Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. silicon pull, or ingot. Solaicx specializes in ...

Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has reported record unaudited consolidated revenues of 1.189 billion (US$36.8 million) for November. The mainstream capacity for ...

Solaicx isn’t your garden-variety silicon wafer maker. The Santa Clara, Calif. company says it has devised a manufacturing process that allows it to churn out extremely efficient monocrystalline ...

Modern photolithography machines must deliver extraordinary precision on a repeatable basis, and in high volume production. In response to demands for increased throughput in the semiconductor ...

U.S. business 1366 Technologies is looking for Indian module manufacturing partners as it plans to bring its ‘direct wafer’ production technique to the country. The company uses molten silicon to form ...

BERLIN, May 31 (Reuters) - German solar wafer producer NexWafe said on Wednesday it had raised 30 million euros ($33 million) in additional funding to accelerate construction of its first commercial ...

Shanghai-listed glass manufacturer Luoyang Glass is planning to deploy two solar glass production lines with an annual capacity of 1,200 tons each. The plan will require around RMB 2.29 billion ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. For the past couple decades, scientists at an R&D lab in ...

SUMCO Corp., the No. 2 maker of silicon wafers, priced its initial public offering at the top end of expectations at $1.34 billion, making it Japan’s biggest IPO this year. *For more on this story, ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Germany's Schott Solar and Wacker Chemie AG have ...

Solaicx specializes in equipment for making silicon ingots, logs of pure silicon that get heated to high temperatures and then sliced like lunch meats to make silicon wafers. The silicon in the ingots ...

Six-inch solar wafer spot prices in Taiwan reached US$4.1 in November, up slightly from near US$4 in October. Contract quotes for the month also went up to US$3.8-3.9 from US$3.7-3.8... Solar cell ...