Silicon carbide chips are projected to display exponential growth over the next decade. However, getting production up and running is proving to be a bigger technical challenge than some initially ...

Tesla announced a new powertrain for a future vehicle that features 75% less silicon carbide components. Chipmakers involved with silicon carbide dipped on the news, although key industry player ...

The decade-long supply agreement calls for Wolfspeed to provide Renesas with 150mm silicon carbide bare and epitaxial wafers scaling in CY2025, reinforcing the companies’ vision for an industry ...

Robert Bosch GmbH today announced plans to buy TSI Semiconductors, a major maker of silicon carbide chips. The acquisition price was not disclosed. However, Bosch did divulge that it plans to ...

Silicon carbide production is ramping quickly, driven by end market demand in automotive and price parity with silicon. Many thousands of power semiconductor modules already are in use in electric ...

Researchers claims to have developed a method for producing a layer of graphene on a silicon carbide (SiC) wafer to form a semiconductor with a band gap of 0.6 eV and with room temperature electron ...

In November, BorgWarner invested $500 million in the North Carolina chipmaker Wolfspeed Inc. as part of a deal that gives the Michigan supplier access to as much as $650 million in silicon carbide ...

One example of this is the evolution of compound semiconductors that use silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) for high-performance power systems. Innovating test protocols to handle wide ...

SILICON carbide exists in two distinct crystalline polymorphs, the cubic or β-form, and the hexagonal or α-form 1–3. Although the crystal structure and related physical properties of the two ...

Wide bandgap semiconductors – most commonly made from silicon carbide (SiC) or gallium nitride (GaN) – are leading to a ground shift in the energy sector. As the world transitions from ...

The company also says the expansion gives it full control of its silicon carbide manufacturing supply chain, starting with the sourcing of silicon carbide powder and graphite raw material to the ...