Applied Materials

Applied Materials, Inc. is a leading provider of manufacturing equipment, services, and software for the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three primary segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment focuses on the development and sale of equipment essential for fabricating semiconductor chips, utilizing advanced technologies such as epitaxy, ion implantation, and chemical vapor deposition. The Applied Global Services segment enhances equipment and fabrication performance through integrated solutions, including spare parts, upgrades, and automation software. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers manufacturing products for various display technologies, including liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes. Established in 1967 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Applied Materials serves a global customer base that includes some of the largest chip manufacturers, operating across regions such as the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

Robert Visser

Vice President

25 past transactions

BE Semiconductor

Post in 2025
BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. specializes in the development, manufacturing, marketing, and servicing of semiconductor assembly equipment for the global semiconductor and electronics industries. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Duiven, the Netherlands, the company offers a range of products that includes die attach equipment for various chip configurations, die sorting systems, and packaging equipment such as wafer level molding and singulation systems. Additionally, BE Semiconductor provides plating equipment for tin, copper, and precious metal, along with related process chemicals, tooling, conversion kits, and spare parts. The company primarily serves chip manufacturers, assembly subcontractors, and electronics and industrial firms, establishing itself as a notable player in the semiconductor assembly and packaging market.

Picosun

Acquisition in 2022
Picosun Oy, based in Espoo, Finland, specializes in providing atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment and solutions for various industries and research institutions globally. The company offers a range of products, including the PICOSUN P-series for high-volume manufacturing, the R-series for research and development, and specialized tools for applications in printed electronics and medical devices. Their portfolio also includes vacuum cluster tools, particle coating systems, and diffusion enhancers, facilitating advanced processes like OLED encapsulation and thin film battery production. Picosun's technology supports diverse markets such as integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems, and medical equipment. Established in 1997, the company maintains a robust global presence with operations in the United States and Singapore, and a research and production facility in Masala, Finland. Picosun's extensive sales and support network spans over 30 countries, ensuring reliable service and product accessibility to its customers.

Perceptive Engineering

Acquisition in 2020
Perceptive Engineering is a global company specializing in advanced automation and process optimization solutions. With extensive practical experience, it develops multi-variate statistical process monitoring and model predictive control tools that enable clients to construct data-driven models of their manufacturing and treatment processes, both offline and in real time. The company's award-winning technology provides a robust upgrade path that enhances operational efficiency while ensuring rapid payback and minimal disruption to existing resources. Through its innovative solutions, Perceptive Engineering aims to improve the efficiency of complex manufacturing environments, helping clients achieve their operational goals.

Think Silicon

Acquisition in 2020
Think Silicon Ltd. specializes in designing and developing graphics solutions for mobile and embedded devices, focusing on the low-end to mid-end markets. The company provides a variety of products, including Nema|CL, a graphics processing unit, and the Think2D Graphics Accelerator Engine, which enhances the performance of 2D content on System-on-Chip (SoC) and mobile devices. Additionally, Think Silicon offers display products such as multilayer display controllers and VGA controllers, along with (M)JPEG video and still image decoders. The company also supplies graphics intellectual property (IP) modules and display processors tailored for the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable technology sectors. Established in 2007 and based in Patras Science Park, Greece, Think Silicon operates as a subsidiary of Applied Materials, Inc. Its customer base includes fabless chip companies focused on communication and multimedia applications.

DMO Systems

Acquisition in 2018
DMO Systems focuses on creating advanced system products for data mining and analytics. The company utilizes big data, machine learning, computer vision, and high-performance computing to develop innovative solutions aimed at optimizing Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Manufacturing for Design (MFD). Through its technological expertise, DMO Systems offers integrated systems that enhance data-driven decision-making in various industries.

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates

Acquisition in 2011
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing, and servicing of semiconductor processing equipment essential for integrated circuit fabrication. The company offers a range of products, including medium current systems like the single wafer VIISta 900XP series, as well as high current and high energy ion implanters such as the VIISta HCS series and VIISta HE. Varian's equipment, including the VIISta PLAD tools, is utilized by semiconductor manufacturers primarily in North America, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Varian plays a significant role in the semiconductor industry, providing critical technology for the production of semiconductor chips.

