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Chip Shots
The Chip Shots blog channels the observations of Fabtech's and PV-Tech/Photovoltaic International's Senior Contributing Editor--USA, Tom Cheyney, a 20-year veteran of semiconductor, advanced micro/nanoelectronics, and solar manufacturing trade journalism. For 15 years, Tom was editor in chief of MICRO (the original home of Chip Shots) until it ceased publication in July 2006. Tom calls Los Angeles home.

FEI lifts heavy veil of secrecy, launches Magellan family of xtra-high-resolution SEMs Print E-mail
Jul 07, 2008 at 04:10 PM
While some observers of the nanoscale have lamented the impending final chapter of scanning electron microscopy's scalability, FEI has been busy pushing the workhorse analytical tool's capabilities.Write Comment (0 comments)
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Solar PV with a political twist makes it into the Sunday comics Print E-mail
Jul 07, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Solar energy has seen its stock rise in popular culture, not just in the marketplace.Write Comment (0 comments)
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Preholiday weekend wrap-up: LDK CEO interviewed, mag site redesigns, PV-Tech gets its video on, and Print E-mail
Jul 02, 2008 at 02:34 PM
With the four-day July 4th Independence Day weekend about to kick off here in the States, it's time for a preholiday sampling of some WWW goodies in the semiconductor and solar PV domains.

The interview in this month's SEMI Global Update e-newsletter comes not from the trade association's worthy Oral History project but translated from the pages of its Semiconductor Manufacturing China publication.Write Comment (0 comments)
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Advanced Energy's solar PV newsletter exceeds infomercial expectations Print E-mail
Jul 01, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Many corporate newsletters offer little more than an informercial-like experience, with so-called technical or market information that often comes off like a frozen-smiled, pat-oneself-on-the-back excuse for real content.Write Comment (0 comments)
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Wakonda hopes to disrupt solar market with its high-efficiency thin-film PV on foil Print E-mail
Jun 30, 2008 at 01:06 PM
Although there were plenty of "me-too" technologies discussed at the recent IntertechPira Photovoltaic Summit in San Diego, one start-up outfit's approach offers more disruptive potential than most thin-film PV wannabes.Write Comment (0 comments)
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JA Solar, Roth & Rau join SVTC Solar at new photovoltaic development center Print E-mail
Jun 26, 2008 at 03:50 PM
Although SVTC has been dabbling in photovoltaics for awhile with a few customers, it really got serious about the PV space when it formed the SVTC Solar unit in late April.Write Comment (0 comments)
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Chasing First Solar: PrimeStar's Seymour shares more info about CdTe upstart at PV Summit Print E-mail
Jun 25, 2008 at 11:48 AM
When GE's Energy division announced earlier this month that it had taken a majority interest in cadmium-telluride thin-film PV module start-up PrimeStar Solar, the Golden, CO-based company found itself on the solar manufacturing industry radar--and in this blog's crosshairs.Write Comment (1 comments)
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Uni-Solar to reach 1-GW manufacturing capacity by 2012, Guha tells PV Summit attendees Print E-mail
Jun 24, 2008 at 09:09 AM
The number-two thin-film photovoltaics company plans to hit 1-GW in manufacturing capacity by 2012, the chairman of United Solar Ovonic (Uni-Solar) told attendees at the IntertechPira Photovoltaics Summit in San Diego last week.Write Comment (2 comments)
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Intel Technology Journal goes out with a 45-nm bang...and podcast boo-boo Print E-mail
Jun 23, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Since moving online in 1997 (and going back to its print beginnings in 1979), the Intel Technology Journal (ITJ) has been a consistently solid repository of company white papers and technical articles.Write Comment (0 comments)
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Solar industry vet Paul Maycock shares his wit and wisdom at Photovoltaics Summit Print E-mail
Jun 18, 2008 at 11:39 PM
With solar roots stretching back to the days of Sputnik, a stint running the US photovoltaics program in the late 1970s during the Carter administration, his many years editing PV News, and operating the PV Energy Systems consultancy of late, Paul Maycock's institutional memory is as long as anyone in the field.Write Comment (0 comments)
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