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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
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
Power Integrations’ New Switcher IC Family Reduces Standby Power by up to 60%

Power Integrations’ New Switcher IC Family Reduces Standby Power by up to 60%

The new switchers are for the non-isolated buck and buck-boost converters and for isolated flyback designs of up to 12 Watts


Scientists Have Developed a Non-toxic, Visible-light Absorbing Semiconductor Material

Scientists Have Developed a Non-toxic, Visible-light Absorbing Semiconductor Material

A group of scientists from Japan recently published a study on the development of a supposedly cheaper and non-toxic narrow-gap semiconductor…


News Jun 15, 2021 by Darshil Patel
EPC Expands High-Performance eGaN FET Product Family with Latest 80V and 200V Offerings

EPC Expands High-Performance eGaN FET Product Family with Latest 80V and 200V Offerings

This article highlights EPC EPC2065 and EPC2054 eGaN FETs that are higher performing, smaller, more thermally efficient, and at a comparable cost.


Nordic Semiconductor Launches a Tiny USB-Compatible Power Management IC

Nordic Semiconductor Launches a Tiny USB-Compatible Power Management IC

The new power management IC (PMIC) channels power to applications and can also serve to charge the same application’s internal battery


Reliability Challenges of Automotive-grade Silicon Carbide Power MOSFETs

Reliability Challenges of Automotive-grade Silicon Carbide Power MOSFETs

In this article, a discussion is given about testing and related results of Silicon-carbide power MOSFETs for automotive applications. It reports…


The Silicon Integration Initiative Looks to Standardize a SiC SPICE Model

The Silicon Integration Initiative Looks to Standardize a SiC SPICE Model

The Si2 Compact Model Coalition (CMC) has announced it will fund and help institute the standardization of a SPICE model for silicon carbide MOSFETs.


News Jun 04, 2021 by Darshil Patel
Testing Cascode Gallium Nitride FETs

Testing Cascode Gallium Nitride FETs

One popular GaN device type is the Cascode GaN FET, which provides even more difficult challenges with its oscillation-prone device behavior. In…


Fabricating Different Types of Photovoltaic Cells

Fabricating Different Types of Photovoltaic Cells

The manufacture of crystalline silicon modules involves fabricating silicon wafers, transforming the wafers into cells, and assembling cells into…


Semiconductor Giants Unite to Lobby for Domestic Manufacturing Funding

Semiconductor Giants Unite to Lobby for Domestic Manufacturing Funding

Leading semiconductor manufacturers and tech giants are pressuring lawmakers to spend $50 billion on the CHIPS for America Act.


News Jun 01, 2021 by Shannon Cuthrell
How Silicon Carbide can Improve Switched Power Converter Designs

How Silicon Carbide can Improve Switched Power Converter Designs

When it comes to designing power converters, wide bandgap (WBG) technologies such as silicon carbide (SiC) are now a realistic option during…


Silicon Labs Expands Isolated Gate Driver Product Family with Si828x Version 2

Silicon Labs Expands Isolated Gate Driver Product Family with Si828x Version 2

The Si828x features fast switching speeds, low switching loss, and strong thermal performance.


Alpha and Omega Semiconductor’s New SPS Family is Aimed at Multiphase Voltage Regulators

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor’s New SPS Family is Aimed at Multiphase Voltage Regulators

The AOZ527xQI series from Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) provides three different DC current levels for optimal multiphase voltage regulation.