A notable development in the renewable energy industry has been the swift ascendency of China in solar cell manufacturing. It took under five years for Chinese manufacturers to dominate production and the global market. Many of these manufacturers are Applied Materials customers. So, when MIT’s Technology Review started to research their February cover feature on “manufacturing breakthroughs” that includes a look at China’s leadership in solar, they reached out to Applied for perspective. Applied EVP and GM for the Energy and Environmental Solutions team, Mark Pinto discussed with Technology Review the evolution of China’s solar industry and how it is changing to being driven by not only scale but also technology advancements in conversion efficiency to reduce cost.Read more
ExtremeTech’s Sebastian Anthony, details Applied Materials’ role in the semiconductor industry and describes the company as the unsung hero of Silicon Valley that has been guiding the leading edge of CMOS processing since before Intel released its 4004 CPU in 1971. Quoted in the story is Applied Materials’ chief technology officer for silicon, Klaus Scheugraf. Visit ExtremeTech’s web site to access the full story or read the following short excerpt.Read more
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design’s David Lammers recently covered Applied Materials’ analyst meeting and published an article on the growth and wider adoption of solid-state drives as well as what is driving wafer-level packaging and through-silicon vias.
Below are a few highlights of the report.Read more
Applied Materials and China are leaders in solar; Applied as a supplier and China as a manufacturer. This makes next week's SNEC PV Power Expo 2011 in Shanghai a significant event for the industry and for Applied. Not surprisingly, SNEC has grown into one of the most influential international PV shows in the world.Read more
According to Stork, though significant challenges remain with vertical interconnects using through-silicon vias (TSVs), the semiconductor industry is on the verge of turning this into a manufacturing technology. Read more
A notable development in the renewable energy industry has been the swift ascendency of China in solar cell manufacturing. It took under five years for Chinese manufacturers to dominate production and the global market. Many of these manufacturers are Applied Materials customers. So, when MIT’s Technology Review started to research their February cover feature on “manufacturing breakthroughs” that includes a look at China’s leadership in solar, they reached out to Applied for perspective. 
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