About Applied Materials
Applied Materials makes the machines and software that chip factories use to manufacture semiconductors. Its equipment covers deposition, which lays down thin films on a wafer, along with etch, ion implantation, chemical-mechanical planarization and metrology and inspection. It also supplies equipment for displays. It does not make chips itself and sells to chipmakers and foundries instead. The company was founded in 1967, went public in 1972 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Applied Materials was founded in 1967 and is based in Santa Clara, CA, United States. It is listed under Custom Silicon.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
What Applied Materials works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
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