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First investment was in lqmt's IP, Second investment will be in Manufacturing that IP.
Tim Cook could give Li money to buy machines and start manufacturing components for Apple, similar to what was done with GT Advanced, the difference here being that Li has a proven track record for mass manufacturing.
Strong consolidation today after breaking through 28c yesterday.
LIQUIDMETAL TECH INCORPORATED (OTCMKTS:LQMT) had a decrease of 8.71% in short interest. LQMT’s SI was 1.88 million shares in May as released by FINRA. Its down 8.71% from 2.06 million shares previously. With 1.61M avg volume, 1 days are for LIQUIDMETAL TECH INCORPORATED (OTCMKTS:LQMT)’s short sellers to cover LQMT’s short positions. The stock decreased 0.70% or $0.002 on May 3, reaching $0.283. About 3.46 million shares traded or 57.99% up from the average. Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (OTCMKTS:LQMT) has risen 75.00% since September 26, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 63.58% the S&P500.
I'm not guessing Steipp's real accomplishments was getting Li to spearhead the Amorphous Mass Manufacturing revolution through LQMT.
And also cleaning up house after the Kang disasters,
And also keep Engel paying for developing a LQMT injection molding machine,
And also getting Materion to supply lqmt's BMG formula,
And also keep Apple paying for and increasing the Patent Portfolio of CIP.
And also keeping lqmt alive until commercialisation,
But thats about it.
Sounds like the snake pit that Steipp cleaned up after Kang, so maybe he is the right choice.
"Today, NES Financial services over 190 funds, administers over $75B of 1031 transactions annually, and has worked with over 550 EB-5 projects."
Maybe Steipp can give a loan to his old buddies at lqmt when needed.
What about those Jason Bond and Clay Trader guys who already flipped lqmt for a profit several weeks back. And don't forget about the lqmt short traders who cashed out under 25.
And wait until other car makers start using light weight lqmt parts in their Hybrids, electric cars.
Test runs have already been successfully done on "Identical Machines in China"
"slim" is a game character. You learn fun facts from godchildren. Would never have known cause i'm an xbox guy, never touch Playstation or Nintendo.
Not made with real Gold or Metal.
Limited edition Dragon Quest Metal Slime PS4
“Liquid Metal Slime” gold USB cover figure
Characteristics
A Metal Slime is basically the same as a Slime, but with a different colour scheme, it is a metallic silver instead of a vibrant blue. The metal slime has a very small hitpool, but very high defence values, meaning that most attacks will do either miss, or do between 1-2pts of damage. Metal Slimes also tend to flee very often, so killing them is harder than just whittling away it's HP. Metal Slimes tend to have fantastic agility, so they may even flee before any of your characters can move. Crit or miss abilities tend to be very good for killing with Metal Slimes. When killed, the player receives a very high amount of EXP, often enough to level several times over.
Characteristics[edit]
In terms of appearance, liquid metal slimes are essentially identical to bubble slimes, but are metallic in color and shine.
Liquid metal slimes have the standard qualities of metal monsters: high agility, high defense, immunity to essentially all forms of magic and skill, very low HP, very high experience payout, and the unfavorable habit of running away from battle frequently. Although a step up from the metal slime, the liquid metal slime is rarely shown to be competent at fighting, its only enhancements being its HP and the experience it gives when compared to metal slimes.
The last time lqmt traded above .28 was on 13th and 17th April when only 3.6m shares where traded.
Agree, spike has nothing to do with Apple, so this is just going to get better.
It feels like buyers today where desperate to get-in before market close.
What Apple signs off on is what lqmt/Li get.
Need not look any further than the cross license agreement that Apple approved.
Expect to see new leaks regarding 2 new iphones this week, the LCD versions. Cant wait to see if they are 's' upgrades or the same 'glass sandwich' design of the already leaked OLED Edition.
Here come the bids to close out the day.
Splitting hairs i think but enough differentiation from other Die-Cast Machines, while not infringing on Engel/CIP/Apple IP (cause its Hot-Crucible) to secure patents, Professor Li is shrewd, he is our CEO/COB and biggest LQMT holder. Can't get better than that.
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METAL MOLDING PROCESS OVERVIEW
Amorphous Liquidmetal® parts are formed in one of two ways: on a?cold crucible molding system or a hot-crucible molding system. Each platform offers the same great benefits of Liquidmetal technology, with?small differences to better manufacture a wide range of applications. The Liquidmetal molding process begins with crystalline material, which is automatically loaded into the machine for melting. Liquidmetal alloy ingots weighing up to 350 grams (depending on the process) are heated under vacuum to protect the alloys from unwanted contamination, such as exposure to oxygen. When the alloy is fully molten, the metal is injected under pressure into permanent steel molds similar to conventional plastic injection molds. Mold temperatures are controlled to cool and solidify the Liquidmetal alloy into final part geometries until the part is ready for ejection. By the time the part is ejected from the mold it has achieved full material properties in this single-step molding process. Parts can be designed to include the same level of three-dimensional complexity as plastic injection molded parts.
