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Wolfspeed is expected to file for bankruptcy within the next few weeks. The company is said to have about $6.5 billion of debt and has rejected various restructuring proposals from creditors. The plan is now to apply for a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure. The company ran into trouble when it lost both Tesla and Volkswagen as customers which resulted ...

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German auto parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is pulling out of its Saarland fab jv with Wolfspeed, reports Handelsbatt, citing weak demand from EV makers. Wolfspeed had originally planned to build a $3 billion fab to start running silicon in 2027 plus an R&D Centre in Saarland with ZF paying $185 million for a stake in the project. The EU had ...

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For phased-array C-Band radar, CMPA5259050S and CMPA5259080S from Wolfspeed are respectively 50W and 80W 5.0-5.9GHz GaN MMIC power amplifiers. The “two-stage reactively-matched amplifier approach enables high power and power added efficiency to be achieved in a 5 x 5mm QFN surface -mount package” (black in photo), according to Richardson RFPD, which is stocking the parts, and offering design support. CMPA5259080S ...

Wolfspeed and Jaguar Land Rover have announced a strategic supply partnership for silicon carbide electric vehicle power train semiconductors. “Wolfspeed’s silicon carbide technology will be used specifically in the vehicles’ inverter, managing the transfer of power from the battery to the electric motors,” according to the car company. “The first Range Rover vehicles with this technology will be available from ...

Wolspeed is aiming at electric vehicle charging and solar power with a family of 1.2kV silicon carbide power modules fitting between single die discrete components and high-current modules. They come in the company’s 63 x 34mm FM3 package in all-n-channel half-bridge and three-phase bridge configuration ant various current capacities – see table below. Connection is through press-fit pins. “Press-fit pins ...

Silicon carbide mosfet maker Wolfspeed did a presentation on its 180kW electric vehicle motor drive – designed with NXP and Vepco – at virtual-PCIM this year. The three phase design is for permanent magnet motors, and is good for 15,000rpm and peaks above 97% efficient. Functional safety targets are ASIL-C and ASIL-D. It operates at 350V to 650V and can carry ...