM customers.
• Ceramic Capacitors Ceramic capacitors including multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCC), MLCC with dipped radial leads, ultra high voltage ceramic capacitors, 3-terminal feedthrough MLCCs, disc type capacitors with leads, and CeraLink capacitors for power electronics. Targeted at electronics OEMs across automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
• Film Capacitors for PCB/Busbar Mounting and Motor Run Film capacitors for PCB and busbar mounting used for EMI filtering, energy storage, smoothing, and coupling in power electronics. Sub-categories include EMI suppression capacitors, snubber/resonant circuit/PFC capacitors, DC link capacitors, AC filtering capacitors, RFI filtering capacitors, and motor run/motor start capacitors. Targeted at industrial, automotive, and renewable energy OEMs.
• Components for PFC and Harmonic Filtering Portfolio including PhaseCap Energy Plus, DeltaCap, DeltaCap X Black Premium, PhiCap, and PoleCap capacitors, plus vacuum contactors, PQSine, PQvar reactive power compensation systems, PF controllers, multi-measuring devices, capacitor contactors, thyristor modules, reactors, and the Grid Analysis Tool MC7000-3. Designed for industrial power factor correction and harmonic filtering installations.
• Power Capacitors High-power capacitors (MKP and MKD series) for AC filtering, DC applications, and DC link/filtering, available in cylindrical and rectangular form factors. Targeted at industrial and renewable energy power electronics.
• RF Components and Modules Radio frequency components including filters, diplexers, triplexers, baluns, directional couplers, antennas, and isolators/circulators. Targeted at communications and electronics OEMs.
• Sensors and Sensor Systems Broad sensor portfolio covering NTC temperature measurement sensors, SMD NTC thermistors, level sensors, limit temperature sensors, motor protection sensors, pressure sensor elements and transmitters, ultrasonic sensors, clamp AC current sensors, gear tooth sensors, surface potential sensors, humidity sensors, magnetic toner density sensors, angle sensors, MEMS gyros (Tronics), MEMS accelerometers (Tronics), and pressure and temperature sensor systems. Targeted at automotive, industrial, and consumer electronics OEMs.
• Protection Devices Electronic protection components for voltage, current, and temperature protection in circuit applications. Targeted at industrial and automotive OEMs requiring circuit protection.
• Switching, Heating, Piezo Components, Contactors, Buzzers and Microphones Includes PTC thermistors for motor start, switching, and heating; high-voltage contactors; switching spark gaps; multilayer piezo actuator stacks; PowerHap piezoelectric actuators; ultrasonic nebulizer units; electromagnetic and piezoelectric buzzers; PiezoHapt actuators; and MEMS microphones. Targeted at industrial, automotive, medical, and consumer electronics OEMs.
• Inductors (Coils) Inductor portfolio including SMT inductors, SMT power inductors, high current flat wire inductors, transponder coils, and choke coils for PFC applications. Targeted at power electronics OEMs in industrial, automotive, and renewable energy markets.
• Transformers Transformers for DC/DC converters, IGBT/FET, automotive ultrasonic sensors, pulse transformers, SMT current sense transformers, step-up transformers, transformers for BMS, and transformers for AC/DC converters. Targeted at industrial, automotive, and renewable energy OEMs.
• EMC Components Electromagnetic compatibility components including data and signal line chokes/common-mode filters, power line chokes, power EMC filters, CarXield automotive filter, LeaXield active leakage current filter, reactors for power electronics, output filters, LCL filters, EMC filters for shielded rooms, EMC feedthrough filters, ferrite cores for EMC suppression, clamp filters, noise suppression filters for audio lines, 3-terminal filters, chip beads, and EMC output filter solutions. Targeted at industrial and automotive OEMs needing EMC compliance.
• Ferrites and Accessories Ferrite cores and accessories including cores with distributed air gaps, E/ELP, EFD/EV, ER/ETD/EQ, PM/P/EP, PQ, ring/double-aperture, RM, U/I cores, blocks, plates, disks, and ferrite materials. Targeted at power electronics, EMC suppression, and magnetic sensing applications across automotive, industrial, and consumer markets.
• Magnets Permanent magnets including ferrite magnets and neodymium magnets. Targeted at automotive, industrial, and consumer OEMs requiring magnetic components.
• Wireless Power Transfer Wireless charging components including Tx coil units and modules, Rx coil units and modules, NFC antenna combo Rx coil units, and wireless power transfer/NFC antennas with low loss shielding sheets. Targeted at consumer electronics and automotive OEMs implementing wireless charging.
• Substrates (SESUB) Substrates for high-power and fast switching semiconductors, including micro modules (SESUB - Semiconductor Embedded Substrate). Targeted at power electronics OEMs requiring compact integration of semiconductor devices.
• Cold Plasma Technology (MediPlas) Cold plasma technology products including MediPlas for medical applications and cold plasma surface treatment systems. Targeted at medical device and industrial surface treatment OEMs.
• CeraCharge The world's first rechargeable multilayer ceramic chip — a compact, reliable, and extremely safe solid-state power supply solution for simple gadgets to complex industrial IoT devices. Targeted at OEMs needing compact, safe, rechargeable energy storage.
• Further TDK Products Additional TDK products including noise suppressing/magnetic sheets, transparent conductive film (ITO), foils for aluminum electrolytic capacitors, anechoic chambers and radio wave absorbers, FA systems, flash storages, micro modules (SESUB), solar cells, and power supplies under the TDK-Lambda brand. Targeted at industrial, automotive, and consumer OEMs requiring these specialized components.
• Application Specific IC (ASIC) Development and Supply Custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) development and supply through ICSense, a TDK company. Targeted at OEMs needing custom ASIC design and supply integrated with TDK's broader component portfolio.

