|  Solaicx isn't your garden variety silicon wafer maker. The Santa Clara, Calif. company says it has devised a manufacturing process that allows it to churn out extremely efficient monocrystalline wafers tailored for the solar market at a viciously competitive low price — the holy grail of photovoltaics. This opportunity to steeply reduce its manufacturing costs looked too good to pass up for MEMC , one of the biggest makers of silicon wafers in the world, which has seen its core business erode since the economic downturn hit the semiconductor industry hard
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