The undersigned directors and officers of Applied Materials,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) hereby
constitute and appoint James C. Morgan and Joseph R.
Bronson, and each of them with full power to act without the
other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact,
with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
undersigned and in the undersigned’s name, place and stead
in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director
of the Company, to execute in the name and on behalf of the
undersigned an annual report of the Company on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended October 31, 1999 (the
“Report”), under the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and to file such Report, with exhibits thereto
and other documents in connection therewith and any and all
amendments thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing necessary or desirable to be done and to take any other
action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit
to, in the best interest of, or legally required of, the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by
such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to
this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain
such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in
such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands this
7th day of December, 1999.
/s/ JAMES C. MORGAN
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal
Executive Officer)
/s/ DAN MAYDAN
President and Director
/s/ MICHAEL H. ARMACOST
Director
/s/ DEBORAH A. COLEMAN
Director
/s/ HERBERT M. DWIGHT, JR.
Director
/s/ PHILIP V. GERDINE
Director
/s/ TSUYOSHI KAWANISHI
Director
/s/ PAUL R. LOW
Director
/s/ ALFRED J. STEIN
Director