<article><a href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/.../sunpower-to-acquire-auos-stake-in-malaysian-solar-cell-ve..." target="_blank">SunPower Corp. </a>will pay $170 million for <a href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/press-release/udc-korea-opens-new-headquarters/" target="_blank">AU Optronics Corp.</a>’s portion of the two companies’ solar cell making venture at an 800-megawatt fabrication facility in Melaka, Malaysia.</article>

<a href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/.../sunpower-to-acquire-auos-stake-in-malaysian-solar-cell-ve..." target="_blank">SunPower Corp. </a>will pay $170 million for <a href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/press-release/udc-korea-opens-new-headquarters/" target="_blank">AU Optronics Corp.</a>’s portion of the two companies’ solar cell making venture at an 800-megawatt fabrication facility in Melaka, Malaysia.
SunPower will make the purchase over the next four years under a stock buying agreement, San Jose, California-based SunPower said in a statement Monday. It has also signed an agreement to supply 100 megawatts of its E-series solar panels to AUO.
AUO will remain a wafer supplier, SunPower said in the statement, adding that the transaction resolves a dispute between the two companies.
“Acquiring AUO’s stake in the Malaysian joint venture gives us sole control over our highest-performing solar cell fab and will allow for technology upgrades and further expansion of our high-efficiency solar cell technology as market conditions warrant,” Tom Werner, SunPower president and chief executive, said in the statement.
SunPower said in August that it scrapped a target to at least break even this year. The company has said it will close a Philippine panel-assembly facility and will transfer the equipment to Mexico, cutting 15 percent of the overall workforce, or 1,200 employees, in the process.
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SunPower Corp. will pay $170 million for AU Optronics Corp.’s portion of the two companies’ solar cell making venture in  Malaysia.

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