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SUN POWER INAUGURATES SOLAR-CELL FACTORY IN PHILIPPINES.
Industrial Environment, May, 2004
SunPower Corporation, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., has inaugurated its first high-volume manufacturing plant. SunPower Philippines Manufacturing Limited (SPML), located near Manila, is the first semiconductor fab in the Philippines and the first large-scale, solar cell facility in Southeast Asia.
The plant will initially turn out 25-megawatts per year of high-efficiency silicon solar cells to meet the increasing worldwide demand for clean, reliable solar electric power systems. At this production rate, SPML will employ approximately 200 people. ...
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