onsemi and Innoscience Announce Plans to Collaborate to Speed Global Rollout of GaN Power Portfolio
Summary:
onsemi announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Innoscience to explore expanding production of gallium nitride (GaN) power devices using Innoscience’s proven 200mm GaN-on-silicon process. The collaboration would combine onsemi’s system integration, drivers, and packaging expertise with Innoscience’s GaN wafers and high-volume manufacturing leadership in an effort to bring cost-effective, energy-efficient solutions to market faster and accelerate GaN adoption.
News Highlights:
- Collaboration would expand onsemi’s low and medium-voltage GaN power portfolio and scale GaN manufacturing worldwide for faster market availability and greater adoption.
- The non-binding MOU outlines a strategic partnership, including wafer procurement and extended collaboration, leveraging onsemi's GaN power solutions and Innoscience's leading wafer manufacturing to target the projected
$2.9 billion total addressable market1 by 2030 for GaN power devices, with the potential value in the hundreds of million dollars for both companies. - The arrangement would assist onsemi and Innoscience in their efforts to deliver significant customer value, specifically by combining onsemi’s expertise in packaging, drivers, and systems integration with Innoscience’s proven wafer manufacturing capabilities.
- The two companies’ technologies together are expected to enable smaller, more efficient GaN solutions for industrial, automotive, telecom infrastructure, consumer, and AI data center markets.
GaN semiconductor devices offer higher switching speeds, smaller form factors, and lower energy losses to deliver more power in less space. Until now, limited offerings and manufacturing capacity have slowed GaN adoption in the low and medium-voltage segment. Through this collaboration, onsemi and Innoscience will seek to overcome these barriers to quickly bring high-volume, worldwide deployment of optimized GaN solutions for mainstream markets:
- Industrial: motor drives for robotics, solar microinverters, and optimizers
- Automotive: DC-DC converters, synchronous rectification
Telecom Infrastructure : DC-DC and point-of-load converters- Consumer and Mass Market: power supplies, adaptors, DC-DC converters, motor drives, audio, light e-mobility, power tools, robotics
AI Data Center : intermediate bus converters, DC-DC converters, battery backup units
For onsemi customers, the collaboration with Innoscience would enable:
- Faster Time to Market: Rapid prototyping, accelerated design-in, and swift entry into mainstream markets with onsemi's system expertise and Innoscience’s proven GaN technology and manufacturing
- Scalable Manufacturing: True mass-market scalability to handle large-volume ramps, leveraging onsemi's global integration and packaging experience and Innoscience’s established GaN capacity
- Lower System Cost: Optimized package, fewer components and simplified thermal management deliver more compact designs and lower total system cost
“As power demands rise across every sector, GaN offers higher efficiency, smaller size, and lower energy losses compared to other materials. Until now, in the low and medium voltage segments, cost and supply constraints have limited its widespread adoption. Through a collaboration with Innoscience, we expect to be able to access the industry’s largest GaN production footprint and quickly scale our GaN offerings for customers worldwide to enable broader adoption in mainstream power applications." –
“GaN technology is essential to improving electronics, creating smaller, more efficient power systems, saving electric power, and reducing CO2 emissions. Innoscience is excited to explore a strategic collaboration opportunity with onsemi, to expand and accelerate the adoption of GaN power worldwide, and to create a system integration platform with onsemi’s broad portfolio.” –
A Complete Intelligent Power Portfolio
GaN is projected to capture an estimated
Timing and Availability
onsemi expects to begin sampling in the first half of 2026.
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About onsemi
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. onsemi offers a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, delivering intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way to creating a safer, cleaner and smarter world. onsemi is included in the Nasdaq-100 Index® and S&P 500® index. Learn more about onsemi at www.onsemi.com.
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About Innoscience
Innoscience (HKEX:02577.HK) is the global leader in 8” GaN-on-Silicon process innovation and power device manufacturing. Innoscience’s device designs and performance have set the worldwide standard for GaN, and Innoscience’s GaN products have achieved majority market share in multiple low, medium and high voltage applications, with GaN process nodes covering 15V to 1200V. Innoscience’s products are well-known for reliability, performance, and functionality in consumer, automotive, data center, and renewable energy sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.innoscience.com/.
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