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To: stox19 who wrote (1709)	1/22/2002 9:45:45 AM
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I took some short term profits on my 2000 shares of AMAT at 40.75. NVLS reports tonight and it looks like the SOX will have to test 520 again today to me. The news from AMAT does sound good! biz.yahoo.com Applied Materials Announces Equipment Industry's First Fab Start-up Solution to Accelerate Customers' Time to Market Ramp Performance Management Service Delivers Rapid Tool Installation for Enhanced Fab Profitability SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002-- Applied Materials, Inc. announces its new RPM (Ramp Performance Management(TM)) program, the equipment industry's first turnkey service for installing process equipment in customers' new and existing fabs. As part of Applied Materials' Total Service Solutions(TM) product line, the RPM program is designed to enable semiconductor manufacturers to ramp up their new systems faster and reach production capability earlier. Source: Applied Materials, Inc. · View multimedia news release ``For a $2 billion fab investment, reducing overall construction time has a major impact on customer profitability, not to mention having the advantage of shipping high-value chips earlier,'' said David Fried, corporate vice president and general manager of Applied Materials' Customer Productivity Support Group. ``With our Ramp Performance Management program we see an additional opportunity to help customers streamline and accelerate the system hookup phase of fab construction, which traditionally has been a complex overlap of fab management, construction, architectural and engineering firms, and equipment suppliers.'' The RPM program combines Applied Materials' extensive expertise installing thousands of systems at virtually every chip manufacturing facility in the world with the experience of key industry construction firms to offer comprehensive project management of the hook-up, installation and start-up of fab equipment. The RPM service has already been demonstrated at customer fabs in Europe, Singapore and the United States, where it provided a dramatic reduction in system installation time, and enabled accelerated fab start-up schedules. ``Applied Materials continues to invest in developing innovative ways to help our customers increase their revenue and profitability,'' stated Fried. ``With our RPM service, we've found a way to integrate system start-up activities to enable substantially reduced tool hookup times. By performing all aspects of the tool startup process, including integration of planning, design, material procurement, construction and tool qualification, we believe we can achieve significant time and cost savings for our customers.'' Applied Materials (Nasdaq:AMAT - news), the largest supplier of products and services to the global semiconductor industry, is one of the world's leading information infrastructure providers. Applied Materials enables Information for Everyone(TM) by helping semiconductor manufacturers produce more powerful, portable and affordable chips. Applied Materials' Web site is appliedmaterials.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL: businesswire.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Applied Materials, Inc. Betty Newboe, 408/563-0647 (editorial/media) Carolyn Schwartz, 408/748-5227 (financial community)