Applied Materials, Inc.

Organized in 1967, Applied, a Delaware corporation, develops, manufactures, markets and services integrated circuit fabrication equipment for the worldwide semiconductor and semiconductor-related industry. Customers for these products include semiconductor wafer manufacturers and integrated circuit manufacturers (including those that produce chips and flat panel displays), which either use the integrated circuits they manufacture in their own products or sell them to other companies for use in advanced electronic components. Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Most chips are built on a silicon wafer base and include a variety of circuit components, such as transistors and other devices, that are connected by multiple layers of wiring (interconnects).