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EMCORE Corporation has announced that its photovoltaics revenue increased 63 percent for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 to $16.9 million compared to $10.4 million reported last year. This is an increase of 24 percent Q-on-Q. Read more >>

China Sunergy, one of a growing number of solar cell manufacturers, may have seen sales and shipments increase over 100 percent year-on-year but was unable to a make a profit in its most recent quarter having been hit by a series of factors that could easily affect others in the market in the coming months. Read more >>

Overall revenues are expected to be flat, down 5 percent for Applied Materials' next financial quarter due to memory manufacturers' CapEx spending declining.  With little boost in spending coming from the major foundries, the ray of sunshine is coming from the company's thin-film solar equipment sales, according to Michael Splinter, President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Materials. Read more >>

Surfect Technologies has announced its move to start selling its single-cell electroplating tool and processes to the solar cell manufacturing industry, following other semiconductor equipment suppliers into this rapidly expanding market. Read more >>