Related Party Transactions | 7. Related Party Transactions Joint Development Agreement—GLOBALFOUNDRIES On October 17, 2014, the Company entered into a Joint Development Agreement (“JDA”) with GF, a related party due to its equity ownership in the Company, for the joint development of the Company’s Spin Torque MRAM (“ST-MRAM”) technology. The term of the agreement is the later of four years from the effective date or until the completion, termination or expiration of the last statement of work entered into pursuant to the JDA. The JDA also states that the specific terms and conditions for the production and supply of the developed ST-MRAM technology would be pursuant to a separate manufacturing agreement entered into between the parties. Under the JDA, each party licenses its relevant intellectual property to the other party. For certain jointly developed works, the parties have agreed to follow an invention allocation procedure to determine ownership. In addition, GF possesses the exclusive right to manufacture the Company’s discrete and embedded ST-MRAM devices developed pursuant to the agreement until the earlier of three years after the qualification of the MRAM device for a particular technology node or four years after the completion of the relevant statement of work under which the device was developed. For the same exclusivity period associated with the relevant device, GF agreed not to license intellectual property developed in connection with the JDA to named competitors of the Company. Generally, unless otherwise specified in the agreement or a statement of work, the Company and GF share project costs, which do not include personnel or production qualification costs, equally under the JDA. If GF manufactures, sells or transfers to customers wafers containing production quantified ST-MRAM devices that utilize certain design information, GF will be required to pay the Company a royalty. The term of the agreement is four years and is extended until the completion of any development work, if later. As of June 30, 2017, $24,000 was receivable from GF. There were no amounts receivable from GF as of December 31, 2016. As of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, $1.0 million and $979,000, respectively, were payable to GF for the Company’s share of the project costs under the JDA. During the three months ended June 30, 2017, the Company purchased research and development equipment from GF for $262,000, which were included in Property and equipment, net as of June 30, 2017. There were no such purchases from GF as of December 31, 2016. The Company incurred project costs, recognized as research and development expense, of $1.4 million and $1.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 respectively, and $3.2 million and $2.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The Company entered into a Statement of Work #4B (the “SOW 4B”) under the JDA with GF effective August 31, 2016. Under SOW 4B, the Company will collaborate with GF in planning, designing and supporting evaluation of 22nm embedded MRAM arrays. The Company is eligible to receive three substantive milestone payments from this collaboration: (a) $569,000 was due upon the delivery of the Company’s database of bias system schematics; (b) $650,000 was due upon the delivery of a Graphic Design Database System package; and (c) $406,000 is due upon demonstration that the embedded MRAM array meets the specifications agreed upon by the two parties. Two of the milestones were achieved during the six months ended June 30, 2017. The Company recognized revenue of $650,000 and $1.2 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2017, respectively. There was no revenue from GF for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016. On October 21, 2014, GF participated, along with other investors, in the Company’s Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock financing and purchased 192,307 shares at $26.00 per share. Contemporaneously, the Company sold 461,538 shares of its common stock to GF at a discounted price of $0.00026 per share. The common shares vest upon the achievement of a goal as set forth in the Statement of Work #1 (the “SOW”) under the JDA. The unvested common shares are subject to repurchase by the Company, if the JDA is terminated for any reason, for a one-year period after such termination, at a price that is the lower of the original price paid by GF or the fair value of the Company’s common stock as of the date of repurchase. The Company has determined that the issuance of these shares of common stock to GF represents compensation for services to be provided under the JDA. Accordingly, the shares are accounted for similar to a stock award granted to a non-employee of the Company and are remeasured to their fair value as they vest. Although the shares issued do not commence vesting until the achievement of the product qualification (the “Initial Measurement Date”), the Company has deemed it probable that the qualification requirement will be met and compensation expense related to the shares issued is being recognized prior to the Initial Measurement Date. Due to the vesting conditions, there will be multiple measurement dates, occurring on the Initial Measurement Date and at the end of each month thereafter. The fair value of vesting shares is effectively fixed at each measurement date while the fair value of the remaining unvested shares will be remeasured each subsequent measurement date until the shares are fully vested. During the year ended December 31, 2016, GF achieved the product qualification as set forth under the SOW. As such, a total of 211,538 shares of common stock became vested on August 21, 2016, the designated Initial Measurement Date. Subsequent to the Initial Measurement Date through June 30, 2017, an additional 96,154 shares of common stock became vested. As of June 30, 2017 there were 153,846 shares unvested that were subject to repurchase. The Company recognized non-cash compensation expense of $461,000 and $922,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, and $716,000 and $1.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, in research and development expense related to the vesting of the shares of common stock. The Company recognizes compensation expense based on the estimated fair value of the common stock at each reporting period, which was $19.98 and $8.29 per share as of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. Transactions with Freescale The Company has entered into various transactions with Freescale (a wholly-owned subsidiary of NXP), a related party due to its equity ownership in the Company. The Company leases its manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona, from Freescale and total rent payments made were $377,000 and $263,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, and $666,000 and $520,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. Freescale also performs processing of the Company’s products in its facility which are capitalized as part of the cost of inventory. The total processing costs incurred by the Company were $1.2 million and $591,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, and $1.6 million and $1.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. In addition, Freescale is one of the Company’s largest customers for the sale of embedded wafers, and total revenue from Freescale was $627,000 and $0 during the three months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, and $1.2 million and $735,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. In the three and six months ended June 30, 2017, the Company purchased wafers for its Condor product from Freescale for $223,000 and $391,000, respectively, which are included in inventory as of June 30, 2017. Amounts due from Freescale were $526,000 and $486,000 at June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. Amounts due to Freescale were $420,000 and $380,000 at June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. |