Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASYS)

linzee6394 (23.61) Submitted: 10/23/2007 5:55:36 PM : Start Price: $15.60 ASYS Score: -62.52

Amtech Systems, Inc. manufactures capital equipment, including silicon wafer handling automation, thermal semiconductor processing equipment and related consumables used in fabricating semiconductor devices and solar cells.

Semiconductors, or semiconductor chips, are fabricated on silicon wafer substrates, sliced from ingots, and are part of the circuitry, or electronic components, of many products including computers, telecommunications devices, automotive products, consumer goods, and industrial automation and control systems.

The Company's semiconductor handling, thermal processing and consumable products currently address the diffusion, oxidation and deposition steps used in the fabrication of semiconductors, solar cells, MEMS and the polishing of newly sliced silicon wafers.

So in other words, they not only make semiconductors but they also supply the companies who make semiconductors and solar cells.

So if you are into the solar companies how could you not be into this company?

This company’s products and services will only be in more demand over the next decade as green power popularity grows, and if you’re looking for another company to compare it to, I think of Intel.

Their subsidiary, Tempress Systems Inc., announced earlier this month that they received an additional $17.4 million in orders for diffusion processing systems from the solar cell industry. That's huge.