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First Solar Will Lose Fuel Fast

There will be more players in the solar market very soon now that Applied Materials has demonstrated that they can provide equipment to coat thin-film silicon on large glass sheets and bypass the need for silicon wafers. Silicon collectors are more effective than gallium arsenide and AMAT promises to reduce manufacturing costs to under $1 per watt.

Is Cypress's Core Worth Less Than Nothing?

This is quite a revelation, for I found both SunPower and Cypress Semi were listed high in the Vectorvest compilation and so took a position in each. Little did I know I had bought SPWR twice. With CY owning a major portion of SPWR, could a merger be in the offing?