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3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
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On May 4, 2018, the Company announced that it formed a joint venture in China, Reliance Memory, to commercialize Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) technology, with partner GigaDevice, a provider in China of non-volatile memory solutions and 32-bit microcontrollers, along with strategic investment partners THG Ventures, West Summit Capital, Walden International and Zhisland Capital. The new venture is intended to bring next-generation memory technology to market for use in embedded devices.