The successful conclusion proved that both companies had performed their due diligence not just on the contract, but on the future of the technology itself.… The sleek, minimalist conference room on the 50th floor of the Tokyo Sky Tower hummed with a quiet tension, despite the outwardly smooth proceedings. Representing NovaTech Solutions, CEO Alistair Finch offered a slight, almost imperceptible frown. Across the polished black-walnut table sat Aether Dynamics’ Chief Strategy Officer, Dr. Kenji Ito, whose calm demeanor was as unreadable as ever. The purpose of this meeting was the final sign-off on the “Synergy 2026” joint venture—a massive project to co-develop the next generation of neural-AI processors, leveraging NovaTech’s proprietary Graph-Attention Network (GAT) architecture and Aether Dynamics’ advanced Quantum Dot Fabrication (QDF) techniques. For three months, the legal and financial teams had battled over IP sharing and r...