Excess production capacity of solar cells

Excess production capacity of solar cells

In the stock market just popularity of the "Solar", "PV" hot, but industry insiders in its encounter with a severe test of life and death battle: Who can survive this year? Who can survive the next year? Has become the industry's most talked about.

The key factors determine the life and death is not money. "Now, for us this business, the money is not a major problem, the key raw materials, technology and quality." More than one company's boss says.

Pursuit of profit capital influx

Pursuit of profit is the capital influx. Industry experts told the reporter, because to me by the EU textile, footwear pressure of anti-dumping duties, and many had engaged in wool, and shoemaking, and even "hit iron", and their money to pound the "solar." The wind particularly in Zhejiang and Jiangsu province, because there is Suntech's demonstration effect.

But the influx of capital, let the experts worry that it not hi.

First of all, this situation makes the current very tight supply of raw materials have been more tense. According to the company the person Yasuharu introduction, the present, the basic raw material production of solar cell polysilicon prices, has grown from 20-30 kg in 2003 to Mei dollar, skyrocketing to more than 200 U.S. dollars, prices rose 10-fold Que is still out of stock.

In fact, the European choice of imports from China solar cells, primarily low cost, obviously, China's photovoltaic business severely squeezed profit margins. Experts generally said that the shortage caused by short-term solar cell manufacturers quick profit status, it is difficult long-term maintenance.

Market concentration in Germany

Second, signaling the near future, the solar cell industry surplus production capacity significantly.

Shanghai Solar Energy, said the company concerned, last year, total global demand for solar cells is 1,500 MW - 1700 MW, but the domestic total of all current production capacity has reached 1,000 MW. The next few years, solar cell market, mainly concentrated in the German market conditions in Europe will not be too many changes occurred, although the United States, California has also made a very attractive use of solar energy planning, but the market is far not been formed. This means that the global market volume growth, domestic production will not keep up with the "crazy" expansion, combined with lack of core technology, some experts describe that: "If this continues, the solar energy industry Zuizhong is not repeating the mistakes TV possible. "

China's market demand and production forecast of silicon materials (unit: ton)

2004 2005 2006E2007E

Demand 2280380047007000

Yield 601 303 601 500

Gap 2220367043405500

Prediction of a research-related

● expansion of the global PV cell production capacity too rapidly, making the industry is facing severe overcapacity, we expect the operating rate of 2006 business will be significantly decreased.

● Silicon owner who is king. The global PV industry chain pyramid distribution, raw materials shortages and excess production capacity downstream to upstream business in a favorable position, silicon material prices rose significantly over the battery, lower corporate earnings will be squeezed.

● Due to the shortage of silicon materials, photovoltaic market is difficult to occur in 2004 as the explosive growth. Expected in 2004 - 2010 average annual growth rate of 23% below the 2000 - 2004 level of 38%. Japan Germany and the United States will remain the leading global PV market.

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Siemens billion penalty must be paid

Siemens billion penalty must be paid

The Siemens bribery scandal comes at a high price: pay in the United States, the electronics company $ 800,000,000 punishment in Germany again almost 400 million euros. The ex-management could even threaten the U.S. proceedings. hp pavilion tx1000 battery

Siemens agreed with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the penalty in the amount of $ 800,000,000 (600 million euros). The sum is made up of a penalty 450 million U.S. dollars to the Justice Ministry and a skimming of 350 million dollars to the SEC. The Munich public prosecutor also imposed a fine on another 395 million euros.

So that the proceedings against the company were for alleged bribery of public officials in both countries simultaneously terminated, said Siemens Supervisory Board Chairman Gerhard Cromme. "Today we close one of the most unpleasant chapters in more than 160-year history of Siemens from essentially."

