Business Deals

Major Business Deals / Commercialisation

ASTRI is vigorously focusing on transferring technologies to industry customers for commercialization. Over the years, number of customers entering into business deals with ASTRI has been growing significantly. Listed below are some examples of major business deals or industry collaboration accomplished in the recent years.

Communications Technologies (CT) Group

• The world's first TD-LTE (Time Division Long Term Evolution) SoC supporting 20MHz bandwidth for data card application jointly developed by ASTRI and Innofidei was used in the showcase network set up by China Mobile at the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010.

• CT launched Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB) in Hong Kong on TVB and ATV channels in 2007.

Enterprise & Consumer Electronics (ECE) Group

• ECE launched a novel e-book MyID for educational purposes in collaboration with an e-learning applications developer in 2009. With the support of local schools and publishers, ECE ran an e-Reading Trial Programme in 2011 with ample supply of myID and the second generation of ASTRI's home-grown e-book PAL.

• ECE partnered with TVB and Hong Kong Science Park and launched Interactive TV in Hong Kong in 2008.

• "iShare P2P Software" was adopted by i-Cable TV for live telecast of Beijing Olympic Games on PCs in 2008.

IC Design (ICD) Group

• ICD started to co-develop a USB3.0 chip with Velosti of Silicon Valley in 2010.

• ICD signed an agreement with Credo Semiconductor Inc., a start-up company from Silicon Valley, in 2009 to co-develop high speed data communication IC products for the global market.

• ICD joined force with MPT to develop the Dynamic LED Backlight Control technology for a tier-1 TV manufacturer on the Chinese mainland on the company's LED HDTV applications in 2008.

Material & Packaging Technologies (MPT) Group

• MPT signed a US$2 million contract on licensing ASTRI's compact anti-shaking technologies for camera phones to AP Photonics Limited, a newly established Hong Kong-based company, in 2010.

• MPT licensed its patent protected "birdcage" housing structure that facilitates heat dissipation of MR16 LED lamps to Optiled Lighting International Ltd. to develop a new series of lighting products, which were successfully made available in more than 300 stores worldwide in 2010.

• Street lamps using ASTRI’s LED technologies started to light up the streets in many cities on the Chinese mainland including Dalian, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in 2009.

• MPT licensed Pico Projector related technologies to four companies in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region in 2009.

• MPT released a Design Advisor Software tool to more than 30 companies for 3D package design in 2009.

• High Dynamic Range LCD Display technology developed on the foundation of the Active Dynamic LED Backlight platform was licensed to five tier-1 companies in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland in 2008.

Spin-off

April 2006 - Altai Technologies Limited

End of 2005 - Marvell Technology Group Ltd - R&D Centre