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Today, we are honored to announce that Thomson Reuters has named Applied Materials as a 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator, recognizing the company’s achievements as one of the world’s most innovative companies.Read more

Fifty-three years ago today, Jack Kilby demonstrated a working integrated circuit (IC). The IC, is arguably the most important invention of the 20th century. The IC made many of the technologies and devices we use possible. 

I spoke with Applied Materials chief technology officer, Om Nalamasu about the IC and its impact on the hi-tech industry. He suggested, the "IC has been one of the primary contributors in transforming industrial society to Information and knowledge based society.

Dow Jones recently reported on the future of tablet and smartphone displays. As the leading equipment supplier to the display industry, Applied Materials was called on to lend comment to the trends and technologies that will be driving the industry in the coming years.

Last week Applied Materials hosted solar cutomers at its Solar Technology Research & Development facility in Xi'an, China.

During the one day event, Applied Materials’ Dr. Charlie Gay sat down with China Daily to discuss the growing international solar-energy industry and what the next five years could potentially look like for China's energy market.

During his talk, Dr. Gay discussed how in the next few years China can expand its use of solar energy and reach grid parity by 2018 - two years ahead of the United States.

The full artilce can be found on the China Daily web site.Read more

Applied Materials announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement under which Applied will acquire Varian for $63 per share in cash for a total price of approximately $4.9 billion on a fully-diluted basis.

The acquisition will extend Applied's leadership in wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) with the addition of the technology leader in ion implantation - a critical step in integrated circuit manufacturing.