ASTI vs DAIO Comparison

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc is a solar technology company that manufactures and sells photovoltaic (PV) solar modules that are flexible, durable, and possess attractive power to weight and power to area performance. Its technology provides renewable power solutions to high-value production and specialty solar markets where traditional rigid solar panels are not suitable, including space power beaming, aerospace, satellites, near earth orbiting vehicles, fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), aquatic, terrestrial, and other weight-sensitive markets with transformational high quality, value added product applications. It operates in single PV segment that sells PV products and engineering services and currently, is selling it in North America.

Data I/O Corp provides semiconductor programming, security provisioning, and intellectual property protection and management solutions used in electronics manufacturing with flash memory, microcontrollers, and flash memory-based intelligent devices as well as secure element devices, authentication devices and secure microcontrollers. It operates as a single segment entity, with the sole objective to design, manufacture, and sell programming solutions and Programming-as-a-Service (PaaS) to the world's various electronics manufacturers including OEMs, CMs and EMS companies. The company operate in three separate locations Redmond, Washington; Shanghai, China; and Munich, Germany.