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  • Intel Enters Solar Panel Market, SpectraWatt Receives $50 Million in Initial Funding

    06/16/2008 5:18:49 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 26 replies · 393+ views
    WSJ ^ | June 16, 2008 5:21 p.m. | By DON CLARK
    Intel Corp. disclosed that an internal team has been working on technology for use in solar panels, and now is spinning off that effort to form a new company. The chip maker said the company, SpectraWatt Inc., will make photovoltaic cells, the primary component in solar panels that use sunlight to generate electricity. It will receive $50 million in initial funding from a consortium including Intel's venture capital arm, Goldman Sach's Cogentrix Energy subsidiary, PCG Clean Energy and Technology Fund, and Solon AG, a German solar-panel maker. Intel's move is the latest in a scramble among Silicon Valley companies to...