Applied Materials Products: What It Makes and Who Buys Them

Applied Materials is the largest wafer-fabrication equipment maker on earth, selling deposition, etch, CMP, and ion implant machines. Here are its products, the chipmakers that buy them, and the suppliers behind the tools.

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Aug 9, 2026 · 2 min read

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No single company sells more semiconductor manufacturing equipment than Applied Materials. Its deposition, etch, ion-implant, and chemical-mechanical polishing systems show up in nearly every advanced fab on the planet, so its customer list reads like a roster of the whole chip industry.

The short answer

Applied Materials sits at the center of chip manufacturing:

• Who buys its tools: TSMC, Samsung Electronics, Intel, Micron Technology, and SK hynix all run Applied equipment across their fabs.
• Who supplies the subsystems: MKS Instruments, Advanced Energy Industries, and Entegris provide the vacuum, power, and filtration components inside each tool.
• Who assembles the modules: Ultra Clean Holdings builds the gas-delivery systems and subassemblies Applied integrates into finished machines.

The full interactive map is on Applied Materials's supply chain page.

Who runs Applied's equipment

TSMC, the world's largest foundry, is Applied's biggest customer, buying fab tools by the billions of dollars to build out leading-edge capacity. Samsung Electronics runs Applied's deposition and etch systems across its memory and foundry lines, and Intel is racing to rebuild its own leading-edge capacity with new fabs in the US and Europe, much of it tooled with Applied equipment. On the memory side, Micron Technology and SK hynix both depend on Applied's tools for DRAM, NAND, and the high-bandwidth memory AI accelerators need.

What goes into an Applied Materials tool

Applied doesn't build every component of its own machines. MKS Instruments supplies vacuum, gas-delivery, RF power, and process-control modules that go inside the finished tool. Advanced Energy Industries provides the precision power-delivery and RF-matching subsystems that drive the plasma in Applied's deposition and etch chambers. Entegris supplies the filtration and specialty materials that keep those chambers' process chemistries free of contamination.

Ultra Clean Holdings goes a step further. It builds gas-delivery modules and critical subassemblies that Applied puts straight into its finished tools, so Applied doesn't have to make every part in-house.