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Document and Company Information - USD ($)	9 Months Ended
Document and Company Information - USD ($)	Jul. 26, 2009	Apr. 26, 2009
Document and Company Information [Abstract]
Entity Registrant Name	Applied Materials, Inc.
Entity Central Index Key	0000006951
Document Type	10-Q
Document Period End Date	Jul. 26, 2009
Amendment Flag	false
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--10-26
Entity Well Known Seasoned Issuer	Yes
Entity Voluntary Filers	No
Entity Current Reporting Status	Yes
Entity Filer Category	Large Accelerated Filer
Entity Public Float (actual number)		$ 15,579,209,892
Entity Common Stock Shares Outstanding (actual number)	1,333,714,002

Consolidated Condensed Statements of Operations - USD ($) shares in Thousands, $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Jul. 26, 2009	Jul. 27, 2008	Jul. 26, 2009	Jul. 27, 2008
Statement [Line Items]
Net sales	$ 1,133,740	$ 1,848,168	$ 3,487,213	$ 6,085,563
Cost of products sold	808,866	1,105,854	2,615,244	3,441,440
Gross margin	324,874	742,314	871,969	2,644,123
Operating expenses:
Research, development and engineering	234,052	268,559	699,927	828,900
General and administrative	88,487	129,341	330,808	367,352
Marketing and selling	79,518	115,944	248,311	359,271
Restructuring and asset impairments	0	138	159,481	49,634
Income (loss) from operations	(77,183)	228,332	(566,558)	1,038,966
Pretax loss of equity-method investment	0	6,308	34,983	25,660
Impairment of equity-method investment and strategic investments	2,341	0	79,422	0
Interest expense	4,893	4,859	15,945	15,660
Interest income	10,233	25,399	37,257	88,383
Income (loss) before income taxes	(74,184)	242,564	(659,651)	1,086,029
Provision (benefit) for income taxes	(19,319)	77,796	(216,462)	356,378
Net income (loss)	$ (54,865)	$ 164,768	$ (443,189)	$ 729,651
Earnings (loss) per share:
Basic	$ (0.04)	$ 0.12	$ (0.33)	$ 0.54
Diluted	$ (0.04)	$ 0.12	$ (0.33)	$ 0.53
Weighted average number of shares:
Basic	1,333,278	1,350,526	1,331,410	1,359,492
Diluted	1,333,278	1,367,557	1,331,410	1,375,656