Wolfspeed Appoints Executives to Strengthen Leadership Team
Wolfspeed Inc., a leading silicon‑carbide semiconductor maker, announced two senior hires to reinforce its leadership team. Brad Kohn returns as executive vice president, chief legal and global affairs officer, overseeing legal, compliance and policy functions. Sonja Burfeind joins as vice president of communications to steer global messaging and brand strategy. The moves support Wolfspeed’s aggressive global expansion and deeper engagement with regulators, investors and customers.
AOI Awarded $20.9m Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund Grant
Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) has secured a $20.9 million grant from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund to fund a 210,000 ft² manufacturing expansion in Sugar Land, Texas. The new facility will become one of the nation’s largest production sites for AI‑focused data‑center...
Onsemi and Geely Expand Collaboration to Support Next-Gen 900V EV Architectures
onsemi and Geely have deepened a global partnership to embed onsemi’s EliteSiC silicon‑carbide technology into Geely’s SEA‑S‑based Super Electric Power (SEP) system. The collaboration targets 900 V vehicle architectures, promising faster acceleration, longer range and dramatically reduced charging times. By leveraging...
Beijing Intellectual Property Court Upholds Validity of Innoscience’s GaN Patents
China’s Beijing Intellectual Property Court upheld the validity of Innoscience’s two core gallium‑nitride (GaN) invention patents, rejecting invalidation attempts by Germany’s Infineon Technologies. The rulings follow favorable decisions by the China National Intellectual Property Administration in November 2025 that affirmed all...
Aeluma Appoints Willy Rachmady as VP of Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystem
Aeluma Inc. has appointed Willy Rachmady, Ph.D., as vice president of strategic partnerships and ecosystem. Reporting to CEO Jonathan Klamkin, Rachmady will oversee foundry alliances, customer engineering, and technology commercialization across silicon photonics and compound‑semiconductor platforms. He arrives with more...
Indium Corp Gains $3.2m DOE TRACE-Ga Grant to Establish Domestic High-Purity Gallium Recovery
Indium Corp of Clinton, New York has secured a $3.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s TRACE‑Ga program to develop a domestic process for recovering high‑purity gallium from manufacturing by‑products. The initiative marks the first effort to re‑establish U.S....
Volta Metals Receives $215,000 Grant From Ontario Junior Exploration Program
Volta Metals Ltd secured the maximum $215,000 (≈ $159,000 USD) grant from Ontario’s Junior Exploration Program, covering up to 50% of eligible 2025‑2026 exploration costs. The funding targets the 4,750‑hectare Springer Rare Earth Element and Gallium Project, located 70 km east of Sudbury....
SweGaN Wins Commercial Orders Worth SEK25m From Global Customers
SweGaN AB announced commercial framework agreements worth roughly SEK 25 million ($2.8 million) from customers in Europe, Asia and the United States. The contracts, spanning data‑center power devices and defense‑grade RF components, will generate revenue over the next 6‑18 months. The company also appointed...
Aeluma Receives NASA Award for Integrated QD Lasers
Aeluma Inc., a Goleta‑based compound semiconductor firm, secured a NASA award to accelerate its integrated quantum‑dot (QD) laser platform for data‑communication and sensing. The company’s large‑diameter wafer heterogeneous integration leverages high‑throughput MOCVD to embed QD lasers directly on silicon, tackling...
Atomera Extends Collaboration with Synopsys to GaN Workflows
Atomera Inc. has broadened its long‑standing partnership with Synopsys Inc. to include gallium nitride (GaN) device modeling using Synopsys’ Sentaurus TCAD platform. The expanded effort will develop a GaN calibration methodology, produce marketing and calibrated simulation decks, and feed product...
CSA Catapult Issues Annual Report for 2024–25
The UK’s Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult released its 2024‑25 annual report, highlighting a series of strategic milestones. It opened the nation’s first open‑access advanced packaging facility with $3.1 million funding and joined the £5.5 million REACT sustainable electronics centre in Scotland....
Wolfspeed Appoints Tokyo-Based Regional President for Asia Pacific
Wolfspeed Inc., a leading silicon‑carbide semiconductor maker, announced the appointment of Yasuhisa Harita as regional president for Asia Pacific, effective June 1. Based in Tokyo, Harita will steer commercial strategy across Japan, Korea and the ASEAN nations, targeting revenue growth...
Bosch Sampling Third-Generation SiC Chips to Global Automakers
Bosch has begun sampling its third‑generation silicon carbide (SiC) power chips to automakers worldwide. The new chips deliver about 20% higher performance while being significantly smaller, enabling more chips per wafer and lower costs. Bosch has invested roughly $3.3 billion in...
TU Delft’s Karen Dowling Receives NWO Open Competition ENW-XS Grant
Dr Karen Dowling of TU Delft’s Microelectronics Department secured an NWO Open Competition ENW‑XS grant to study gallium nitride (GaN) for thermoelectric applications in space. Her project will model, fabricate and test 2‑D GaN layers across a temperature span from 500 K...
Quinas Advances ULTRARAM Development with Atomic-Scale Processing at KAUST Core Labs
Quinas Technology announced that it has successfully employed atomic‑layer etching (ALE) at KAUST Core Labs to fabricate its ULTRARAM quantum‑engineered memory structures. The process, supplied by Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, delivers sub‑nanometre precision with ultra‑low damage, essential for the III‑V...