COLD-CRUCIBLE SYSTEM
The cold-crucible molding machines used for the Liquidmetal process replace a conventional plastic injection molding screw and barrel assembly with a special injection unit tailored for the Liquidmetal process. The injection of amorphous metals is completely different from traditional plastics processing, requiring precise control over melt temperatures and viscosities while under vacuum.
In partnership with ENGEL, Liquidmetal® Technologies has developed a machine that can process amorphous alloys, the e-motion: Liquidmetal edition. The injection molding machine has a very efficient, compact material melting and injection system with a melt chamber that holds the cylindrical rod or ingot. The ingot is heated to a molten state by a special induction heating system that heats the material to temperatures >1000°C.
Once the alloy is molten, the material is injected into the mold using profile parameters that are similar to conventional plastic injection molding. The entire system is kept under an extreme vacuum level to prevent the formation of crystals and oxides, allowing for the best possible amorphous alloy parts. Cycle times for the Liquidmetal process range from two to three minutes (i.e., mold close to open).
A sophisticated and real time control system manages the end-to-end molding process—including data recording, sensors, safety, maintenance, and the challenge of managing the entire injection cycle. The machine carefully controls each parameter for precise part-to-part repeatability.
The molding process is automated to provide hands-free continuous production. Ingots are loaded into the melt chamber using a servo-driven robot. After ingot insertion, the robot then removes the finished parts from the previous molding cycle within the same sequence, and places them onto a conveyor belt with integrated cooling fans.
Once parts have been injection molded, they are ready to use except for removing gates and runners. To remove gates and runners, there are a few suitable approaches depending on the requirements of the finished part. If slight gate vestige is acceptable, waterjet cutting can be used. In cases where little or no gate witness is desired, CNC machining can be employed to remove the gate and runner system.
HOT-CRUCIBLE SYSTEM
The hot-crucible molding of amorphous metals is different than the die casting of traditional die cast materials. The main difference is that Liquidmetal® hot-crucible molding machines replace the traditional melt and injection system on a horizontal die-casting machine. Like the cold-crucible system, amorphous metals require precise control over melt temperatures and viscosities while under vacuum.
Liquidmetal Technologies established a cross-license agreement with Asia- based EONTEC, which has developed a hot-crucible amorphous molding system. By the machine’s nature of hot-crucible design, the injection unit is very different than that of the injection molding machine developed with ENGEL. Regardless of the differences, the ingot is also heated to a molten state by a special induction heating system that heats the material to temperatures >1000°C under vacuum to protect the alloy.
Like the cold-crucible molding machine, the hot-crucible molding process is automated to provide hands-free continuous production. Ingots, or granulated material, are loaded into the melt chamber using a servo-driven robot. After ingot insertion, the robot then removes the finished parts from the previous molding cycle within the same sequence, and places them onto a conveyor belt with integrated cooling fans.
Again, like parts produced with the cold-crucible system, once parts have been formed, they are ready to use except for removing gates and runners.
.....IP and manufacturing, and will make US$4 billion+ in the next few years. That would translate into $10 a share.....
No you don't have to look at your iPod, once you connect the iPod you then control it from the Camry's Dash Display. The same Display that shows navigation map, radio functions etc.
https://www.toyota.com/entune/#!
I'd like a new Camry maybe. But the new cars don't come with CD players. Is that true?? How can I burn the music I love off of my ITUNES collection...and play it in my car??
Well said, GTAT where not actual sapphire manufactures, they just sold furnaces that they claimed could yield massive sapphire boules so Apple spent nearly a billion setting them up to manufacture sapphire but GTAT failed at managing production, no experience.
Same story with LQMT, lqmt has no experience in BMG mass manufacturing, they just have an alloy and machines made by Engel. BUT now that Prof. Li is in charge things are very different. Li has already proven he has the experience and knowledge to mass manufacture BMG with Eontec.
LQMT wont be another GTAT when it comes to manufacturing abilities, but hopefully it will be the same in regards to the share price investors valued it at, $20 sounds about right.
I think that was a fake based on this real SE leak.
The faked SE,
https://twitter.com/OnLeaks/status/854730080534265860/photo/1
The real SE, The leak was confused as being the Edition iPhone.
https://twitter.com/VenyaGeskin1/status/852436557734785024/photo/1
The SE will have a bigger screen and impressive camera to compete with China/India Androids, So having the finger scanner on the back like Android will be OK.
