Bruce Bromage was fired for the same reason Tom Steipp "did the honarable thing" to resign after selling out LQMT to the Chinese Communist Party.
Incompetence.
Those in the know recall that Bruce Bromage was the very first person hired by Tom Steipp. They were buddies from Hewlett Packard. Bruce followed TS to Symetricon after Steipp became President of Symmetricon. Steipp was way too dependent upon Bromage. Steipp had very little imagination of his own. He was not a leader. Bromage also was out of his league with Liquidmetal. His degrees were in psychology and his first working at HP was in a related field of research. Other than a jutting jaw, he had no metallurgical background, like Steipp, and bungled and bungled and bungled.
Instead of putting a CEO with a metallurgical background in place at Lake Forest, Lugee Li knew, to keep control of everything, he put in a flunky accountant, never practicing attorney Chung as head honcho. He should fire himself.