"...It's too early to commit to more investment at this stage...Polysilicon prices are 15-20% higher than a year ago and Tokuyama expects prices to rise further next year to reflect rising prices of raw materials..."

"...CIOs should prepare two budgets for 2008...to assume growth similar to that seen over the past six years and the need to cut costs with the arrival of a recession...Gartner said 2007 had been a milestone year for IT, which was set to become a £1.5tn market. But a tightening economy would change the growth rate of the IT industry in 2008..."

Suntech Power announced a first phase agreement with Nitol Solar to supply polysilicon to Suntech over a seven-year period beginning in 2009.

"...We will be trying to forge alliances with the major players in this sector (CMOS image sensor)...Kim said an DRAM oversupply of will last until the end of this year...Demand has been on the rise for a quite long period of time but supply has exceeded demand..."

"...We haven't seen this level of spending cuts since the dotcom bust...One aspect may be down to the very slow adoption of 65nm...Another is the underlining wafer price that has seen ASPs decline in 2007, while tool depreciation costs have risen and utilization rates were low (1H07)..."

"...The jumbo ingot is the result of Trina Solar's contract with GT Solar, which supplies Trina Solar with furnaces that grow multi-crystalline ingots up to 450 kg. This is Trina Solar's third order from GT Solar, representing approximately 300 MW of ingot growing capacity... "

"...We have come through a very challenging time for the Company with the restatement and the consequences of the stock options backdating investigation..."

Suntech announced that it has entered into a definitive contract with Asia Silicon to purchase high purity polysilicon with a total value of up to US$1.5 billion over a seven-year period.

Bitmicro announced the coming a 2.5-inch, flash-based solid state SATA drive capable of storing up to 416GB of data and sustaining transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec.

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and Hisense Communication announced a collaboration slated to bring to market in 2008 mobile phones with Qualcomm MEMS displays.