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Term: Envelope Tracking
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Dec 12, 2016

Mid-Year Checkup on My 2016 GaN Technology Predictions

Alex Lidow, Ph.D., CEO and Co-founder

Prognosticators do not often risk their reputations by giving their predictions a “checkup” midway through the period of their predictions. But, I am going to give it a shot and here we go…

Jun 02, 2016

Revisiting What It Takes for a New Semiconductor Technology to be Disruptive

Alex Lidow, Ph.D., CEO and Co-founder

In March 2010 Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) proudly launched our GaN technology at the CIPS conference in Nuremberg, Germany.  Parts and development kits were readily available off-the shelf and therefore designers could immediately get started with a new state-of-the-art semiconductor technology.

At that time, we listed four key attributes we believed a new semiconductor technology needed in order to be really disruptive to the end markets.  A lot has happened in the six years since.  GaN has continued to ascend as the presumptive replacement for the aging power MOSFET, yet there are still a few design engineers and technical managers that remain skeptical.  So let’s look again at these four key attributes and see where GaN stands in addressing them.