Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) announced a comprehensive licensing agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation. Under the agreement, Renesas will gain access to EPC's proven low-voltage eGaN technology and its established supply-chain ecosystem, accelerating the adoption of high-performance GaN solutions across a broad range of markets. EPC and Renesas will collaborate over the next year to establish internal wafer fabrication capabilities for these products.
In addition, Renesas will second-source several of EPC's popular GaN devices that are already in mass production, enhancing supply-chain resilience for customers. As power electronics designers push for higher efficiency, greater power density, and lower carbon footprints, the physical limits of silicon increasingly constrain performance and miniaturization. Compared with silicon, GaN transistors offer higher efficiency, faster switching speeds, and significantly smaller form factors.
These advantages are reshaping power conversion architectures across applications ranging from consumer electronics to AI data centers. This alliance expands customer access to GaN technology while providing increased supply assurance through qualified second sourcing.
