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Japanese Start-up, providing 10x lower power ofIoT, NanoBridge Semiconductor, Inc. secures
series A2 financing for expanding businessTokyo, July 21, 2022 - NanoBridge Semiconductor, Inc. (NBS), Upcoming Japanese start-up, which designs and manufactures rad-hardand low-power advanced circuits and conducts IP-licensing sales
using NanoBridge® (*1), a resistance-change switching technology
for semiconductors, today announced that it has issued series A2
preferred stock to Real Tech Holdings Co., Ltd. (*2) and SHIKIGAKU.
Co., Ltd. (*3) to raise approximately 130 million yen.

NBS is a venture company established by NEC researchers in
September 2019. NanoBridge is a technology to control the creation
or elimination of nanometer sized metal bridges in a solid electrolyte
through the application of voltage, thereby realizing on an d off-switch
status. It is attracting attention as an ideal technology for FPGA (*4)
and memories that can repeatedly rewrite circuits . This is because1NanoBridge consumes less power, as it does not require power tomaintain an on or off status, and is highly resistant to both radiationand extreme temperatures. NanoBridge technology will contribute togreener

computation

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efficiency

andwilltransform

aerospace and IoT applications.
To expand NanoBridge’s potential, NBS is hiring device and circuitdesign engineers/researchers.
（ Contact us： https://nanobridgesemi.com/?page_id=463 ）“With years of hard work and enthusiasm, NBS worked on to perfecttheir breakthrough technology, but it’s still a tremendous challenge tocompete head-on in the FPGA market, which is dominated by few large
US corporations.“ said Louis Christian Murayama, growth manager ofReal Tech Holdings“They could have stayed cozily in a big company

but they didn't and started this difficult venture . We believe in theteam’s passion and determination to bring NanoBridge to the world andare pleased to take the first step together as their innovation is turned
into the first product: a high-performance rad-hard FPGA for satellites
and other space applications. This is only the beginning. We are very
excitedtosee

thejourney

NBSwilltaketorevolutionize

thesemiconductor industry.”“We hope that NBS’s semiconductor technology, which is useful forimproving the radiation resistance of electronic devices and reducing
power consumption, will solve one of the important issues of electronicdevices, which is the reduction of power consumption ” said Kodai Ando,CEO, SHIKIGAKU. Co., Ltd. “ We would like to support the further
growthofNBS

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(*1) Headquarter： Tsukuba, Ibaraki, CEO： Tadahiko Sugibayashi(*2) Headquarter： Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Representative： Yukihiro Maru, Aki hikoNagata(*3) Headquarter： Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, CEO： Kodai Ando(*4) https://jpn.nec.com/rd/special/202101/index.html

About NanoBridge Semiconductor, Inc.
NanoBridge Semiconductor, Inc. (NBS) was established in 2019 atTsukuba to “Deliver ICT applications everywhere with Nanobridgetechnology”. NBS provides low-power and rad-hard programmable
AIoT terminals and nonvolatile memory through NanoBridge. At NBS,
customers come first. NBS strives to build deep relationships withcustomers and works together for opening up Carbon Neutral Society.
For more information, visit NBS at https://nanobridgesemi.com/

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