The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has identified Ferric's development of DC-DC power converter chiplets as a model of a successful collaboration from government investment that results in commercialization of breakthrough technology,

Ferric, with the support of DARPA’s Common Heterogeneous IP and Reuse Strategies (CHIPS) program, has successfully developed commercially viable power converters with integrated ferromagnetic thin-film power inductors.

The DARPA success report can be viewed at the following link:  https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/Ferric-Inc-Success-Report.pdf