Aurora Solar Technologies Inc. provided an update on Insight Essentials and strategic initiatives. Aurora's initial evaluation of its Insight Essentials product is now complete, with the product validation needs successfully met, particularly the project's objective of progressing Insight Essentials for market readiness. Due to customer constraints, there has been no financial consideration exchanged at this time.

The Company will continue focus on larger-scale China- based evaluation as previously reported on November 30 and October 26, 2021. This project is underway and on track. Wafer tracking is about to be installed and the Insight platform and use case evaluation period is expected to start in March of 2022.

In parallel, Aurora is actively pursuing strategic opportunities to scale its measurement products business to complement and enhance the value of the Insight platform. The focus of this initiative is to build the breadth and depth of process control capability for high-value Insight applications to continue the Company's first-mover advantage and drive to be an industry standard for yield management and process control solutions. In the recently completed evaluation project, the most significant outcome was validation of the reliability and accuracy of Insight's platform capability known as "tool tracing".

Tool tracing is the act of regularly collecting and processing solar cell production equipment performance and the information it generates is vital for timely and effective fault remediation and yield management operations such as preferential wafer routing. As such, trusted tool tracing is the platform for all current and future Insight product applications. For benchmarking purposes, Aurora's analysis found that Insight's tool tracing can consistently and significantly outperform the current methods being used at the initial production facility.

This important result will now be built upon for broader application in second larger China-based project.