As the U.S. Justice Department said explicitly, but so are individual cases against former top managers of the company not excluded. The Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich said in Washington: "The investigations are continuing." He also directed massive accusations against the company. The procedure revealed that "corruption was nothing less than normal procedure" for Siemens. hp pavilion tx2000 battery

Siemens penalty must be paid because the company wanted to gain competitive advantage through corruption and has violated the rules of corporate governance. A total of € 1.4 billion to bribe his shed. That is due in the U.S. especially high penalties.

Siemens had previously been a billion euros for fines to U.S. and German authorities postponed. The U.S. authorities have been relatively merciful, because the offenses fall under the term of the former Siemens management board and the new Board of Directors shows remorse and promises to resolute action against corruption.

In addition to the fine must be Siemens undertake to monitor the future better internally that no bribes are paid. This task is to take ex-Finance Minister Theo Waigel. As an independent "compliance monitor" Waigel will continue to insist on such measures to prevent corruption and to comply with laws and regulations are implemented at Siemens, the company announced today. It would Waigel, who was signed for four years, regularly report to the U.S. Department of Justice and the powerful U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

He was the first non-American who acts as Compliance Monitor, said Siemens Supervisory Board Chairman Gerhard Cromme. "Here too, the empathy and the prudence of the authorities, and certainly this can also be understood as confirmation of the confidence that the company has built up over the past two years with his course of enlightenment and change." lenovo 3000 y400 battery

The U.S. investigators have yet again made against the former Siemens boss Heinrich von Pierer collected. Pierer and other ex-Zentralvorstände were despite evidence of corruption cases in the group did not intervene and things did not go to the bottom, it is clear from the investigation documents.

In a written statement by his lawyer Pierer did say he had not been consulted by U.S. authorities. These would be "based only on one side by the Siemens AG provided information."

Lions roar in the jungle road

Lions roar in the jungle road

Classic two-seater sedan or family-safe: the times are also no alternative to the road athletes long gone - it need not always be Porsche. Expensive but it is always. hp pavilion zt1000 battery

With the beefy C 63 AMG, Mercedes on a daily use machine that offers the same interior space as a more tranquil normal version of the C-Class. And the luggage no concessions are necessary: 475 liters of luggage compartment - as created by the Porsche just a little more than a quarter.

And even when the price is almost familienkompatibel AMG: € 67 830 for the base version, although a bit much. But towards the close to 100,000 € for the 911 Porsche Carrera 4 with a double clutch, sport suspension and a few other extras are even on the other hand, a word. hp pavilion zx5000 battery

Highly variable and the engine concept. Brawny power, both offer: Porsche creates 283 kW/385 hp, AMG-Mercedes even 336 kW/457 hp. And at Super Plus make it not both. But that's all the similarities, even as far as possible.

The V8 engine in the Mercedes is an optical gem: Who pops up the bonnet, believes in the engine compartment of a truck to look. Large and powerful, the engine takes up the space that it deserves. The aluminum-V and the gleaming black of the panels indicate at once: Here lies nothing but power. Clearly insignificant in the rear of the Porsche Boxer. It works with its six cylinders rather pure squeezed through the narrow hatch - for the eyes, it offers little.

Therefore the more so for the ears: At idle there is a rich rumble - but that will change immediately to a more rapid drum fire as soon as it goes. min until 8000 rpm. the scale of the rev range - and the Porsche roars in staccato almost to the last mark.

But no matter how wonderful the sound of the Porsche boxer is: The AMG V8 engine, it can even better. Dark aggressive and he roars off, as you can with just eight pots. And when manually downshift the new auto-declutch produced simply great cinema for the ears. lenovo 3000 y300 battery

Performance-wise, they actually put on the road, take the two engines are not very much - despite the 72 hp and 180 Nm torque is saturated with AMG. The need at 1730 pounds empty weight but also cope with almost 300 pounds more to come as the Porsche weighs. The Mercedes storms officially within 4.5 seconds from 0 to 100 km / h, the Porsche can be achieved with 0.2 seconds longer.

