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Infinitum, the creator of the sustainable air-core motor, announced the expansion of its leadership team and key 2023 highlights following a year of record demand and transformative growth. Bhavnesh Patel has been appointed as Chief Strategy Officer, Paulo Guedes-Pinto has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer and Mike DiNucci joins Infinitum as Chief Revenue Officer. As Chief Strategy Officer, Bhavnesh Patel will oversee Infinitum’s long-term strategic planning and initiatives. He joined Infinitum in 2019 as VP of Business Development and most recently served as SVP of Sales and Marketing. Patel brings more than 20 years of experience building and pioneering teams that deliver extraordinary revenue growth and customer loyalty to his new role as Chief Strategy Officer. Infinitum’s R&D and technical operations As Chief Technology Officer, Paulo Guedes-Pinto will oversee Infinitum’s R&D and technical operations As Chief Technology Officer, Paulo Guedes-Pinto will oversee Infinitum’s R&D and technical operations. He joined Infinitum in 2019 as VP of Technology and brings more than three decades of engineering leadership experience focused on the design and manufacturing of motors and drives to his new role as Chief Technology Officer. Mike DiNucci joins Infinitum as Chief Revenue Officer where he will oversee and drive alignment for all revenue generation activities. DiNucci brings to Infinitum nearly three decades of experience helping hyper-growth companies grow and achieve scale. Prior to Infinitum, DiNucci held senior executive positions with electric mobility companies ChargePoint and Xeal Energy where he specialized in building high-performance, go-to-market teams. Building upon success “Building upon the success we’ve experienced over the last year, we’re excited to expand our executive team with these proven, industry veterans and effective business pioneers,” said Ben Schuler, Founder and CEO, Infinitum. Ben Schuler adds, “Our immense 2023 growth is reflective of the fact that the world is ready for the next generation of motors that are designed and built with our planet in mind, and we look forward to innovating and scaling the company further in 2024.” highlights of 2023  Additional 2023 highlights include: Funding: Secured $185 million in Series E funding to expand the company, increase production to meet customer demand and drive decarbonization in the industrial sector; Growth: Increased revenue and unit volumes sold by nearly five times compared to the prior year; Manufacturing: Expanded and fully automated a production facility in Mexico to mass produce motors; acquired Circuit Connect, Inc. a printed circuit board (PCB) fabricator to support Infinitum’s efforts to become more vertical and allow for higher production capacity of PCB stators; Partners: Entered into an exclusive agreement with Rockwell Automation, Inc. to jointly develop and distribute a new class of high-efficiency, integrated low-voltage drive and motor technology; created a strategic technology collaboration with Infineon Technologies, a semiconductor provider in power systems and IoT that drives decarbonization and digitalization with its products and solutions; Products: Introduced Aircore Mobility, a next generation, propulsion and traction motor designed to power and extend the range of passenger and commercial electric vehicles; introduced a new EC motor designed specifically for data center cooling applications; Awards: Collected numerous high-profile industry awards including three CES Innovation Honoree designations, a Gold Edison Award, a Sustainability Leadership Award from the Business Intelligence Group, a Top Product of the Year Award from the Environment + Energy Pioneer Awards, an ARMA Innovator of the Year award, an ABJ Best Place to Work Award and an Austin Inno Blazer Fire Award; Team Expansion: Increased employee headcount by 67 across engineering, operations, manufacturing and sales.  In 2024, Infinitum will continue to invest in product innovation, manufacturing and growing the company to meet demand. 

Infinitum announced a strategic technology collaboration with Infineon Technologies, a global semiconductor front-runner in power systems and IoT that drives decarbonization and digitalization with its products and solutions. Infinitum is the creator of the breakthrough, sustainable air core motor, and this collaboration solidifies Infinitum’s production of sustainable, high-efficiency motors that reduce carbon footprint using Infineon’s solutions. Infinitum's Motor Systems  Infinitum’s motor systems were recognized with three 2023 CES Innovation Award designations for outstanding design and engineering in the sustainability and embedded technologies categories. Infinitum’s patented air-core motor design replaces heavy iron used in traditional motors with a lightweight, Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Infinitum’s motor systems include an integrated, VFD made using silicon carbide and other technologies The company’s motors are 50 percent smaller and lighter, 10 percent more efficient, and use 66 percent less copper than traditional motors. They are also designed and manufactured with a sustainable, circular lifecycle where the motor’s modular architecture allows the housing, rotors, and stators to be reused multiple times, giving parts a second and third life to serve future generations. Infinitum’s motor systems include an integrated, Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) made using silicon carbide and other embedded technologies that result in precise motor control, optimal power, and energy savings. Infineon's SiC Chips Infineon is a foremost provider of Silicon Carbide (SiC) chips, with its first SiC chip introduced over 20 years ago. SiC brings power switching of voltages at 650 V and above for a variety of applications to operate at high temperatures and in harsh environments. Infineon’s CoolSiC™ semiconductors also offer added value to the customers like Infinitum providing better efficiency, size, and cost compared to silicon-based solutions. Authority Comments “Infinitum’s ground-breaking motor controls and hardware enable next-generation solutions in industrial applications for some of the most rigorous environments,” said Michael Williams, Director of Product Marketing, Industrial Power Control Division, Infineon Technologies. Infinitum admires Infineon’s support as they advance the production of the motors with efficiency and less waste “Infineon’s CoolSiC technology and motor control expertise help Infinitum achieve improvements in energy efficiency and controllability over standard induction motors. We look forward to a long-term collaboration with Infinitum to bring next-generation energy-efficient motor controls to market with silicon carbide and other advanced materials.” “Infineon is a primary provider of SiC MOSFETS and other key semiconductor components that greatly contribute to our motor’s class-leading efficiency,” said Rick Tewell, President of Infinitum. “We’re honored to have Infineon’s support as we accelerate and scale production of our motors that can power the world with greater efficiency and less waste.” Featuring at AHR Expo Infinitum will be showcasing its line of Aircore EC motors in booth C6131 at AHR Expo in Atlanta on Feb. 6-8. Infineon will also be showcasing its inverterization technology and the Infinitum Aircore EC motor for commercial and industrial applications in booth B4110.

