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onsemi announced its first quarter 2025 results with the following highlights:
- Revenue of $1,445.7 million
- GAAP gross margin and non-GAAP gross margin of 20.3% and 40.0%, respectively
- GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP operating margin of (39.7)% and 18.3%, respectively
- GAAP diluted loss per share and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $(1.15) and $0.55, respectively
- Cash from operations of $602 million with free cash flow of $455 million, increasing 72% year-over-year to 31% of revenue
“Our results in the first quarter reflect the disciplined approach we have maintained through this downturn – managing our cost structure, right-sizing our manufacturing footprint, and rationalizing our portfolio – enabling us to generate increased free cash flow. We are committed to long-term value creation and we are accelerating our capital return to shareholders while investing in our future growth,” said Hassane El-Khoury, president and CEO, onsemi. “We continue to see strong design win momentum, driven by the industry-leading performance of our products and have secured key wins with major global customers across all end-markets.”
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Navitas Semiconductor introduced a new level of reliability to meet the system lifetime requirements of the most demanding automotive and industrial applications. Navitas’ latest generation of 650 V and 1200 V ‘trench-assisted planar’ SiC MOSFETs combined with an optimized, HV-T2PaK top-side cooled package, delivers the industry’s highest creepage of 6.45 mm to meet IEC-compliance for applications up to 1200V.
Navitas’ HV-T2PaK SiC MOSFETs significantly increase system-level power density and efficiency while improving thermal management and simplifying board-level design and manufacturability. Target applications include EV on-board chargers (OBC) & DC-DC converters, data-center power supplies, residential solar inverters & energy storage systems (ESS), EV DC fast chargers, and HVAC motor drives.
AEC-Q101 is an automotive industry standard developed by the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) to establish common part-qualification and quality-system standards. Navitas has created an industry-first benchmark, ‘AEC-Plus’*, indicating parts qualified above and beyond the existing AEC-Q101 and JEDEC product qualification standards. This new benchmark showcases Navitas’ deep understanding of system-level lifetime requirements and a strong commitment to enabling rigorously designed and validated products for demanding mission profiles in automotive and industrial applications.
The ‘AEC-Plus’ qualification standards extend further into rigorous multi-lot testing and qualification. Key additions to the existing AEC-Q101 requirements include:
- Dynamic reverse bias (D-HTRB) & dynamic gate switching (D-HTGB) to represent stringent application mission profiles
- Over 2x longer power & temperature cycling
- Over 3x longer duration for static high-temperature, high-voltage tests (e.g. HTRB, HTGB).
- 200°C TJMAX qualification for overload operation capability
Navitas’ HV-T2PaK top-side cooled package, in an industry-standard compact form factor (14 mm x 18.5 mm), is optimized with an innovative groove design in the package mold compound that extends the creepage to 6.45 mm without reducing the size of the exposed thermal pad and ensuring optimal heat dissipation. In addition, the exposed thermal pad has a nickel, nickel-phosphorus (NiNiP) plating, as opposed to tin (Sn) plating from existing TSC package solutions, which is critical to preserving the post-reflow surface planarity of the exposed pad and ensuring thermally efficient and reliable attachment to the thermal interface material (TIM).
Enabled by over 20 years of SiC technology innovation leadership, Navitas’ GeneSiC™ ‘trench-assisted planar SiC MOSFET technology’ offers up to 20% lower on-resistance under in-circuit operation at high temperatures compared to competition and superior switching figure-of-merits which result in the lowest power losses across a wider operating range. All GeneSiC™ SiC MOSFETs have the highest-published 100%-tested avalanche capability, excellent short-circuit withstand energy, and tight threshold voltage distributions for easy paralleling.
The initial HV-T2PaK portfolio includes 1200 V SiC MOSFETs with on-resistance ratings ranging from 18 mΩ to 135 mΩ and 650 V SiC MOSFETs with on-resistance ratings ranging from 20 mΩ to 55 mΩ. Lower on-resistance (<15 mΩ) SiC MOSFETs in HV-T2PaK package will be announced later in 2025.
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Nexperia announced a range of highly efficient and robust automotive qualified silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs with RDS(on) values of 30, 40 and 60 mΩ. These devices (NSF030120D7A0-Q, NSF040120D7A1-Q, NSF060120D7A0-Q), which deliver industry-leading figures-of-merit (FoM), were previously offered in industrial grade and have now been awarded AEC-Q101 certification.
