Wide-Bandgap Semis
December 2022
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Figure 1: Kodiak Robotics integrates autonomous technology into commercial fleets using power modules.
Commercial trucking is the backbone of the U.S. economy. That has never been more evident than in the past few years as Covid-19 supply chain disruptions gripped the country.
At the same time, it’s becoming harder and harder to find people who want to drive trucks. The average American truck driver is abou
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Date:
12/31/2022
Dr. Cengiz Balkas, SVP and GM of Materials for Wolfspeed
Wolfspeed, Inc. announced the expansion of an existing multi-year, long-term Silicon Carbide wafer supply agreement, now worth approximately $225 million, with a leading power device company. The expanded agreement calls for Wolfspeed to supply the company with 150 mm Silicon Carbide bare and epitaxial wafers, re
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Date:
12/15/2022
Luke Lee, Texas Instruments' vice president for Asia and president for Taiwan, Korea and South Asia
Texas Instruments (TI) announced that Chicony Power designed in TI’s integrated gallium nitride (GaN) technology to power its latest 65-W laptop power adapter, Le Petit. Leveraging TI’s half-bridge GaN FET with integrated gate driver, LMG2610, Chicony Power and TI collaborated on a design to reduce the si
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Date:
12/14/2022
STMicroelectronics Boosts EV Performance and Driving Range with new Silicon-Carbide Power Modules
STMicroelectronics has released high-power modules for electric vehicles that boost performance and driving range. ST’s new silicon-carbide (SiC) power modules have been selected for Hyundai’s E-GMP electric-vehicle platform shared by KIA EV6 and several models.
Five new SiC-MOSFET based pow
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Date:
12/07/2022
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