Semitool

Acquisition in 2009
Semitool is a world leader in innovation and manufacturing of precision semiconductor manufacturing equipment. For over a quarter century, Semitool has delivered the most cost effective, innovative and robust production equipment for semiconductors. Semitool continues to be ‘technology that works'.

Advent Solar

Acquisition in 2009
Advent Solar, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializes in the production of silicon photovoltaic cells and modules. The company focuses on advanced technology that enhances the efficiency and design of solar energy solutions. Through its patented Ventura Technology, Advent Solar offers a comprehensive cell-to-module architecture that aims to deliver high-performance solar modules with significant value. The company operates a licensing model to distribute its innovative intellectual property, positioning itself as a leader in the solar industry. Advent Solar is committed to advancing solar technology and improving smart grid economics through its cutting-edge products.

Baccini

Acquisition in 2007
Baccini is a supplier of automated metallization and test systems for manufacturing crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic cells. Its product line provides state-of-the-art material handling automation capable of processing wafers less than 120 micrometers thick, which are significantly thinner than those typically used in the industry.

HCT Shaping Systems

Acquisition in 2007
HCT Shaping Systems is a supplier of precision wafering systems for manufacturing crystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates for the solar industry. The company provides cropper, squarer, and wire saw systems. It also offers slurry recovery units, as well as provides spare parts and consumables including loading and unloading devices, manual orientation systems, gluing stations, optical alignment tools, loading and unloading equipment, and slurry and cutting wires.

Brooks Software

Acquisition in 2007
Brooks Software is a provider of factory management and control software to the semiconductor and flat panel display industries.

Applied Films

Acquisition in 2006
Applied Films is a manufacturer and supplier of advanced thin film deposition equipment, specializing in innovative coating solutions for high-tech markets such as flat panel displays, solar cells, flexible electronics, and energy-efficient glass. The company provides a range of products, including thin film coated glass, physical vapor deposition equipment, and roll coaters for capacitor and barrier films, as well as large glass coaters for architectural and automotive applications. With many years of experience in thin film coating solutions and a commitment to ongoing research and development, Applied Films ensures that its customers benefit from cutting-edge technology. Its global network of sales and service centers enables consistent support and service, allowing clients to fully leverage the advantages of their thin film deposition solutions.

ATMI - Treatment Systems business

Acquisition in 2004
ATMI - Treatment Systems business provides point-of-use abatement systems to the semiconductor industry that treat gas emissions from process chambers before they are released to the environment.

Metron Technology

Acquisition in 2004
Outsourcing is the emerging trend in today's semiconductor industry. Dramatic swings in the global business environment have companies re-evaluating costly, inflexible business practices and adopting outsourcing as a preferred alternative. The purest form of outsourcing in the semiconductor industry was introduced with the concept of the foundry. Many chip manufacturers embraced that foundry outsourcing model and repositioned themselves as "fabless", however no options existed for companies to outsource other, non-core functions - until now. Metron is exclusively focused on bringing revolutionary outsourcing alternatives to the semiconductor industry. Since 1975 Metron has steadily developed the expertise and resources needed to serve semiconductor industry customers at all levels of technology and in all parts of the world. With unrivaled services and products and an infrastructure that spans Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America, Metron provides the only global outsource solution in the industry today. Semiconductor manufacturers are able to streamline their supply chain by outsourcing through Metron. By offering Fab Solutions for outsourcing critical non-core functions, Metron enables its customers to better focus valuable resources on developing competitive technologies. Equipment manufacturers are able concentrate on the development of new generation equipment and maintain critical levels of support for mature equipment with Metron Equipment Solutions. Metron's focus on early generation equipment ensures customer satisfaction through an extended product life cycle. Suppliers gain access to a global market by leveraging Metron's Fab Solutions and Equipment Solutions. Metron manages the rapid, cost-effective introduction of products while suppliers can concentrate on core product development and manufacturing competencies. Working with its supplier and equipment manufacturer allies has allowed Metron to offer solutions that truly complement semiconductor manufacturers' prime mission - making superior product. Streamlining the supply chain has also allowed Metron customers to cut costs and adapt more quickly to changing global markets. Those key value propositions drive The Outsourcing Solutions Company.