Amber Solutions, Inc., a global technological developer of patented, innovative technologies for AC Direct digital management of electricity in solid-state architecture, has announced that it has formally changed its name to Amber Semiconductor, Inc. (AmberSemi), effective immediately. The change to AmberSemi exemplifies the company’s desire to represent its core technological function more acutely and accurately, productizing its patented breakthrough technologies for AC Direct digital control of electricity into silicon chips. This disruptive breakthrough enables major semiconductor and electrical products companies to transform the building electrical grid and upgrade electrical products on a global scale. Brand name change to Amber Semiconductor, Inc. Formally changing the company name to Amber Semiconductor, Inc. aligns with the company’s business objectives Formally changing the company name to Amber Semiconductor, Inc. aligns with the company’s business objectives for 2022 and beyond, including forthcoming partnership engagements and strategic alignments with some of the most significant manufacturers of semiconductor solutions and electrical products globally. In working with these partners, Amber Semiconductor, Inc. will provide its core technologies, including digitization of electricity for breakthrough power delivery (AC Direct DC Enabler), power control and protection (AC Direct Indestructible Switch Controller) and Realtime and continuous sensing of the state or variance of AC mains electricity (AC Direct Sensing) via solid-state, silicon chips. Establishing the company’s primary market position Such disruptive breakthroughs makes the name change to AmberSemi a logical and strategic step in establishing the company’s primary market positioning and expanding its wide-spanning footprint in the semiconductor industry. Thar Casey, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Amber Semiconductor, Inc. “Considering the tremendous breakthroughs we have discovered in digital power management and sensing in silicon chip architecture, changing our name reflects our true nature as a fabless semiconductor technology provider and represents the direction we’re heading as a company.” Globalization of intelligent digital management of electricity Thar Casey adds, “The electrical endpoints of every building in the world are important and yet are based on old tech architectures ripe for upgrading with modern digital innovations, and the most effective way to achieve this is with a silicon chip, which we’ll be introducing to the market in the coming quarters.” We hold the cards to globalization of intelligent digital management of electricity in silicon chips" He further stated, “We hold the cards to globalization of intelligent digital management of electricity in silicon chips, which has the potential to transform building intelligence and the very nature of electricity in our world as we know it.” Partnership with Infineon Technologies Amber Semiconductor, Inc. is currently working with a who’s who list of electrical products and semiconductor companies across the world. While most of these alliances are under NDA, Infineon Technologies has publicly announced support for AmberSemi’s efforts. “Infineon sees tremendous opportunity with Amber’s breakthroughs,” said Preet Sibia, the Vice President (VP), Power and Sensor Systems Division, Infineon Technologies Americas Corp, adding “An advancement into siliconization will allow Amber to seize a major opportunity in the market and accelerate the ability for us to match up Amber’s innovative architecture, with our multiple product offerings in power, control, compute, sensing, and security.” Preet Sibia continues, “This combination will provide value to our end customers’ products in ways previously not possible, as the replacement of mechanical-based electrical components is now becoming a feasible reality, with a visible path to widespread adoption.” Transformation of the electrical product architecture AmberSemi’s core mission is to transform the electrical product architecture from outdated, 1950’s era technologies to smaller, safer and smarter silicon chips – representing a second electrical revolution of silicon-based, arc-free electricity management and sensing. In working with Amber Semiconductor, Inc., electrical products companies can benefit from smaller, safer more reliable electricity architectures that enable a dramatic increase in functionality, while maintaining the same universal form factors that are prevalent in the market, such as single gang boxes and retrofit circuit breakers. Explosive growth of the semiconductor sector Simultaneously, semiconductor companies benefit from an acceleration of their current business Simultaneously, semiconductor companies benefit from an acceleration of their current business, through dynamic power management and sensing, which has never been more relevant. In April 2022, McKinsey released a research report formally projecting the semiconductor sector to continue its explosive growth, over the next decade, becoming a trillion-dollar industry by 2030. In addition to silicon-based power delivery, AmberSemi’s technologies support direct synergies with 75% of the growth categories named in the report, including consumer electronics, industrial electronics, wireless communication, computing, and data storage, thereby positioning the company for broad-ranging success in the years ahead. Attract attention from the investment universe In addition to attracting the eye of numerous global electrical products and semiconductor companies, Amber Semiconductor, Inc.’s technologies have garnered significant attention from the investment universe. Since 2020, the company has secured two significant rounds of Series A and Series B funding, representing widespread interest from the Silicon Valley investment community, and demonstrating a fortified belief in the potential of AmberSemi’s revolutionary technology, through its enthusiastic investor base. Incorporating advanced digital control and analytics features Mark Grossman, the Managing Director of Menalto Advisors, recently highlighted Amber Semiconductor, Inc.’s technologies in a semiconductor industry report, noting that the company’s technology offers ‘higher reliability, dramatically smaller size, faster switching speeds, greater flexibility, and the ability to incorporate advanced digital control and analytics features and reduce false trips’.