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SunPower Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of solar electric power products. It offers solar cells, solar panels, and inverters that generate electricity from sunlight for residential, commercial, and remote power applications. The company’s solar cells are semiconductor devices that directly convert sunlight into electricity. Its solar cell product includes A-300 solar cell, a silicon solar cell with a specified power value of 3.1 watts. The company’s solar panels are solar cells electrically connected together and encapsulated in a weatherproof package. Its solar panel products include SPR-200 and SPR-210 that are larger solar panels, which contain 72 electrically interconnected A-300 solar cells and are specified at 200 and 210 watts; and SPR-90, a smaller solar panel, which contains 32 electrically interconnected A-300 solar cells and is specified at 90 watts. The company’s inverters transform DC electricity produced by solar panels into the common form of AC electricity, and are used in virtually on-grid solar power system and primarily feed power either directly into the home electrical circuit or into the utility grid. Its inverter product line includes three models spanning a power range of 2.0 to 3.2 kilowatts. In addition, the company offers imaging detectors that are back contact light sensor arrays for medical imaging applications, as well as infrared detectors that are semiconductors, which detect light signals primarily for use in computing and mobile phone applications. It markets and sells its products to system integrators and original equipment manufacturers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. SunPower Corporation is a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.
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