EXHIBIT 24.1


                         POWER OF ATTORNEY OF DIRECTORS

        Each of the undersigned directors of Applied Materials, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints James C. Morgan,
Joseph R. Bronson and Joseph J. Sweeney and each of them with power to act
alone, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact, 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 execute a Registration Statement or
Registration Statements on Form S-8 or other appropriate form, under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to up to 20,000,000 additional
shares of Common Stock of the Company issuable under the Applied Materials, Inc.
2000 Global Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, and any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement, and to
file such Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto, with
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or
desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes, as he or she might or could do in person, thereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitute or substitutes may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands this 27th day of
November, 2001.

      /s/ Michael H. Armacost                         /s/ Paul R. Low
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          Michael H. Armacost                             Paul R. Low

      /s/ Deborah A. Coleman                          /s/ Dan Maydan
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          Deborah A. Coleman                              Dan Maydan

    /s/ Herbert M. Dwight, Jr.
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        Herbert M. Dwight, Jr.                         Steven L. Miller

      /s/ Philip V. Gerdine                          /s/ James C. Morgan
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          Philip V. Gerdine                              James C. Morgan

        /s/ Minoru Morio                               /s/ Stan Shih
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            Minoru Morio                                   Stan Shih