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Updated Sunday, August 29, 2010 11:32 pm TWN, CNA TSMC to build thin-film solar cell plant in September TAIPEI -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, announced Saturday that work on its first thin- film solar cell plant is expected to begin in September. Rick Tsai, president of TSMC's new businesses division, said the new plant will focus on developing modules for copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells, after it entered the silicon solar cell sector by purchasing a 20 percent stake in Motech Industries Inc., Taiwan's biggest solar cell maker, in January. Addressing the opening ceremony of a green job fair, Tsai also said machines and equipment will be installed in TSMC's LED research and development center and plant in Hsinchu beginning next month. Construction on the plant began last March and mass production is expected in 2011. TSMC has aggressively moved into the solar industry this year, not only becoming Motech's single largest shareholder, but also acquiring a 21-percent stake in U.S. solar photovoltaic company Stion in July to obtain thin-film solar cell technology. Industry analysts believe that TSMC's main rival, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), is ahead of TSMC in the thin-film solar cell market, as UMC established its own thin-film solar cell company NexPower Technology Corp. in 2005. NexPower has already entered mass production. “TSMC believes that its past experience in developing semiconductor businesses will help speed its growth in the green energy industry,” said Tsai, who previously served as president and chief executive officer of TSMC from 2005 to 2009. Tsai said TSMC is expected to recruit at least 500 people to help develop its green energy businesses in the next 12 months. Meanwhile, Sino-American Silicon Products Inc., Taiwan's top maker of wafers for solar cells, also said at the job fair that it will increase its workforce from 2,400 to 6,000, in five years. Sino-American Chairman Lu Ming-kuang said the company's consolidated revenues grew 80 percent year-on-year in the first six months of this year and predicted full-year revenues would surpass NT$21 billion, growing to NT$60 billion and then to NT$65 billion in 2015. |
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