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Technical collaboration (replacement)
Technical collaboration (replacement).
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 3032I Ilika plc 20 March 2018 \n\n \nA number of non material typographical changes have been made to the announcement released on 20 March 2018 at 07.00 under RNS No 2143I. \n \nIlika plc\n(\"Ilika\" or the \"Company\")\n \nTechnical collaboration with PragmatIC and Arm Holdings \n \nIlika (AIM: IKA), a pioneer in solid-state battery technology and materials innovation, announces a collaboration with PragmatIC and Arm Holdings ('Arm') to further progress development in ultra-thin and flexible semiconductor technology for mass market applications.\n \nThe 18-month project is supported by Innovate UK funding of £0.6m of which £0.4m will be payable to Ilika.\n \nThe principal objective of this collaboration is to deliver novel P-type metal-oxide semiconductor ('PMOS') circuit technology that can significantly enhance the characteristics of PragmatIC's CMOS designs. The project focusses on investigating the operarting parameters of PMOS, using Ilika's high throughput thin-film techniques which are proven for rapid identification and screening of functional thin-film materials. The initial phase of the project is intended to demonstrate the innovative thin film transistor performance, which is to be followed by scale-up and transfer of the material to deposition processes in a production environment.\n \nMarket Opportuntity \nUltra low-power and ultra low-cost flexible electronics provide the opportunity to add functionality to many items, as well as extending proven applications such as RFID and NFC into mass-market use cases that were previously prohibited by the cost of traditional silicon integrated circuits ('ICs'). The first application for these flexible ICs ('FlexICs') is the smart packaging market which is predicted to grow at CAGR of 8% to a projected value of $7.8 billion by 2021, according to Smithers Pira. \n \nThis collaboration intends to develop technology that can potentially accelerate the progression of FlexICs along their own Moore's Law, with higher integration, lower power and costs, which will produce FlexICs suitable for many more market segments including applications for advanced authentication and security applications.\n \nDr. Richard Price, PragmatIC CTO, stated: \"This collaboration will build on our previous work under Innovate UK's C...