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Silicon Carbide Versus Silicon for Electric Vehicles and Electronics Due to the ever-increasing for electric vehicles (EVs), manufacturers are comparing two semiconductor technologies for power electronics applications: silicon carbide and silicon. Image credit: Buffaloboy/Shutterstock.com Silicon carbide (SiC) offers high temperature resistance, reduced power consumption, stiffness, as well as supporting smaller, thinner designs that EV power electronics require.  Examples of SiC’s current applications include onboard battery chargers, onboard DC/DC converters, off-board ...

2021/04/08 00:14 Terry Gou speaking at Hon Hai Research Institute. Terry Gou speaking at Hon Hai Research Institute. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Terry Gou (郭台銘), the founder of Hon Hai Precision, known outside of Taiwan as Foxconn, has retaken the crown as Taiwan's richest person on the Forbes annual world's billionaires. In its list, titled "The Richest in 2021," Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos took the top spot in the world for the fourth year in a row with a net worth of US$177 billion. Coming in second p...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. ASE Wins Sustainability Award SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 6, 2021-- Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE) announced today that it has received the 3D InCites 2021 Sustainability Award. This inaugural award honors exemplary achievement in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy use, water use, and waste to landfill and recognizes the long-term, stringent sustainability goals put in place for the decade ahead. The 3D InCites Sustainability Award Selection Committee comprise...

Foundries started limited usage of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for high-volume manufacturing (HVM) of chips in 2019. At the time, ASML's Twinscan NXE scanners were good enough for production, but the full EUV ecosystem was not quite there. One of the things that impacted EUV was the lack of protective pellicles for photomasks, which limited usage of EUV tools and affected yields. Fortunately, the situation with pellicles has finally improved thanks to the recent introduction of production-ready EUV pellicles, and matters promise to get even better in the coming years. Protecting Pre...

Predicting And Avoiding Failures In Automotive Chips Experts at the Table: New approaches rely on more and better data, but it also requires sharing of data across the supply chain. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss automotive electronics reliability with Jay Rathert, senior director of strategic collaborations at KLA; Dennis Ciplickas, vice president of advanced solutions at PDF Solutions; Uzi Baruch, vice president and general manager of the automotive business unit at OptimalPlus; Gal Carmel, general manager of proteanTecs‘ Automotive Division; Andre van de Geijn, business de...