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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, electrochemical plating , etching, ion implantation, rapid thermal processing , chemical mechanical polishing, metrology and wafer inspection .
Applied has two subsidiaries: AKT, Inc. and Etec Systems, Inc.
Management
- Chairman: James C. (Jim) Morgan
- President, CEO: Michael R. (Mike) Splinter
- SVP: Mark Pinto
Customers
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