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paid the sum of $8,400 per month for a term of one year with respect to their services as Executive Chairman and an executive director respectively, They will each be granted 2,500,000 stock options and Peralta will be granted 500,000 stock options pursuant to the Company’s incentive stock option plan.
The options will be exercisable for a period of five years at a price of $0.235 per share. The options vest 25% immediately and 25% every six months thereafter.
A*STAR and Rolls Royce to develop GaN power technology
Together, they will advance gallium nitride power devices for the development of high-power-density converters operating at temperatures of up to 300°C
A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) is to collaborate with Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, for the research and development of advanced power electronics devices.
This research collaboration aims to use GaN power devices for the development of high-power-density converters that can reliably measure various physical parameters at soaring temperatures of up to 300°C and at environmental pressure of up to 30kpsi.
This collaboration will be delivered through IME’s Rugged Electronics programme, which was set up to support Singapore’s drive to become a technology hub for the aerospace, oil and gas sectors. The focus of IME’s Rugged Electronics programme is to develop a wide range of solutions from sensing, packaging, telemetry, non-volatile memory to integrated circuits
“This collaboration leverages IME’s established competence and enables us to extend our research to innovate in new industries,” comments Dim- Lee Kwong, Executive Director of IME. “More importantly, this strategic partnership offers an excellent opportunity for Singapore to build knowledge in this industry and move further up the
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“We are excited to work with IME in the research and development of advanced power electronics systems and high temperature electronics. IME’s expertise, flexibility and positive approach makes them an excellent research partner,” concludes Kurichi Kumar, Director of Research & Technology - Asia, Rolls-Royce Singapore.
Phasor Solutions & TowerJazz move forward with SiGe for communications
The silicon germanium BiCMOS process was chosen over traditional gallium arsenide solutions due to its ability to operate in the 12GHz to 15GHz band. What’s more, the process allows multiple analogue and digital functions to be integrated into a single chip
Foundry firm TowerJazz and Phasor Solutions, have together developed a new phased array technology for communications on the move using SiGe process platforms from TowerJazz.
Phasor is targeting the multi-billion dollar satellite communications and radar market with a unique design that is claimed to provide an order of magnitude improvement over competing solutions.
Phasor recently demonstrated a proprietary technology which allows moving vehicles (aircraft, ships or trucks) to communicate with stationary satellites, or antennas that track moving satellites, with no moving parts. Technically, the system is able to self-align to a desired signal source and track it in real time, which the firm says has never been done before.
Utilising TowerJazz’s high performance 155GHz SiGe BiCMOS process (SBC18HX) ,Phasor is manufacturing its innovative transceiver chipset for mobile broadband service on moving platforms such as trains, manned and unmanned airplanes, and military vehicles.
TowerJazz’s SiGe BiCMOS process was chosen over traditional GaAs solutions used in phased array radar due to its ability to operate
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