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Semiconductor and Auto Groups Team up to Address Supply Chain Demands

Semiconductor and Auto Groups Team up to Address Supply Chain Demands

A semiconductor trade association and an automotive industry think tank team up for a supply chain partnership.


News Jul 06, 2021 by Shannon Cuthrell
Dissecting the GaN ePower Stage IC-Based Inverter for Battery-Powered Motor Drive Applications

Dissecting the GaN ePower Stage IC-Based Inverter for Battery-Powered Motor Drive Applications

This article highlights EPC discrete eGaN FETs and Integrated Circuit ePower™ stages.


Texas Instruments, ST, EPC, Microchip Bring New Radiation-Hardened Devices to Space

Texas Instruments, ST, EPC, Microchip Bring New Radiation-Hardened Devices to Space

Several companies have released new models of rad-hard technologies in the last several months.


ROHM Debuts a DC/DC Converter IC with a Built-In 1700-Volt SiC MOSFET

ROHM Debuts a DC/DC Converter IC with a Built-In 1700-Volt SiC MOSFET

The surface mounted units are housed in TO 263-7L package and deliver up to 48 watts with no heatsink required


Small Power IPMs for High Integration Demand

Small Power IPMs for High Integration Demand

Nexperia Invests $700 Million in Wafer Production

Nexperia Invests $700 Million in Wafer Production

Nexperia is earmarking $700 million to boost production capacity at its wafer fabs and assembly facilities worldwide.


News Jul 01, 2021 by Shannon Cuthrell
ROHM’s New 80V Withstands 5A Output Power Supply ICs

ROHM’s New 80V Withstands 5A Output Power Supply ICs

Recent years have seen evolving markets of battery-driven applications and advanced industrial equipment such as 5G base stations and factory…


Imec Demonstrates Backside Power Delivery Network for Enhanced System Performance

Imec Demonstrates Backside Power Delivery Network for Enhanced System Performance

Imec recently updated its progress in developing technologies for a backside power delivery network. Five VLSI 2021 papers discuss the impact of…


News Jun 29, 2021 by Darshil Patel
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Debuts a Series of High-Speed TVS Diodes

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Debuts a Series of High-Speed TVS Diodes

The new single-channel, bidirectional Transient Voltage Suppressors (TVS) provide ESD protection for USB Type-C applications


Embedding Capacitors Into Interposers for Greater Miniaturization

Embedding Capacitors Into Interposers for Greater Miniaturization

A team of scientists from Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a 3D functional interposer that saves package area and allows for low noise and…


Regulated High-Voltage DC-DC Converters For Analytical, Semiconductor And Detector Applications

Regulated High-Voltage DC-DC Converters For Analytical, Semiconductor And Detector Applications

Cree and Gospower Partner to Give Silicon Carbide a Boost

Cree and Gospower Partner to Give Silicon Carbide a Boost

Cree announces its partnership with Gospower which focuses on the development of silicon-carbide-based power supply solutions for boosting…


EPC Debuts a Radiation-Hardened eGaN FET for Tough Environments

EPC Debuts a Radiation-Hardened eGaN FET for Tough Environments

Efficient Power Conversion’s (EPC) new enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) FET is primed for space based applications


SmartDriver Provides Highest Flexibility for Power Stages in Variable Speed Drives

SmartDriver Provides Highest Flexibility for Power Stages in Variable Speed Drives

The continuing trend towards more efficient energy consumption in motor drives has led to a wide offering of devices for the power stage of…


Silanna Semiconductor Debuts CO2 Smart Power Family of High Efficiency 100W DC-DC Converters

Silanna Semiconductor Debuts CO2 Smart Power Family of High Efficiency 100W DC-DC Converters

The tiny buck converters, aimed at USB-PD applications, operate over 7 to 27 VDC inputs and supply 3.3 to 21 VDC


Bosch Opens $1.2B Wafer Fab in Germany

Bosch Opens $1.2B Wafer Fab in Germany

The German tech giant opened a new $1.2 billion wafer fab to expand its automotive chip production capacity.


News Jun 22, 2021 by Shannon Cuthrell
Microchip Debuts a Radiation-Hardened MOSFET for Space-Based Applications

Microchip Debuts a Radiation-Hardened MOSFET for Space-Based Applications

The new 250-volt device, with an RDS(ON) of 0.21Ω, offers enhanced power circuit reliability for space and military applications.


ON Semiconductor Unveils a Complete Solution for Industrial Motor Drives

ON Semiconductor Unveils a Complete Solution for Industrial Motor Drives

The new device combines the converter, the inverter and power factor correction (PFC) functionality in a single module


Hitachi Opens New Semiconductor Facility in Oregon

Hitachi Opens New Semiconductor Facility in Oregon

Hitachi’s High-Tech subsidiary is building a new semiconductor engineering facility in Oregon, expecting growth across EV, autonomous driving,…


News Jun 20, 2021 by Shannon Cuthrell
EPC Takes on APEC with an Array of GaN Devices and Sessions

EPC Takes on APEC with an Array of GaN Devices and Sessions

EPC’s CEO and Co-Founder Alex Lidow talks about GaN's biggest application areas and how GaN is in it for the long haul.


News Jun 20, 2021 by Hailey Stewart