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 such number of shares of Common
Stock of the Company as are necessary to satisfy the stock options that are to
be assumed by the Company under the Global Knowledge Services, Inc. 2000 Stock
Option/Stock Issuance Plan, as amended, as of the effective time of the merger
of Global Knowledge Services, Inc. and Lotus Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company, 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