NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
- TI adds GaN manufacturing in Japan, quadrupling its internal GaN
manufacturing capacity between its factories in the United States and Japan.
- TI's GaN-based semiconductors are in production and available
now.
- TI enables the most energy-efficient, reliable and power-dense
end products with the widest portfolio of integrated GaN-based
power semiconductors.
- TI has successfully piloted the development of GaN
manufacturing on 300mm wafers.
DALLAS and AIZU, Japan, Oct. 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq:
TXN) today announced it has begun production of gallium nitride
(GaN)-based power semiconductors at its factory in Aizu,
Japan. Coupled with its existing
GaN manufacturing in Dallas,
Texas, TI will now internally manufacture four times more
GaN-based power semiconductors, as Aizu ramps to production.
"Building on more than a decade of expertise in GaN chip design
and manufacturing, we have successfully qualified our 200mm GaN
technology – the most scalable and cost-competitive way to
manufacture GaN today – to start mass production in Aizu," said
Mohammad Yunus, TI's senior vice
president of Technology and Manufacturing. "This milestone enables
us to manufacture more of our GaN chips internally as we grow our
internal manufacturing to more than 95% by 2030, while also
sourcing from multiple TI locations, ensuring a reliable supply of
our entire GaN portfolio of high-power, energy-efficient
semiconductors."
The power of GaN technology
An alternative to silicon,
GaN is a semiconductor material that offers benefits in
energy-efficiency, switching speed, power solution size and weight,
overall system cost, and performance under high temperatures and
high-voltage conditions. GaN chips provide more power density, or
power in smaller spaces, enabling applications such as power
adapters for laptops and mobile phones, or smaller, more
energy-efficient motors for heating and air conditioning systems
and home appliances.
Today, TI offers the widest portfolio of integrated GaN-based
power semiconductors, ranging from low- to high-voltage, to enable
the most energy-efficient, reliable and power-dense
electronics.
"With GaN, TI can deliver more power, more efficiently in a
compact space, which is the primary market need driving innovation
for many of our customers," said Kannan
Soundarapandian, vice president of High-Voltage Power at TI.
"As designers of systems such as server power, solar energy
generation and AC/DC adapters face challenges to reduce power
consumption and enhance energy efficiency, they are increasingly
demanding a reliable supply of TI's high-performance GaN-based
chips. TI's product portfolio of integrated GaN power stages
enables customers to achieve higher power density, improved ease of
use and lower system cost."
Further, with the company's proprietary GaN-on-silicon process,
more than 80 million hours of reliability testing, and integrated
protection features, TI GaN chips are designed to keep high-voltage
systems safe.
Most advanced GaN manufacturing technology available
today
Using the most advanced equipment available for GaN
chip manufacturing today, TI's new capacity enables increased
product performance and manufacturing process efficiency, as well
as a cost advantage.
Also, the more advanced, efficient tools used in TI's expanded
GaN manufacturing can produce smaller chips, packing even more
power. This design innovation can be manufactured using less water,
energy and raw materials, and end products that use GaN chips enjoy
these same environmental benefits.
Scaled for future advances
The performance
benefits of TI's added GaN manufacturing also enable
the company to scale its GaN chips to higher voltages,
starting with 900V and increasing to higher voltages over time,
furthering power-efficiency and size innovations for applications
like robotics, renewable energy and server power
supplies.
In addition, TI's expanded investment includes a successful
pilot earlier this year for development of GaN manufacturing
processes on 300mm wafers. Further, TI's expanded GaN manufacturing
processes are fully transferable to 300mm technology, positioning
the company to readily scale to customer needs and move to 300mm in
the future.
Committed to responsible, sustainable
manufacturing
Expanding supply and innovation in GaN
technology is the latest example of TI's commitment to responsible,
sustainable manufacturing. TI has committed to use 100% renewable
electricity in its U.S. operations by 2027, and worldwide by
2030.
Learn more about GaN and TI manufacturing:
- TI's GaN technology
- Manufacturing at TI
- TI's commitment to environmental sustainability
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated
(Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs,
manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for
markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics,
communications equipment and enterprise systems. At our core, we
have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more
affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as
each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our
technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making
it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere.
Learn more at TI.com.
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