A third party press release from Magma Design Automation has a wonderful quote from Ward Vercruysse, CAD director, Computing Solutions Group at AMD, which is very amusing and a little surprising considering the Barcelona delays and errata problems now fully confirmed if not detailed. 

Not your average eBay item up for grabs, rather a piece of photovoltaic technology history. Nanosolar, roll-to-roll Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide (CIGS) PV solar start-up, has put one of its first three production line commercially-produced PV modules (Panel #2) up for sale on eBay with a $10,300 starting price! 

Having listened to the conference call covering last night’s announcement that Lam Research was acquiring SEZ, the main thrust for the move by Lam was to quickly put in place the infrastructure on a global scale to better serve its two new products that cover the plasma-based bevel-edge cleaning system called Coronus and its linear single wafer cleaning platform that has yet to be officially launched!