This makes them suitable for automotive applications like onboard chargers (OBC) and traction inverters in electric vehicles (EV) as well as for DC-DC converters, heating ventilation and air-conditioning systems (HVAC). These switches are housed in the increasingly popular surface mounted D2PAK-7 package which is more suitable for automated assembly operations than through-hole devices.
RDS(on) is a critical performance parameter for SiC MOSFETs as it impacts conduction losses. However, concentrating on the nominal value, neglects the fact that it can increase by more than 100% as device operating temperatures rise, resulting in considerable rise of conduction losses. The temperature stability is even more critical when SMD package technologies are used compared to through-hole technology since devices are cooled through the PCB.
Nexperia identified this as a limiting factor in the performance of many currently available SiC devices and leveraged the features of its innovative process technology to ensure that its new SiC MOSFETs offer industry-leading temperature stability, with the nominal value of RDS(on) increasing by only 38% over an operating temperature range from 25 °C to 175 °C. This feature enables customers to address higher output power in their applications achieved with a higher nominal 25°C rated RDS(on) from Nexperia compared to other vendors without sacrificing performance.
“This feature allows to get more power out of the selected Nexperia SiC MOSFET devices compared to similarly rated RDS(on) devices from other vendors, delivering a clear cost advantage for customers on semiconductor level. Additionally, relaxed cooling requirements, more compact passive components, and higher achievable efficiency allow customers more degrees of freedom in their design and lower total cost of ownership. We’re especially excited that these products are now available for the automotive market, where their performance and efficiency benefits can make a real difference in next-generation vehicle designs”, says Edoardo Merli, SVP and Head of Business Group Wide Bandgap, IGBT & Modules (WIM).
Nexperia is planning to release automotive-qualified versions of its 17 mΩ and 80 mΩ RDS(on) SiC MOSFETs in 2025.
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Axcelis Technologies, Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025.
Q1 Highlights:
- Revenue of $192.6 million
- GAAP Gross Margin of 46.1%, and Non-GAAP Gross Margin of 46.4%
- GAAP Operating Margin of 15.1% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 18.3%
- GAAP Diluted earnings per share of $0.88, and Non-GAAP Diluted earnings per share of $1.04
President and CEO Russell Low commented, “We executed well in the first quarter, delivering strong profitability despite a moderation in customer investments and a more uncertain broader economic backdrop. Axcelis is well positioned to navigate a dynamic macroeconomic and global trade environment with an agile global manufacturing and supply chain footprint that we have optimized over the past few years. This provides a solid platform for us to meet our customers’ needs while continuing to invest in innovation to capture the long-term growth opportunities that lie ahead.”
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jamie Coogan said, “We delivered strong margins and cash flow in the first quarter, reflecting solid execution and the resilience of our operating model. We exited the quarter with a robust cash position and no debt, and are repurchasing shares in an opportunistic but disciplined manner, while continuing to invest in our business.”
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GF) announced preliminary financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025.
Key First Quarter Financial Highlights
- Revenue of $1.585 billion
- Gross margin of 22.4% and Non-IFRS gross margin of 23.9%
- Operating margin of 9.5% and Non-IFRS operating margin of 13.4%
- Net income of $211 million and Non-IFRS net income of $189 million
- Diluted earnings per share of $0.38 and Non-IFRS diluted earnings per share of $0.34
- Non-IFRS adjusted EBITDA of $558 million
- Ending cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $3.7 billion
- Net cash provided by operating activities of $331 million and Non-IFRS adjusted free cash flow of $165 million
“In the first quarter, the GF team delivered strong financial results at the high end of the Non-IFRS guidance ranges for revenue, gross margin, and earnings per share,” said Tim Breen, CEO of GF. “A testament to our solid execution, operational excellence, and robust design wins, our Automotive, Communications Infrastructure and Datacenter, and Home and Industrial IoT end markets grew year over year in the first quarter. From autonomous vehicles to satellite communications to optical networking, GF continues to build momentum in critical applications with robust growth prospects.”
Recent Business Highlights
- GF and indie Semiconductor announced a strategic partnership to develop high-performance radar systems-on-chip (SoC). Built on GF’s automotive-qualified 22FDX® platform, these solutions will target 77 GHz and 120 GHz radar applications to enable safety-critical advanced driver assistance systems with low cost, small footprint, and efficient power consumption.
- Ayar Labs announced that the industry’s first Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) optical interconnect chiplet will utilize GF’s monolithic photonics platform. GF’s technology uniquely enables Ayar Lab’s solution to enhance AI infrastructure performance by driving high-speed data over long distances, while reducing latency and power consumption.
