Applied Materials

Applied Materials provides materials engineering solutions - including equipment, software and services - that enable the creation of virtually every new semiconductor and advanced display in the world. The company has been in operation for over five decades and works on a global scale, supplying the technologies that underpin chip fabrication and display production across the industry.

Its semiconductor manufacturing equipment covers materials engineering processes at the leading edge of chipmaking, among them technologies for shrinking transistors to atomic scales and developing new materials intended to make computing faster and more efficient. Alongside hardware, Applied Materials supplies software and services designed to advance artificial intelligence and to speed the commercialisation of next-generation chips.

The company's work touches a range of end markets, including semiconductors, advanced displays, artificial intelligence, smartphones, electric vehicles and cloud computing. Internally, it describes a mission-driven culture focused on pushing the boundaries of science and engineering and on solving the industry's most complex technical challenges.