“The SiC power business is concrete and real, with a promising outlook,” said Yole Développement in 2016. The trend has not changed in 2017, and the SiC industry is going even further as industrial players have increasing ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which makes chips for aerospace & defense, communications, data-center and industrial markets) has become a member of PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications – says that its transistors are being used by power ...
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Power semiconductor device manufacturer Rohm Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan has developed a 1200V/300A full-SiC (silicon carbide) power module - integrating a SiC-SBD (Schottky barrier diode) and SiC-MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
As part of its growth strategy to reach a broader set of customers, Global Power Technologies Group (GPTG) has announced an exclusive global distribution agreement with US-based Digi-Key Electronics, a provider of both prototype/design and ...
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ROHM of Kyoto, Japan says that its SCT2080KE silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET has been adopted in the new SiC-Pulser Series of ultra-high-voltage pulse generators launched by Japan's Fukushima SiC Applied Engineering Inc. Picture: ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has expanded its silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diode product family with a new line of 650V solutions, ...
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Starting in late 2011, the power electronics downturn in 2012 was quite severe, exhibiting a 20% drop. The market suffered from the global economic downturn, combined with external factors such as China controlling what happened in some ...
Uncertainty hangs over the market for power devices made with the wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), due to a lack of clarity over whether and when electric vehicles will adopt them, according to the latest study on the SiC ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Electronics, Power Devices
In anticipation of growing demand for industrial and automotive applications, Japan’s Toshiba Corp has started volume production of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices at its Himeji Operations–Semiconductor plant in Hyogo ...
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Toshiba has started volume production of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices at Himeji in the Hyogo Prefecture in anticipation of growing demand for industrial and automotive applications. Toshiba will manufacture Schottky Barrier Diodes ...
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Following six years of R&D, Raytheon has opened a silicon carbide fab in Glenrothes Scotland which will offer foundry services as well as its own line of high-temperature ICs. Its SiC process has been developed on-site, with Government ...
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Global Internet-based electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp of Thief River Falls, MN, USA has agreed to distribute worldwide the silicon carbide (SiC) technologies of GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA, which develops ...
Tags: Digi Key Corp, SiC technologies, GeneSiC, global distribution agreement