Taiwan reliance on diamond wire-sliced solar wafers to surge in 4Q17

As China-based poly-Si wafer makers are fast replacing slurry slicing with diamond wire slicing to reduce production cost, Taiwan-based solar cell makers have been compelled to adopt more diamond wire-sliced wafers, which will account for 50% of their overall wafer purchases in fourth-quarter 2017, up from the present 10%, according to industry sources.

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