APPLIED MATERIALS

'Applied Materials, Inc.' () 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.
Applied Materials 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.
Applied has three subsidiaries: AKT, Inc., Etec Systems, Inc. and Metron Technology, Inc. On July 7th, 2006 Applied Materials,Inc. has completed its acquisition of Applied Films Corp., a producer of equipment used in manufacturing flat panel displays and solar cells. On March 30th 2007, Applied Materials, Inc. completed its acquisition of Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. This makes Applied Materials the largest supplier of independent Material Control System (MCS) software in the world with its CLASS MCS 5 product.

Contents

Management

Quotes

Customers

Competitors

References

External links

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.

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

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