SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3
FORM 3 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
 
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
ROELANDTS WILLEM P

(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
3050 BOWERS AVE., M/S 2023, PO BOX 58039

(Street)
SANTA CLARA CA 95054

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
03/24/2004
3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE [ AMAT ]
4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4) 2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4) 3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock 0 D
Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Director Stock Option (Right to Buy) 03/24/2005(1) 03/24/2011 Common Stock 45,000 20.77 D
Explanation of Responses:
1. The option vests and becomes exercisable in four equal annual installments beginning on March 24, 2005, assuming continued service as a director.
/s/ Charmaine Mesina, Attorney-in-Fact 03/26/2004
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

	The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Charmaine Mesina
and Mary Zeigler, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
               	(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as a
director and officer of Applied Materials, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance
with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;
                (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute
any amendment(s) thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
                (3) 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 by, 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.
	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to
do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be
done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this
power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that
the foregoing attorneys-in fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are
not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer
required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the Company's Secretary.
        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 25th day of March, 2004.

			/s/ Willem P. Roelandts
                        _____________________
        	            Willem P. Roelandts