🟢 Applied Materials is trading 3.72% up today after expanding AI packaging partnership with Besi

Applied Materials is trading at $111.50, up +3.72%, after announcing an expanded strategic partnership with Besi focused on next-generation semiconductor packaging for AI applications.

• Besi will join Applied Materials’ EPIC Center; the collaboration covers hybrid bonding, thermo-compression bonding and other chip-integration technologies.
• Major U.S. indexes were modestly lower. Trading volume data was not available in the supplied price context.