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British chipmaker CSR Plc underscored its financial strength on Monday with a share buyback of up to $50 million, helping send its shares up more than 20 percent to their highest in six months.

what a great day mm' s seemed intent on moving sp up + read this more great news. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120216PD215.html

40000 trade just gone through

tony.s, get the feeling the Half Yearly Report due at the end of March might be stimulating this.

Apple sp broke $500 today for the first time, demand for hand held devices just keeps growing and the emerging markets are still at tickover when they snick into gear, !!! Pure as we know is primarily a service industry, and this service is now in demand again, big time, pure simply has to milk this demand and providing those margins hold up which they should due to a major reduction in competition this share is going to soar, this time next year who knows where we'll be.

Nasdaq closes at 11 year high!

http://www.fabtech.org/news/_a/silicon_wafer_revenues_climb_as_shipments_fall/

Spot wafer prices increased most significantly on week Spot prices of all solar components increased this week, except for solar modules. Spot wafer prices increased significantly this week, and mono wafers maintained strong. Spot prices of solar cells showed similar but slightly price uptrend as solar wafers. Spot prices of poly-silicon increased slightly on week. Spot prices of solar modules maintained stable. Some solar module vendors had adopted dollar-denominated pricing to prevent fluctuations in the Euro. Poly-silicon vendors kept pricing appreciation policies recently. Spot poly prices had increased steadily since we first observed from our supply chain survey during the last week of 2011. Rather than reducing costs of poly feedstock, wafer manufacturers now had focused more on increasing their ASPs of wafers. Spot wafer price uptrend continued, and wafer vendors tried to pull up price further in the coming week. High-efficiency products remained more popular than mainstream products, and thus mono wafers still showed more significant price uptrend than multi wafers. Followed by the price rebounding last week, spot prices of solar cells kept increasing this week. Solar cell manufacturers tried to increase their prices with same magnitude as their wafer costs. However, solar cell vendors were requested to provide with more advanced products such as higher efficiency, PID-free, or mono products. Although the connection volume in 1Q12 seems to be better than 1Q11, solar module manufacturers were not in a hurry to pull in too many solar cells beyond their ideal pricing range. They carefully arrange their material costs and managed their orders decentralized among different regions. Further tariff cuts in German or UK were still not decided yet, and some system vendors thought positive about PV prospect for the first quarter of 2012. Due to more decentralized markets afterward, it should be noted that emerging markets would be more important in 2012. (See PVinsights Premier Service - System connection forecast by regions) There are some specific factors in these countries, such as tariff policies, product preference, weather conditions, and etc. PVinsights expects that successful PV companies in 2012 should expose themselves in emerging markets and have more specific niche products.

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/solar_shakeout_bekaert_cutting_solar_wafer_wire_saw_production_with_1250_jo

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/jobs_lost_as_sanyo_decides_to_shut_down_california_factory

new job vacancy in solar division indicates healthy progress. http://www.purewafer.com/assets/job%20description%20-%20field%20sales%20executive%20_3_.pdf

http://www.digitimes.com/Reports/Report.asp?datepublish=2012/02/03&pages=VL&seq=200

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/sumco_exiting_solar_wafer_market_with_1300_job_losses

http://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/blogs/global_solar_storm_could_prompt_uk_product_shortage_2356/

i did a sp chart overlay with infineon share performance is in harmony and follows down after the crash, whilst pures competition couldnt survive, pure did and its sp has basically flatlined since, but the customers that brought the company to its knees are now well into recovery and sp,s are rising rapidly, pure is still flatling under the radar but this cant continue for much longer, fill your boots imho

Infineon First Quarter FY 2012 sales and earnings slightly ahead of guidance Quarterly Report February 1, 2012 Quarterly sales of Euro 946 million down from Euro 1.038 billion Superior growth and profitability: 14 percent growth in calendar year 2011 vs 3 percent for industry excluding memories and microprocessors 14.9 percent Total Segment Result Margin in-line with through-cycle target Sustained efforts for future success: counter-cyclical investments of Euro 294 million to enable move to highly competitive 300mm manufacturing; sustaining high R&D and selling expense Strong returns: 27 percent RoCE for the quarter; 1.0 percent reduction in fully diluted share count Outlook for the second quarter of the FY 2012: sales to be flat to down slightly; Total Segment Result Margin to be down broadly by 1 percentage point

Morning Podsy, the Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) share option schemes are designed to assist smaller companies to attract and retain key employees, incentivise key employees and aid succession planning, so from our perspective it is a positive thing.

RNS Number : 4883W Pure Wafer PLC 31 January 2012  PURE WAFER PLC (AIM: PUR) Issue of Equity Pure Wafer plc ("Pure Wafer" or "the Company"), the provider of high quality silicon wafer reclaim services for many of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers as an integral part of their cost control programmes, announces that it has issued and allotted 500,000 ordinary shares of 2 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") following the exercise of options under the Company's Enterprise Management Incentive Share Option Scheme. Accordingly, application has been made for the 500,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that admission will take place on or about 8.00 a.m. on 3 February 2012 ("Admission"). In accordance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTR 5.6.1R) the Company hereby notifies the market that immediately following Admission its issued share capital will consist of 126,902,693 Ordinary Shares. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury. Shareholders may use these figure as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

I think were sitting pretty here guys.gla

RNS Number : 4327W Pure Wafer PLC 31 January 2012  PURE WAFER PLC (AIM: PUR) Trading Update Pure Wafer plc ("Pure Wafer" or "the Company"), the provider of high quality silicon wafer reclaim services for many of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, is pleased to provide the following update on current trading in advance of the announcement of the Company's interim results for the period ended 31 December 2011, which is expected to be during week commencing 26 March 2012. . During the third quarter of 2011 the semiconductor market and Pure Wafer's trading continued along the growth path enjoyed in the previous period as reported in the Chief Executive's report which accompanied the report and accounts for the year to 30 June 2011. Despite a brief slowdown during the fourth quarter of 2011 the semiconductor market continues to show positive signs for 2012. Pure Wafer has continued to see increased demand for its wafer reclaim services mainly from the US and Asian markets but also from a stable European sector with demand continuing at the higher levels enjoyed during the second half of our prior financial year. Not withstanding the economic woes of Europe and the US the semiconductor industry is, in part, being fuelled by the increasing demand for hand held devices in the emerging economies of China, India and Brazil, which is encouraging new investment in 300mm silicon wafer manufacturing facilities announced by the major chip manufacturers, giving further wafer reclaim opportunities. Pure Wafer operations are scaled to accommodate the increasing demand and together with our lower cost of manufacture are well placed to take advantage of this increasing activity. Solar pv With the newly formed solar business commencing in earnest during July 2011 we are pleased to report that trading for the period started positively with strong enquiry and order books. Despite the sudden announcement by the UK Government that the Government backed feed-in-tariff would be halved from 12 December 2011, trading has been in line with expectations. Subsequent to the period end with component material prices falling we have been able to offer our fully installed systems at prices which continue, at the lower level of feed-in-tariff rates, to show a substantial return on investment for our customers. As such, once again our order books are filling with many commercial businesses and property owners as well as homeowners taking up our offering. We expect that Pure Wafer's solar division will continue to trade strongly and produce results in line with management expectations through the remainder of the financial year. The Company further confirms that it is meeting all obligations under the financial restructuring agreement, details of which are set out in the annual report and accounts.