Applied Materials, Inc.
Type	Public (NASDAQ: AMAT)
Founded	1967
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California
Key people	James C. Morgan, Chairman Michael R. Splinter, President, CEO, and Director George S. Davis, CFO
Industry	Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Revenue	$9.167 Billion USD (2006)
Net income	$1.516 Billion USD (2006)
Employees	14,072 (2006)
Website	www.amat.com

Applied Materials, Inc. NASDAQ: AMAT (SEHK: 4336) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel solar displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass.The company is the world's largest supplier of products and services to the semiconductor industry. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California in the Silicon Valley. Founded in 1967 by Michael A. McNeilly and others, Applied Materials went public in 1972. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Location of Santa Clara within Santa Clara County, California. ... A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity is in between that of a conductor and that of an insulator, and can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Traditional Chinese: , also 港交所; abbreviated as HKEX ; SEHK: 0388) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ... A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity is in between that of a conductor and that of an insulator, and can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically. ... Location of Santa Clara within Santa Clara County, California. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... In financial markets, an initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a companys common shares to public investors. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Applied Materials creates and commercializes nanomanufacturing technology that helps produce semiconductor chips and flat panel displays. The company recently entered the market for equipment to produce solar arrays and energy efficient glass. The company manufactures systems that perform most of the primary steps in the chip fabrication process, including atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), electrochemical plating (EP), etching, ion implantation, rapid thermal processing, chemical mechanical polishing, metrology and wafer inspection. Nasas Glenn Research Center clean room. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... DC plasma (violet) enhances the growth of carbon nanotubes in this laboratory-scale PECVD apparatus. ... Physical vapor deposition (PVD) is a technique used to deposit thin films of various materials onto various surfaces (e. ... Etching is used in microfabrication to chemically remove layers from the surface of a wafer during manufacturing. ... Ion implantation is a materials engineering process by which ions of a material can be implanted into another solid, thereby changing the physical properties of the solid. ... Rapid thermal processing (or RTP) refers to a semiconductor manufacturing process which heats silicon wafers to high temperatures (up to 1200 C or greater) on a timescale of several seconds or less. ... ... Metrology (from Greek metron (measure), and -logy) is the science of measurement. ...

Applied has three subsidiaries: AKT, Inc., HCT Shaping Systems and Metron Technology, Inc. Applied Materials, Inc. has recently completed several acquisitions including HCT Shaping Systems, Applied Films Corp., a producer of equipment used in manufacturing flat panel displays and solar cells and Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. The Company has a joint venture with SCREEN, Sokudo, which manufactures a semiconductor track product. A solar cell, made from a monocrystalline silicon wafer A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts light energy into electrical energy. ...

The company has offices in 15 countries, United States, Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, Germany, Taiwan, France, Spain, Italy, Israel, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland, India.

Management

• Chairman: James C. Morgan
• President, CEO: Michael R. Splinter
• SVP, CTO: Mark Pinto
• CFO: George Davis

Quotes

• "Clearly there is a need for science and engineering talent in this country that is not being met by home-grown talent. ... These are people who are going to develop the next big thing, and ... [the government is] driving people offshore. It boggles the mind that we would come to this point.", William Morin, director of government affairs for Applied Materials Inc. ^[1]

Customers

• Advanced Micro Devices
• Intel
• Freescale Semiconductor
• Samsung Electronics
• Hynix
• TSMC
• UMC
• Texas Instruments
• Winbond
• Toshiba
• Sony
• Micron Technology
• STMicroelectronics
• Infineon
• Renesas
• NEC
• Matsushita
• Powerchip Semiconductor
• ProMos Technologies
• Qimonda
• Qualcomm
• RexChip
• Sharp
• IBM
• Vishay Intertechnology Inc.

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Competitors

• ASML Holding
• Axcelis Technologies
• Novellus Systems
• Lam Research
• TEL
• Aviza Technology Inc.
• KLA-Tencor
• Ulvac
• Varian Semiconductor
• DAS GmbH, Dresden, Germany
• Kornic Systems Corporation, Korea

ASML Holding N.V. (Euronext: ASML, NASDAQ: ASML) (ASML) is the worlds leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or chips. ... Axcelis Technologies, Inc. ... Novellus Systems develops, manufactures, sells, and services semiconductor equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. ... Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. ... TEL is a three-letter acronym Tetra-ethyl lead, a gasoline additive to make leaded gasoline Tokyo Electron, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer Transporter erector launcher Technology Enhanced Learning Category: ... KLA Tencor is a semi-conductor company which manufactures inspection equipment for wafers and reticles. ... Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. ...

References

• 1. ^ 'US reaches visa cap, skilled workers out of luck ', Reuters, Apr 4, 2007

External links

• Applied Materials official website
• Metron Technology official website
• Yahoo! - Applied Materials, Inc. Company Profile