Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) announced today that it has decided upon directorship candidates, personnel changes, and partial organizational changes, which are described below. The appointment of the listed candidates for directorship will be subject to approval at the annual shareholders' meeting to be held in late June of this year.



1. Twelve Candidates for Corporate Directors

Tetsuro Higashi	Tetsuo Tsuneishi	Kiyoshi Sato
Mamoru Hara	Hirosuke Ishibashi	Kengo Kuroiwa
Masao Kubodera	Yukio Sunahara	Toshiyuki Kondo

*Yuichi Honda	(now Senior Director, Global Audit Center)
*Keiichi Furugaki	(now VP & General Manager, Business Development & Account Management, Korea, and President & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Korea Ltd.)
*Haruo Iwatsu	(now President and Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd.)

Note: Asterisk indicates a candidate for appointment as new director.





2. Partial Organizational Changes and Personnel Changes Effective March 1, 2005



Effective March 1, 2005, the Manufacturing division will be renamed the "Manufacturing and IT division" with its Total Cost Down Project abolished and replaced by a new Business Process Re-engineering Dept.. Shinji Miyazaki, the current leader of the Total Cost Down Project at Tokyo Electron Kyushu, will head the new department.

Purpose of Organizational Changes

Up to now, the Total Cost Down Project has carried out reforms focusing on manufacturing with the primary objectives being "to gain competitive advantage through shorter lead time" and "reduce costs through supply chain optimization." The focus of future activities (Phase II) will be to reform employee awareness and business processes to ensure closer cooperation among TEL operations (manufacturing, sales, services, etc.). Established mainly to promote these activities, the new Business Process Re-engineering Dept. will work to simplify business processes and develop IT infrastructures and also unify and bolster corporate structures for swifter and more efficient execution of business.





3. Personnel Changes Effective April 1, 2005

Keiichi Furugaki	(New)	Senior Specialist, Tokyo Electron Device Ltd.
	(Now)	VP & General Manager, Business Development & Account Management, Korea,
		and President & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Korea Ltd.
		(Furugaki will become Corporate Director, Tokyo Electron Ltd. and Chairman & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. at the date of the annual shareholders' meeting to be held in late June of this year.)
Yasuyuki Kuriki	(New)	President & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Korea Ltd.
	(Now)	VP & General Manager, Thermal Processing Systems BU
		and Senior Executive VP & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron AT Ltd.
Hiroshi Takenaka	(New)	VP & General Manager, Thermal Processing Systems BU
	(Now)	VP & General Manager, Single Wafer Deposition BU
Kenji Washino	(New)	VP & General Manager, Single Wafer Deposition BU
	(Now)	VP & General Manager, Surface Preparation Systems BU
Yoshiteru Harada	(New)	VP & General Manager, Administration
	(Now)	VP & General Manager, General Affairs / Accounting / Order Process / Legal / Osaka Branch Office
Masaaki Hata	(New)	General Manager, Surface Preparation Systems BU
		and Director, Surface Preparation Systems Dept.
	(Now)	Director, Surface Preparation Systems Dept.
Yoshinori Inoue	(New)	Deputy General Manager, Business Development & Account Management, Japan
		and Director, Business Development & Account Management, West Japan
	(Now)	Chairman of the Board, Tokyo Electron (Shanghai) Ltd.
		and Chairman of the Board, Tokyo Electron (Shanghai) Logistic Center Ltd.

* BU stands for Business Unit.