Tag: gallium nitride

Podcast EP205: A Multi-Decade View of Process and Device Innovation at Intel with Paul Fischer

Podcast EP205: A Multi-Decade View of Process and Device Innovation at Intel with Paul Fischer
by Daniel Nenni on 01-26-2024 at 10:00 am
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Dan is joined by Paul Fischer. Paul is the director of Chip Mesoscale Processing in Intel’s Components Research. He and his team are currently working on Gallium Nitride for energy efficient power delivery and RF communications, and technologies for heterogeneous monolithic integration.

Paul discusses the innovations… Read More

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CEO Interview: Rob Gwynne of QPT

CEO Interview: Rob Gwynne of QPT
by Daniel Nenni on 07-14-2023 at 6:00 am
Categories: CEO Interviews

Rob Gwynne

I am joined today by Rob Gwynne, Founder and CEO of QPT. He is a genuine polymath as his technical experience spans digital, analogue, mixed signal and RF electronics, EMC, radar, DSP, FPGA, software development (embedded, drivers, application level), advanced PCB layout and simulation, optics, precision instrumentation,… Read More

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Chapter Twelve – The Future

Chapter Twelve – The Future
by Wally Rhines on 09-27-2019 at 6:00 am
Categories: Wally Rhines
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Content of this book has focused upon predictability of trends in the semiconductor industry based upon past trends, experience and ratios.  What about newly emerging applications of semiconductors?  After all, the entire history of the semiconductor industry is driven by emergence of new applications.

Artificial Intelligence… Read More

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Is the Future Finally Here? What a GaAs!

Is the Future Finally Here? What a GaAs!
by Mitch Heins on 05-05-2016 at 4:00 pm
Categories: Silicon Photonics

Back in 1983 I was working for Texas Instruments during the beginning of the push to let common electrical engineers develop their own CMOS application specific ICs (ASICs). This would eventually the be the fuel that fed the semiconductor engine to reach over $335 billion in 2015. At that time, I was a young guy and I had a rascally … Read More

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Tis the Season to be kWh Wasteful!

Tis the Season to be kWh Wasteful!
by Alex Lidow on 12-16-2015 at 7:00 am
Categories: Foundries

As the world gears up for the upcoming holiday shopping season, the technology needed by online retailers to meet demands will bring with it many unintended negative byproducts: increased inefficiency, waste and pollution, to name a few. Online sales are expected to grow by 12 percent in the holiday season, on top of an already … Read More

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The Mobility Imperative and the Untethered Consumer

The Mobility Imperative and the Untethered Consumer
by Alex Lidow on 12-10-2015 at 12:00 pm
Categories: Foundries

Consumers want to be able to go where they want, when they want. They want televisions to be seamlessly synchronized with tablets, phones, laptops, and automobiles. They want all their communication, information, and entertainment to be available immediately, with high resolution, all the time. Recently the automobile industry… Read More

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GaN Technology — Contributing to Medicine in No Small Way

GaN Technology — Contributing to Medicine in No Small Way
by Alex Lidow on 08-26-2015 at 12:00 pm
Categories: EDA

In past posts, the disruptive nature of gallium nitride (#GaN) semiconductor technology, especially eGaN® FETs, was discussed…now with significantly higher performance at an equivalent cost, the inevitability of GaN displacing the aging power MOSFET is becoming clearer.

This post highlights a specific end-use application… Read More

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Four Things a New Semiconductor Technology Must Have to be Disruptive

Four Things a New Semiconductor Technology Must Have to be Disruptive
by Alex Lidow on 08-21-2015 at 12:00 pm
Categories: EDA

This post discusses attributes of gallium nitride (#GaN) that make it a disruptive technology and identifies the four factors required for GaN technology to displace silicon as the technology of choice.

Displacing the Silicon with GaN
38 years ago, when I first entered the semiconductor business as a freshly minted Stanford … Read More