Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Applied Materials (AMAT) is one of the world’s premier semiconductor and display equipment manufacturers. Founded in 1967, the company specializes in atomic-level materials engineering systems that allow global chipmakers to fabricate increasingly complex integrated circuits. Applied Materials provides the highly advanced deposition, etching, and ion implantation tools required to produce some of the most advanced microprocessors on the planet.
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