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IBM aims to salvage silicon for solar industry

October 30, 2007 Erase those old circuits and you've got some silicon for solar panels. Big Blue hopes the technique will take off with chipmakers.Photos: Reclaiming silicon with water TAGS: wafer, silicon, silicon wafer, IBM Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., chip company

Chipmakers' silicon scraps feed solar industry's hunger

May 23, 2007 Selling unusable silicon wafers to solar cell makers is good for the environment, and companies like TI make money at it too. TAGS: wafer, Texas Instruments Inc., silicon, silicon wafer, solar energy, chip company, Texas, Germany, Japan, Intel

For AMD, more money means more problems

October 26, 2006 Demand for its current chips has AMD scrambling to get capacity online just as Intel gets ready to win the race to four cores. TAGS: wafer, transistor, AMD, AMD Opteron, quad-core, manufacturing, AMD Athlon 64, dual-core, Intel, AMD Athlon

New flash plant in Toshiba's future?

March 6, 2006 Toshiba and partner SanDisk will spend $4.3 billion to build new NAND factory in Japan, according to reports. TAGS: wafer, NAND, flash memory, NAND flash, Toshiba, SanDisk Corp., facility, Japan, manufacturing, music player, Samsung Electronics, Apple iPod, Apple Computer, camera

For Intel, China looms large

April 19, 2007 With Beijing as IDF venue and plans to build a wafer fab, chipmaker signals importance it places on the booming Asian nation. TAGS: ultramobile PC, Beijing, chip company, wafer, Intel Developer Forum, China, Intel, R&D, blog, photograph, PC

Applied invests in solar-wafer maker

November 20, 2006 Chipmaking-equipment bigwig dips another toe into solar energy with $3 million investment in silicon ingot maker Solaicx. TAGS: Applied Materials Inc., silicon, silicon wafer, wafer, cell, plant, shortage, manufacturing, semiconductor, factory, equipment, chip company

With new factory, AMD ups ante against Intel

October 14, 2005 Advanced Micro Devices opens a new factory. Will the multibillion-dollar gamble let the company take ground from Intel? Photos: Inside AMD's German fab TAGS: manufacturing, wafer, AMD, semiconductor, factory, microprocessor, chip company, Intel, PC

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