Quantifiable outcome

• CeraCharge provides rechargeable battery functionality in a multilayer ceramic chip form factor — a first-in-class product combining ceramic technology reliability with rechargeable energy storage.
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• WEARTminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026TDK and WEART formed a haptics partnership announced at CES 2026 for haptic glove technology. The collaboration combines TDK's expertise in electronic components and miniaturization with WEART's haptics technology, targeting extended reality (XR) and smart glasses applications. The partnership was featured among key CES 2026 XR announcements.
• InfineoncoreTechnology or IntegrationTDK Electronics collaborates with Infineon on reference designs for power management and inverter applications. Specific reference designs include the Infineon OPTIREG TLF35584QVVS1 PMIC Board and the Infineon REF-22K-GPD-INV-EASY3B inverter reference design. TDK provides passive components and magnetic components that complement Infineon's semiconductor solutions in these validated reference designs.
• Digi-KeycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDigi-Key serves as a primary distributor for TDK Electronics sample kits and selected catalog products, enabling global self-service access for engineers evaluating TDK components. TDK references Digi-Key links for multiple sample kit categories on its website, indicating an active and ongoing distribution partnership.
• Google (Android XR)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTDK is involved in the broader XR ecosystem through partnerships supporting extended reality and smart glass applications. While the Google Android XR partnership is with XREAL (not directly with TDK), TDK supplies components for XR devices and collaborates with haptic technology partners in this space. TDK's role in the XR ecosystem was highlighted at CES 2026 alongside Google Android XR announcements.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Kyocera AVX Components: U.S.-headquartered (Kyocera subsidiary) supplier of capacitors, circuit protection, connectors, and sensors. Direct peer in automotive, industrial, and renewable energy passive component applications.
• Coilcraft: U.S. specialist in inductors, transformers, and RF components. Comparable to TDK's inductor and transformer product lines, particularly for power electronics and automotive applications.
• Yageo Corporation: Taiwanese passive components leader following acquisition of KEMET. Competes directly with TDK in MLCCs, tantalum/polymer/film capacitors, and resistors, serving automotive, industrial, and consumer markets globally.
• Vishay Intertechnology: U.S.-based manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and passive components including capacitors, resistors, inductors, and sensors. Directly competes with TDK Electronics in capacitors, inductors, and sensors for industrial and automotive markets.
• Panasonic Industry: Panasonic's electronic components division offering capacitors, resistors, inductors, relays, and sensors. Competes with TDK across automotive, industrial, and home appliance verticals with comparable materials-science capabilities.
• Murata Manufacturing: Japanese global leader in passive electronic components including MLCCs, inductors, EMI filters, and sensors. Closest direct competitor to TDK Electronics across nearly every product category, with comparable scale and automotive/industrial focus.
• Würth Elektronik: German passive components specialist with strong European presence, offering capacitors, inductors, transformers, EMC components, and ferrites. Comparable to TDK in European automotive and industrial customer base.
• Samsung Electro-Mechanics: Korean manufacturer of MLCCs, tantalum capacitors, inductors, and advanced packaging substrates. Major direct competitor in multilayer ceramic capacitors and automotive-grade passives.
• Bourns: U.S.-based manufacturer of resistive products, circuit protection, magnetics, and position/speed sensors. Directly comparable product portfolio in automotive and industrial passive components.

Others

• EPCOS (TDK Group brand): EPCOS was historically a standalone German passive components company that became part of TDK Group and is now integrated into TDK Electronics AG. Listed here to acknowledge the historical brand relationship rather than as an independent peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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