A brilliant idea created in a laboratory without thought of how to commercialize it remains just that, an idea. An idea that languishes on a shelf in the lab is of little worth to the market for which it was developed.
But an idea that can be efficiently manufactured, on a massive scale, can become affordable and has the ability to create entirely new markets. These are the ideas that can change everything.
At Applied Materials, our mission is to help turn next generation technology into profitable new market opportunities for our customers. With over 40 years' experience, we are the global leader in creating high-volume nanomanufacturing technology and equipment. In that time, we've helped high-tech manufacturers improve factory efficiency and end-product performance, effectively creating and taking advantage of market growth opportunities.
We are the company behind the scenes of some of the industries that have helped changed the world as we know it.
From systems that revolutionized and continue to expand the semiconductor industry, to technology that enables the production of flat panel displays, which are increasingly bigger, thinner and less expensive. We have helped drive the expansion of profitable markets for personal computers, mobile phones, and LCD TVs. By helping our customers increase production while relentlessly reducing inefficiency and waste, we've helped create new markets, new jobs and new technological possibilities, in other words, we've helped to develop new industries.
And now we are doing for the green economy what we did for the Information Age. We're helping companies manufacture the world's highest efficiency solar panels, which drive down the cost of renewable energy; energy-efficient architectural glass which helps control heating and cooling costs; and advanced LED technologies to produce more energy-efficient lighting solutions.
The next great technological breakthrough is occurring in a laboratory somewhere as we speak. And we're poised, once again, to help turn that innovation into a flourishing global industry.
That's what we do.