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Applied Materials Announces Restructuring of Energy and Environmental Solutions Segment

By Applied Blog
Jul212010

Mike Splinter, chairman and CEO of Applied Materials spoke today regarding the restructuring of the company's Energy and Environmental Solutions division.

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Solar

Votes Needed! Solar Industry Awards

By Matt Ceniceros
Jul122010

We are pleased to announce that two products from the Applied Materials SunFab Thin Film group have made the short-list for the 2010 Solar Industry Awards. These awards were created to recognize products and services which will develop innovative manufacturing techniques and products which have the potential to change the way we live.

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Solar, Corporate Responsibility

Aspen Ideas Festival Follow-up

By Kurt Kwok
Jul92010

The Aspen Ideas Festival has been an amazing opportunity to see what some of the greatest minds in the world are doing to help the world innovate and progress. Applied Materials’ focus was on how our high-tech manufacturing has the potential to re-energize the U.S. manufacturing sector (watch Applied Materials Chairman and CEO Mike Splinter’s talk here). Other topics discussed have ranged from encouraging consumers to be green to redefining the purpose and goals of higher education.

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Solar

Industrial Scale Solar - An Innovation Opportunity for Silicon Valley

By Mark Pinto
Apr92010

Some are doubting that Silicon Valley still has the drive to change the world as we have in the past. I was just part of a story on the PBS Newshour related to this topic, where as a contrast, Applied Materials was highlighted for the innovation we’ve delivered with our SunFab PV technology, which leverages our semiconductor heritage to focus on this large-scale solar opportunity.

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Solar

Bigger is Better in Solar

By Connie Duncan
Feb122010

Just how diverse and competitive the thin film solar industry is becoming was evident at Photon’s second PV Technology Show held in San Francisco last week.

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Solar

First SunFab User Group Meets

By Cathy Boone
Nov162009

The solar team kicked off the week at the Solar Power Conference by hosting a photovoltaic (PV) Systems User Group workshop with our SunFab customers. Held the day ahead of the Solar Power conference, based on feedback it was a total success!

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Solar

Italian Minister of Economic Development Visits Applied

By Gary Fazzino
Oct52009

Applied Materials chairman and CEO Mike Splinter met with the Honorable Claudio Scajola, Italian Minister of Economic Development, at the company’s research and development campus in California on Friday for a demonstration of the Applied SunFab panel, the world's largest and most powerful solar panel.

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Services, Solar

Harnessing Collective Wisdom

By Dana Tribula
Sep282009

We’ve talked about the economic and environmental benefits of local solar ecosystems before on this blog, but even the best team can benefit from the experience of others, wherever they’re located. When it comes to making anything work better, collective wisdom is a powerful tool.

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Solar

Cleantech Special Interest Group Hosted by Applied Ventures

By Chris Moran
Sep232009

Applied Ventures recently hosted the Cleantech Special Interest Group (SIG), a cadre of cleantech investors, entrepreneurs, thought leaders and Eric Wesoff of Greentech Media.

The group toured Applied's facility and viewed the Sunfab PECVD tool chamber, the world’s most powerful solar glass module as well as got a peek at the AKT Gen 10 display glass – the largest in production today.

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Solar

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at Applied Materials China

By Patricia Zepeda Vera
Jul262009

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (center) stands in front of the world's largest thin film solar panel (5.7m2) manufactured by Applied Materials' SunFab production line during a visit to the company's SunFab Solar Module Reliability Testing facility on Saturday. Mr.

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