The company promised to have the silicon ready in two years' time, but when 2008 rolled around, it was clear that all it was prepared to release was a series of roadmap slides.
Thin film companies actually increased the megawatts of solar panels they rolled out from roughly 2 gigawatts in 2009 to 3.87 gigawatts in 2011, but silicon solar panel companies boosted their production a lot more during the same period.