Torrex Equipment

Acquisition in 2004
They’re building their company and their products right from the start. From the ground up, TORREX® is innovating a company that is focused on the customer, not just by providing superior technology, services and business practices, but also by providing the best customer experience possible. They recognize that success can only be achieved through highly satisfied customers. This commitment to the customer spans all levels of the organization. They pride theirselves in the ease of doing business with us. TORREX has developed a technology for front-end thermal film depositions that will help semiconductor manufacturers build the leading edge chips that change their lives every day. They help them make them better, faster and at less cost than competing technologies. They started with an experienced team, with fresh ideas, determined to set a new standard for performance. TORREX has succeeded where others have failed by giving customers a no compromise solution that doesn’t sacrifice film quality for cycle time or performance for cost. They’re creating an environment for growth that satisfies the desire of talented people to achieve, create and flourish. Spend a little time with us and you’ll find an organization that routinely challenges the usual, rejects the ordinary, and has a bias to do the right thing — for the customer, the employee, the shareholder, and the company — right from the start.

Boxer Cross

Acquisition in 2003
Boxer Cross is changing semiconductor metrology. Targeting emerging critical processes that lack in-line control solutions, Boxer Cross has become a clear process enabler by launching two new in-line electrical measurement products in the last 24 months. With the BX-10 S/D and USJ Measurement System, Boxer Cross has pioneered an entirely new suite of metrology applications for USJ monitoring -- measuring advanced junction formation processes in leading fabs worldwide. With the BX-30 Advanced Interconnect Measurement System, Boxer Cross provides high-resolution copper damascene control. Both products measure on product wafers, without contact, in die areas. The unique Boxer Cross approach to metrology -- providing in-line monitoring alternatives to traditional off-line or EOL tests -- has changed modern process control. Now Boxer Cross is changing to meet new demands -- ramping up in a new facility with expanded clean manufacturing and applications lab space to serve its customers better.

Electron Vision Corp.

Acquisition in 2002
Electron Vision Corp. is a designer, manufacturer and seller of e-beam stabilization and curing tools for the semiconductor, thin film head and micro-fabrication industries.

Global Knowledge Services

Acquisition in 2001
Global Knowledge Services provides advanced data mining services to improve semiconductor manufacturing yield and efficiency. It offers Web-based solutions for data acquisition, storage, and analytics.

Schlumberger - Electron-Beam Wafer Inspection Business

Acquisition in 2001
Schlumberger - Electron-Beam Wafer Inspection Business which uses proprietary electron beam technology to identify elusive, yield-killing defects in advanced semiconductor devices.

Oramir

Acquisition in 2001
Oramir Semiconductor Equipment Ltd. is an Israeli company that develops advanced laser cleaning technologies for semiconductor wafers.

Applied Materials (AMAT)

Acquisition in 2000
Largest Factory Equipment maker for Semi, Display, Solar, and is a Manufacturing company.

Obsidian

Acquisition in 1999
Obsidian, Inc. is a developer of slurry-free CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) technology. Its products are used in shallow trench isolation and copper interconnect applications.

Consilium

Acquisition in 1998
Consilium is a supplier of integrated semiconductor and electronics manufacturing execution systems (MES) software and services. Consilium's products have been helping world-class semiconductor and electronics manufacturers achieve best practices of fab utilization for nearly 20 years.

Orbot Instruments

Acquisition in 1997
Orbot Instruments is a supplier of wafer and reticle inspection systems with leading-edge technologies.

Opal

Acquisition in 1997
Opal, Inc. is a supplier of CD-SEM systems for use in semiconductor manufacturing.
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