New Packages and Materials for Power Devices Market

Company Headquarters: Kaohsiung, Taiwan Founded: 1971 Company Working: Orient Semiconductor Electronics Ltd (OSE) is in the business of manufacturing, assembling, processing, and the sale of integrated circuits, computer motherboards, parts of semiconductor, and related products. OSE operates through two business units, namely, the semiconductor group, and the EMS group. The semiconductor group provides IC packaging and testing services, while the EMS group provides professional electronics manufacturing services. OSE for its packaging services provides products under two segments advanced packages and leadframe packages. The packaging products offer services, including wafer probing, drop shipment, back grinding, dry baking and full assembly. The company has setup its offices in the countries of Taiwan, China, and the US. It has nine subsidiaries operating worldwide, which are almost completely owned by OSE. A few of its subsidiaries include Orient Semiconductor Electronics Philippines Inc., OSE International, Ltd, OSE USA, Inc, and Sparqtron Corp

Company Headquarters: Chicago, US Founded: 1927 Workforce: ~ 10,700 Company Working: Littelfuse is one of the leading manufacturers, designers, and solution providers of circuit protection products, which are used in power control & sensor technologies, automotive, and industrial markets. It has an extensive product portfolio of fuses, polymers, ceramics, relays, semiconductors, and sensors. It operates through three major business segments, namely, automotive, electronics, and industrial. The company generates most of its revenue from electronics segments as it highlights broadsets of products includes fuses, fuse accessories, polymer electrostatic discharge, positive temperature cofficient resettable fuses, suppressors, varistors, semiconductor and power semiconductor product, such as discrete transient voltage suppressor, diodes arrays, SiC, metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFETs), SiC diodes and insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technologies. Littelfuse has employees consisting of engineers and scientists for continual improvement of its existing product line and to introduce new products by research, design, and development. The proposal for the research & development is mainly initiated primarily by the sales, marketing, material scientists, technicians, and other product management professionals, which includes contribution from the customers. Additionally, the company has a number of patents. The company is highly focused on improving the reliability, safety and performance of the products and systems that are used in any electrical systems. Currently, the company is highly involved in mergers and acquisitions to accelerate its growth, across the globe. As a global player, the company has manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: California, United States Founded: 2007 Company Working: Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) is the provider of GaN-based management technology for improving the effeciency of power supply, and the connectivity of electric circuits in industries,. The company provides eGaN field-effect transistor (FETs) & integrated circuit (ICs), and eGaN Drivers & controller products. Additionally, it offers various tools to simplify the evaluation process of eGaN FETs and ICs. For this, it has also developed circuit boards that can be effortlessly integerated with existing power systems. The electric boards are comprised of all the critical components and layout for optimal switching performance, including bypass capacitors. Furthermore, the eGaN FETs and ICs offered by the company are the best solutions for wireless charging and wireless power applications, across industries because of the capacibilties of eGaN FETs and ICs to operate efficiently in multi-MHz range. The company has introducued 35 patents of FETs and ICs in order to replace the traditional power MOSFETs and LDMOS solutions in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the US. The sales representatives and distributors of the company operate in regions, such as North America, the Middle East & Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: Arizona, US Founded: 1968 Workforce: ~29,300 Company Working: Amkor Technology is one of the leading providers of outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services. The company also provides turn-key test services and packaging including wafer probe, wafer bump, wafer back-grind, packaging, package design, and drop shipment services. Integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) to reduce their capital expenditure on research tend to outsource parts of its manufacturing responsibilities to companies such as Amkor, which are in the business of IC packaging and testing. The company offers its products through four segments, namely packaging, technology, services, and applications. Under the packaging segment, the company offers products under the subcategories such as laminate, lead frame, power discrete, and wafer level. Amkor has strategically positioned its offices, globally to reach a wider client base. It has offices in the countries including the US, France, Germany, China, Korea, Japan, and Singapore. The company has about 20 factories in the countries of Japan, Korea, the Philippines, China, Malaysia, and Portugal.

Company Headquarters: Grenoble Cedex 9, France Founded: 2014 Company Working: Exagan is the manufacturer of Gallium Nitride (GaN) based transistor and semiconductors devices for power supply, industrial, automotive, IT electronics, connectivity and other markets. Exagan is the result of a spin-off by Soitec, a semiconductor materials manufacturing company and French organization CEA-Leti, which is involved in research and production of micro and nano-technologies. It offers GaN-based products 650-volt and 1,200-volt fast switching power devices for next generation of electrical converters in solar, IT electronics, and automotive sectors. The company also collaborated with CEA-Leti and Soitec in order to develop advanced material technology. This project has enhanced the new packages and material product group of the company . The resultant GaN-on-silicon technology helps improve performance and reliability, across the power modules.

Company Headquarters: Nuremberg, Germany Founded: 1951 Workforce: ~3,200 Company Working: Semikron is the Germany-based electronics company that offers key technologies for energy conservation for various industrial sectors. It offers an extensive range of products for power modules, intelligent power solutions, bare dies, power stacks, and power systems for different markets. Additionally, it is the provider of integrated circuit, transistor, diode, integrated circuit, thyristor power modules, power assemblies and other energy conservation efficient system for different industries, such as automotive, energy & power, electronics, and telecommunications. It has been developing new technologies and innovative solutions regarding power solutions. It has an international network with production sites in countries, such as Brazil, China, India, Italy, Korea, Germany, Slovakia, and the US. These strategic sites of the company ensure satisfactory service to its customers. The company has around 25 subsidiaries, globally, which are equipped with multi-language sales and technical support. Its key end-use applications include motor drives, wind energy, solar energy, power quality, energy storage, utilities vehicle, car charger stations, process, and medical power supplies. Semikron offers silicon carbide power modules in full silicon carbide power modules and hybrid silicon carbide power modules segments. In Full silicon carbide (SiC), it offers power modules in MiniSKiiP, SEMITOP and SEMITRANS housings whereas in hybrid SiC, the company offers power modules MiniSKiiP, SEMITRANS, SEMiX 3 Press-Fit and SKiM63/93.