- In April, Bosch announced at Auto Shanghai the launch of its next generation single chip radar sensor, which reliably, precisely, and quickly detects objects for assisted and automated driving. As previously announced, GF continues its partnership with Bosch, enabling this high-performance, high-efficiency automotive radar technology with GF’s 22FDX platform.
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SemiQ Inc has announced the expansion of its Gen3 SiC MOSFET offering, launching a 1200 V TSPAK-packaged series. SemiQ unveiled the new devices for the first time at PCIM 2025 in Nuremberg at Alfatec’s stand (Hall 4A, Booth109).
The four-strong series of Gen3 MOSFETs delivers continuous drain currents of between 27 and 101 A and pulsed drain current from 70 to 350 A, with device resistances (RDSon) ranging from 80 to 16 mΩ respectively.
All devices are operational to 175oC and have been tested to voltages greater than 1400 V, undergoing wafer-level burn-in testing (WLBI) and UIL avalanche testing up to 800 mJ (RDSon = 16 mΩ, 160 mJ for the 80 mΩ device).
The easy-to-parallel devices implement top-side cooling and an isolated thermal path with a ceramic isolated back paddle. The package includes a driver source kelvin pin for gate driving as well as a gate pin, 5 source pins and a drain tab.
The TSPAK MOSFETs offer a lower capacitance, reduced switching losses, longer clearance distance and higher overall system efficiency. SemiQ is targeting the devices at a range of industrial and EV applications, including solar inverters and energy storage, induction heating and welding, EV charging stations and on-board chargers, motor drives, high-voltage DC/DC converters and UPS/switch mode power supplies.
Dr. Timothy Han, President at SemiQ said: “The launch of the TSPAK Gen3 SiC MOSFET family enables the creation of higher power density supplies, at a lower system cost as well as more compact system designs at large scale.”
All devices in the series are housed in a 18.6 x 14.0 x 3.5 mm TSPAK package, have a zero gate voltage drain current of 0.1 µA, a -10/10 nA gate-source leakage current and a 3.5 V gate threshold voltage (cited characteristics measured at 25oC). The series is available immediately.
The series’ cycle times range from 49 ns (80 mΩ MOSFET) to 114 ns (16 mΩ), and the devices have total switching energy of between 153 µJ (80 mΩ MOSFET) and 1565 µJ (16 mΩ). Key specifications are shown in the table below – all characteristics shown have been measured at 25oC.
GP3T016A120TS GP3T020A120TS GP3T040A120TS GP3T080A120TS Drain source voltage VDS 1200 V 1200 V 1200 V 1200 V Drain source on resistance RDSon 16 mΩ 18 mΩ 38 mΩ 80 mΩ Continuous drain current ID 101 A 89 A 50 A 27 A Pulse drain current ID.pulse 350 A 280 A 140 A 70 A Power dissipation Ptot 273 W 250 W 158 W 102 W Thermal resistance RthJC 0.49°C/W 0.53°C/W 0.83°C/W 1.25°C/W Turn on switching energy EON 1333 µJ 986 µJ 639 µJ 117 µJ Turn off switching energy EOFF 232 µJ 159 µJ 101 µJ 36 µJ Turn on delay tDon 19 ns 80 ns 15 ns 10 ns Rise time tR 13 ns 10 ns 9 ns 3 ns Turn off delay tDoff 64 ns 60 ns 32 ns 20 ns Fall time tF 18 ns 17 ns 10 ns 16 ns 1200V Gen3 SiC TSPAK MOSFET series is available in parts: GP3T016A120TS (16mΩ, 101A), GP3T020A120TS (18mΩ, 89A), GP3T040A120TS (38mΩ, 50A), and GP3T080A120TS (80mΩ, 27A).
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WeEn Semiconductors showcased its silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs and Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBDs) in highly thermally efficient TSPAK packages at this year’s PCIM Expo conference and trade fair. The new packages enable engineers to improve efficiency, reduce form factors, extend reliability and lower EMI across a variety of high-power applications.
Providing effective heat dissipation from a thermal pad on the surface of the SiC device rather than via a PCB substrate, the company’s top-side cooling TSPAK technologies can reduce J-A (junction-to-ambient) thermal resistance by up to 16% compared to conventional devices. As a result, the packages help to simplify thermal management design, lower losses and increase power density.
