NEXTY Electronics Selects Neonode’s Touch Sensor Module Technology for the Japanese Amusement Market
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, September 25, 2024 — Neonode Inc. (NASDAQ: NEON) (“Neonode”) is pleased to announce a new license agreement for an evolution of its licensable Touch Sensor Module (“TSM”) technology. NEXTY Electronics Corporation (“NEXTY Electronics”), an electronics trading company of the Toyota Tsusho Group, has selected Neonode’s TSM technology for sensor development and manufacturing of the next-generation amusement machines for a leading manufacturer in Japan’s amusement market. The agreement includes an upfront technology access fee and future royalties and is estimated to have a value of US$2–3 million over the next four to five years.
NEXTY Electronics chose to license Neonode’s latest TSM offering, primarily based on surface-mount technology (“SMT”), which enables touch interactivity on larger displays, surfaces and projected planes at a lower cost than alternative solutions. Easily integrated using a single-sided TSM sensor, Neonode’s touch interaction technology delivers exceptional performance and value to any touch-operated application. NEXTY Electronics will manufacture the TSMs in Japan for delivery to companies in the Japanese amusement market as well as in other markets that desire high quality, cost-effective touch functionality on large displays and surfaces.
“After extensive evaluation, we have found Neonode's SMT-based TSM to be a great fit for the Japanese amusement market, enhancing operational performance without compromising the beauty of the content displayed on the screen. We have worked closely and productively with Neonode for years and look forward to strengthening our partnership further with this license agreement,” said Mikio Takano, NEXTY Electronics’ Executive Officer.
“We are excited to deepen our relationship with NEXTY Electronics, a trusted, value-added reseller of Neonode’s products, as we continue our transformation into a company that is fully focused on technology licensing. NEXTY Electronics is intimately familiar with our products from its time as a TSM reseller, and its decision to license and manufacture our TSM technology is a vote of confidence for our licensing-focused business strategy and innovative licensable technologies,” said Fredrik Nihlén, Neonode’s interim President and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
For more information, please contact:
Interim President and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Fredrik Nihlén
E-mail: fredrik.nihlen@neonode.com
Phone: +46 703 97 21 09
Vice President Marketing & Sales
Johan Swartz
E-mail: johan.swartz@neonode.com
Phone: +46 707 64 35 44
About Neonode
Neonode Inc. (NASDAQ:NEON) is a publicly traded company, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and established in 2001. The company provides advanced optical sensing solutions for contactless touch, touch, gesture control, and in-cabin monitoring. Building on experience acquired during years of advanced research and development and technology licensing, Neonode’s technology is currently deployed in more than 90 million products, and the company holds more than 100 patents worldwide. Neonode’s customer base includes some of the world’s best-known Fortune 500 companies in the consumer electronics, office equipment, automotive, elevator, and self-service kiosk markets.
NEONODE and the NEONODE logo are trademarks of Neonode Inc. registered in the United States and other countries.
For further information please visit www.neonode.com
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include, but are not limited to, statements relating to our expectations for growth and the growing demand for our products, future performance or future events and the anticipated revenue to be generated from our license with NEXTY Electronics. These statements are based on current assumptions, expectations and information available to Neonode’s management and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Neonode’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and factors include risks related to our reliance on the ability of our customers to design, manufacture and sell their products with our touch technology, the length of a customer’s product development cycle, our dependence and our customers’ dependence on suppliers, the global economy generally and other risks discussed under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in Neonode’s public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including Neonode’s annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and current reports on Form 8-K. You are advised to carefully consider these various risks, uncertainties and other factors. Although Neonode’s management believes that the forward-looking statements contained in this press release are reasonable, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be fulfilled. Forward-looking statements are made as of today’s date, and Neonode undertakes no duty to update or revise them.
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