Applied Materials (AMAT) 10-K 2013 FY Annual report

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned directors of Applied Materials, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby constitute and appoint Gary E. Dickerson, Robert J. Halliday and Thomas F. Larkins, and each of them, with full power to act without the other, as 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 a 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 ending October 27, 2013 (the “Report”), under the Securities 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 9th day of September, 2013.

/s/ Aart J. de Geus	/s/ Gerhard H. Parker
Aart J. de Geus	Gerhard H. Parker
Director	Director
/s/ Gary E. Dickerson	/s/ Dennis D. Powell
Gary E. Dickerson	Dennis D. Powell
Director	Director
/s/ Stephen R. Forrest	/s/ Willem P. Roelandts
Stephen R. Forrest	Willem P. Roelandts
Director	Director
/s/ Thomas J. Iannotti	/s/ James E. Rogers
Thomas J. Iannotti	James E. Rogers
Director	Director
/s/ Susan M. James	/s/ Michael R. Splinter
Susan M. James	Michael R. Splinter
Director	Chairman of the Board
/s/ Alexander A. Karsner	/s/ Robert H. Swan
Alexander A. Karsner	Robert H. Swan
Director	Director