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Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again

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The customers changed as well; Silicon Valley companies had been selling to other manufacturing companies. Eighty percent of the world's chips are made in Taiwan, and China has found the choke point of the world economy—those fabs. There's a scramble to build fabs outside Taiwan, but that will take two to three years.

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VisIC and ZF partner on R&D effort to develop EV inverter based on GaN semiconductor technology; focus on 400V

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This optimization is important for the inverter design and manufacturing in order to minimize the required paralleling and to optimize the inverter cost. The inverter—which converts DC power from the traction battery to AC power that drives the motor—is a key part of the electric drive chain.

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