Draft:Archer Materials

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Archer Materials (commonly known as Archer) is an Australian technology company that operates in the semiconductor industry headquartered in Lot Fourteen, Adelaide. With primary operations in Sydney, Australia, in 2023 Archer ranked in the top 100 ASX listed companies[1] in the technology sector by total market capitalisation and was the first Australian business to join the World Economic Forum's C4IR Partnership[2][3].

Archer Materials (ASX: AXE)
FormerlyArcher Exploration
Company typePublic
IndustrySemiconductors, Quantum Computing
FoundedFebruary 25, 2007
HeadquartersLot Fourteen, Adelaide, South Australia
Websitewww.archerx.com.au

Company History and Current Operations edit

Archer was founded on February 25, 2007, and was formerly known as Archer Exploration (until 2019). Since acquiring graphite company Carbon Allotropes in December 2017[4], Archer has been led by Mohammad Choucair, a chemist, who was a key inventor of chemically produced graphene. Although Archer has been developing advanced semiconductor devices since 2018, it was not until 2021 that this became its primary business, upon the sale of its mineral tenements to iTech Minerals.[5][6]

Archer became a public company via an initial public offering (IPO) and was admitted to the Official List of ASX Limited on Wednesday, 8 August 2007, with 38,000,000 ordinary shares issued at A$0.20 per unit under the security code AXE[7].

Since 2021, the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) code, an industry taxonomy developed by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P), for Archer was Information Technology - Semiconductors. Archer is developing a qubit processor for applications in quantum computing and quantum technology based on a metallic-like carbon nanosphere[8], and a biochip integrating graphene field-effect transistors (FET).

In 2023, Archer became the first Australian business to join the World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) Partnership[3][2]. For Archer this means allowing other members to use the company's technology, as well as create further partnership opportunities, form strategic alliances, and find new avenues for funding[3]. The partnership follows previous strategic co operations with semiconductor giants GlobalFoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), which have allowed the Company to access their well established foundries in order to accelerate fabrication. [9]

References edit

  1. ^ "Information Technology (ASX Sector) LIVE DATA - Market Index". MarketIndex.com.au. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  2. ^ a b "Archer Materials becomes first Australian company to join World Economic Forum C4IR Partnership". Yahoo Finance. 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  3. ^ a b c B, Kate (2023-05-22). "Archer Materials becomes first Australian business to join World Economic Forum's C4IR Partnership". Australian Manufacturing. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  4. ^ England, Cameron (October 30, 2017). "Adelaide graphite company Archer Exploration buys online marketplace".
  5. ^ Report, Special (2021-08-29). "iTech Minerals nabs Archer's tenements, plans to become new battery materials producer". Stockhead. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  6. ^ "Archer Materials shareholders give green light for sale of mineral exploration business to iTech". Proactiveinvestors UK. 2021-08-31. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  7. ^ "Archer Materials Limited (ASX:AXE)". Intelligent Investor. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  8. ^ Náfrádi, Bálint; Choucair, Mohammad; Dinse, Klaus-Peter; Forró, László (2016-07-18). "Room temperature manipulation of long lifetime spins in metallic-like carbon nanospheres". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 12232. arXiv:1611.07690. Bibcode:2016NatCo...712232N. doi:10.1038/ncomms12232. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4960311. PMID 27426851.
  9. ^ Swayne, Matt (2022-09-07). "Archer and GlobalFoundries to Advance 12CQ Chip Fabrication". The Quantum Insider. Retrieved 2023-07-12.