Eitan Binyamini has been appointed CEO of the PDC division of Applied Materials, the global company's Israeli business unit. He replaces Ofer Greenberger, who will continue as president of the company in Israel. Greenberger led the division from 2017 to 2022 and returned to run it about a year and a half ago.
Binyamini joined Applied Materials in 2003 as an applications engineer and has since held a series of senior management roles, including head of a technology products division, marketing manager and business and customer manager. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Reichman University.
The PDC division develops, manufactures and markets advanced metrology and process-control systems for chip manufacturing. The systems are based on electron microscopes, backscattered-radiation detection and modeling, and deep learning and computer vision, and are built into the production lines of the world's largest chipmakers. The Israeli company is headquartered in Rehovot and employs about 2,400 people in Israel.
Early this year Gary Dickerson, president and CEO of Applied Materials, estimated that the PDC division would double its sales this year to more than $1 billion. 'Our R&D teams have built a large pipeline of solutions for next-generation chipmaking that will contribute significantly to our growth,' Dickerson said on the earnings call after first-quarter results. 'The unique e-Beam technology developed in Israel is expected to double its revenue this year to more than $1 billion.'
Applied Materials is one of the world's leading materials engineering companies, mainly for making chips and displays. In its fiscal third quarter, which ended in July 2026, sales totaled about $9.1 billion, up 25% from a year earlier. In the first nine months of the year, sales reached about $24 billion, compared with about $21 billion in the same period of 2025.
