Applied Materials, founded 1967, is a world-leading provider of tools and software to the semiconductor industry, including metrology equipment, etching and photolithography systems and chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) technology. The company offers metrology and review systems for FEOL and BEOL applications such as eBeam, Mask and Optical inspection systems as well as critical dimension (CD) metrology. Applied Materials boasts a broad range of process technology and metrology systems, and its investments in digital infrastructure combine sensors, machine learning, simulation, metrology and data science in order to shorten product development cycles and optimize yield.