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First Solar

Energy · Tempe, United States · Founded 1999 · IPO 2006 Decacorn

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Valuation

$18B

Market cap · Apr/2026

Revenue

$5.22B

Latest reported FY

Global footprint

Where First Solar has talent and traffic

AI talent share

0.2% of workforce is AI talent
(16 of 6,569 staff)

Core AI50.08%

Other AI110.17%

Non-AI workforce6,55399.76%

Patent intelligence

$209M patent portfolio · 231 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value

$209M

1.1% of market cap · 4920.6× the top peer Enpal ($42k)

231 active patent families

Where First Solar innovates Materials scienceCadmium CationPhotovoltaicsConductive oxideOptoelectronics

Above peer median on Market

Quality vs same-sector peers

First Solar on the five Patsnap quality dimensions

First Solar in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.

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Patent quality scores (0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap

Tech-focus vs peers

Where First Solar concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across First Solar and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

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Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

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