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Can GaN Solve AI Data Center Power Needs in 2025?

Can GaN Solve AI Data Center Power Needs in 2025?

Gallium nitride’s market is expected to expand in AI data centers, electric vehicles, and other high-power needs.


tech insights Feb 14, 2025 by Jake Hertz
Full Potential: Is 2025 the Year for GaN?

Full Potential: Is 2025 the Year for GaN?

Tech giants like Intel and Infineon unveiled significant developments in gallium nitride technology in 2024.


tech insights Jan 22, 2025 by Jake Hertz
GaN Devices Hot Enough for Venus

GaN Devices Hot Enough for Venus

Gallium nitride will be a key enabler for high-temperature electronics, including possible missions to Venus.


Renewable Energy Innovation: What to Expect in 2024

Renewable Energy Innovation: What to Expect in 2024

A look forward to some of the power products, innovations, and technologies that will impact renewable energy generation, distribution, and storage…


Power Innovation for Electric Vehicles: What to Expect in 2024

Power Innovation for Electric Vehicles: What to Expect in 2024

A look forward to some of the 2024 power product and innovation trends that will impact the design of electric vehicle powertrains, battery…


Innovation Surrounds Growing EV Market in 2023

Innovation Surrounds Growing EV Market in 2023

A look back at some of the power products and innovations from 2023 that are impacting the design of EV powertrains, battery systems, and vehicle…


Discussing the Impact of Chinese Restrictions on Semiconductor Metals

Discussing the Impact of Chinese Restrictions on Semiconductor Metals

Chinese restriction of germanium and gallium exports could have big implications for the global electronics industry. 


tech insights Sep 15, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Powering a Green Future: Insights from Infineon’s Peter Wawer

Powering a Green Future: Insights from Infineon’s Peter Wawer

Dr. Peter Wawer brings insights from a distinguished career that has touched three unique major semiconductor technologies: silicon photovoltaics,…


Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power ICs: Turning Academic Dreams into an Industry Reality

Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power ICs: Turning Academic Dreams into an Industry Reality

Gallium nitride (GaN) is the key enabler for high-frequency, and simultaneously high-efficiency topologies.


Innovative Power Capacitor Technologies Support SiC and GaN in DC Link

Innovative Power Capacitor Technologies Support SiC and GaN in DC Link

At its annual Technologies & Products Press Conference 2019 in Munich, TDK managers Dr. Lucia Cabo and Fernando Rodríguez presented film…


The Future of GaN: An Interview with Alex Lidow of EPC

The Future of GaN: An Interview with Alex Lidow of EPC

Ahead of December’s Power Conference in Munich, Bodo Arlt took the opportunity to get an insight into Dr. Alex Lidow’s thoughts on where the…


tech insights Nov 11, 2019 by Bodo Arlt
Have GaN Transistors Become as Easy to Use as MOSFETs

Have GaN Transistors Become as Easy to Use as MOSFETs

I began writing this article with the expectation that the answer to whether GaN transistors have become as easy to use as MOSFET would be…


tech insights Oct 31, 2019 by Scott Wolf
Competing Integrated GaN and NonGaN Technologies in USB Wall Chargers

Competing Integrated GaN and NonGaN Technologies in USB Wall Chargers

GaN brings compelling advantages in terms of efficiency for wall chargers and other power supply products, but achieving these in a cost-effective…


International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICsISPSD 2018

International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICsISPSD 2018

The 30th Annual International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits, (ISPSD) was held from May 13-17, 2018 in Chicago,…


tech insights Jul 10, 2018 by Gary Dolny
Interview: Navitas on Design Simplicity - GaN Power ICs with iDrive

Interview: Navitas on Design Simplicity - GaN Power ICs with iDrive

This article talks about the interview with Gene Sheridan from Navitas Semiconductors on GaN Technology.


SiC - the High Performance Power Semiconductor

SiC - the High Performance Power Semiconductor

This article discusses the Silicon Carbide Technology with Chris Dries from USCi.


Looking Back and Forward on 10 Years with GaN Systems

Looking Back and Forward on 10 Years with GaN Systems

Back in the dark days after the internet bubble burst, Nortel had demised, and high tech in Canada’s Silicon Valley North was in the doldrums.…


Wide Bandgap Now

Wide Bandgap Now

Five years ago, in this column, I wrote an editorial entitled, “When Wide Bandgap?”  In that piece, I predicted, “The key to success in silicon


tech insights Oct 03, 2016 by Dan Kinzer
Podium Session at PCIM Europe Marks New Chapter in GaN Power Device Adoption

Podium Session at PCIM Europe Marks New Chapter in GaN Power Device Adoption

Over the years, GaN power has been sarcastically described as “the technology of the future…and always will be.”  While silicon carbide devices


tech insights Jun 06, 2016 by Greg Evans
Around the World in 80 Days with GaN Systems

Around the World in 80 Days with GaN Systems

Phileas Fogg, in the classic Jules Verne tale “Around the World in 80 Days”, has an argument in a London club over an 1872 newspaper article which


tech insights Oct 02, 2015 by Jim Witham