Applied Materials Expands Global Presence to Better Serve Customers in Asia.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. NASDAQ: AMAT (HKSE: 4336 ) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel solar displays, solar Adds New Clean Room Capabilities to Taiwan Manufacturing Center and Breaks Ground on New Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. Headquarters Applied Materials, Inc., the world's largest supplier of equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry, today announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art clean room manufacturing facility as part of a multi-phase manufacturing center in Tainan, Taiwan, and the start of construction on a new Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore. "The Asia Pacific region offers tremendous long-term opportunities for Applied Materials as the demand grows for the semiconductors that our customers produce, raising requirements for advanced equipment necessary to create these chips," stated James C. Morgan, chairman and chief executive officer of Applied Materials. "Our strong ongoing commitment to investment in technology and global infrastructure has been central to our success for the past thirty-three years." "We are investing to better serve our customers in Asia, and throughout the world, to help them make the more powerful, portable and affordable chips that are the engine of the Information Age," added Morgan. Expanded Customer Solutions for Taiwan The Tainan campus operations are focused on customer support and manufacturing of key semiconductor equipment components in a modern clean room facility. This modern technology facility will allow Applied Materials to better support its customers' needs for training, components and process capability in Taiwan, establishing a more complete supply chain for the local semiconductor industry and extending the high-technology development to Southern Taiwan. Today, Applied Materials Taiwan (AMT See vPro. ) has more than 830 employees headquartered in Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park (SBIP SBIP Small Business Incubator Program (Australian government) SBIP Super Boat International Productions, Inc. SBIP Swiss Banking IT Platform ), Linko and Tainan. Commitment to Southeast Asia The new Applied Materials Southeast Asia (AMSEA AMSEA American Overseas Marine Corporation ) headquarters will be located in Singapore's Changi Business Park The Changi Business Park (Abbreviation: CBP; Chinese: 樟宜商业园) is a business park located in Changi South, in the eastern part of Singapore. and incorporate a state-of-the-art technology training center. Applied Materials engineers and customers throughout Southeast Asia can receive local training on Applied Materials' sophisticated wafer (1) A small, thin continuous-loop magnetic tape cartridge that has been used from time to time for data storage and specialized applications. (2) The base unit of chip making. It is a slice taken from a salami-like silicon crystal ingot up to 12" (300mm) in diameter. processing equipment. The facility will also be an engineering center for AMSEA hardware and software development. Applied Materials South East Asia East Asia A region of Asia coextensive with the Far East. East Asian adj. & n. (AMSEA) has more than 500 employees and offices based in Singapore and in Kuching and Kulim, Malaysia. Commitment to China Applied Materials began doing business in China in 1984, and today has offices in Beijing, Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. , Tianjin and Wuxi equipped with complete modern information technology systems to link to Applied Materials' global customer support infrastructure. Applied Materials' strong sales and service organization in China leverages the Company's expertise from around the world is in place to support the growing Chinese semiconductor industry with advanced technologies and solutions. Information for Everyone(TM) Today, in Asia, Applied Materials launched its new global branding campaign focused around the Company's stated purpose of enabling Information for Everyone. The campaign, which points to the ubiquity Ubiquity See also Omnipresence. Burma-Shave their signs seen as “verses of the wayside throughout America.” [Am. Commerce and Folklore: Misc. of semiconductor chips in daily life, is a move by the Company to expand awareness among the general public of the benefits brought about through the chips produced by customers using Applied Materials' equipment. "Countries such as China and Japan have some of the fastest technology adoption rates as increasingly technology-literate consumers purchase cell phones, computers and other high tech devices," stated Morgan. "Applied Materials is proud of the role it plays in improving the lives of people around the world by helping them to connect to the new global network." Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT AMAT Applied Materials (stock symbol) AMAT Average Memory Access Time AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter AMAT Anti-Materiel (bomb or mine) AMAT Ageing Management Assessment Team ), the largest supplier of products and services to the global semiconductor industry, is one of the world's leading information infrastructure providers. Applied Materials' Web site is http://www.appliedmaterials.com. |
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