Transphorm, Inc. announced the Company entered into an expanded, multi-year cooperation and development agreement with Yaskawa Electric Corporation, the leading manufacturer of low and medium voltage variable frequency drives, servo motors, machine controllers and industrial robots. As part of the agreement, Yaskawa will make investments in Transphorm totaling $4 million, with the first tranche of $1 million to be provided by mid-December 2020. This agreement is an expansion of the next phase of cooperation initiated in 2017 with Yaskawa's investment of $15 million in Transphorm.

Yaskawa intends to use Transphorm's leading GaN power device products for a variety of industrial power conversion applications commencing with servo motor and variable frequency drive applications. Power device development activity by Transphorm under this agreement will benefit Yaskawa by enhancing its next generation of products in the mentioned applications.