The current SE model already has reasonable hardware and camera, they will be further improved with the next update and this time a bigger screen, so the finger scanner has to move, the home button on screen being just a software home button, not hardware.
IMHO.
They are mounting brackets or templets to hold the internal or external iPhone frame for further CNC milling/detailing and or assembly of parts.
Not actual Molds.
I wonder if Li will license his Formula to Materion for the exclusive supply to lqmt customers.
Li still thinks Materion alloy and Engel machines are relevant to lqmt, they will be for different markets and requirements.
Eontec machines and alloy for low cost mass manufacturing.
Materion/Engel for niche markets and higher tolerance parts.
Yes its EON's alloy, but I'm sure Apple tested Eon alloys before approving the cross license agreement and may still be testing them.
Yes Apple has no rights over anything that is DC, it may or may not be the reason why Apple agreed to 'sign off' on CIP use too Eontec, which lqmt also had to approve. Might be the way for Apple and Eon to work together thru lqmt and its trademarks.
Those buys at EOD could make SP rise.
If we get a dip 2-3% I will be adding 400k shares today.. Its coming fellas, its coming!!!
Thanks for posting Crispy_2014, data on BMG DC-106c, the same BMG Apple tested in this recently posted patent by Gamesc.
http://pimg-faiw.uspto.gov/fdd/54/2017/89/008/0.pdf
Its the term Professor Li uses when hinting about Apple, it kind of grows on you lolz.
Not saying its Hf based, saying that the Zr 40% based BMG would be cheaper since the Zr is not further processed to remove the Hf 'contaminants'
Thanks for the info, the cross licence agreement with Eontec gives lqmt the Hf bmg and more importantly wont be left behind.
Apple is working hard to perfect true wireless charging. BMG alloy will be a key part of that.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2017/04/apples-fifth-wireless-charging-patent-for-2017-comes-to-light-focused-on-wireless-patch-antennas.html
Li will make more money if lqmt gets in on the manufacturing action, He did claim to make lqmt the global amorphous manufacturer.
Good point, a loan would be better for all shareholders than dilution.
A high-strength amorphous alloy, which is composed of ZraAlbCucNidBeeSnfM1gM2h, wherein a, b, c, d, e, f, g and h are the corresponding atomic percentage contents in the amorphous alloy, and are respectively 40%≤a≤70%, 5%≤b≤30%, 5%≤c≤15%, 5%≤d≤15%, 0.05%≤e≤3%, 0.2%≤f≤4%, 0.5%≤g≤5%, 1%≤h≤5%; M1 is one or more of Hf, Ta and lanthanide elements, and M2 is one or more of Ti, Sc, Fe and Co elements.The amorphous alloy is high in strength, good in plasticity and suitable as die materials and mechanical structural materials.
An anti-abrasive and anti-corrosive amorphous alloy, which is composed of ZraHfbAlcNidM1eM2f, wherein a, b, c, d, e and f are the corresponding atomic percentage contents in the amorphous alloy, and are respectively 35%≤a≤55%, 4%≤b≤15%, 4%≤c≤15%, 5%≤d≤20%, 6%≤e≤10%, 5%≤f≤15%; M1 is one of or a mixture of more of Si, Cr, Pt, Pd, Au and Ag elements, and M2 is one of or a mixture of more of Cu, Zn, Mn and Fe elements. The amorphous alloy material can remarkably improve the special corrosion and abrasion such as corrosive abrasion and scouring abrasion which are caused due to the contact between equipment and a moving fluid, and at the same time the forming performance of the amorphous alloy material is good, the preparation process is simple, and the amorphous alloy is suitable for industrial production.
I used to think a share buyback would be the way for Li to take over lqmt, but now i don't think that is what Li is after.
Mainly because he has already given up his majority in Eontec to fund BMG expansion/commercialisation,
he has said that the BMG market is too big not to share,
he is creating Joint Ventures in order to supply material and machines for the BMG revolution.
Li understands he needs allies and partners to make BMG a success, I don't believe he is greedy or thinks he can have it all.
So now i think that, when the price is right, Li will sell those extra 200million lqmt shares or parts thereof to further fund LiquidMetal's Manufacturing capabilities.
If he sells it all he will have a 37% majority and still control the board.
2 block trades,
Number 206, 15:53:00, 200 000, Bid 0.267, Buy 0.2675.
Number 214, 15:57:08, 300 000, Bid 0.267, Buy 0.2675.
Wow even more impressive. I didn't realise the cost was so low.
What i like most about DC-105s is that it works in Engel machines and costs a third of the price. So as long as its not used for CE Li can use it in Engel machines.
Apple can always contract lqmt to make CE parts for them with Li's lower cost BMG, that would be magical.