With Sport Chrono Package, Double clutch and launch control the Zuffenhausen is real even faster than the Mercedes from Affalterbach - because the electronics better while the race start it all still a bit makes a man who gives the Mercedes gas and the only of the - excellent - and 7-speed automatic one not quite as sophisticated as in the sports program is supported Porsche. In addition, the Mercedes hit with its 250 km / h Limiter tilts - likely without the emergency brake he come to the 302 km / h top of the Porsche, at least up close.

No later than at the gas station but then shows that the Porsche is much more modern vehicle. The AMG turns out to be a drunkard - eight cylinder 6.2 liter engine will be supplied. The officially estimated 13.4 liters per 100 km are not even close to achieving real - who leaves so that we really like it and from time to time will also enjoy the blipping, which can be happy if he stays under 18 liters. You can watch the needle of the fuel gauge while driving literally, as it tends to big, mean zero. Not without reason, Audi and BMW to replace their V8 in the sport versions with highly bred six-cylinder.

The 10.6 liters, the Porsche Carrera S as indicating, for the average fuel consumption, by contrast, almost realistic. Even at very dashing with significant highway driving shares around 300 km / h consumption of the entire test was on average only a little over 13 liters. To normal, but still driving spaßbetonter 12 liters should be possible.

The reason lies not only in the brand-new boxer engine but also in the much more modern overall concept, the Porsche offers. The transmission of both cars are the best of what is currently available on the market - only use it a lot more to save fuel at Porsche. 80 on the highway at a speed of the two-seater rolls economically in the 7th Corridor. Where's the fun? A kick on the accelerator - and it will shut down instantly and takes off. hp pavilion tx2500z battery

The Porsche is simply the much more agile of the two, the sporty flat. Those who want a real high performance sports car - and Made in Zuffenhausen can afford - for which there is no real alternative. Especially not after the current revision of the 911 series.

Who every now and then needs more than two seats, yet very athletic move will be, for the AMG - also still significantly cheaper to buy - the best choice. And for all outdated thirst of the V8 for € 30,000 price difference you can fill up a long time.

Diagnosis: Product protectionism

Diagnosis: Product protectionism

If a state tries to keep with restrictions to foreign competition by the domestic market lenovo x300 battery, it's called protectionism. And nothing else to do with the electronics company of the competition - this is shortsighted.

The castration of products is a double-edged sword. For of course one can understand that no manufacturer wants to stand idly by when cheap or even illegally copied parts jeopardize the reputation of the product, company, or even the safety of customers. One can also understand that it does not like companies when pirates, the marketing of their own and threaten to partner licensed games.

But the arguments convinced the producers to their built-in blocks rather rare. lenovo x301 battery Too much on the electronics industry for years dangled their customers with such limitations all too often only one purpose: to leave no market share to the accessories industry.

Too big for example, the price differences between the original manufacturer of batteries and alternative providers. Since it is critical minds just hard to listen to the reasons given for the technical restrictions and without further belief. The fact that the iPod does have fairly limited success, one can easily be booked against cult product - Apple's model of success.

The fact remains: many companies seem to fear a certain openness to the competition brought many a success. The best example is one of the lessons that the music industry has learned painfully music with copy protection (DRM), which can only be played on a computer or CDs with DRM, do not run on the car radio - so you lose customers, rather than win it. By offering DRM-free music sales to justify increased. Apple and Amazon tore before, only then dared the other slowly.

Generally shows that the more open a particular device or software is constructed, the less equipment lenovo thinkpad x61 tablet battery the manufacturer may sell you. But as flexible and open devices are attractive sales, which often increases even more. A whole industry lives on that concept eventually - by developing its services and products based on free and free open-source software.

Cisco brings integrated storage devices for companies up to 100 employees

Cisco brings integrated storage devices for companies up to 100 employees

The network storage NSS 300 is available with two dell latitude e6500 battery, four and six drive bays. The maximum capacity is therefore 12 TB. Web server, Wordpress, authentication and Netwerkverwaltung installed by the manufacturers.

