Signage stands outside the Applied Materials Inc. facility in Santa Clara, California, U.S. (Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Applied Materials Said to Buy Kokusai Electric

Jul 01 2019, 5:54 AMJul 02 2019, 5:13 AMJuly 01 2019, 5:54 AMJuly 02 2019, 5:13 AM

(Bloomberg) -- Applied Materials Inc., the biggest maker of machines used to make semiconductors, is buying Kokusai Electric from KKR in a deal worth about 250 billion yen ($2.3 billion), a person ...