1.   Already, MEMC is shipping test versions of these bigger wafers so that semiconductor manufacturers can redesign their production lines.

2.   New semiconductor shapes, thinner chips on bigger wafers, will require new testing equipment.

3.   Newer plants have more modern equipment, can make bigger wafers and thus cheaper chips, he said.

4.   The Semicon Southwest convention in Austin this week has cancelled its session on the bigger wafers.

5.   They had planned that chip companies would be buying equipment that makes chips on bigger wafers.