Reply #1: FWIW... Sanyo the only one I see doing amorphous cells.

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After a cursory browse each webpage, Sanyo is the only one of these major producers I saw doing the new flexible steel-substrate printed cells. Those are where the real cost savings are going to be. They may not be as efficient on a area/watt (top efficiency in lab is 20% whereas crystals are getting 30%+) basis but they will be much cheaper per watt than the crystal silicon. (Though there is a "sliver" technology in the works to halve the cost of crystals.)

It is signifigant that a large company like Sanyo has access to the amorphous process, though... bodes well for its future.

PV skeptics fair warning -- as soon as the new technologies scale up, the old addage of "these take more energy to produce than they give out" will be done for. Though we all know you won't stop saying it :P