By minimizing or eliminating the need for complex PCB cooling, TSPAK devices reduce component count and drive down system costs. In addition, the ability to support a greater number of power cycle extends reliability, while reduced EMI helps engineers to simplify system EMC compliance. EMI reduction derives from the fact that the circulating current that creates the magnetic field is no longer blocked by the thermal vias necessary in conventional bottom-side cooling designs and can return to the source directly, minimizing magnetic interference.
WeEn’s TSPAK SiC technologies are ideally suited to on-board chargers and high-voltage-to-low-voltage DC-DC converters in electric vehicles (EVs), automotive HVAC compressors, vehicle charging stations, photovoltaic (PV) renewable energy systems and power supplies for computing and telecom servers. TSPAK MOSFETs offer voltage ratings from 650 V to 1700 V and on resistance (RDS(ON)) ratings from 20 to 150mΩ. TSPAK SBDs are available with voltages from 650 V to 1200 V and current ratings of 10 A to 40 A.
All products are available in industrial grade and automotive grade variants.
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Infineon Technologies AG has been a pioneer in the market introduction of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices and trench technology for SiC MOSFETs, combining excellent performance with high robustness. Today, the CoolSiC™ product offering spans from 400 V to 3.3 kV and covers a broad range of applications, including automotive drivetrains, EV charging, solar energy systems, energy storage, and high-power traction inverters.
Building on a solid track record in SiC business development and leveraging its position as the innovator of charge-compensating devices in silicon (CoolMOS™), Infineon is now introducing a trench-based SiC superjunction (TSJ) technology concept.
“With the introduction of the TSJ concept, we are significantly expanding the technological capabilities of silicon carbide,” said Peter Wawer, President of Infineon’s Green Industrial Power Division. “The combination of trench and superjunction technology enables higher efficiency and more compact designs – an important step for applications requiring the highest levels of performance and reliability.”
Infineon is committed to gradually expanding its CoolSiC product portfolio, leveraging SiC TSJ technology. This expansion will encompass a diverse range of package types, including discretes, molded and frame-based modules, as well as bare dies. The extended portfolio will cater to a broad spectrum of applications, targeting both the automotive and industrial sectors.
The first products based on the new technology will be 1200 V in Infineon ID-PAK for automotive traction inverters and combine the advantages of trench technology and superjunction design, capitalizing on Infineon’s more than 25 years of experience in SiC and silicon-based superjunction technology (CoolMOS). This scalable package platform supports power levels of up to 800 kW, enabling a high degree of system flexibility. Key benefits of the technology include increased power density, achieved through an up to 40 percent improvement in R DS(on)*A, allowing for more compact designs within a given power class. Additionally, the 1200 V SiC trench-superjunction concept in ID-PAK enables up to 25 percent higher current capability in main inverters without compromising short-circuit capability.
This advancement also results in enhanced overall system performance, delivering improved energy efficiency, reduced cooling requirements, and higher reliability for demanding automotive and industrial applications. Moreover, the system benefits from reduced parallelization requirements, which simplify the design process and lower overall system costs. With these innovations, the Infineon ID-PAK package equipped with SiC TSJ technology contributes to the development of more efficient and cost-effective traction inverter designs for automotive applications.
“As the global number one in automotive semiconductors, Infineon sets the pace of innovation and helps build the bridge between technological progress of vehicles and sustainable mobility,” said Peter Schiefer, President of Infineon’s Automotive Division. “Our new trench-based SiC superjunction technology brings further value to electric vehicle drivetrains enabling higher efficiency and system design simplicity.”
As an early customer, Hyundai Motor Company development teams will engage with Infineon’s trench-superjunction technology, leveraging its benefits to enhance their EV offerings. This partnership is expected to drive the development of more efficient and compact EV drivetrains.
Initial ID-PAK 1200 V samples are now available for selected automotive drivetrain customers. The SiC TSJ-based ID-PAK 1200 V package is expected to be ready for volume production in 2027.
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Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) announced that Inventchip, a leading provider of SiC power devices and IC solutions headquartered in Shanghai, has successfully demo’d a 2.5 kW GaN-based CCM totem-pole PFC reference design using CGD’s ICeGaN® gallium nitride ICs. A key feature is ease-of use. ICeGaN ICs integrate interface circuitry and protection on the same GaN die as the HEMT. Therefore, any standard driver IC can be used. The Inventchip IVCC1104 totem pole PFC controller IC is also simple to use with no programming required. It offers optimized AC zero-crossing control, low THD and high robustness against AC disturbance.
