Year: 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com Ozark IC won $33,333 cash from the DOE Geothermal Manufacturing Prize and $25,000 cash in the 2020 MassChallenge final plus the opportunity for an investment of $50,000 from the Houston Angel Network. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS October 2020 – In just one week, Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. has won two separate cash prizes totaling $58,333. Ozark IC is the only Arkansas-based company to win a cash prize in both competitions. As well, Ozark IC was the only company in the MassChallenge competition to be eligible to receive a $50,000 investment from the Houston Angel Network. The first cash prize, announced Sunday, October 18, by the U.S. Department of […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com Ozark IC is one of 48 companies selected to compete for the 2020 MassChallenge prize. The finalists were selected from 244 companies from 34 countries. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS September 2020 – Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. was the only Arkansas-based company to be chosen as a finalist in the 2020 MassChallenge global contest. On Tuesday, MassChallenge, a global, zero-equity startup accelerator, announced the list of 48 companies who have made it to the final round. The full list of finalists can be found at this link: https://masschallenge.org/announcement/masschallenge-names-top-48-finalist-startups-from-2020-austin-boston-houston-and-rhode-island-cohorts The 48 finalists were selected from the initial pool of 244 startups through a process of presentations and evaluations […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Email:  info@ozarkic.com Dr. A. Matt Francis, Ozark IC’s founder & CEO, to present a paper at the ISS Research and Development (ISS R&D) Conference next week (September 24) on the mission and its Grafana-based data mining and display system FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS September 2020 – A paper titled “A Year on the ISS: Real-time UV Data Acquisition on the MISSEE Platform” will be presented by Dr. A. Matt Francis next week at 1:30pm (Central) on September 24, 2020 in the Technology Development and Demonstration track of the ISSRD Conference (https://www.issconference.org). This paper will describe the one-year UV detection project on the International Space Station (ISS) and how it prompted the creation […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com https://www.ozarkic.com U.S. Air Force Awards Ozark IC $750k SBIR Phase II Contract Ozark IC to develop 200°C microcontroller usign RISC-V processor core    FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS August 5, 2020 – Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc. received word in late July that they would be receiving their third SBIR Phase II award in two months. The $750,000 contract is from the U.S. Air Force and will result in the ability to put more processing power into controls for jet engines, providing new ways for manufacturers to improve their efficiency and performance. The project will create a high-temperature processing core, based on the open-source RISC-V architecture, that will […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com The $1.1M 2-year Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Department of Energy Phase II award will enhance Ozark IC’s high-temperature platform family while targeting directional drilling in geothermal wells   FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS July 2020 – The objective of this project is a communication drill pipe system that supports directional drilling in high temperature geothermal wells by providing computational power at the drill head and linking it to a control base at the surface. There is as much as 200,000 exojoules in untapped, carbon-free energy available from geothermal resources, which is 2,000 times the annual consumption of primary energy consumed in the U.S.[1] Accessing these geothermal […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS May 2020 – Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc. (Ozark IC) in Fayetteville, AR was selected for a $750k, two-year Phase II R&D awards from NASA. The award will allow Ozark IC to develop a high-temperature packaging and multi-chip processor system capable of long-term operation at 500oC (nearly 900 degrees F) – a vital component for Venus exploration and many other applications, such as military/aerospace companies addressing jet and hypersonic engine needs.