Cisco has, under the name "Smart Storage" presented a portfolio of storage devices for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The target group is companies with up to 100 employees. These are combined Netwerk storage hardware with business application software.

The first model, there is the Small Business NSS 300 with two, four or six drive bays. Fitted by one of the largest model with 2 TB disks, the maximum capacity is 12 TB. Software as a Web server, the blogging or content management system Wordpress, user authentication and network management are pre-installed.

The data sets from the device is encrypted on the disk. The configuration can make in the browser. In virtualized environments, an automatic scaling of the space. Another possibility is the availability of data limited to certain times of day or week days.

Cisco also has U.S. prices for the "Small Business NSS called 300" series lenovo 3000 v100 battery, which range 913-5625 dollars - depending on model and capacity of integrated panels. To extend support to three years also costs $ 149 extra charge.

The NSS 300 is network storage with two, four and six drive bays available (Image: Cisco).

Hewlett-Packard WebOS will also be used for printer

Hewlett-Packard WebOS will also be used for printer

The announces CEO Mark Hurd. There will be a series of such devices dell battery , dell inspiron 1545 battery. In addition, tablets, smartphones and netbooks are planned with WebOS. The printer business generated about 20 percent of sales from HP.

Hewlett-Packard has taken over with plans for the Palm operating system WebOS, go far beyond smartphones. The CEO Mark Hurd said during a conference call with analysts at the latest quarterly figures. In addition to a Tablet, it could also Internet-enabled printer with the originally conceived for mobile OS type.

Hurd described it as a sense of the Palm takeover for 1.2 billion dollars, "our intellectual property in the area of networked mobility to advance. We assume that we will use WebOS in a number of device types, including slates and Internet-connected printer . Slate lenovo batteries Tablet PCs are equipped with keyboards. Hurd added: "When you connect a printer to the Internet, it needs an operating system. We are planning a whole series."

The mention of WebOS printers may have come a surprise not only to the analysts. Even HP spokesman Todd Bradley would only confirm shortly that HP in WebOS "invested heavily" and use it on Slate tablets, netbooks and mobile phones is.

Printers are still an important business for canon bg-e2n battery grip HP with 6.4 billion dollars in sales last quarter - over 20 percent of total sales. The manufacturer has already found the first models with Internet connection in the offer (such as the Photosmart Premium Touch Smart Web) and has an App Store, where users applications for printers.

With the Web related HP printer could soon be running WebOS (Photo: Hewlett-Packard).

OCZ announces SSDs with 260 MByte / s sequential read rate

OCZ announces SSDs with 260 MByte / s sequential read rate

The flash drives use controller of Sand Force compaq presario v2000 battery. They should either be available with SATA or SAS interface. OCZ is planning capacity 50-400 GB.

OCZ Technology has announced a new Solid State Drive series, which will be equipped with controllers of Sand Force. These allow sequential read and write rates of 260 MByte / s.

The read performance of the chip models SF-1200 and SF-1500 Sand Force are 30,000 entry instructions per second (IOPS) to compaq presario cq60 battery. The write performance of the SF-1200 is 10,000 IOPS, while the SF-1500 also provides 30 000 IOPS. For this latter has a higher 950 mW typical power consumption, the SF-1200 comes with 550 mW. At rest satisfied both with 50 mW.

OCZ wants to deliver the new SSDs with different interfaces lenovo thinkpad x60 battery. In addition to a 3-GBit/s-SATA-Interface 6-GBit/s-SAS-Schnittstelle should also be used. The storage specified by the manufacturer with 50 to 400 GByte.

Depending on the model, OCZ wants single-level cell (SLC) or multi-level cell NAND Flash (MLC block). Thus, the new drives to both companies and are suitable for home users. First in the new SSD series will announce the manufacturer to the COMPAQ 2010 in January.