The newly released US R&D magazine has announced ITRI won the 2009 R&D 100 Awards for its high safety STOBA lithium battery material. ITRI won this honor successively two years in a row after winning the AC-LED technology in 2008, putting it on a par with Intel, NASA and the US Argonne National Laboratory. The R&D magazine holds that the new generation battery technology should have multiple advantages "to gain stable business opportunities in the future market and must conform to the green environmental protection material, aside from high performance." Hence, the STOBA technology was elected to be one of the 2009 R&D 100 Award winners.