DI CHEN | DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, CGD
“Inventchip had an existing 2.5kW TPPFC reference design based on its controller and gate drivers using SiC MOSFETs in TO-247 packages. To evaluate the performance of GaN instead, Inventchip designed a TO-247 adapter board using our P2 25mΩ ICeGaN ICs and the ICeGaN design works perfectly without any modification of their circuits. It has demonstrated that the ICeGaN can significantly shorten the learning curve and allow engineers to bring new product faster to market.”DR. ZHONG YE |CTO , INVENTCHIP
“By using a TO247-4 adapter board to solder on a DFN-packaged ICeGaN device for a quick test on our EVM, despite the relatively long gate drive path and the extended drive power supply trace, the board was powered up successfully at the first shot with clean switching waveform. No abnormalities or shoot-through was observed from no-load to full-load conditions. The GaN’s performance is very impressive. The CGD GaN device has proven to be very noise-immune, user-friendly and highly efficient.”Having proved its efficiency and power density in low power charger designs, GaN is now being adopted by makers of server and data centre PSUs, inverters, industrial brick DC/DC converters and LED drivers. Soon, EV inverter drives of over 100 kW are expected to transition to GaN too. ICeGaN technology is especially suitable at higher power levels because of its proven reliability and robustness.
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Power Integrations announced five new reference designs targeting 800 V automotive applications based on the company’s 1700 V InnoSwitch™3-AQ flyback switcher ICs. Spanning power levels from 16 W to 120 W, the designs leverage both wound and low-profile planar transformers and target automotive applications such as DC-DC bus conversion, inverter emergency power, battery management and power supplies for auxiliary systems. The designs feature Power Integrations’ new wide-creepage InSOP™-28G package, which supports 1000 VDC on the primary side while providing appropriate creepage and clearance between pins in pollution degree 2 environments.
“The new InSOP™-28G package, with its wide 5.1 mm drain-to-source pin creepage distance, addresses the critical need for enhanced safety and reliability in high-voltage applications,” said Mike Stroka, product marketing engineer at Power Integrations. “It provides sufficient isolation that conformal coating can be eliminated, saving a manufacturing process step and associated qualification effort. The InnoSwitch3-AQ IC, featuring a 1700 V silicon-carbide (SiC) switch, is an ideal solution for 800 V vehicles, simplifying manufacturing while enhancing overall system performance and reliability.”
Available from www.power.com, the following reference designs are all isolated flyback converters based on the 1700 V-rated CV/CC InnoSwitch3-AQ switcher ICs. The three reference designs kits (RDKs) and two design example reports (DERs) are:
- RDK-994Q— 35 W ultra-low-profile traction inverter gate-drive or emergency power supply with 40-1000 VDC input and 24 V output;
- RDK-1039Q— 18 W power supply with planar transformer for traction inverter gate driver or emergency power supply;
- RDK-1054Q— 120 W power supply with planar transformer, designed to shrink or eliminate heavy, bulky 12 V batteries;
- DER-1030Q— 20 W four-output power supply—one emergency power supply (EPS) with 24.75 V output and three gate-drive power supplies with 25.5 V output;
- DER-1045Q— 16 W four-output power supply—one 14 V EPS output and three gate-drive outputs with split +18 V / -5 V rails.
Power Integrations’ 1700 V-rated SiC-based CV/CC InnoSwitch3-AQ switching power supply ICs deliver up to 120 watts of output power. The highly integrated ICs reduce power supply bill of materials (BOM) count by as much as 50 percent, saving space, enhancing system reliability and easing component sourcing challenges. Devices start up with as little as 30 volts on the drain pin without external circuitry, which is often a critical requirement for functional safety.
Additional protection features include input under-voltage, output over-voltage and over-current limiting. Power consumption is less than 15 mW at no-load. The ICs also incorporate synchronous rectification and a valley switching, discontinuous/continuous conduction mode (DCM/CCM) flyback controller capable of delivering greater than 91 percent efficiency.
Pricing for the new 1700 V-rated InnoSwitch3-AQ switching power supply ICs starts at $6 per unit for 10,000-unit quantities. The reference design kits range from $50 to $100 per kit. Design engineers can enter a drawing to win one of the reference design kits at pages.power.com/rev-up. For further information, contact a Power Integrations sales representative or one of the company’s authorized worldwide distributors – DigiKey, Newark, Mouser and RS Components, or visit power.com.
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