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Re: ShortonCash post# 23176

Tuesday, 05/09/2017 4:24:29 PM

Tuesday, May 09, 2017 4:24:29 PM

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Motorola Teikon and Neah links or alumni......plus the ownership of the largest chip foundry Ne Xt terra like the Paul Sildo video...lots going on in Abu Dhabi.

The Neah video showed the batteries made on the silicon foundry chip equipment, it would seem if a company just upgraded its chip making equipment and was the largest (as called out in the video) chip making company that they could well use the older equipment to make the new Neah batteries.... NeXt Terra as in the title of the video.... coincidentally located in Abu Dhabi. (hardly a coincidence) and to top it off the Head of the company (Global foundries) is from Motorola Mobility....the same company that head of the Polaris Labs used to work for that just so happen to have an interest in (from the stickies)


(Tekion and Motorola, partnering with BASF)
to design and manufacture power packs.41 Presumably because
the catalyst poisoning issue in long-term application could
not be overcome, there were no further updates about these
developments, and Tekion’s assets were acquired by Neah
Power in 2013.42



http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00574

Former top Qualcomm and Motorola executive Sanjay Jha has taken a job as head of GlobalFoundries, an outsource semiconductor manufacturer based in Silicon Valley.

Jha was chief operating officer of Qualcomm before leaving in 2008 to become chief executive of Motorola Mobility. He ran the company until it was sold to Google in 2012 for $12.4 billion.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sdut-Qualcomm-GlobalFoundries-Motorola-Sanjay-Jha-2014feb12-story.html


The missing link could be Polaris Battery Labs, Morris' new Beaverton-based manufacturing and testing lab that might even the playing field for U.S. battery companies.

The battery industry is "completely dominated by Asian companies, yet all of the inventions come out of the U.S.," said Morris, 57, who has acted as a consultant for battery startups since 2003.

Morris previously spent 21 years with Motorola. He recently served as vice president of operations at battery company Enevate.


GlobalFoundries spun out of Advanced Micro Devices in 2009. It is owned by Advanced Technology Investment Co., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Development. Jha started work as CEO last month.

The company makes semiconductors for some of the world’s leading chip designers, including AMD, Qualcomm and Broadcom. It has factories in Singapore, Germany and the United State


Toyota Motor Corp. is working on a joint research program to explore the potential uses of hydrogen energy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to the automaker.

Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) is an investment company in the high-technology sector,[5] owned by Mubadala Development Company, a wholly owned investment vehicle of the government of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

ATIC wholly owns GlobalFoundries, the world’s second largest semiconductor foundry company by revenue.[6][7]

It also works to build what they describe as a technology ecosystem in Abu Dhabi, funding over AED 100 million in local R&D activities and supporting educational initiatives that have thus far reached over 1,000 UAE Nationals.[8][9]

History and growth[edit]
ATIC was established in 2008. Through a joint venture, ATIC and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) created the world's third largest independent foundry GlobalFoundries in early 2009.[10] In late 2009, ATIC acquired Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing of Singapore, the world's second largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry.[11][12] In January 2010, the two operations were integrated, and have since functioned as one company under the GlobalFoundries brand.[13]

In August 2010, the firm joined with other investors to fund Texas-based Calxeda, a start-up company for producing ARM architecture-based computers for the server market.[14]

It "worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a masters program in microelectronics at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi."[15][16] Also in 2010, the firm joined a research partnership with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to conduct research in the Abu Dhabi region.[17]

In 2011, it announced investments of $5.5 billion to expand chip manufacturing in Singapore, Dresden, Germany, and Saratoga County in the U.S. state of New York.[18][19] It also announced a $6–$8 billion computer chip factory in Abu Dhabi for completion in 2012.[20]

In June 2016, they announced that they would be unite and become one with their sister company International Petroleum Investment Company.[21][22][23]

Research and development[edit]
ATIC has invested more than Dh100 million in research grants and funds since 2009 for building a globally-competitive technology R&D ecosystem within Abu Dhabi.[8]

It partners with the Semiconductor Research Corporation, a leading university-research consortium, to drive local research towards minimum energy electronic systems.[24] It is supporting research initiatives spanning Khalifa University, UAE University, American University of Sharjah, Masdar Institute and New York University Abu Dhabi.

In May 2013, ATIC and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) launched the ATIC-SRC Centre of Excellence for Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (ACE4S), to be hosted jointly in Abu Dhabi by Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.[25] ATIC is investing Dh17.5 million in the project, an amount matched by Masdar Institute and Khalifa University. The total budget for the center is Dh35m spread during the initial three-year phase. The center will focus on research in four key areas: energy harvesting, power management, sensor technologies and wireless communications networks.

Toyota has agreed to collaborate with Masdar, a city located in the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Air Liquide, and Toyota distributor Al-Futtaim Motors for the creation of a sustainable, low-carbon society.

The program partners will research on issues involving the establishment of a hydrogen-based society. This includes research toward hydrogen production, logistics, scalability, and business feasibility, according to the automaker.

The research is expected to take place in part at Masdar Institute, an Abu Dhabi-based independent graduate research university.

As part of the program, Toyota will begin driving and refueling demonstration tests of the Mirai fuel cell vehicle in the UAE in May, according to Toyota.

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