2020 will be remembered most for the challenges of COVID-19. In the world of technology, it will be remembered for accelerating digital transformations that would have taken many more years to play out. Entering 2021, the dependency between the global economy and semiconductors is greater than it’s ever been. At the same time, the way chips are being made is changing as traditional Moore’s Law scaling slows. Applied Materials is dedicated to driving new ways to help our customers continue to deliver improvements in chip power, performance and cost, in record time.

From technology breakthroughs to our sustainability efforts, here is the list of our most popular blogs from the past year.

Selective processing is increasingly being used to create, shape and modify materials and features in semiconductor manufacturing. In this blog I explain what selective processing is and why it’s critically important to the future of chip scaling.

Season's Greetings to all of our readers and wishing you a wonderful 2021! Click to view our holiday video.

In honor of International Day of the Girl on October 11, we’re celebrating the power of today’s generation of girls.

Applied Materials’ latest Sustainability Report outlines the company’s forward-looking objectives and recaps the significant and wide-ranging progress made on our sustainability journey during the past year.

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Recently I participated in a fascinating panel discussion with experts from Arm, Google, Intel, Microsoft, UC Santa Barbara and VMware to explore how Big Data, AI and cloud computing can be used to help mitigate—rather than contribute to—climate change.

Watch the video replay of Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson’s keynote at SEMICON West to hear about new initiatives Applied is driving to enable a more sustainable company, industry and world.