APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE

Applied Materials, Inc. is a Delaware corporation incorporated in 1967. The company is a global technology leader in materials engineering solutions for various industries, including semiconductors, displays, and related markets. Applied Materials provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to help its customers improve device performance, power, yield, and cost. The company operates in three reportable segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells a wide range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips. The segment includes systems for epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation/nitridation, rapid thermal processing (RTP), physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), etch, selective processing, and metrology and inspection. Applied Global Services (AGS) provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity, including spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. AGS operates in more than 195 locations worldwide and offers technology-enabled services, fab consulting, supply chain assurance programs, subfab equipment, and automation software. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment focuses on products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays (LCDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and other display technologies for various consumer devices and solar energy cells. The segment offers array test, defect review, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), and backlog management services. Applied Materials' website is located at https://www.appliedmaterials.com, and its common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol AMAT.