CHOKEPOINT
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ENTITY · tanaka

Tanaka Precious Metals

Japan·packaging materials·major

Precious-metals group supplying bonding wire, plating, and targets.

CLEAR · 0–39
36/100 illustrative
Underwriting Thesis

CLEAR — Tanaka Precious Metals: sole-source / single-point-of-failure dominance compounded by criticality to DoD-exposed downstream programs in packaging materials. A chokepoint underwriting concern at this tier.

Factor Breakdown
Foreign-Origin Concentration18
Sole-Source Dependence74
Sanctions Exposure0
Downstream Criticality60
Sanctions Exposure

Entity not present on tracked screening lists (CSL).

DoD Exposure

No matched DoD semiconductor awards (USASpending) for this entity.

Segments
packaging materialssputtering targets
Shortest paths → DoD-exposed firms
  • GlobalFoundries · 1 hop · $1.05B
    Tanaka Precious Metals → GlobalFoundries
  • Marvell Technology · 2 hops · $184.3M
    Tanaka Precious Metals → ASE Technology → Marvell Technology
  • Valens Semiconductor · 2 hops · $28.3M
    Tanaka Precious Metals → ASE Technology → Valens Semiconductor
  • Scale AI · 3 hops · $105.6M
    Tanaka Precious Metals → ASE Technology → NVIDIA → Scale AI
Chokepoint Relationships

Key Suppliers · upstream · 0

No mapped upstream suppliers.

Key Customers · downstream · 13

Data Provenance· generated 2026-08-10 01:06:49Z
  • Consolidated Screening List (CSL) [LIVE] https://data.trade.gov/downloadable_consolidated_screening_list/v1/consolidated.json @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.039Z
  • USASpending.gov — DoD award search [LIVE] https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.377Z
  • Curated ownership aggregation [FALLBACK] @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.378Z
  • Curated China-ecosystem + Nexperia edges (Phase B, CSET ETO + TechInsights + TrendForce + SCMP + BIS Entity List + Nexperia press release) [FALLBACK] @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.378Z

Firm/commodity-level signals from public data — not component-level BOM. Scores are an analytic underwriting heuristic, not legal or procurement advice.