While Nupower efforts are on the back burner, they are not dead.
<We continue to explore a limited list of licensing opportunities for NuPower’s power management IP>
I think it is interesting that Asus is deeply involved in power management technology. See the link.
http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?i...
http://vr-zone.com/articles/asus-unl...
Perhaps nothing, but if Asus was interested in looking at licensing Nupower tech, I could see getting the MMP licensing out of the way w/o pain. It appears Asus already has tech, but could Nupower do the same cheaper? Still trying to make some sense out of the license $.