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car&bike Team
Mar 31, 2022, 1:38 AM
BMW and Toyota Motor Corp have been investors in GaN Systems for several years, and Witham said GaN recently signed its first "capacity agreement" with BMW to guarantee delivery of power chips worth over a quarter of a billion dollars.
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