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Will GaN compete? (from 4) References
“GaN power and RF devices will be using 1. The Silicon Engine, “Timeline of Semiconductors
in Computers,” computerhistory.org/siliconengine/
larger, lower-cost Silicon substrate. The timeline/
key market driver is the speed at which
GaN-on-Si devices can achieve price parity 2. M.A. Hollis, “Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconduc-
with Silicon MOSFETs, IGBTs or rectifi ers tors,” Sandia Report 2017-0424C
with equivalent performance.” according to 3. Richard Eden, The World Market for Silicon Car-
Richard Eden. bide and Gallium Nitride Power Semiconductors,
IHS, 2019.
4. Jeff Hecht, “Robert Hall and the Diode Laser,”
SPIE, January 2020.
Mr. Terlizzi is vice president at GM Systems
LLC, a microelectronics management and
technology consulting fi rm
For over 35 years, he
has designed and devel-
Compound Semiconductors (Periodic Table of the Elements) oped power management
systems;single board com-
$2 billion sales in 2021 puters; microelectronic de-
Our forecast shows approximately $2 bil- vices; ICs; thick and thin
lion in sales in 2021 with a compounded fi lm hybrids and other products for military
annual growth rate of ~25% per year over aerospace and military markets.
the next three years.
He received a BEE from the City College of
(Note: GaN market forecasts are becoming New York and an MSEE from NYU-Poly-
very diffi cult to make with major impacts technic.
from competing technologies like SiC, Sili-
con trench MOSFETS advances, infl ation, He is also a member of the program com-
and other factors). mittee for the 25th Annual CMSE
(Components for Military and Space
A very small market Electronics) virtual conference and ex-
The GaN semiconductor market is divided hibit, April 25-29, hosted by T.J. Green
into opto-electronics, power, and high Associates.
frequency sales. This market is still a very tjgreenllc.com/cmse
small percentage (<0.4%) of the overall
global semiconductor 2021 market of
~$564Billion. Stir up new business
with a low-cost
Over the next 25 years it is anyone’s ad in the May-June
guess what technologies WBG and Ultra
WBG materials will help develop, but we Sockets
are sure to see great advances in quantum
computing, Artifi cial intelligence (AI), ma- issue of TAP TIMES!
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