A look at chip equipment makers, like Applied Materials, pushing the boundaries of sculpting materials at the atomic level, in a quest to make chips faster (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A look at chip equipment makers, like Applied Materials, pushing the boundaries of sculpting materials at the atomic level, in a quest to make chips faster  —  Few people outside of semiconductor manufacturing have ever heard of Applied Materials and its competitors—but what they do is more essential …