清华紫光集团计划用470亿美元战争资金（war chest）并购公司，并且锐意成为全球第三大芯片制造商。宜普电源转换公司首席执行官及共同创办人Alex Lidow对此作出评论。

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作者： Allison Gatlin
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Semiconductor firms have announced $100.6 billion in mergers and acquisitions this year. Chip makers have long used acquisitions to obtain new technology. But many recent deals resemble consolidation waves in older industries, motivated mainly by trimming costs in areas like manufacturing, sales and engineering.

Wall Street Journal
October 18, 2015
By: Don Clark
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According to the latest report from Yole Développement, the GaN power industry is set for significant growth in the future.

Compound Semiconductor
June 12, 2014
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Yole Développement interviewed Dr. Alex Lidow, CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion (EPC).

Yole Développement
June, 2014
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Yole Développement市场研究公司将于本星期发表关于“硅衬底氮化镓基技术及LED与功率电子市场”研究报告。分析员相信功率电子应用将普遍采纳硅基氮化镓技术。功率电子市场所涵盖的应用包括交流-直流或直流-交流电源转换，这些应用皆面对很大的电源损耗并随着更高功率及更高工作频率而增加。由于目前的硅基技术已接近其极限，因此很困难达到业界所需的更高要求。

详情请访问 http://powerelectronicsworld.net/article/0/79693-yole-power-to-dominate-gan-on-silicon-market.html。

Examining new products released by: Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Linear Technology, Maxim-Integrated, Intersil, Fairchild, EPC, and IR, Don Tuite finds a common thread: the companies’ products are doing the heavy lifting for their customers.

Electronic Design
Don Tuite
January 6, 2014

The GaN power device industry has probably generated less than $2.5M revenues in 2011, as only 2 companies (IRF & EPC Corp.) are selling products on the open market. However, the overall GaN activity has seen extra revenues as R&D contracts, qualification tests and sampling for qualified customers was extremely buoyant.

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Written by Peter Clarke - 3/7/2012 2:20 PM EST

LONDON - The market for power devices implemented in gallium nitride was less than $2.5 million in 2011, according to market research firm Yole Developpement (Lyon, France). However, there is a great deal of R&D activity and Yole sees the power GaN market growing to nearly $0 million in 2012 and $500 million in 2016.

The latest report from Yole Développement “GaN Technologies for Power Electronics Applications: Industry and Market Status & Forecasts” says the Total Accessible Market is $16.6b and is envisioned to be split into Power ICs, Power Discretes and Power Modules.

Compound Semiconductor
October 28, 2010

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