Applied Materials

Applied Materials is a fortune 500 stock listed company trading under the symbol AMAT The company has a good stock performance record.

Applied Materials was founded in 1967 with the company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, and service of integrated circuit fabrication equipment for the semiconductor industry worldwide. It offers systems that perform the chip fabrication process, including atomic layer deposition chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, electrochemical plating, etch, ion implantation, rapid thermal processing, chemical mechanical polishing, wafer wet cleaning, wafer metrology and inspection, and flat panel display manufacturing, as well as systems that etch, measure, and inspect circuit patterns on masks used in the photolithography process. The company’s integrated chips are built on a silicon wafer base and include various circuit components, such as transistors and other devices that are connected by various layers of wiring. It supplies systems for manufacturing copper-based chips, and for depositing, etching, and planarizing the copper interconnect layers. The company’s products are marketed and sold worldwide through a direct sales force. It serves semiconductor wafer manufacturers and integrated circuit manufacturers in Taiwan, North America, and Japan etc.

Scaling the Non Volatile Memory (NVM) cell requires reducing the gate length which is typically achieved by thinning the tunnel oxide to control short channel effects. However, a thinner tunnel oxide leads to an increased leakage current and loss of the stored charge on the floating gate, negatively impacting charge retention and device reliability. Applied shows how strain introduced into the NVM bit cell reduces tunneling leakage current and enables scaling. It also Leadership in China with New Facility in Xi'an. This press release contains forward-looking statements, including those relating to Applied Materials' future outlook, return of stockholder value, growth strategy, operational excellence, cash generation and management, and cash deployment strategies.

Applied Materials Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient as of 1-Apr-06 is better than 69.7 percent of S&P 500 companies and 97.5 percent of Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment companies.

Applied Materials mission is to become the global leader in nano manufacturing technology solutions for the electronics industry, through differentiated and innovative system, service and software products, providing customers a trusted path to superior results.