Applied Materials

Applied Materials, Inc. engages in provision of materials engineering solutions used to produce semiconductors. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and currently employs 35,500 full-time employees. The firm provides equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through two segments: Semiconductor Systems and Applied Global Services (AGS). The Semiconductor Systems segment includes semiconductor capital equipment to enable materials engineering steps including etch, rapid thermal processing, deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, metrology and inspection, wafer packaging, and ion implantation. The AGS segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity, including services, spares and factory automation software for semiconductor and other products. Its products include personal computing devices, mobile phones, artificial intelligence (AI) and data center servers, automobiles, connected devices, industrial applications and consumer electronics.