Applied Materials is a supplier of products and services to the global semiconductor industry and is an information infrastructure provider. Applied Materials manufactures systems that perform chemical vapor deposition (CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), epitaxial and polysilicon deposition, rapid thermal processing (RTP), plasma etching, electrochemical plating, ion implantation, metrology, inspection and chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), as well as equipment for mask pattern generation, systems to produce Flat Panel Displays (FPDs), and manufacturing execution system (MES) software for semiconductor manufacturing.