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                                  EXHIBIT 24.1

                         POWER OF ATTORNEY OF DIRECTORS

KNOW BY ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

                   Each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
James C. Morgan, Gerald F. Taylor, and Donald A.  Slichter, and each of them
with power to act alone, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent,
with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his
or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign a Registration
Statement or Registration Statements on Form S-8, or a post-effective amendment
or amendments thereto, relating to up to a total of 6,300,000 shares of common
stock issuable under The Applied Materials, Inc. 1995 Equity Incentive Plan,
and to file the same, together with exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises hereof, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might do or
could do in person, thereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact or his or her substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.



  /s/ Michael H. Armacost
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      Michael H. Armacost                                     May 19, 1995


  /s/ James W. Bagley       
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      James W. Bagley                                         May 19, 1995


  /s/ Herbert M. Dwight, Jr.
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      Herbert M. Dwight, Jr.                                  May 19, 1995


  /s/ George B. Farnsworth  
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      George B. Farnsworth                                    May 19, 1995


  /s/ Philip V. Gerdine     
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      Philip V. Gerdine                                       May 19, 1995


  /s/ Tsuyoshi Kawanishi    
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      Tsuyoshi Kawanishi                                      May 19, 1995





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  /s/ Paul R. Low           
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      Paul R. Low                                             May 19, 1995


  /s/ Dan Maydan            
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      Dan Maydan                                              May 19, 1995


  /s/ James C. Morgan       
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      James C. Morgan                                         May 19, 1995


  /s/ Alfred J. Stein       
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      Alfred J. Stein                                         May 19, 1995





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