{"id":1782,"date":"2016-07-13T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&p=1782"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:19","slug":"member-spotlight-wolfspeed-a-cree-company","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/member-spotlight-wolfspeed-a-cree-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Spotlight: Wolfspeed, a Cree Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wolfspeed<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThrough PowerAmerica, we get close interaction with potential users and customers of our products which gives us the opportunity to understand their needs and narrow our focus. The Institute is also playing a critical role in training young and existing engineers on SiC and GaN technologies; truly capitalizing on the opportunity we have here to build a strong power electronics community that will revolutionize U.S. manufacturing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

– David Grider, PhD, Wolfspeed Power Electronics Program Manager<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>Company Background<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wolfspeed has spent more than 28 years as part of Cree Inc., building market-leading wide bandgap semiconductor products for the transportation, industrial, energy, and communications markets before announcing it would spin-off into its own company in an IPO. From its young and ambitious roots in North Carolina\u2019s Research Triangle Park, Wolfspeed has grown into the world\u2019s leading innovator and manufacturer of SiC and GaN wide bandgap semiconductors for Power and RF applications that enable increased efficiency, higher switching speed, as well as reduced system size and weight.<\/p>\n

Wolfspeed has the world\u2019s largest SiC and GaN wide bandgap semiconductor Power and RF fabrication facility, with $124 million in revenue in FY 2015. With the acquisition of Fayetteville, Arkansas-based Arkansas Power Electronics (APEI) in 2015, the company added a packaging and power modules capability to its SiC power electronics portfolio.<\/p>\n

PowerAmerica Partnership<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wolfspeed, a Cree company, is working to establish the reliability of its medium-voltage (3.3kV to 10kV) SiC power device technology \u2013 a costly and time-consuming process that is also critical for commercial production of these medium voltage SiC power devices. PowerAmerica funding is helping to accelerate this reliability testing in order to hasten the introduction of these medium-voltage SiC power products into the commercial marketplace for a wide range of transportation, motor drive, power distribution, and grid-tied power electronics applications.<\/p>\n

Wolfspeed expertise can benefit members in many ways such as<\/u>: <\/strong><\/p>\n